Less 'discontinued' and more 'finished.' The discount was always only intended to last for 90 days (three billing periods), and the period ended last May after its start was delayed a year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yrusama
My issue is that I'm less interested in swag and more in keeping the community I've become a part of in XI. With XIV not at least being a PlayOnline game, players can't even send /friendlist messages to each other across games. If picking up XIV means relying on third-party channels to stay in touch to begin with, there's no appreciable advantage (in my view) to choose XIV over others as a second MMO.Quote:
I know there have been advantages for playing both, but I would like to see more some XI rewards like XIV's Hermes Shoes.
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02-07-2013, 04:30 AMZiyyigo-Tipyigo
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02-07-2013, 06:11 PMTellahchanThis, a million times this! Grounds of Valor are so much better that Fields, that I never level in Field areas unless the Grounds tomes for that level are too high or too low.Quote:
Originally Posted by Concerned4FFxi
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02-08-2013, 01:57 AMFrankReynoldsCompletely broken logic. All this would do is make people spend extra time leveling and using skills that will not be relevant at 99 when they could have been learning to play the job in endgame where it actually matters. People would just pay more money to RMT to level them in FoV etc.Quote:
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02-08-2013, 02:05 AMRusticSo, in other words you're saying endgame is the only part of the game that matters.Quote:
Originally Posted by FrankReynolds
By that standard, FFXI has slipped straight into auto-fail. WoW has people going through the base/expansion areas actually playing and exploring as they do, and the logic of lower level players NOT doing this, even on a more brief level....well, you're stating that FFXI has failed as an MMO by doing so.
The current Abyssea system encourages NO skill as you head into endgame, with a character who likely hasn't even used or in many cases NOTICED many of their JA's.
I had to mention Elemental Seal to a L65 BLM who was fighting a random NM in Rolanberry Fields yesterday.
He had no idea what I was talking about. Abyssea is an idiot farm for the newbies, even if it's an easy method of exping up jobs for more experienced players. You want to make things less annoying for players leveling jobs?
Give them a significant exp bonus for every job they've leveled to 75, applied to any other job they use. Give them a bigger one for any leveled to 99. Voila, you've just reduced the grind even FURTHER than the well-lubricated FoV/GoV page system (and I agree, FoV should be given the Prowess option of GoV)... -
02-08-2013, 06:18 AMXantaviaThat is nothing. Had a 95ish sch ask how they use strategems. I thought they were joking at first.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rustic
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02-08-2013, 06:24 AMXtrasweetteaComparing WOW to FFXI and labeling FFXI as fail and WOW not because of your logic is silly. The only reason players "explore" in WOW is because WOW forces you to quest for your EXP, FFXI doesn't. You can literally cap to 99 in one zone in FFXI. In WOW you can't. You can't compare both games without considering everything about both games. Also, WOW is all about endgame too. You learned how to play your job at endgame. You didn't learn it by leveling up solo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rustic
Your Black Mage example doesn't read of "abyssean bread" but more like "Didn't bother to read anything about the job." I run into people who "leveled legit" without Abyssea and they still don't know anything about their job nor have leveled up skills.
By the way, FOV/GOV doesn't encourage skill neither. You can easily go AFK and get book exp without ever contributing. You can beat on EP all day and rarely get any skill points. If you are referring to "player skill" that comes with game play experience. GOV/FOV isn't going to provide that to the player.
You want to stop the "short busing"? You need to set standards for yourself and for whom you would like to group with. You need to encourage the player-base to set "better" standards. Of course, your opinion of "better" will be different than mine.
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02-08-2013, 07:44 AMTellahchan
The "Endgame is all that matters" mentality that the FFXI community has, originated LONG before Abyssea.
The problem stems from the fact that low level events don't have rewards that are relevant later on, this was compounded by ToAU Colibri and later Aby Exp Alliances. Players don't stay low level for months anymore unless they barely play.
Unless you're a Mage you don't NEED anything from BCNMs/KSNM.
Lets not forget Expeditionary Force, but where are you getting people to do that?
Assault gear takes weeks to get and you'll have out leveled it by the time you get it.
Original Nyzul gear is OKAY but making Empyrean Armor is over-all better and easier.
