[dev1047] Thoughts/Feedback on "Legion"

[wish12oz]

Because of what Tile said above. Ok, so imagine you could buy E. Body with Ichor. Most people I know have tens/hundreds of thousands (millions?) of Ichor these days. Ein would be even MORE dead than it is these days if you could just buy every single one of Odin's drops because nobody would ever have a reason to go in. If you designed Legion the same way, the event would instantaneously have a shelf life. Imagine if you could buy every single Limbus drop via Ancient Beastcoins and never have to zone into the area again. Imagine if you could buy every single +2 item in Abyssea with cruor. Bam, dead events walking.

MMO devs have to have some way of ensuring people actually do the content and fight the toughest monsters (e.g., WoW raids). Moreover, the events they design need longevity. It would be nice if all MMO items were obtained through points, but this just isn't realistic. Imagine, if you will, a scenario in Legion where people discover a way to farm a few smaller mobs ad nauseum and amass Legion points hand over fist. The event would be DOA. Anybody who enters would just farm that same mob over and over and nobody would touch the tougher bosses (e.g., Paramount Botulus Rex).

While in theory there is nothing wrong with being able to work towards everything you want, and not having to rely on building your own groups/LS or finding a LS with honest leadership, in practice what you are really asking for is a console RPG, not an MMO.

The solution to your problem is simple, add LOTS of good items, and create a way to make gil from it or something else useful. Lets use einherjar as an example again, lets say you're a WAR, you're gonna need e body, v helm, maybe v body, maybe shadow breastplate too. That's 4 items for 1 job, and doesn't get into being a completionist! Then you're going to need more e and p abjurations to tatter to augment your adaberk and shadow breastplate. After you get all this stuff, you can continue to do the event to get e/p/whatever abjurations to tatter and sell to make gil on.

This is a simple solution and makes the event worth doing basically forever, and by basically forever I mean until the gear from it is outdated by new gear. Everyone is always going to level new jobs and want new stuff for them. And using the earlier figure of 3 months to get e body abjuration, those 4 items alone are going to take you at least a year to acquire if you don't get them as drops. I think that's more then enough.