[dev1049] New weapon skills

[SpankWustler]

I'm not sure exactly what that picture metaphorically represents or how, but that doesn't make it any less funny.

Resolution has a much more minor attack penalty and may actually suck less after the changes to it, so maybe there's one bit of hope left in the bottom of Pandora's Box after all? Of course, the changes to Ruinator are still lurking in shadow and it probably took up Resolution's 40% attack/cRatio/pDif/whatever penalty burden.

[saevel]

The simple fact is this: We lost 16 servers since Abyssea was released and our servers have the same average population per day before it came out.

Umm no.

Server numbers were down long before Abyssea. SE took underpopulated servers and moved them to medium populated servers in two stages. No server has been stacked more then once. Membership was actually up shortly after the level 85 cap was raised and stayed up until after the 95 and Voidwatch v2 catastrophe. It's now going to be going down the toilet after reading SE's "interview" and seeing their new strategy for updates. Prior to abyssea and the official forums we figured SE dev's were just clueless and inexperienced with MMO's. Recently we've seen that it's not about them not knowing but them just not caring about their membership. Players would stick around for an incompetent dev team if they really like the game, they absolutely won't stick around for a dev team that gives them the flying finger.

[deces]

The simple fact is this: We lost 16 servers since Abyssea was released and our servers have the same average population per day before it came out.

I belive 8 of those servers got crunched just before abyssea came out, but you would not know that would you? And even before aby this game almost went belly up untill they added FOV. sqare ENIX has had major issues for along time its nothing new under the sun unlwss you were born yesterday. The biggest problem I have right now is everything is ToM, NPC quests should of never been under this system imo, it used to have a rich storyline with actual fun quests.. I really think Tanaka knows nothing of this and the proc system is evident of it.

[dragoon_apprentice]

Why do ws that we work hard on, and/or look really cool, have to be subpar?

I just got my empy polearm and that ws is such low damage that people in my ls prolly talk behind my back. DO you have any idea how demoralizing it is to put that much work into a videogame and still see penta thrust beat your new ws!?
why does chant du cynge do a steady 5-6k dmg then? even 2-4k dmg when im using MINKINS for utility? This ws camlanns maybe gets 2k if im lucky. It sets up aftermath? great. Maybe i could set up after math, then use some stardivers. I might be happy with that. But now people who spend all their time in this game (we need these people, b/c it shows how far the game can go) say with testing that this ws will not even beat drakesbane
No one gets 30k alexandrites anymore. And if they did that, they are tired of looking at that animation. think about it
It obvoius this update comes during the starwars release week. That is all good really, because i like ffxi a lot i have for years. People get what they want out of the game, granted. But it seems to me that even the people who are diehard hardcore are saying they are tired of drakesbane, or other wss, and would like to see something new.
The point is moot if you say empy ws should be better than these new ws. Look at my poor sad little camlann's. People that dont really play drg look at that and compare the dmg to their ws. Why not make them have to use an empy ws to proc aftermath, then use the new wss if it is indeed viable, in the same sort of manner? Why does it look so cool, but do less damage than skewer? the economy is not good right now, peopel have to work more and stuff, they come home to try to get a rise out of the game. If the veterans are like meh im tired of this animation, and the new people are all going to go try starwars anyway, and the people in between are trying to still enjoy the game, why continue to milk the same cow for 5 years? Animation has come such a long way since then, i think people will pay to play simply to look at them.
BUT ITS NOT FUN if everytime you want to enjoy the animation, people question your methods, call you gimp, because it simply is not as good as something like drakesbane.
Try being a drg lately anyway. short of being rediculously good at dealing damage, it is HARD to justify bringing this job anywhere inside abyessea, especially if you dont want to ruby mobs.; no native stuns, redundant weapon procs, 1 viable support job, /samurai always! (give store tp 1 to 99 drg? then maybe i can get a decent 5 hit without this 1 job? ). the defensive wyvern is so much better for cetain things, and i never get to use it with a 5 hit. it makes me a sad panda

[HimuraKenshyn]

Yeah drg empy ws blows we told our resident drg to understand we get his weapon but he still has to come whm to events lol.

[hideka]

With today’s test server update we have implemented all the aforementioned adjustments.

We plan on making adjustments as necessary after the version update takes place, so please try out the weapon skills with these adjustments and let us know your feedback.

