The reason we need Ambuscade +3 gear

[Alhanelem]

FF14 is extremely easy.

Perhaps for you. But what percentage of the playerbase has completed all the savage raids? Ultimates? Solo deep dungeons? How many can claim to be rank 1 in PvP? etc. etc. etc.
These are scripted encounters. It's easy to claim it's not hard AFTER you've beaten it, because you can do it every time after that (usually). Point being, you may be an exceptionally seasoned player but the reality is, most players haven't completed these things and find them difficult. Meanwhile, I don't think the proportion of players who have completed FFXI's most challenging fights is all that different.

I could tell you countless things about that game you don't know.

As someone who was among the first to enter Eorzea in the very first alpha test and have been active all the way to the present day, no, you most likely can't.

I bet you didn't even know you could clear entire dungeons with trusts without ever performing an auto attack.

As someone who cleared multiple level 50 dungeons solo during the ARR days, while those dungeons were relevant, and before there was even an official feature to make it possible to enter alone, yes, I did know that. I was doing silly things like this way before you ever thought of it, most likely. DING! Here's a video of me solo clearing Wanderer's Palace during one of the early ARR patches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLhAHrKxUww

The problem with you pointing this out is the fact that regular dungeons were never meant to be hard in the first place. It's pretty obvious to anyone that you could do what you described, because the trusts will execute all mechanics perfectly, and dungeon bosses don't enrage, so yeah, as long as you dodge mechanics you don't have to press buttons at all.

So yeah, you picked the wrong person to say this stuff to.

But yeah, I'm probably done. I tried reasoning with people on the F14 forums for years.

Maybe that's because you have the perspective of an extremely small minority and the reality is, most players are not you and find at least some content in the game challenging.

aka they are saving the assets, such as model files and textures into formats that are more easily accessible to modern developers work environments. I would imagine partially so XIV devs can more easily use all the assets from XI in XIV to save money.

When previously faced with questions about things like implementing a classic server, it was stated that they did not save old builds of the game and they have no way to roll back or set up a server with very early versions of the game.I think this is simply a lesson learned from that and that they need to start preserving things in the future for multiple reasons. Please just stop assuming everything is just about FFXIV, and I really don't think that's why he mentioned this.

[Chromium]

As someone that has taken the models and textures out of XI and XIV, they directly drop the many of the XI models and textures into XIV with zero or minimal changes. It's cost saving.

[Alhanelem]

As someone that has taken the models and textures out of XI and XIV, they directly drop the many of the XI models and textures into XIV with zero or minimal changes. It's cost saving.

It's not news that they reused XI assets (the models are higher poly, so it's not just a simple drag and drop, upscaling textures and performing other adjustments, they're clearly putting more effort in than that), but the initial reasons for this weren't about cost, it was because they wanted to move the XI playerbase to XIV so they tried to make that easy by making the races similar, making many of the monsters similar, etc. It was not just about cost. And the preservation work they're doing now is not just about being able to supply assets to XIV.

This forum is full of people who are very jaded (at best, even) about FFXIV's mere existence. Some even continue to deny how successful the game was compared to XI, and hate on SE purely for its existence, and blame it for everything that went wrong with XI, even though it was never the most popular MMO and bad design decisions had far more to do with it than anything to do with FFXIV at all.

And as a disclaimer, I have active subs to both games and I love XI with all my heart. I still play fairly regularly and it's something I'll take with me to the grave most likely. But that doesn't mean I can't recognize its faults and recognize the things XIV did right (it did do some things right, whether anyone here wants to admit it or not). I've long been sick of seeing these anti FFXIV rants, and blaming everything on it, and things like these assumptions that everything is about helping FFXIV or cutting costs for FFXIV or whatever else it is that you think.

[Chromium]

It was to save money and it's a well known aspect of management of the person in charge of it (who talks about money and things costing too much or whatever all the time), I know you love the game but you take it to a ridiculous level to the point you refuse to accept anything you see as negative.

I love XI but I will agree if someone says something negative about the game that is true, you won't do that about XIV.

[Alhanelem]

It was to save money and it's a well known aspect of management of the person in charge of it (who talks about money and things costing too much or whatever all the time), I know you love the game but you take it to a ridiculous level to the point you refuse to accept anything you see as negative.

