new blm spells

[Elexia]

So many tears

I honestly haven't seen anyone crying, I've seen more people annoyed than anything.

[Greatguardian]

Annoyed that they actually have to put forth a modicum of effort to get what they want?

Boo. Hoo.

[Elexia]

Annoyed that they actually have to put forth a modicum of effort to get what they want?

Boo. Hoo.

Yep, that's exactly it!

Edit: Since you're not the type to pick up on sarcasm, I bet you believe Emps on Chloris path have no reason to complain despite Gun and GSD for example only need 2 NMs to spawn their Item collection NM.

"You have to do extra work for what you want boo hoo"

There's a difference between extra work for what you want than having to do something for no reason other than just to be an annoyance. Why does it take 4-5 NMs to pop Chloris versus 2 to pop Carabosse? Things that like versus "Why could I buy almost all of my other new spells from NPCs or get them very easily then all of a sudden I now have to do "x event"?

If you haven't caught onto SE's pattern by now, you'll easily take anything they do and be happy with it. Sadly, not everyone else feels that way and why XI doesn't have a large player base, not because people would "cry about difficulty" but because a lot of direction for certain things is just..plain to annoy people.

HKC Arenas clearly weren't that popular.

[Rearden]

Chloris is pretty tough

[Greatguardian]

Yep, that's exactly it!

Edit: Since you're not the type to pick up on sarcasm, I bet you believe Emps on Chloris path have no reason to complain despite Gun and GSD for example only need 2 NMs to spawn their Item collection NM.

"You have to do extra work for what you want boo hoo"

There's a difference between extra work for what you want than having to do something for no reason other than just to be an annoyance. Why does it take 4-5 NMs to pop Chloris versus 2 to pop Carabosse? Things that like versus "Why could I buy almost all of my other new spells from NPCs or get them very easily then all of a sudden I now have to do "x event"?

If you haven't caught onto SE's pattern by now, you'll easily take anything they do and be happy with it. Sadly, not everyone else feels that way and why XI doesn't have a large player base, not because people would "cry about difficulty" but because a lot of direction for certain things is just..plain to annoy people.

HKC Arenas clearly weren't that popular.

Ironically, I have both Armageddon and Verethragna. I'm not complaining, and I never did. These HKC fights are also stupid amounts of easy. Like, to the point where all I can do is laugh my ass off at the people who are unwilling to even bloody try the fights with a small group of people and see how they go. My buddies and I are spam clearing the HKCNM30s with 3 minute wins with absolutely no difficulty.

If people are seriously so absolutely, positively ingrained with laziness that they won't even bother to get up and try the fights, then they deserve to be stuck paying the crappy AH rate. But by all means, keep it up, because all it means is more gil for me and mine.

[Elexia]

Chloris is pretty tough

I know right?

[Siiri]

What's the approximate rate of the comet drop? I am seeing a lot of 0/6 from groups going. On Bismark no scrolls are up yet for any new blm spells. Has thunder V been found yet?

[MDenham]

Has thunder V been found yet?

According to one of Asura's local mouthbreathers, pots in Sky.

My response was "Come on, make it believable. If they dropped off pots, it'd be the Sentient Carafes in Fei'Yin."

[Runespider]

SE just annoying players for absolutely no reason at all. The spells listed they haven't done in years, it's like expecting them to suddenly throw new cor die into bcnms even though you can buy pretty much..most if not all of them from Nash or Zahbi, that's the thing, it's not the fact it's moved to a BCNM or whatever, it's the fact there was no reason to do as such with basic spell progression. Comet I can understand if it completely changes the job like Phalanx and Refresh did, but it doesn't, it's only a novelty spell in the end which I guess is why they did it.

Main thing all this shows to me is the influence again of Tanaka and that the game is now firmly moving back to the old ways, rare drops in very limited supply to make sure not everyone will get them. Scrolls and armors are first but endgame will slowly start to shift back to the minority too, I can even now see HNM with disgustingly long windows making a comeback under this new leadership. I laughed at the 1500 plate emp upgrades with minor enhancments too.

FFXI all open access is slowly being phased out, i'm not sure how I feel about the game going back to old ways but I know most people are going to baulk at the game going back to the tiny minory having access to a lot of things, for instance it just used tobe accepted that most people would never ever get certain items...but i'm not sure that will go across well with how they have run XI for the past few years. Also yes I know these BCNM aren't that hard but it is definately a sign of a change in direction for FFXI.

[Vortex]

According to one of Asura's local mouthbreathers, pots in Sky.

My response was "Come on, make it believable. If they dropped off pots, it'd be the Sentient Carafes in Fei'Yin."

I'v fought those for half a day and nothing of value drops off them, of course there is always that low drop rate chance but i'v fought maybe 30 of them and nothing, probably not from them.