New 99 trials

[Damane]

The dumbest idea that is coming out of the "it's not that bad camp" is that people not working on a relic would be willing to do ADL every day for a month. Let alone a year.

There is a word for thows:

Hypocrites

[Zinato]

Seriously, does noone even THINK about WHY SE chose to do it like this?

I have a theory why they did this, They are pushing the game back into a competitive state where players take advantage of other players, or constantly complete for pops and drops, building anger between them. As long as players hate each other the people at SE probebly think they will fall off the player radar. Notice they didn't seem nearly as publicly hated back when 75 was big, players then start working together for a common goal 76+ they start turning on SE. Pro tip: Funding an MMOs development via the revenue of its subscriptions is a good idea, pushing it elsewhere is not. (Though that decision may have come from above the FFXI team.)

The other theory which I once thought was a joke, (may be more serious then I thought) is they make FFXI fail until XIV looks more appealing.

[Insaniac]

Every time I say "There's no way SE is stupid enough to..." the following phrase is something they inevitably turn out to be stupid enough to do. I have said "There is no way SE is stupid enough to try and get people to play one of their MMOs by making them hate their other MMO." quite a few times. So, it's probably true.

[cidbahamut]

The simpler explanation would just be gross incompetence, but I suppose SE is the exception rather than the rule.

[Kristal]

The clones dont drop items...killing clones prolong the fight, a fight that realistically can only be won while your melee are under the effect of Perfect Defense, so you've only got 90 seconds.

Would you skip your dynamis farming time to instead go farm and pop ADL every single day?

Keep in mind there are several changes in stores, some of which should make the fight less of a zerg. Reduction of aoe damage to untargetted players and pets, for instance. If the fight can be done without relying on 1 specific 2-hour ability, and there's a system in place to increase UM drops, then there's no reason to change the planned trial requirement.

As for farming and popping ADL each day.. yes, I would. Even if it takes months and I'd have to solo or PUG every last pop item so my ADL pops can be zerged once or twice a week. Those moogles can stick stage 2 where the sun doesn't shine, though. Not gonna fork over 2~20 bilion gil, even if I had it...

[Nynja]

The changes to aoe dmg are vw only afaik.

[Insaniac]

The changes to aoe dmg are vw only afaik.

Yeah, Since they posted a specific list of mobs in VW and not even all VW mobs just the top tier NMs in each path I would imagine it's only the specifically listed mobs

[Nynja]

And youre going to essentially stop farming dynamis, stop upgrading any AF2+2 u want to upgrade, stop farming easy currency...to spend the next year pushing everyones relics to 99 for no benefit to yourself?

Bull...

[Nala]

blah... I don't know when you fell off the reason tree Kristal, but as of late no matter the thread i can't help but think you should apply your signature to yourself.

[saevel]

Hope to not disappoint you, but NCSoft has asked for a permanent and temporary injunction on TERA. Since Bluehole the korean developers were found guilty to have stolen codes in Korea. Seems the people that made that game are ex-employees that were working on Lineage 3 and when NCSoft shelved the project they stole artwork, codes, hardware to make this game. Some of the devs in Korea received jail time.

Umm no one over here in SK has received jail time, maybe if they were in the USA. At the worst it'll be a few million won (1 USD = 1100 KRW) fine and a suspended jail sentence.

IP aren't particularly well respected in the corner of the planet.