MithraPride

I missed the start of WoW (I was still playing FFXI, first got into WoW when they launched the Burning Crusade) but I've seen a few other games at launch - City of Heroes and Champions Online, in particular, were rough and highly annoying. CoH had a lot of rollercoaster balance changes after launch,...

Cool, and a pleasure to meet you.

If you roll Miqo'te you're a shoe in, if you go shortie someone will have to give you a sniff first.

Catch me (or any of us) in game (are you joining the open beta?) and we'll hang out.

Welcome back!

Well, hop on to Kefka for the open beta phase.

Part 4: Advanced Topics Now that you've got some dirt on your hands and are the proud owner of, well, who knows... maybe a lump of copper ore, a handful of feathers, or a fancy new shield you just crafted, what do you do with it? Obviously, if it's an upgrade to your current gear or could be made to...

Part 3: Disciples of the Hand - the Art of Crafting Although there are quite a few DoH classes, they all follow the same procedure when it comes to actually making items. Just like with the DoL classes, you gain levels in each craft independently, and you have to have the right tool equipped in your...

Part 2: Disciples of the Land Currently there are three Disciple of the Land classes: Botanist, Miner, and Fisher. The botanist harvests from trees and grasses, the miner gathers from mining nodes and rock quarries, and the fisher fishes. Each class has a different set of main and off-hand tools, an...

This is a beginner's guide to the Disciplines of the Land and of the Hand in FFXIV. Part 1: Introduction (This part!) Part 2: Disciples of the Land (Gathering) Part 3: Disciples of the Hand (Crafting) Part 4: Advanced Concepts Most of this guide is from personal experience, in the FFXIV Beta and sin...

I'm jumping on the bandwagon too; "Ziyu" has been out of my character name rotation for years.

At some point, I'm going to have my forum name changed to Keerith.

Cool, welcome back!

I think for now there are few enough people on the forum that we could keep it straight either way. When the shell gets bigger it'd help if all our names matched/were close.

Since we need one, preferably before P3 launches, I'll throw one out there:

Kefka server

If for some reason they change the server names, then the next one alphabetically.

Whoops! Guess I missed the memo; didn't expect that since there wasn't a wipe going into P2.

Yup. I have no preference; I don't mind starting a new cat. At this point it's all fairly arbitrary.

I did that a couple of times too

Guess I should list my kitten too

Ceraph Mirielli, Garland server

I've just got this thread set to give me e-mail alerts when someone posts. I hadn't checked the rest of the forum yet.

Hah, nice!

BTW I want to try grouping, if any of you catch me in game. Garland server, Ceraph Mirielli.

Wow, yea, that is bad. Weird.

I've made/started five. Only kept two for more than a day, and only going to be playing one for the rest of the beta I think

Maybe I have a low definition of "playable" but I think anything over 20 framerate is grand. :) Recently upgraded my system to 3 GB ram/2.8G Athlon X2 processor/ATI 5580 graphics card. I play at the lower (1280) resolution but it all looks great. This weekend I might try overclocking some ...

They patched it early July for most cards, I believe. I have an ATI and havn't had any problems

Awesome!

How bad is "failed miserably"?

Apparently as of 9 PM tonight (US Central) the beta is moving to P2 and will be up 24 hours a day; hopefully they throw out some more invites and a few more of the board cats can get in.

Ouch! That sucks.

Maybe I've just been lucky with the times I've tried to play and avoided the major issues. It would be nice if they left the servers up longer.

finally goaded a friend into letting me use his account. 2 Beta phases have come and gone since I got it..thus far I have yet to be able to complete character creation. This isn't beta or a game ready to release in 2 months..this is Early alpha at best.. :?: What system are you running? Mine barely...

Whoops.

I'm on the Garland server too, huzzah for FF1! My character is named Ceraph Mirielli. Only at rank 2 (maybe 3) in my combat class since I've been leveling botanist/miner instead.

How much is there TO abuse, though? It's not like this is a job or something mandated by the Government. Just a group of people enjoying the same entertainment. Participation, both in the LS and in events, is voluntary. Leadership (-n this setting at least) isn't given - it's earned. If you don't li...

I understand your concern; you don't want someone busting in and hijaking the LS. We don't give everyone a sack though - just people we trust, as many as possible. If Mithra Joe is a casual, one-night-a-week player who nonetheless is a great upstanding player then I don't think there's anything wron...

That's an interesting set up, and it seems fairly basic. I think it'd work.