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Satrina · **08-13-2010, 08:15 PM**

Aveline Wrote:My thoughts on the beta thus far:

The ok-but-needs-work:
Character customization:

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SpoilerIt is far and away better than FFXI's, but it still lacks some things to make it great. For one thing, some races are highly limited currently as to how many hair style options they have (Highlander Hyurs and Lalafells each get 4 I believe, while most others get 8). Furthermore, "eye shape" seems to have a lot of redundant options or too-subtle-to-notice differences, and the color options for facial tattoos are limited to stark white, black, bright red, and blue. Hopefully that changes as well.

I think they said more will be added for live. If they are just lying, will be putting in a lot more, or WANT to put in more but won't be able to is to be seen. I hope they hold to their word and put some more customizing in.

Quote:Guildleves:

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SpoilerThey seem like a great idea, but right now you have a 48 hour cooldown between sets of leves. So if you get 4 leves for Camp Bearded Rock and finish them in an hour, you can't do any more leves for that camp for 2 RL days. You can, of course, move on to other camps, but there is a 10 level gap between leve group levels, so if you don't get 10 levels during your 4 leves, you are left to grind.
S-E does suggest that you pair up with others and do their leves, but it's hardly worth it.. only the original leve-holder gets the bulk of the rewards (large money, random equipment drops), while those helping them get only the extra cash bonus. So if I am doing a leve that grants me 2,000 gil and a helmet, for instance, anyone else I sucker in to joining me would get maybe 250 gil and nothing else. I am worried that unless they do something about how this system works, the FFXI grindfest that they explicitly promised would not be returning will, in actuality, make up the bulk of the game.

Just to address this, not sure how high lvl you are but from my other forum they say guild leves will increase in time needed to complete by a good amount, and become more plentiful. Keep in mind there will be 3 other starting areas, all with their own leves i'm sure, and if transportation between them is allowed early on then that's triple the amount available in beta. Not to mention they may add more. The reason they have the cooldown, which i'm not sure will even come into live with that large of a cooldown is the amount of xp you get from the later guildleve's is HUGE. They don't want people bursting out levels like nothing and hitting max level in a week or 2 like WoW. My opinion at least.

NDA, be gone!

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