Ok, my impressions.
First off this is my first time playing the ff mmo series. Luckily i came to play it with freinds from aion that had played ffxi, b/c the learning curve is just to much at first*. I say at first beacuse once I slammed my keyboard down and went to get a cup of coffee i figured it out mostly on my own by just playing with it.
I have never felt so lost or so gratified when i figured out how to walk talk and how to fight. Learning crafting was and still is a nightmare but every success bolsters my resolve. The fundemental difference that I see in ff that is different than most is that they drop you into the game and leve you. No tutorial, no help, which is easily nerdrage induceing.
My graphic arnt all hat great and its still 100X prettier than aion or anything else out.
The combat system is in no way boreing, let me use my rank 5 pugalist as an example. Fighting a marrot i have to heav strike to do dmg, then i have to fast strike to and an ev bonus, do that to get my tp to use cucusion blow which lowers the mobs acc, this triggers me to evade which for 250 tp i can use haymaker. My point is that its not just 11121111213111 i have to moniter my health,mana, and tp while chaining together attacks and watching my placement.
Gathering, while slow and random at first, picks up when you learn to use your locater abilitys and u learn the minigames.
Im not sure where people are comeing with the mouse being slow, i use my mouse just fine its not slow theres no drag or anyhting for me like im hearing others complain about.
My biggest annoyence is that the interface seems slow to transition, and that just be me lagging. that and all the kill stealing im half tempted to mpk but id rather not sullie my name b4 the official release..
that and i cant seem to find rp >_>
anyways thats my take on it atleast, make of it what you will horrible spelling and all.
First off this is my first time playing the ff mmo series. Luckily i came to play it with freinds from aion that had played ffxi, b/c the learning curve is just to much at first*. I say at first beacuse once I slammed my keyboard down and went to get a cup of coffee i figured it out mostly on my own by just playing with it.
I have never felt so lost or so gratified when i figured out how to walk talk and how to fight. Learning crafting was and still is a nightmare but every success bolsters my resolve. The fundemental difference that I see in ff that is different than most is that they drop you into the game and leve you. No tutorial, no help, which is easily nerdrage induceing.
My graphic arnt all hat great and its still 100X prettier than aion or anything else out.
The combat system is in no way boreing, let me use my rank 5 pugalist as an example. Fighting a marrot i have to heav strike to do dmg, then i have to fast strike to and an ev bonus, do that to get my tp to use cucusion blow which lowers the mobs acc, this triggers me to evade which for 250 tp i can use haymaker. My point is that its not just 11121111213111 i have to moniter my health,mana, and tp while chaining together attacks and watching my placement.
Gathering, while slow and random at first, picks up when you learn to use your locater abilitys and u learn the minigames.
Im not sure where people are comeing with the mouse being slow, i use my mouse just fine its not slow theres no drag or anyhting for me like im hearing others complain about.
My biggest annoyence is that the interface seems slow to transition, and that just be me lagging. that and all the kill stealing im half tempted to mpk but id rather not sullie my name b4 the official release..
that and i cant seem to find rp >_>
anyways thats my take on it atleast, make of it what you will horrible spelling and all.