[dev1000] Dynamis Reborn!

[Zebra]

ok i freely admit im lazy and cant be bothered to read all these pages but i just have a question which i hope SE will answer....

If you no longer require reservations for dynamis does this mean anyone can just jump in see if some af/currency is in the pot and lot it????

If so why? thats the most stupidest idea ever... I've spent 5 yrs earning dkp points so I can lot gear now they totally worthless as someone from another ls or from no ls at all can swoop in and lot gear earned by others.

please for the love of god SE say you have thought about this and it isnt just lets make dynamis like WoE/Campaign

you saved up DKP? good job digging your own grave, SE didnt make you save up all those DKP, you did, you joined a linkshell with a DKP system. there is a few, if any usefull pieces still in dynamis

THF hands
RDM head

thats it, actually, even the rdm head is useless, you barely resist enfeeble magic unless the mob is immune, and the auto-refresh can be gained from wivre hairpins in abyssea - konch, so congratulations, you wasted 5 years on one piece of gear (which isnt gamebreaking anyhow).

[Ilax]

They should make E.body drop from Wild Rabbit while they at all this change, why not Twilight gear from the Orc in the same zone.

i feel sorry for you Whitewing, no worry, you not alone feeling that way. Just hope more will post they negative feed back about it.

[GERM]

My concern about this is if you only need a key item and your still doing static groups can just anyone enter and start lotting on stuff? I find that unfair for some and it will ROYAL tick people off that have done this for years just to get to this point and now just any joe blow can enter and lot on anything since everything fell to anyone in the zone.. Just saying
Also I don't think RMT's are going to flood the market with this if anything anyone can enter after the initial key item purchase and multiple times a week if anything this will drop the price of currency which I will be happy about since I can't afford paying 300M for a relic

[Pofo]

ok i freely admit im lazy and cant be bothered to read all these pages but i just have a question which i hope SE will answer....

If you no longer require reservations for dynamis does this mean anyone can just jump in see if some af/currency is in the pot and lot it????

If so why? thats the most stupidest idea ever... I've spent 5 yrs earning dkp points so I can lot gear now they totally worthless as someone from another ls or from no ls at all can swoop in and lot gear earned by others.

please for the love of god SE say you have thought about this and it isnt just lets make dynamis like WoE/Campaign

That's how it sounds but SE has done some poor translations of their japanese updates in the past. If that becomes the case, my only suggestion is to make it so the alliance that killed are the only ones who lot. However, the big issue with that, is cases like dynamis xarcabard, say you're in a group after Assassin's Armlets, but then a group of 6 comes in right after you that wants them too, then what? Compete to claim Count Raum? Not saying you can't get them off regular mobs, but the point being, specific mobs like that; that have a higher drop rate at specific AF have a risk of being camped against you.

[Tummie]

please for the love of god SE say you have thought about this and it isnt just lets make dynamis like WoE/Campaign

I do not believe that this will be the case, but instead, drops will no longer be area wide (People inside and outside can lot loot) and will be party/alliance based. That way if your party or alliance kills, they are the only ones that can lot on the loot and not someone who just jumps into the fray.

[DuoMaxwell007]

"Reservations will no longer be required to enter the above areas."

umm when did we have to make reservations for dynamis?

[Ilax]

you saved up DKP? good job digging your own grave, SE didnt make you save up all those DKP, you did, you joined a linkshell with a DKP system. there is a few, if any usefull pieces still in dynamis

THF hands
RDM head

thats it, actually, even the rdm head is useless, you barely resist enfeeble magic unless the mob is immune, and the auto-refresh can be gained from wivre hairpins in abyssea - konch, so congratulations, you wasted 5 years on one piece of gear (which isnt gamebreaking anyhow).

Oh wow great logic... Thank you for making me feel horrible that i spended many yr in FFXI working on my gear. Very smart, so what are you saying here is let get everything now or play another game?

