Since no one seems to have posted yet: Final LB fight

[Mifaco]

You want easy mode? Go on BST, call Gooey Gerard, and spam Dawn Mulsums for an instant win. Good luck, the other 19 jobs!

[Koroma]

IE use gil toss to win though im tottally fine with this.

[Luvbunny]

You want easy mode? Go on BST, call Gooey Gerard, and spam Dawn Mulsums for an instant win. Good luck, the other 19 jobs!

Yay, finally!! Easy easy breezy mode for instant win Good thing I have been stocking on white honey and apkalu eggs, these will come handy when this stupid limit break comes. Now just need to lvl beast on my other two characters. I wonder if summoner can also do it with dawn muslum strategy?

[Luvbunny]

Stupid to waste all that time to develop 2 versions when the big killer will be congestion. Develop a version for 6 burning circles instead.

Agreed. They should make a version where you can do the bcnm battle, and another version where you just trade 3 items (and 20 merits) or so with no battles. This way if you want to fight you can do it - if you just rather farm and have 20 merits forfeited, you can do it too with no battles needed. This will cut congestion by a great deal and the bcnm will only be done by those who wants some extra challenge.

[Dreamin]

No one is forcing you to get level 99 as fast as you possibly can once the servers open up. You'll have all the benefits of getting level 99 in 2-3 days after than you would get when the servers open up. If you know there is going to be congestion the obvious solution is not to do it right when the servers open.

Waiting a day or two will help and probably make it more enjoyable. If you can't wait a few days and do other new content instead while you wait then there should be no surprises when trying to get into the battlefield. Sure, the congestion will last for more than just a few days but I think people should try to avoid it for the first day or two anyways.

They already explained why they wouldn't split it up between different battlefields, and the reason isn't stupid either. The battlefield area should be important when choosing the scene to fight this battle.

You might want to do some real math 1st. Yes, having people running all over to farm the entry item will lessen congestion @ the BC, but it still have the congestion at the farming point. You ever drive in a highway at rush hour where it goes from 3 lanes of not moving to 2 lanes of not moving? Yeah, it's the same extact issue with trying to spread out congestion - you're only pushing matters up/down and not really solving congestion issues.

My post was the one just above Camate's.

assumed that everyone already gotten the item (it's just another bottleneck). And let's for agrument that all 6k players all line up (it wont in reality). So 6k/6 members/party = 1k parties of ppl who has to enter and let's say for worst case it's 30min allocation for each party. So that would be 1k parties * 30min ~ 30k mins. That would be 500 hrs or 20.8 days of full non stop entry of groups of 6 players 24 hrs a day around the clock. The reality would be much much worst with small groups of people per party. And what if others want to use the BC for other use such as Missions?

[scaevola]

You might want to do some real math 1st. Yes, having people running all over to farm the entry item will lessen congestion @ the BC, but it still have the congestion at the farming point. You ever drive in a highway at rush hour where it goes from 3 lanes of not moving to 2 lanes of not moving? Yeah, it's the same extact issue with trying to spread out congestion - you're only pushing matters up/down and not really solving congestion issues.

The access item will drop from every high-level monster in the world. The farming competition will be less than it was with Kindred Crests at the 80 LB last year.

[Dreamin]

The access item will drop from every high-level monster in the world. The farming competition will be less than it was with Kindred Crests at the 80 LB last year.

Still doesn't make things any less congested at the BC at some point. Unless SE going to make the entry item stupidly low in drop rate so that people would be spending a ton of time farming for the item. Either way, you're still looking at a potently long time before all players on the server will be able to get through because the fastest the BC can process through assuming a 6k active players per server is about 20.8 days of 24hr of non-stop BC usage. [See my original post above Camate's for my assumptions that arrive at those numbers. If SE is smart, then they would make this BC instanced and multiple instanced can happen concurrently. Otherwise, there's no other way but everyone having to go through the congested point at some point in time.]

[scaevola]

Still doesn't make things any less congested at the BC at some point. Unless SE going to make the entry item stupidly low in drop rate so that people would be spending a ton of time farming for the item.

Who cares? Unless you want to hand in more merits for the LB, congestion's unavoidable. If they couldn't easily instance Dynamis, I am sure as hell not going to be bent out of shape that the can't instance a quest BC I am going to do one time and then forget about.

At any rate, the BC congestion will be thinned out not by people getting the initial required drop, but by jumping through whatever farming hoops are necessary for the easy mode I assure you 95% of the playerbase will go for without a second thought.

[xbobx]

Good afternoon fellow players, casuals and elitists alike. I stand humbly before you to offer my words, most will be misspelled, but I ask for forgiveness on that, old brain injury. I have been off for a few days, I made the mistake of criticizing the almighty SE, I must learn to come to terms with the fact that they know all, although ten year olds I coach could have figured out there would be massive backlog if one bc was used, but I digress.

I have been reading comments about the challenge of this fight. It is noble to want to undertake this fight at the highest possible difficulty, but I see very few people here that truly want that. Now I do see many elitists that say they wish that, but is that the real truth?

Focusing on these elite players, I must say this. You hypocrites. Let me explain how this will really play out, and this is not up to debate because this way of doing things have spanned many many years of FFXI on almost every type of content.

These elite players will prepare for battle. Their squires will make sure all their armor is shined and their weapon's edges razor sharp. Time to gather the party. There are many people willing to go to this fight, but the elitist only require specific jobs. No, they cannot just choose any jobs, they must find the set of jobs that will allow them to win this battle as easy as possible, with very little real CHALLENGE. Will the pup and bst get invited, no. How about the dancer that works in the seedy bar living on waistband tips. no. The elitist cannot be seen with such riffraff, because they read in an informative news article that if they go with 4 monks and 2 white mages they will be able to two hour and complete the fight in record time!!

So they ignore all the /tells from all the wrong jobs, and they will gather all the empyrean monks they can find and head up along with some well geared white mages. The fight as expected, posed no challenge to this super setup.

They walk out, heads held high, they have beaten the fight on hard mode. hurrah hurrah the crowd shouts.

That is how it will really play out for all these people shouting for challenge. They will not go up there with a balanced party with a tank, any three damage dealing jobs a healer and support. That would be the real challenge.

Many of you will say, no no no, that is not how it will happen, but history says otherwise.

I bid you goodnight.

[Cybernetic_Empire]

Old brain injury indeed.