Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

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Originally Posted by Blah

Erm I guess a good qol would be to let thief get their testimony from all thieving scumbags, not just 2. I mean ya have to steal it either way why only 2 to get it?

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Um and how about increase the rate of quadav stew being stolen.... I probably tried to steal it at least 30 times, no dice. So annoying. I just gave up on AF for awhile at that point.

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Originally Posted by Olor

Um and how about increase the rate of quadav stew being stolen.... I probably tried to steal it at least 30 times, no dice. So annoying. I just gave up on AF for awhile at that point.

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Like people have said though stealing accuracy is painfully low even at the low levels (~70) they need to do something about that as well...unless they're trying to say Humes have the absolute WORSE steal ability/luck?

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Originally Posted by Blah

Like people have said though stealing accuracy is painfully low even at the low levels (~70) they need to do something about that as well...unless they're trying to say Humes have the absolute WORSE steal ability/luck?

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I can't remember offhand but I think my thf low 70s... if not it is in high 60s, anyway - it's annoying as hell

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Originally Posted by Olor

Um and how about increase the rate of quadav stew being stolen.... I probably tried to steal it at least 30 times, no dice. So annoying. I just gave up on AF for awhile at that point.

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I did this set of quests last weekend. Even at 99, it still took me a couple hours to get a successful steal. I'm sure some steal+ gear would have helped.

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Originally Posted by Firebert_Lakshmi

I did this set of quests last weekend. Even at 99, it still took me a couple hours to get a successful steal. I'm sure some steal+ gear would have helped.

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It's not really reasonable at this point. I spent at least 3 hours working on it. I just couldn't anymore. I don't mind something a bit gimmicky if it doesn't just end up feeling like you're going insane and/or doing it wrong because it just never works.

Maybe if they at least lowered the timer on steal cause yeah, the timer definitely makes this EXTRA tedious.

I have some Quality of Life suggestions for Adoulin base content.

1.) Add Chocobos to Adoulin.
-How to solve reive issue?: Simple just add a ??? that chocobos can touch to jump over the reive.
-How to solve cave issue?: We know that there are many caves in adoulin a simple solution would be to add chocobos to the frontiers camps.

2.) Merge the middle lands and adoulin waypoints.
-I see no reason to have them separate they work with the same system.

3.) Add a warp npc to frontier npcs so they can teleport us to reives easily.
-Similar to a campaign warp but only functions within the zone, and only the frontier npc can teleport you.

4.) Separate the zones into more regions.
-Having only an eastern ulbuka clutters up the menu.

5.) Make the zones feel more alive.
-Add more flowers and textures to some of the zones to make them feel more alive, and add roaming npcs.

6.) Add voidwatch and abyssea npcs.
-Would make it easier to get to these locations without going to jeuno, and they could possibility add some voidwatch to adoulin for ilevel accessories.

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Originally Posted by Brightshadow

I have some Quality of Life suggestions for Adoulin base content.

1.) Add Chocobos to Adoulin.
-How to solve reive issue?: Simple just add a ??? that chocobos can touch to jump over the reive.
-How to solve cave issue?: We know that there are many caves in adoulin a simple solution would be to add chocobos to the frontiers camps.

2.) Merge the middle lands and adoulin waypoints.
-I see no reason to have them separate they work with the same system.

3.) Add a warp npc to frontier npcs so they can teleport us to reives easily.
-Similar to a campaign warp but only functions within the zone, and only the frontier npc can teleport you.

4.) Separate the zones into more regions.
-Having only an eastern ulbuka clutters up the menu.

5.) Make the zones feel more alive.
-Add more flowers and textures to some of the zones to make them feel more alive, and add roaming npcs.

6.) Add voidwatch and abyssea npcs.
-Would make it easier to get to these locations without going to jeuno, and they could possibility add some voidwatch to adoulin for ilevel accessories.

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1.) is not needed and wasted time, there are alot of bivacs around which makes haveing a chocobo pointless mostly

2.) i would actually welcome that

3.) uuuuuuh


4.) uuuuuuh

5.) actually the game looks fine for how olde it is

6.) someone please let voidwatch rot in hell ¬.¬

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Originally Posted by Olor

It's not really reasonable at this point. I spent at least 3 hours working on it. I just couldn't anymore. I don't mind something a bit gimmicky if it doesn't just end up feeling like you're going insane and/or doing it wrong because it just never works.

