Long Holding Times for Delve NMs

[Umichi]

So anyone unlock the absurd weapons yet?

[Demon6324236]

One thing about Delve I would like to see changed would be the time limit in fractures, I would like an area like in Legion where you have 5 minutes to lot or pass items with an automatic reraise effect. Right now I keep seeing items drop out of the pool because of one or two dead or afk members not lotting them, thankfully its been nothing important as of yet but I am sure later down the road I will lose some great drops because of this. I wish all events had this type of extra lobby because its always helpful.

[Byrth]

They elected the no-Hyper, 20 minute version of this and the change will be implemented tomorrow. They are also making it so you have to kill Fracture NMs to drop the walls and open up new parts of the Fracture. Basically, they took what was already moderately exclusive event and made it incredibly exclusive for anyone that didn't do it within the last week:
* The 20 minute fight limit will make it difficult for casuals to get wins
* The lack of wall-dropping in Fracture will hamper attempts to farm Plasm in shout groups by reducing the pool of available monsters
* Hardcores will not be affected by the changes as much, because they can get >5k Plasm per Fracture run just killing NMs

On the upside, there will be no more long, boring fights.

Here are the posts, if you are interested and can read JP:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...415#post430415
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...414#post430414

[SpankWustler]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...415#post430415
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...414#post430414

HI, THERE ARE ROCKS!

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OKAY! HI THERE, ROCKS!

[HimuraKenshyn]

They elected the no-Hyper, 20 minute version of this and the change will be implemented tomorrow. They are also making it so you have to kill Fracture NMs to drop the walls and open up new parts of the Fracture. Basically, they took what was already moderately exclusive event and made it incredibly exclusive for anyone that didn't do it within the last week:
* The 20 minute fight limit will make it difficult for casuals to get wins
* The lack of wall-dropping in Fracture will hamper attempts to farm Plasm in shout groups by reducing the pool of available monsters
* Hardcores will not be affected by the changes as much, because they can get >5k Plasm per Fracture run just killing NMs

On the upside, there will be no more long, boring fights.

Here are the posts, if you are interested and can read JP:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...415#post430415
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...414#post430414

Wow beating the moth last night I guess was the best thing I could have ever done. That fight is pure fing pain in the arse....

[RyujinSephy]

They elected the no-Hyper, 20 minute version of this and the change will be implemented tomorrow. They are also making it so you have to kill Fracture NMs to drop the walls and open up new parts of the Fracture. Basically, they took what was already moderately exclusive event and made it incredibly exclusive for anyone that didn't do it within the last week:
* The 20 minute fight limit will make it difficult for casuals to get wins
* The lack of wall-dropping in Fracture will hamper attempts to farm Plasm in shout groups by reducing the pool of available monsters
* Hardcores will not be affected by the changes as much, because they can get >5k Plasm per Fracture run just killing NMs

On the upside, there will be no more long, boring fights.

Here are the posts, if you are interested and can read JP:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...415#post430415
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...414#post430414

English forums are just a placebo... :'(

[saevel]

Wow so SE is really f*cking over it's players then.

Seriously you guys could at least have the decency to let the non Japanese player base know your about to cut them entirely out of the game rather then people wake up tomorrow wondering WTF just happened.

[Byrth]

It looks like my Google-Fu is weak. It seems that the wall between the T1-3 NMs and the T4-5 NMs may still drop as time continues on, so this won't have much impact on Plasm farming. No reason to Plasm farm if you can't kill the NM, though.

[Tannlore]

Hmm, not seeing where the whole you have to kill nm to make any and all walls fall apart is at in the JP post. All I see is that you have to kill NMs to make the delve boss appear. I think this might be a misreading honestly.

[Cowardlybabooon]

Good, I was sick of two or three hour rage fights with pickup groups. I got my KIs though!