Skill

[Xine]

and not just from being underskilled. player skill has gone out the window because of atmas. mages that dont know how to conserve mp, melees that blindly WS at the start of fights. "tanks" that dont know how to tank properly, the list goes on. atmas have become a major crutch on the game, and i think the biggest mistake that SE has ever made.

I think every player who has been on this game pre-abyssea has seen this, esp anyone who has done any sort of endgame ranging from easy stuff like Dynamis to the more complex things like Salvage (back when caps were 75 mind you, now its all a joke at 90.) It would be nice to see some of the Endgame activities like Dynamis, Limbus, Salvage and Einherjar make a come back, not them specifically, but something resembling them and WITHOUT the ability to use Atmas because as everyone here has said time and time again, "Atmas and Abyssea's Cruor buffs have gimped player skill."

Its easy to say "stop playing with noobs" but when 90% of your server is noobs because of Abyssea thats impossible not to do. The older players who had any real knowledge of this game and how to play disappeared BECAUSE of Abyssea and how much easier it is to low man (3-6 man Dynamis, solo-3 man Salvage etc.) and makes the gear they worked years to acquire not all completely useless, but less worth using than they used to be.

I look forward to the new changes they are making in the game but I don't want to see every new form of endgame to come take place in Abyssea cuz its bad enough with the way people play now. Yea sure everyone loves Atmas and wants to see high dmg on everything they do, theres a time and place for everything even to see high damage, and certain situations. Idiots running through.

I think I can speak for the older player base when I say bring back some of the older methods of playing, new methods are nice and all, but face it, without Atmas half the people playing aren't that great at their jobs.

My Warrior sucks cuz I had to leech it in abyssea from 68-90 and its not a job I concentrate on getting gear for, however I've been working on it in spare time to make it fail less. My main jobs are Ninja, Thief, Blue Mage and Black Mage, no I have no Empy weapons (mainly cuz theres nobody online I know anymore that aren't abyssea burned fail, or cuz of people blocking me and what few friends I do have from killing the NMs) so I would like to see some new ways for Empy weapons to be obtained, the multi-pop NM idea sounds great, 5 Gukumatz's up at once for ppl to spam claim instead of fighting 10 other groups bot claiming 1 spawn as soon as it pops is the biggest headache I can think of next to having to farm up 150-200mil for a relic/mythic.

[Harpalina]

Abyssea is great, but FFXI has lost the charm it used to have back in the pre-ToAU days. I actually miss the days of seeking for a party in Garlaige Citadel and Yhoator Jungle. Hell, I even miss the Dunes! It's an extremely depressing sight to see Dunes so vacant now...I hardly recognize it. It's great to be able to solo so well now, but I hate how the game's on "Fast and Easy" mode now =\