Follow-up: Level 99 Relic, Mythic, Empyrean, and Walk of Echoes Weapons

[Insaniac]

Is there gonna be some sort of horrible task we have to do for these upgrades or are they just gonna happen? I'm conflicted on which I would prefer cause I feel like I've already done a crap load of work for my 2 99s but handing people top tier weapons capable of challenging "level 20" content undermines the whole tiered progression system.

[Raksha]

30k plasm npnp

[Oceanz]

Greetings everyone,


Weapon Revamps








However, RME weapons have been considered the ultimate weapons up until this point in time, but I feel that this needs to change a bit.

I would like to make a shift so that instead of having it so that other weapons aren't necessary if you have RME weapons, you have a choice. If you are happy with RME, then you can use RME, and for those who want other weapons you can use other weapons.

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Dear Mr. Matsui,
Thank you for sharing how you feel. It is of the utmost importance that how you feel is communicated to us. I'm glad the direction the game is taking is based on your feelings about weapons that took some of hundreds of manpower hours to quest.

I'm glad that your feelings are what is ruining the game for many of us, and the memories we have of it. It would have been devastating to us all if you had made such decisions based on more than your feelings, like perhaps, our feelings.

But since you are the game producer, it is important that your feelings are what guide this game's progression and not the player base or customers' sentiments.

This is a solid plan for success and I can see FFXI lasting another decade and your player base growing exponentially.

Please keep up the great work. I wish I could stay to see how wonderfully you progress, but I don't feel like it.
Your feelings matter so much to us.


Keep feeling.

[Lotto]

it's people like you why we can't have nice things. I'm not trying to completely discredit what you said, but if you think about it I'd hope you didn't think that they were going to release a new expansion with more alternatives, and more content (I. E. Gear/weapons/ect.). I'm excited now we have options, that's all i got out of his post is that they're going to give us "options" when it comes to delve weapons or we still wanna use the items we've spent years on. that some people will continue to spend years on.

Don't get me wrong, it's good thing that they introduce new things (I still hope for new missions and not in Wotg style...) but my point is no matter what, when they have a choice, players will always choose the best option available and not because they just like a weapon.

Also my main problem with all that R/E/Ms drama is that devs didn't see it coming. If they managed to screw up that bad once and if they keep releasing new weapons, you can be sure this will happen again. I just hope that in the future they'll think twice before releasing new gear, I don't want another "Sorry we didn't realize what we did but on the other side we have no answers for you because we didn't think about it".

[xiozen]

Suggestion: I understand the development team needs to determine implementation, however, short of just immediate execution based on the proposed adjustments mentioned in the OP, I honestly don't think too much thought should be put into it... my reasoning...

As an example look at what it takes to procure a mythic...any mythic weapon... the quests, the alexandrite, then the multiple trials to get it to 99...

I repeat: ...short of just immediate execution (meaning, adjustments to base DMG, +an applicable stats, such as attack, accuracy etc. based on the proposed adjustments mentioned in the OP, I honestly don't think too much thought should be put into it.

I truly would hate to see more work added on to something just to make it relevant again...after the expansion made it irrelevant.

[Pippy]

One thing to consider is maybe having empyrean weapons also unlock the weapon skills. From what it sounds like Empyrean and Relic weapons will be oudated, will someone who has a 99 empyrean but decides to use a delve weapon will they have to make a WoE weapon just to use the weapon skill? As someone who's done a lot of the camp NM trials I can tell you first hand they are tedious and not at all fun. Also what about the 99 relic weapon users?

[Alhanelem]

This latest dev post sounds considerably better than the one before, and I also apprciate the more explicit content level explanation.

[Zumi]

WoE coins seem to all been bought out on my server (extremely over priced ones now). Since JPs got the news first about unlocking the WS with WoE weapons.

[Arkista]

Dear Dev Team anyway you guys can make it so we can trade in any level R/E for just the WS? Like take the lvl 85 Version of a Emp weapon and make it so we can trade it to the Magian Moogle to unlock the WS only and lose the weapon forever.

Because making a lvl 99 WoE weapon just to get a the WS is now out the window cause prices of dies and residues just went from 30k to 200k+ on my server from yesterday.

[Arkista]

WoE coins seem to all been bought out on my server (extremely over priced ones now). Since JPs got the news first about unlocking the WS with WoE weapons.

Ya total shit that soon as theres a way to make fast gil people are sorry as hell and do it and buy everything up like last week when people found out about the Pya'Ekue Belt people went and bought up Phos belts for 4mil and started selling them for 10-15mil+.