New weapons with higher base damage then relics

[Demon6324236]

I mean, they put MND and INT in monk head gear ><.

CHI BLAST BUILDS GO!!!!!


No really though, I think its to early to speak for sure if the gear is worthless, some pieces are sure to be good for some jobs if nothing else, if we can only have a single augment then it will suck from that standpoint, but I thought it looked like you could get multiple upgrades on it past a single path. Then again, I admit, due to the fact I have not done either of the Pre-Reqs(because the swords were not better than Excalibur, and I didn't care much about the other gear) I never paid attention really, so if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me. On the other hand, I do think they look kinda bleh to start with, then again, I mainly looked at RDM's gear like normal and hated almost every bit of it.

[Kojo]

people asked mob that deal magic melee dmg for RUN to have some use, here is SE answer!!

people are worried because craftable weapon destroy everything? don't worry about anybody getting it, main synth math only drop from fracture BOSS, need some other rare synth (like meeble boss drop)


I think the step is too big, totally destroy dmg balance (/goodbye caster/pet), make the enmity fix useless (mele with new weapons will cap as fast as before change) and it come too soon (most people haven't got a chance to enter skirmish yet )

RUN has no use on that, even with yesturday's buff (and Liement nerf), RUN still can't take moderate physical nor moderate to heavy magic damage. I'm more depressed about RUN than I am the weapons.

[Asymptotic]

We had a RUN when we killed the Jagil but I think my Automaton was more useful

[Kojo]

We had a RUN when we killed the Jagil but I think my Automaton was more useful

With 3x Sulpor and Barwater up, I get 249 Water resist, Qoofim's added effect was still doing 50~ damage. If all that didn't completely negate the added effect, RUN is not yet ready to tank.

[Asymptotic]

The Jagil constantly switches elements - It wouldn't be easy for a RUN to keep up with it

Aegis 4eva

[MarkovChain]

I don't think enspells are effected by magic evasion. Anyway, I forgot to add the failures of GEO and RUN into the expansion. But I think everyone forgot about those 1 day after the VU ?

[Kojo]

The Jagil constantly switches elements - It wouldn't be easy for a RUN to keep up with it

Aegis 4eva

Then that would require several different runes which only give 54 resist. Not good enough.

[Afania]

This is the real issue for me. Partner and I logged on after maintenance last night and we just asked each other, "So what do we do now?" We were working on my Ryunohige and he was about to start another relic, but those options seem somewhat pointless now. Granted the polearm doesn't have a crafted version (why is this?) but to expend all that effort...I don't have it in me nor do I expect the same from him.

Yesterday's update has completely shifted the goalposts, so to speak. All previous gear targets have been rendered uneconomical for most people looking to do their best in their chosen jobs. Dynamis has been dealt a colossal blow in one single day and I'm not sure it will recover. Sure, it was the go-to route for easy money and we could have guessed it'd be challenged at some point, but not like this. I've seen currency prices fall overnight and I've had trouble selling it this past week anyway. Looks like it won't shift at all now.

Salvage is looking pretty unprofitable right now. A lot of the +1 pieces are sidegrades anyway and now some of them just aren't worth the effort. Alexandrite supply will dry up and possibly collapse, so there goes progress for anyone currently working on a Mythic, unless we want to farm the 30,000 pieces ourselves (it's not happening). Good time to start reducing the alexandrite requirement, SE? Sure, you'll annoy current Mythic holders but you can't honestly expect people to commit to such an undertaking when they can buy something better than a Mythic on the auction house.

Seriously, that's one major butt hurt reason that you just can't get over with "Ohh, just go farm new weapon in new content, and get over it". Even if players do go farm new weapon anyways, most probably won't get over it.

I've been working for a Mythic(starting from scratch) since 2009, and planned to finish in 5 years. I farm dynamis about 3 times a week because that's the most I can spent in FFXI per week. I'm hoping after it's done it's going to be the best weapon in game that only have a few ppl across the server has, because that's how the game was when I started the project in 2009...ppl spent 4 years on relic to get the best weapon. And that's the real reason why I'm willing to spend that many years+majority of my free time on FFXI. If Mythic is completely useless, I wouldn't bother to invest YEARS of time that I could be spent on other games/rl job to get a pixel item.

I wouldn't give a shit about R/E/M being replaced if Mythic is obtainable in 1 month by avg players. In fact I don't give a shit if my lv 85 empy is replaced. But if you want players to spend years on getting a pixel item in video game, you better make it worthwhile.

I think the last thing SE shouldn't do, is to lower the difficulty to obtain them. If R/E/M is shit, then the only value is the rare-ness of it. If they're going to make it easy to obtain, then it lost the only remaining value in this game. However, I do believe they should make alex farmable solo, it just takes longer. Maybe make alex drop rate 1/3 but soloable? At least whoever want to finish Mythic still has a mean to finish it with dedication.

And tbh, if SE make Mythic another 1 month grind replaceable weapon after update, I probably won't stay in FFXI this long to begin with, like every other MMO I've played. A super rare awesome weapon that takes years to build, and only a few person have one across all servers, is what makes this game interesting, IMO.

[Asymptotic]

Then that would require several different runes which only give 54 resist. Not good enough.

It does switch in a predictable order at least

[SpankWustler]

We had a RUN when we killed the Jagil but I think my Automaton was more useful

To the automaton's credit...

Nutcracker had trained for years to crush the crotch and/or obliterate the ovaries of each and every monster in Vana'diel. Not even some weird thing that fish have called a "cloaca" could stem his robotic rage towards reproductive bits.