New Ambuscade armor (and maybe weapons)

[Aethon]

Seeing as how Ambuscade is the main content that gets updates every month and I'm seeing a lot of people around with +2 gear for a lot of things maybe it's time for new sets to be introduced.

It could still be kept where sets for hallmarks and gallantry are swapped each month but have 2/3 choices of armor instead of just 1 set each/ (Nyzul and Salvage)

There is still a lot of content where they could reuse assest to make it easier too.

Perle,Teal/Aurore sets from Abyssea, Yigit/Amir/Pahluwan from Assault, and Campaign armor sets. There are so many options that can be picked from! (Many more than those few listed)

People are still doing ambuscade all the time and seeing as how it resets every month this could give people a few more months of chasing the shiny new gear.

Also, why not add some weapons to the mix? They don't have to be top tier (nor should they for "casual" battle content) but maybe as a stepping stone for people that don't want to spend so much money on random augments but can't get groups for escha NMs.

Ambuscade is fun and constantly fresh content but the rewards are a bit stale as they don't really change. A breath of fresh air and new things to chase might help the grind feeling a lot of people experience too.

[Dragonsong]

No thanks we already have enough gear clog from existing sets. Ambuscade has been out since April 2016 and it doesn't get anymore exciting every month. I don't get why every month so much effort is still being put into this chore content.

[Halley]

No thanks we already have enough gear clog from existing sets. Ambuscade has been out since April 2016 and it doesn't get anymore exciting every month. I don't get why every month so much effort is still being put into this chore content.

Uh, easy gil. Obviously. Make 5m in 60 seconds.

You can't figure out why people want to make 5,000,000 in 1 minute.... yeah.

[Dragonsong]

Talking about Dev time putting effort into ambusboring and calling it a monthly update over a year later not a way to make gil. You really do it still to make 50 more capes... We do not need anymore gear bloat/side upgrades.

[Dragonsong]

Ugh I forgot how pointless it was to comment on these threads. Like people summoner burning everything!

[radarbabyeater]

I'd like to see JSE belts, personally. Cap the augments at half of what are available on the capes and it would be pretty solid. I like the idea of them re-using the old ToA Assault armor, too. They could also use the WoG armor that you could buy with Allied Notes; those had an interesting look to them.

[Nyarlko]

I'd like to see JSE belts, personally. Cap the augments at half of what are available on the capes and it would be pretty solid. I like the idea of them re-using the old ToA Assault armor, too. They could also use the WoG armor that you could buy with Allied Notes; those had an interesting look to them.

I like the idea of Ambuscade belts which augment to 1/2 the value of capes, but why bother making them JSE? I'd be exceedingly happy with even a blank "all jobs" one. Maybe toss in a bit of DEF/HP/MP? We have enough job clutter, no reason to ask for more when it's not necessary. My FC cape for BLM is the same as my FC cape for BLU, which is the same as my FC cape for GEO.. The base stats would have to be enough to justify JSE versions over generic versions in order to be worth the amazing amount of new inventory -1 items we'd be looking at, and I don't see them giving us OP belts... Or is there a good reason that I can't think of to require multiple identical builds for individual jobs?

[YosemiteYogorockBlondelle]

I was thinking about the older/old 109 coalitions augmented gears and other gears that are outdated lower to the current Lv.99>i-Lv.119's such as 110, 113, 115, 117, etcetera, Maybe... just maybe they could be incorporated into this style of upgrades under here some-how but known SE they may rather decide to somehow possibly take a coalition route to upgrade them up to par with our other current 119>{140}<gears. Just was & I've been thinking about it for a while now. I got one 109 coalitions currently on my thf that I certainly wish I could be doing this with, granted, I've already augmented a stat onto it.

Thoughts!?? :D

[chiefhunglo]

Would be interesting to see.

[Afania]

Talking about Dev time putting effort into ambusboring and calling it a monthly update over a year later not a way to make gil. You really do it still to make 50 more capes... We do not need anymore gear bloat/side upgrades.

YOU don't need sidegrades, the game needs it. Entire FFXI pretty much built on collecting gears and social with people while doing so.

