Maat's set!

[Psion]

Yeah I have to say the random fetch quest idea for other Maat's attire sound well... ludicrous. And extremely pointless. Plus who wants to dress up as an old man? I am all for updating Maat's cap with better stats since it's become a bit dated and trumped by gear like Twilight helm. Same can be said for most of the storyline rewards from 75 cap content like Rajas ring (retier please!)

How is it any more ludicrous as it was to level all your jobs to 65+ and beat maat before better ways to level came about? And how is it pointless, when it's something that helps you experience much of what the game has to offer (missions, quests, all the jobs) without ridiculous competition by other people wanting it as well? (Think: empyrean weapons)

And some of us want to have the entire set! (Better yet, SE could maybe make the final armor either a recolored maat's set or a totally awesome new look.) And I'm sure the story developers could think of rather humorous ways of telling the story of how you manage to get the entire set of clothing.

The whole point of having a Maat's set of clothing is mainly for the challenge of it. Some of it is stupidly evil grinding (A lot of it), but there's also challenge in some of it, such as getting every mission in the game. These were just challenges I thought of, they aren't something the dev team has to implement exactly, just as with the stats.

But if they do implement such a thing, I hope they do it so that the quests aren't something that limits the people who can take on the challenge. For example, nothing that requires a ridiculous sum of money, just for one item, such as mythics and alexandrite. The gain all spells challenge I wrote also costs a ton of money, but you get all the spells as well as the gear in exchange. Also nothing that comes off notorious monsters on a spawn timer or the like, or that requires a pop item that drops off a limited number of monsters. It has to be a challenge anyone can take on without competition from others, just as how the maat's cap can be earned without competing with other people.

[Vold]

But if they do implement such a thing, I hope they do it so that the quests aren't something that limits the people who can take on the challenge.

I will never waste a penny on the three add ons. I refuse to pay for storyline additions that come with gear without any new areas in sight. If time wasn't spent on new(despite reskinning)content, I'm not paying for it. Imagine having to pay for updates every 3 months... it's the same thing. So in this respect I would be limited to doing this quest. Just like how I'm banished from the test server because I didn't pay 30 dollars for three cheap, half assed, add ons.

Following the Maat's Cap ideal, capped combat and magic skills on all 15 jobs for another piece. Capped craft skills for another. Having all missions done for rank(all three nations)/cop/toau/wotg for another. Having all quests done in Bas/Win/San/Jeu/WG/Rab/Sel/Mhr/Nor/Kaz/BasS/WinS/SanS, which naturally includes any quests relating to missions like Apoc Nigh for another. These alone are far easier said than done and are realistic goals to achieve. If you started from scratch it would no doubt take the average player at least a year to complete the set. And a year is being very kind. It's assuming their only goal in life is to start FFXI and go straight for obtaining this armor set. The hardcore player would get it done considerably faster but that's the same thing as saying a casual player would take considerably longer. It doesn't really matter.

So there you go, a moderately difficult ie time consuming quest to accomplish that's geared towards the average player and not hardcore player, and for many if not most people who would complete it they already have a pretty good jump start on it and would get it done for sure within a few months or less. On average they would probably need to cap craft skills across the board, cap all combat and magic skills, and get all the quests done. So... many... quests...

Now getting the upgrades(for hardcore players) to these can entail whatever difficult task or simply TotM kill untold numbers of monsters. But the base pieces are as simple as above, and as weak as the hat(yet useful in some manner) currently is for our current levels. Also, the upgraded hat should be as simple as 99 for all 15 jobs. Perhaps they should upgrade all of this to all 20 jobs since ToAU and WotG are going to be involved and the extra 5 jobs can wear the hat anyway so whatever. The other stuff I think is in line with what you were saying, like learning all spells, maxing merits, etc.

But, if you really want TH4 on those feet then I had better see the most difficult quest ever to obtain them(I'm humoring you here). 100% completion in the game should about do it. That includes earning all 20 relic and mythic weapons. Yeah, good luck with that one, kids. I hope you enjoy your THIV.


Special note* When I say average I mean your average hardcore player. People who have jobs and the like and don't spend 24 hours a day playing. Myself would be an average hardcore player. I don't really play any other games, and this has been more or less true for 7 years now. Obviously the overall average player is never even going to be in the position to do this quest as it requires all jobs to max.

[Retsujo]

Special note* When I say average I mean your average hardcore player. People who have jobs and the like and don't spend 24 hours a day playing. Myself would be an average hardcore player. I don't really play any other games, and this has been more or less true for 7 years now. Obviously the overall average player is never even going to be in the position to do this quest as it requires all jobs to max.

If you really consider yourself anywhere near a hardcore player, then you would've spent the money on those add-ons :3