Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

[Aeni]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

I think sometimes you just get shards for doing nothing. If not, then items drop wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too slow lol. I hadn't fought anything in about 45 mins and I was getting shard drops while standing around talking. (Now that I think about it, I can't remember if my friend was in my party at that time or not. If he was, forget everything I just said lol)

That message you see about you getting something (especially if you are not in a group) for nothing is actually a bug with the log right now. The log is displaying things that happens to other players as if you experienced it yourself. Very weird and annoying.

[Durahansolo]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

Hmmm.. Just a quick question... Do you have to get exp from the mob to gain the shards this time around?

I think sometimes you just get shards for doing nothing. If not, then items drop wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too slow lol. I hadn't fought anything in about 45 mins and I was getting shard drops while standing around talking. (Now that I think about it, I can't remember if my friend was in my party at that time or not. If he was, forget everything I just said lol)

[Takelli]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

Hmmm.. Just a quick question... Do you have to get exp from the mob to gain the shards this time around?

[Malacite]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

Go to the lighthouse south of Limsa. Along the way there are Puk's and jellyfish things, they all drop wind shards. And when you get to the lighthouse, you'll see a bunch of sheep that just shit wind shards.

How far south, exactly? Or did you miss the part where I said I was in Ul'dah.

[Dux]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

I have got marks for Conjurer guild from Leve's. I would expect other guild to aqcuire marks in the same way. I managed to get 290 marks in closed beta, just 10 away from my first Fast Cast update then I ran out of beta time

[DakAttack]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

I've seen the guild shops selling shards, but I thought you had to pay in guild marks (where do you get these, btw?)

You get them from nowhere. So far there only appears to be three guilds the player can earn marks from, none of which are actually in the game. The player earns so little that the 5000 price is probably a placeholder.

[Bricklayer]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

And there was at least one NPC selling all 6 shards for 80 gil each, and I could have sworn it was a guild shop too but SE seems to have ninja edited that right out.

I've seen the guild shops selling shards, but I thought you had to pay in guild marks (where do you get these, btw?)

[Aeni]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

Wind Shards aren't rare. Haha.

Go to the lighthouse south of Limsa. Along the way there are Puk's and jellyfish things, they all drop wind shards. And when you get to the lighthouse, you'll see a bunch of sheep that just shit wind shards.

It is rare when 1000 other players are also farming the same mobs you just described. It's gotten really nasty with so many people snapping at each other in that area. I'm even seeing LS groups farming together in order to "lock" the area down to get their shards/crystals during peak times.

[Cyprius]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

Wind Shards aren't rare. Haha.

Go to the lighthouse south of Limsa. Along the way there are Puk's and jellyfish things, they all drop wind shards. And when you get to the lighthouse, you'll see a bunch of sheep that just shit wind shards.

[Malacite]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

So I found something else SE screwed up massively.


Ul'dah is home to the Weaving and Goldsmithing guilds, but wind shards are beyond rare. What the CRAP SE?! Fire & Earth are abundant which is great, but a bit of wind would also be much appreciated... at least I can find the odd bit of lightning and ice off mobs for Alchemy but geez, I'm trying to raise my Carpentry so I can make a shield for my Gladiator, but outside of leves it's f'ing impossible due to the severe lack of wind.


And there was at least one NPC selling all 6 shards for 80 gil each, and I could have sworn it was a guild shop too but SE seems to have ninja edited that right out.

[TheGrandMom]

Re: S/R issue

Merging this with the bug complaint thread.

[Blitzkreig75]

S/R issue

Anyone else having thier send/recieve fluctuate a LOT and general loading of characters and actions severely lagging?

Animations are great, smooth, not laggy at all, just seems like the loading of characters, (not necessarily PCs, but characters all together like mobs/npcs/etc..), is real bad. MOST of the time there's accute latency when engaging mobs, too.

Doesn't seem to matter what time of day I play, but it's very slightly worse in prime hours, which is understandable.

About 20-45 seconds to load NPCs in deserted areas, and S never breaks 45-55. The little icon is next to the S/R info has been yellow continuously and occasionally red and R-0 (wich being a FFXI vet, isn't really surprising or an issue to me considering this IS beta).

Is this the norm for the game right now? Is this a known issue? Or is this somethign restricted to certain servers?

Currently on Mysidia(?)

[Bricklayer]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

wanted to take screenshots, but ffxiv requires you to hold scroll lock while hitting print screen (i think). unfortunately, my mx5500 keyboard does not have a scroll lock key. wasn't able to find a solution while i had the game running (fullscreen mode), but just googled it at work, and it turns out that the mx5500 has a couple of alternatives, e.g. fn+pause/break or right/left on the mouse wheel. i'll try it again when i get another chance to log in.

[cidbahamut]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

Very sad panda. The filler NPCs don't even get to have names, they're just labeled "drunken traveler" or some such. Way to fail at world building guys.

[DakAttack]

Re: Official Unofficial Bugs, Thoughts, and Suggestions

Finally got in today and then I regretted it. The interface makes me want to strangle kittens and the fact that they buggered up both camera control axes and then tied it to other functionality is unforgivable. The battle system was unintuitive during the tutorial session and the interface prevented me from reading most of the tutorial.

In FFXI it took me 3 minutes to figure out how to walk, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that in FFXIV it took me 3 minutes to figure out how to successfully engage and attack an enemy.

I'm about to write this whole thing off as an utter design failure and settle back into FFXI for the long haul.

Sad panda...