What is this "game balance" you speak of?

[Luvbunny]

Gonna try EVE Online when my subscription runs out. Can you suggest anything else to try? That or I might just go "outside".

Perhaps going outside and play the game of "real life" is not a bad idea You can't cast magic and no one is going to help you with "balance" when things don't quite work out - it's rather hardcore challenge I would say, more difficult than AV or Pandemonium Warden. Or you can just play other console games - there are tons of amazing ones released this holiday season. Use your money for something else, and wait for another updates or two that will "balance" this game. The future of FFXI is becoming the grindfest of yesteryear and hamster wheel activities - for some reasons this all they can come up with, knowing that they have a new team leader.

[Alhanelem]

Gonna try EVE Online when my subscription runs out. Can you suggest anything else to try? That or I might just go "outside".

Of all the games you could consider as an alternative to FFXI, you choose this? EVE is one of the most brutal and cruel MMOs of the modern era.

[Xellith]

Of all the games you could consider as an alternative to FFXI, you choose this? EVE is one of the most brutal and cruel MMOs of the modern era.

You are saying FFXI isnt brutal or cruel?

[Nightfyre]

Ask this guy, he seems to know a lot about the topic.

[Urteil]

Ask this guy, he seems to know a lot about the topic.

I wish he'd go join the team for Hello Kitty Online.

[Luvbunny]

I wish he'd go join the team for Hello Kitty Online.

OMG let this be true please - that would be the best Christmas gift ever for the entire community. I think Hello Kitty online needs some challenge and not enough kitty wheel grind activities, not to mention that game seriously could use a few nerf bombs right and left.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

OMG let this be true please - that would be the best Christmas gift ever for the entire community. I think Hello Kitty online needs some challenge and not enough kitty wheel grind activities, not to mention that game seriously could use a few nerf bombs right and left.

I think I still have a free copy of that from pax 2 years ago laying around.

[Scribble]

I hate threads like this.

Anyway, it doesn't make any sense to try and balance the game yet. Bear in mind that we just gained 25 levels in about a year and a half after being at 75 for years; a level that most of the game's mechanics are based around. Since we'd been getting level increases about every 4 months it was pointless to try and balance the game.

Think of it this way:

Lets say you ate way too many rolanberry pies so you're trying to lose some weight for the summer. You start a training regimen and the pounds are flying off. Now, you don't go to the store every week and get a new pair of jeans knowing that they won't fit you the next week do you? What do you do? You get a belt and hold up what you have for now until your weight stabilizes.

Same concept here. Give all the changes a little time to settle in. We got a test server and I'm sure they'll continue to use it to balance the game in the future.

[Zemarin]

Balance....

Make a WS that's Strong Like *insert 60 weaponskill* and closes Darkness like *insert weak lvl 70-75 WS* but doesn't out do *insert emp weaponskill* and has a special effects like *insert lvl 80~ WS*