If they wanted to force us to do the crappy endgame events they made that almost everyone hates they should of made the scrolls r/e and drop a lot more plentifully, as it is they just pissed everyone off. whoever is in charge now (lol) just has no idea how to run a game or how to deal with their playerbase. If they wanted to make the game more annoying again they should of at the very least done it gradually.
It's almost as if the guy that made FFXIV completely and utterly fail is in charge of FFXI again
The update is pitiful in terms of content and the decisions they made with what they did add, it's like they wanted to annoy us.
Boo hoo, I have to do events to get items I want.
Oh wait, we are playing an mmo? Where would you rather have spells come from? Just from NPC?
Lets put it this way, if they made events that didnt drop anything people wanted, no one would do them, no matter how fun they are. They would do it once for the fight, and be done with it.
Upping the drop rates on stuff will just turn this game into a rift/WOW clone where you do things once then never do it again cause things are like 99% drop rate. Game will get boring fast, and we'll beat content faster than they can impliment it. Do you really want that? It's very boring.
Last edited by Shiyo; 09-25-2011 at 09:34 PM.
This is a change for SE. That is the point. Other times the events were for gear. This time the events are for spells. Even at the worse you could drop 1 million and get any spell in game. Now its 5 million and only hope is through the event. SE apparently has lost the ability to design anything but side grades of gear so they have to make spells a 1% drop rate to get people to do the events. Funny thing is most people are so burnt on abyssea and were aching for WOE to be fun, which it is, that they didn't need need every black mage spell to be ridiculously hard to get. My only thought in complaining about the WOE drop rate, is take all the old spells out of the confluxes 8-11. My link shell has been spamming it all week and all we ever get is Valor Minuet V, Blizzard V, Firaja, etc. Loosen up a bit SE.
I'd like to see spells that only have one source be given multiple sources. That way at least people can choose whether they want to quest, farm, join an event, or do a BCNM for their scroll. They'd still have to be "earned" but at least people could pick their poison.
You are describing FFXI, blue/yellow proc = very high drop rate. The game is already at that point, genie is out of the bottle. You can't make a game a certain way then just expect everyone to eat the old ways again, the vast majority of players just won't accept it now.Upping the drop rates on stuff will just turn this game into a rift/WOW clone where you do things once then never do it again cause things are like 99% drop rate. Game will get boring fast, and we'll beat content faster than they can impliment it. Do you really want that? It's very boring.
I don't mind some sliding to a more difficult system but if there is no outcry at how bad this update was we will be back to HNM drop rates where it took 3+ years to get one piece of armor. Very few XI players are as hardcore as we used to be, we have some amount of outside life now and that kind of nonsense just ain't gonna fly.
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