Feedback on Existing Bonus Campaigns

I haven't played nearly as much since completing RoV, but the campaigns that entice me to log in are typically the Unity coffer and Abjuration dials. Double CP should be active much more often, as others have said.

Would personally like to see a campaign that yields more Alexandrites or Nyzul Tokens somehow. Heavy Metal plates aren't that bad when we get the Voidwatch campaigns, and Dynamis currency doesn't take that long to farm these days - but Salvage gets pretty boring after a while.

Some of the old campaigns are in dire need of updating.

Like the Campaign one the slight increases to drops, xp and notes weren't really that great at the time and compared to now pretty meh. The extra drops campaign ops was nice back when some of them were rare but a lot of that stuff is more plentiful now so people still don't do it during the campaign. Could increase amounts, droprate or add newer stuff

Similarly back when the seals battlefield campaign was introduced getting things like I kupons, old abjs, af3+2 upgrade items or old cursed gear was pretty nice but now pretty meh. Could easily upgrade that to ilvl equivalents of those. Additionally along with the synthesis item stuff maybe put in the newer rare synth items like stuff from Vagary.

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Originally Posted by Diavolo

You have no idea how much that bolded part annoys me. The entire population is funneled into Mhaura these days and FFXI no longer looks like an open world MMORPG because of it. It's Ambuscade, Escha/Reis and a few HTBF/UNMs. Spreading the population out a bit by breathing some life back into older content would do the game some good. If the populations are too small, well, most here are probably familiar with my mantra: merge the servers.

Voidwatch needs an updated means of trading voidstones to Voidwatch NPCs because bouncing back and forth between town and VWNMs every 6 fights is impractical. At the very least, recharge rate needs to be sped up (4-6 hours) via quest, affecting your stock retroactively. Lights should be increased to maybe 50% or more of their max values to offset the fact that VWNMs die so fast and not everyone has the luxury of carrying around low level gear/weapons.

Wildskeeper Reives respawn time should be changed to 15-30 min with either a 50K bayld cap and/or 2 HP Bayld guaranteed + rare chance at Aged Box.

Delve should be changed to single person entry, unless congestion is a concern, and plasm reward from NMs outside of fractures increased so those wanting some older gear/weapons or a little help farming their way to Idris/Epeolatry have extra incentive to spend time in Adoulin.

I've barely touched Vagary and would defer to others for ways to increase its appeal, short of increasing drop rates and lowering difficulty, neither of which strike me as great ideas for that particular content.

Still plenty of other material to work with for campaigns should that content ever get updated.

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You clearly missed/ignored the part immediately following the bolded statement. Becuase everyone's at mhaura because it's the best/easiest way to make progress in a number of ways (But even then, I have a hard time getting groups for it and usually end up doing it solo, despite your comments about "everyone" being in mhaura). The campaigns exist to make other contents more enticing on a tempoary basis, because if they weren't temporary, you'd simply have everyone doing whatever is "the best" and you'd have hte same problem we have now. There simply aren't enough players to spread everyone around to many different contents at the same time. The campaigns are the best way to ensure different contents are being played- Just at different times, rather than all at the same time. Even merging the servers wouldn't be enough to entirely solve this problem. It would just mean longer lines for ambuscade, which doesn't seem to be enough to push people to do other content.

That's simply just wrong, though.
Instead of everyone doing the "best" content you have people spamming the campaign content. That just creates fatigue as people feel FORCED to spam 1 form of content for an entire months straight because everyone else is doing it AND it's more rewarding.

People are still spamming 1 form of content at a time, but it changes on a per-month basis decided BY THE DEVELOPERS instead of the players. Being told when you should play and what you should be doing when you play is a big no-no and should be greatly fought against by a player base whenever possible.

The campaigns make more people quit and stop playing than they make start playing, I know this for a fact from other MMO's trying the same things. It's not a good thing to do and bad for not only the game and players, but also for square enix as a business.

These campaigns are not good for the game in their current form.

