Quote Originally Posted by niwaar View Post
Honestly, I do not see the "absolute best possible compromise". We wanted a few things and they did give them to us. A remedy to the old King system was really nice to see after all this time. However, to say its the best possible compromise is nuts. KS are something of the past. Even trying to say that this revitalizes the non Abyssea content is ridiculous. What it does is give a very small handful of people who still wish to pick up that Black Belt a reason to farm Kindred Seals. Oh wait, many of them already had to do this to get their belts.

This does absolutely nothing to encourage players to participate in non-Abyssea areas. The only thing it does, is make those BB items much harder to get than before. It pushes older content into the closet and limits the number of players who will ever see such content again. Even if these weren't camped even close to as heavily as they were 4-5 years ago, people still did enjoy low manning these HNM. That will not even be possible anymore.

The dev's had a pretty good chance here to make older content more accessible to players and give out incentives for everyone to participate in non Abyssea activities. They did not compromise, they utterly failed. There were many better solutions to these former Kings than the one they chose. Its sad to see them relegated to the trash heap like this.
You guys wanted "An incentive to leveling outside of Abyssea". Kindred Seals are now relevant again, heck they're more relevant than they have ever been before, and they can only be obtained outside Abyssea from monsters level 50-80. That is the single biggest incentive they could possibly give to Non-Abyssea EXP aside from completely locking Abyssea itself. And that just is not going to happen. Would you prefer that they straight up paid you gil to EXP outside Abyssea? Added new items to Conquest Points? Unless they're adding Ridill, Ebody, Dring, Nlegs, Nhead, Abody, and Speed Belt to Conquest Points I think you're getting a much better deal this way.

At the same time, this does not harm any of the players who want to Leech in Abyssea. If they want to burn a job from 30-90, they can still do so. They simply will not get any Kindred Seals, and thus will choose to lose out on the option of getting Black Belt items and other King items. It is now a conscious choice that the player makes, and there are real benefits to both sides.

And just a heads up, it looks like a lot more than "A small handful" of people are freaking out about Black Belts. I highly doubt there will be problems finding someone in dire need of Kindred Seals. As for limiting King content, you have no idea what you're talking about. I don't know what server you're on, but on Cerberus the only people who fought pretty much any land kings for the 8 years prior to Abyssea were all basically the same 2 linkshells (Which reformed over and over and over into what became the same 3 linkshells). Anyone who didn't want to join those shells never saw a single king outside of Nyzul Isle. This change will allow anyone with a KS99 orb to fight Fafnir, Nidhogg, Aspid, or King Behemoth. You're crazy if you think this is somehow making these NMs Less accessible.