Maybe if they at least lowered the timer on steal cause yeah, the timer definitely makes this EXTRA tedious.

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Sorry this kinda thing has been happening to you guys but I must have the luck of the Irish then. I have two characters leveling up thf at the moment and I just did this quest and only took 2 attempts at stealing for each character. The traveling and switching characters took longer. Happy thieving

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Originally Posted by Kuvo

Sorry this kinda thing has been happening to you guys but I must have the luck of the Irish then. I have two characters leveling up thf at the moment and I just did this quest and only took 2 attempts at stealing for each character. The traveling and switching characters took longer. Happy thieving

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You must indeed. I don't have a rabbit charm or other +steal gear ... but don't really want to spend 200K on one either. Guess I might have to though, since most of the other +steal gear I see is the AF itself.

I say don't bother, it's only +1 anyway. The failure rate seems to be very random, if I remember it didn't take that long to steal the stew for me but to steal just now for the thief maat fight it took almost 20 freaking tries and I had my AF gear and the rogue ring. And for other characters I've tried with it took less than 6 and most times I just had the ring.

omg I just got done doing the missions for COP in The Garden of Ru'hmet and I HATE THE PLACE. why can you not use Trusts in this area? could you please allow us to use trusts in The Garden of Ru'hmet. I mean having almost everything still aggro at 99 is fine if i could use trusts.

also can we get a Cutscene viewer? like maybe a new area or something that allows you to view all cutscenes that you have previously scene. I mean instead of having to go to each zone, we could have one area to watch all the cutscenes in.

also in the Records of Eminence there seems to be an oversight, if you go to Combat (Region) and go to Original Areas 2, there is no Subjugation for Zeruhn Mines. Why is that? I suppose it's a mistake?

also could you put Iron Plates and Colorless Souls into the login points events?

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Originally Posted by Rifaran

omg I just got done doing the missions for COP in The Garden of Ru'hmet and I HATE THE PLACE. why can you not use Trusts in this area?

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My theory is that it's because it's technically a BCNM zone.

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I mean having almost everything still aggro at 99 is fine if i could use trusts.

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Trying to avoid fast-spinning zdei when the server is literally half a world away really doesn't work. They really should either be slowed down or have a narrower field of view to compensate for lag.

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also can we get a Cutscene viewer? like maybe a new area or something that allows you to view all cutscenes that you have previously scene. I mean instead of having to go to each zone, we could have one area to watch all the cutscenes in.

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Forget where, but that request has already been answered with a "no." Something about having the CS data stored in the zone information itself. But then I note that you can watch all the "Magicite" cutscenes in Ru'Lude Gardens, so...

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also could you put Iron Plates and Colorless Souls into the login points events?

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Yeah... so not happening. Everything about RME acquisition is officially "working as intended."

Yet they will allow us to get the WoW coins from the meebles event that coming up.

Something needs to be done about the difficulty in getting heavy metal plates. Even when Voidwatch was the main endgame content, it wasn't so easy. now it's borderline impossible. Getting the bleeping alexandrite is easier than this.

Also, make the Magic Damage + on many ilvl staves affect avatars, instead of forcing SMN into just a couple staves with pet MAB (also considering that magic damage+ is better than MAB) while other mages have a broader selection.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Something needs to be done about the difficulty in getting heavy metal plates. Even when Voidwatch was the main endgame content, it wasn't so easy. now it's borderline impossible. Getting the bleeping alexandrite is easier than this.

Also, make the Magic Damage + on many ilvl staves affect avatars, instead of forcing SMN into just a couple staves with pet MAB (also considering that magic damage+ is better than MAB) while other mages have a broader selection.

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i think in general pet stats should have been reflected by gear the player equips instead of adidng pet:stats gear... may it be BST SMN PUP or DRG. but its too late to address somethign like that when there is allready an immense ammount of pet:stats gear out ¬.¬

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Something needs to be done about the difficulty in getting heavy metal plates.