Also, with this update, you will need to place merit points into the new weapon skills you would like to use and you will need to fulfill the below requirements:

-Level 96+
Talk to the Mog House Moogle and set your level to 96+

-Completion of the quest "Martial Mastery"
1. Talk to the Mog House Moogle and obtain merit points
2. Receive the quest “Martial Mastery“ from the Nomad Moogle in Ru’Lude Gardens
3. Talk to the Nomad Moogle again and complete the quest.

we have already given AMPLE feedback on the adverse effects of altering any of the current weaponskills in an adverse nature. you have continued to ignore the feed back we have given you, or the dev team has ignored it. Prepare for alot of canceled accounts in the near future. you guys are making the mistake of going back to 2005 tactics. this is a ginormous mistake. you will be shooting yourself in the proverbial Foot in profits if you continue to let down the player base like this.

you guys go so far as to call one of your most successfull periods of this game ( the abyssea period) a failure. i GAURENTEE you that your account reactivation numbers and new accounts created went up by a whole hell of alot compared to any other expansion set.

[hideka]

i for one will be dropping this game for WOW once the pandarea update comes out. its been my life long dream to be a pandaren brewmaster.

[Zhronne]

Pandas ftw!
Altough I hate posts like "OMG I'm dropping game X for game Y if you really put patch Z on live servers!!11!one!"
Like they care what me or you will do lol
Now if it was 50% of the FFXI population quitting things it would be different, but they're not THAT stupid, they're well aware that's not happening and that it's just a minority of us whining (put me in the group of whiners!)

[JiltedValkyrie]

To be fair to Entropy, BLM, WAR, and BST will now have a weapon skill on scythe comparable to Guillotine. And it restores BLM MP? Sounds great for soloing or for BLM to try out being a physical DD, for whatever it's worth.

I know that there are others out there like me who play jobs the way few others play them. I go into cruor parties as BRD/DNC and am allowed to be a main DD because I can keep up with the Empyrean holders (part in thanks to solo skillchaining darkness and distortion). There are so many ways to play a job. If they didnmt want BRD to be able to do this, they wouldn't have given it the ability to cap gear haste, possess loads of attack gear, and the ability to wield daggers (Mandau/Twash).

It's like BLU/WHM: an amazing healer and those who do play that style probably excel at it.

[hideka]

oh dont get me wrong, ive been playing this game for nearly a damn decade, ive never quit this game over anything. ive been playing wow for just about as long. most people dont actualy realize how poorly theyre treated in this game untill they go and play a diffrent game. if you run into a broken quest in this game what is step one for the gm's?

FF11 GM : Response time 2-4 Hours ( 10 minutes for auto response.)
Step 1: Question to determine if the player knows how the basic mechanics of the game works.
Hidden step 1.5: Never actualy look into the issue.
Step 2: refer them to a community Site (lol)
Step 3: Tell them to re install
Step 4: Tell them you cant help them any further and to have a nice day.

Wow GM (1-2 Hours some times less, depends on quest issues)
Step 1: Ask what part of the quest is broken
Step 2: try for yourself, if its broken proceed to 3A If its a playerside bug Proceed to 3b
Step 3A: Provide charachter with quest completion and all related rewards for the quest.
Step 3B: Reset the charachters quest to the begining and provide all related quest items that were lost due to reset.
step 4: Apologise for the inconvience and restore them to playability.

when wow playerbase says " hey guys, great game, but XXX is dumb, or XXX is too difficult, or XXX is broken" 9/10 their Development team will fix the problem or reach a middle ground with the player base expediently.

when final fantasy's player base says " hey guys, great game, but XXX is dumb, or XXX is too difficult, or XXX is broken" .02%/10 their dev team will fix the problem or reach a middle ground... eventually.

Case and point: when new summoner blood pacts were released on test server, all the pacts were displayed as "." and unusable. instead of adressing the issue, the community/gm/dev staff INSISTED that it was a user based error, when in fact it was a server side error. took them weeks to realize "whoops".

im by no means promoting another game here, its just seriously; we had a GREAT dev team for abyssea. it was this games GREATEST SUCCESS. Square enix has the balls to take that dev team away and put LOLtanaka back in charge so we can go back to the days of 1% drop rates and spending 2-3 years to try getting an item, or 30000 alexandrite. or half a year to farm ichor/nyzul points. i mean SERIOUSLY. get a goddarn clue, and PLEASE pass this message along to the development team:

YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG, YOU WILL KILL THIS GAME. YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO PLAYERS BEFORE YOU LISTEN TO YOUR OWN EGO'S. THIS IS NOT YOUR GAME, IT IS OUR GAME; WITHOUT US YOU ARE NOTHING. WITHOUT YOU, WE MOVE ON. THE SOONER YOU REALIZE THIS, THE SOONER FF11 GETS MORE SUBSCRIBERS, AND THE SOONER 14 STOPS SUCKING.