possible oversight with the new ilvl system?

[FrankReynolds]

If it seems that way, it's just my inadequacy and I will do my best to work harder on this.

You can start right here. Try responding to an English post. Even one sentence. Even if it's a lie. Just pop in a few of the hot threads and say "Hey guys, we read all this stuff...".

We are also looking into Gobbiebags, but as there are risks that these will cause other inconveniences such, as items not displaying right away when logging in or changing areas, we would like to closely investigate methods that have low risk and have a high possibility of realizing (including methods other than Gobbiebags).

You already know how to do gobbie bags. Give us a couple of those now and buy yourself some time to work on a more permanent solution. Give people the option to not use them if they don't like the load times.

We'd like to avoid the consequences of nerfing Ochain, and have selected to add stats to shields we introduce here on out so they can gradually get closer to the stats of Ochain. If anything is unclear with these intentions, please let me know.

It would probably be best if you could do this sooner than later. You might want to consider doing the same thing with the bard horns. Sitting watching the same guy shout for 3 hours for a paladin or a bard is just depressing.

I believe it looked as if red mage was left out of the equation with the question I answered yesterday that was phrased "How will you be enhancing magical accuracy for blue mage, dark knight, and ninja?"

Sorry about that.

The plan is not limited to only these jobs and we will be boosting magical accuracy based on the "combat skill +" added to weapons in general.

So to be clear here, if a weapon says "Sword Skill +188", it would also give magic accuracy +(of 188?) ?

There are still some things that make me a bit hesitant about introducing a system where you can separate the appearance from the stats of equipment.

For FFXI, the animation packs are read via your main weapon, so we aren't able to do this completely with weapons. Think of it as we would have to limit it to being the same type of weapon.

In terms of armor, of the MMORPGs I have played that had this system, it resulted in a ton of people looking like they were fighting without any gear on at all.

Also, as we need to decide our position on whether or not it's okay that front-line jobs wear back-line equipment (and vice versa), as well as the fact that classic FF artifact equipment could be worn by other jobs, so please let us look into this a bit more.

We are planning to add high level equipment using graphics of popular existing items as well as revamping job-specific armor.

Please don't tie this to a convoluted synergy system. Just let crafters make the gear in it's raw form like cursed gear and then allow players to trade the two pieces in to an NPC to have the two merged.


EDIT: Also, since it seems that you are hell bent on doing stuff that makes people want to quit the game, can we get some server merges? I logged in the other day and there were only 700 people on Cerberus. Probably more than half were AFK.

[Karah]

Also, since it seems that you are hell bent on doing stuff that makes people want to quit the game, can we get some server merges? I logged in the other day and there were only 700 people on Cerberus. Probably more than half were AFK.

I'm so saddened that I'm actually in agreeance with this... merging gilgamesh onto our server was in the top 10 worst ideas ever, but now, I could see the need.

You could even send all the gilgamesh to a different sever and re-merge with 2 new servers... Just sayin'

[FrankReynolds]

I'm so saddened that I'm actually in agreeance with this... merging gilgamesh onto our server was in the top 10 worst ideas ever, but now, I could see the need.

You could even send all the gilgamesh to a different sever and re-merge with 2 new servers... Just sayin'

Lol I bet Cerberus feels the same way about us people from Hades. They would probably be glad to get rid of us and merge with another server :P