How would you like certain items to be changed?

Hello everyone!

There have been a couple of suggestions related to item improvements, which received responses that I would like to pass on. Likewise, if there are any item you would like to see changed, improved, modified, etc. please let us know!

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I think it would be okay to reduce the time of the "medicated" effect after using items like Icarus Wings.

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I believe we can look into this to follow the changing battle pace and the time required for content. In the case we do this, there would be necessary adjustments that would take place at the same time for other elements such as abilities and magic that have effect durations. Please give us some time to look into and implement this.

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You should make it so batteries, wind fans, and hydro pumps can be used with any weapon to elicit their effects.

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These items don't actually possess any effects; it just enables the special weapons to elicit their effects when consumed. In other words, from a system perspective, just equipping these items cannot bring out an added effect. With that said, we will look into some different kind of way to do this for existing weapons.

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Please make it so we can buy corsair bullets from a Qiqirn in Nashmau.

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We will try and look into ways that corsair bullets can be obtained. Since there are almost no NPCs in Vana'diel who sell bullets, we would first like to look into offering them as items that can be exchange for specific content points or as a reward for Walk of Echoes.

I'd very much like Blue Magic Skill+ gear to affect the magic accuracy of tourbillion plz. Thank you

Please stop giving pup mage gear. It makes no sense even by the sub job standards. However more Pet + gear for all pet jobs would be nice, especially pet and master haste +. Existing items, I would like to see more zanshin + and would love to see the zanshin + that exists on gear increased, for instances katana strap, would love to see it zanshin 10%+. I play an awesome game series on my down time called Monster Hunter, and in this game they have armor that has parts that you can customize the color. Now I understand this would be difficult to implement, but I would love to be able to adjust the colors on many pieces of gear due to the lousy color schemes chosen. Medicate effect should be lessened to 5 mins minimum.

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We will try and look into ways that corsair bullets can be obtained. Since there are almost no NPCs in Vana'diel who sell bullets, we would first like to look into offering them as items that can be exchange for specific content points or as a reward for Walk of Echoes.

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Please think of RNGs too.

Consider making medication more of an additional attribute with levels of it (similar to TP) rather than a status effect that is simply on or off (similar to amnesia). Certain items boost your medication level by certain amounts, and when you cross the first threshhold, you get a random negative effect. When you cross the second threshhold, you get a more powerful random negative effect. When you reach the third threshhold, you become medicated and cannot use medicine until your medication level decreases far enough. Also make it so /healing moderately increases the speed at which medication decreases. Also make better medicines.

Something you haven't mentioned for item improvement: Make it so some items get a unique tag "no drop" which makes that item impossible to drop. Give each town an NPC who you can trade "no drop" items to, and after about 3 confirmations, he takes and destroys your item. Put this "no drop" tag on all relic, mythic, and empyrean weapons.

make it so that heavy metal bags and coin purses are always the same amount of coins and metals from them

Id like the key item boltmaker to be changed. Its quite pitiful how it is now. It should be the best KI for a woodworker, yet because of the fact that it completely negates any HQ chance, it is a KI that is never used. Maybe change the synth recipes to yield quiver x1 and HQ quiver x2 or something. (Not that many ppl use them anymore but a KI for arrows might be nice to)

how about makin Quietus a decent WS.. Redemption is a shitty empy trial with Chloris in it. So would be nice if the WS @lvl 90 could do atleast the same DMG like Resolution (merit WS) does or ANY other empy WS <.<
Also the mods on it with MND and STR doesnt do anything .. maybe like 100~150 dmg.. i tested almost any gear sets but cant rly make it a good WS.
rly Quietus need to be upgraded!! Almost all GS WS do more dmg then any Scythe WS does (beside catastrophe)

Undroppable items yes. And please speed up the recycle update.

Thiefs knife (lvl 99 version please) , cop rings, zilart earrings.

I really think Relic Weapon's need another look. Mage Relics should be more helpful to mages and DD Relics need to have aftermath and weaponskill modifiers looked at to make it more useful in today's ffxi as well as what is coming up with the new expansion.

How about making the Chains of Promathia Rings scale properly up to level 99?

Raja's for example is STR +2~5 DEX +2~5. It would be really nice to see STR +2~7 DEX +2~7.

A Moogle Kupo d'Etat , A Crystalline Prophecy and A Shantotto Ascension gear upgraded to 99 stats

A lot of the unstackable items like logs, jewels, ores, etc. should be made stackable to 99 as well as crystals to ease the inconvenience of filling up lots of needed inventory slots for crafting and such.

ws belts and torques please make a storage slip for them

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Originally Posted by StingRay104

Please stop giving pup mage gear.

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Seconding this.