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You clearly missed/ignored the part immediately following the bolded statement. Becuase everyone's at mhaura because it's the best/easiest way to make progress in a number of ways (But even then, I have a hard time getting groups for it and usually end up doing it solo, despite your comments about "everyone" being in mhaura). The campaigns exist to make other contents more enticing on a tempoary basis, because if they weren't temporary, you'd simply have everyone doing whatever is "the best" and you'd have hte same problem we have now. There simply aren't enough players to spread everyone around to many different contents at the same time. The campaigns are the best way to ensure different contents are being played- Just at different times, rather than all at the same time. Even merging the servers wouldn't be enough to entirely solve this problem. It would just mean longer lines for ambuscade, which doesn't seem to be enough to push people to do other content.

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FFXI isn't a one trick pony, for starters, even in its current form. Take a look at all the campaigns hitting us at the same time this month - how do you justify holding all those campaigns at the same time and then claiming the game doesn't have enough players for it?

From the fact that you've given us a new campaign this month with the dyna ki's, it makes me think you would consider these events
Double Therion Ichor
Double Nyzul Tokens
Atm these are a long grind, so i know if your helping geo's/runs and relic getting their stuff done, surely you could implement this somewhere down the line

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Originally Posted by Afin

From the fact that you've given us a new campaign this month with the dyna ki's, it makes me think you would consider these events
Double Therion Ichor
Double Nyzul Tokens
Atm these are a long grind, so i know if your helping geo's/runs and relic getting their stuff done, surely you could implement this somewhere down the line

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What you suggested isn't quite in line with what we've been given so far. I think this Dynamis event is more in line with the already-implemented auto-capped VW lights or a hypothetical "no pathos" Salvage event. Basically the events are the same but the a step has been taken out that lets you get straight to destroying the content.

I might unsub until this campaign ends. It will reduce the amount of playtime I have with this game greatly and I have to intentionally avoid doing a lot of things(cp/leveling mostly) for an entire month. I don't like that a monthly sub MMO that doesn't get many content updates and gets them slowly is boosting everything and making it faster for me to run out of stuff to do(thus , quit the game for years and years since content development is very slow atm).

They are great for f2p mmos - get lots of people(old or new) coming in, buying stuff from your cash shop, then they're out. For a monthly sub? Not good, not at all. You want people constantly subbed to your game, not subbing and resubbing whenever a good campaign they want is out.

Please re-evaluate potential long term revenue and retention problems that these campaigns can cause.

Would we have a Voidwalker campaign where the stones always change? (outside of Abyssea)
Or add onto the Abyssea campaign, reducing the respawn of NMs to 1 - 5 minutes? 8D

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

I might unsub until this campaign ends. It will reduce the amount of playtime I have with this game greatly and I have to intentionally avoid doing a lot of things(cp/leveling mostly) for an entire month. I don't like that a monthly sub MMO that doesn't get many content updates and gets them slowly is boosting everything and making it faster for me to run out of stuff to do(thus , quit the game for years and years since content development is very slow atm).

They are great for f2p mmos - get lots of people(old or new) coming in, buying stuff from your cash shop, then they're out. For a monthly sub? Not good, not at all. You want people constantly subbed to your game, not subbing and resubbing whenever a good campaign they want is out.

Please re-evaluate potential long term revenue and retention problems that these campaigns can cause.

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Speak for yourself. There is enough in this game to keep me busy for 100 years, even with campaign events. I love the campaigns. Not everyone can play 20 hours a day. They can't and shouldn't be balancing the game around people that can and do.

Oh just remembered one. For the Skirmish Stone and Arcane Glyptics Campaign make it work for alluvion skirmish too.

Given the recent update made the gear pretty good for smn again albeit with slightly different augments than most had and given the whole trying to help returning players and this is one of the higher tier of gear a returning player can hope to solo and Skirmish Frenzy Campaign - PLUS! upping the drop will get some people to want to do it but the amount you can effectively farm especially of dusk is low enough combine with the fact you took the stones off of ambuscade that might hard for really anyone to get decent augments

Just my feedback:

• WKR(Plus!) Campaign - A godsend. Thank you very much for this! Maybe consider alternating between the normal campaign and this every other month.