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02-08-2013, 08:30 AMnyheen
really? endgame only matters? just forget the people that wanna have FUN lvling low mid lvls (like in the good old days) ya guys end game only matters. just leech to 99! not everyone wanna do just endgame! it is some people that would like to have fun before they get to the endgame. but you new guys wont know about that. all you know is just leech/afk 99 abyssea and go right into the endgame
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02-08-2013, 09:42 AMDreaminOdd, no one is holding ANYONE back from doing the old style xp grind at all. Go ahead, if that's what you and your friends want to do, have fun at all those camps that are now completely open.Quote:
Originally Posted by nyheen
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02-08-2013, 10:25 AMnyheenwhy it seems only leechers keep saying that? for 1 thing like it or not abyssea lvl30+ entry did hurt lot and the main reason why all the low/mid lvl camp is dead now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreamin
new player: hey guys where to level at?
lolleecher player: just leech/afk in Gusgen mine best exp ever till you get to 30. then join the leech/afk army in abyssea! -
02-08-2013, 11:21 AMTellahchanIt is true that the lv 30 entry requirement hurt low level partying, but the reason it hurt partying is because most people don't enjoy the exp grind. If making a party were fun, easy and entertaining people would do it. As it is right now, there's no reason to not Gusgen to 30 and Abyssea to 99 if you're able.Quote:
Originally Posted by nyheen
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02-08-2013, 12:28 PMSpankWustlerYou are rapidly becoming a Casio CDP-120 with one broken key and this general post as the one note that you produce forever. I'm not sure what you could hope to accomplish through this process, other than eventually replacing any possible discussion about this topic with very specifically captioned pictures of Jean-Luc Picard slapping his face with his palm.Quote:
Originally Posted by nyheen
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02-08-2013, 01:22 PMYinnythIt has always been a race to the top. If the level cap got raised to 200, people would be seeking the fastest way to reach level 200. If levels became completely uncapped, it would be a matter of getting to the highest level you can get to as soon as possible. The most interesting content in the game is the endgame, and being an endgame player allows you to handily spank all other content you wish to spank. The only thing you lose for becoming a higher level is the inability to give yourself a challenge with older content (something a 100% voluntary level cap system would fix).Quote:
Originally Posted by nyheen
The reason we had fun doing it in the old days (IF you had fun doing it in the old days) was because it was what all your peers were doing. It was impossible to go from level 1 to 75 in a single day... exp sources just weren't that good back then. Since the game was newer, and it had more fresh blood, there was no shortage of people to party up with and share your adventures with. You'd band together with people of a similar mind as you. Some were too ruthless and rude, but very good at what they did. Some were easy going and polite, but not very good at producing results. Some were the best of both worlds and you respected and admired them. Some were the worst of both worlds and you dreaded ever having to party with them again. But that's what a large part of the game used to be: leveling. We now have those same experiences, but our goal is no longer the exp... most of us already have plenty of that. Our goals are now endgame content.
I honestly think there should be a series of quests for each job which gives them massive amounts of exp and exp bonuses for long periods of time. Leveling is no longer the core of the game, so you could treat levels 1-75 as the intro. Give whms quests where they need to learn to recognize what status effects an ability causes and give them a time limit to remove them from NPC friendlies. Give thfs quests where they need to navigate some tunnels without aggroing anything. Give rdms a quest where they have to slow enemies who use blood weapon and mighty strikes, paralyze enemies who use hundred fists, and silence enemies who use chainspell and manafont. Don't make them too easy, but seriously make the rewards something like 5 levels worth of exp and 24 hours of 2x exp. -
02-08-2013, 01:23 PMTellahchan
Back on topic:
I know this has been mentioned already but, OMG skill up rate of Summoning Magic...
We can only do 2 Blood Pacts a minute.... so please oh please up the rate that we skill up WHEN we summoning something!
Either that or make it so avatar melee attacks have the posibility to grant skillups.
Ok here's a big one, Low to Mid Level Armor, Weapons and Accessories.
They, in general, no longer exist.
Would it be possible to have NPC vendors sell stuff to the AH? It could be a nice gil sink.
It wouldn't hurt Crafters because the demand is low, and hardly anyone makes the stuff anyway.
