FFXIV Expansion

[selk]

How is it? Red Mage?

[Xarious]

Server congestion issues aside, it's fantastic so far! From what I've been able to see, the world is beautiful.

Red Mage is super fun and it's a serious contender to be my new main, especially in light of how meh they're making White Mage. It's a hybrid DPS class, as you'd suspect, but it has a DPS style that is pretty unique to FFXIV.

Uses White/Black Damaging Magic and Melee Attacks.
You cast white and black magic in order to build a W/B magic gauge, each spell type adding to each side of the gauge respectively. Once you build the gauge up to sufficient levels, you can use a gap-closing ability to move into the fight and unleash powerful melee attacks on the enemy, which depletes the meter. Once the meter is empty, you can use a jump-away ability to distance yourself and start the process over. Your spells also have a chance to proc into a more powerful version of themselves with each cast.

Every time you cast a spell with a cast timer, you proc Dualcast, which makes the next cast an instant. This drastically lowers each white/black magic spell that has a really long cast time. That's the core of the DPS style, which I find is really fun and unique.

I'm still toying with it and working on the rotation, but I'm also only level 52 right now, so I haven't even gotten into the meat of the job yet.

You also get support spells like Vercure to heal yourself or help drop emergency heals, which is nice with Dualcast. Vercure w/ Cast timer -> Instant vercure. And Erase, which is an instant cast Esuna, but you can only cast it on party members and not yourself.

Red Mage shares gear with other caster jobs such as BLM and SMN. I can't wait to level it up more and try out new abilities and work on the rotation.

Here's a preview of the job:

I haven't had much time with Samurai. To me it feels like Monk with a sword. It's super aesthetically pleasing, but pure melee DPS isn't my forte in XIV.

[selk]

DS just messaged me about XIV lol. You guys still have a ls or everybody has gone their separate ways?

[Malakai]

Me and Peti are on Malboro. I wasn't playing a whole lot until this expansion. I started to level Samurai and I'm finding it pretty fun. Lots of damage.

[Xarious]

We all separated.

I followed RL friend-peoples to Gilgamesh
DM is still on Midgardsormr
Angonette and Vist are/were on Leviathan, but I haven't logged in and talked to them in well over a year.

I don't think Oren ever came back to the game. But yeah, we're all broken apart now, which is a shame.

[Not DS]

I am doing the temp trial on Mid right now. Forgot I had an existing character. If only I could find my keyboard.

[Darkmage]

I kept the old FC alive on Mid, and it's actually in use under a modified name now. I gave up control (but still have a rank with full control abilities) because I still go away for a while on occasion due to work. I'm digging the new zones so far, and the swimming / underwater stuff, and even the story. I unlocked RDM and SAM, but haven't really played them, as I'm still rocking BLM. The entire battle / job system got revamped for this xpac, so that's all different now, cross class abilities are gone, replaced with role abilities, and job prerequisites are gone as well. There's a fuck ton of XI references higher up, there are some recycled mob models, but I'm pretty sure it's just a nudge & wink kind of thing to XI players, not simple laziness. Shantotto is even in the game, or, rather, Shatatto, as the central figure of the 60+ BLM job quest line, but, if you ever played XI, it's clear.

-Edit- If you do decide to jump back in, if you come to Mid let me know, character is Church VonDarkmage, also you can level via Main Story Quest, there's no real need to grind levels, but, if you find that you do need to for whatever reason or another, fates and dungeons are the way to go, not grinding on mobs like in XI.

-Edit 2- Pythos signed back in on Mid! If nothing else, feel free to make an alt over here to come say hi

Also, mother fucking ninja turtles ya'll.

[Talbain]

Shadowbandit and I are on Midgardsromr as well.
Haven't bought the expansion yet though, wanted to see what the combat changes were like first. Definitely getting it this weekend though.

[Peti]

my sub lapsed.. I had to move back in april, and now I'm back in school working on bachelors. vet benefits require me to be full time, so I havent been able to play for weeks

[Darkmage]

Having finished the expansion, I can say this: There isn't anything about it that I disliked. There was one duty that too me a few tries to kind of understand what I was supposed to do, but, other than that, I've enjoyed everything in the expansion. I like the zones, I liked the story, I like the dungeons, I like the battle system changes, I like the primals, I honestly enjoyed all of it. I even liked the BLM quest line from 60-70, the main character of which is Shantotto, wait, I'm sorry, Shatotto.

[Xarious]

RED MAGE 70!

[Malakai]

Congrats! Here is my 70 SAM:


...and my WAR:

[Xarious]

Very nice!

I'm taking Paladin to 70 now.

[selk]

Damn. Those characters look bad ass. Can I be a Ninja Turtle too? :X

[O-Ren Ishii]

In case you guys haven't seen this, it just released on Netflix.