XIV 1.0 player thinking of playing ARR, few questions.Follow

Hey guys, I quit playing 1.0 a couple months before XIV went down for 2.0, I'm thinking of playing again I'm gonna play again and just had a few questions (was having trouble finding the answers I was looking for on google).

What exactly is legacy? I remember getting emails from square-enix about it, but I don't think I ever signed up for it. Did I have to sign up for it? Does this mean I'm not a legacy player? And if so, will I not be able to play on legacy servers? What are the benefits of playing on a legacy server?
Answered (I did not have to sign up for it, I am a legacy member)

Some minor questions too, will I be able to choose what server I play on? Can I rename my character and pick a different race? I'm level 50 in every single class, so I really don't want to have to make a new character.
Answered (I cannot choose what server my 1.0 characters will play on, but I will be able to transfer later on if I wish, once that option is available. I can rename my character and pick a different race.)

How is the drop rates now? I remember having to do a dungeon 100 times before finally getting loot, are drop rates still that bad or has it gotten better?
Answered (Compared to 1.0, seems ARR's drop rates have been majorly improved)

Unanswered questions:
Will I be able to change the appearance of all my characters, or just one?
If I log on my character now (for the first time), do I have to change their appearance now? Or can I (for example) do it the second or third time I log on?
Also, how does it work? Is it an item I use or a popup window when I first log on?
I heard there would be a barber in ARR, is that already in? Or is that an upcoming patch?
The item you get as a reward for buying 30 days sub, will that allow me to change my race? Or only the looks of my current race?
Sorry for so many questions and thanks in advance for any answers ^^

Edited, Sep 3rd 2013 5:45pm by MystinaValeth

Edited, Sep 3rd 2013 5:48pm by MystinaValeth

A legacy account is if you had paid for 3 months for 1.0 prior to some cutoff date. I don't remember the date but your SE account management system should tell you if you're a legacy account or not. Being legacy gives you a discount on the sub, not sure if there is anything else beyond that.

As for legacy server, that would be where all characters created in 1.0 will be, legacy account or not. I don't have a legacy acocunt but I do have a couple of legacy characters, they're not very high, around lvl 20 or so. It will retain all your levels and items but it wiped all quest completion so you'll be lvl 50 doing all the new quests.

Upon login, all 1.0 character do get a remake. So you'll be able to create your character new again but still retain all job levels and items you have acquired.

As for the last question, I can only tell you the 1017 monster has a very poor droprate as I have yet to get anything from it.

Cant say anything about the later dungeons since I created a new character in 2.0 to be able to play with my significant other and with login problems, instance bugs etc. I'm only a bit above lvl 20 as a lancer right now and have only done the first three dungeons.

In those dungeons I dont think I saw anything drop directly to some player, items were in chest and those interested / eligible rolled need/greed for them.

One Group i ran with, one of the players kept choosing "need" all the time and it was a bit annoying. I was surprised when he/she did not roll for the last chest at all, but I then realized it was because that item already had dropped and was unique (you cannot roll on a unique item you already have)

All in all, i got three nice gear items from those three dungeons (one pug weapon, one arcanist tomb, one nice pair of trousers for my lancer) so I am happy with it and looking forward to the coming dungeons.



Short version; Maybe drop rates still are awful? Or things are just different now and stuff drop in chests instead

Random event is random. Chests drop when bosses are killed, chests contain loot. Whether that loot will be for you or not is a matter of luck.

I don't know how it worked in 1.0 but this is pretty standard MMO fare as far as loot from dungeons goes.

darklight and af2 are token based, af2 tokens are capped per week

hardmode primal fights give tokens you can trade in for stuff but I haven't really gotten round to doing those yet I was more focused on grinding out some dungeons. After having a slew of unfriendly experiences in some of the dungeons I'm just going for a static atm :P

You do get Darklight drop, at least Wanderer Palace drop at the Tonberry King chest and it's 100% 1 piece of DL. Whether or not it's what you want is a different question. At each mini-boss and final boss you also get Tomestone for killing them. Tomestone is the token ZiGG said that are exchanged for DL/Crafting Material/AF2 etc.

Back in 1.0 you could have dozens of runs in CC/AV and no DL drop. Otherwise you usually get DL Gauntlet to the point everyone already has one and can't receive it anymore.

Edited, Sep 1st 2013 11:48pm by Khornette

Okay I got a new question...
I was creating my male miqo'te character and there are stupid marks under his eyes that you cannot get rid of.
http://www.finalfantasy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/beta6.jpg
What the hell! I don't want those stupid marks, am I missing something or is there really no way to get rid of them? I've looked under the options face, tattoo, facial features, and paint... annoying but I guess I'll have to deal lol

Also I was curious, I saw a lot of screenshots and videos of chocobos wearing AF gear, does that actually effect their fighting? Or is it just for looks?

It's different for female, I can remove/add them on female miqo'te (I used the be a female miqo'te and now I want to be a male miqo'te). I'm talking about specifically male miqo'te though, it appears there is no way to remove the marks on them... I could add more marks (tattoos, facial features, and paint), but I can't get rid of the default ones.

EDIT: Also it might be worth noting that I'm using the Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Character Creation) to create my character instead of the game itself (I currently cannot log-in to the game due to a broken security token, so to hold me over until I can log-on, I figured I would create my character using that program).

Edited, Sep 3rd 2013 12:18am by MystinaValeth

I have a few questions about the ability for legacy players to change their characters appearance.

Will I be able to change the appearance of all my characters, or just one?
If I log on my character now (for the first time), do I have to change their appearance now? Or can I (for example) do it the second or third time I log on?
Also, how does it work? Is it an item I use or a popup window when I first log on?
I heard there would be a barber in ARR, is that already in? Or is that an upcoming patch?
The item you get as a reward for buying 30 days sub, will that allow me to change my race? Or only the looks of my current race?

Edited, Sep 3rd 2013 5:33pm by MystinaValeth