Abyssea outside of Abyssea - Yay?

[Chocobits]

So I waited breathlessly for the update, as you all have. I hoped there would be a light at the end of the tunnel for an end to the Abyssea crutch we've been hobbling around on.

And with tonight's Voidwatch updated info.. does anyone else feel like quitting the game? All new content has been forsaken for the mindless proc'ing system already present in Abyssea. Even the naming conventions lack originality. "Atmacite"?

So.. is FFXI going to stop charging like FFXIV until content emerges? Just curious.

[Tamoa]

Although it's not making me want to quit, I just read through the new thread about Voidwatchers, and I'm bitterly disappointed. This really is abyssea outside of abyssea. Atmacites and Periapts = atmas and abyssites. Proc system. Pictures of Chloris and Hadhayosh. Yeah... Means some of my favourite jobs will still rarely be played.

I was hoping this would be some semi-hard battlefields that not every Joe Schmoe would be able to beat, and that would require some skill. Abyssea already caters to the casuals and/or the Joe Schmoes. Meh.

[Kensagaku]

Was thinking the same thing as the title as soon as I saw the information on the Voidwatch thread. "Abyssea outside of Abyssea." Atmacite = Atma, which only has the difference of being able to be "enriched" by cruor. Peripts are abyssite. Weakness systems, familiar mobs, just... ugh.

I won't be quitting or anything, and I'm not one of the "anti-Abyssea" crowd but... I was kinda hoping for something new.

[Alkalinehoe]

Reading the description of Atmacite, it doesn't look to be as overpowering as Atmas...

[Denabond]

It will mainly depend on what the buffs are like on the atmacite. If they rehash RR, then yeah expect the same jobs again. On the other hand, they might only provide marginal buffs that you get to customize through cruor.

[Tamoa]

Yeah I guess it's still a bit early to get all /sadface, but my initial reaction wasn't a positive one. I'm the same as Ken, I'm not anti-abyssea, but I was hoping for something new and somewhat more challenging where people can't zombie any nm for hours and buffs don't make you 1shot a mob with 1 ws.

[Zyeriis]

At least the "atmacite" only applies to the battles it seems. Hopefully we won't see their use against the current mobs and NMs out there. I doubt they'll be much different than temp items in besieged (even if more powerful and with a wider array of types) being as they are "battlefields". Honestly these sound more akin to SCNMs from WotG with confrontation status (I am disappointed though, just not surprised).

[Fievel]

Really depressing, so we finally get new content outside abyssea and they just make it abyssea.

[MarkovChain]

On the good side, the days of the dumb no LS+ duo mnk+whm are over and you need to get friends. Just need to see what we'll get form that. The rewards probably suck.

[Dijana]

Like others said, Im not anti-abyssea either. And like others said also, Im sorely disappointed by this too. When I first heard of voidwatch I was really looking forward to it, some new content NOT inside abyssea. Well..so much for that, guess we didnt really beat it after all.

Abyssea and most everything else implemented over the past year was a great change, but its all getting overused horribly. Magian trials an example for that. Like Tamoa said, wont be able to get to play some of my favourite jobs again, particularly with the proccing system, and unless they add new ones that cater to other jobs' uses, its going to be limited to mnk war nin thf blm blu whm again.

I guess on the upside there was that little note about the chests awarding different things to different players, so there wont be fighting over drops = not necessarily going for the smallest group?

Next they'll be announcing atmacites and such for dynamis too. Well, let me know when the next update comes around in a few months so I can see if there's going to be anything interesting in that one