Artifact Armor 4 idea

[Nala]

Learn to use reading comprehension before you argue a point. I said no one is excluded from NEW CONTENT - in the way they were excluded from OLD CONTENT due to claiming (which excluded people from kings), cost (which excluded people from relics), and absurd requirements (which excluded people from mythics). Really Pchan, if you can't read properly, don't bother arguing.

I'd have to agree with what you said save for this, yeah claiming isnt a big deal but you are stipulating far too much, there are people/jobs that have been left out to dry with newer content: Samurai, Drgoon, Darknight, Pupetmaster, Scholar, Red Mage, Ranger, Paladin, Beastmaster and Summoner when it comes to abysses are undesirable.

Pup's mage frame between AI issues and proc-able spells which one has no control over, anything a samurai can do a warrior and nin can do and war's a better blood tank then sam,and nin is actually a tank.

Sure dragoon and ranger have blue procs but no one ever purposefully pops/claims during piercing or slash and even if they do just have some one temp job change and come out naked, dark same story as sam, sch and redmage lack higher tier cures and have limited access to proc spells compared to blm/rdm.

Paladin can be out tanked in most cases by a mnk stacking on HP atma or a nin depending on the mob considering once your 100 fisting/katana'n due to wtf haste all you need to do is not miss and youll constantly be the last person to hit => tank. Finally smn and bst just fall in with sam and drk general lack of procs mean they get passed up in the roster.

Bringing 3 nin war and whm to an event not only is your alliance half full but you have the ability to divide and conquer, +3 blm 3 blu, leaves ya with room to invite 3 superfluous jobs, oh wait need a mnk there ya go 2 spaces, oh wait bard for the main tank party? 1 space, know what bring a cor for amber procing and back up buffs. guess we dont have room any more now do we?

Not to mention thief has been stuck in obscurity with the addition to voidwatch which seems to be the content they want to strive towards, TH doesnt increase your max cap for alignment just helps you build it and at a very minor factor, meanwhile SE refuses to give us DD buffs, they want to adjust steal but aurasteal is too powerful, they are too affraid to add items worth steal cause they are afraid we will steal them... considering TH is so overpowering subtle blow is out of the question, and they want us to control hate with half baked abilities.

Point is people who have jobs they consider their mains that aren't an abyssean job are still excluded.

[Leonlionheart]

Dear armor design team. Who plays this game? Me or you? Who should set the stats on armors, me or you?

Answer. Choose your own augments like in the first three mini expansions. Any other options are inferior and only serve to annoy customers until they rage quit for their 5th job specific armor with incorrect stats.

Have a nice day.

I can't think of any AF3 that has incorrect stats...

[Malamasala]

The development team is currently looking into introducing relic equipment +2

Sorry, read that as RELIC, the level 75 armor set, being the topic at hand. And those are kind of whiffy on stats, or are you using your relic war set?

[Leonlionheart]

Any other options are inferior and only serve to annoy customers until they rage quit for their 5th job specific armor with incorrect stats.

5th job specific armor

So if JSE50 is number 1, AF1 is number 2, AF2 is number 3, and AF3 is number 4...

[Kimble]

If people won't bother with abjuration and sky gear synergy augments what makes you think they'll change their mind for salvage augments?

Might just be your server then. Here I see a lot of people trying sky augments. Salvage is something different though. Even before the update on 35 drops. a lot of people cited Salvage is their favorite event to do. Im sure if you could get some good augments from synergy to go along with it, people would take up salvage again.

Only need to know one person with capped (dont think you even need capped) and you are good to go really.

[Malamasala]

So if JSE50 is number 1, AF1 is number 2, AF2 is number 3, and AF3 is number 4...

5 was just a random number I picked. But if you want to make it true, just pretend all + versions also count. I should perhaps have said a gazillion to make it more obvious.

[Fusionx]

Static

Square Enix has been messing around with "gear customization" forever and only once gotten it right... kind of.

Anything involving random augments has been without a doubt one of the worst things in this game. Only Square Enix could take a simple concept such as gear customization/socketing and turn it into something like Evoliths, where you have to camp NMs to get a stone that 1. Is extremely situational in an environment where we want as less situational pieces as possible to save inventory and 2. Can only be used on a fraction of equipment (most of which were inferior before and after evoliths are attached)

Got FoV augments in there somewhere.. secretly I think this was just added to try to give a boost to the economy by having people by a million STR rings to see if they could make them any better. 1/1000 players succeeded. The rest got negative STR and +2 MP

Then we get magian trials, where you can see ahead of time what you'll get so you know if the work and time will actually be worth the effort. With ToM SE successfully created a huge time sink and in the process created what's essentially the only thing to do in FFXI now. Whether or not people do it because they enjoy it, or because they don't have any other choice for the best gear is another discussion.

Sky augments came out, and they said there wouldn't be negative stats. Awesome!.. to bad we still get stupid elemental related augments. Another failed attempt.

Square Enix needs to focus on whatever new (not "revitalized") content they are planning (and more importantly tell us about it) instead of doing what appears to be turning the rest of the game into Abyssea. I've been a huge fan of this game for so long, but if all we're going to get is +2's of older armor and other abyssea elements in every other area of the game I can't see myself enjoying Vana'diel for much longer. Show us something new, show us something exciting, and please give me a reason to log in again.

[MarkovChain]

How many of the random whiners spamed La theine to get their dark earrings/wivre hairpin ¿ Oh look.

[Francisco]

Fistule comes to mind.

Okay, you got me on that one (and Heroes VNMs too).

[Francisco]

How many of the random whiners spamed La theine to get their dark earrings/wivre hairpin ¿ Oh look.

Look at what? You typed an upside down question mark?