Concerned4FFxi
12-08-2011, 01:51 PM
Hello again. I spent the last 30+ hours of game play this week doing GOV page 8 in the maze of Shakhrami on mobs 86-88 in order to skill up odd jobs that I don't play, break mythic latents, and level my adventuring fellow from 83-90 (currently 85).
While there I opened 50+ locked chests (my bazaar mule is overloaded with 1-2k items now) and the best drop I got was an nq prism cape, which is so out dated it's laughable because I sold my hq ages ago. I only missed 2 chests the whole time, I'm very good at guessing locked chests and it's fun to open them.
The majority of drops where hi-potion+1-2, a few remedies, an elixir+1 or three, some junk ore, a log, etc.
I'm not asking for wizzan grip in every chest, or from every zone for that matter. I chose this zone because it was the level I wanted to target for my fellow and the mobs to do pages where centered in the same easy access area.
What I am asking for are better average drops. Something that can be npc'd for around 7k, like abyssea augmented drops, or items that sell ok on the AH such as angel skin (10-20k, dragon meat 20k). If you added these drops to VW also, it would help the general complaint.
Look, you already made abyssea, admiting it broke the game is great, and saying you are going away frpm that mentality is awesome but under no circumstance can you go back to old FFXI entirely or your going to continue to lose players.
Please understand that because of abyssea, people are unwilling to accept 100 logs from VW, and 100 elixirs from GOV locked chests. Again, I don't care there's not a great item in every chest or every zone, but elixirs and logs don't qualify. Again, doesn't have to be -6pdt/mdt dark rings either, but something better than logs and remedies.
You can't go back in time, while the game's future will be more like old FFXI, it can't be 100% like old XI.
Consider that farming any abyssea zone for a few hours yields majorly greater rewards than
30+ hours of book burning mobs 86+ and we have a problem here.
edit: fellow is currently 85, will mention about this is bug section, 90 cap complete but can not advance post 85. More testing is needed.
While there I opened 50+ locked chests (my bazaar mule is overloaded with 1-2k items now) and the best drop I got was an nq prism cape, which is so out dated it's laughable because I sold my hq ages ago. I only missed 2 chests the whole time, I'm very good at guessing locked chests and it's fun to open them.
The majority of drops where hi-potion+1-2, a few remedies, an elixir+1 or three, some junk ore, a log, etc.
I'm not asking for wizzan grip in every chest, or from every zone for that matter. I chose this zone because it was the level I wanted to target for my fellow and the mobs to do pages where centered in the same easy access area.
What I am asking for are better average drops. Something that can be npc'd for around 7k, like abyssea augmented drops, or items that sell ok on the AH such as angel skin (10-20k, dragon meat 20k). If you added these drops to VW also, it would help the general complaint.
Look, you already made abyssea, admiting it broke the game is great, and saying you are going away frpm that mentality is awesome but under no circumstance can you go back to old FFXI entirely or your going to continue to lose players.
Please understand that because of abyssea, people are unwilling to accept 100 logs from VW, and 100 elixirs from GOV locked chests. Again, I don't care there's not a great item in every chest or every zone, but elixirs and logs don't qualify. Again, doesn't have to be -6pdt/mdt dark rings either, but something better than logs and remedies.
You can't go back in time, while the game's future will be more like old FFXI, it can't be 100% like old XI.
Consider that farming any abyssea zone for a few hours yields majorly greater rewards than
30+ hours of book burning mobs 86+ and we have a problem here.
edit: fellow is currently 85, will mention about this is bug section, 90 cap complete but can not advance post 85. More testing is needed.