The "Good" trusts, when will they be available again

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Originally Posted by Nyarlko

They're at least 2.5yrs old, which is forever ago for most games. That really can't be called "new".

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Yes, that can be called new in a game that's nearly FIFTEEN YEARS OLD. 2.5 years is relatively new, especially when you said "seasonal rewards have been a predictable schedule for years", 2.5 years out of nearly fifteen for trusts is a VERY small amount of overall time and RELATIVELY RECENT.

There's a huge difference between some fun fireworks/cosmetics and trusts that give you power to solo things you normally wouldn't due to how much more powerful they are than other trusts(Shantotto II is a great example).

Anything that gives player power should be obtainable every day of the year since being added to the game.

Do you want garbage content like seasonal ULTIMATE weapons only obtainable during X months of some crap? Just stop.

STOP DEFENDING THINGS BAD FOR THE PLAYERS OF THE GAME. YOU ARE DOING NOTHING GOOD BY DOING IT AND JUST MAKING THE DEVS THINK IT'S OK FOR THEM TO DO IT.

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

Yes, that can be called new in a game that's nearly FIFTEEN YEARS OLD. 2.5 years is relatively new, especially when you said "seasonal rewards have been a predictable schedule for years", 2.5 years out of nearly fifteen for trusts is a VERY small amount of overall time and RELATIVELY RECENT.

There's a huge difference between some fun fireworks/cosmetics and trusts that give you power to solo things you normally wouldn't due to how much more powerful they are than other trusts(Shantotto II is a great example).

Anything that gives player power should be obtainable every day of the year since being added to the game.

Do you want garbage content like seasonal ULTIMATE weapons only obtainable during X months of some crap? Just stop.

STOP DEFENDING THINGS BAD FOR THE PLAYERS OF THE GAME. YOU ARE DOING NOTHING GOOD BY DOING IT AND JUST MAKING THE DEVS THINK IT'S OK FOR THEM TO DO IT.

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If a time-limited reward is important enough to you to be upset about, then that should be all the more incentive to pay your bill and make sure you get it. Your stance boils down to "I want to get something that I did not pay for! GIVE IT TO ME!"

And how many years has the Starlight Celebration been in December? Scheduled, predictable events with unique awards are not new. There are just more events and better rewards attached to them now.
Just because you don't like that a certain reward is not always available does not make it bad. ^^

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Originally Posted by Nyarlko

If a time-limited reward is important enough to you to be upset about, then that should be all the more incentive to pay your bill and make sure you get it. Your stance boils down to "I want to get something that I did not pay for! GIVE IT TO ME!"

And how many years has the Starlight Celebration been in December? Scheduled, predictable events with unique awards are not new. There are just more events and better rewards attached to them now.
Just because you don't like that a certain reward is not always available does not make it bad. ^^

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Report this guy for trolling, everyone.

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

Report this guy for trolling, everyone.

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Except they're not, you just can't handle they have a different view to you.

No trust is that much of a requirement to compare to an ultimate weapon. Most do exactly the same thing minus one or two spells. Or comes around fairly often, because you were not active that month is irrelevant.

As for "Everything that gives power should be obtainable forever" What rubbish, not one MMO works that way.

I suppose you abhor the monthly campaigns they do as well since some grant power others don't?

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Originally Posted by Jakuk

As for "Everything that gives power should be obtainable forever" What rubbish, not one MMO works that way.

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Every single MMO I've ever played works that way.(WOW, Rift at release, SWTOR at release, GW2 at release, FF14 1.0-3.0, Tera, Aion NA release)
FFXI has worked that way until ambu/trusts(~12 years).

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Originally Posted by Jakuk

Except they're not, you just can't handle they have a different view to you.

No trust is that much of a requirement to compare to an ultimate weapon. Most do exactly the same thing minus one or two spells. Or comes around fairly often, because you were not active that month is irrelevant.

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On the contrary, it's very relevant. Player A joins FFXI at a time where every trust is available, so when people on his/her server advise him to collect Trust A, B, C, D and E to help him/her knock out some older content that's no longer popular with the masses they have a goal to shoot for. Player B joins FFXI at a time where Trust A and D aren't currently available and wonders to themselves, why did Player A have an easier time obtaining these trusts and defeating this content when I only joined the game a day later? Player A has reachable goals, is happy with the way things play out. Player B is frustrated and needs extra help clearing the same objectives. Player A is far more likely to stick around and keep playing than Player B and the only difference between them is a trust or two that those of us already at end game take completely for granted.

