Beta thoughtsFollow

Oh that might be what I'm thinking of, I doubt I would have tried the first time and I made a few characters.

That paragraph is so full of SE win it's not even funny. I'm a happy panda.

I believe they said duty finder will warp you to dungeons, or give you the option to.

That was published earlier, I'll try to find it later.

So far I'm loving this game. It is better than 1.0 in every way lol. Anyone logged into Ultros right now?

I got in just fine at the start. Was only able to do character creation and intro for two characters and look at their abilitiy kits extensively.

Lancer has improved greately. We now have our flanking attack back (It's Heavy Thrust) which also gives us a damage buff as the bonus. Chaos Thrust is now a powerful DoT skill, which means you'll want to rotate it in and out of your skills (It's not the most powerful one shot skill, but it does the best damage over time when you use it every time the debuff runs out.)

Pugilist is intesting. It does not have the same breath of skills Lancer does, but you can potentially chain endlessly with them, and there are variants for each "Stance" you set up for.

Looking forward to see how they all play, but I'm stuck until six thirty EDT.

Loved the opening cinematic. The Magitek mechs looked effing rad.

The beta is solid. Everything feels extremely smooth and polished and I'm having fun testing out the character creator and the classes, but I'm saving the bulk of it for Phase 4 where my progress will be saved. I just want to starting working on my character. He's been in hibernation for two years.

Registration was an absolute breeze for me. From email in inbox to start of download was 5-8 minutes.

Maybe...you don't access the PS Store, it's done through "Account Management" on the dashboard, and you have to register through SE and set up your service account first.

Like you said in the other thread, could be a case of RTFM. lol

THM is pretty awesome!!! I believe the battle system was polished a bit cause its a lot smoother than phase 2 and i agree with wint on the interrupt thing.

My THM hits hard and with style!

At general though uldah was looking quite nice i liked Gridania better though but nevertheless the city is well designed.

*laugh* It's good to see the excitement finally leaking in here. Though, the Beta forums are down due to so much traffic and strain. I'm sure it'll take them a while to get used to all the new people and returning people jumping in as soon as they can.

It's likely also delaying the new Lodestone from going up.

Keep in mind more options become available for Character Creation once the import is finished. Your 1.0 character won't change so they have to install those options.

I'm very happy they gave us Elezen other hair colors again, unlike phase 1 and 2 where you could only have white hair...

I played through to level 4 before servers dropped, and I did 1 FATE outside Limsa. Very happy with the entire design, and the intro movie is great. I hope the voice over is enough to quell everyone's bad acting fears.