Encumbrence = Lose 20 levels.

[Deifact]

Encumbrance and any abilities that remove equipment are really molesty... like the mob is going to have its way with you...

[FaeQueenCory]

Velk SE. You put them all over. The love to use, back-to-back, their ws that removes your weapons and keeps you from re-equipping them, with a duration long enough that it stays up permanently. So not only can we not damage them in any way because we lose 200 accuracy and attack, but DRG and BST are extra screwed since our pets immediately drop 20 levels as soon as the weapons come off, too.

You really shouldn't have gone with I-levels at all, but now that you have, you really need to remove this status effect from the game entirely.

Or at the very least keep it only in the areas where it doesn't matter. (like Abyssea. Dropping from 120 to 99 isn't that big of a deal. Sure it sucks, but it's not like the instadeath it is in Adoulin.)

[Rustic]

Honestly, the best solution would be simply negating all effects BUT item level in a given equipment slot from Encumbrance/gear "strip" attacks, rather than physically removing the gear in question.

At that point, we aren't being deleveled by declothing.

Also, stuff like the aforementioned DRK points towards a serious need for AF4 along the lines of what RUN and GEO have now. Job-specific effects are both powerful and needed- alternatively, slapping said JSE into secondary slots where item level isn't going to be such an issue, such as belts and rings/earrings/neck.

[Camiie]

Just change Encumberance to Cucumberance. Instead of being stripped of gear, you're turned into a pickle for a short amount of time.

[Karah]

Been doing some Walk of Echoes, since well, there isn't shit else to do, and just wanted to comment on how absolutely retarded encumbrance is now.

I go from getting hit for 100 or less, to 1200 after being hit by typhean rage, in essence, becoming encumbered is instant death.

And it's not like you can do anything about it, you can't put on PDT gear, you're stripped. You can't run because enemies are faster than you. You can't do anything, even if you get cured nothing can cure fast enough to cover 1200 damage every attack.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Yeah yeah, necrobump.

On the other hand, content that was released prior to Seekers of Adoulin has been balanced properly

It was balanced properly for an alliance. The presence of Encumbrance is effectively a level cap, and capped content doesn't draw people like that any more.

[Raydeus]

Encumberance is as cheap as it gets, just replace it with Insta-Death already.

Fracking Ballistic Kick BS. @$#% (╯｀Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻


Edit >
Lamia's ability Torrent is ok though.

[Mirage]

No matter how bad something is, you'll never make an SE representative admit that their employees made a mistake.

[Raydeus]

I think it had it's place back when people fought in parties, but nowadays if you are low man/solo-ing it is just way too cheap of a tactic. orz

[Selindrile]

We realize that enemy abilities that remove equipment or give an encumbrance effect have larger impacts now that we've implemented the item level system, and as such, moving forward we will be doing our best to make sure that these kind of abilities are not used by monsters as much. If you encounter monsters that can use these type of abilities, we'll be sure to provide methods to avoid them or prevent them from using it.

On the other hand, content that was released prior to Seekers of Adoulin has been balanced properly so that it can be cleared even when getting hit with abilities that remove your equipment or give an encumbrance effect, so we do not have any plans to make adjustments to this content.

Whelp, new Skirmish has Maroliths and Iron Giants, which strip clothes and start aoe-wrecking everyone, GG Okipuit, GG.