Why do we need to have time-limited trusts - trusts that do indeed provide a great deal of help to more casual players - when those of us that already have them don't even think very highly of them? I think it's a fair question to ask.

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Originally Posted by Jakuk

As for "Everything that gives power should be obtainable forever" What rubbish, not one MMO works that way.

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How is that rubbish? Just because one game does it doesn't mean every other game on the market needs to copy it, that's how the MMORPG genre got to this sad point in its history, everyone throwing out WoW clones. Final Fantasy XI became the most profitable game in the series without any of this time-limited nonsense.

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Originally Posted by Jakuk

I suppose you abhor the monthly campaigns they do as well since some grant power others don't?

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I can't speak for anyone else, but I certainly do. Those campaigns are acting like a blinding light to temporarily take your attention away from the fact that the content is in dire need of updates. "Voidwatch/WKR sucks" turns into "VW/WKR campaign is awesome, I'm going to play 80 hours a week to make sure I get my empy." It's no different than Trump (since everyone loves to hate on him) deflecting attention from one news story by throwing out one the media is more interested in. The game you played now plays you.

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

Every single MMO I've ever played works that way.(WOW, Rift at release, SWTOR at release, GW2 at release, FF14 1.0-3.0, Tera, Aion NA release)
FFXI has worked that way until ambu/trusts(~12 years).

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WoW has monthly/holiday events, some of which traditionally offer actual content-relevant gear drops. Legendaries get locked out entirely (quests to get them actually get removed IIRC) AND get nerfed into oblivion whenever the next expac goes live.
It's also normal for those awesome final tier raid drops you got a couple weeks before an expac goes live to be roughly on par with new basic dungeon drops.

FFXIV: ARR has a rather strict vertical gearing scheme, and that relic you spent months building gets outclassed as soon as the next update goes live. (I've got a friend who still plays and I hear him complain about this a lot. ~_~)

I've never played the other games you listed, so can't say much about them myself. I notice the "at release"s though.. Does that mean that they changed at some point after launch to include seasonal/holiday/limited-time campaigns?
Out of curiosity, did any of them have real-world themed holiday events at all? I'm kinda giggling about the idea of Jabba wearing a Santa outfit. Would be awesome if it was real. XD

Outside of FF/WoW, most of my MMO experience comes from games that were pretty much built around cash shops. I would not be surprised if I'm simply more inured to dealing with the concept of limited availability items, daily logins, and the "play or fail" structure than you are.
I played FFXI from PS2 launch until late '08 originally, started over on a brand new account August '15. A lot had changed since 75cap days, so I had quite a bit to adjust to, but not one thing about the campaigns made me even raise an eyebrow.
TBH, I was just thankful that I had entire months for campaigns rather than the 3-7 days I've had to deal with elsewhere. @_@;;

Having to wait a bit to get a trust that I missed has never really bothered me. I know that it'll come around again and I'll get it eventually. And I don't personally see any reason to change the overall system for acquiring them.
But I will agree that the rarest ones should have at least a once-a-year opportunity to obtain outside of the New Year's mog pell. It made my mules sad that Kupofried was not available in November like he was last year. :(
..And it bothers me that the Extravaganzas still offer the trusts that are now available from RoE. < This should change. It's rather confusing why they are still part of the extravaganzas and should be removed if not preferably replaced by some other trusts.

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

Report this guy for trolling, everyone.

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Please direct me to somewhere in the forum rules that states that posting a differing opinion than someone else qualifies as "trolling". ^^
In the eternal words of a giant named Andre, "I don't think that word means what you think it means."

You've stopped putting trusts in logins now? Really? It's bad enough all the good ones are buried in seasonal events, and most of the "useful" ones are logins... now you're forgetting to add them to the log in campaigns?

I'd be PISSED if I was a new player.

if your a long time player, you'll log on for the good ones, those who are new won't get it since they have having a hard time with what they have so they won't log back on.

I remember logging back on after taking a break specificlly for moogle and sakura (Which was the cool thing back then during WKR).

So to sum up. there are plus's (In terms SE will get people to log back on) and negatives (People will miss out and get angry for not being as powerful as a trust group or simly never get the chance to experience it) with some trusts being log in/event specific. perhaps what is needed is a easy attained, maybe not over powered but still strong trust sets with with AI's similar to the stronger ones.

