99 Weapons Rant (yeah yeah another)

[Natasha]

I would like to see the Forum clusterfucked with Topics/Threads to the lvl 99 stage 1 Trial (I'm serious) can people fullfill my dream ._.?

It seems people are getting tired of fighting a bit. I would still like to see it changed myself.

[Nala]

TBH the only trial that needs adjusting at this time is the ADL trial since they further lowered the requirements along with a few other changes they announced, its the only trial where you are subjugated to a time limit and physical limit of once a day.

At 10 drops from PW was withing the realm of reason, that is assuming the change to zeni per plate at 10x the going rate actually goes through.

So lets see:

1. Potential that you can fail to kill ADL.

2. Requires you to build pop sets under a time limit.

3. Limited frequency of access to ADL per day.

4. Lacks auxiliary drops worthwhile enough to attract any other player but relic holders.

5. Only drops 1 per fight

6. Fight requires PD from Alexander limiting your ability to fight multiple pops should you succeed in making more then one pop set.

7. Despite being an open access zone the intermediate NMs and ADL currently only have 1 set of ???

8. The number of relic holders vs any other type of weapon is a much higher ratio

Add all these factors together makes this trial really ill conceived, by comparison to PW where peeps can casually put together PW pop sets or VW which is up to date content that peeps actually spam thus empy upgrade items will be generated.

Here's my suggestion for the aforementioned issiues:

1. Apply the end tier VW NM AOE deal to ADL that is only the main target receives full damage.

2. Decrease the requirements for making an ADL pop set.

3. Compensate for the limited access by either adding other sources of umbral marrow or increasing yield per fight.

4. Revamp drops from ADL to offer a greater reward for outside parties assisting (like ive seen suggested 1-4 100 pieces).

5. Already addressed this.

6. Tone ADL back.

7. Increase the ??? for all NM's involved with ADL, assuming people actually manage to gather shout groups this can/could become the greatest block when several linkshells/groups are after ADL at the same time.

8. Pretty much either make all the above changes or scrap the marrow trail for 99 relic and rethink it because as i know you love to throw around the word balance well right now relic trials are anything but balanced by comparison to its counterparts.

[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.

[Nynja]

...the presumed items were dropped to 5/3/60 2 days ago...the trial still isnt babied at 5 adl items

[Babekeke]

Within 6 months of these trials going live, 90% of lvl 95 relic owners will have upgraded to 99. Whether they fought or bought their items.

[Nynja]

would you like to wager that?

[Babekeke]

would you like to wager that?

If it was possible, I would.

[Jasonw]

This isn't exactly true as they could figure they could put the people who are doing the upkeep on ffxi on a MORE profitable project and shut it down for that reason.

Right,they wouldn't want to risk letting there new MMORPG go down the pan for the sake of supporting both games when they can shift there full effort on to the game they think is going to have the most long term success.

But my other idea against what scribble said is that if it is the case they will let the game still run as long as it's making a profit why pour millions of $$$ into another mmorpg title when the last one is in a healthy profitable state?It's because no mmorpg hold's it's subscriber base for years on end and eventually they got to make something new to hold interest of not just old players but new-alike.

[Damane]

Within 6 months of these trials going live, 90% of lvl 95 relic owners will have upgraded to 99. Whether they fought or bought their items.

definitly not

[wish12oz]

Within 6 months of these trials going live, 90% of lvl 95 relic owners will have upgraded to 99. Whether they fought or bought their items.

Will you sell me upgrade items for relics?