The Flame Geode Thread...... Again.

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1. Answered your question, via I said it would not harm anything except for people that farm them for gil. 2. If you think a fire path weapon is impossible, you need to reconsider playing this game. Casual players on FFXI can accomplish making a relic in 3 months if they set their mind to it. That's TWO hours a day. To me that's pretty casual on FFXI. IF you play less than that, I'm sure the dev's are not concerned with pleasing the people who are more than likely not going to stick around. You can accomplish alot with 2 hours in FFXI. Stop complaining this is "impossible". Me having common knowledge of a game makes me hardcore? Dude I play 2 hours a day on average and like once a week I sit down and game for a day. That's hardcore? No. It comes down to understanding what to do with your time and how to have fun with your time. If you can't farm the damn geodes, shout for them or camp the auction house. UTILIZE WHAT YOU'RE GIVEN. STOP ASKING FOR THEM TO MAKE IT EVEN EASIER. It's called stupidity, not bad design.Also if they have the knowledge to login to these forums to bitch about it, they could also look up ways to obtain gil and ask the actual hardcore gamers on sites such as ffxiah.com or wiki.bluegartr.com for information on how to be more successful on FFXI Have a nice time. Done with this thread you lazy panzies. GO dev's for stickin it to the idiots.

If someone is farming these for income then they are seriously doing it wrong. So, either you are one of those farmers or you're just trolling. "Just deal with it" is not a valid view point to have here by anyone whom is not trying to lol farm flame geodes for gil. The truths of the matter are known and well documented. Fire weather blows and SE in all their wisdom decided to give geodes two uses: Trials and Goldsmithing. It was an issue perhaps "fixed" by not including GS applications for the newer versions of these items after they saw the chaos with geodes(maybe they do now, I don't know), and if that is the case they certainly have done nothing to solve the geode problems. Their answer is an remarkable "deal with it, it's the way of things" although I shouldn't be too surprised because that has often been their stance through out the years.

They'd be partly right. Fire weather was always rare and obviously meant to be so. If they provide aid in this case they'd have to provide aid in many cases just to be fair about it. The reason I say "partly right" is that they already went there when they raised the level cap. The game has changed a huge deal since that decision was made. Perhaps it's time they go all in and say goodbye to "the way of things." They gave us the trials and geodes. It's on their heads to make things right and balanced. If they don't then it's just hypocritical to nerfbalance everything but what they don't want to. If you're going to balance then balance fairly, and not selectively. Perhaps pointless to point out with a new chief in town. We'll see in the near future whether he'll be about status quo or positive change...