• Unity Dial Campaign - A bust. The rate of acquiring a useful coffer, let alone anything useful from it was too low.

• Delve Plasm Campaign - Please bring this back! I really need some delve runs and no one seems to do them. Combined with the 3 player minimum, it makes doing delve very difficult.

Thanks for your time and reading!

How is this months campaign a "Grand returnee campaign"?

You are giving 250m of dark matter augments out for FREE, but only if you have the gear(which a new/returning player wont). This means that this campaign is giving 250m of gil of possible overpowered augments to veteran players for free while completely screwing over new/turning players because they will not have this gear to take advantage of the free 6 dark mater augments per day, because they're new/returning.

So again, I ask, how is this a "Grand returnee campaign" when it's actually screwing over returning players hardcore by them not having access to such an obscene free 250m of dark matter augments? It basically forces you to rush through the game and get carried for the gear asap so you can have these augments as a returning player and then ruin the entire game for yourself by rushing through it. This game is ALL about the journey yet this campaign is making you neglect the Journey to rush through it for gear like...every other modern MMO in the past decade? This is awful.

This campaign is horrible. Not only is it awful for the returning players(which is what it's advertised for, lol) because it makes you feel like you need to rush through the game and get the gear asap to take advantage of this campaign which burns you out and ruins the entire journey aspect as well as makes you skip so much content that you'll run out of stuff to do fast and have very little game left to do. It's also awful for square enix from a business perspective because you're giving out 250M gil worth of an item thus giving people less things to do and "beating" the game faster all for free.

This campaign is very, very bad. This is borderline giving out free ultimate weapons and reisen/PW drops for logging into the game.

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

How is this months campaign a "Grand returnee campaign"?

You are giving 250m of dark matter augments out for FREE, but only if you have the gear(which a new/returning player wont). This means that this campaign is giving 250m of gil of possible overpowered augments to veteran players for free while completely screwing over new/turning players because they will not have this gear to take advantage of the free 6 dark mater augments per day, because they're new/returning.

So again, I ask, how is this a "Grand returnee campaign" when it's actually screwing over returning players hardcore by them not having access to such an obscene free 250m of dark matter augments? It basically forces you to rush through the game and get carried for the gear asap so you can have these augments as a returning player and then ruin the entire game for yourself by rushing through it. This game is ALL about the journey yet this campaign is making you neglect the Journey to rush through it for gear like...every other modern MMO in the past decade? This is awful.

This campaign is horrible. Not only is it awful for the returning players(which is what it's advertised for, lol) because it makes you feel like you need to rush through the game and get the gear asap to take advantage of this campaign which burns you out and ruins the entire journey aspect as well as makes you skip so much content that you'll run out of stuff to do fast and have very little game left to do. It's also awful for square enix from a business perspective because you're giving out 250M gil worth of an item thus giving people less things to do and "beating" the game faster all for free.

This campaign is very, very bad. This is borderline giving out free ultimate weapons and reisen/PW drops for logging into the game.

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Because they are hardly going to screw over current players this entire month and just go for "returning players."

"Let's make a campaign to attempt, and fail at, getting players back and screw over current, paying customers." Sound like that argument would make sense to you?

The majority are for returning players with one or two "good" campaigns in there for ACTIVE not potential players.

Honestly, only you would moan about such a GREAT campaign bonus.

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

How is this months campaign a "Grand returnee campaign"?

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Because for people returning to the game it's a perfect chance to catch up, because under normal circumstances, it will take a very long time to get caught up to the current meta if you quit or took a break before seekers or even during the early days of seekers prior to ilvl.

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You are giving 250m of dark matter augments out for FREE

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Not SE's fault your server is dead.

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but only if you have the gear(which a new/returning player wont)

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And yet the campaign boosts their ability to get said gear..imagine that.

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This means that this campaign is giving 250m of gil of possible overpowered augments to veteran players for free while completely screwing over new/turning players because they will not have this gear to take advantage of the free 6 dark mater augments per day, because they're new/returning.

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Incorrect, because most "veteran" players are already playing at the current meta and have long moved on from some of the older ilvl content. The playerbase of this game is small enough to actually see that this would benefit newer players a lot sooner than it would benefit a concurrent player who's kept up.