The game doesn't have enough content to keep people stay subbed like WOW or XIV, and FFXI playerbase mostly prefer gear collecting aspect of the game. Collecting 300 gears and 50 gear sets is the only reason to keep playing. If this game doesn't have 300 gears to collect for my cor I'd quit for an year already.

So yes to more situational gears, I'm running out of HQs to buy and gears to farm, so I prefer more situational gears as goals. If I just want to toss my old gears and farm new ones every 3 month I'd play FFXIV already, at least that game looks prettier and cheaper.

[chiefhunglo]

Why don't you play ff14 arr I mean you just gave more of a reason to play the new mmo rather than the old one.

[chiefhunglo]

Well some players just want to be done with it rather then take their time can't say I blame them again not everyone has the time.

[chiefhunglo]

If people want to summon burn let them its not like them getting gear from these burns are hurting you or anyone else.

[Afania]

Well some players just want to be done with it rather then take their time can't say I blame them again not everyone has the time.

Never be done is the entire point of MMO. It's not supposed to let player "finish" the game otherwise people quit and population decline.



Why don't you play ff14 arr I mean you just gave more of a reason to play the new mmo rather than the old one.

Because of the way FF14 handle progress. FF14 keep players subbed by force reset your progress every a couple of months because your old gears completely obsolete.

FF11 keep players subbed by adding new gears every couple of months and keep most of the old gears relevant to certain degree.

In the case of FF14 I feel my progress is erased every couple of months. In the case of 11 I feel my progress stays and I just make more progress on top of old progress.

So yeah, yes to side grade and 300 gears to collect per job. I want the game to last longer and stay alive, not the other way around.

[chiefhunglo]

75 80 99 versions are a waste of time can't see myself getting invites with those weapons equipped if anything I would get turned down and laughed at hell the 119 weapons I have are stronger than them my point is this its an insult to people like me that I should waste time on theses versions that are useless my time should be spent on the 119 weapon versions and up.

[Dragonsong]

You are not making the game last longer though. All it is doing is adding more congestion. More congestion now that more mats and weapons are added to ambuscade. More stress on the servers and inventory. SE states they can /will not add a solution to storing inventory. So what do they do? They keep adding and adding junk.

Why do you need 300 items for your corsair? There are 22 jobs in this game. It is really stressful to really gear anymore than 3 at a time. This isn't about FF14 no one cares. In fact if SE would actually give a hoot about ffxi instead of 14 things might roll along a little faster. Updates are slow all the way from Quality of life, job adjustments. Does anyone ever ask themselves what content am I actually gearing up for now? This isn't about hating ffxi it is a deep concern that they just don't care about the game but to collect revenue from it. 3 years later we still have unneeded congestion in ambuscade and why? Because they keep adding gear and mats and continue with the dumb gimmicks that are not needed. This isn't a solution to congestion to keep adding stuff. Waiting 25mins for a 5min fight is not fun. These fights are not fun just a chore now.

[Isola]

The new weapons requiring a pulse weapon is a gigantic insult. Whoever decided that was ok needs to be slapped.

[Inem]

They need to find a way to consolidate gear. There isn't a problem with side gear, but it needs to replace at least something. We can't have 5 capes augmented for every job, its impossible. So you either do a job gimped, play only flavor of the month(s) jobs or suffer with 5 inv slots open.

[Catmato]

The new weapons requiring a pulse weapon is a gigantic insult. Whoever decided that was ok needs to be slapped.

Is Legion still locked out completely if anyone is in the Ambuscade queue? If so, it's even worse than just VW droprates.

[Nyarlko]

Is Legion still locked out completely if anyone is in the Ambuscade queue? If so, it's even worse than just VW droprates.

It's not a total lockout like when Ambuscade was first released, but can still require quite a bit of spammage to get into Legion. :(
Dunno why they won't simply reserve one instance of the zone for the ACTUAL EVENT THAT IT'S FOR. ><;;

[Isola]

There REALLY needs to be alternatives to getting these last stage weapons. All options right now are unacceptable. Doubly so for anyone that would actually need them if they don't have a special weapon already.

[Stuzey]

It does seem a bit unfair, many people have had pulse weapons and dropped them,as outside lockstyle, they have had no use for many years. I was lucky, I tend to hoard things on my mules, who have capped inventory, so i was able to do three weapons in a day.