BTW WHERE THE HELL IS MY AAMR AND AAHM. (and AATT).

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Originally Posted by Domille

BTW WHERE THE HELL IS MY AAMR AND AAHM. (and AATT).

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Hopefully they're holding off on AAMR to work out how to make a trust have a pet.

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Originally Posted by Domille

BTW WHERE THE HELL IS MY AAMR AND AAHM. (and AATT).

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AAHM:The new but better Gessho that does all san/ni spells (Including MBing impossible dmg like shantotto II)
AATT:Shantotto II 3.0 (This is shantotto's MB form's power except with double damage that actually follows the mobs weakness PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!
AAMR: Self SC (With pet) BST.

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Originally Posted by Diavolo

On the contrary, it's very relevant. Player A joins FFXI at a time where every trust is available, so when people on his/her server advise him to collect Trust A, B, C, D and E to help him/her knock out some older content that's no longer popular with the masses they have a goal to shoot for. Player B joins FFXI at a time where Trust A and D aren't currently available and wonders to themselves, why did Player A have an easier time obtaining these trusts and defeating this content when I only joined the game a day later? Player A has reachable goals, is happy with the way things play out. Player B is frustrated and needs extra help clearing the same objectives. Player A is far more likely to stick around and keep playing than Player B and the only difference between them is a trust or two that those of us already at end game take completely for granted.

Why do we need to have time-limited trusts - trusts that do indeed provide a great deal of help to more casual players - when those of us that already have them don't even think very highly of them? I think it's a fair question to ask.

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I'll admit, I'm at this point. I just came back to FFXI this week after a 7 year break. Initially I was happy with the Trust system and what it enabled me to do, however after doing some more in-depth research while I've been leveling, I've found that the best Trusts are locked behind seasonal events or random login campaigns.

As a player who decided to start over fresh, it's disheartening when I can actually see the difference a Trust like Shantotto II makes in the leveling process, and knowing that I have no way to access it.

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Originally Posted by Alamandaros

As a player who decided to start over fresh, it's disheartening when I can actually see the difference a Trust like Shantotto II makes in the leveling process, and knowing that I have no way to access it.

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Exactly why this is a complete failure as an idea. You can't lock the only good trusts behind a pseudo paywall. It makes people not want to play when they can't access the basic trusts to make the game playable.

The ones you have access to without seasonal/special event/logins are complete trash by comparison, its ridiculous.

THE NEW LOG-IN ONCE AGAIN HAS NO PAST TRUSTS.

WHAT THE HELL.

You're going from once a year to zero times a year now? Making certain trusts literally impossible to get now eh?

I was going to rip them a new one, but then I saw the Warmachine mount. So it's now officially the best update ever 10/10.

Just hoping we get chocobos with crystal war barding next.


PS > I think it's high time devs added all trust Ciphers up to be purchased with sparks.

ALL trust needs to be available at ALL times. They can stay via their current methods: some sparks, some IS, some AN, some CP, etc etc etc etc.

But the "special ones" IE the GOOD ONES. Need to be added permanently. This is ridiculous.

Even expecting disappointment, I'm still disappointed.

Greetings everyone,

First let me start by properly introducing myself! My name is Zhexos and I'm with the community team and I've been working behind the scenes for our FFXI community for quite some time! As you can see from my avatar, I'm a Coeurl—a beast well known for their Blaster and Chaotic Eye skills to paralyze and silence players... but don't worry, I wouldn't dream of using them on you all!

With the introductions out of the way, let's move onto the juicy details! While I was chasing around Mandragoras and Tarutarus in Sarutabaruta, the wind carried rumors of a Tarutaru known for her (maniacal?) laugh planning to make her return this May.

In addition to this we're planning to hold the Alter Ego Extravaganza this year again. However, we're thinking it would be better to hold this event at a timing where we would have more returned players in-game, so we're scheduling it to coincide with plans for this event. We should be able to give more details on this soon, so we ask you to hang tight just a bit longer!

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Originally Posted by Zhexos

While I was chasing around Mandragoras and Tarutarus in Sarutabaruta, the wind carried rumors of a Tarutaru known for her (maniacal?) laugh planning to make her return this May.

In addition to this we're planning to hold the Alter Ego Extravaganza this year again. However, we're thinking it would be better to hold this event at a timing where we would have more returned players in-game, so we're scheduling it to coincide with plans for this event. We should be able to give more details on this soon, so we ask you to hang tight just a bit longer!

