Final Fantasy XIV pushes patch 1.21 back to March 9th

@valdi313
I got it when it was on sale on Amazon for 10 bux two weeks ago. It is surprising rather playable. I hated it in beta and cancelled the pre-order but now I might play it on and off since its about 10 bux to sub and people are rather helpful in game. Chat channel are decent. Try it out if you can get a cheap copy or wait for 2.0 which would have more improvement.

@Zaken
Thanks for the reply. Is the game still only keyboard based with the UI or can you actually use a mouse with it like most games?

I always loved the idea they had about classes being based on their armor. Is this still the case?

@valdi313
Mouse is still clunky to use. It is way better than in beta. Still, it's faster to do some stuff with keyboards. They are suppose to update the PC UI to modern standard in 2.0. It is rather hard to explain, the best I can do is "PC UI is largely improved but still not up to western standard".
For example, casting now goes like this. Target monster -> Click on Spell -> Click on Target again to confirm casting. The 3rd step is just stupid but they are patching that issue soon.

@valdi313 I played up until they brought the subscriptions back..they have made a ton of improvements...sadly being a teen with a part time summer job I can only afford one MMO and I'm currently sticking with SWTOR

@Zaken or you can press spell number and click on monster and spell goes off

@(Unverified)
That does look awesome. Hopefully they can improve server lag issue or NA players probably wont see the responsiveness of the improvement. I still have about 1-2 sec lag between UI tell me the spell is ready to cast and when I actually trying to cast, system tells me its not ready ugh.

@(Unverified)

Such as ? I would like to know since I only started trying it out for like 2 weeks.

@Zaken

When the game started out, Thuamaturge's abilities and lore revolved around life and death themes, along with hindering spells like sleep, while Conjurer was elemental with all of the basic spells. Both had utilities for helping parties, but Conjurer had the cure, shell, and protect spells, and so was considered healer.

When the jobs came into the works, there was great debate on which mage class would unlock black mage and white mage. Many thought that CNJ should be black mage because they were elemental, and others thought it should be white mage because of the lore and healer role. The changes came as you see now in the game. The elements were split between the two classes, with THM gaining thunder, fire, and blizzard.

Another change that affected all classes was that each class was tied to exactly 15 abilities. Before, there was no set number. This meant CNJ lost a lot of abilities, because it had all six elements and their II versions, the elemental DOTs (these have currently been pulled out of the game, but it's been hinted they might resurface in another mage class), the cures, shell, protect, and a few others that are now taken out of the game. Of course, you couldn't actually use all of those abilities at once, as there was a limitation on how many you could have on your bar. Unfortunately I was less familiar with THM, but I know they had some pretty big changes too.

But it's water under the bridge as they say. :) Yoshi-P is doing a great job, and there are bound to be bumps for someone or another along the way. What matters is the end result.