Also, in regards to PUP, I'm going to plug my own thread and re-offer some suggestions from it here.
(Original Thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...ators-and-Ammo )

Suggestion 1: Retool the current four animators to have meaningful stats in today's environment
As of right now, the Lv 1 Animator only provides the ability to command the Automaton. The Turbo Animator and Deluxe Animator seemingly provide the same level of control as the Lv 1 Animator with a small boost to Master DEX. The same can be said for Einherjar's Animator +1's Automaton Control, but gives pitifully small bonuses to the Automaton's HP and, if applicable, MP.

Suggestion 2: More animators with actual stats on them
Craftable, winnable, purchasable, Magian-able - it doesn't matter, we need more. Every other job in the game has a plethora of options for gear that can define how the job is played for a particular situation. More animators with actual stats that where we can see the direct benefits will be a great boon to the job.

Suggestion 3: Active Automaton "Plug-Ins"
Right now the only available ammo that fits with the Animator series Ranged Weapon is Automaton Oil. Through use of a new ammo item I've dubbed "Plug-Ins", the Puppetmaster can relay new commands to an active Automaton simply by switching the Plug-In in the ammo slot. (Think of the animator like a Nintendo 64 controller with different Paks, or the P.E.T. from the Mega Man Network Transmission / Rockman.EXE series)

For further explanation, I invite you to read the thread linked above. Thanks!

Give COR and RNG and ****ing break guys. I already have to spend hundreds of thousands of gil just to play the job. I don't want to have to do do some random content crap as well. Why is this issue taking so long to resolve? Is it not completely ridiculous that every other DD job is essentially free to play?

LET ME PLAY MY JOB.

Magian trial for Ridill and black belt thank you!!!!!

You know, random numbers of bullets would be the one kind of 'junk" item that's not useful to everyone but certain players would really appriciate getting in Voidwatch.

Can you make GP items (gear and furniture) storable? Sometimes when you aren't crafting or fishing, they really are just taking up space. The trainee items can all be stored, so it would be nice if our aprons, signboards etc could be stowed as well!!

Thief's Knife should be upgradable to be a reasonable option at 99. Make sure it's tagged Rare and can't be held at the same time as the current Thief's Knife.

Please change Masamune (empyeran) and Amanomurakumo (relic) to a Delay of 438, instead of 437. This may seem minor, but unless it was intended (with regain earring.) the max TP you can get Swing+tick with max Tp armor is 24.9. This is just a cruel, cruel joke.

Kogarasumaru (Mythic) currently has 450, and is enough to get well over 25% a swing (which is why i didn't include)

Or give Increase a Earring to have +2 store TP. Preferably Brutal earring, or Unkai Earring

(I was so happy to see the +1 on the Salvage armor but then saddend to see Usukane Sune-ate+1 was only 9 Store TP) just 1 shy!!

I'd like to see crossbow become useful for RNG again. It's really fallen to the side compared to archery and guns. Besides the relic gun, leave it for CORs.

Why haven't you made old salvage cells stackable?

Do you really enjoy making players toss items over and over because they don't have a lot of free space for this event?
Thats how accidents happen and GM's have to deal with item restorals.

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Originally Posted by Sapphires

Why haven't you made old salvage cells stackable?

Do you really enjoy making players toss items over and over because they don't have a lot of free space for this event?
Thats how accidents happen and GM's have to deal with item restorals.

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Better yet, make them Temp items

Upgrade Ochain to have more than just +5 VIT as the useful stat increase for 90 -> 99. The +5 VIT may add 10 to the magic shield of Rampart, but if I was looking to reduce magic damage, I'd probably have Aegis on anyway. The converts damage to mp upon block already allows you to sustain your HP nearly indefinitely. eg: block for 100 damage, get 25 mp back, cast cure II for 100 and whatnot.

Possible upgrade option being Shield Mastery+1 on 95 and Shield Mastery+2 on the 99.

Give ppl the option to enter assault/salvage solo >_>

Please look at the cooking recipes 100-110. The Smoldering Salsibery(Spelling) Steak should not be outdone by red curry buns. There should be more prominent foods for cooking 100-110. How about some crit hit rate foods with attack and maybe some new accuracy foods. Also, can we get some good foods for mages. No one cares to much about hmp/refresh in this day and age(especially when drinks have such a short duration) with refresh sets. Let see some more substantial mages stats such as MAB, fast cast, quick cast, cure potency(even if it doesn't go over the cap, it opens up new sets). A measly 7 int cream puff is not cutting it especially considering DDs get +23% attack with 7 str(red curry bun). How is this fair? Maybe this change will help bridge the gap between magic damage and physical damage(I doubt it but meh)

Summoner: Let's have some more items that increase avatar attack speed (Moepapa Stone by itself won't do).

Paladin: an Elemental series of Magian trials for shields for non-career PLDs

Bard: Elemental Instrument Magian trials (not sure how the stats should be set or what songs they could affect)

It would be great if Mission rewards could be upgraded to 99 and include a choice of augments.