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Looking forward to it!

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Originally Posted by Zhexos

Greetings everyone,

First let me start by properly introducing myself! My name is Zhexos and I'm with the community team and I've been working behind the scenes for our FFXI community for quite some time! As you can see from my avatar, I'm a Coeurl—a beast well known for their Blaster and Chaotic Eye skills to paralyze and silence players... but don't worry, I wouldn't dream of using them on you all!

With the introductions out of the way, let's move onto the juicy details! While I was chasing around Mandragoras and Tarutarus in Sarutabaruta, the wind carried rumors of a Tarutaru known for her (maniacal?) laugh planning to make her return this May.

In addition to this we're planning to hold the Alter Ego Extravaganza this year again. However, we're thinking it would be better to hold this event at a timing where we would have more returned players in-game, so we're scheduling it to coincide with plans for this event. We should be able to give more details on this soon, so we ask you to hang tight just a bit longer!

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Nice to meet you! :D Can we expect to be hearing from you frequently?

Can you please remove the redundant trusts from the Extravaganzas? There is no reason why Tenzen and co. should be included for instance due to being added to the freebie/newbie ROEs. That would free up some space to replace with some of the more rare/high demand ciphers for regular distribution.

The OPs concerns regarding rare trusts was not addressed by the community rep.

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Originally Posted by Gwydion

The OPs concerns regarding rare trusts was not addressed by the community rep.

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The OP is asking an unreasonable request. There is no need to change the entire system to allow for all trusts to be available all the time. Just make sure you get them when they roll around. So long as they are available at least once a year, I see no problems with the majority of the current system.

The handful of one-off event trusts tho... I think those are the best options to replace the currently 100% useless/redundant slots in the Extravaganzas. Aldo, Fablinix, Kupofried and Moogle have had no obtainment method other than Red Pells in a very long time. Kupofried especially should be guaranteed at least once a year, and personally, I think that Moogle would be a great fit in the Extravaganzas opposite the ones with Sakura available.

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Originally Posted by Nyarlko

So long as they are available at least once a year, I see no problems with the majority of the current system.

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Once a year is not enough. Not everyone stays subscribed all year, and this game is super old now. Every 2 or 3 months at minimum is acceptable.
IMO Trusts shouldn't even be gated in such a manner, I'd much rather they implement ways of obtaining them with hard work/grinding and have them available 24/7.
Also the gap between your average trust and the trusts anyone actually wants is ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by Kari

Once a year is not enough. Not everyone stays subscribed all year, and this game is super old now. Every 2 or 3 months at minimum is acceptable.
IMO Trusts shouldn't even be gated in such a manner, I'd much rather they implement ways of obtaining them with hard work/grinding and have them available 24/7.
Also the gap between your average trust and the trusts anyone actually wants is ridiculous.

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Facts. Summed up very well.

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Originally Posted by Kari

Once a year is not enough. Not everyone stays subscribed all year, and this game is super old now. Every 2 or 3 months at minimum is acceptable.
IMO Trusts shouldn't even be gated in such a manner, I'd much rather they implement ways of obtaining them with hard work/grinding and have them available 24/7.
Also the gap between your average trust and the trusts anyone actually wants is ridiculous.

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Try paying your bill then? ^^;; For any of them that are time-linked, all you have to do is make sure your sub is active sometime during a whole month and grab 'em. You can still check the POL frontpage to see what's going to be up for campaigns even if your account is not active after all.

Just about all of the trusts that I use routinely are either mission rewards or from Extravaganzas (Amchuchu/Sakura.) I have a full collection on my main barring Fab/Aldo, but the only "rare" one that I pull out for doing stuff would be Moogle, and I've already said that it seems like the one that really should be made regularly available like Sakura. The once-a-year ones that are tied to seasonal events (Mumor, etc.) make sense on being limited to that month's events.

I do agree that they need to be rotating the login ciphers more frequently tho.. It feels like there haven't been any for a while and I have 11x more characters to complete my collection on still. :/

The biggest thing that no one has brought up yet about the dev's reply tho.... Wasn't there supposed to be an Extravaganza in April? I think that's how the schedule has been working for the last few years, (JAN/APR/JUL/OCT) and it's not clear if there not being one means that it was only postponed by a month to sync up w/ a returnee campaign, or if we are actually losing one (or more) of the four this year. This honestly worries me. o.o;; The Extravaganzas are the best way to grab a bunch of trusts for a new character every 3mon, and at worst we had a 6mon wait for specific trusts if we just barely missed one. There's not been a peep about this on the frontpage, which seems odd given how big a departure from normality it is to change up annually scheduled campaigns.

how about writing a list of the trusts you want or need, they might not answer but it could end up in the next months or the month after's campaign. don't complain and then don't say which ones specificlly you need .

