The Logistics Node mount is only available until Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.4 later this year. Serious PvPers can earn it faster than casual fighters.
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The Logistics Node is the new Final Fantasy XIV PvP mount. Players can acquire it by participating in any form of PvP: Crystalline Conflict, Frontlines, or Rival Wings. All the mentioned modes will award Series 3 experience points whether a match is won or lost.
There is a small amount of urgency to gaining the Logistics Node, as it will no longer be a PvP Series reward once patch 6.4 releases. There is no confirmed date, but historically patches come out around five months apart - meaning players have until around June to obtain the mount. Past items like the Final Fantasy XIV Archfiend Attire are now unavailable, though Square Enix has promised it will return in the future.
PvP Ranks and Experience Points
Every PvP match type rewards various amount of PvP Series experience points. When a player reaches a certain threshold - called Malmstones - they will go up a new rank and receive around 1,000 bonus Trophy Crystals to buy Final Fantasy XIV cosmetics.
Ranks at multiples of five typically give an even better reward. The Logistics Node is specifically awarded at Series 3 rank 15. This is reached at around 43,000 total experience points. That works out to either 50 matches of Final Fantasy XIV Crystalline Conflict, 30 Frontlines victories, or a combination.
Winning PvP Matches
The previously mentioned rank advancement estimation includes some match loses. However, constant win streaks yield additional bonus experience points. This means that players that concentrate on excelling at PvP wins will gain the Logistic Node sooner than others. This is handy for Final Fantasy XIV mount collectors that want the Logistic Node sooner, and those catching up late before Series 3 ends.
First, one should be very familiar with the universal Final Fantasy XIV PvP skills. Players themselves are mostly responsible for self-healing via Recuperate. One can also reduce damage by 90% with Guard. However, when no enemies are around one can use Standard Issue Elixirs to heal after a cast time of 4.5 seconds.
Team and Objectives
In all Final Fantasy XIV PvP modes, it is key to stick with the entire party - or alliance for Frontlines - and concentrate on objectives. A team can often sneak around and steal nodes, flags, or bases when the enemy is too focused on just fighting. Additionally, kills alone do not award many victory points.
Conversely, dying during PvP is very detrimental as it takes extra time to respawn and join the battle. If a fight seems impossible to win, it is better to simply retreat using a movement or teleportation ability.
Even after gaining enough Series experience and ranks for the Logistics Node, one may want to continue with more matches of Crystalline Conflict, Frontlines, or Rival Wings. Matches have a secondary currency in Wolf Marks, which can be used to buy GARO items crossed over into Final Fantasy XIV. Higher Series ranks have even more prizes, including a unique set of caped white armor called False Monarchy.
Final Fantasy 14
Released: 2013-08-27 Developer: Square Enix Franchise: Final Fantasy Genre: Fantasy, MMORPG Platform: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Microsoft Windows, macOS Publisher: Square Enix Multiplayer: Online Co-Op, Online Multiplayer Summary: Final Fantasy 14 (Final Fantasy XIV) is the fourteenth entry in the Final Fantasy franchise. It is an MMORPG that initially launched in 2010 before it was completely rebuilt from the ground up for a 2013 release as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. After the events of the 2010 iteration's conclusion, where the primal dragon Bahamut brings calamity to the land of Eorza, the player survives and is sent into the future by five years in a world that has begun to rebuild, but now thrust into the middle of a war from the Garlean Empire. As a consistently expanding world with an ever-scaling storyline, Final Fantasy XIV's narrative grows with each expansion, with the core experience still surrounding working with other players and NPCs as they level and customize their characters, engage in real-time events, and coordinate teams to enter massive dungeons to face raid bosses. The game is available to play with people of several nations and has a massive translatable vocabulary for players to be able to work with one another despite language barriers. The most recent expansion pack, Endwalker, was released in December of 2021 and follows the trend of each title releasing roughly every two years. Final Fantasy XIV is available as a free-to-play title up to level 60, where the game then transitions to a subscription model. The game is playable on Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5, as the PlayStation 3 version was shuttered in 2017. Expansion Packs : Heavensward (June 2015), Stormblood (June 2017), Shadowbringers (July 2019), Endwalker (December 2021) How Long To Beat: 120HOURS
Kurtis Seid has been covering the game industry for over a decade. His published works have appeared on GameSpot, EGM, and App Annie. He also was a former editor for Electronic Arts' Origin platform.
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