Ballista Discussion

[Camate]

Thanks for all the feedback and discussion on Ballista.

At the moment, the battle team has been prioritizing new content and balance adjustments for PvE and has not been able to secure time to work on Ballista.

Currently no plans have been established for Ballista, but that’s not to say that we will not expand or change the content moving forward.

Apologies that we are unable to answer the requests for new Ballista elements, but PvP content-wise, the Monstrosity team is currently working on plans for group PvP using the Monstrosity system, and if you’re interested in new PvP content please be sure to keep an eye out for information on this.

[Mefuki]

I don't mean to hijack a Ballista thread but does this mean that MON V MON and MON party play is close to completion!? Please say yes...

[Alhanelem]

Thanks for all the feedback and discussion on Ballista.

At the moment, the battle team has been prioritizing new content and balance adjustments for PvE and has not been able to secure time to work on Ballista.

Currently no plans have been established for Ballista, but that’s not to say that we will not expand or change the content moving forward.

Apologies that we are unable to answer the requests for new Ballista elements, but PvP content-wise, the Monstrosity team is currently working on plans for group PvP using the Monstrosity system, and if you’re interested in new PvP content please be sure to keep an eye out for information on this.

Well, I'd just like to point out that if you fix up ballista to coincide with the huge changes to the game since anything at all was done to it, and offer some slightly more meaningful rewards, people might actually play it.

That being said, belligerency reallly needs some work, along with MON vs MON pvp needing to be an actual thing. But PLEEEEEEEEEEEEZE, PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE do SOMETHING to ballista.

How long do its fans have to beg to even get the smallest crumbs thrown to them?

[mattkoko]

It's only dying because SE has been ignoring it. There is SO much potential in Monstrosity. I've gone on at length about battle depth, MON V MON fights, MON integration into past and current content and theoretical reward systems many times on this forum. What's clear to me is all the major things that Monstrosity needs to truly explode in popularity are STILL missing 9 months later.

Events and other content only die because SE lets them. I only have to point to SE's constant resuscitation attempts of reives to show that. Even Garrison would still be "alive" if SE gave it relevant or reasonable rewards

Just because they have not mentioned anything about it or implemented anything on it in a while does not mean they are ignoring it. I notice a lot of people through out the threads tend to say that SE ignores everything. Camate even stated in this thread that they are working on it. It does take time to make changes and add a completely new system I am sure, and most of the stuff regarding monstrosity has been awesome (in my opinion and many others). With that being said, I would much rather them take their time and do it right rather then rush something out that is half finished, where people will then bitch about it being rushed and not finished.

[Mefuki]

Then SE needs to keep us in the loop about what's going on because at the time of that post it had been 2 months without a Monstrosity update or any mention about what they were working on. I'm very happy to know it's still being worked on now. I was starting to get concerned that SE was seeing lowing participation numbers in Monstrosity and erroneously concluded, "Maybe we should stop updating it. No one seems to like it or wants to do it.", all the while not really doing much to keep peoples attention. i.e. no events to use Mons on, no good rewards, etc.

[Raka]

Thanks for all the feedback and discussion on Ballista.

At the moment, the battle team has been prioritizing new content and balance adjustments for PvE and has not been able to secure time to work on Ballista.

Currently no plans have been established for Ballista, but that’s not to say that we will not expand or change the content moving forward.

Apologies that we are unable to answer the requests for new Ballista elements, but PvP content-wise, the Monstrosity team is currently working on plans for group PvP using the Monstrosity system, and if you’re interested in new PvP content please be sure to keep an eye out for information on this.

Not that I don't like Monstrosity or anything, but if they're going to such lengths for this content, why not do the same for Ballista? What's the point of the Official Matches that are constantly trying to set up if nobody does it them? It's pretty sad when you enter Jugner Forest and see the Herald's message about Ballista, only to see it cancel anyways. Constant reminder of one of the best parts of FFXI, being ignored.

[edsports1]

What about Salvage stuff dropping via Ballista? No expert at it at all, but if Arrapago and Salvage is that much of a server overload problem right now, why not spice up Ballista a little that way? BTW, shout to Boss Rockius back in the day for his Ballista mastery on Diabolos.

[YosemiteYogorockBlondelle]

Not that I don't like Monstrosity or anything, but if they're going to such lengths for this content, why not do the same for Ballista? What's the point of the Official Matches that are constantly trying to set up if nobody does it them? It's pretty sad when you enter Jugner Forest and see the Herald's message about Ballista, only to see it cancel anyways. Constant reminder of one of the best parts of FFXI, being ignored.

I know the feeling and it still the same for the zones in jeuno areas or some city area's as well for Ballista Notifications.

[Lithera]

Just because they have not mentioned anything about it or implemented anything on it in a while does not mean they are ignoring it. I notice a lot of people through out the threads tend to say that SE ignores everything. Camate even stated in this thread that they are working on it. It does take time to make changes and add a completely new system I am sure, and most of the stuff regarding monstrosity has been awesome (in my opinion and many others). With that being said, I would much rather them take their time and do it right rather then rush something out that is half finished, where people will then bitch about it being rushed and not finished.

When did not saying, or doing anything about ballista for years = a while? Besides the bit that dealt with Roe there hasn't been any ballista news besides oh we're no longer going to have ballista royals anymore. I'm just glad they didn't give us the same answer for this as to why there is no plans for a throwing ws. PvP in this game would give people something to do while waiting for groups to fill or lessen the strain on some other things if they upgraded/changed the items you could get was worth building up points for. Or people could do it for fun as a stress release after an epic faceplam of a failed event.

[Raka]

Heck, could make it to where we could purchase Chapters for Reforged with Ballista points and throw in RoE for PvP and would bring a bit of a crowd. Scale the rewards up a bit more to maybe Voidwatch status for exp, etc. so you get a whole merit or two from 1 match, stuff like that can bring in people who are waiting on Voidwatch shouts or Ark Angel II, etc.