As for why they just don't make all of them perminent, we could make a million excuses to vindicate the SE team as to why or why not, however it is what it is

I've made that list. across 6 or 7 posts so far. Complaining every time they add one and not all of them.

All the GEOs. Amchuchu. Fab Kupofried Aldo. Babban (mandy sp). Qultada.

All the once a year need to be more often as well. Too many to bother listing.

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For reference, a "good" trust equates to GEO/RDM/COR trusts. And Shantotto II... and the non-unity Aldo would be appreciated too.

(Moogle, Sakura, KoH, Qultada, Kupofried, Amchuchu, Aldo, Shantoto II, Fablinix)

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These 9 among others should be 100% accessible.

Not a single tank from the standard set is useful in the slightest. ALL good tanks are temporary. That is completely unacceptable. (Newly added EV since this thread was created is "OK" if you can TA her, cause she cannot hold hate without it.) (and August takes quite a bit of progression and luck to earn. not useful for a new player that needs a useful tank).

THE ONLY corsair is temporary. Unacceptable.

The ONLY "good" BLM is temporary. Unacceptable. (see: Best)

Moogle and Sakura are "gimmes" they give skill rate bonuses. That should be 100%.

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Originally Posted by Zhexos

Greetings everyone,

First let me start by properly introducing myself! My name is Zhexos and I'm with the community team and I've been working behind the scenes for our FFXI community for quite some time! As you can see from my avatar, I'm a Coeurl—a beast well known for their Blaster and Chaotic Eye skills to paralyze and silence players... but don't worry, I wouldn't dream of using them on you all!

With the introductions out of the way, let's move onto the juicy details! While I was chasing around Mandragoras and Tarutarus in Sarutabaruta, the wind carried rumors of a Tarutaru known for her (maniacal?) laugh planning to make her return this May.

In addition to this we're planning to hold the Alter Ego Extravaganza this year again. However, we're thinking it would be better to hold this event at a timing where we would have more returned players in-game, so we're scheduling it to coincide with plans for this event. We should be able to give more details on this soon, so we ask you to hang tight just a bit longer!

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Hey Zhexos, allow me to officially welcome you to the forgotten gulag. Please enjoy your stay. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

And with formalities out of the way, could you tell me what would be the best way to request the dev team to adjust (regular) Ayame's accuracy?

She is the only Trust that opens skillchains consistently, however her functionality is severely hampered by her dismal accuracy. This is not an issue when playing jobs like RDM because Distract is enough to compensate for her lack of accuracy, however using her with other jobs is not as viable when there are other trusts with far better accuracy than her. And keep in mind this is despite using the Trust accuracy +10% cheer to help her out, and because RDM trusts don't use Distract reliably enough to make this a non issue.

Now, as mentioned other Trust can close sc or self sc reliably, so this isn't a problem of damage output. The issue is instead on the fun part of the equation. Sure, I can kill monsters much faster with other trusts, but being able to close sc with Ayame is simply more fun for me as a player.

Any help you could provide would be appreciated.

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Originally Posted by Khiril

Look, this is garbage.

Not only do you make all the good trusts unobtainable 11 months of the entire year,(some completely impossible) but now they've been absent from log-in as well.

Unacceptable.

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he hinted that they'll have a return to vana'diel campaign at some point (Which means free days for those whose accounts aren't active)and will have certain trusts available, instead of complaining, how about you suggest which of those trusts which should be avaiable or havn't been available for a while

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Originally Posted by Khiril

I've made that list. across 6 or 7 posts so far. Complaining every time they add one and not all of them.

All the GEOs. Amchuchu. Fab Kupofried Aldo. Babban (mandy sp). Qultada.

All the once a year need to be more often as well. Too many to bother listing.



These 9 among others should be 100% accessible.

Not a single tank from the standard set is useful in the slightest. ALL good tanks are temporary. That is completely unacceptable. (Newly added EV since this thread was created is "OK" if you can TA her, cause she cannot hold hate without it.) (and August takes quite a bit of progression and luck to earn. not useful for a new player that needs a useful tank).