Mage foods: Let's face it, +MP and +INT/MND stats are just underwhelming at this point. Some of these foods really need to include stats like Cure Potency+, Magic Defense Bonus, Magic Attack Bonus, and Quick Magic+ to get that market moving again. In the case of Summoner, there really needs to be some foods that benefit avatars' performance in battle. For Bards, there needs to be foods that improve their capabilities.

how about some way to combine
-magic obi's into one or two items(ie Hyorin Obi , .etc)
-weapon skill gorgets into one or two items(ie Aqua Gorget , .etc)
-weapon skill Head gear into one or two items(ie Kanja Hachimaki , .etc)
-weapon skill belts into one or two items(ie Thunder Belt , .etc)
-Magian staves into one for each type with all ellements (magic damage,casting time -)/(magic accuracy,recast time)/(Avatar perp. -,blood pact delay-)

Please make it possible to etch more items with Evolith Apertures, and remove many of the restrictions. I understand if there's no time to really improve the Evoliths themselves at this time.

Please make it possible to use items that only have the Rare tag but not the EX tag, when doing Fields of Valor augments. If this is not possible for weapons due to balance issues, please consider this for armor.

Please make Fields of Valor augments more likely to result in positives. Even if not 'strong' stats, at least more Elemental Resistances or status resistances.

Please make food more diverse, add some effects that are more like the ingredients, when ingredients are rarer.

Please make one more level of Shuriken at 79 or so, that stacks to 99. Swamp Ore, Durium Ore, whatever it needs to be, just one more decent Shuriken. Also thank you for improving Ranged Attack activation rate and making this request relevant again.

Please increase the number of items we can upgrade or customize through Synergy. Personalized equipment is very very interesting.

Revitalize the Evolith system. For instance remove the special requirements like vs specific mob or specific weather required and specific element types just making them standardized while also ability to make them more competitive to higher level gear. Also please post a list of all the evolith and which nms they come from since it is mainly guess work with the books not saying what you get from hunts. Also increase the size and types of apetures that can be added to the Evolith specific weapons like Concordia. For instance the third slot on sword which is for magic evolith can only go up to 5 but spell evolith like blu physical magic acc goes up to size 6 not being able to be used

Make it so the ra/ex gear can be augmented form the Fiat Lux fight. Increase damage on nightfall and improved stats on the armor. Also make it possible to campaign warp to strong holds and allow skill ups in campaign with a tiered system with outside citys being lowest cap Rolanberry fields be mid way while stronghold, outlands and in citys being caped skill level.

Revitalize Garrison , and panketron adding better worthwhile rewards and choco racing.

Improve Rudra's storm so it actually does more dmg than 10 year old wses like dancing edge and evisceration. Maybe make it able to crit hit on it's own.

Give Sch access to more mage nuking gear where jobs like smn, brd and even pup can wear MAB and other nuking/mage gear but sch can't

Allow curor accumulation be switched to conquest points, imperial standings, and allied notes at a lower conversion ratte from curor to the three.

Make assault be able to be soloed instead of the required 3 people to enter.

For smn give it a stay command so a smn using favor doesn't have to stand in damage range or have the avatar engaged. Improve light spirit A.I to prioritize cures over haste and such when needed. Blod pacts don't reset timer if mob dies before goes off.

Don't lose tp when try ws on a mob that is out of range.

Give status based margian weapons such as pet effect axes have specific names for macroing in different ones.

A separate inventory just for furniture in moghouse.

Make it so that Medicated status does not affect your ability to use temporary items of any kind.

Ninja edit: Make potions, ethers, and elixirs stack to at least 12.

Enspell Damage on Haste Equipment for RDM and PLD.
Also for Rune Fencer when it comes out so long as it is applicable for the job.

Make Additional Affects from weapons be the highest priority so that weapons with additional affects can be used with Sambas and Enspells. Helps out RDM, PLD, DRK, DNC and even /DNC.

Make ninja stars that make sange an extremely attractive choice.
Make them stack to 99. Make them easier to acquire and make more expensive ones that are better. The requirement isn't to make Throwing as a DPS function on NIN valid, only for Sange to give NIN a Barrage type ability.

Grip-type items for H2H weapons.

Lvl 99: Blunt type Polearms. Slashing type H2H. Slashing Daggers.
It doesn't change your WS properties, but at least you can do something against mobs your job isn't strong against.

Shields for NON-PLDs that people would actually want to use.

Combine Twilight Set with Nocturnus Set.
Because it would be your 'oh shit' armor. If you die....well you'll be getting back up, maybe you'll absorb it instead of dying in the first place. Make it look fancy.

