New Roadmap and FFXI's direction

[Alhanelem]

and the new guy in charge thinks 1500 iron plates is ok.

So? The old guy in charge thought 30000 alexandrite and ~18000 dynamis currency was OK.

I kinda think we were kidding ourselves if we thought it was going to stay "kill one NM 25-50 times." Apparently this is how they decided to balance the work level of the empyreans against the mythics and relics.

[Leonlionheart]

So? The old guy in charge thought 30000 alexandrite and ~18000 dynamis currency was OK.

I kinda think we were kidding ourselves if we thought it was going to stay "kill one NM 25-50 times." Apparently this is how they decided to balance the work level of the empyreans against the mythics and relics.

How is it even remotely balanced to relics?

You can get a relic95 for what, 150m now, straight buying it and spending a handful of days on the trials (Probably about the same amount of time on those trials as on the pre-trials for emps).

To completely buy yourself into lets say a Verethragna 95, it would cost between 175mil and 225mil, assumign 100k plates, and 500k KI popsets(Not rare on asura, specially for chloris popsets). You'd be lucky to find an abundance of 100k plates.

Mythics are still the worst at 300~600mil and 9months of work

[Atomic_Skull]

You can get a relic95 for what, 150m now, straight buying it and spending a handful of days on the trials (Probably about the same amount of time on those trials as on the pre-trials for emps).

To completely buy yourself into lets say a Verethragna 95, it would cost between 175mil and 225mil, assumign 100k plates, and 500k KI popsets(Not rare on asura, specially for chloris popsets). You'd be lucky to find an abundance of 100k plates.

Mythics are still the worst at 300~600mil and 9months of work

This is why I think that the 95-99 stage for relics is going to be "bring back a 10k byne bill, a stripeshell and a goldpiece"

[Insaniac]

This is why I think that the 95-99 stage for relics is going to be "bring back a 10k byne bill, a stripeshell and a goldpiece"

I would RMT my character for a 1 way ticket to Japan and some black market C4.

[wish12oz]

So? The old guy in charge thought 30000 alexandrite and ~18000 dynamis currency was OK.

The way I understand it is, there was a guy, we'll call him Mr.X, Mr.X was in charge of FFXI for a long long time, then when FF14 really went into development he got moved to be in charge of that, and a new guy, Mr.Y, came in and made the last of the stuff leading up to and including abyssea. After 14 came out and bombed, Mr.X got moved back to FFXI and Mr.Y got moved to 14. So the guy who decided the # of alex and the amount of ancient currency required for relics/mythics, and is responsible for all 'old' FFXI endgame content is actually the same guy who made voidwatch, is making all the new content, is updating all the old content, and decided on 1500 iron plates. My complaint is that this guy (Mr.X) is now back in charge and is destroying all the good progress FFXI had made.

People don't even know what the new events are, hell they don't even have a provisional name for the dungeon crawling event and people are already crying about it.

This event that's supposedly coming out soon doesn't have a name, if they can't even come up with a name, they probably still can't figure out a good drop system and I have no confidence it will be fun more then 10 times, and based on everything else Mr.X has done in the past, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's all going to be bad, and there's a 99% chance I will be right.

[hideka]

So? The old guy in charge thought 30000 alexandrite and ~18000 dynamis currency was OK.

I kinda think we were kidding ourselves if we thought it was going to stay "kill one NM 25-50 times." Apparently this is how they decided to balance the work level of the empyreans against the mythics and relics.

ummm didnt they put tanaka back in charge before the 1500 ironplates update came out? the same guy who made 30000 alex and 180k currencys to begin with ?