Sofy's FFXIV Beta Adventure

So I've been playing with FFXIV Beta for a few days now, didn't do much yet. Created 3 characters of different classes: ' Pugilist(my main), a mithra Thaumaturge (which is kinda a Black mage) and a Taru Blacksmith.

Classes:
So far these are the announced classes: ' Alchemist,Archer,Blacksmith,Carpenter,Conjurer, Cook,Fisherman, Gladiator,Goldsmith, Harvester,Lancer,Marauder, Miner, Pugilist,Tanner,Thaumaturge,Weapon smith and Weaver.
To me it's still a mystery... I mean most of these 'classes' were professions before and yet most of these 'profession-classes' have no abilities, all you can do is throw pebbles... I'm not too sure yet where is SE heading with that...

Do like:
What I like so far, well as I said it looks good! The UI is all 'dockable' so it's pretty neat and convenient. Story so far looks interesting, you can manage your items and gear better.

Do not like:
I was really happy when they say they would make character customization better.. So sad to see that it's mostly the same as FFXI, before you could chose between 3 faces, 3 hair style, 3 hair colors..... Now it's 5 instead of 3 plus the choice of skin color. Sad sad, I was expecting more than that. So yes, you will have tons of ppl looking the same...

I also find that it's lacking of direction at the start, well it wasn't any better in FFXI, they dump you in the middle of a city and then: ' off you go! Yay adventure!' But yeah... If I do compare with World of Warcraft or Aion, in these MMO they hold you by the hand at the start and everything is done in a 'small area' so they make sure you 'get it' before you go out there. In FFXI and now FFXIV they just throw you there with very lil direction.

Well will keep playing and will keep you posted!


Cheers~!