Was Ballista your favorite thing to do in FFXI?

[Zirkk]

Did nothing rival the thrill of a well played Ballista match?
Have you stayed up way too late or woken up way to early just to participate in a match?
Did you always strive to improve with each match you played?

We play everyday, come and play with us!

If you're interested, check out our blog or some of our Ballista videos.

http://vyiv.wordpress.com/about-ls/

http://www.youtube.com/user/vyiv
http://www.youtube.com/user/deshi0
http://www.youtube.com/user/Evviva3980
http://www.youtube.com/user/Zirk1337
http://www.youtube.com/user/AcornFFXI

Some of the JP players from our server have videos, as well.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Prejdent
http://www.youtube.com/user/ValvosaZero
http://www.youtube.com/user/javierjavierism
http://www.youtube.com/user/irvineffxi
http://www.youtube.com/user/NordalxFFXI
http://www.youtube.com/user/BaosBering

[Alerith]

PLD/RDM vs DRK/SAM round one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTE5jper-c

PLD/RDM vs DRK/SAM round two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ullAXj3D1FA

PLD/RDM vs PLD/DNC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVJbYs1PJ18

The PLD/DNC didn't want to go another round. It was too one sided in my favor as PLD/RDM. /DNC won't do squat if you can't do damage and build TP.

[Alhanelem]

Yes, but I don't care to watch or participate in 1v1s. Ballista was designed as a team-based activity.

They need to make it easier to participate in and a little more rewarding.

[Aquilla]

Yes, but I don't care to watch or participate in 1v1s. Ballista was designed as a team-based activity.

They need to make it easier to participate in and a little more rewarding.

Too true. Tbh, I have no idea how they would go about making it more relevant/enjoyable. 1v1s were always pretty meaningless to me, however, even when ballista was played too many people simply wanted to do that.

I loved ballista back in its heyday. My monk and my blm practically got a few levels just off the piddly ballista xp. Large matches were the only fun part, especially matches with good teamwork on both sides. However, those weren't a majority. There was a lot about it that wasn't fun -- being excluded from one's side for being the only NA player, for example. Having the game dissolve into a set of 1v1 or 2v1 w/ afk people, for another. Rampant nerfing of everything in the name of balance that did little to actually provide 'balance' -- something impossible in XI, I think, where jobs were designed to work as a team as opposed to being able to solo play.

It's an idea whose time has long since passed, I think. To reintroduce/play it now would require a whole new game.

[Teishi]

Yes, but I don't care to watch or participate in 1v1s. Ballista was designed as a team-based activity.



Ignore Alerith. I'm not sure what compelled him to post his videos, he's not a part of the group in question or connected in any way.

Zirkk is advertising for a linkshell that does team ballista exclusively.

[Alhanelem]

We've had a number of threads about how to give ballista a little love, but nobody at SE has had anything to say on the subject. I wish someone would at least come in and lay it to rest with "We have no plans to adjust this at this time" or ideally take in the feedback that's been given countless times to make ballista more accessible and create some new incentives to participate. At an absolute, undeniable minimum, they need to at least double the EXP award from official matches simply because EXP everywhere else in original areas was doubled across the board. Obviously, I'd like to see much more than that, like revising the official match schedule or having independent schedules for all three areas so that there's more likely to be a match type you want at the time you want. Buuuut, I'm not expecting anything. -.-

I have, personally, been able to use the Player Event Support service to generate small bits of publicity on my server on a few occasions. If you want to play some kind of event, it's a nice way to call some attention to it (but if you want PES NPCs for an event, you need to plan it between 7 and 14 days in advance.)

Although still not really mandatory, and definitely not world-based, FFXIV is planning to offer more PvP related content (again, not world, kill anyone anywhere PVP, just special areas like WoW's Battlegrounds.). All that aside, if more people would join up, I would be doing ballista a LOT more. It's a lot more fun than just standing around in jeuno waiting for what you want to actually happen.