So with no other MMO on the horizon, I thought I Would play Final Fantasy XIV.
For some reason they are making it so you can play for 8 hours, then 7 hours a week where you lose 10% xp gain a hour and at 7 hours its a 0% loss. Activation time
You can play each class up to your physical level for the 15 hours then its basically for nothing. So people that play single class and not multi-class will only play for8 or 9 hours then log off until the next week.
According to the Beta Forums this is pretty close:
*Addendum: the version I translated apparently had a couple lines added to it at some later time. This addition may be important for some of you. “Even if you reach the XP limit mid-week, your fatigue will recover in the time not spent skilling up. The one week period is simply a guarantee that it WILL recover then no matter what.”Well it looks like Mr. Komoto escaped his shackles keeping him in Gamescom away from working on FFXIV, and he has an announcement to make to quiet all the rampant speculation going on. Taken from the JP Beta Test site and translated by me, your friendly neighborhood Savalithos.
We’d like to thank all the beta testers out there for their hard work and support! We’re applying all those ideas you’ve sent us to make for the best possible Open Beta test and official release.
Now we’d like to take a moment to answer the many questions we’ve received about character balance in the current B3 phase.
First off, the main concept behind FFXIV is allowing those players with little time on their hands to play effectively, and game balance is based off of that. Furthermore, it is being designed to not give those with more time on their hands to play an unfair advantage. Because of that, systems such as Guardian’s Favor (a bonus to Guildleves) have been implemented to make leveling in the short-term easier than leveling in the long-term.
To achieve this balance, the amount of possible skill/experience points earned after a certain period of time has a threshold. Think of it as real-life “fatigue” from working at improving your skills via battle *(aka. No one could train ad nauseam in the real world with no ill effects).
Within the first eight hours of play, you can earn 100% experience. The seven hour period following will see your possible experience gradually approach zero.
This system is on a weekly timer. After a week has passed since you began skilling that particular weapon, the timer will reset. It will start anew when you skill up again.
Any experience earned past that point is saved as “surplus.” There is surplus for each class, and if you begin to see it please consider playing another class and adjust accordingly.
However, experience points are not specific to any class and therefore the decrease in experience points is not affected by changing classes.
That’s how the system stands as of right now.
Also, this system wasn’t implemented just in B3 but was set in motion from the very start of beta. Despite this, we have received many opinions regarding it in B3. There are a few reasons why:
-B3 allowed for longer sessions in single sittings.
-In order to promote party play, skill/experience points earned were greatly increased.
-The skill/experience earned from weak enemies was lowered, but had failed to pop up on initial bug reports (and was later fixed via maintenance).According to the last bug report skill/experience able to be earned was above what had been planned, therefore people hit the limit much more quickly than hoped for. That is the biggest cause. Yet another problem was that we were unable to adjust guildleve experience and the experience-earned limit at the same time.
Our lack of explanation regarding all of this was a mistake, and we heartily apologize.
This all is still currently under development, and we have plans to make the limit more palatable in answer to all the tester feedback we received concerning this. In particular we would like to address the speed with which experience begins to drop off and are already looking into it.
Also, since experience points fatigue carries over despite changing weapons, we plan to make it not so harsh.At the very least, we promise to not have people hitting these limits in a short period of time, such as during the start of B3.
We would also like to make an announcement regarding something else.
The decrease in earnings when gathering is based on your actions taken with that class and is unrelated to the aforementioned limits. This is also currently under review and is planned for adjustment in accordance with many testers’ opinions.
Surplus experience is currently not being used. However, we have received many comments suggesting some sort of reward be put into effect regarding it, and we think that’s a pretty interesting idea. We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves, though, and we’re currently investigating the possibilities.
Open Beta will not just see changes to the issues stated above but will also see adjustments made to encourage party play even more (such as an increase to skill points), which the team is currently hard at work on adjusting. We hope you’ll all test it out when the time comes.
Finally, we would like to apologize for the lateness of any developer comments due to my attendance of Gamecom this past week. In my absence much fuss was raised over speculation, old information and some mistranslations on overseas fansites *(what?! /panic. Though I wonder what that’s in reference to in particular). I hope to avoid this from happening again by delivering developer comments as promptly as possible. Thank you all for your understanding.
And thanks in advance for your hard work to come in Open Beta!
Final Fantasy XIV director
Nobuaki Komoto
The End of Aion… (at least for me)
On first Blush Aion is almost the perfect game.
We moved in force. Around 12 of us Flocked to the Legion of Atergens. We Xped to a little over 40. Some as high as 45. None to 50.
