For anyone wondering this is what the new events look like

[hiko]

I personally have not had much problem when looking for one, but thats me, in either case it would be nice if spots popped on your map telling you where battles were, as it would help people gather for them rather than wandering, I use BST to do this since you can see the actual targets on WS but thats just me. As for people saying its to hard, I just basically soloed a Lair Reive, so I find it hard to believe its to hard, rather its to easy for pet jobs to abuse, because if I had chosen to I could have stayed back and never gotten myself or my pet hit, rather some extra people joined which helped damage a bit, but thanks to my idiocy I attacked, and it got me killed, if it were just me alone I would have never died or even gotten scratched.

The way I did this is by abusing the small area where the mobs roam, by staying just outside of their aggro range but within the area of participation, by doing so I was able to send a Falcor in to attack without getting hate, the mobs nearby never attacked Falcor or me, letting us destroy a Wasp nest without any defensive measures taken against me or my pet.

pet enmity seems bugged ( people getting hate @ the first move they make) and imo that's why they don't get attacked by mobs
+mobs have some kind of alliance hate here's what hapen to us:
players A,B,C dead middle of agro with raise ready; players D,E alive(weakened) in "safe spot"; player F(weakened) sneak invi to other side of area, -ga mobs
=>players A,B,C gets up and run to safe spot with players D,E; player F die
=>monsters run and kill players D,E (standing other side of area)

If they made the radius bigger, this very same thing would be even easier to perform, so I understand some of why its so small. Rather than do it how they did I would have liked them to simply make all of the Reive mobs Tsight or Tsound since right now I could only do that thanks to sneak/invis, allowing me to deploy my Falcor without being detected.

no because pet command also have a range, just need to make agressive range > max cast/ja range,

[Demon6324236]

no because pet command also have a range, just need to make agressive range > max cast/ja range,

They have a range but what does that matter? I was able and am still able to deploy a Falcor, walk into the Reive, Jig, use Fight so he will attack, and then stand back for 30 minutes while he destroys it, just far enough back that I can not be aggroed, but close enough I am not removed from the battle. If they make the aggro range that large then it would mean every enemy automatically would aggro anyone who moves into range of a lair Reive, which is horrible because there would be no ability to pull mobs out to fight, it would be a requirement no matter what to have a PLD to go in first because otherwise you would all die.

[SinisterJoint]

Progressive content, do some Abyssea, get Perle, use that till you have Emp+2, use that till you get some more varied options to make a good TP and WS build for your DD of choice, after that go out and grab some PDT gear, like the Back from the Roc in Abyssea-Tah, or the Belt from Turul in Abyssea-Kon. With that you already will have 3 basic important sets for a job, it takes not to long to get, and you have not yet experienced this content if you have no gear from it. To expect to jump right in and do the expansion seems a bit off.

Probably the dumbest thing I have ever heard,

So unless you have emp+2 and another set of armor....just don't buy the expansion? Gotcha

Regardless, my tidbit is yes they are a little over the top. Something like this which is all over and prevents movement through a map SHOULD NOT EVER NEVER REQUIRE a select few jobs to be successful (blu/pld) and these pretty much do.

Mages get the sharft as well, spell DD yields crap rewards and healing yields nothing at all.... another half-assed, incomplete expansion release. for shame

[Crusader81]

UPDATE**

Phoenix apparently caught up to the other servers and now it's once an hour zerg fest 30 sec battle, with the opposite problem. Just can't win.

[saevel]

And people thought this would be any other way? Have you people not learned by previous expansions, don't expect any real content until July.

[Obysuca]

And people thought this would be any other way? Have you people not learned by previous expansions, don't expect any real content until July.

SE themselves even said that, "by summer" most of the content will be out

[HimuraKenshyn]

UPDATE**

Phoenix apparently caught up to the other servers and now it's once an hour zerg fest 30 sec battle, with the opposite problem. Just can't win.

Its really not low man content even a party/alliance can be overwhelmed without a pally tanking low man. On the other hand when to many peeps engage the fights are over in a blink barely can move or engage a mob to get any pts went from less than 12 fighting in the afternoon to what felt like the entire server Saturday night the difference was night and day...

[Obysuca]

Its really not low man content even a party/alliance can be overwhelmed without a pally tanking low man. On the other hand when to many peeps engage the fights are over in a blink barely can move or engage a mob to get any pts went from less than 12 fighting in the afternoon to what felt like the entire server Saturday night the difference was night and day...

This morning, you couldn't find a reive going on because of the amount of people, right when it turned noon, it was the opposite, couldn't find people lol

[SNK]

Phoenix apparently caught up to the other servers and now it's once an hour zerg fest 30 sec battle, with the opposite problem.
this is a shot between battles, just hundreds of ppl sitting around waiting.

Because there isn't more then one reive in the zone at any givin time.

[Demon6324236]

Probably the dumbest thing I have ever heard,

So unless you have emp+2 and another set of armor....just don't buy the expansion? Gotcha

You make it sound like that is hard to get, like I am saying you have to go through months of work to finally touch even the basics of Adoulin, I'm not. Rather what I am saying is you have to work on some gear, work your way up, Adoulin is supposed to be some of the hardest content in the game right now I'm sure, to think you can just jump in without doing older, easier events to gear us is fairly dumb in my opinion. I am sorry if you bought an expansion made for lv99 characters and thought you could go out and start playing it at 99 with Pink or Perle, but thats not how a game should be designed. As I said, its progressive content, you do one piece of content which gets you better so you can do another piece of content. That is how many games work, and its not a bad design, because it often keeps all of your content ok so long as it has a place. Like for instance, CoP is a piece of this content, because it is something you do for Rajas Ring, the rest of that expansion is mostly worthless now, but that one thing keeps the entire mission line and story as an essential piece of the game almost all players have done or will do at some point in their time on this game.