MORE damage-based Records of Eminence objectives?

[Camate]

Greetings,

Below is a follow-up from Akihiko Matsui regarding adjustments to Records of Eminence.

Matsui here.

I’d like to follow-up a bit on the additional Records of Eminence objectives we are planning for the January version update.

We will be implementing objectives that involve defeating NMs in original areas, but we’ve prepared these to grant a fun achievement when you haphazardly come across them.

Due to this, we of course would love it if you had the mentality of “I gotta accomplish them all!” But this isn’t something that is meant to turn into a competition for claiming monsters, so please rest easy about that.

We’ll be expanding the system that was implemented in the December version update and adding objectives for original areas, but in the February version update we will be adding a system for objectives that are not related to battle.

[Sapphire]

You know, I'm not one to normally say "you don't REALLY play this game do you?" but, of course it's gonna make people compete to claim some of the monsters...

[scaevola]

Well, you could always group up for the kill so that multiple people get credit. That being said, that's a hassle and a prisoner's dilemma (go out of your way to group up for no measurable personal benefit, hope nobody kills the mob out from under you); it would be nice if the RoE objectives actually incentivized grouping up for NMs, like bigger rewards the more people in your party.

[Karah]

Not only will EVERYONE go IMMEDIATELY to botclaim ALL HNMs upon this list, they will be complete jackasses, and hold/claim everyday just out of boredom, this is a HUGE MISTAKE. Quit while you can still save face on it.

[Anjou]

Good thing I got my Hauteclaire from the gold mog pell >_>

[Demonjustin]

Seeing as this is Records based, it may not be so bad, special rewards are a 1 time thing, you never get an item reward twice for instance so that would not be an effective means of farming anything, and the fact an entire party or alliance can be formed while everyone gets credit from the kill will mean a lot too, I admit it sounds bad, but if you think it through it could end up working out really nicely, the only real issue I see is the abuses of people who just hate other people and hold the NM to spite you, but thats really about it. Unless the NMs in question are NMs like Tiamat with ludicrous repop timers anyways the amount of competition should die out in less than a month or even less than a week from release for the people who actually care about doing this.

[Return1]

There's already a reason to group up for NM kills. If you group up, you don't have to compete and you all get credit. There's no worthwhile rewards that come from these monsters, and there's no real purpose to these trials after collecting the initial rewards, so why would people be in heated competition?

[Catmato]

That doesn't really seem fair to people that prefer playing support jobs. As it is, RoE's highest spark-yielding objectives involve spamming damage over and over again. People always on WHM or BRD aren't getting much love.

What? On WHM, my mainhand hits for 500+ almost every time on everything I can reliably hit. Realmrazer usually gets me at least 4 points as well.

Edit:

So a job that hits very very hard isn't as hard to exploit? Please Draylo think before you post. It's much more easy to walk into Abyssea as a decently skilled job with the ROE gear, and bash everything's head in while the white mages and support jobs are stuck slowly curing over and over, whereas the DD's can speed this up with haste and DA/TA/QA.

BRD and WHM are on Espial gear. BRD can use Eminent dagger and Exenterator. Any job can use Apoc/RR/anotherddatma.

[detlef]

What? On WHM, my mainhand hits for 500+ almost every time on everything I can reliably hit.

I think the issue is that DDs can play exactly the same and go balls to the wall whereas support and healing jobs have to drastically alter their playstyle in order to reliably complete the damage-related tasks. Basically, you don't get credit (beyond the initial non-repeatable completion) for doing your job.

[Minikom]

ewww Notorious Monsters, i'll pass lol 24 Hours Pop for a Roe no thanks, no fun camping Nms