Then the interest started to decay. Crafting was taking forever, the levels start to grind together.
When I reached 40, I looked around. most of the content was gone. A Instance that takes @ 5 Hours and thats it?
So Here I hang my aion hat up and look for the next game.
Ill start posting more often. At least my flavor of the month. 
Double XP!
Yup, Double Xp this weekend. Heres the announcment:
GreetingsDaevas,
Who’s ready for another Double Experience Weekend? That’s right! It’s time to once again stock up on caffeinated food and beverages in preparation for a weekend without sleep. This Friday, February 26, at 8 p.m. (server time), we will enable double experience. The experience bonus will run through the weekend before ending on Monday at 8 a.m. (server time).
We’ve broken down what time the double experience will begin on each server. Plan accordingly, and enjoy the double experience!
East Coast Servers—Starts at 8:00 p.m. EST
West Coast Servers—Starts at 8:00 p.m. PST
Oceanic Server—Starts at 8:00 p.m. AEST
—The Aion Community Team
A Good Post about the Daevanion Armor
I saw this post today, and get ppl ask me enough that poof here ya go:
-You can get daevanion armor 2 different ways
-The 1st way is that at lvl 30, Heimdall in Pandamonium (don’t know the name of NPC for Elyos) will give you a quest, completing this quest gives you 1 piece of daevanian armor, your chosing, of either Chest, Pants, Gloves, Pauldrons, and Shoes in whatever class finishes the quest, i.e. if your a gladiator, you get plate armor, if your sorcerer, you get cloth and so on for the classes. (note, these are not permenant armor types, i.e. cloth can be turned into plate, more on that later)
-The 2nd way is an uber rare drop in the abyss. They are account bind on pickup so there is no way to trade it with anothe person in Atreia or anything like that. It has also been confirmed that in the instance “Training Grounds” in Reshanta you can also get this rare drop. I myself got my first piece when my Gladiator killed a water spirit in the upper abyss area, got me some plate boots
You’ll notice the first way only gets you one piece and not all five because the quest at lvl 30 is non-repeatable. With some luck you can get some additional pieces of the armor from drops in the abyss, but this quest is the only garuntee to getting a piece. That said, to attain more than one piece, maybe all 5 if you want, you must create 4 other alternative toons to your main character (total of 5 characters) and level them up to 30 so that they can do the quest themselves. And note, they don’t have to all be the same class, you can always change the armor type (ie Plate to cloth, chain to cloth, leather to plate whatever). While this takes time of coures to lvl to 30 five times, their is insentive.
THE BIG HOOK: ARMOR BONUSES. Thats right, if your toon has more than 1 piece of daevanion armor equipped a special armor bonus is applied. For instance, my Cleric has 3 pieces equipped, Chest, Pants, Shoes, and when i put on the chest i had no bonus, with my Chest and pants equipped i got an armor bonus with stats like MP+ and Physical Defense+ and so on. With my chest, pants, and than shoes equipped i get another bonus on top of the bonus for wearing the chest and pants together. There are a total of 4 bonuses that can be stacked. With all these bonuses applied (wearing all 5 pieces of daevanion armor) it is said that the stats will last you well into the 40′s, and as not bad lvl 40′s armor either. Another incentive is that when you are lvl 50 their is another daevanion armor quest (ive never done it but i hear about it) which requires you to have all 5 daevanian lvl 30 armor pieces. Famfrit’s Edit: The level 50 Miragent/Fenril Armour does’nt require the level 30 Amor,instead requires you to be an “Expert” in one craft. 400 not 449.
-DAEVANIAN ARMOR QUEST: A couple of words on the daevanian armor quest: Go to pandamonium for Asmodians, and for Elyos, the place you go is “lyceum. Specifically, they are either one of the priests in the back room, standing next to the main priest.” (Infernoe). Go there with about 97,000 kinah and full dp. This will save you time and is requred to complete the quest. Heimdall (a guardinfront of the world teleport) in Pandamonium starts the daevinic quest. The 97,000 kinah will be used to buy the “Divine Lamp” item from the Divine accesory vendors (Gerad and Olda in pandamonium). The divine lamp is requred to complete the quest. The full dp is required at the end of the quest and will get you your piece of armor!
-CHANGING ARMOR TYPES: It is very possible and i have done it myself, so this is confirmed. Daevanian armor pieces are account bound, which means you can keep them in your account wharehouse and retreive them from any character (of same race, i.e. elyos or asmodian) on your account. My gladiator got plate chest and plate boots, i put them in my account wharehouse, logged, signed in as my cleric and went to my account wharehouse to retrieve them. Now my cleric couldn’t use these of course because they were plate, so i went to panda (or sanctum) to change it to chain.
