Final Beta Test Time and Date

Thank you for signing up for the FFXIV: A Realm Reborn Beta Test on Windows PC!

The final beta test will kick off on Friday, August 16, 2013 at 2 a.m. (PDT) and last until Monday, August 19, 2013 at 2 a.m. (PDT).

If you haven’t downloaded the client for Windows PC yet, you can log in to the test forums and download the test client here.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ARR-Test/threads/7065
If you have any questions regarding this e-mail or any other aspect of the beta test, please visit the Square Enix Support Center.

We look forward to seeing you in Eorzea!
http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com

Was that an email you received? I havn't gotten anything on my 4 beta accounts

EDIT: ah nevermind found that email on 2 of my 4 accounts >.<!

yea I got the email from my mains account

[MiRai]

I registered four new throwaway accounts for open beta and I'm going to try and wake up around the time that the servers open up (in less than 6 hours) so that I can make a mad dash to level 15 with my mixed team before everyone and their mother floods the servers at level one. I'll have to level the healer separate since she's going to be starting out in Gridania while the others will be in Ul'dah, and I'm hoping that since I won't have enough to be considered a "Light Party" while leveling the Tank and DPS, that I won't be getting beat up too bad with super amounts of aggro when trying to pull one mob at a time.

I've converted most of my Pro Config from WoW over to FFXIV and I'd like to try and tackle instances with a mixed team. Hopefully I can be at least level 15 by tomorrow night on the Tank and DPS, so that I can have a few days to really work on DPS rotations, CC, mouseover healing, etc and really show off the potential of multiboxing before servers go offline.

you can always level them out of party and you wont get the extra adds but you will get credit for kills for quests if they manage to attack the mob before it dies

[MiRai]

you can always level them out of party and you wont get the extra adds but you will get credit for kills for quests if they manage to attack the mob before it dies

Variable Keystrokes don't work out of a group because they're based on F1-F8 party targeting, but even with a hard-coded macro I think that would have been rough. I still had to deal with the adds even with only 3 in a party, but having the GLD up front and being able to sit the THMs back behind me made everything so much easier. First day of progress after finishing my base ISBoxer setup and getting characters leveled...

http://i.imgur.com/Gnw7y5K.jpg

GLD/THM/THM @ 13 & CNJ @ 15. Leveled the CNJ solo until she unlocked the airship and then I met up with the rest of the crew in Ul'dah. I will definitely be hitting my first instance tomorrow and I am excited. I'll need to first adapt my healing setup to work with my CNJ, but this should be interesting.

you can always level them out of party and you wont get the extra adds but you will get credit for kills for quests if they manage to attack the mob before it dies

Variable Keystrokes don't work out of a group because they're based on F1-F8 party targeting, but even with a hard-coded macro I think that would have been rough. I still had to deal with the adds even with only 3 in a party, but having the GLD up front and being able to sit the THMs back behind me made everything so much easier. First day of progress after finishing my base ISBoxer setup and getting characters leveled...

http://i.imgur.com/Gnw7y5K.jpg

GLD/THM/THM @ 13 & CNJ @ 15. Leveled the CNJ solo until she unlocked the airship and then I met up with the rest of the crew in Ul'dah. I will definitely be hitting my first instance tomorrow and I am excited. I'll need to first adapt my healing setup to work with my CNJ, but this should be interesting.

Ill be watching and cheering for you , cant wait till we get a core mutiboxers on ffxiv going to be fun to show off. cant wait for your next update MiRai

Go MiRai! I am interested to see how boxing instances goes, so keep us posted.

It looks like they've made easier to start up more characters in the open beta, allowing anyone who registers to play:

https://twitter.com/FF_XIV_EN/status/368665119661645824

[Norrin]

Go MiRai! I am interested to see how boxing instances goes, so keep us posted.

It looks like they've made easier to start up more characters in the open beta, allowing anyone who registers to play:

https://twitter.com/FF_XIV_EN/status/368665119661645824

Thanks for that. I wasn't really all the interested in this game until I watched MiRai's video.
I have been keeping up with all the discussions here too.

So I am signing up now.

Oh and yeah MiRai, can't wait for your next video.

[MiRai]

You guys are killing me with this pressure you're putting on me by expecting a "good" video. It's just going to be me wiping on trash and swearing at the game.

I didn't get a lot done today unfortunately between setting a bunch of things up and then realizing they weren't going to work as I had planned, but in the end I finally got my UI laid out and threw in some menu buttons to heal with.

http://i.imgur.com/7Tz2xXC.jpg

Finally got a chance to try Sastasha and after spending most of my time trying to figure out a decent rotation for my THMs, I ran out of time at the end boss on my first attempt.

http://i.imgur.com/3MyTJf5.jpg

I did go in one more time right after that to take another stab and he killed me the first time since I wasn't ready to be overwhelmed with adds, but I got him the second. Hopefully I can make some good progress tomorrow in some more instances.