Seriously, VW loot system..come on.

[Ravenmore]

I honestly don't see what's so difficult about making a system where the tickets have tiers in connection with what kind of armor you get. Each fight should have a ticket for a certain tier (ex. Pil = T3 ticket, Qilin = T3 ticket, Botulus = T6 ticket etc.) For example; you kill Kaggen and you pop the chest to find that there's no Mekira body in there.

...But wait, you still have a T3 ticket (99 stack-able and 100% drop) you can trade it in to get said body after you accumulate enough T3 tickets (Let's say 50 ~ 75 max T3 for Mekira). To ensure the proc system won't be ignored in favor of just throwing 15+ DD at it for a ticket, make 100% white give 2 or 3 tickets instead of 1. The hope of getting Mekira isn't shattered and you have enjoyable content that will still keep other jobs relevant.

You did right with the way Ancient Beastcoins worked. Trade them in, the vendor holds them for you and then you can "buy" what ever item you wanted. Why can't you do this with VW? Going 0/300+ is absolutely unacceptable.

It makes VW less painful for everyone. People can still get help with city clearances or Zilart clearance and so on due to having an incentive to get tickets. Harder VW mobs of the same tier (if they're even that difficult) won't be ignored because there's still a chance for the item to drop and you can sell the tickets if you get that desired drop. It's that simple.

That is not the logic SE works on and thanks to FF14 they have to wait to see if it will sinks or swim. So anything that extends the life of content while give players faulse hope is what they are after right now. It has to be that, I don't know what would make them look worse that or they really think they are special snow flakes.

Till 14 fails we will not be getting much of anything its been made clear by SE their focus is not on a game that has made them money but one that has only lost it while doing even more damage to their name. At this point FF11 is a mere plan B, while they milk it.

[Raksha]

I honestly don't see what's so difficult about making a system where the tickets have tiers in connection with what kind of armor you get. Each fight should have a ticket for a certain tier (ex. Pil = T3 ticket, Qilin = T3 ticket, Botulus = T6 ticket etc.) For example; you kill Kaggen and you pop the chest to find that there's no Mekira body in there.

There is nothing difficult about making a system that way.

SE wants the ticket system to work this way on purpose.


EDIT: not white knighting, I think the proposed ticket system is retarded.

[Runespider]

Till 14 fails we will not be getting much of anything its been made clear by SE their focus is not on a game that has made them money but one that has only lost it while doing even more damage to their name. At this point FF11 is a mere plan B, while they milk it.

Sad but true.

The recent resurgence in talent at making everything work in the most retarded way possible is removing whatever enthusiasm I(and probably others) had for Legion at an alarming rate.

I'm dreading legion, these guys that don't get what we tell them are making a huge event now. Not only will it have horrific drop rates but i'm sure it will end up being content for the very very few players that can get into one of the big shells and are lucky enough to be able to attend at the gather times. If FFXI goes back to "schedule/ls only" content then it will be the nail in the coffin, the thought of what I and many other players had to put up with in the past and staying up till stupid times of the morning to do content makes me want to puke.

[Mahoro]

I'm dreading legion, these guys that don't get what we tell them are making a huge event now. Not only will it have horrific drop rates but i'm sure it will end up being content for the very very few players that can get into one of the big shells and are lucky enough to be able to attend at the gather times. If FFXI goes back to "schedule/ls only" content then it will be the nail in the coffin, the thought of what I and many other players had to put up with in the past and staying up till stupid times of the morning to do content makes me want to puke.

Staying up till stupid times of the morning to do content is usually what happens when stuff ISN'T scheduled properly. o-O

[Khajit]

no. It's what happens when you aren't in x y or Z timezone that the lsleader is in.

[Brolic]

no. It's what happens when you aren't in x y or Z timezone that the lsleader is in.

hahah if you still have a ls "leader"

[Khajit]

hahah if you still have a ls "leader"

I'm not talking about abyssea content and before abyssea most stuff was done in linkshells so stop forgetting about the concept of context and making yourself sound like you shouldn't have been let out of the salt mines.

[Mahoro]

If you join a LS which isn't 2-3 timezones within your own, I'd say you've made the bed in which you have chosen to lie, and you have nobody to blame but yourself for staying up till stupid hours of the morning. No endgame event in the FF of 2012 takes longer than 2 hours and everything can be scheduled properly.

[Runespider]

If you join a LS which isn't 2-3 timezones within your own, I'd say you've made the bed in which you have chosen to lie, and you have nobody to blame but yourself for staying up till stupid hours of the morning. No endgame event in the FF of 2012 takes longer than 2 hours and everything can be scheduled properly.

I can understand that you are probably an EST player and have never had to struggle to find a LS in your time zone, EST and JP players are the majority so finding a shell isn't much of an issue. If you don't play in these 2 timezones then you have a few choices, stay up in the early morning to do events with EST/JP players, try find a server with a large population in your timezone or don't do endgame. Almost everyone in a decent sized HNMls at 75 cap had players in this position, staying up late to do content...they didn't do it for any other reason than they had no other serious choice.

A lot of players had to stay up very late to do stuff like Ein and it could take a long time to get shells for most other things like limbus/dyna. I used to really envy EST/JP players at 75 cap with how easy it was for them to find shells, this is one of the reasons I loved Aby content so much...it made this whole worry a non-issue. Schedules and time zones issues were a thing of the past, with big events they will surely be right back.

[Khajit]

Ls ending times more often than not tend to be extremely loose guidelines which makes "oh 15 minutes less sleep wont be too bad" turn into "why am i awaaaake? i should have gone to sleep an hour ago but they wont pop the item I'm in the lead for yet or admit they're gonna do it tomorrow." or any other number of things.

This is unless Mahoro expected me to find enough players to do 18 man events within a 26 square mile area that all happen to be on the same server.