Let Producer Matsui Know How He Should Catch Up on 2 Years!

[Bleu_Lakshmi]

For the love of everything holy, please make the login process go through 1-2 screens instead of 8-10.

[Genzy]

Please make the Claustrum a viable staff for BLM that makes it better than the elemental magian staves combined. It's pretty much the only relic weapon that's completely useless.

[Urteil]

The beauty of the PvP system in FFXI is that the players/environments can be tweaked separable from all other game play systems. Please breathe life into the PvP system in FFXI by adding some incentive for the less courageous. The system has more depth than many realize and it seems to be entirely on accident.

I am not a fan of world "PvP" as it usually entails 5 guys versus some-dude-killing-flower-monsters, or punch-his-shit-in-when-he's-at-5%-hp. I am a fan of "world" PvP in siege environments or when I willingly go into an area that I am told is "dangerous".

However my goal is not to punk people killing mandragoras in East Sarutabaruta. My goal is to climb atop Paradimo Del Tor help the Burtgang/Aegis paladin who accepted my challenge up the mountain, dust him off, then beat the white off of him.

I hope that specified areas for PvP can be implemented or a "PvP-status" (as in for dueling), and all balances will be held seperatley from other content. This is 2012, the fallacy that by changing things in PvP the entire game will be destroyed is an archaic, dying, circa-runescape era. train of thought.

Before anything else is considered the systems for PvP must be changed slightly and in many ways that is the only thing that is wrong.



Please add dueling and the appropriate options for refusals and blocking requests. Make it possible outside of towns, or even in towns!
Add the ability for people to have a specialized rank based on their dueling status, or Ballista chevron status, change the color of the name, give them a special idle animation. (People go crazy for the smallest stuff. This seems like minimal developer effort for a large gain.)


Please remove the point requirement to reserve Diorama.
Please remove the official matches from the Brenner Arena.
Please streamline the menus for the NPC's.
Please do something about the scheduling of the Official matches.
Please add more instances of the Diorama in Rulude Gardens.


If you do ONE thing and disregard this entire post and NEVER touch PvP again PLEASE (and this is a Dark Knight saying this):
Fix the spell Break and Breakga they do not suffer from diminishing returns as all other enfeebles do.

Add cosmetic rewards (title, aura?, costume item etc.) To the official matches.
Add valuable consumables that can bought with ballista points and used in select areas, such as towns, for a handy reset!
Add convience consumable items such as multi-use warp scrolls, re-raise scrolls, or movement + items buy able with points earned by participating in matches. (There are many other options of course.)

Drastically increase the exp rewards for the winning team in Ballista (30,000+ exp).
Or give the option to recieve Conquest Points/IS/Allied Notes something (5-10,000~).
Or give the ability to choose a reward such as Void Dust that can be used in conjunction with other content.
Or give out a small amount of ancient currency to a team that scored enough cumulative points and achieved victory.
What the hell give out 3-5 alexandrite per person to the team that scored enough cumulative points and achieved victory.

But what if people just stand around and trade matches?
-I highly doubt such coordination were to exist, and people like me would come in droves just to mess that up and take it for ourselves.
But what if people just stand around and try to leech?
-The point requirement scored by achieving Ballista objectives would ensure activity and as you don't know your value until the end of the game - there is no way to guarantee you are doing the minimum. Also just like how I don't invite gimp people to my provenance runs, people will start to avoid you.




The beauty of this game is that there is no specified "set" for anything, we collect gear and use the sets as appropriate for the situation. Please promote a synergism between PvP and PvE by allowing the events in small ways to feed into the other. Isolating events by locking people into static sets is not the answer.

Keep the incentive for people to strive for legendary equipment by keeping it legendary in player versus player conflict, there is more to the game than thugging around.



Synergism:
The best example I can give is official matches giving 2-3 void dust to each person on the winning team or a straight amount of conquest points, allowing them to fuel their foray into other content.

There are more I'm sure but that explains the idea most concisely.



(...and perhaps if you are not too busy can you please make Bale Flanchard +2 add one more status effect absorbed to Absorb-Attri when used in conjunction with Nether Void. . . thank you.)

[ProfessorD]

This will be 2 seperate thoghts on some ideas.

First what about for fishing being able to rent a ferry for a few hours to go out fishing on the ocean, lakes, or a river.
You could make it where you can be randomly attacked by either pirates or mobs that pop up like a ferry. Also make it where you can invite friends to go with you so can have a small party out there.

[Anon]

I would just once like to be able to permantly change my race. I would even pay for it. After all this time, I chose wrong, and cant bear to start over

[Originalkord]

I would like to see an overhaul on the content that is entirely based too much on luck.

Voidwatch: The event mechanics are fine, I really have nothing to add to that. The reward system is horrendous at best. Cells were a welcome addition, and a step in the right direction; however, they still are not a practical solution to the player's complaints. For example, cells are not helping the fact that I am 0/150~ on Ogier's Gauntlets. Seriously this needs to change, and fast. Implement a point system similar to assaults, make me feel like I am at least WORKING towards something instead of this having be a complete and utter waste of my time. I don't care if items are 1000 "points" and you only get 5-10 points per fight. I am not saying it needs to be easy, but anything is better than the way it is now.

Neo Nyzul Isle: I'm sure its been said countless times in this thread so far, but you are forcing players to cheat in order to win at this event. SCH x2 Emp/relic/mythic DD x4 is the only job forumla that gives you even the slightest chance of success. I want to see something that will balance out the fact that this is strictly based on luck. Give us something that will help us to tip the scales in our favor, legitimately. There should be some corrolation between your progress in "old" Nyzul and the way you operate in Neo Nyaul. An example--how about if the person that takes you up has a runic disc cleared up to floor 100 in original nyzul, your chances of getting large, 10-15 floor jumps are increased? This will encourage people to complete the older content in order to do the newer content more effectively.

Anyway, those are just my thoughts. I'm starting to feel just a little bit disrespected over the fact I am spending my time playing a game, and making no progress.

[Hatushara]

Gay marriage in game. Cross-race is accepted, Big/small, and whole other weird scenarios.. think two males; or females should be able to get married.

[Chopski]

Couldn't see this mentioned, but it probably has. Let us enter nyzul isle solo please!

[TLGrunt]

Sorry if this have already been said, but i would like some light shed on how weapon skills will be revamped for each job. Speaking as a DRG I would also ask for some kind of unique way to spike dmg in hnm settings, ie an ignore def trait or a JA that can grant ignore def bonuses that can stack with weapon skills, maybe another jump that can share timers with said effect? I would like to also ask if a wyvern's tp would not be used when using breaths that heals status ailments.

[EggoWaffles]

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Nucleic_Implosion

Who ever created this ability needs to be fired.

First from the development team, then from a cannon, into the sun.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Please don't ever make abilities like this, ever again. It instantly removes my urge to do anything in the game.