I feel like Delve just made 90% of the Adoulin content irrelevant

[Oceanz]

Got news for you, new gear usually makes some of the old gear irrelevant. If it didn't there'd be no reason to do it or get it.

New content is generally released tuned with hgiher difficulty. You get old best gear to be able to challenge the content to get new best gear, then later you use the new best gear to have a prayer at getting newer best gear.

It does create a bit of a power creep issue but at the same time i hate content that offers nothing but sidegrades/macro pieces. i don't want to have to lug around 70 pieces of armor to play a single job at an event.

I'm so certain your actual job and profession is to be on these forums and defend the Dev team regardless of what they say and do. They could delete your own character for lolz and you would defend them and find some way of arguing you had it coming.

It just infuriates me more that SE needs to hire people to "balance" the opinion on their forums - because i am just so certain you are paid to white knight everything SE says and does.

[Umichi]

Here lemme chime in tar!

To be fair SE does own his character so if they feel like deleting it it's their choice...

[Karah]

I'm so certain your actual job and profession is to be on these forums and defend the Dev team regardless of what they say and do. They could delete your own character for lolz and you would defend them and find some way of arguing you had it coming.

It just infuriates me more that SE needs to hire people to "balance" the opinion on their forums - because i am just so certain you are paid to white knight everything SE says and does.

ALL OF MY LIKES EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.

[Kaeviathan]

Greetings,

Below is a comment from Producer Akihiko Matsui in regards to the recent version update.

I wanted to do the new content from the expansion since it's release, but that all changed since The update. It's not the level of dificulty that bothers me, but rather that the new content hasn't really inspired me to "want" to do any of it.

I don't mind the damage increase given to weapons that currently surpasses any R/M/E, SE must have their reasons (I recently obtained my first ever legendary weapon after playing the game for more than six years). But I think the SUDDEN inclusion and presentation of these new weapons was not an appropriate decision. This gives the impression that the time and effort that developers gave in creating colonization and reives was in vain. Again, not a good decision even by a company that's been making games for years, these resources went waste unless an update is implemented in respond to this loss. Probably if these Weapons and equipment were given more time before the new update was Introduced, these items wouldn't have felt to be a waste. I WANTED TO TEST THE GREAT KATANA THAT ENHANCES SKILLCHAIN, BUT THE NEW CONTENT HAS MADE THAT WEAPON OBSOLETE IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. Now, let's say I do the new content and obtained new weapons or gears introduced in the new update, should I be concerned that these equipment become obsolete in a short period of time as well?

Aesthetically speaking, new equipments are unappealling, and I've been very vocal about this. Not sure if the eastern culture disagree, but I'm pretty confident that most of us with western influence will find this to be true. Remember, it's not all about stats, appearances is also considered.

But I'm REALLY glad to hear that the looting system has changed prior to the accustomed extremely rare drop from VW. I am also pleased that there are no atmacites, TARGET WEAKNESS, or temporary items involve in any of these events (Or is there?).

[Kaeviathan]

My apologies for the post to be long and unorganized, but I typed this via cellphone with limited battery supply. I'll reorganize it later when I get home.

[Umichi]

But if you look at it from their perspective they said this will be a lvl 99'ers paradise the whole continent is intended to be endgame for all levels and manners of play. And they recently stated that they are done with high end content for now and plan on working on low man stuff for example I'm every interested in monstrosity and moogle island thingy.

[Masamune11]

The main problem is that it's easier to earn the Delve gear than the lower level gear Naakual / Skirmish gear.

Any player can get into a leech party and defeat 6 delve NMs and obtain all the key items they need to have the ability to purchase all delve equipment. Then the leech players can get into a medium size party and fight easy Delve NMs over and over again until they have enough points to buy delve equipment / weapons.

Or they could spend hours upon hours earning 100k bayld to fight a naakual for the chance to obtain the gear they want, rinse and repeat many many times, spend days upon days fighting mobs for skirmish drops and weeks upon weeks trying to earn upgraded skirmish weapons all of which are completely inferior to the equipment and weapons one could easily purchase with Delve.

To make matters worse, Delve has absolutely zero connection to the coalition system. 90% of the expansion is the coalition system and it was made irrelevant within a month.

To be honest, I felt everything was going smoothly before delve was added. You should have just made skirmish easier to enter and added more Naakual fights. Delve made everything else in the game meaningless.

In addition, why release uber powerful weapons before having developed and implemented the system to upgrade your relics, myths, emps and coin weapons? Wouldn't it make sense to release them at the same time? All of these problems that are occurring were completely foreseeable.

[Kraggy]

so many different ways to play a job have been introduced over the years lol but min/maxers imho crushed all that.

Got to totally agree with that, min/maxers infest all MMOs of course, but FFXI was seriously damaged by them, more than the others I play.

[scaevola]

But if you look at it from their perspective they said this will be a lvl 99'ers paradise the whole continent is intended to be endgame for all levels and manners of play. And they recently stated that they are done with high end content for now and plan on working on low man stuff for example I'm every interested in monstrosity and moogle island thingy.

whee useless distractions

[Tokiro]

I remember when I wanted to get to Sky because there were new mobs and quests and other content that I could only dream about. Of course, there was equipment, too, but I will never forget the day I arrived in that floating castle. The same thing happened with Sea. It was such a struggle to get the missions finished and I had to farm gil and go at NMs to get the stuff I needed to even have a stab at them. But I wanted to, because I wanted to see the new areas and see how the missions ended.

Why do I want to do the Adoulin content? I don't. I don't want the strongest weapons. Why? Because other than in that content, there is no need for them. Yeah, I can run around Jeuno or Western Adoulin looking really cool and getting gasps of 'He's got that new piece!' But, I am not interested in that.

As a rant, I have to let SE know (even if it is on a forum that I doubt anyone will have the time to read judging by the lack of thought that went into the new content), that I hated RPGs until I played FF11. I never even touched one. FF11 was different for me because it had a backbone. Things were a-brewin' and if I didn't get gear good enough to kill that dragon, heads were going to roll. It was fun, but it was important. Now the only thing that is important is the gear. Get new disc, download update, get gear, run around the place with said gear. I don't want gear just to get more gear.

End of rant.