-HOW TO CHANGE DAEVANIAN ARMOR TYPE: Go to pandamonium or Santcum and buy “Daevanian Light” (note, this is different then the divine lamp used for the quest) from the divine accesssory vendors (Gerad and Olda in Pandamonium) for about 60,000 kinah. This item is your payment to change armor types. In panda, the NPC’s that will exchange armor types are Narvi and Bor. THe are located next to the HIgh Priest. This is also the area with all the class trainers for lvls 1-25 and the bind obelisk. When you speak with these NPC’s you will see “Exchange middle grade Daevanian Armor grade”. This is the exchange process and you will be asked which armor piece you have in your backpack. You do this one at a time. For me, i told the NPC that i had the plate chest piece in my backpack, and was than asked what piece i want. This is where you can choose whatever type (cloth, leather, chain, plate) and whatever piece (chest, pants, shoes, gloves, pauldrons) you want. I chose chain chest piece for my cleric. Doing this took my Daevanian Light item to complete this process. So to exchange my plat shoes now i needed another Daevanian light. I got one and went back to the NPC, told her i had plate boots, and wanted chain pants. Got it! I then finished my clerics lvl 30 daevanian armor quest and got my chain boots. With the bonus stats the armor has been great! and I can see a signicant difference in my performance as cleric.
DAEVANIAN WEAPON:
Thisis only avaliable to a toon carrying 5 daeva armor pieces. It alsotakes about 100,000 kinah for the Divine item to finish the quest. Thisweapon is of course cool looking and has some great stats.
THINGS TO REMEMBER:
-You can roll 5 different classes, (cleric, gladiator, sorcerer, assassin, ranger, whatever), and complete their lvl 30 daevanian amor quest which will give you chain(priests), plate(warrior), cloth(Mage), and leather(Scout) in 5 different pieces( and which can be any armor piece, chest, pants, shoes, pauldrons, gloves). You can then take these, place them in your account wharehouse, and give them all to one character. This main character can then take all 5 pieces and exchange them for about 60,000 kinah a piece. and get all the marvelous stat bonuses.
-You must be lvl 30 to wear the armor, and to do the quest.
-There is no limit to how many character on your account can wear the amor or to how many times you can exchange the armor types.
-You can get the Daevanian Weapon on any character simply by having them carrying 5 daevanian armor pieces in their backpack and doing the daevanian armor/weapon quest. They can then use this weapon regardless of them using the daevanian armor ever again.
-Daevanian armor/weapon looks pretty freakin awesome on any class!
-Even if one of your character’s wears the armor, any of your other characters (same race) can wear them after another has worn the armor already.
-The armor is manastone socket-able, up to 3 stones at lvl 40 or lower.
-Edit from Gloryah: “Not only is this gear account specific, it is server specific. Thatis, it cannot be transfered to another level 30 character that youmight have on a different server.“ I have not confirmed this myself, but I have heard this rumored.
-Edit from Infernoe: “I did this last night and the NPCs on the Elyos side that you have to talk to trade in your piece is in the Lyceum. Specifically, they are either one of the priests in the back room, standing next to the main priest. One thing to note because I made this mistake myself, you need to purchase the daevanian light, not the divine lamp you buy when you first complete the quest, to exchange pieces. You get like 5k xp also when you trade in pieces.”
Source: Nyemus@Aiononline
Normalizing Ventrilo
I didn’t even know you could do this, and it fixed all my special “set special” volumes for people:
So I was in a PUG last night running FT on my SM (i think this sentance has finally convinced me that acronyms are taking over the world).
I was the only member of the group not in a certain legion. They all had vent. I kept hearing them all talk about this ones and that ones volume was not good and had trouble. I shared with them how to Normalize Vent. I realized that everyone should know this. It’s the greatest!! What this does is makes everyone sound the same to you regardless of their settings. It’s automatically adjusts the low ppl high and the high ppl down.
I can’t take credit. One of my guildmates showed this to me and it’s been the best thing ever. So without further to-do here’s how you do it:
You’ll first need to remove any other SFX you have set up for any individuals.
Click your SFX button. Select Compressor and add it (so it appears on the left) then click the properties button so you adjust it’s settings. Here are what you want your settings to be:
Gain: 15
Attack: .001
Release: 500
Threshold: -30
Ratio: 100
Pre Delay: 4.0
