You get north vern passes, which doesn’t really do anything for a beginner. Unless you expect them to play three t1 characters from the get go.
I heard that in KR 1370 honing buffs were added only when brelshaza raid dropped, and thats kinda far still.
I also do my chaos with no problem, but only if i make a second skill preset for it. Which was mentioned in my previous comment.
You don’t “need” gold yet it hold most of the cool things you can buy. Also it will take a long while before you can even fund your first cristalline aura
Trial is unlimited. You can reach lv60 and finish Heavensward (patches 3.X, the first expact of Realm Reborn) and still continue playing for free and switching jobs all you want. You won’t be able to access Stormblood (4.0) and beyond (and the jobs & content tied to the later expacs), that’s all.
The t1 and t2 wall was deleted by Smilegate in KR eventually with the South Vern payable pass, but I’m sure a large majority would complain about having to pay for a boost which is why AGS is hesitant to begin with for payable solutions I personally only buy cosmetics, but I sure would buy a pass or two for a couple alts if I could.
I believe amazon has no say in anything and smilegate doesnt give 2 shits about us. Theyre completely detached from anything going on here and only have amazons word of mouth. Amazon surely isnt going to admit or care that theyve completely fucked over the vast majority of players, because they are walking a tight rope of trying to appease stockholders with (fake)high player count numbers and still make money(the 2 are counter to each other since the high player count is bots and bots steal their income). Ban bots or keep them and squeeze the life out of the last remaining honest players? I think we know which theyve chosen.
Smilezon wanted to released a 5x sped up release schedule with 1x progression rate. All theyve done with this is piss most people off, encourage botting and RMT, and ruin the game in the process. Lost ark is supposed to be a casual game, but its been turned into an extreme elitist hell
The buffs dont help as much as youd think. We are still extremely gated by leapstones, stones, and shards at the end of t2 plus fail rate. They should have a 50% mat cost cut buff or something, or make shards accountwide
Well that’s a lie. I’ve done exactly as described above in my comment.
I don’t do una tasks, I hardly do guardian raids, I’ve basically only done story content it forces, chaos dungeons, cube, and boss rush. But I’m sitting on a bunch of those tickets too.
I donate silver and research to a guild. No gold, rarely even do any weekly, including chaos and guardians.
I only have 2 Alts. My starting character that’s in almost 600 in T1. And a feiton power pass Zerker that’s 1100 or so.
I’m sitting on loads of mats. And the express event I used on the Paladin when they were almost T3. So I basically wasted it. And I haven’t done much of the abyssal stuff. I’ve done Tower on one guy and stopped somewhere halfway in T2.
I haven’t even used another power pass, and I’ve done 0 knowledge transfers.
I have a ton of mats, battle items, and crystalized auras, all from just logging in and claiming. 0 effort beyond what I’ve described.
I’ve only recently even started doing stronghold stuff…
I’m playing the least optimal way aside from claiming login rewards.
ffxiv is not f2p, you can only play till the end of the first expansion and once you buy a sub you will have to buy a sub every month no matter what expansion u in.
you also have alot of limits as a free player like not being able to invite players in party.
yeah they rly need to add the honing buff, its 100% success rate +1 to +15 and it increases 2lvls by tap.
with minimum effort and gold you make a t3 char in 1 day, just hope they add the honing buffs when we get vykas or earlier
Using only some resources from the ark pass (the normal one , not the paying one) i got the destroyer to tier 2 in 3 days (and that of course without the island t1 resources… a new player would have enought mats to literally fly to t2) … yeah , sure pal t1 its a long and really hard process
“Game is advertised to be free 2 play while it seems to me more like a demo where yo ucan play for free only to a certain point, so guess what…”
1426 here with 3 alts at 1370 the rest at 1340 … the only money spent was in valtan release for a character slot for the destroyer … seems you are just mediocre .
“… GUYS FINAL FANTASY 14 CHANGED BUSINESS MODEL AND IT’S NOW FREE TO PLAY!!”
Lucky you , now you can go play that and stop crying here .
Ppl get hooked off the graphics and gameplay. If those don’t draw you in almost immediately, the game isn’t for you. It is a HUGE investment. I don’t regret it, but others might. And I hate how saying “the game isn’t for you” is now taken as this elitist thing. It’s just very simple… Not every game is meant for every player. Some ppl hate the isometric style and gameplay. Cool. Others, like myself, love it. I had fun my first go round. Less so doing T1-T2 over again, I would rather pay for powerpasses than do that grind just to get to T3 and do the REAL grind, but yeah that’s another topic.
just free demo since its locked at lvl 60.