ffxi should not be this easy

[Kaiichi]

I agree with the OP, not nessaraly in full, but I do know that SE has found Staple's Easy button and probbly broke it because of how many time thay hit it. The game has gotten way easer to an extreem and there needs to be balance. It seems like they have kneeled to this generations gamers by just handing them everything. If this dose continue End Game will be full game and there wont really be that feeling in acomplishment. I did the RDM Matt fight and I'm still 0/13ish. 1/3 on RNG thought and I can still rember how happy I was to be able to move on to the next stage. I'm at a point that I'm not so sure if I'll ever have that feeling again, expecally if everyone and there mom ends up with a relic weapon withen two weeks of starting up.

[Sama]

This is exactly the SE's direction: FFlame.

It's a very good sales tactics and very attractive to the kids.

[svengalis]

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Recently a friend of mine started playing ffxi. He just started a new character. It took him less than one day to reach level 90. It took him another day to beat all the missions. The next day he beat shinryu, and got all the good atmas, and abyssites. About one more day later, he had full af3+2. On his fifth day back, he finally finished his empyrean weapon. On his sixth day back, he realized he had beat the game, and had nothing left to do, except watch the credits.

This game should not be that easy. What ever happened to ffxi being "challenging"? What made ffxi so great in the past was that it was challenging. It was not a game where you had everything handed to you on a golden platter. And with each drop, came a sense of accomplishment. But now there is no sense of accomplishment, because it is impossible to overcome any challenges, since after all, no challenges remain in the game.

Please SE, make ffxi challenging again.

If you think abyssea isn't challenging play with no cruor buffs or atmas.

[Akujima]

If you think abyssea isn't challenging play with no cruor buffs or atmas.

Really piss-poor argument. And even though I still doubt that rog is being serious in this thread, this same argument pops up everywhere, assuming that people who desire more challenge cant figure out simple game mechanics.

[Sparthos]

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If you think abyssea isn't challenging play with no cruor buffs or atmas.

God, this is like the stupidest response ive heard repeated over and over.

If you got some sorta special achievement or were rewarded for the effort perhaps people would play without the buffs and your argument would have a leg to stand on.

Abyssea has about 5 monsters that can be put into the challenging tier - Apademak, Azdaja, Pantokrator, Rani and Raja. Funny thing is, with brews being the end-all now there are no challenges.

P.S - Rogs trollin'

[Juri_Licious]

FFXI is hard as hell, what game are you playing?
Only thing easy now is leveling up.

[Miiyo]

cmon Rog. Really? You do know that after this post, you can't do another like this for 3 days right?

[Korpg]

You guys need to stop feeding the trolls here.

[Raxiaz]

I think you're over-exaggerating. There is no way your friend could have gotten to 90 in one day of playing from a fresh start. There is just no way. The amount of time you have to put into quests just to gain the ability to get to 90 probably takes a day.

You're bullshitting.

[Malamasala]

Let me get a couple of things straight.

1. The game isn't easier, it is faster. That means you do not have to kill monsters for 50 exp each. That means you don't have to camp a 24 hour NM with 10% drop rate for an item everyone wants.

2. Lack of difficulty is everyones own fault. When you pick the strongest job, wear the strongest armors and use the strongest atmas together with the strongest food, what do you expect? Do you expect your max damage ability to take an hour to kill NMs? That would mean average people would take 5 hours to kill things. Anyone thinking it is too easy should ask themselves why they picked the easiest jobs to play. That or just ask SE for nerfs. Because believe it or not, the game is just fine in difficulty for my Summoner.

3. Nowhere does it say you have to play all day, every day. You can play 2 days a week and do something useful with your life and still get things done now. Try it, and see if the difficulty of real life is hard enough for those periods between too easy FFXI.