FFXIV Level 40 Leve Annexing the Knoll ★-35 Lancer 44 Physical Level

Havent posted a video for a long time. I thought level 40 leve's would be much harder as a level 35 so I didnt really try them until recently. One star's arent really that tough. I tried two stars at first but it was a little too difficult. Heres the vid!

Level 30 Leve Necrologos: Levinshower

This is me soloing the level 30 Necrologos: Levinshower ★★★ as a level 32 lancer, 39 physical level. Here's the vid! Right now Leve's are the best way to get xp over 30 since grouping bonus is broken right now. I got 4877 SP doing this leve ^^.

FFXIV Power Level Test doing ★★★ Level 30 Leve Necrologos: The Light's Corrivals

With the new SP gain system, it seems like you can sorta powerlevel now. Tested this doing level 30 leve's. I got less exp, but everybody lower than me got quite a bit more due to the mobs being so much higher than them I guess.

Level 30 Leve From the Sea to the Trees

This is me soloing the level 30 Orbs for the Ceremony ★★★ as a level 31 lancer, 38 physical level. Here's the vid! Right now Leve's are the best way to get xp over 30 since grouping bonus is broken right now. You can get about 10-15k depending on if you have Guardians favor or not.

New Thanksgiving Patch!!!

So the new patch came out when I was out of town for Thanksgiving. Also, we got another free month a couple of weeks ago, so we have received a total of three free months. All the players playing the game currently are basically still beta testing the game, but hey free time is free time! Now for the patch for the things so far that I have noticed.

Things that I like so far.
-New Skill Point (SP) gain system. Changed it to how every other game is... you just get a set amount instead of gaining randomly for swinging.
-LOTS LESS UI LAG! Especially during crafting. Takes a lot less time to craft now.
-A lot less time to equip items now due to less UI lag and it doesnt show all the items in your inventory... just the ones for that slot.
-More SP for doing Leve's due to the first bullet.
-A lot easier to level from 1-20 or so now. Guess that doesnt effect me too much. For all the patchnotes you can go to lodestone... those are just some of the major ones that I Like.

Things I dislike...
-Well really this is just broken right now, but the amount of EXP gained in parties above 30 now is just horrible, so pretty much I have just been doing leves.... Videos will start coming up again soon! I might repost some for the EXP differences from before and now.
-I dont like how they capped physical level to your job level. Although, now you can farm shards/crystals with your low level jobs.
I would post some pictures of UI changes... but those are all on the lodestone website anyways so I dont really feel the need to.

Level 30 Leve Orbs for the Ceremony

This is me soloing the level 30 Orbs for the Ceremony ★★ as a level 31 lancer, 37 physical level. Here's the vid! I went back down to two stars because I failed a couple three star leves earlier in the day.

FFXIV Level 30 Leve Necrologos: The Boughs Above

This is me soloing the level 30 Necrologos: The Boughs Above ★★★ as a level 30 lancer, 36 physical level. Here's the vid!

FFXIV Level 30 Leve Necrologos: Lords of Skyey Realms

This is me soloing the level 30 Necrologos: Lords of Skyey Realms as a level 30 lancer, 36 physical level. Here's the vid!

FFXIV Level 30 Lancer Quest Culture Shock

SPOILER ALERT. Sort of.... this is the level 30 quest from start to finish. I used my anima to teleport around to cut down the time of travel. By level 30 you probably should have already been to all three cities anyways so no use on saying anything about that. I cut most of the travel out just to make the video 15 minutes, but all the cutscenes are in it. Not difficult at all but I wanted to post something other than leve's and leveling for a change. Not the most interesting video unless you want to watch cutscenes over again.

Level 30 Leve Securing Nophica's Wells

This is me soloing the level 30 Securing Nophica's Wells as a level 30 lancer, 36 physical level. Here's the vid! This was pretty easy except for when I got 4 mobs at one time. Probably will try 3 stars next time.

