Records of Eminence + Long NM Respawn Times = Yuck

[Antanias]

Seriously...Morbolger, Nue, etc. were made into (non-repeateable) RoE objectives with their spawn timers being much too long when compared to NMs like the timed ones in Abyssea. Can we have shorter NM respawn timers to help accomodate these new objectives?

[Demonjustin]

Very much agreed, I expected something along the lines of Duke Decapod, not the NMs they picked, in either case its not entirely horrible in the sense they are non-repeatable, but still, they are stupidly long repop NMs.

[Lexin]

Guess they don't want Brown Belt to be even more common.

[Demonjustin]

Guess they don't want Brown Belt to be even more common.

Not like it has a use.

[Manque]

These NM objectives are meant to be little treats you happen upon, bump into, just so happen to be in the right place at the right time. In short, they didn't mean for these objectives to be knocked off one-by-one, or cleared completely.

Edit: Here is the dev note:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...457#post488457

[Lexin]

Not like it has a use.

Black belt maybe.

[Demonjustin]

Black belt maybe.

Seeing as the Haste is literally meaningless at this point, the PDT can be nearly matched by other pieces let alone the fact that the PDT given is not worth the accuracy lost by not using a different Belt, and the STR is just not important in this day and age by compare to so many other things, its not useful.

[dasva]

It's a matter of all of that being in one peice though so you can do less in other peices... that said who the hell wears acc belts?

[dasva]

These NM objectives are meant to be little treats you happen upon, bump into, just so happen to be in the right place at the right time. In short, they didn't mean for these objectives to be knocked off one-by-one, or cleared completely.

Edit: Here is the dev note:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...457#post488457

Yeah theres no way they could've thought no one would try to get them. That's like saying we don't expect you to make a mythic just that you do some of the objectives for fun doing other stuff and if you make it cool. Obviously large difference in reward but conceptionally similar idea. A lot of these nms are in places you would probably never otherwise go to and being on 24 hour timers would never see unless you ToD camped like days of old.... only for crap lol

[Demonjustin]

It's a matter of all of that being in one peice though so you can do less in other peices... that said who the hell wears acc belts?

To my understanding MNKs attempting Very Difficult Ark Angel fights need as much accuracy as they can get, and those who I know that do those fights often use either the Tojil or 15Acc/15Atk/1%DA Belts. This is why I brought up accuracy, in any other instance you would just use Windbuffet or another multi-hit belt such as Twilight. There are really very few reasons to ever use Black Belt anymore, if any at all when you have proper gear for the job.