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So again, I ask, how is this a "Grand returnee campaign" when it's actually screwing over returning players hardcore

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Just today a friend of mine has been catching up since the campaign was set to start...he's even doing Alluvion, so..I'm not seeing how they're getting screwed over.

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

250M gil worth

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Your issue is you're focusing on this. Stop it.

No such thing as a "great campaign bonus". They're all bad for the future of the game.

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

No such thing as a "great campaign bonus". They're all bad for the future of the game.

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You mean:

"Allowing players to catch up is bad for the game." ??

As I can assure you no new players joining or sticking around is far worse for this game.

Got these babies today

http://i.imgur.com/gbPcvfB.png

and a sweet sweet ranged accuracy augment on the same set of boots.

My feedback towards the DM campaign would be this: It would be nice if we could target the kind of stat we're looking for (Melee, Magic).

Personally, I'm looking for SIRD on the boots (very jealous of ls mate who has a pair).

I don't really mind that irrelevant augments can roll on gear, but a Melee/Magic filter would be nice.

Alternatively it would also be nice if we could apply a DM aug to a "paper" of some sort and trade that paper along with any piece of gear. It's soul-crushing when you get amazing melee augments on mage gear.

Such a "paper" system would also allow returning people to save augments til they get the gear.

Just my $0.02.

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Originally Posted by OmnysValefor

Got these babies today

http://i.imgur.com/gbPcvfB.png

and a sweet sweet ranged accuracy augment on the same set of boots.

My feedback towards the DM campaign would be this: It would be nice if we could target the kind of stat we're looking for (Melee, Magic).

Personally, I'm looking for SIRD on the boots (very jealous of ls mate who has a pair).

I don't really mind that irrelevant augments can roll on gear, but a Melee/Magic filter would be nice.

Alternatively it would also be nice if we could apply a DM aug to a "paper" of some sort and trade that paper along with any piece of gear. It's soul-crushing when you get amazing melee augments on mage gear.

Such a "paper" system would also allow returning people to save augments til they get the gear.

Just my $0.02.

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It's intended to be this way by design because they know we'll want to take our chances regardless. The only way to change this is to stop taking part in an attempt to show the devs that it's so ridiculous it's not worth our time, but good luck with that.

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

No such thing as a "great campaign bonus". They're all bad for the future of the game.

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Disagree with you entirely, but that's hardly rare.

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Originally Posted by OmnysValefor

Got these babies today

http://i.imgur.com/gbPcvfB.png

and a sweet sweet ranged accuracy augment on the same set of boots.

My feedback towards the DM campaign would be this: It would be nice if we could target the kind of stat we're looking for (Melee, Magic).

Personally, I'm looking for SIRD on the boots (very jealous of ls mate who has a pair).

I don't really mind that irrelevant augments can roll on gear, but a Melee/Magic filter would be nice.

Alternatively it would also be nice if we could apply a DM aug to a "paper" of some sort and trade that paper along with any piece of gear. It's soul-crushing when you get amazing melee augments on mage gear.

Such a "paper" system would also allow returning people to save augments til they get the gear.

Just my $0.02.

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Being able to pick paths like Melee/Magic, or having them automatically assigned, would kinda go against the entire idea of the DM "anything goes" augment concept. It would be nice if certain things, like pet augs on the Odyssean set that has no pet jobs on it, could be blocked from occurring, but anything that has possible potential uses for any of the jobs that can equip the piece should still be possible.

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Originally Posted by Nyarlko

Being able to pick paths like Melee/Magic, or having them automatically assigned, would kinda go against the entire idea of the DM "anything goes" augment concept.

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Makes you wonder though right? Have you ever seen a good DM augment that wasn't just a higher-than-usual value for one or something like Refresh/QA/Phalanx/Shield Mastery?

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Originally Posted by detlef

Makes you wonder though right? Have you ever seen a good DM augment that wasn't just a higher-than-usual value for one or something like Refresh/QA/Phalanx/Shield Mastery?

