Abyssea Update

[Yrusama]

personally I'm tired of having to get key items. not all of us have a big linkshell or group of friends to do these things, and getting help is like pulling teeth sometimes. mainly the problem is I don't have the pop set, which I don't feel like farming amber lights like crazy just to get.

also, I refuse to level BST. one job should not be the sollution to all problems.

[Elphy]

Its a two sided coin really. SE is the one who made empy's easy to attain and its the playerbase who has made it so you cannot do anything without e/r/m so no fingers can be pointed soley at the SE dev team.

BUT they need to adjust to the current times. Those of us stuck with nothing to do but grind aby for weeks and weeks on end without the chance at anything else wont have the highest retention rate, esp with ARR and ESO on the horizon. Sure players with 4 empys and 2 relics with swarm adoulin but there will be alot of us left behind, to keep solo grinding aby until we are up to par. But even empy+2 gear is outdated in some cases now so we still wont be totally up to par and still have difficulty getting into endgame.

Im a legacy member so have a ticket to ARR beta already and Im on the list for ESO, frankly even tho I have been with ffxi since 06 with only a brief hiatus post aby (hence the fall behind) SE likely wont be getting the fees for my 2 ffxi accounts much longer if things dont change and I can do SOMETHING other than vw and solo grinding aby/dyna. I'm already at the point of only logging in to do my assaults twice a week.

ARR and ESO wont kill the game but it will cause a dip in the current subscription rates Im sure at this rate. I'm not saying give me something free and easy. But since the playerbase demands an empy, either SE or the playerbase needs to change it so we have other options than grinding it out for weeks/months before we can start anything else. And you know the playerbase wont budge or suddenly develope a knack for cooperation.

Wasnt the whole point of making lvling easy to get us into endgame faster? I can get to 99 in a day, skill to 99 in another and spend the next 2+ months farming aby all by myself? Meh.

[Hoshi]

As far as +1 pieces go I think you're going to be stuck doing the quests if you can't get assistance as a newer player. Also, yes +1/+2 mobs are soloable by a few well geared jobs. The +2 mobs might even drop what you want without procs. The +1 mobs are a massive timesink to solo though. I got 1 seal from 6 amarillos. It was not the seal I wanted, and I needed more than 1 seal. I think questing would have been faster had I not begged some friends to come proc for me. I imagine those kinds of situations would be disheartening for a new player. Maybe make fellowship NPCs able to come in to abyssea and proc stuff for you?

[Fishyface]

Alot of people keep talking about SoA and how it might affect abyssea, at this point no one is really sure if there will be anything in SoA to "replace" abyssea.

Unless ive missed something i dont think they will make abyssea or voidwatch at this point obsolete because they have updated salvage, limbus, nyzul isle, and all of that to 99 cap so we would have a plethora of content to do that will still be current in some sense.

If its anything like previous xpacks like CoP, Wotg, and aht urghan we wont even see the endgame of that xpack until they have finished putting in the story through patches.

[Rustic]

Alot of people keep talking about SoA and how it might affect abyssea, at this point no one is really sure if there will be anything in SoA to "replace" abyssea.

Unless ive missed something i dont think they will make abyssea or voidwatch at this point obsolete because they have updated salvage, limbus, nyzul isle, and all of that to 99 cap so we would have a plethora of content to do that will still be current in some sense.

If its anything like previous xpacks like CoP, Wotg, and aht urghan we wont even see the endgame of that xpack until they have finished putting in the story through patches.

What's likely is we'll see "sidegrade" gear here, with a few marginal upgrades- which was a lot like what we saw when ToAU came into the picture. They -could- also go the WoW route at this point and simply make Abyssea gear obselete other than making entry-level Adoulin easier, giving us crafted/lowman drops that would allow people to gear up instead.