Make it's so that you can upgrade a lvl 99 mythic with the corresponding level 89 job specific weapon. Make 2 different trials for the weapons so that you don't have to have afterglow to upgrade, but also so that you can still upgrade it if you already have an afterglow. Mythics become appropriately strong for the effort that goes into them. Salvage becomes more important over night. Scale effects as is appropriate and keep the amount of effort that goes into the weapons in mind.

Make it so Pulse Type weapons can be added to lvl 99 Empyrean weapons in the same vein as lvl 89 weapons should be added to mythic. You have to get the weapons to 99. Once again, if there is an unreasonable conflict of interest, then scale the effects down so that they are appropriate.

1H relics should be able to be offhanded and keep their attack bonuses and additional affects. Add newer jobs to them.

Campaign revamp along with campaign weapons being able to acquire Campaign WSs outside of Campaign. Make at least 1 Weapon and WS available to every job.

I would like to see food,snacks,drinks and medications changed into different buff categories. This way we can better utilize items and their buffs. For example, we could eat a "meal" say a Meat Mithkabob and that would go under "meal buff" (long lasting effect). We could also eat a "snack", like a ginger cookie due to the fact they only last a few minutes and it would go under a "snack buff". We could have a refreshment like various juices and milks to have its own effect as a "refreshment buff" instead of taking up a regen/refresh slot. Medication should be also be its own buff on items that normally give the medicated status.

Revamp Thief's Knife. Awhile ago you said that you want Thieves to meele in TH+ equipment to take pride in having obtained it, or whatever the wording was. Well, I take no pride at all having to even keep in my inventory a dagger with half of Mandau's D rating. Put haste on TH+ armors whilst you're at it.

Change Raphael's Rod to give "Raise III" - would make that junk half useful for emergencies in low-low man events (dynamis, BCNMs, even Slavage) where a mage is either wasted party slot or gets killed off by random AoE, whilst locked in 'raising up' animation.

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Originally Posted by Heimdall

A separate inventory just for furniture in moghouse.

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This would be so awesome and make this taru very very happy. ^^

Can we please finally have the Rajas ring and Tamas ring scale with level to 99?

For that matter can we have the TOAU rings and other items like the ZM earrings get a boost too? I don't care if that means you have to continue the story or something and create new final chapters for 99 content. I just think they should not get burried with all the other gear from 75 considering it wasn't just any normal sort of equipment.

The 3 add on scenario gear pieces deserve to be updated even more than all of the previous. For those of us who bought the add ons for $30 total when they first came out we were robbed of our money as the gear is only good for just about a few pet combinations. Not to mention the challenge some of those fights brought at 75 was fun. Not too easy, and not too hard (even though some people complained it was).

The final quest line Wings of The Goddess rings could be updated. After all the hardship, battles, losses, sorrow, joy, and triumph we went through with our/the nations of the Crystal War Era. It is a shame we have such whimpy rings after all of our toil.

Increase the area range on the Nexus cape. Maybe make it a 12 hour recast too.

Either a storage slip for the elemental WS affinity gorgets, obis, and belts or allow them through some task to be combined like with the Prism Staff.

Being able to use the delivery box for sending currency to characters within the same account would be awesome too. Too often do my mules get currency or do I wish they could hold all my currency, and I have to have some third party trade it to my mules for me.

Stackable salvage cells or even as Mekoto suggested, make them temp items.

Soulplates stacking to 99.

Evoliths are just about useless and could use some updating as well as the means of acquiring them.

A new Kraken Cub that is just as ridiculous to obtain as the last one.

Some way of obtaining the colored chocobo dyes besides with chocobucks.

You know while I am at it please do something with the chocobo circuit. If synergy furnaces were not in the zone then it would be one of the most underused or maybe even the least used zone in the game. Porter moogles, AH, a system of betting on chocobos that people actually want to participate in, etc.

I personally would like to see ophamalos bullets as a pouch that produces a singular ra/ex ophamalos bullet

Add SAM to Kokou's Earring
Add PUP to Letalis and Atheling Mantles and various other light armor pieces
Add WAR to Hoarfrost Blade
Add RDM to Maniacus Sash
Add RDM to Searing Cape
Morrigan's Pigaches +1 have less MND than Morrigan's Pigaches
Allow Ducal Guard's Ring to be recharged/reobtained
Vivid Strap +1 from 1% -> 2% fast cast
Rounsey Wand -> not 168 hours

off topic but still in the would be nice field: upgrade system for the voidwalker rings
i'm sure i'll think of more in the next few days.

Biggest issue with the Salvage update as a Hvergelmir SMN... the removal of the MP+% from the Marduk +1 set.
Increase the amount of Store TP on Usukane Haramaki +1 (it only got +1 STP from NQ to +1).
Make Caller's Bracers +2 worth something outside Mana Cede.
Add a Head that either increases Blood Pact damage or Increases Avatar/Pet Attack.
Add SCH to Roundel Earring.