I'm sure we both are, I can understand the idea that price could go down, myself I would like the idea of them being somewhat cheap, but it comes down to a few options. You have 3 T3 Zilart NMs for pouches. Aello, hard, has annoying pets you will need a PLD for, and can cause trouble if spells arnt stunned/procs arnt coming at a steady pace, drops nothing notable outside of the Swords, Plates & possibly Pants. Uptala, annoying, has pets, but drops a good body piece with higher demand that more people want, and can be made a joke if fought right, also drops plates. Qilin, easy to kill, pets come in midfight and are easily avoidable so long as the fight is done quickly enough, drops good dagger for THF or DNC, along with plates & a nice STP neck with some accuracy.
Something that worries me the most about this however is probably the fact of shouts, I watch shouts often and so far as things are on this server there are normally 1~2 Qilin & Uptala shouts a day, sometimes both in 1 shout doing them back to back, however... Aello has a shout every 2~4 days at best, sometimes I go a week without seeing them, it is not due to lack of trying or missing them, I watch on AH.com when not in Jeuno and I afk in Jeuno when I sleep, they very rarely happen, and unless this changes I see the price being fairly high because of it, that in itself may very well heighten the amount of partys after Aello though, so I cant be sure.
The only way people can keep prices inflated is if you people buy them. The pulse cells are worthless to someone who can't use or doesn't want the item, so any price is better than nothing for them.
But don't be mistaken that they'll try and milk it, just don't buy it until it reaches a price you deem alright.
If the price is insane, don't buy it. Price eventually goes down, only stupid impatients will keep the price up.
And then we complain that SE never does anything worthwhile, because the things they do impliment are unsupported as a result of conditions such as these.
Screw spiffy little tickets. Allow people to add any of their pyxis spoils to the treasure pool. A player should be in the fight to get a reward, not lurking in Port Jeuno spending the big gilz.
5 cells are also fail, look at the idea of it in general, you have to buy 5 of an item from someone who basically got your drop already but turned it into a cell instead of taking it to make 1 of the same armor, I wonder why we need 5 anyways, is the armor made so where its genetically bonded to the person who gets it in their box rewards, then you must break off pieces of other pieces of that same armor to have a man hiding behind an outpost put it together the same way it was inside of the box, but now it genetically locks to you?
It's “OK” because in the grand scale, it is balanced, because some people do get stuff.
Probably not the best place to put this but... until I think of a better thread: I've been trying to think of the best way to put it for a long time, like at least since I did about 273 runs of the Egg Enthusiast, and other such quests where it almost always seems like you get more of certain type of seals (which is exactly what happens).The unfortunate thing is, that these numbers usually need to be around the thousands for people to actually see the drop rates balance out, and what is more, this kind of a system is definitely discriminating against any and all individuals, some more than others (did I hear someone mention luck?).
- Player A does the run for 100 times, and gets lots more of the item he, she, or other does not want.
- Balance -- activate!
- Player B does the run for 100 times, and gets basically the opposite items.
I think this is usually why players will report messed up drop-rates (though at times, there actually was something wrong).
Blubb ! !! !
...or so the legend says.
Hey guys, I can see this thread has some great points being made, but we should try not to let it get derailed through personal attacks on one another. We appreciate all of your enthusiasm toward FFXI, so let's try and keep it constructive!
I've gotten a Pulse Cell for Mex Harness, I sold it for 750k, think that's reasonable.
douches will oversell anything for profit in the game, someone was shouting to sell ancient beastcoins for 50k in our PJ yesterday night...basically everyone logged on shot him down, and helped inform players that he's over 500% the original price of the items.
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