Wake up, "Seekers" is failing

[MarkovChain]

- airlixirs from reives will not make reives enticing. The price of airlixirs has been dwindling gradually since they were introduced, and with airlixirs as a possible reward from bonanza, the price is going to dip down even further after the winning numbers are announced. Airlixirs also cannot be used on the real rewards from delve: boss drops, so as more and more players begin defeating bosses, airlixirs will slowly fade into becoming useless.

- Skirmish: Use a larger body, Pchan. It means more objectives and a longer time limit as well as more rewards at the end. With a body IV, we had 7 weapons at the end of a skirmish (a lot were repeats of one another, but that's still a good chunk of weapons). 2 of the people we had along for that run got a +2 stone, though I only got NQ myself. In short, the more enemies you kill, the more loot you get at the end.

- RUN and GEO: Both jobs need a lot of tweaking, yes. You are correct about this. I doubt moaning will make SE fix them any faster though. AF and merits next patch (which is taking FOREVER to roll out), AF2 and AF3 sometime in the unforseen future. SE has several improvements planned, they just haven't been able to implement them quickly enough to satismog that fy us.

Are you seriously explaining that mog bonanza is going to fix airlixir supply for casual players ?

Body tiers do increase the # of wpns, but it's not really the issue anymore because pops are cheap. The main issue was stone +1/2 availability. Besides obsidian fragments are useless..

Finally AF3+2 or merit doesn't change any job from super shit to useful.


IMO SE should just stop considering 18 man content rewards should de facto be superior to 6 man content. It's like they forgot salvage and dynamis have been their only success for the past year(s). If they want to keep normal ppl playing they have to offer equal rewards between skirmish and delve mega boss for instance. If you think about it, getting a boss reward only requires you to lot (and in this case only requires a kill). As such it's much easier to get than nyzul or salvage gear. But it's their logic. I think they didn't fully understand yet WHY so may people have been QQing that their RME has been ruined to trash. The idea that the weapons you've worked "hard" for (aka you invested one or several hundred hours of playtime) can be outdamage by a 40% margin by a single rare/ex drop, even if this drop if hard to get, would bother anyone. Beside those boss seem to be spamable at will, it's not a once day or week thing.

It's like they've never farmed themselves the 50 assaults, the 150 token or ampula for a mythic.

Of course they announced that RME are going to be improved. But as a consequence it also makes farming delve mega boss pointless for the vast majority of hardcore players, let alone casual players. So that's the vicious circle we are in atm. If the mega only had given armors superior to the delve-equippement I think it would have worked better.

[Tamoa]

I just read through all the possible rewards from mog bonanza and I don't see airlixirs being mentioned anywhere - am I blind?

[Registeel]

I just read through all the possible rewards from mog bonanza and I don't see airlixirs being mentioned anywhere - am I blind?

Rank 2 has Kupon De:
"Mog Bonanza Kupon De
This coupon can be redeemed for both one of the items listed below and three Airlixirs +2
- Mikinaak Helm - Mikinaak Breastplate
- Mikinaak Gauntlets - Mikinaak Cuisses
- Mikinaak Greaves - Manibozho Beret
- Manibozho Jerkin - Manibozho Gloves
- Manibozho Brais - Manibozho Boots
- Bokwus Circlet - Bokwus Robe
- Bokwus Gloves - Bokwus Slops
- Bokwus Boots"

[Tamoa]

Apparently I am blind. ; ;

[Kristal]

* Skirmish. This one was a giant faceplam. Most retarded pop item distribution ever, with basicallly inexistant stone +2. Good rewards. Then delved poped and the thing became useless in one update. And by useless I mean everyone know a single tier IV/V delve run is giving you access to a weapon much better. The event was probably the most exciting part of the ext. though. Because 6 mannable content was one of the most wanted content from their census. But no, we got delve (most of it is low mannable though but not if you are the everage joe).

Skirmish weapons are upgradable to +1 versions with a higher IL then delve weapons, although I presume it's based on maximum augment stats only player across all servers will get.

Apparently I am blind. ; ;

No worries, so is SE. They are still offering the DNC empyrean armor as a reward for PUP.

[Damane]

peoples are bitching/whining for the sake of whining, god low man content is allready in the works with skirmish 2.0 new colo reive items etc. Just stop, the expansion is great so far and just needs some tweeks here and there in colonization. Delve is the best thing FFXI had in a long time (better then abyssea).

[Oakrest]

Delve is the best thing FFXI had in a long time (better then abyssea).

Delve and SoA ruined FFXI. It shat in the face of R/M/E holders, lowman/small-group parties, and put an end to meaningful character progression. If Delve is the best thing that happened to FFXI, then you want to see FFXI die.

Abyssea was by far the most interesting, enjoyable, and progressive content FFXI saw.

[Sarick]

Delve and SoA ruined FFXI. It shat in the face of R/M/E holders, lowman/small-group parties, and put an end to meaningful character progression. If Delve is the best thing that happened to FFXI, then you want to see FFXI die.

Abyssea was by far the most interesting, enjoyable, and progressive content FFXI saw.

Here here, cheer cheer. The man speaks the truth 100 fold. This is the time when players flooded those zones and the content gave rewards everywhere. You not only got gear upgrades by abbysite, KI for trait like benefits. It was just progression that allowed everyone to work at their own pace with large or small groups. If people need to wait for Seekers 2.0 then it was released to soon.

IMHO, this game is split. Everything Pre-seekers is almost completely different. Sure everything is gutted around the same thing but now items and gear wear your character instead of you wearing it. Without the gear (considering it decides your character level) your progression is voided.

[Masamune11]

SE -end the storyline so that us Final Fantasy fans can feel that we completed the game and move onto 14. Those who want to stay for endgame can stay and make their characters stronger to fight more difficult reskinned NMs in future updates.

[Yinnyth]

Are you seriously explaining that mog bonanza is going to fix airlixir supply for casual players ?

No, I'm saying it will cause airlixir price to drop even further than it already has. You were attempting to say that adding airlixirs to reives would make reives more popular. I'm saying you're wrong because airlixirs are cheap, getting cheaper, and have 2 major events in the future which will cause their price to drop even faster: bonanza, and common players finally farming delve bosses and no longer needing airlixirs (plus getting over 30,000 plasm per boss kill). No one would look at airlixirs going for 1k gil and say "Hey, 10% chance of getting one from reives? Yeah, let's go do reives!"

Body tiers do increase the # of wpns, but it's not really the issue anymore because pops are cheap. The main issue was stone +1/2 availability. Besides obsidian fragments are useless..

Higher tier bodies increase all the loot you get because loot gets added to personal and group pool after seemingly random kills in skirmish. With tier 1 bodies, yeah, it's going to take a lot of runs before you see many +2 stones. With tier 4 body, 2 of our members got +2 stones. In runs I did with pickup groups (head/body/legs all tier 1), we had at least one member claiming to get a +2 stone in about 50% of our runs, and these were fairly newbish guys (under-leveled ToM weapons and full-time AF3+1 gear), so it was rare for us to reach goal 2.