Remove the 5 minute timer on the kindred seals drop

[rog]

'Cause farming KS in Cape Terrigan is content worth saving.

Hell yeah!

[Glamdring]

(You also seem to think the "old way" still exists which is laughable and a poor deflection at being called out on being wrong, suck it up and admit or just stop making a fool out of yourself, it's an embarrassment).

Go to Davoi, old area, kill orc dreadnaughts, etc, old mob, check inventory>>KS, old drop=old content exists

old content exists>>don't do it=laziness exists

before I admit being "wrong" I insist that I be wrong... I'm not.

[Akujima]

old content exists>>don't do it=laziness exists

Like I said in one of my earlier threads. Accessibility for some people means they should build Escalators and Elevators instead of Stairs in every place imaginable, when we all know Exercise is important to a long life.

Abolishing old content = No Exercise = Short FFXI Lifespan.

How to really solve the problem.

Don't do seal exchange.
Raise the cap to enter Abyssea to Lv70 or 75.
Lower the drop rate of seals to 1 per minute.
Improve the drop rates for all Kings HQ items.


Problem solved, doesn't gimp old content completely and seals will be easier to get.

[Octaviane]

Did you even read what Camate wrote? They're not going to decrease the drop times, but are considering letting you trade seals that you don't want for seals you do want. Considering it's much harder now than it used to be to get Kindred's Seals, this is a good thing. Hopefully it will mean the end of 600k Phalanx scrolls new RDM33 will have to buy.

Star Orb = 40 BS for quite a few bcnm's that drop Phalanx. Not a bad drop rate either. Don't want to pay? Farm the seals on a low level job, do the BCNM.....

[Sama]

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Raise the cap to enter Abyssea to Lv70 or 75.
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Agree on this for the thread; BS/KS drops off from mobs which give xp and are Lv70 or below.

[Akujima]

Agree on this for the thread; BS/KS drops off from mobs which give xp and are Lv70 or below.

It's the direct reason why people are complaining about KS drop rate anyways. They know damn well they won't exp outside Abyssea past Lv30, so they figure since they're ganna be gimped on KS amounts, they'll ask the Dev's to fix it for them, instead of addressing the real issue at hand.

[Raksha]

So, wait, are people actually doing KS99 for blackbelt items? I thought this kings revamp was for d.ring ridill abjurations etc.

And trading all of my crest for k.seals isn't a fix for the shitty drop rate. No one has 40,000 seals total even with a 2:1 exchange rate, need to make d.ring etc actually obtainable with effort and not wholly dependent on luck.

[Harukusan]

Any change to the amount in circulation would ultimately result in a reduction in item value.

So we're just ignoring the fact that Abyssea was ever released then? Because nothing lost it's value due to that, am I right? I give up. You might as well just spoon feed every noob with all the best gear so they don't /ragequit when people realize how much they suck. And by 'noob' I'm not directly referring to new players. There is a difference between an intelligent person who will do their research and learn how to play, and someone who wants to be guided the entire way by someone else. Just like that saying, "you can give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, or you can teach a man to fish..." you know the rest. Just saying...

[Panthera]

Howdy!

Any change to the amount in circulation would ultimately result in a reduction in item value.

There is very little BCM and KSNM gear that people use anymore, I really wouldn't worry about this.

[MarkovChain]

No, the last update was to make old events somewhat relevant again. They even said in their own notes as far as sky gear went that even with Perfect hq they will AT BEST be as good as af3+2. Tell me, what augments on sky gear/abjurations have seen seen that have better stats than af3+2?

It's because your are blind.

Shadow/valkyrie trews with 4 MAB is an exemple that beat AF3+2.

Now for monk


Shura Togi with 3% haste 3% crit rate
Byakko's Haidate with store TP 5 and crit damage +4%
Kirin's osode with att7 & crit damage 3

For instance I computed that a set comprised of
- mnk AF3+2 head, the above shura togi, AF3+2 gloves, the byakko's haidate, AF3+2 feet

=> Is only 1.5% worse ONLY than full AF3+2 inside abyssea (thank to the new uncapped crit damage) and that's only because I assumed that you would use it during impetus.
=> Is 3.7% worse than full AF3+2 outide of impetus
=> Consequently you can easily guess that equipping

Shura Togi with 3% haste 3% crit rate/Byakko's Haidate with store TP 5 and crit damage +4%/ AF3+2 hands/head/leg outside impetus
and
AF3+2 head/hands/body/feet plus byakko during impetus

gives soemething like 4-5% damage boost.

Consequently augmented byakko's haidate is the abosolute best right now

Secondly the above doesn't account for the augmented osode which should beat the crap out of AF3+2 body on WS.

I have no doubt salvage augments are going to complety destroy AF3+2 to be honest. Good thing !