New 99 trials

[Sparthos]

So the "new" trials for the lvl99 ultimate weapons are as follows:

20 Umbral Marrow (ADL) for Relic Weapons
10 Mulcibar's Scoria (PW) for Mythic Weapons
60 Riftdross/cinder (Ig-Alima/Botulus Rex) for Empyrean Weapons

Credit to Byrth on BG and JP sources.

Just a 'lil commentary: Why 20 ADL items and not kills SE? With the abundance of Relic weapons, the high manpower requirement for ADL and the single drop per kill you're encouraging the oldschool tiering of players that you tried to escape with the previous trials.

No need to answer. I know the reason is to bottleneck the 99 relics due to the ease of reaching 95. Just talking to myself.

[Nynja]

The planned difficulty level for the corresponding Magian upgrade trials will be such that a majority of players with the appropriate level 95 equipment will likely be able to complete them.

seeing as ADL is still a crapshoot at 99, because of the blatant luck factor, the change accomplished nothing.

You guys really should have made it killshots so people can team up.

Realistically, you can only pop ADL once per day (sometimes you can get lucky on pops, and sometimes you get unlucky). Realistically, you're going to get a ~75% kill rate on ADL (if you kill the wrong clone twice in a row, your buffs will probably have wiped by then and you're done).

Since theres no teamup factor involved in the ridiculously stupid "get drop, turn in drop" system you guys want, you're pretty much looking at ~1 month per relic. Lets presume, in your 18 person alliance, which you WILL need for ADL, everyone has one relic, you're looking at a year and a half to upgrade everyones relic to 99a.


Once again, you guys have accomplished absolutely nothing.

[Vold]

What in the living hell is this crap here. I expected a DL kill spree because it makes sense, and the ADL shit for afterglow. 20 ADL is the REALISTIC trial for afterglow btw. Same with the other weapon trials. Just saying, SE.

[Taint2]

Lots of Relics will be stuck at 95, probably all Mythics (thats 33 days of zeni)

[Unctgtg]

I agree this is complete stupid bullshit. I won't take my anger out on the reps because they are just relaying the message BUT don't tell me these are just numbers put on the test server as place holders. Star Wars Galaxies and many other MMOs are gonna be getting my money very shortly if you don't change your stupidity SE.

Make it 20 DL kills so we can team up.
Or
10000 WS kills
paper
fragment
shard

Your comment that MOST of us will obtain. You are really kidding yourselves here.

[Lynchilles]

Wow. Just.... wow.

This is just about the dumbest thing I have seen in all of my time on FFXI:

"The planned difficulty level for the corresponding Magian upgrade trials will be such that a majority of players with the appropriate level 95 equipment will likely be able to complete them."

Are you effing kidding me?

[Unctgtg]

Wow. Just.... wow.

This is just about the dumbest thing I have seen in all of my time on FFXI:

"The planned difficulty level for the corresponding Magian upgrade trials will be such that a majority of players with the appropriate level 95 equipment will likely be able to complete them."

Are you effing kidding me?

They really are pushing their player base away. No FFXI means no funding for FFXIV so think about it SE

[detlef]

Still unreasonable.

[Alkimi]

20 for ADL and 10 for mythic is fine but make it kills rather than drops.

Linkshells will band together and grind out the kills if it's just killshots, if it's single drops they will just ignore it and I can safely say all my linkshell's relics will stay at 95.

In short I'd say change it to:

- 20x Arch Dynamis Lord kills
- 10x Pandemonium Warden kills
- 60x Either Botulus or Ig-Alima kills

This will also have the added effect of bringing items into the game for those 1 or 2 crazy people doing the HQ trial.

[Tamoa]

I don't know if I should bash my head against a wall, cry, laugh hysterically or just yell "I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT!!!".