Getting one multiple job best-in slot piece of gear for every member of the group once a week is really good.
Which should lead to the obvious conclusion: This gear won't be best in slot for very long and spending all this time on it because of lame ass luck factor is a waste of time.
I'll reiterate my previous prediction: When all is said and done, this gear will be about as good as the old nyzul gear was at 75. The hassle and luck crap that goes into getting it is too much.
The gear will only stay best in slot for a very short time and as such should only take a very short time to get.
If you think of it lets say you average at 1 piece a week on a 30min a day event. That is 3 hours and 30 mins a week to get 7+ gear (including drops + the KI for 1 peice for each person) Thats 1 peice of very good gear every 30 mins and is alot quicker and better then aot of other peices of gear.
If thats also your attitude why bother with any gear cause chances are that most gear will be outdone by something. All gear takes effort to get also so why even bother playing this game if you think spending 30mins a day for currently the best gear for different situations then really what else you going to do in that time? I've seen people take alot longer for 1 peice of emp+2 gear.
Last edited by Aisu; 06-21-2012 at 06:40 AM.
This would make sense if a significant number of (non cheating) players could get 1 piece every week, but the majority of players are not getting anywhere near that. The current event will take most players a long time to finish even 1 set. The sets will be overshadowed by other gear before most people finish getting it.
Any event where the rewards are outclassed before you even get them is a waste. That's why events die. It's also why it's dumb to make this event this hard (read luck based).
If the gear was OMFG good to the point where everyone knew that it wasn't going to be replaced in 6 weeks, then it might make sense to spend massive time getting it. But that is not the case at all. If you can cheat and get a full set of gear in a couple of weeks, then this event is worth doing. Otherwise, you are better off working on something that will last. Hence the distaste for the event.
Why spend hard earned money and time pulling a slot machine that dispenses coupons that expire before you can use them?
Last edited by FrankReynolds; 06-21-2012 at 07:00 AM.
for starters its not about getting the full set, of course its nice to have but each piece of gear is good in its own way and i find it hard to beleive how you can easily outclass a phorcys Korazin for any STR based Weapon skill especially. 16STR 50atk and 7% WS dmg, I could see it if our level was to rise further like alot of gear we got from abyssea was outclassed everytime the level cap increase. We are lvl 99 its not getting higher so i find it very hard to beleive anything you say.
It is very well possible to do this without cheating you just have to know what your doing and be well geared to begin with then you just have to keep trying. SE put other gear for those that are not able to do that at other floor levels they did not want the 100 peices to be easy to obtain since it is such amazing situational gear. Like they said if they made it easier they would have to nerf the gear. Just because some people can't do this event they believe everyone who is succeeding is cheating.
Last edited by Aisu; 06-21-2012 at 08:02 AM.
Nyzul is not best in slot gear, it's situationnal gear.
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Question for those currently not doing the event due to sch/ luck / not having xyz job.
if they removed the luck from the event 100% lets say by removing lamps added timer pause and adding a proper waiting room while also fixing some of the jump ratio's. So you need to clear 10-15 instead of 15-25 floors
BUT in response for doing so they crank the level off all the mobs up to 95-99 on trash and higher for bosses etc. The higher HP , def , dmg delt and overall kill time of mobs doubles and triples. The likelihood of getting a kill all floor raises sharply. Now for most groups this event now becomes a skill/gear check with the occasional run killers in place becoming more frequent.
Would players be more content with this content if it had such a high level of entry that 90% of the player base couldn't clear it? Because that's the kind of change you have to assume they will make. SE is not know for letting you have you cake and eat it to.
Other than making the "Kill all" floors more common than they already are, this would probably make it more skill based in the end so long as luck is knocked down enough for it to be balanced and winnable. I am however doing NNI still so if you want to ignore my input do so as your question was to those who are not.
I personally think this would be the better way to do it. If you weren't good enough to clear 100 at the begininng, there would still be a glimmer that you could do it later. Maybe get to 60 on a consistant basis. Use that gear until you can reach 80. Get the 80 gear to eventually reach 100. I would see that as progress, though I bet a lot of others would see it as a waste of time.
The way I see it now is that there is no hope to win if you are not willing to cheat. It wouldn't be a matter of getting better gear, understanding the game better, having your group function as a better team. It would be about where you are willing to draw the line when it comes to following game policy. And I personally don't think players should get better rewards because they are willing to use a separate set of rules from the rest. (grumble, grumble, kids these days, always cheating and thinking nothing of it)
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