December 2022 FINAL FANTASY XI Digest

[Akihiko_Matsui]

The latest FINAL FANTASY XI Digest is now available! The digest covers key features from the most recent version update. Check out the video, try the version update, and leave a feedback based on your experience of playing the new content.



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[Shuko]

I am excited for the new story coming in January, but I do wonder, no Silver Voucher NM's yet from the last mission set?

[Uriah]

It simply cannot be productive to have the same exact conversation every single month about repeated weaponskills.

How many times are you specifically going to rewrite the core mechanics of the game for specific instances and addressing it literally every update instead of just doing the bare minimum and balancing.

[Catmato]

It simply cannot be productive to have the same exact conversation

Hmmm......

[Sp1cyryan]

Great update to Odyssey. Difficulty scales really well from start to finish, all things considered.

Now with the extra add, regen, and recurring WS cooldown, we will see who can apply all the gear and MLs the game has provided at us, and who can not.

Only way players do anything different is if they are forced to, and they can kick and scream about it all they want, but it is a good thing for this game and the community.

[Alhanelem]

Great update to Odyssey. Difficulty scales really well from start to finish, all things considered.

Now with the extra add, regen, and recurring WS cooldown, we will see who can apply all the gear and MLs the game has provided at us, and who can not.

Only way players do anything different is if they are forced to, and they can kick and scream about it all they want, but it is a good thing for this game and the community.

There are good ways and bad ways to add challenge to the game. Bad ways include altering core player mechanics. One should reasonably expect that their abilities will do what they say on the tin barring status effects or attributes of the target that are clearly defined and you would expect to alter it.
BP wall is a bad way to control SMN's power.
Nuke wall is a bad way to control BLM/magepower.
WS walls are a bad way to control melee power. It's not a challenge modifier, it's just a straight up nerf. Artificially crippling various jobs with "walls" is not indicative of good mechanics. They didn't need these things back in the day to make some fights favor certain team comps, and they don't need it now.


Status effects, unique boss abilties, attributes, etc. that's how you control challenge. Powerful buffs that can be re Armoved by meeting conditions. Using certain elements and forbidding others. weaknesses and strengths vs varous status effects.

[Sp1cyryan]

There are good ways and bad ways to add challenge to the game. Bad ways include altering core player mechanics. One should reasonably expect that their abilities will do what they say on the tin barring status effects or attributes of the target that are clearly defined and you would expect to alter it.
BP wall is a bad way to control SMN's power.
Nuke wall is a bad way to control BLM/magepower.
WS walls are a bad way to control melee power. It's not a challenge modifier, it's just a straight up nerf. Artificially crippling various jobs with "walls" is not indicative of good mechanics. They didn't need these things back in the day to make some fights favor certain team comps, and they don't need it now.


Status effects, unique boss abilties, attributes, etc. that's how you control challenge. Powerful buffs that can be re Armoved by meeting conditions. Using certain elements and forbidding others. weaknesses and strengths vs varous status effects.

So, it was a good update. Cool.

[Alhanelem]

So, it was a good update. Cool.

It's a good update if the roulette wheel of jobs SE doesn't want you to play for this content didn't land on yours.

That is all your opinion, they are all viable ways to balance content. SE decided what they want for their game, have to deal with it.

The forum lost a bunch of text I wrote here. But yeah. it's my opinion, and it's the opinion of anyone irritated at their job being excluded because SE said so rather than because of anything a monster did to counter the player's actions.

Monster uses an ability or undergoes a state change by a % of HP or similar to weaken XYZ attacks/abilities? Fine.
Ability or attack artifically nerfed in the content independent of the monster itself? Not fine.

I don't mind content being made easier or harder for different jobs *based on the monster's behavior." I do mind a decree by the almighty gods that says "these jobs cant be used effectively because we said so." This isn't me crying about my particular job(s) not being great for a fight, this is about the artificial and illogical manner in which this was done.

[Zenion]

It's a good update if the roulette wheel of jobs SE doesn't want you to play for this content didn't land on yours.


The forum lost a bunch of text I wrote here. But yeah. it's my opinion, and it's the opinion of anyone irritated at their job being excluded because SE said so rather than because of anything a monster did to counter the player's actions.

Monster uses an ability or undergoes a state change by a % of HP or similar to weaken XYZ attacks/abilities? Fine.
Ability or attack artifically nerfed in the content independent of the monster itself? Not fine.

I don't mind content being made easier or harder for different jobs *based on the monster's behavior." I do mind a decree by the almighty gods that says "these jobs cant be used effectively because we said so." This isn't me crying about my particular job(s) not being great for a fight, this is about the artificial and illogical manner in which this was done.

I, for one, am delighted by the weaponskill wall. Listening to my melee-playing friends saying the same things I've had to say as a summoner was a delight.

When every job is nerfed, none will be. Healing wall when?

[Sp1cyryan]

It's a good update if the roulette wheel of jobs SE doesn't want you to play for this content didn't land on yours.


The forum lost a bunch of text I wrote here. But yeah. it's my opinion, and it's the opinion of anyone irritated at their job being excluded because SE said so rather than because of anything a monster did to counter the player's actions.

Monster uses an ability or undergoes a state change by a % of HP or similar to weaken XYZ attacks/abilities? Fine.
Ability or attack artifically nerfed in the content independent of the monster itself? Not fine.

I don't mind content being made easier or harder for different jobs *based on the monster's behavior." I do mind a decree by the almighty gods that says "these jobs cant be used effectively because we said so." This isn't me crying about my particular job(s) not being great for a fight, this is about the artificial and illogical manner in which this was done.

Time to be more flexible in the jobs you can offer a group or settle for R25 augments.