I bet you kind of these player that joined my dynamis LS, took rdm or thf hand then left right always. I wonder how would you have feel after the leader of your LS tell you: Sorry Zebra i got my stuff, sorry good job digging your own grave see you later.

I just pass on your stupid comment about RDM hat.

[Ilax]

"Reservations will no longer be required to enter the above areas."

umm when did we have to make reservations for dynamis?

Break glass = Reservations 1h from base + time extension.

*Edit* Mean no one except the player in possession of this glass can enter in the zone for 1h + TE.

[Siviard]

I disagree with some of the above statements saying this new "Dynamis v.2" should be like Walk of Echoes. I have had nightmare-ish experiences in Walk of Echoes, the last (and final nail in the coffin) was an "AFK" Japanese player lotting on any coin that dropped after I finished soloing a monster. That player did nothing but stand there, but had absolutely no problems with lotting coin drops and let me do all the hard work.

Instead, I very much hope that this new Dynamis will be like Abyssea, where you can enter with a party of 6, go to a certain area of the zone, kill monsters, and any currency/AF drops will drop into the party treasure pool and not a zone-wide treasure pool (like Walk of Echoes)

Also, what would help this be more like Abyssea is a fast respawn of normal monsters/statues (5 minute respawn?) and new ways of extending your time within Dynamis, because I am sure there will be groups camping the known Time Extension statue monsters and killing them as soon as they spawn.

[Caria]

I have invested many years into dynamis and value my time spend with my ls and to find out that anyone can just walk in now and lot anything? Has all my time been for nothing?

I have the same feeling about it, even thinking to quit the game now, same for many of my friend. I loved the challenge SE gave to us, and really thanks them for it. Just wish SE review that update.

Ilax, you are not alone. Dynamis and working toward my relic with a group of faithful friends with whom I have been working for years on end is one of the sole reasons I still log into this game. I have been appalled by many of the changes in the game since the advent of Abyssea and the new level caps. I am a particularly goal driven person. I don't enjoy very many video games because they tend to be very focused on the short-term goals. I fell in love with FFXI when I found out how hard a game it really was, when I realized I could have goals that extended several years out and be successfully working toward those goals. I joined a dynamis group a number of years ago and made a lot of friends that way. The dynamis system was challenging if a little repetitive, but I felt things were balanced very well. I particularly liked the fact that it allowed a system for needing many people working together to empower each other, one at a time, to get their relic weapons, the best weapons in the game (at the time). I never took issue with the fact that others were getting their relic before me. We were all enjoying ourselves and taking on the challenge of clearing these zones, or even just getting wins. It took hard work on the part of everyone there.

In the recent updates, this has largely changed. While there is a key core of my group that has come together, we are small, because the rewards of dynamis have largely been outdated and the new level caps have largely taken the challenge out of these areas. Our core group still works together, and we manage to recruit new people often, though they don't stay long because the experience of working together is so much less rewarding when the challenge is gone. To a large extent the damage has already been done. I have been hoping for a revamping of Dynamis, but not to make it easier and more accessible, but harder and more challenging with the same currency rewards and hopefully a new way to make the relic armor more competitive.

I am very concerned about the future of Dynamis now after reading this new information. Removing the need for reservation sounds like making it like the WoE, which at least on my server, has been a very failed system. While many people have been discouraged by the fact that traditional Dynamis shells worked by getting one person in the shell the relic before the next stepped up, I found this to be an exceptionally well designed system when it worked among loyal friends. I have been working for a number of months now on my relic with the help of my group, and there are people still waiting in line. It concerns me that these people may never get their chance, if this new system makes the system open to all and we have to compete for currency.

I am glad to see from the posts here that I am not the only person worried about these changes. I understand the need to make the game accessible to new people to keep it alive and profitable. But this does not mean that everything has to be made easy. Give the new people competitive gear, but don't have it be equal to the gear that people have worked years to obtain. SE, you gave the new people Abyssea, WoE, Campaign, etc. Do you really have to give them Dynamis and the relics too? Please, don't make this a free for all. Let the shells that have been functioning for many years continue.