This would be a huge help to people who don't leech their way up to 70+. -
02-08-2013, 04:29 PMPreedOH, GODDESS YES!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tellahchan
My highest jobs right now are all level 30 (I know that's low) but there's no way I can afford to buy armor from the AH because A) it really expensive, even the low level stuff or items you can find in stores...all the way on the opposite side of the continent and/or B) they're generally barren, i.e. there's nothing there for lower levels. This also includes scrolls and crafting materials... -
02-08-2013, 11:35 PMdonavin
I am wonder if fix with An Imperial Heist (quest) and King beastmen (Gurfurlur the Menacing, Medusa,Gulool Ja Ja) NM adjustment please 3-5 day change to 21-24 hour NM had no NM for 3 week sad! Problem no mega boss in Besieged. Please issue fix adjust this. no more from besieged noticed. Something can get trigs pop!.
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02-09-2013, 01:38 AMRusticIncidental note: If you want to have a steady income these days without much effort, find out what your starting city has that others don't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Preed
Start selling it with a markup on the AH. I have yet to figure out why the primary weapon for a warrior (Great Axe) means you run into your first L5 version...in Mhaura, three zones full of nasty away from your starting area if you're in Windurst. (Never mind the others).
To this day, I've been amused as heck by simply buying from them, shipping the results to a mule in the appropriate two cities, and watching happy young adventurers picking up their gear (at a minor markup). Reminds me, I'm logged in Mhaura now. Time to load up on newbish gear and ship it to Bastok/Sandy...
...as for crafting materials, every city has it's favored ones. It's tough to go out there as a lowbie and smith in Windurst, for example- on the other hand, it's not much fun trying to clothcraft in Bastok either. That's on purpose. It helped keep people from bunching up early on in the same city, since it provides a good reason to be in X city when pursuing Y craft. -
02-09-2013, 04:34 AMFrankReynoldsNone of what you just described is accurate. All the low level content is still there. People are free to live Amish if they want. Most people choose the fast city life because high level events that drop items which will be useful over long periods of time are far more interesting / beneficial to them than low level events / parties that drop items which are only valuable for a few levels.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rustic
Can you honestly say that if you spend the next 3 months leveling your thief while I spend the next 3 months (minus two days of leeching) doing Twashtar, Empy +2, NNI, VW etc. on mine that at the end of that period you will actually be better than me because you were practicing getting two tanks to line up for SATA for the last 90 days while I was out using mine in actual events?
I mean sure it would be nice if there was something to do at level 40 that mattered, but reality is that they can make quests that are just as rewarding for level 99 players and it's a lot easier to build when you don't have to compensate for all sorts of different levels.
I'll take a well geared idiot who leeched to 99 over a poorly geared idiot who grinded to 99 every day, because all I can do is judge them by the gear they have on and the few basic sentences that may be conveyed in a chat window. And to be honest, If abyssea had been level capped at 75 from the get go, I wouldn't likely have the choice because one of the idiots would have never leveled the job to begin with. All that would have done is taken my choices from:
Guy who grinds and probably still sucks or guy who leeches and probably sucks
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Guy who grinds and probably still sucks or ... Stand around shouting a few hours because nobody is available with the right jobs.
Doing something with people who may turn out to be lame is almost always going to yield better results than doing nothing at all. If nothing else, it will boost your ego as you will feel vastly superior to the noobs you invited. -
02-13-2013, 01:31 AMRusticNope. I'll have actually played the game, though. And seriously, you think it'd take 3 months?Quote:
Originally Posted by FrankReynolds
So you consider having a collection of noobs to feel superior to a good reason to encourage them to reach 99 by windowing out of FFXI as your buddies chop up worms for them? THAT'S HEE-LARIOUS.Quote:
Doing something with people who may turn out to be lame is almost always going to yield better results than doing nothing at all. If nothing else, it will boost your ego as you will feel vastly superior to the noobs you invited.
Leveling up -was- the idiot filter for FFXI- yeah, we got our mouthbreathers in the days where 75 was the level cap and exp grinding was another word for suffering, but it did a good job of cutting down the numbers compared to the ones who couldn't figure out much past how to activate autoattack and still thought DRK/WHM was l33t endgame material.
That's been erased thanks to L30 Abyssea entry, and with the Chocobo Shirt, 1-30 will become even more simple to bypass since you'll basically find it impossible to miss on an attack. Period.
Also, we've managed to eliminate any challenging play or need for gear between 30-99 simply because of Abyssea- players can level so quickly as to bypass content entirely. The only logjams are level caps. Yeah, endgame is the only game- because we've castrated everything else.
You call it "Amish". I call it "eviscerating the base of the game for endless cycles of farming HNM's". -
02-13-2013, 09:28 AMFrankReynoldsSo to be clear here...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rustic
Is not playing the game, but killing crabs and worms is? Maybe you're just confused?Quote:
doing Twashtar, Empy +2, NNI, VW etc.
