[dev1047] Thoughts/Feedback on "Legion"

[Glamdring]

Will you be able to use the items you buy points with for crafts or synergy?

good god I hope not. There's enough whining on here already about busting your ass in ___ event only to get an ash log and a chocobo feather as it is. We really don't need another source.

[Greatguardian]

so it's leech-friendly, good to know, bad to play, got it.

1) Your gear is pretty leech-tier in its own right.

2) Your previous posts on this forum don't give me a much better impression of your "skill"

3) Don't invite leeches if you don't like them leeching.

4) This will probably mean that no one will invite you, so you may want to quit moaning while you're ahead.

[Alhanelem]

How is it "leech friendly" anyway? If not everyone in your party is performing to the best of their ability, everyone will get less points. "Leeching" will be far less rewarding than actually participating.

These are NMish monsters you'll be fighting. This isn't "Grind like abyssea and get rewarded for it."

[Tile]

it doesn't mean Leech friendly, what it means is that you might as well bring in as many people as you can if you after points cause you can kill and earn that much fast

[Babekeke]

They've made it 'Leech Friendly' because there's no way in hell that a RDM or a BRD is going to score as highly as a Ukon WAR. If they made the reward a contribution-based one, after a couple of runs where the WARs come out with 20k points and the BRD comes out with 1k and the healers come out with 5k, everyone would just bitch over who had to come mage and take longer to get their reward.
Maybe should have put a cap in where a player had to make a minimum of 20 WS, cures, buffs, enfeebles or whatever to reach cap, but I have no idea how difficult that would be to implement.

[Kristal]

Heya everyone

I got word back from the development team about the point system.

It's as most have been saying, you will receive points for every monster that you defeat. Regardless of how many players are participating, everyone will receive the same amount of points and the amount gained will not change based on difficulty (18 person/ 36 person).

Nice to see. Now hurry up with the content so I can buy an Animator +2 with the points

[Tile]

They've made it 'Leech Friendly' because there's no way in hell that a RDM or a BRD is going to score as highly as a Ukon WAR. If they made the reward a contribution-based one, after a couple of runs where the WARs come out with 20k points and the BRD comes out with 1k and the healers come out with 5k, everyone would just bitch over who had to come mage and take longer to get their reward.
Maybe should have put a cap in where a player had to make a minimum of 20 WS, cures, buffs, enfeebles or whatever to reach cap, but I have no idea how difficult that would be to implement.

guess im not as familiar with leeching as some people are. But im not planning on letting people in my run that are just going to afk. they try it and they getting a D2. as for someone paying and going in tio or somthing with there dual boxed whm. I say go ahead and let them, if they want to waste the gil and get hardly any returns no skin of my back.

[Seriha]

What about the quality of items?

Will they be lower quality than what you can receive inside? Will they be entirely different? Will you be able to use the items you buy points with for crafts or synergy?

It's been said the items the NMs drop inside will not be available from whatever vendor handles Legion points. As is, there are 3 equipment sets in the DATs that currently aren't in the live game, of which some believe they're going to be buyable with the Legion points.

Head: Attack+15 Haste+4% STR+7 Set: Haste+6%
Body: STR+10 DEX+8 Attack+10 Accuracy+10 Crit Rate+3% Set: Haste+6%
Hands: DEX+6 Attack+15 Haste+3% Set: Haste+6%
Legs: DEX+7 AGI+7 Attack+10 Evasion+5 Haste+2% Set: Haste+6%
Feet: STR+8 DEX+5 Enmity+4 Set: Haste+6%
96 WAR PLD DRK BST DRG

Head: STR+5 DEX+5 MND+5 Attack+10 Haste+5% Set: Crit Rate +5%
Body: DEX+6 AGI+6 MND+6 Acc+10 R.acc+10 Evasion+10 Haste+4% Set: Crit Rate +5%
Hands: STR+5 DEX+5 AGI+5 Double Attack+3% Set: Crit Rate +5%
Legs: STR+5 DEX+5 Store TP+5 Haste+3% Set: Crit Rate +5%
Feet: DEX+6 AGI+6 Evasion+5 Haste+2% Subtle Blow+5 Set: Crit Rate+5%
96 MNK RNG SAM NIN THF COR PUP DNC

Head: HP+30 STR+5 INT+8 MND+8 M.acc+3 Set: M.acc+5
Body: HP+40 MP+40 INT+10 MND+10 CHR+10 Cure Potency+5% MAB+5 Set: M.acc+5
Hands: MP+30 M.acc+7 Fast Cast+2 Enmity-4 Set: M.acc+5
Legs: INT+8 CHR+8 Summoning+6 MAB+3 Enmity-5 Set: M.acc+5
Feet: HP+25 MP+25 MND+9 CHR+9 MDB+5 Enmity-7 Set: M.acc+5
96 WHM BLM RDM BLU SMN BRD SCH

Not very impressive, I think, especially since you'll likely need to partake in a number of successful Legions to get a single piece. I'm rather underwhelmed by the mage set, personally.

[Babekeke]

guess im not as familiar with leeching as some people are. But im not planning on letting people in my run that are just going to afk. they try it and they getting a D2. as for someone paying and going in tio or somthing with there dual boxed whm. I say go ahead and let them, if they want to waste the gil and get hardly any returns no skin of my back.

There are people who have a whole alliance of accounts. They could happily enter and dual box a melee and a mage while their other 14 accounts sit out of the way accruing points for every run. If the items obtainable with points are saleable, they're £££$$$ in, or can just buy all items at once and trade them all to main char, since all 18 chars will accrue points at exactly the same rate.

[Kristal]

Not very impressive, I think, especially since you'll likely need to partake in a number of successful Legions to get a single piece. I'm rather underwhelmed by the mage set, personally.

PUP is missing on the mage set, so those items are probably placeholders. And looks like level-boosted perle/aurora/teal.