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[cyranal]

sil, on 18 August 2013 - 05:21 AM, said:

Teamwork explained, simple version. In the first one released in 2000, you had something called skill chains, and chain bonuses. In order to do a skill chain the party had to be in sync a press the right buttons in the right order at the right time, if you got good at this you could chain mobs, each time you kill a mob the next one you kill within a certain time span will give you bonus exp, thus leveling you quicker.

The only way to do this properly was to master skill chains and have an excellent puller, the last chain gives you like 20seconds to bring the mob down so you want that huge bonus your ass better work together. Teams that work together will rise quickly, those that don't will not. I played the first on for 7 years or so. This one blows that one out of the water.

Don't forget that you could also "Magic Burst" off those skill chains for extra damage if you were a mage class. There was nothing I loved more than killing an IT mob with a coordinated Flare magic burst.

And yeah, it's subscription based since that's the only way they feel they will break even on this game. Of course, there's already a problem with the beta that I've found on the legacy servers...it's always packed and I can't even get into the game because the world has been locked due to over population. -.-a Hopefully it won't be this bad during launch but it probably will be.

[sil]

Apparently the per month fee is 12 bucks. I must say 12 bucks a month isn't a fee, I can't buy a damn thing for 12 bucks.

[Heylo]

sil, on 19 August 2013 - 02:19 PM, said:

Apparently the per month fee is 12 bucks. I must say 12 bucks a month isn't a fee, I can't buy a damn thing for 12 bucks.

That's 4 coffees!

[cyranal]

sil, on 19 August 2013 - 02:19 PM, said:

Apparently the per month fee is 12 bucks. I must say 12 bucks a month isn't a fee, I can't buy a damn thing for 12 bucks.

Two burritos at my local taqueria!

[Drake Erif]

sil, on 19 August 2013 - 02:19 PM, said:

Apparently the per month fee is 12 bucks. I must say 12 bucks a month isn't a fee, I can't buy a damn thing for 12 bucks.

800 gems with 2 dollars to spare....

[sil]

Oh for the love of god...

[Heylo]

[Maestro]

I... is that Heylo posting a non-feline pic?

[sil]

For those of you that do not know, you have skills from every class. You can mix and match certain skills with other classes. Say the spell protect and cure come from conj. Cure at level 2 protect at level 8. I level my conj to 8 to get protect for my melee classes as protect = dmg mitigation. I put it on my other classes asap so leveling is a breeze. You also get stat points to put into any stat you wish. So you can customize your character will skills from all the classes if you wish or specialize.

[Heylo]

uh oh..oops. Here, to make up for it:


meow chicka meow meow!

[Drake Erif]

I haven't played yet but I got the character creator and this is what I'll look like... ALL the cat people!!!

[cyranal]

The way the male mithra ("manthra") stand is so Final Fantasy. Although, I guess in this version the race is called "miqo'te". I would've had screenshots if I could've played the beta during the weekend instead of the lobby server telling me I couldn't play. :3

[sil]

Haha, well they fixed that problem finally. I am pure MANTHRA as was the case in FFXI. Actually I was Hume there, and yes I still call them Taru and Galka and Hume

[Drake Erif]

Manthra is one of the major reasons I was even tempted to get FFXIV I was elvaan in ffxi... but looking back it they look SUPER goofy.

[Maestro]

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[Heylo]

Have fun during early access! I wont be playing until the first week of September and my server is kind of jumping all over the place.

[sil]

Ultros is the place to be damn it.

[UltraEM]

The game is now available here in my country... that subscription fee is too much for me + TW: Rome 2 comes out in 10 days

[Drake Erif]

Does anyone have any information on sever transfers?? Will it cost money to swap or will it be free for the first 30 days or whatever?
I'm just curious because I have a few friends going to different servers and am having trouble deciding where to go

[sil]

Sil Sylan, my character on Ultros. I played the first one for over 7 years. Many of us are coming back out of the woodwork to start over and dominate.