FFXIV Black Eft EXP Party Level's 26 to 31

The Tam-Tara Deepcroft Level 26-31 Party. Mobs: Black Efts

The Tam-Tara Deepcroft is just south of Camp Bentbranch, near Gridania in The Black Shroud. Needless to say, it was great exp. I partied there the past two days and got 3 levels. I have heard that there is a slightly higher camp north of Camp Emarld Moss, so I will be checking that out soon as well ^^.

Level 30 Leve Necrologos: Lightsome Verdure

This is me soloing the level 30 leve Necrologos: Lightsome Verdure as a level 27 lancer, 34 physical level. Here's the vid! This was probably my favorite Leve that I have done so far. It took me about 25 minutes to do and I didnt die once. I got about 2k SP during this leve. I will definently do this leve whenever I see it ^^.

Level 30 Leve Necrologos: In Shadow Bemantled

This is me soloing the level 30 leve Necrologos: In Shadow Bemantled as a level 26 lancer, 34 physical level. Here's the vid!

Level 30 Leve Necrologos: Adamantine Wills

This is me soloing the level 30 leve Necrologos: Adamantine Wills as a level 25 lancer, 33 physical level. Here's the vid!

FFXIV Level 30 Leve Necrologos Torn Asunder

This is me soloing the level 30 leve Necrologos: Torn Asunder as a level 24 lancer, 33 physical level. Here's the vid! I knew this one would be difficult because the reward was huge. Learned that monsters dont return to their original position, or it takes them awhile to do so. If this wasn't the case, I probably wouldnt have been able to beat this one ^^.

Level 30 Leve The Root of the Problem

This is me soloing the level 30 leve The Root of the Problem as a level 24 lancer, 33 physical level. Here's the vid! This was my first 2 star leve. I died a few times.

Level 30 Leve Necrologos: Inferno

This is me soloing the level 30 leve Necrologos: Inferno as a level 24 lancer, 33 physical level. Here's the vid! I still did one star difficulty... I actually died a few times in this one, but not to mobs from the leve -.-;;.

Level 30 Leve Necrologos: Thousandfold Agony

This is me soloing the level 30 leve Necrologos: Thousandfold Agony as a level 24 lancer, 32 physical level. All of them so far except ones with imps are pretty easy, i might try two star difficulty tommorrow. Here's the vid!

Level 30 Level Necrologos: The Moon's Mistress

This is me soloing the level 30 leve Necrologos: The Moon's Mistress as a level 24 lancer, 32 physical level. I didn't know the mobs agroed so I almost died on the first pull ^^.

Level 30 Leve Necrologos: Celeritous Impetus

I'm a 23 Lancer 32 Physical level soloing this level 30 leve. It was pretty easy, I thought it would be much harder. Here is the vid!

My First EXP party.

So I joined my first exp party of FFXIV. It was pretty fun. I think it was more fun when the party was smaller, but we kept adding people. That obviously made it much easier on the healers, but we killed stuff too fast. Here's a video of it! The ending has some short clips of the exp i was getting once i figured out what I was doing.

Level 20 Leve Leaders of the Pack

Heres a video of me soloing the level 20 leve Leaders of the pack.  I outlevel it so i boosted it up to the 2nd difficulty.  It was still pretty easy, I will try the 3rd difficulty next time!

HD Versions of the video can be found at my youtube channel or by double clicking this video!

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Not sure if I should post videos both on here, and my youtube channel... I will probably do both but for now... http://www.youtube.com/user/predziak!

My Review of FFXIV

I wrote this a couple of weeks ago after much bashing on the game... but my opinions are still the same.

So my response is in response to Game Spots review of the game and some WoW players saying the game is terrible. Kinda Long. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/finalfantasy14/review.html?tag=topslot;title;1

Ive played many MMO's. My first was Anarchy online, WoW, FFXI, Eve, Warhammer, Aion and FFXIV. I will say, since i played FFXI, making the switch to FFXIV was much easier for me since all the controls and gaming aspects are very similar (lots of the stuff they complained about in the article). Some of the controls are VERY VERY different from WoW and other mmos so it does take some getting used to.