Yeah. Leveling to 75 without leeching takes a long time. Before leeching came around, the average Joe spent double that getting to 75. Obviously some superhero types played 24/7 and did it quicker, but those aren't the people you are complaining about are they?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rustic
No, but it seemed like something you might get off on, so I said it with no small amount of sarcasm... Is that a hook in your mouth? or were you being sarcastic too when you made the below statement? Because it sounds a lot like someone who loves being better than everyone else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rustic
Linkshells events were the idiot filter. Not exp. When an idiot came to LS events, it didn't take him long to get booted for stupidity and / or helped out by the LS with his game skills (if you were in a good LS anyways).Quote:
Originally Posted by Rustic
Now that most events can be done with pick up groups, you have to test your luck and hope you don't get an idiot.
The idiots always had level capped jobs. Hell, some of the biggest idiots I have met had Maat's caps. They just weren't in most of your events before. They were in their own little Linkshells keeping to themselves and their feeble minded brethren.
As if "endless cycles of farming HNMs" are any less gratifying than endless cylces of farming crabs and worms...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rustic
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02-14-2013, 04:28 AMTeranikuI had to tell a level 70 BLM in Cape Terrigen, the benefits of Sleep Nuking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rustic
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02-14-2013, 10:01 AMFrankReynoldsThat's sad to me because after all these years they still haven't found a way to make BLM Relevant in exp. parties other than in abyssea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teraniku
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02-15-2013, 08:50 AMRusticBoth are playing the game. But I'd say the guy who went through multiple areas instead of taking the Abyssea route of maximum overdrive got to play in more of it when it was relevant than the ones who didn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by FrankReynolds
I call BS on that. I did 1-50 in under a month of casual (read, messing around on the weekends and leveling DNC, BLM, WHM, RDM into the high 20's, plus everything through nation rank 4) play. Page exp is more than enough and actually means you can do things without leeching and still advance at a decent pace. I don't want to go back to lolcolibris and "must have perfect party" either, but that's what GoV/FoV allows- you don't have to have a perfect party to kill tons of EP targets. Just tons of EP targets.Quote:
Yeah. Leveling to 75 without leeching takes a long time. Before leeching came around, the average Joe spent double that getting to 75. Obviously some superhero types played 24/7 and did it quicker, but those aren't the people you are complaining about are they?
Generally, when I go "HEE-LARIOUS", I'm giving you the lovely sarcasm you seem to crave. Would you like another?Quote:
No, but it seemed like something you might get off on, so I said it with no small amount of sarcasm... Is that a hook in your mouth? or were you being sarcastic too when you made the below statement? Because it sounds a lot like someone who loves being better than everyone else.
HEEE-HEEE-HEEEEEEEEELARIOUS.
LS's were another idiot filter. They definitely weren't the first ones. And yep, thanks to -all- the filters basically being removed, you're looking at more mouthbreathers than ever. I want to put more filters back into the system. I want exp to not be a meaningless stat prior to 99. I want more events and gear that require skill vs. zerg tactics, which said mouthbreathers can achieve.Quote:
Linkshells events were the idiot filter. Not exp. When an idiot came to LS events, it didn't take him long to get booted for stupidity and / or helped out by the LS with his game skills (if you were in a good LS anyways).
Now that most events can be done with pick up groups, you have to test your luck and hope you don't get an idiot.
The idiots always had level capped jobs. Hell, some of the biggest idiots I have met had Maat's caps. They just weren't in most of your events before. They were in their own little Linkshells keeping to themselves and their feeble minded brethren.
You mean what the average party is doing humping away in Aby-La Theine? ^ ^Quote:
As if "endless cycles of farming HNMs" are any less gratifying than endless cylces of farming crabs and worms...
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02-15-2013, 09:33 AMConcerned4FFxi
Since abyssea and the cap increase from 75 to 99, game play has changed vastly. One thing that has become so abundent is refresh gear. this has effectively removed the need to rest at higher levels to restore mp/hp. propsed adjustemnts:
Give Soothing Healer adventuring fellow refresh or at the least auto-refresh or self cast only refresh.
Expand adventuring fellows list of zones they can be summoned/fight in. This should include dynamis and abyssea.
Adjust/Increase the rate at which mp/hp is restored via the rest command, increasing from it's current rate and determined according to one's level.