I love XI but I will agree if someone says something negative about the game that is true, you won't do that about XIV.

This is false. I'm not claiming XIV is a perfect game, I don't think it's a perfect game, and I'm readily willing to acknowledge its issues (of which there are many, especially in the last year). I refuse to accept things that certain people here say because they come from their biased perspective that FFXIV is responsible for everything bad that ever happened to FFXI and that's simply not the reality. Now, there is certainly some partial truth to certain things and I have agreed with others on certain aspects WITHIN FFXI that contributed to its decline.

But chief among the false notions people constantly parrot on this forum is that our FFXI subs simply fund FFXIV, and cite the fact that the two games are under the same umbrealla on financial reports as proof. And I've said many times before, this means nothing. You cannot identify any individual dollar you gave SE as being explicitly spent on FFXIV. In fact, due to the way the financial reports are written, you can't even tell AT ALL where any given bit of money was spent. SE is free to spend every dollar it recieves as it sees fit.

XI has costs. There is still active development on it (even if it's not a large amount) and it has server costs and other upkeep costs. While it's reaosnable to argue that they aren't spending much more on XI than they have to, the money it earns doesn't all go to FFXIV. It goes to the COMPANY, to spend on any of their pojects and other expenditures as needed. There never was a conspiracy to take your money solely to boost FFXIV. it boosts the company as a whole and any notion to the contrary is nonsense.z


That said. I have tons of gripes about XIV and I don't play it as much as I used to. You want to talk about them, I'd be happy to, but I'm not the total XIV loyalist you're portraying me to be. I'm just a realist, who can see the truth of situations as someone who plays both games, loves both games, and doesnt' have a strong bias to one or the other.

[nixRidge]

I apologise in advance for disregarding a lot of important discussion prior to this post, but I would like +3 ambuscade gear too ^ ^
I know my reasoning is mostly just gonna boil down to "because I want it", but I would appreciate a simple way to get a tiny little boost in order to help get some of the better gear out there, be it having to do things like Omen, Oddyssey, Vagary, etc.
It doesn't have to be a life-changing revolutionary new improvement in the gear stats with special latent effects or such things, just a little bit extra stat boost and perhaps a bit of Damage Taken -


I play the game with two of my friends, and we find it a bit difficult to find more people to play with given we're already combating time zone differences (I'm in Norway, they're in the US, I rarely find other Europeans playing this game!), so it'd be a big help for all of us I think. We're dipping our toes into things like Vagary and Omen which we find to be a lot of fun, but it's punishing for us, I think more so for me more than them, haha..
Anyways, that's just my two cents! I know some people might disagree and think I should earn the gear I want without this, or perhaps think it would trivialise the game too much, and that's totally fair too. I value the opinions stated in this thread already as well as the opinions of players much more experienced with the game than me; I am still a noob after all.

[Alhanelem]

I know my reasoning is mostly just gonna boil down to "because I want it", but I would appreciate a simple way to get a tiny little boost in order to help get some of the better gear out there, be it having to do things like Omen, Oddyssey, Vagary, etc.

I'm not explicitly opposed to adding stuff to Ambuscade, but I'd personally prefer new content for new drops instead. There are plenty of stepping stones to better gear if you explore other content. I don't see it being particularly difficult to progress from sparks to ambu to other gear, and I'm mainly a solo player.

[Dragoy]

Yeah, I think the Ambuscade +2 stuff is pretty good already. I used some of the Flamma parts still until very recently, where I got the Emptrean 119+3 and other things.

They could use some tweaking though.

I soloeded with creeper egos the Empyrean unlocks with Flamma +2 and maybe some Artifact +2 (or +3? will try soon on another character with just Flamma +2) as a samurai, so they're not /that/ bad I feel. Well, they are bad, still.

They did adjust the items from Ambuscade a bunch recently, which is welcome I'm sure for anyone who needs them, and I wouldn't be opposed to new things either. Would like it if the enemies would be more consistent-like in difficulty though.

[nixRidge]

I'd personally prefer new content for new drops instead.

Ohh definitely, me too!

There are plenty of stepping stones to better gear if you explore other content.

I'll try to play around more =) So much to do, so much to see in this game.