DeadLegend wrote:
Same thing that happens to me with every Final Fantasy. I ignore it and Ignore it and a week before release I get the fever. I've mostly ignored the information about FF14 after the first few months or so, so please allow me a few lazy asshole questions:
1: Are there Dragoons and Paladins and are they so awesome your face melts?
2: Is there a Red Mage analogue?
3: What's the monthly fee going to be?
4: Am I missing out on anything if I can no longer access my original SE account used with FFXI?
5: Are those male Mithra or have I lost it?
6: To that end, does choice of race affect your ability to play a job more so than in FFXI?
7: Auto-run?
8: How about solo play? I played FFXI solo a lot despite the difficulty and inherent slowness and still enjoyed it. How does this game's solo play, farming/exp etc compare to XI
9: After 3 years of deliberation I still haven't figured out a name. Across all servers I was the only Deadlegend in the world during my time on XI and I still value the name and meaning. See attached poll.
10: Can you have more than one linkshell/guild?
Thanks mofos.
1. Yes and yes. Although dragoon doesn't get a wyvern any more; it's more of a standard DPS class.
2. No red mage yet. Bard is now an archer so that it can do some half-decent DPS while still being support, so there's that. Or if you want to be a debuff kind of support, I hear that's what Arcanist/Scholar now does.
3. About the same as XI if all you want is 1 character. $12.99/month.
4. Only if your XI account is still subbed. Not sure if still applies to 2.0, but you got a pair of flee boots on a newly created character if you had an active paid XI sub at the time it's made. Otherwise, having both on the same account doesn't do anything.
5. Male Mithra yes. Selectable starting race (along with female). The "Galka" also have a female equivalent.
6. Not at all. There's like a 1-2 stat different between each race's STARTING stats, and they all go up at the same rate for all races. At level 50 your stats are around ~200, so a 1-2 point difference is nothing. HP/MP differences are basically zero too since they're determined by your stats now. You can also augment yourself with materia and also allocate bonus stat points however you want.
7. Yes. Not only that, but /follow actually correctly follows people through zone lines.
8. Solo is not only possible but encouraged. There's a ton of solo-based content now, and every class is capable of soloing monsters quickly and easily, even White Mage. You can solo your way all the way to exp cap if you wanted. Story quests, dungeons, missions etc need you to party up still, but there's a fancy "auto party" feature that actually WORKS. I mean it! It does!
9. As long as you don't mind NPCs calling you "Dead", lol, I'd go with Dead Legend personally.
10. You can only be in one "company" (Guild). However, Linkshells are now basically social chat channels, and you can be in up to 8 linkshells at the same time. You can even talk in all 8 of them at the same time, by using /l1 Hi /l2 Hello, etc. You don't actually "equip" linkshells anymore, you are in all 8 at the same time.