Fix the whole bs lose your tp when you weaponskill if the mob decides to move while you start your weaponskill command. -
02-15-2013, 09:46 AMConcerned4FFxi
Allow players to cap lights off 2 cells per type from vw and not three, this will allow players to carry a balanced load of cells and not a bunch of half stacks per 6x vw fight.
Allow vw cells to be used to weaken/proc most abyssea pop nm, this will help with newer players trying to obtain there af3 because abysea is old content now and most people don't spam +1/2 anymore.
Remove the clutter from dynamis jueno. Have you ever tried to farm there? Or is that not something DEVs that "play" the game do...
Remove the clutter on map 3 of Kuftal Tunnel, were the map is blocked during certain times/weather events. On this section of map, new mobs were added a little back (1year approx) but were just thrown on top of one another with no thought into pulling or camping. Currently, most pulls result in pulling 10+ links...
If I have 5 shadows up, my utsusemi counter should say 5...anything else is pure lazy on SE's behalf. -
02-15-2013, 10:21 AMDemon6324236Today you can still filter idiots on your own with simply your eyes. Look at someones gear, if they suck, they probably have terrible sets and do not understand the stats let alone how to put them together into a set. Unless they removed your eyes, your ability to read, you are just being to lazy to look for yourself to see if people suck or not it seems.Quote:
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02-15-2013, 02:17 PMFrankReynoldsI think that a person who is trying to build gear sets probably goes through far more zones and sees far more of them than a guy who is just exp. grinding, but sure lets just ignore everything that happens after level 99 and pretend that people stay in abyssea for three months after they ding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rustic
Ummm... If you make abyssea 75+, people will just leech in FoV etc. so your solution is not a solution at all. In fact it would probably allow the RMT to make twice as much gil for PL since GoV is the same principle only slower. They would probably raise the hourly rate and take 2-3 times as long to do it so instead of charging 16 people 1.5 mil to leech to 99, they would charge them like 5 mil.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rustic
Your honestly saying that looking for a white mage to join your group for hours on end is less of a hassle than having a hundred white mages to choose from and not knowing which one is the best? Think about that....
You're obviously not getting it, but that's fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rustic
Not being willing to spend months to level a job you don't like just so your LS can benefit from having another bard or blm or whatever is quite the opposite of an idiot filter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rustic
If I see a guy who is unwilling to level samurai for 6 months because he doesn't like it at all, I just call that normal behavior. The guy who actually dumped a year of his time into leveling bard so that he could get into events that dropped gear for his pup was either crazy or stupid or both.
Leveling a job that you don't care about and gearing it just enough to complete the task at hand should be fast and easy. Making that job amazing should be the hard part and your never gonna do that in an exp. party. You never met a single guy in your life that walked into sky/sea/limbus/hnm and was like "I don't need any instructions guys. I leveled this bitch on crabs.". I guarantee you that almost every guy who ever played end game long enough to be considered good at it didn't have a single issue leveling his next job.
People who have mastered end game events almost always know how to play whatever job they are leveling very well in exp. parties. People who are super good at getting exp. still have absolutely no idea what end game is about.
Standing around doing nothing for hours when you really want to do something fun because you can't find people with the required jobs is far dumber (yeah I said dumber) than standing around doing nothing when you don't want to do anything anyways (aka leeching).
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Originally Posted by Rustic
Umm no. WHat I mean is that killing all the nms and running around all the zones required to build an empy or a relic or w/e gear set you have your eyes on is probably far less grindy (and it's still a stupid grind) than sitting in one spot waiting for someone to drag crabs over to you so you can whack them for weeks on end.
I mean, I killed more different kinds of monsters in more different zones just building my AF +2 set for a job than I did in the entire grind to 75.
Face it. There is far more diversity in end game. Mid levels consist of: stand around for hours looking for people > walk to some far out place > stand in the exact same spot for 9 hours > repeat.
Killing Glavoid 30 times may be enough to cause seizures for some people, but it's still more fun than walking for an hour to get to crabs in mt. zyhaom so that I can stand there and mash the same three macros for the next 27 hours straight.
