Ok...let me level with you here SE...

[Psxpert2011]

Such is not the deffinition of an MMO sadly. Most are simply just people playing the same thing.

... believe this?

There is, actually. This is a MMORPG. It's meant to be played with other people. Having an AoE effect will help your party and thus help you. For people wanting epeen, this is useless (even counterproductive), for people wanting efficiency and a weapon that will help their party, linkshell and friends, and by extension themselves, this is pretty cool. If only the AoE effect wasn't sucky, that is, but that's another issue altogether. There's nothing wrong with the logic behind this. And if it's at all doable in the future I'll also try to get to this point.

Not the definition that makes obvious sense to some human beings but yeah, your absolutely right! Motivation and cooperative community driven, even if it's just a sprinkle. Some just don't get it.

[Crysten]

To the development team:

I don't know if you realized this yet, but the playerbase has long outgrown the need to spend endless manhours achieving the goals of a single person. Even more so when multiple people have relics now. The only way these trials should have been designed is kills, not items. That would promote far more teamwork and make us far happier than this tripe.

Once again, your vision of the game and what the players expect from the game are completely detached. Whenever you guys feel like designing content the players would appreciate rather than content that appeals to your morbid sense of masochism, by all means, let us know.

Regards

The playerbase

[Coldbrand]

Yeah items is terrible, let any currently existing ones be traded in to be counted as a killshot or refunded for some item or gil or something. No one wants to play gear up the LS PLD lead's shield for a year.

[Damane]

its retarded beyond believe...

[Nervosa]

I don't care if the numbers are temporary, why even put a number then.
Seems like the Dev Team just wants to troll the community and get a reaction.

The requirement for Stage 2 should be what you have listed for Stage 1. (maybe x2 as much if you want to keep it "exceedingly difficult")
If Stage 1 is for the majority of players, it should be something random people could get together and do while still being difficult for someone to solo or duo. (like have weapon equipped while killing PW or ADL)

With the current numbers, the game will be dead before anyone finishes a stage 2 to have a glow effect that doesn't help them at all.

Alot of people use FFXI as a glorified chat room. You are not offering any new content to keep plays in the game and with each dev update you just slap them in the face.

[Insaniac]

Why is it that every time I start a sentence with "I don't think SE is dumb enough to..." the end of the sentence is always something they turn out to be dumb enough to actually do.

[Cowardlybabooon]

You guys actually want the FINAL trial to take only a week? I agree with SE on the amounts shown for V1. V2 is insane though.

[Nervosa]

You guys actually want the FINAL trial to take only a week? I agree with SE on the amounts shown for V1. V2 is insane though.

Not one week, but it shouldnt take almost a year to finish (Stage2) if you're able to brainwash your LS to do your bidding.
It seems dev team is still stuck somewhere in 2003/04, the players and way people play have drastically changed since then.
The game is showing its age, SE bombed on 14 and even WoW is losing people.
SE should listen to the community, realize how asinine things are (not just 99 weapon trials) and stop throwing around the word balance.

[Babygyrl]

You guys actually want the FINAL trial to take only a week? I agree with SE on the amounts shown for V1. V2 is insane though.

To put it Bluntly YES, it takes enough Time to build the thing from scratch to begin with it still takes at least months to build the relic from stage 1 up to 99, relic owners have done ENOUGH item collecting already. Emps you can build in a freaking week! and mythics requirements are just ridiculous period so thats another story. Relic Owners do not want to do any more item collecting! They should make the last trial fun, Enjoyable and Doable in a reasonable amount of time.These are clearly NOT. Hell all of them should.

[Nynja]

You can spam Alima/Rex all day long with 18 people and possibly get all 60 dross/cinders in a day. The same effort in the same time frame wouldnt even dent the mythic/relic trial despite the much lower requirement.


lol