(09-08-2016, 10:53 PM)Charity322 Wrote:(09-08-2016, 12:37 PM)Kage Wrote: Yes, damage affects your hate/aggro generation. Having low gear will affect that, definitely.
Even when gear is synced down?
FFXIV is my first FF game. I've never played any of the others. But I thought that the lore etc. was different for each game, so FFXIV was a stand alone. I have no time to play the previous iterations; I'm too busy playing XIV (my sims are suffering because of this).
Some nice blue or purple (even green and pink) icon gear is gonna sync with much nicer stats than item-level equivalent white gear or at-level white gear. Generally, a tank can kinda get away with not having super-amazing gear as long as they have a decent enough weapon (or enough armor to make up the difference) and know how to use their skills and cooldowns effectively. But let's say a fresh tank enteres their first Sastasha and is maybe a whole i10 on average and gets mixed with a bunch of end game players? Their synced gear is gonna make it rough and sneezing in the direction of an enemy could rip it off the tank who's getting started.
RE: Other Final Fantasy games, they share common themes, but no two numbered games have ever been the same, shared the same plot or had the same characters. (There are usually moogles, and crystals and some guy named Cid who deals with airships/transportation of some sort though!) So there story in FFXIV is not going to be seen anywhere else. Now, the MMO does pull elements from other games, but it's much more like references and callbacks. They're not directly importing another game's story or plot and rigging it into Hydaelyn. A lot of people enjoy the previous titles, which have been ported over to a variety of more modern consoles and devices. (Quite a few have mobile phone ports, but they may suffer from upscaled graphics or other modifications). If you're the sort of person who has odd pockets of free time while not around a computer, I'd recommend picking one up for your phone and seeing how it goes!