That article starts off by complaing about, "the bizarre and unfriendly method of getting an account set up, the troublesome patcher, having to exit the game if you want to adjust the graphics settings." Really, you cant set up an account? You probably shouldnt be playing the game in the first place, it is no different then setting one up in any other game. The next thing is the patcher. The patcher is a torrent system, you can use it, or use any torrent program to download the patch. When downloading a huge patch i find this much easier then other games. I will admit that having to change the graphics settings outside the game is annoying, but you had to do this in FFXI also so it was no different for me.

Then it continues to complain about gameplay, and not knowing what to do when you start the game... I guess in every other mmo, you can just wander around. In FFXIV you have to talk to a few npc's that tell you where to go. It also complains about not being able to do quests to level. You get 16 repeatable quests every 36 hours so..... the person creating this article probably couldnt figure that out.

Another thing they complained about was not being able to open your inventory by pushing a hotkey, this is annoying but FFXI was exactally the same. They use a menu system so it is one extra click, not very difficult.
From that article, "When you want to equip an item to a particular slot, the game doesn't just list the objects you can choose for that slot but, instead, lists your entire inventory. If you want quicker access to what are standard keystrokes in other games, you must create macros." Another Menu thing, it only highlights the items you can equip to that slot... but it does show your entire inventory. If you played FFXI, that game was 100% about macros, every ability you used was a huge macro (had to change gear for nearly every single thing you cast, or there was better gear for auto attacking, and then other gear you used for using special abilities), but i havent used any in FFXIV, yet.

The next thing is the economy system. This is one thing that is somewhat annoying to me. No Auction House currently. Instead you have to search other peoples "bazaars" for items you want. It turns it into more of a memory game... because obviously people sell things for cheaper than others. The only thing that is good about it is, well people dont really undercut to the extent that things are worthless. Then the vendor system, it IS hard to tell who sells what, but thats what the internet is for... there are many websites that list EVERYTHING already that is in the game and where you can buy it, how much it costs, what drops it.

Wait you can only XP for 8 hours!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abE09-tqhoM that explains it in more detail. Not as big of an issue as I originally thought. People got to level 30 in the first week somehow and i think the max level is 50 right now.

Then the article goes into a bunch of what they think are gameplay flaws. I tend to not pay too much attention to gamespot reviews, because usually I dont agree with them.


Things I like about the game:
-Well if you played Final fantasy tactics... the gameplay is very similar. You level different jobs and learn abilities. You then can equip any of these abilities on any of your jobs. You get two different levels. Physical level (stat points) and Job levels (abilities).

-You dont have to level a new character for every class, your main character gets every job, you just have to equip the proper weapon to get the job.

-Unlike FFXI, you can solo in this game.  I am currently a level 22 lancer, and have not joined one party.

-Unlike FFXI, there are many hotkeys to push, every class basically has an "energy bar" so you are always using an ability.

-All Crafting is its own job, and you get xp for it.
-Missions and Storyline, one thing i always liked about final fantasy games.


Things i DONT like about FFXIV:
-Character Creation, not enough customizability. Aion was by far the best game for this.

-Lack of many different types of mobs, usually it's just an upgraded version of a lower mob with a slightly different skin. (this was a problem in FFXI also)

-Not being able to see the whole map, very annoying.

Reason why WoW Players will not like this game (Recapped some things discussed in last point):

Capped XP, not a big issue in my mind, but you cant level to max level in 1 week.

-Different Interface? Not your typical interface/controls with the menu system.

-I guess not having quests to do 100% of the time? Grinding in FFXIV is very good xp and very good money... probably better than questing in my opinion. Also not knowing where to go for quests(there's an option that shows you exactally where to go). I remember having to thotbot everything in vanilla wow so...

-Lack of AH


Overall, if you played FFXI, you will probably like this game, otherwise it's completly different then wow, and different is usually bad.

My Character

My character in my lancer gear.

My character in caster gear.

I'm Currently a 29 Physical Level, 22 Lancer, 17 Woodworker, 16 Conjurer, 16 Armorer, 14 Blacksmith, 14 Gladiator, 13 Thaumaturge, 11 Pugalist and everything else is below 10.