ITT; "I hate how all these people have varying degrees of skill. I wish there was only like 4 people who could do this event with me so that I could stand around and hope they logged in and wanted to do what I want to do." -
02-15-2013, 02:51 PMSpankWustler
To get the topic back on track:
It's 2:48 PM in Japan right now, so they should be done with their lunch break by now. Seriously. -
02-16-2013, 02:26 AMFrankReynoldsI Know Right? Put down napkin and get me my flying chocobo now. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by SpankWustler
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02-16-2013, 02:28 AMConcerned4FFxi
Adding current enfeebling status effect icons that are currently effecting a player, above the players name, would be exactly what I would expect from an MMO...
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02-16-2013, 07:14 AMConcerned4FFxi
Skill ups in campaign, more currency drops in campaign.
After a successful win in campaign battle, a second wave of mobs should come in. Higher level mobs and nm to be challenging to 99 players. Incease the rewards.
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02-17-2013, 10:40 AMAshbel
This might sound crazy but why not add mobs to aby-paradox with unlimited HP to skill up on and have the NPC's sell range items like bullets, bolts, arrows with cur so people can skill up and make em temp items so you can't take them out of the area?
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02-17-2013, 11:05 AMDemon6324236Magic skill ups there are really an act of the playerbase abusing its unlimited time, I am sure that was never an intended feature of the area...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashbel
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02-17-2013, 12:25 PMAshbelI'm sure it wasn't but might as well make the area useful I mean if people are going to do abby from 30-99 and need skill up might as well add a mob that help "balance" that out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Demon6324236
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02-17-2013, 10:58 PMJedicrew
linkshell Suggestion!!! Let us send invite to players O.o
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02-21-2013, 04:04 AMTeranikuLet's get the First Officer involved too.Quote:
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02-21-2013, 04:46 AMZiyyigo-Tipyigo
Now I'm having a hard time figuring out whether this qualifies as a self-fulfilling prophecy or not...
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02-22-2013, 12:57 AMConcerned4FFxi
Ok, I see occasional shouts for aby paradox fight, people need their twilight mail sets. Now, before anyone gets butthurt, lets face it, if you didnt get it while abysea was hot, then it's a real challenge now that nobody does the fight anymore. Whats worse, is people won't help because contnet old for most, but not for noobs or returning players.
A long time ago, it was suggested that +2 items drop form aby paradox fight. mine idea is better, i feel, and warranted at this point in time.
We got tons of people coming baclk but can't get content done due to it being older and undesireable by most current players because they have the gear.
I suggest, like in nni, after beating abyssea paradox, everyone gets a temp key item, "Scales of a god". This key item can be used by speaking to Prishe in abyssea paradox after you get her cs, she starts saying about returning to visit her. Well...let's have this key item be redeemable for your choice of any +2 (random 1-3) or any empyrean weapon upgrade (random 1-2) item from abyssea for level 80, 85, 90 weapons.
Now i can't see it replacing farming, but hell, I'd be much more willing to do a shin run if i seen a shout for it and i knew I could pick my own +2/empyrean item. This way, you get people to help farm the paradox gear, because as it is now, you got to be a mean soloist/trio-boxer or have friends with aloot of time to spare on their hands... -
02-22-2013, 01:03 AMConcerned4FFxi
I feel the secret to FFXI's future lies within allowing content to be more accessiable to all players, and not just the ones with the right jobs (current abyssea) or people who played thru the abyssea release era like myself. That doesnt help noobs or returning players, and let's face it, the player base has become to selfish to assist (funny how this selfishness will ultimately spell a shorter end to FFXI)
FYI, I got my drops/gear, and I'm more than capable of dual boxing most abyssea, I just feel for all the new/returning blood.
SE, many people left the game because of abyssea, now with SOA, they are returning. please, head my advice and open up older content like you did with COP, etc. I'm not asking for it to be gimped like COP, but allow weaking itmes like in VW (see my previous posts about this) isn't going to hurt anyone at this point, and will only increase the value of play for those returning souls. -
02-22-2013, 09:31 PMConcerned4FFxi
Last month i was temp banned from the forums, the only reason giving was that i violated the TOS agreement.
When anyone violates the TOS, a specific violation should be citied, otherwise, I and many others WILL repeat the same infringement, causing you to permeantly ban us (i don 't want this and i'm sure SE likes my money) and all the same time people like me are left in the dark wondering what they did wrong. Today I still have no clue what I did wrong, so odds are very high that i will repeat this infraction.
Please, don't treat your customers like that. If there's a violation, simply cut and paste the offense and have it there when the person logs on so they know exactly what they did wrong and so they WON't do it again. Thank you.