R/M/E 99 to 119 upgrade info and findings

[FaeQueenCory]

LOL. People were complaining there wasn't any time sinks left and now they got some. This is the old game people said they missed and wanted back.

LOL
Yeah.....

Sorta anyways...
I think ppl miss the vaired stuff you could do at "endgame" to grind... Go grind in abyssea, go grind in dynamis, grind some VW, grind some Limbus, grind some Alexandrite...
Even with the alternative to Delve, that 99HQ-BCNM thing, it's still "go-do-delve-go-do-delve!"

But this is VERY much "be careful what you wish for"...
Especially because this "totes is NOT a magian trial"... cause "we'll not do that again"... LOL

EDIT: Also... Remember when they "updated" the skirmish gear? 105 and janky after like a week... and then they added a KI to trade with the item to 113ify it?
I think a bunch of ppl were expecting an upgrade of that sort...
(I also think a bit of the gypped feeling is from that too... a "why is your crap adoulin gear easier to raise it's iLv than this gear I worked my butt off to get to 99"... just more of the sentiment that Adoulin has created: do less work, get better gear.)

[Aeron]

im in the same boat man.

[Zumi]

Would be nice if you could at least buy the upgrade items with plasm, we spammed nothing but delve for past 7 months, now we have to do it more for relics. Lots of us have several 99 relics and empyreans.

[Zumi]

Tested out one of the new seal bcnm, we got 1 drop. Not worth it taking into account how long it takes to farm that many seals but we did unlock hard modes now for that BCNM, maybe those drop more.

[Luscia]

I am rather disappointed in this. We have waited so long for this update so we may be able to wield our beloved weapons again and THIS is what we have to do?! Look SE, I understand grinding, but making it so we need 300 of these things is beyond stupid. Why? Because the drops from what I have seen are random; you need a relic upgrade, but you get ones for mythic. This also isn't VW, we don't have our own treasure pool; so with what little people we have left on our servers you have probably over half of them competing for these items, not to mention they probably have more than one of these weapons to upgrade. Also by the description in the update notes it just says that we would need the KIs from the Delve Megaboss; hearing that it implies that they could be bought via plasm. I wish that was the case; I would have np buying them with plasm.

[Zumi]

All dual boxers are hogging all the low man NMs, Chapuli, Mata, Raptor.

Trading to the ??? for Chapuli the new Dragon's Aery.

[cyric]

Got a riftboulder case from Yumcax, had 12 boulders inside. (edited box to case, didn't realize there were different ones and pretty sure it was a case, not a box) I just said box because I forgot which.

[detlef]

Got a riftboulder box from Yumcax, had 12 boulders inside.

That's very interesting... Here's hoping that WKR picks up again. This would be great if the entire player population can have a chance at obtaining these items so they can make some money.

[MarkovChain]

Got a riftboulder box from Yumcax, had 12 boulders inside.

Was it a box or a case, because the cases I got dropped betweeen 4 and 15. Also you are all crying like babies, is this the new BG ? This update is cool because it gives stuff to do at the pace you want.

[Mefuki]

This would be great if the entire player population can have a chance at obtaining these items so they can make some money.

Wait, you can sell the REM upgrade materials? Oh. So, why's everyone complaining? We wanted something for hardcores to work toward instead of just sitting around AFK, people were complaining about there being nothing to do just last week. This and the AF upgrades have give the game two boosts that it needed. 1) We now have our REMs back, possibly even giving us that "elite Gear" feeling people have been missing depending on long it takes to upgrade (You know how a lot of people have been complaining about how everyone has Oat and there's no gear that you feel sentimental toward?) and 2) Gil actually serves a function again which has been a nagging problem for some time so I hear.

As far as the "But I have SO many REM's" or the "There are too many REMs that need upgrading" argument goes, I assume this was intentional on SE's part. Now there's a greater way of showing everyone your devotion to a job via these continuous upgrades. Are you upgrade all your REM's maybe not but your "Main Job"'s? Yeah, you might. So, maybe I'm missing something but all in all, it doesn't seem that bad.