99 Weapons Rant (yeah yeah another)

[Babekeke]

Why do people defend content that no one wants to do?

The gripe from most isn't that this takes effort. It's that it takes bullshit effort. Doing an ADL run is already dull enough to prevent 99.9% of players from ever even attempting it and you think it's a good idea to force people to kill it dozens of times? It's not too hard it's just not even slightly fun. It's frustrating and annoying and it's a shitty thing to force on people.

And you say I don't understand? I understand completely. If you want to get the best weapons in the game, you have to do stupid retarded stuff.

Look back to ffxi 9 for example. You happily play through the game and as you get to quite a high level, you think "I'll get a guide to see if there's a really good weapon that I can get that I've missed". In said guide, it says that you actually had to NOT open several treasure chests as you progressed through the game. 1 of which was even in the prologue before the main part of the game even started. If you want the uberweapon, you now have to completely restart the game to get it.

You have 2 choices. you can stick with your level 95 weapon, which is superior to all weapons apart from the level 99 versions; or you can do stupidretardedtrial to upgrade to 99. You have a choice. Noone is forcing you do do anything.
Personally I choose not to do them. You may all make your own choices.

The other thing is that people insist on ciomplaining about this content even though it hasn't even been implimented yet.

[Spiritreaver]

And you say I don't understand? I understand completely. If you want to get the best weapons in the game, you have to do stupid retarded stuff.

Look back to ffxi 9 for example. You happily play through the game and as you get to quite a high level, you think "I'll get a guide to see if there's a really good weapon that I can get that I've missed". In said guide, it says that you actually had to NOT open several treasure chests as you progressed through the game. 1 of which was even in the prologue before the main part of the game even started. If you want the uberweapon, you now have to completely restart the game to get it.

You have 2 choices. you can stick with your level 95 weapon, which is superior to all weapons apart from the level 99 versions; or you can do stupidretardedtrial to upgrade to 99. You have a choice. Noone is forcing you do do anything.
Personally I choose not to do them. You may all make your own choices.

The other thing is that people insist on ciomplaining about this content even though it hasn't even been implimented yet.

Wasn't that FFXII? The Zodiac w/e?

[cidbahamut]

And you say I don't understand? I understand completely. If you want to get the best weapons in the game, you have to do stupid retarded stuff.

Realy that's already been covered by just building the base 75 weapon in the case of relics and mythics, and heavy metal plates covered it for Emps. Everything from that point on should just be routine maintenance.

You have 2 choices. you can stick with your level 95 weapon, which is superior to all weapons apart from the level 99 versions; or you can do stupidretardedtrial to upgrade to 99. You have a choice. Noone is forcing you do do anything.
Personally I choose not to do them. You may all make your own choices.

That's not a choice, that's bad game design. No one's forcing them to keep playing a game with many poorly thought out design choices either. You let stuff like that slide often enough and the playerbase will just pack up and leave. It's not like FFXI is the only game on the market, and there are plenty of more promising options on the horizon.

[Lafaiel]

And you say I don't understand? I understand completely. If you want to get the best weapons in the game, you have to do stupid retarded stuff.

Look back to ffxi 9 for example. You happily play through the game and as you get to quite a high level, you think "I'll get a guide to see if there's a really good weapon that I can get that I've missed". In said guide, it says that you actually had to NOT open several treasure chests as you progressed through the game. 1 of which was even in the prologue before the main part of the game even started. If you want the uberweapon, you now have to completely restart the game to get it.

You have 2 choices. you can stick with your level 95 weapon, which is superior to all weapons apart from the level 99 versions; or you can do stupidretardedtrial to upgrade to 99. You have a choice. Noone is forcing you do do anything.
Personally I choose not to do them. You may all make your own choices.

The other thing is that people insist on ciomplaining about this content even though it hasn't even been implimented yet.

I don'r remember having to wait for 18 of my friends to log in to get that weapon in FF9 though, maybe its been so long I just don't remember right.... Back then I though I had a party ready to go at all times, guess they didn't have anything better to do.

[Nynja]

You have 2 choices. you can stick with your level 95 weapon, which is superior to all weapons apart from the level 99 versions; or you can do stupidretardedtrial to upgrade to 99. You have a choice. Noone is forcing you do do anything.
Personally I choose not to do them. You may all make your own choices.

Then why is SE adjusting the 95 cap fight? you can stick with your level 95 character, which is superior to all previous levels apart from the level 96+; or you can do stupidretardedtrial to break the cap to 99. You have a choice. Noone is forcing you do do anything.

Yet SE is babying the lvl cap trial.

[Babekeke]

Then why is SE adjusting the 95 cap fight? you can stick with your level 95 character, which is superior to all previous levels apart from the level 96+; or you can do stupidretardedtrial to break the cap to 99. You have a choice. Noone is forcing you do do anything.

Yet SE is babying the lvl cap trial.

That fight wasn't hard in the first place with a decent setup.

And SE will almost certainly be 'babying' these trials. Be it this year, next year or whenever.

Edit: Oh look I'm too late...

Greetings.

Some of you have already posted the information that was on the Japanese forums, but here it is again, officially.

Required number of items
As a result of adjustments to match the trial difficulty, the below are the current numbers that are planned for the stage 1 version of the weapon upgrades.

• Relic Weapons: 5 items
• Mythic Weapons: 3 items
• Empyrean Weapons: 60 items

※As we are currently carefully looking into the number of items required for stage 2, we will let you know the specifics once the information is available.