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Um.. that is all that DM augs are meant to do. o_o;;
Higher caps on existing augs and the DM-only augments are the point.
The absolute random nature is the only thing preventing DM aug caps from becoming the baseline expectation from min/maxers, so I get why it is the way it is.

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Originally Posted by Nyarlko

Um.. that is all that DM augs are meant to do. o_o;;
Higher caps on existing augs and the DM-only augments are the point.
The absolute random nature is the only thing preventing DM aug caps from becoming the baseline expectation from min/maxers, so I get why it is the way it is.

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Well, I'm all over the place so hear me out. You might get 1, maybe 2 usable pieces over the course of 170 attempts over 4 weeks. There are only a tiny handful of "good" augments that are only worthwhile because they don't need to be paired with stats like atk/acc/matk/macc. And it doesn't really matter if you get awesome stats because you got the wrong type of stats for the piece you traded. I guess you think the DM stat caps are so exceptional that the randomness is warranted so there you go but I disagree. I think the augments are either too random or the augments aren't powerful enough. And if you made me choose, I'd opt for less randomness in favor of less powerful augments.

It's just a bad system and even though I have my share of Refresh pieces, I kinda wish they'd never added that system in the first place and certainly not made it into a campaign.

Domain Invasion Treasure Coffer Campaign

Feedback on this; It's a joke and insulting. It's a disingenuous event when it still has abysmal drop rates. You could've at least made it reasonable.

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Originally Posted by Dyrandal

Just my feedback:

• • Unity Dial Campaign - A bust. The rate of acquiring a useful coffer, let alone anything useful from it was too low.

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That Unity Dial Campaign gave me a few VERY awesome items on a couple of my characters, so don't knock it! Also, I'm sitting on several rather popular items (Tumult's Blood?) that I'm waiting for the supply to die down so I can make some nice money on it.

I got two Anathema Harpes (One for my main, one for a mule), a Wingcutter, an Antitail, and a couple other things.

The Anathema Harpe, though. Such an awesome weapon compared to the Eminent/Homestead Daggers I was using. I also found a BST Axe, and a few pieces of armor too. One of my favorite campaigns I've ever seen. Also, it gave me reason to do the 50 Dial too (which I never do because I keep forgetting that goblin exists), and I wound up with a few pieces from that too (such as a 1H sword and 2h sword from Lv99 Ark Angels).

Anyways, my feedback:

1). Experience Point/Capacity Point and/or the PLUS versions: It'd be nice if you'd told us exactly how they work. I was scratching my head wondering what the difference was between the regular and the plus versions of these, and it turned out to be that one boosts base XP/CAP and the other boosts XP/CAP rings' bonuses. My feedback is that these should be explained better, and that during this campaign, the rings should last longer or be usable more often because the rings' buffs wear off so fast that you barely get any bonus from them. Perhaps Echad/Trizek Rings should be made available for Login Points during these campaigns to actually make use of the campaign to its fullest, and during the campaign the recast should be 30-60 minutes instead of 120, OR, the bonus should be 60k instead of 30k. Also, perhaps remove the weekly recharge limit on the Emperor Band during the campaign would be a good alternative as well.

2). Double Synthesis Skill Gain: I love this! One of my favorites. Something that would be nice to pair up with this, is if during this campaign, the crafting kits were 30-50% off.

3). WKR (and/or PLUS) Campaign: Perhaps make it so that Adoulin Reputation (and/or Key Items) are no longer required during the campaign? I had a character who was ALMOST ready to do WKR, but didn't have enough fame, and I ran out of time and he missed it.

That's about all the feedback I can offer, because I am not at endgame yet, and as such, have no chance of actually partaking of much of the rest of the Grand Returnee Fiesta.

I suppose that brings me to a point about the Returnee Fiesta itself -- it's loaded with lots of bonuses to things that a returning player has no hope of doing within a month without all kinds of help to help them through it. The second week, for example, has a WKR Bonus..... oh wait, you need the Adoulin Reputation to even buy a KI. Not only do you need that, but you also need Bayld to buy the KIs. If you had JUST returned on January 1st, you're not gonna know enough about the new features (if you are a Returnee who has not played since Adoulin was a thing) to get a character to Adoulin, and do enough Imprimaturs to get enough fame/bayld to get WKR KIs to even take part in that particular campaign.

