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Artoriel Evardoux - Malboro
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Okie Dokie (Alt I might bring back)
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Leave your names and I will friend you and drag you through hell roulettes.
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Little late to the thread, but this is my first week giving it a shot. Been playing a trial during slow and off times at work. Seems okay thus far, but I admit itâs difficult to get fully engaged with. Likely has to do with that lingering âsunk costâ feeling from WoW and committing to a whole new MMO.
I made a Sea Wolves Roegadyn Pugilist. Seems fun thus far! Admittedly, Iâm not too drawn to any of the races, but the community seems strong and Iâve got a lot of friends here on Mateus. Hereâs hoping it sticks⌠even if I will miss my pandas. 
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Been playing it on and off for years and was considering getting back into it to finaly finish the main story-line of the current expansion.
I personally find FF14 to be a better game to facilitate roleplayers than WoW. It really doubles down on the whole play your wayâbuild your character type of experience. And they really want you to invest in your character since one toon can switch to any class and making alts is cumbersome. I find the game play in WoW worlds better especially in PvP but theyâre catering to two different demographics of players at that point.
The RP community is really active but if you were looking for any sort of continuity with lore or charactersâforget it. Thereâs lore there but itâs thin and Iâve seen the vast majority of players just jump into their anime power fantasyâwhich is fine for a game like ff14-- than something to the same âlore abidingâ standards youâll find on WoW or WrA.
That said, hereâs pics of my Cat Girl Sand Ninja
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ARR is still very much a slog starting out. Heavensward is where it really starts to take off, so if you can stick it out until then it does get much more interesting.
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Iâd also strongly suggest doing side-raids as well, considering they have their own OST for each boss fight.
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FFXIV music owns and this band is made of the devs lmao
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But also Alex Moukala + Daft Punk + FFXIV = F U N K
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The interview with Alex, Husky, and Soken was great. Alex living his dream and Soken really seemed to be interested in talking to them. He took a lot of time to watch their videos and knew a ton about their music. Love how much the devs actually care about the community
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how long until someone angrily enters the thread to tell everyone to shut up about a non-WoW game
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the most dangerous primal is the forum poster telling everyone to stop enjoying another game, for sure
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yâall sleeping on Realm of the Mad God, obviously
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Sheogorath or Kefka?
Edit:
Googled Realm of the mad god. I forgot this existed
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I kinda burned out on FFXIV swiftly, but having come back to WoW for a bit I wonder if thatâs not simply because I ridiculously overleveled (Level 30 and Iâve only just met the worldâs Super Best Friends) and rewards started aggressively drying up (Most FATEs Iâm even overleveled for).
One thing I will say about FFXIV, I love the Job system and how you can change your playstyle on the fly. I started out as an Arcanist (Because Summoners are fun), but quickly grew to absolutely hate it. Moved over to Marauder and never looked back despite having never tanked before in my life.
My Dragon Man, Shager Mol. Iâm too tiny to even have viable Glamors yet:
https://i.imgur.com/0gi12K6.jpg
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Probably the biggest thing I can emphasize for new players is to treat it like a mainline Final Fantasy game. Your first time through, just play through the story quests. You donât need to do FATEs, sidequests, or chainrun dungeons. The bulk of your XP until about level 48 or so is tied directly into the MSQ. Just do that and the blue-marked quests to unlock new things and thatâs really about it.
Sidequests, FATEs, and other stuff are really meant to level alt jobs and whatnot or just to change of pace for a little bit. It can get frustrating having everything tied to the MSQ and not being able to just jump right into end-game stuff, but that is really not the intent of the devs. Go into it thinking âIâm playing a FF gameâ first and everything else will kind of fall into place.
The good thing is that you can still play with your buddies because there are tons of incentives for veteran players to run older content. Also, we love sprouts.
e: this isnât necessarily at Vann since I know you were having issues with the running around, which is a bit different, but like in general to new players reading
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No no, itâs fine and itâs a good remark for people thinking of jumping in.
Ironically, coming back to WoW for a bit has convinced me to go back to FFXIV again and do like you say, just focus on the MSQ for a bit.
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Definitely my favorite rendition of the Endwalker teaser theme.
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Another tip for people jumping in, DO NOT turn that in game music off or lower it at all. This is a written threat.
Itâs one of the few games where I wonât lower the music volume at all.
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I was warned that Iâd become conditioned to burst into tears anytime some version of âAnswersâ starts playing and boy howdy that was not wrong
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I kind of hope the Distant Worlds tour starts back up after all this is over. Seems like the last round they did, FFXIV was still this kind of weird underdog. Now the ShB has come out, people actually know and love stuff like âAnswersâ and âDragonsong.â I can see crowds actually being excited to hear them live now.
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Another thing that got me really excited was discovering that the Magitek Armorâs theme comes right out of FFVI⌠which I have⌠and have never played. SO
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