Limbus suggestion.

[Kristal]

Heya everyone!

Director Mizuki Ito was kind enough to stop by the forums and respond to a few questions during his busy schedule today.

In terms of enhanced gear, they will remain the same. Regarding new gear, we are looking into adding more jobs that can equip these gear items.

I'm kinda surprised to see they are not considering updating jobs on the older armor pieces. They have done so in the past for BLU and COR. They skipped PUP because they were still in the lolPUP mentality at the time, but this is 2012! DNC and SCH were added even later, but it seems they adopted the lolPUP approach for them as well.

It doesn't have to be a complete re-evalutation of every armor piece available, just the few iconic pieces of yore, especially when they see use in present-day upgrade schemes.

[Luvbunny]

You often wonder why they are being very defensive - adding more jobs that can equip the gears are not exactly game breaker since they have caps on damage reduction/haste etc anyway. Do they not have enough people to do the work? Are the code really a bunch of mess? SE really needs to give this group more fund to develop new content and maintain this game. And the team really need to work with the "international" mentality - there are other players outside japan that play and pay for this game.

[Camate]

Hey everyone

There was another follow-up by Director Mizuki Ito regarding Limbus.

I’m also thinking it might be a bit too much to ask to be able to do the new Omega and Ultima with just one party…

The new Omega and Ultima battles are being created based on the idea that they can be done with a single party, even without Ochain and Aegis holders. While having these would make it easier, the same could be said for other equipment, not just Ochain and Aegis.

Briarius was a really good example of game play where there was forewarning before a severely damaging attack was coming, so the stunner could get ready. Could you do something like this? Also, how about other methods for avoiding attacks?

These days stopping attacks with Stun is the mainstream.

(There are also quite a few other elements of forewarning and avoidance methods in Voidwatch and other HNMs).

Based on this and your feedback, we will be making it possible to avoid these special attacks via methods other than Stun.

[Economizer]

Based on this and your feedback, we will be making it possible to avoid these special attacks via methods other than Stun.

Does this mean Flash timings will become important?

[Ophannus]

Hope he doesn't mean using your 2hr within 2 seconds of the mob using it, or by using /kneel. We still don't have any way of avoiding PW'd Astral Flow unless there's a hidden thing to avoid it that nobody knows so far(maybe something ridiculous like using Soultrappers on lamps or something dumb like that). Perfect Defense doesn't count.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

even without Ochain and Aegis holders

Translation: MNK tank!

[Karbuncle]

Hope he doesn't mean using your 2hr within 2 seconds of the mob using it, or by using /kneel. We still don't have any way of avoiding PW'd Astral Flow unless there's a hidden thing to avoid it that nobody knows so far(maybe something ridiculous like using Soultrappers on lamps or something dumb like that). Perfect Defense doesn't count.

I thought having an Outside-of-alliance player Diaga the Avatars when they popped and running worked? Or is it an "Anyone in range is hit" Astral flow?

Could have sworn i saw a strategy revolving around outside RDM diaga'ing the Avatars... Was a long time ago however.

[Dragoy]

I thought having an Outside-of-alliance player Diaga the Avatars when they popped and running worked? Or is it an "Anyone in range is hit" Astral flow?

Could have sworn i saw a strategy revolving around outside RDM diaga'ing the Avatars... Was a long time ago however.

Don't know either way, but if that were a strategy intended by the developers (which I think was the point there), I might be a bit surprised as it seems more like abusing a game weakness than intended mechanics of a boss-fight (like any other "sac-pulling").

Actually, I'm not so sure if I would be surprised at all in the end, seeing how they do some things...

[azmodius]

I thought having an Outside-of-alliance player Diaga the Avatars when they popped and running worked? Or is it an "Anyone in range is hit" Astral flow?

Could have sworn i saw a strategy revolving around outside RDM diaga'ing the Avatars... Was a long time ago however.

Anyone in range is hit.

[Okipuit]

Greetings!

I have a bit more information in regards to the Limbus renewal status:

• Difficulty
Currently on the Test Server, we’ve only placed the monsters, but have yet to make adjustments to difficulty and balance. (We wanted players to get a feel for the system and what it was all about first, so we only implemented this aspect to start off with.)

The QA team is currently in the middle of making balance adjustments and we are planning to implement this during the next Test Server update or possibly the one to follow that so everyone can get a feel for the balance. We’d like you all to test that out and let us know your feedback.

• Implementation timing
As I mentioned, we still have some balancing and other adjustments to work on from mid-May to the end of May, so we are not planning to implement this content during the May version update. Once we have performed the right amount of testing and adjustments we will implement it.