THE ONLY corsair is temporary. Unacceptable.

The ONLY "good" BLM is temporary. Unacceptable. (see: Best)

Moogle and Sakura are "gimmes" they give skill rate bonuses. That should be 100%.

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you seem to have this thing in your head that trusts replace partys fully, at no point were they ment to replace partys fully, they are ment to assist in standard stuff that currently is lacking, most endgame that can use trusts are mostly T1-3 depending on zone and which trusts, everything else pretty much means the trust will die fast or just can't hit the target.

Yes there are some trusts that work better than others however it still doesn't replace real players for higher endgame content, that being said, if you havn't obtained it, then try playing the game instead of not playing it,or do the relivent fights such as SR to get em.

Whats that? you can't solo SR because you trusts aren't enough because they are too weak or too dumb? considering SR is endgame i am not suprised, only those who are generally pimped can solo using trusts in such a way that they just assist minorly rather than fill the shoes of partys in endgame

I have every obtainable trust. I don't complain on my own behalf.

I complain for the people that don't even know what they are missing because they cannot access it.

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Originally Posted by Khiril

I have every obtainable trust. I don't complain on my own behalf.

I complain for the people that don't even know what they are missing because they cannot access it.

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I do feel for those who don't have it and don't understand exactly what they are missing.

Instead of pining over the trusts that aren't (and probably won't ever be) available, maybe we should buff existing trusts to make them more in line with the ones everybody wishes they had.

If Shantotto II for example is so awesome, why not buff a few of the other casters up to her level? I mean seriously, why should a handful of trusts that are impossible to get be oh-so-much better than the ones that players can actually obtain? Sounds like the gap between them is just too large and needs to be tightened up a bit.

Moogle Fablinix Kuprofried and Aldo are available right now in the starter cities in the boxes!

Where are these boxes? o.O I just got back.

Edit: Found it xD SO MUCH AWESOME STUFF! *-*

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Originally Posted by Nefario

Where are these boxes? o.O I just got back.

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There's one in each city, but the only one I know of is in Southern San d'Oria next to a moogle between the zone to N.Sandy & the AH. There's a multi-page list of freebies, you can get one of each (don't have to choose only one thing.)

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Originally Posted by Nyarlko

There's one in each city, but the only one I know of is in Southern San d'Oria next to a moogle between the zone to N.Sandy & the AH. There's a multi-page list of freebies, you can get one of each (don't have to choose only one thing.)

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Thank youuuuu. So much awesomeness. Also this game is awesome. :D

Jeez there's a lot of stuff in here.... if each of the cities carries unique items it would be overload... LOL.

I have an idea. To reward that oh-so-familiar Final Fantasy XI feeling- why not make trusts teachable by other players?

It may work like this:

-A player has a particular trust that another player does not have.
-Certain requirements could be put in place in order to produce a Cipher, corresponding to the particular trust that the other person desires.

I see absolutely no reason why this couldn't be implemented. This rewards player <->player interaction, seeks to bind the community further together by way of sharing, and still does not punish newcomers who have to level through the first 99 levels to become relevant.

I'd just like to say, after seeing others run around with "Shantotto II" cipher, I felt as if those players were looking at me and saying "Wow, he picked the crappy trusts." Clearly, there are trusts out there that are absolutely better than others, and I found myself discouraged to play the game if the development of FFXI is similar to saying to a newcomer like me- "Hey, sorry you missed out. You're just not going to be on an equal player field like others are, and everyone is going to know it when you level."

If there were some way to implement a change where you could just produce a cipher for another player, or, hell, make them available to the auction house, I'd be happy. I may not be able to immediately pay for them, but I'd be happy.

What I do NOT like is that I must wait such a long time for a cipher to become available again. Please consider making ciphers of past time available with a series of interesting quests? Maybe? Or the suggestion I made?


There a couple of additional thoughts that I had:

-Expound upon the cipher system. As a new player that recently obtained above level 75, I noticed that there is a "Merit Point" system in place. Why not create a system that would increase trust stats the more and more you use those particular trusts? This would reward trusts that are used more often, eventually achieving similar power levels to those more powerful trusts.

-Increase the capabilities of other trusts, making them more desirable to players. Clearly, for many players, aesthetic will be a factor anyways.

-A quest line available during the Alter Ego Extravaganza events. Tie this in with whatever else FFXI has going for it.

-Make exclusive trusts that are not available during the year available after level 99?