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You got that right! I just tried to Google up some heavy metal plates, but all I could find was this rock plate :(

http://www.birthdaydirect.com/images...nner-plate.jpg

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Originally Posted by Fritobandito

I just tried to Google up some heavy metal plates, but all I could find was this rock plate :(

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You might be able to find Heavy Metal on laserdisc and eating off that if you don't mind the hole in the middle.

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Originally Posted by Damane

i think in general pet stats should have been reflected by gear the player equips instead of adidng pet:stats gear... may it be BST SMN PUP or DRG. but its too late to address somethign like that when there is allready an immense ammount of pet:stats gear out ¬.¬

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I wish. Wish wish wish. This is one of the main reasons why pet jobs pretty much suck entirely compared to non pet jobs. A significant portion of the player's damage potential has total crap for stat boosts and can't generally be buffed. Ugh.

Greetings,

I just wanted to let you know two things the development team is looking into for the future.

First is for Ballista. The team realizes that it is becoming more difficult to acquire Ballista points and they are currently looking into adding Ballista points to the list of items you can purchase with Copper Vouchers. They would like to add this after the May version update.

The second is in regards to the chat log message that appears when changing equipment. They are currently looking to add this to the chat filter so when you change a lot of equipment at one time your chat log won’t get spammed. They believe it should be possible and not take very long to accomplish if they add this text to the “System Level 3” category of the chat filter.

...ballista points? Wot? Can you add meeble pheremone sacks to the purchaseables instead? Why would anyone want points that can only be used to participate in an event no one does?

No, add Riftcinders and Heavy Metal Pouches instead :D :D :D

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

I just wanted to let you know two things the development team is looking into for the future.

First is for Ballista. The team realizes that it is becoming more difficult to acquire Ballista points and they are currently looking into adding Ballista points to the list of items you can purchase with Copper Vouchers. They would like to add this after the May version update.

The second is in regards to the chat log message that appears when changing equipment. They are currently looking to add this to the chat filter so when you change a lot of equipment at one time your chat log won’t get spammed. They believe it should be possible and not take very long to accomplish if they add this text to the “System Level 3” category of the chat filter.

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that would be cool if you could get anything useful or at least cosmetically cool with ballista points...

But I think the reason why they're doing this is because people want to open the diorama for 1v1s or whatever have you, but can't because they can't get any official ballista matches to start. Of course, this is a bandaid for a long-running problem of "ballista doesn't offer anything to anyone and nobody cares about 'for fun' content that offers no gains for their character, therefore nobody participates")

This could be fixed a multitude of other ways but instead of fixing ballista and making it more rewarding/fun, let's just let people get ballista points without having to actually play it. -.-

Honestly, I know you're just the messenger Camate, but can't we get some improvements for older content like this instead of just letting them rot and offering people ways around them? There are a lot of... colorful metaphors... that could describe the situation, but for the sake of these forums, I'll summarize it politely with: "Please, do something to fix the real problem."

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on a seperate topic...

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Originally Posted by Damane

i think in general pet stats should have been reflected by gear the player equips instead of adidng pet:stats gear... may it be BST SMN PUP or DRG. but its too late to address somethign like that when there is allready an immense ammount of pet:stats gear out ¬.¬

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Well, they had a chance to fix this when they introduced item level and a bunch of new stats. They made a bunch of things dependent on ilvl, or at least things that are found on all / much of the gear with an item level. I had pushed many times for making avatar strength simply tied to your main weapon DMG rating (For weapons with an item level), or perhaps your average item level in general. But most people didn't seem to like this idea even though every other game does something like it and it makes plenty of sense...

I'll echo the above sentiments. If you give players an incentive to play Ballista, then there will be no need to use a voucher exchange system.

Ballista was one of the most fun events in the game at the 75 cap. I don't know that it would be quite so strategic now that most people can KO others in an instant, but all the same I would love to see Ballista given new life.

Mythic updates for gun and crossbow weapons: in the spirit of fair, which square has always preached, to be even, why can't gun and crossbow have the twice to thrice shot? I mean we don't benefit from double attack or triple attack, and there is very little in the way of double shot gear, on top of the weaponskills being horrible, so why does every other mythic benefit from 2 to 3 hits and we only get double damage?