And the Week 2 and Week 3 are talking about stuff like Ambuscade, Geas Fete, and other stuff a player who just started playing again on Jan 1st would have no hope whatsoever of doing.

I am a recent returnee, I came back in Mid-November and I still didn't have enough time with my work schedule to actually get up to where I learn how to do and/or find people to do stuff like Geas Fete, nor do I even have Reisenjima Access.

But then again, Reisenjima Access requires 10+ hours of Promathia/WoTG/RoV Missions as well, so.......

Dunno how a returnee was supposed to fit all this in, in the course of a couple weeks.

Getting TO Reisenjima is doable in a single day. Getting PAST that point though was impossible to do in time due to the math of imprimatur generation rate. -_-;; WKR access needs to be unlinked from mission progress or at least have the imprimatur use requirements for progression up thru unlocking reduced significantly. (If you want to be strict about total usage, shift the bulk of the required spending further down the mission line.) It is a Bad Thing for mission lines to have absolute blockades, especially so early on.

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Getting TO Reisenjima is doable in a single day. Getting PAST that point though was impossible to do in time due to the math of imprimatur generation rate. -_-;; WKR access needs to be unlinked from mission progress or at least have the imprimatur use requirements for progression up thru unlocking reduced significantly. (If you want to be strict about total usage, shift the bulk of the required spending further down the mission line.) It is a Bad Thing for mission lines to have absolute blockades, especially so early on.

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Well, considering you need to get to "A Warrior's Path" to get to Reisenjima (because an earlier Rhapsody requires it). Getting to "A Warrior's Path" takes a LOT of running around.

Maybe do-able in one day, if you have that much time and can stomach that many cutscenes at once. I tend to burn out after a few hours of doing nothing but walking and hitting the Enter Key.

But that's a LOT of questing to try and do in just a few days..

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Originally Posted by Aysha

Well, considering you need to get to "A Warrior's Path" to get to Reisenjima (because an earlier Rhapsody requires it). Getting to "A Warrior's Path" takes a LOT of running around.

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You don't need A Warrior's Path to get to Reisenjima. I'm currently playing an alt character in Reisenjima that stopped at The Road Forks.

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Originally Posted by Diavolo

You don't need A Warrior's Path to get to Reisenjima. I'm currently playing an alt character in Reisenjima that stopped at The Road Forks.

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Indeed you only need it if you get to a certain point in the missions where Tenzen "is Away"

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Originally Posted by Jakuk

Indeed you only need it if you get to a certain point in the missions where Tenzen "is Away"

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Yes, that's true, but only if you overstepped and started/completed a mission that went beyond what Rhapsodies required of you. FFXIclopedia (and probably BG too) has a great description for Rhapsodies missions that basically tells you how to get through everything as quickly as possible. As Nyarlko said, getting to Reisenjima doesn't take long at all and can be done in a day, more or less, depending on your play time and how many real world distractions like crazy pets or kids you may have.

Is there anything i can do for Dominion Invasion to actually attack the mob? I can target him but the lag is so bad even with every setting i can turned down. I can't even do a bloodpact and when i actually manage to i never get credit for anything in the end even though my counter was used so the attack went through.

thanks.

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Originally Posted by Secondplanet

Is there anything i can do for Dominion Invasion to actually attack the mob? I can target him but the lag is so bad even with every setting i can turned down. I can't even do a bloodpact and when i actually manage to i never get credit for anything in the end even though my counter was used so the attack went through.

thanks.

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I'd just suggest staying in first person view, making sure you have /hidetrust on, /ignorepet on and hit F8 as soon as you see the 30 minute timer come up. That along with minimizing the number of displayed character models (Config -> Misc.) helps a decent amount.

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Originally Posted by Diavolo

I'd just suggest staying in first person view, making sure you have /hidetrust on, /ignorepet on and hit F8 as soon as you see the 30 minute timer come up. That along with minimizing the number of displayed character models (Config -> Misc.) helps a decent amount.

