Things I Think SE Should Have Done By Now...

[Dezdemona]

I definitely agree about maybe paying a small fee to change your hairstyle/face etc. It wouldn't hinder the game any the way changing a race would do because of base stats etc. Just a simple cosmetic makeover lol. Maybe they could do a once every 3 months thing or something. Who knows.

I also think that they should have dropped the Ps2 support in Japan also so they can do a graphics update on the game already ><.

[CalamityXI]

-Implement a "wardrobe" type system so you can wear gear for the looks. I.E. you're in the best gear you can get but are running around in your AF because it looks awesome.
-Make certain visual effects a buff. I.E. angelwings so they're not just there for 3 seconds.
-Make mog house furniture interactive, so you can actually lay down in a bed, etc.

[Preed]

How about:
- A way to trade without being five feet from each other, kind of like the item delivering system; Go to your mog house, see you trade message(s), and respond with either a trade and OK or just reject it.
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[doctorugh]

Fix Additional affects of certain (Broken) Blue Mage Spells so that they accually land.

Option for straight PVP in a seperate zone (one on one or team v team) with some reward of exp or perhaps point based side-grade items.

[Horadrim]

Reduce EXP in Abyssea by 50%

Way too many Lv. 99's with horribly gimped skills running around on all servers. It's a pandemic that needs to be stopped.

Better option would be to add places where you can skill up in a productive fashion. The problem isn't s much abyssea (people woth dealing with go out and skill up -- the people who don't you shouldn't be grouping with anyway, that's a level of shittiness nerfing abyssea won't fix.) The game has always been long overdue for a method of skilling up that doesn't require hours unending and luck.

[Rustic]

Reduce EXP in Abyssea by 50%

Way too many Lv. 99's with horribly gimped skills running around on all servers. It's a pandemic that needs to be stopped.

Require players to defeat Maat to be found worthy to go in Abyssea.

Problem solved.

[Rustic]

Better option would be to add places where you can skill up in a productive fashion. The problem isn't s much abyssea (people woth dealing with go out and skill up -- the people who don't you shouldn't be grouping with anyway, that's a level of shittiness nerfing abyssea won't fix.) The game has always been long overdue for a method of skilling up that doesn't require hours unending and luck.

Summoning skill needs higher skillup rates, period.

Any other magic skill only takes a big ol' worm and patience. I can walk into Dangruf, take two minutes to park myself near the nearest W. Grub and have my Divine skill capped in a hail of Banish/Banishgas while doing the spell-dodging dance at max range.

Marksmanship/Throwing? See above, just marching up the ranks of VT-IT targets as you do. Heck, get a mess of exp in the process. Bard songs too. Sleep the worm, spam non-damaging debuffs, Lullaby when it wakes up, repeat until capped.

Melee is ludicrously easy. The only tough ones are defensive skills, and if S-E hadn't stuck a short circuit into the exp system, this would never have been a problem in the first place. As it is, most players can pick up a decent cheap -PDT set and /DNC their way into getting those skills done on various mandragora mobs without much trouble, at least up to L75 skill levels- at which point, they're safe for Abyssea-level skilling up (worms, duh).

[Horadrim]

Summoning skill needs higher skillup rates, period.

Any other magic skill only takes a big ol' worm and patience. I can walk into Dangruf, take two minutes to park myself near the nearest W. Grub and have my Divine skill capped in a hail of Banish/Banishgas while doing the spell-dodging dance at max range.

Marksmanship/Throwing? See above, just marching up the ranks of VT-IT targets as you do. Heck, get a mess of exp in the process. Bard songs too. Sleep the worm, spam non-damaging debuffs, Lullaby when it wakes up, repeat until capped.

Melee is ludicrously easy. The only tough ones are defensive skills, and if S-E hadn't stuck a short circuit into the exp system, this would never have been a problem in the first place. As it is, most players can pick up a decent cheap -PDT set and /DNC their way into getting those skills done on various mandragora mobs without much trouble, at least up to L75 skill levels- at which point, they're safe for Abyssea-level skilling up (worms, duh).

Leveling Defensive skills and magic has been a problem every since ToAU when you gained the ability to level way faster than ever before. The first time I hit level 70+ it took me ages, and leveling up skills was a natural part of that, but as soon as they added areas where you could completely forgo the complication and skill of actually having to use balanced parties isn't of just TP-burning.

If you want to blame Abyssea, then you have to blame the patches back in what, 2005-06? That reduced mob HP and increased EXP making it take less time to level up. The problem isn't specifically that they made leveling faster, its that they didn't add any kind of compensation to the speed of skilling up. Frankly, at this point, skill points should be received as percentage of the EXP you get -- that way you naturally skill up all of your primary skills as you farm merits/do events.

Meanwhile, like I said, people who actually are worth playing with grind out their skill ups regardless -- the problem with people who are shitty at playing isn't necessarily part of the slowness of skilling up; those are just bad players who refuse to do what they need to do.

EDIT: I dunno. I think the original post I was talking about was just blaming the wrong thing for having to deal with bad players.

EDIT 2: o_O Rustic? I remember you...

[Preed]

...My noob post is turning into a Abyssey/Anit-BookBurnParty debate. :B

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