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Originally Posted by sweetidealism

I'll echo the above sentiments. If you give players an incentive to play Ballista, then there will be no need to use a voucher exchange system.

Ballista was one of the most fun events in the game at the 75 cap. I don't know that it would be quite so strategic now that most people can KO others in an instant, but all the same I would love to see Ballista given new life.

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I still found it pretty playable at lv99 pre-ilvl, but ilvl gear breaks things quite a bit. I would like a lv99 cap option that doesn't allow gear with an item level. But considering they're adding somethign to circumvent the need to even play official matches, I'm interpreting this as "we don't give a crap about it." Stuff like ballista and brenner and belligerency could have been a lot more successful with just a little bit more effort, it's a shame they couldn't put that in. They were almost there with belligerency, as you can get "rewards" from it, the problem is none of the rewards are visible gear nor are they any good, so there is no incentive for players to be gladiators (even though monipulators actually benefit from having their belligerency flag on)

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Originally Posted by Olor

...ballista points? Wot? Can you add meeble pheremone sacks to the purchaseables instead? Why would anyone want points that can only be used to participate in an event no one does?

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Instead? How difficult do you think it would actually be to add 2 things?

I am sure the answer will be some bunk about how this is tied to mythic difficulty or something

But why the dumb doors in halvung? I decided to try out zeni NMs for the first time tonight, used a login points item to get the KI so I could buy a Dextrose pop... and now I am in halvung wondering why I need to drag 3 other people out in order to open a door. Please allow solo opening of all doors in the game. This is just silly. I was having fun until this needless cockblock just showed up. What a bummer.

Also if I'm mistaken and I can get to Dextrose solo, I'd love to know about it, but from the looks of it I am locked out by a door that requires multiple people to open. Not worth dragging multiple people out to pop dextrose these days.

I was wondering about Garrison System?

I wanted to know if there would be any high tier Garrisons would be implemented for 99 jobs and above but I was wondering if it would be possible to do this in the adoulin side of things or abdoulin area's but of course there are already skirmishes that are like the garrison system in Adoulin's outer area's. I would hope Garrison gets a refresh revival at some point with a magnificent magnitude of rewarding rewards and also like to see current Garrison places or outposts to have their level restrictions completely abolished perhaps as well. I would also like to see it be possible to do solo-man/solo-woman garrisons as well.

I know there are quite a few players who wouldn't like this to happen simply because of possible chat log spam of stuff happening from people doing garrison while someone else is leveling a job, skilling, spawning nm's, farming crafted items near the outpost while a garrison event is taking place but couldn't the folks doing the garrison be invisible to those who aren't doing the garrison event in maybe a burning circle enter type of way?

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Originally Posted by Olor

I am sure the answer will be some bunk about how this is tied to mythic difficulty or something

But why the dumb doors in halvung? I decided to try out zeni NMs for the first time tonight, used a login points item to get the KI so I could buy a Dextrose pop... and now I am in halvung wondering why I need to drag 3 other people out in order to open a door. Please allow solo opening of all doors in the game. This is just silly. I was having fun until this needless cockblock just showed up. What a bummer.

I want to see the doors being able to go solo as well. I know there is at least one rod pull down door in halvung that you can attempt to pull down on it but don't get anywhere but your character giving up on it with tuckered out hands to being one of them darn doors.
Also if I'm mistaken and I can get to Dextrose solo, I'd love to know about it, but from the looks of it I am locked out by a door that requires multiple people to open. Not worth dragging multiple people out to pop dextrose these days.

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I totally Agree with you on changing the doors in halvung to be more solo based players then multiple characters who would just have to head back after you get that darn door open provided you manage to get anyone willing to even head clear out there just help you open a door. I know there is at least one door that has a giant rod pull down lever, if you attempt to have your character pull down on that lever then nothing happens except for your character stating that he or she has tuckered out their hands pulling down on it.

I think it's about time the "Other" category on the auction house was broken down into some different sections. It's rather ballooned out.

