New Roadmap and FFXI's direction

[Vivivivi]

Have they posted any details on Dungeon Crawling before? I have not seen them. High hopes that this is a fun event. Maybe with some element of randomness and some unique battle situations. Give me a reason to stay the course and build my Empys.

Agreed. If it's anything like campaign battle, nyzul isle, beseiged etc, I'm all about it. I'm a huge fan of the alternate battle systems/exploring.

I really do hope "The Last Stand" has some story to it.

[Atomic_Skull]

You can get a relic95 for what, 150m now, straight buying it and spending a handful of days on the trials (Probably about the same amount of time on those trials as on the pre-trials for emps).

To completely buy yourself into lets say a Verethragna 95, it would cost between 175mil and 225mil, assumign 100k plates, and 500k KI popsets(Not rare on asura, specially for chloris popsets). You'd be lucky to find an abundance of 100k plates.

Mythics are still the worst at 300~600mil and 9months of work

This is why I think that the 95-99 stage for relics is going to be "bring back a 10k byne bill, a stripeshell and a goldpiece"

[Insaniac]

This is why I think that the 95-99 stage for relics is going to be "bring back a 10k byne bill, a stripeshell and a goldpiece"

I would RMT my character for a 1 way ticket to Japan and some black market C4.

[Dew]

SE is going to make the Lv.99 trials for Emps, Relics, and Mythics harder then getting a 75 mythic. Empryeans will require 100,000 Won'tbedropping plates. Relics will require a 100,000 Byne Bill, D. Platinumpiece, or S. Prismaticshell, requiring you to get 100 10,000's. Mythics will require an Auroral Alexanderite that is equal to 100,000 singles.

At 99 they will add a forth set of weapons that are far better then all 3 and 100 times easier to make.

[Vold]

Please tell me where you have evidence that "tons of players" are leaving. Without access to SE's records, all you have is speculation and "if I don't like the latest fad, I don't like the game, therefore nobody else does".

The only evidence I need is /sea. It's not hard to prove to yourself that this game's population suffers when the prime time pops have been cut in half in a year+. It really has lost quite a few players in recent years. They've done server merges. Another is well on it's way if the current trend holds. It's not a secret, really.

[Falseliberty]

the amount of q.q in this thread is amazing
boohoo I duel boxed bronagi and now I cant duel box the next stage waaahhhh
yeah voidwatch fights are great but loot system is a total shitfest im sure devs know about this and are trying to find some kind of middle ground to save face. but be a sport and let them find way.

hell didn't they just announce that they looking for new blood to work on this game?

btw man up and game on a PC. PS3 pfft (in before comfy couch argument)

[Drivont]

Game went from fun with abyssea to flat out borefest low droprate extravaganza of the past. I cancelled earlier in the week, I chased low drop rates from kings for 5+ years and you could throw salvage into the mix when that came out and want no parts in doing it again.

Sorry dev's, VW concept is average at best, the loot system/drop rates are terrible, the event is just one of those things that could of been cool if executed properly but you can take that system and shove it where the sun don't shine.

Voidwatch is fun the first few times you do it but when you actually want something from it then it becomes so frustrating, not fun, chore. I just love getting logs/ore with capped light spectrum, I mean come on, every player dreams of getting worthless loot for their time investment, right?

Absolute second rate content, the sad thing is SE will probably adjust it 10 months down the line when nobody cares to do it anymore.

LOL "You've saved the world, countless times, and slayed a voidwalker!!!! HAVE A BONE CHIP!!!!"

[Zumi]

If you want to do the new content Either you like voidwatch or you don't. I guess you have the option of grinding out full AF3+2 sets for all your jobs along with more level 90 Empyrean weapons.

People grinded sky for 7 years and abyssea only been out for like 1. So I can see the average FFXI player continuing to do abyssea. Even with little new content people will still pay for FFXI.

[Atomic_Skull]

Drop rates are low because you can pop the NM as many times as you want. I guarantee that if SE increases the drop rate they will also change it so that it eats your atmacite and you have to re climb the tiers to pop it again.

I can hear the objections to this now: "Oh no, SE would never do something like that!"

Of course they would, don't be stupid.

[Concerned4FFxi]

I'm going to save my comments about FFXI direction until after the next update. I am concerned about the term used for The Last Stand and that its been in the dat for a long time now. I hope I haven't been grinding out empyreans for a weak 99 endgame. One would think with all the content abyssea offered, and gear, that it was to prepare players for a large, final add on with 99 endgame in mind. Hopefully these updates are just that, fillers, and that after the 6 month roadmap is completed, the next roadmap reveals a true future. I am all for updating the old content, and I like VW and will probably enjoy the last stand and maybe dungeon crawling, but I think everyone NEEDS another add on to take all this gear grinding hard work and do something with it. Even a statement by SE that, yes, in the future (with a release date unknown) once 14 is 2.o worthy, 11 will be seeing a final add on that is 99 content approved with endgame.