New Roadmap and FFXI's direction

[Kimble]

Nah looks like it gets better.

The development team is pleased to announce that Mr. Mizuki Ito, director of the Abyssea series of battle area add-ons and creator of a wide range of battle content to date, will be taking over the helm as director of FINAL FANTASY XI.

Assisting him as associate director will be Mr. Yoji Fujito, known to players as the creator of the Trial of the Magians and chocobo raising systems.


So wait, whats this, the guy who was the director of Abyssea is now the Director of FFXI as a whole? So that means the guy that gave us abyssea is most likely the same guy that gave us Voidwatch? BUT THIS CAN NOT BE.

This changed happened Dec 2010. Matsui was moved to FFXIV Battle combat system so maybe that is what Wish was thinking of.

[Leonlionheart]

If he's the reason for all of these new fugly as sin armor designs, fire him now.

I like them barring the hats and toci's

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I like them barring the hats and toci's

Did you see that pic at the bottom of the new update info? -_-

[Luvbunny]

They need to fix this hamster wheel type of activities... 1500 metal plates are not OK!! Abyssea is one of the best expansion to date, they should continue with this style and not revert back to "lazy programming". It's sad that they decided to run FFXI to the ground and kill it after doing something really great. How dumb can you be as a company to kill your golden goose?? Sorry but I have no interest in playing FF14 after seeing how "great" they do in burning down that franchise.

[Leonlionheart]

Did you see that pic at the bottom of the new update info? -_-

I think they look great

[Atomic_Skull]

Nearly every job has some use in voidwatch.

THF doesn't. RNG can already bring TH3 and proc it easily to 6 and doesn't have to be in AOE range to do it. Anything higher than TH3 is too small to be noticeable anyway.

[Leonlionheart]

TH is said not to affect anything but the light build, in which case there's no need for it if you don't suck at procs.

So yeah, THF is pretty damned useless. Sub PLD and bring a shield.

[Atomic_Skull]

They need to fix this hamster wheel type of activities... 1500 metal plates are not OK!! Abyssea is one of the best expansion to date, they should continue with this style and not revert back to "lazy programming". It's sad that they decided to run FFXI to the ground and kill it after doing something really great. How dumb can you be as a company to kill your golden goose?? Sorry but I have no interest in playing FF14 after seeing how "great" they do in burning down that franchise.

I think 1500 metal plates is just fine. It's a very difficult quest, as it should be for an ultimate weapon. If you don't want to do it just settle for the lvl 90 version which is still a very good weapon and fairly easy to obtain.

[Leonlionheart]

1500 metal plates is not fine at the current drop rate. 500 would be more than enough at the current drop rate, would still take about the length of a relic, but just wouldn't be the gil investment (since you've had to spend gil elsewhere more than likely depending what emp you have).

Plus, when VW inevitably dies (and it will when the people leading the runs get the gears) the price and rarity of the plates will spike up, similarly to how Alexandrite has behaved.

[Atomic_Skull]

1500 metal plates is not fine at the current drop rate.

I think it is.

Plus, when VW inevitably dies (and it will when the people leading the runs get the gears) the price and rarity of the plates will spike up, similarly to how Alexandrite has behaved.

It won't die so long as there is a market for the plates similar to how Dynamis is still active because there is a huge market for the currency. Unlike salvage it's simple enough to just spam a high tier VW mob all day for plates. People don't do Salvage for alaxandrites because there really aren't that many Mythic upgraders to begin with and it's a fairly complex event compared to Dynamis and VW.