I'd really appreciate it if there were more logging points.
I'm trying to find walnuts for crafting, and supposedly they're easiest to find in Jugner Forest (S). Well I've been here an hour and found four logging points.
Each disappeared within 1-2 hatchet swings, and then I have to run to one of the four corners of the map to hope for another logging point. I also have to switch out my gear if I get seen by a gnole while logging. (using field gear)

Or please make an npc that sells baking goods in Adoulin, including Walnuts.

My quality of life would improve if spells and ws's worked like they were supposed to. Tourbillion/Barbed Crescent.

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so I posted a rather lengthy list/explanation of things in another thread on accident, so here is list of things I've noticed and that many other people have mentioned too .. but worth saying over and over and over until the dev team listens:

Any door(s) that req more than 1 person to open need a KI that allow players to open them solo (Halvung & Eld. Necropolis come to mind right off the bat). If that is not possible then there should be a path around these door so all areas can be access SOLO (yes part of the game is forming parties and having fun as a group, but mundane question does not fall under the fun category for everyone).

Either increase the drop rates/amounts/monsters that drop Heavy Metal Plates & Alexandrite or cut the required amounts for these items in half for their respective legendary weapons (With a minimum of 100 days [50 for captain 50 for the quest] to do all the assaults and 52 days to get the icor needed for the eye patch you are not going to over quicken the obtain-ability of a mythic).

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD REMOVE LOTTERY NMs and make them all just str8 up timed spawns PLEASE!

That's my thoughts on QoL for us. :3

What exactly about aspir samba do you want fixed?

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Greetings,

I just wanted to let you know two things the development team is looking into for the future.

First is for Ballista. The team realizes that it is becoming more difficult to acquire Ballista points and they are currently looking into adding Ballista points to the list of items you can purchase with Copper Vouchers. They would like to add this after the May version update.

The second is in regards to the chat log message that appears when changing equipment. They are currently looking to add this to the chat filter so when you change a lot of equipment at one time your chat log won’t get spammed. They believe it should be possible and not take very long to accomplish if they add this text to the “System Level 3” category of the chat filter.

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Sorry I'm alittle late replying to this and my apologies to Camate and the Dev team, but this type of implementation is not needed simply because like many have said before me, there's no incentive to participate in said content. Not many people care for the rewards offered from racking up points and so adding this option to RoE npc would really be a waste of time.

Once again I'll throw out my suggestion from earlier in this thread and ask that anyone in favor of this idea to either comment below or like this post. How about re-implementing the Ballista and Brenner tournaments you guys use to have a few years back with Vana'fest being the main stage for the championship event? Not only would this draw the attention of a lot of players, but also there are more than enough items in-game to warrant a reasonable reward for the winner(s).

There's enough PvP type content in the game now and not enough reason to do it. Ballista, Brenner, Pankatron, and Belligerence are all PvP content that are all content that's really just collecting dust because not many people do them.

So please reconsider the implementation of such a thing.

I love that they reduced the timers on the Aht Urhgan Kings but they really need to do something about the Operation Lever. They are easily soloable yet I cannot get the last one, Gurfurlur the Menacing, due to no one willing to help open the Operation Lever door. Atleast put a quest in like you did for the Weighted Doors in Quicksand Caves.

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Originally Posted by Grimlocke

Well unless i'm bugged, when I use it .. I dont get mp back, I dont see any effects with it whatsoever.

grim~

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Not all mobs have mp pools, and like other sambas it doesn't work on undead. Have you tried it with a mob that casts magic?

Lol 1st time I think I got filed under the troll label. Too bad we might never know if they were trying to aspir on non aspir able mobs or not. Should be happy this isn't an older FF title or he might think he was really bugged if we was trying to use it on undead. -.-

Not sure if this has been requested yet, but wouldn't another macro button like shift be rather handy to have. I understand there would be limitations for ps2 players, but stiiillll... would be nice to have.

Ah, how about a store/guild linkshell? Like as soon as you go to the store or guild they offer you a linkshell so that you can access their store anytime and buy? Then if you need a spell but don't have it you can buy it and either have it automatically sent or if that's too hard just like mail it to your moghouse. If someone already suggested it and it was shot down I apologize for reasking but sometimes when I am out leveling and need a new spell...