Good Morning Friends! I thought I would take a bit to cover something that happens in the FFXIV community with its more populated servers. The first block of servers is a screenshot taken from around 7 pm CDT last night, showing that all seven servers were locked for new character creation. This would give someone the impression that they can’t create a character on the same server as their friends. However, the bottom block is from 7 am CDT this morning, and notice that all of the servers but one are back open if I had to guess if you had checked early enough that one also would have been open.
This is the frustration of playing Final Fantasy XIV since they don’t want “dead” servers to be a thing, they are extremely slow to add new ones. This means that if a player is trying to start the game during prime time hours, they are likely not going to be able to roll on the intended server. It is very important that as you sell your friends on this game, that you also warn them about this possibility. As always there is a nifty website that you can check to see if your target server is open for new character creation. However in my personal experience is that if you log in first thing in the morning, you should be able to create new characters without issue.
In other news, I managed to get my Dancer to level 80 on the 10th and have swapped over and started working on Ninja. I have been taking a fairly deliberate path through some of the classes I am working on, and largely it is due to the fact that I am trying to also come along behind the scenes and clean out my vault of gear I no longer need. I had leveled Bard quite some time ago and recently leveled Machinist which meant that in order to do a clean sweep of all “dex” gear I needed to then level Dancer and Ninja as well. This is an interesting class but I have to admit that the whole Ninjutsu thing is a little fiddly for my tastes. It reminds me a bit too much of the old days of memorizing fighting game movies, but I would imagine this is entirely purposeful. I know the button press combinations needed for the few really useful abilities and I am rolling with that.
At the close of the evening, I managed to get my Ninja up to 57. For the moment at least I am living in South Shroud and running Palace of the Dead over and over. It seems to be the best possible way to really push through the leveling up until 61 when Heaven on High opens up. I am of course doing my daily roulettes which help put on a few easy levels, but there is still a good deal of repetition in running “Palace” over and over again. The positive however is that it seems like a lot of people are leveling alts through this method right now, and I have had some pretty great conversations while running the randomized dungeons.
Once again I am constantly amazed at just how generally chill the community is. We had a few runs last night that went horribly wrong. There are just times through randomization that you get a bad streak of events, and there was one point where everyone but one player was laying dead on the ground and that single-player had to run to the shrine and resurrect us all. No one fell into a yelling fit and no one made a big deal about it… we just pushed forward and finished the ten floors thanking the remaining player for rezzing us. Were these other games, it is entirely likely that someone would have rage quit in the middle leaving us down a player. I had a phenomenally awful World of Darkness run the other day and we gave it five attempts on the first boss, trying to steer players towards the mechanics before someone finally quietly voted to abandon duty. There were no screaming, just constant friendly reminders of how the mechanics worked that were ignored.
Lastly, I thought I would give an update on the housing hunt. My fingers were in fact not fastest enough. I had been periodically poking the placard starting around 7 am my time. As I understand it when a house opens up it will actually be available anywhere between 30 minutes and 36 hours from when it is relinquished. So you are fighting this invisible timer that you have no clue when exactly you need to click. When I took this screenshot that I am reusing, there were only a handful of players trying for the house. By the time it actually went up for sale, there were around a dozen people. I went downstairs to use the restroom and by the time I got back upstairs it was sold to someone who had not even been there waiting with us when I last checked. I am hoping that when the lottery system goes into place, that I will be able to get a house in that manner. Once you have a house, any house it is apparently easier to relocate to another property because you are not beholden to the invisible timer. I still eventually want a small plot in The Mists, and if the world were perfect it would be lot 13, or the equivalent on the subdivision.
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