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sadly done all of that and still having horrible lag, found out its actually happening but not showing it at all, been through 10 fights and got some gear but never shown up in chatbox.

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Originally Posted by Aysha

Well, considering you need to get to "A Warrior's Path" to get to Reisenjima (because an earlier Rhapsody requires it). Getting to "A Warrior's Path" takes a LOT of running around.

Maybe do-able in one day, if you have that much time and can stomach that many cutscenes at once. I tend to burn out after a few hours of doing nothing but walking and hitting the Enter Key.

But that's a LOT of questing to try and do in just a few days..

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At the start of this month, I decided to see how far I could get all my mules. Most were ~30BLM, some only lv5ish. It took me ~3 days to level the first couple to 99 (incl unlocking jobs and doing all LBs), do all required missions, and step into Reisenjima for the first time. It took me ~2 days for the next couple to do the same. I'm pretty sure I've got the process of lv1 > Reisenjima down to ~8hrs of actual playtime. (I tend to do a lot of "unnecessary" things like going out of my way to grab any/all warp points, and AFK a LOT while doing this to prevent burn-out. If I trimmed off that part of my SOP, it's definitely the kind of task that should take no more than a single weekend.)

ROV only requires up to "The Road Forks" for COP progress.. I'm being obsessively careful about my following my minimal process so I've avoided any issues so far, but IIRC, all it takes is talking to Cid one time too many to screw you up and extend your workload up to "A Warrior's Path". The mission progress requirements for ROV are actually all very low and simple to get past, excluding SOA. SOA imprimatur requirements kick in at 1-4 (which is effectively as soon as you get started.) By my count, I've spent 53 imprimaturs on one mule and still can't proceed with missions... There is at least one additional imp check later on in the missions IIRC as well... ._.;; I missed out entirely on this month's WKR campaign ON FOUR CHARACTERS because WKR access is connected to SOA mission progress (1-7 I think it was?) and my mission progress is STILL blocked by the ridiculous imprimatur spending requirements at such an early step in the story.

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Is there anything i can do for Dominion Invasion to actually attack the mob? I can target him but the lag is so bad even with every setting i can turned down. I can't even do a bloodpact and when i actually manage to i never get credit for anything in the end even though my counter was used so the attack went through.

thanks.

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Go /blm and cast Fire1 from menu as soon as you can target it before you engage. XD It's been working for me at least.
None of the gear drops that I've gotten so far have shown up in the chat log at all, so make sure you check your inventory before whining at your lsmates. ^^;;

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Originally Posted by Domille

Domain Invasion Treasure Coffer Campaign

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Wait... there's a treasure coffer? Is that where my loot is?

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Originally Posted by Secondplanet

Is there anything i can do for Dominion Invasion to actually attack the mob? I can target him but the lag is so bad even with every setting i can turned down. I can't even do a bloodpact and when i actually manage to i never get credit for anything in the end even though my counter was used so the attack went through.

thanks.

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I would suggest trying a different server.

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Originally Posted by Secondplanet

sadly done all of that and still having horrible lag, found out its actually happening but not showing it at all, been through 10 fights and got some gear but never shown up in chatbox.

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lol, if you got some gear in 10 fights you're doing far better than those that can actually target it, consider yourself lucky.

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Originally Posted by Secondplanet

Is there anything i can do for Dominion Invasion to actually attack the mob? I can target him but the lag is so bad even with every setting i can turned down. I can't even do a bloodpact and when i actually manage to i never get credit for anything in the end even though my counter was used so the attack went through.

thanks.

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Yeah, move to a smaller server if you want to participate in content that allows many people to participate in.

Being on a server with a large population isn't all it's cracked up to be. Case in point, your current conundrum.

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Originally Posted by Siviard

Yeah, move to a smaller server if you want to participate in content that allows many people to participate in.

Being on a server with a large population isn't all it's cracked up to be. Case in point, your current conundrum.

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I don't see a problem with it. Enter Domain Invasion, walk out with gear without ever needing to engage in the battle. ;)