[dev1049] New weapon skills

[Kalilla]

Oh believe me, I never expected us to do anything like that really. I know my limits and I think it get's fun when you're barely past your limits, but anymore is just dumb.

I used that example because it has been stuck in my head ever since they said it. So many empty promises and now they just give the WS we love to everyone with an additional hit but make it so we wouldn't do as much with it as we would with hexa.

It just annoys me to no end

[Karbuncle]

I wonder what the Reps would say if they could talk freely about how they feel about these changes.

Like, They all say they play the game, You sometimes think they look at what they're told to post and go "you're joking right?"

I can't imagine they find much joy in telling us "oh, Remember those 100 Merit Weaponskills that were introduced that were slightly passable? they're nerfing them to be useless and weaker than the same weaponskills you've been using for the last decade"

[Insaniac]

I like that picture but I think on one side of the pole should be a box labeled "fun" and the other side should be a box labeled "worthless bullshit"

[Rubicant82]

What happened to these WS

Player(s): "Wow! we actually get to have fun again and have nice things!"
meanwhile in the Dev room an alarm sounds and red light start to flash.
Dev#1: The new weapon skills are bringing joy to the players!
Dev#2: Oh no! We must fix this! Quick nerf everything useful!
Dev#3: Send Camate an e-mail with the notes tell him to pull something out of his a$$ to justify this... They will listen to him!




Seriously Dev team please pull your heads out of your rears, your game is on the verge of collapse because you claim to listen to us but you don't. This awesome game that many of us have been playing for the better part of a decade is about to hit a monuments milestone... and you YOU the DEV TEAM are jacking it up because of "balance"...
It's level 99 it's not supposed to be balanced! at 99 we should be able to walk into anything and kill it with out question except content tailored directly for level 99s. Look at it this way... Every FF game I've every played you got to 99 you were almost unstoppable... I say that because there is always pesky things like doom and death but still 99 the final weapons skills should be overpowered and cost a bunch that is what makes them THE END GAME WEAPON SKILLS.

[Saiken253]

haha I could totally see that happening with the devs. and I agree, the "final weaponskill" that the devs are claiming these are SHOULD at least curb-stomp all other WSs of their type.

[Chamaan]

I for one applaud them for doing the right thing and preserving the integrity of these classic WS. I only wish they'd take it a step further and bring glory back to such once-great WS as Sturmwind and Combo. -80% Attack Bonus for everything except Wasp Sting, I say!

[Insaniac]

Let's add accuracy penalties too and allow them to go past the floor so if you do new WS on something with high evasion you have a 0% hit rate.

[Runespider]

Last update they added a spell BLM have drooled over since FFXI came out, it cost 2-3mill, and basically sucked (but looks pretty).
They just released an interview that stated content from now on is going to be all about balance, and that the last 2 years was a mistake.
We have a guy in charge now that during his proper FFXI reign was all about sidegrades/balance/boring content made simply to keep us playing as long as possible as cheaply as possible.
The new premier content is Voidwatch (logwatch).
The playerbase is now being completely ignored unless it goes inline with what the leadership of FFXI wants to do anyway (unlike during abyssea), even the JP players.

All of the above since balance guy came back and anyone expected these WS (or any content from now on) to be good or indeed expect all this complaining to do ANYTHING at all? Tanaka will ignore all the rage over this and VW with the same skill he ignored the beta testers for 14, it's how he likes to run the games he is currently ruining.

Did you guys forgot how much we all complained about HNM, salvage drop rates etc before Abyssea? Thats where we are again, no amount of complaining, no amount of likes will change how these WS are and you should all know that. Tanaka thinks he knows best and even failing 14 taught him nothing, he still operates the same way.

The problem isn't that they don't make good content, it's that someone is sticking his nose into it at the end and ruining it before implementation.

[Prothscar]

Goes passed 0%. Every time you miss a hit with a negative hitrate, you hit yourself.

[Greatguardian]

Goes passed 0%. Every time you miss a hit with a negative hitrate, you hit yourself.

Playerbase is Confused.

Playerbase hurt itself in its confusion!