Since no one seems to have posted yet: Final LB fight

[Luvbunny]

Thank you Camate, please please make it so that there is the hard mode and easy mode. For those who love challenge can go for the hard mode, others who actually have real life things to attend, can choose easy mode Please cut down the leg works.... no need to punish people who have other things to do, to do more things that take hours and hours...

[Neisan_Quetz]

You want easy mode? Work for it.

One of the times I love the devs.

[scaevola]

You want easy mode? Work for it.

One of the times I love the devs.

FFXI's always been pretty good about giving the sense of rewarding preparation as much as execution.

This will also have the effect of staggering congestion even more, so cheers to that.

[Airget]

I do enjoy the way they are going about it, kinda reminds me of CoP where you would/could take the time to obtain the enfeebles needed to make the BCNM easier whether it would be the empty memories for promyzion, the liquid for the mammets, scales for the wyrm fight, salt for the bomb etc. While for some it may have felt necessary to have for others they may have been able to do it without obtaining said items and that's the fun in it all. if you want the challenge don't obtain the item, if you want to make it easier then take the additional time to obtain it.

[Luvbunny]

You want easy mode? Work for it.

One of the times I love the devs.

They want you to work for it either way. Hard mode - do it over and over and die over it, Easy mode - work for the items and if you still loose, spend your merit and keep repeating till you succeed. At least they are giving us options so both type of gamers can get some enjoyment out of it. I wonder if more people choose the hard mode or the easy mode.

[Siiri]

Stupid to waste all that time to develop 2 versions when the big killer will be congestion. Develop a version for 6 burning circles instead.

[Riggs]

o great more boring running around clicking on 20 ??? spread all over the maps, did you not learn from the 3 xpack's how rubbish this was. damn what am i talking about its se they never learn from anything

[Kalilla]

Stupid to waste all that time to develop 2 versions when the big killer will be congestion. Develop a version for 6 burning circles instead.

No one is forcing you to get level 99 as fast as you possibly can once the servers open up. You'll have all the benefits of getting level 99 in 2-3 days after than you would get when the servers open up. If you know there is going to be congestion the obvious solution is not to do it right when the servers open.

Waiting a day or two will help and probably make it more enjoyable. If you can't wait a few days and do other new content instead while you wait then there should be no surprises when trying to get into the battlefield. Sure, the congestion will last for more than just a few days but I think people should try to avoid it for the first day or two anyways.

They already explained why they wouldn't split it up between different battlefields, and the reason isn't stupid either. The battlefield area should be important when choosing the scene to fight this battle.

[Siiri]

Eh, someone put some math up that it will take 20 days for everyone to even get in. LOL Cramming the whole server in 1 room is lame.

[Kalilla]

Eh, someone put some math up that it will take 20 days for everyone to even get in. LOL Cramming the whole server in 1 room is lame.

If you have to get an item before, then there won't be a whole server in 1 room.

The whole server will be spread around multiple zones fighting the monsters that drop the item. That's going to be the annoying part of the process.

After that then there will probably be 20-30 people in the room.

Plus there will probably be people trying to make the battle easy so they will be spending even more time getting that done.

Also, not sure why it would take 20 days.

In 20 days you can easily have 280,000 battles holding up to 1.7 million players at the most, and at least 140,000 battles with 864,000 players.