Pankration!

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Question: (I think it is interesting and exciting at least) what's your favorite pet to use in Pankration?

My endrain flea.

[Arcon]

My endrain flea.

Attack Speed Bonus Apkallu. Especially nice if combined with Endrain. However, not easy to get by. Maybe I should try and go hunt for it again, should be a lot easier now.

[Ezekieal]

i <3 my spider Mighty Fang, has stacked str and att endrain and insta stoneskin, hits like a freight train, just wish it used sickle slash more often

[Dreamin]

Perhaps this information may not interest you, but that does not mean it does not excite and interest other players who play the game.

Even though the development team is looking into reworking one aspect of the game, doesn't mean that they are not focusing on other aspects as well.

With that said, if you do not have anything nice to say in a thread that started off positive, I would ask that you refrain from posting in this thread at all.

I think its' great that the Dev Team cares even for the most lowly attended events (you guys going to look into Garrison next?). But seriously, when SE has publically acknowledged the fact that FFXI is already on a skeleton dev crew (their words not mine). Can we actually SEE what the Dev Team's priorities are??? Seriously, to me when you're on a low level crew as is and you waste your time on items that very few number of players even do and ignore all the other bigger problems. It's like we're talking to a freakin WALL. [Granted I dont know what that percentage is and would be delighted to see an actual percentage is. Or does the Dev team also have no idea what that number is like everything else since they're clueless as to what their playerbase do?]

If SE is willing to spend efforts into improving Pankration, I'm demanding that they spend the effort in all the other low attendance events like Garrison, etc.

[Dreamin]

For those against this: Not everyone care about Voidwatch, or what ever it is that you want. ^^
There's always at least two sides of a coin, and as mentioned, working on one aspect doesn't normally mean that the content you care about gets any less love.

So if you have nothing good to say, there really is no need to say it. :]
I, for one, never tried Pankration. I wanted to, but sort of always forgot to.
This news does interest me, and it does encourage me to look into it if/when changes are made, if not before.

Just my thoughts~

I agreed in theory BUT only when you have a full development team. SE already stated that FFXI is now down to the bare minimium skeleton crew as is because all the resources has gone into fixing FF14. So given that, you can't blame people for being against wasting efforts into events or things that very little playerbase actually do.

I'm not against SE in fixing or improving anything at all. I'm just against how they are prioritizing the limited resources that they have. Which you and I and other players PAID FOR by the way.

[Luvbunny]

Some contents are unpopular or dead to the player base for GOOD REASONS. Now if you are planning to fix them and create more incentives to revitalize them - all the power to the developers - this is actually a welcome trend - and we applaud you for this. Now, please make a priority on which dead contents you are going to revive - for example Voidwatch and Walk of Echoes should be TOP priority now - with Salvage, Einherjar and Nyzul as second on the list and finally Limbus. When you have limited resources - you prioritize - or maybe divert the fund from the craptacular spectacular of FF14 and put it to work on actual working game with paying subscribers. But it is good to know that developers are willing and planning to revise dead contents.

[Dragoy]

I agreed in theory BUT only when you have a full development team. SE already stated that FFXI is now down to the bare minimium skeleton crew as is because all the resources has gone into fixing FF14. So given that, you can't blame people for being against wasting efforts into events or things that very little playerbase actually do.

I'm not against SE in fixing or improving anything at all. I'm just against how they are prioritizing the limited resources that they have. Which you and I and other players PAID FOR by the way.

Yeah, I certainly wouldn't blame anyone like that.
I fully understand that players want them to fix their new stuff first; the things they are doing now.
Nothing against that, either.

I imagine they are balancing (hrhr) their forces on the old/new content fixing as good as they can, without the newer losing anything really.
Most of what I see is that the drop-rates for Voidwatch are too low, but they already said it's how they want it to be so...

That's in another topic, though. ^^;

I really gotta look into this Pankration soon... slept most of the afternoon/evening grrr this is not how to get things done! Need a taimu-mashiin~

[Manicora]

All you hardcore pankration-ers will be happy to hear that we received word from the lead saying he would like to make adjustments to the system as well as add new ways of playing and rewards. However, it will be a little while before we implement anything.

This means what, They are gona Re-skin it, and make it 100% dif? Id rather do as the 1st person suggested and just open up New Mobs to use and Maybe give rewards to those who have taken the time to Level there pets. Need to up the Cap as well and make Certain Skills cost less cuz more mobs wont be able to use a 70 pt Terror move and still be able to Fight and get a Win untill Very high levels.

[Claquesous]

I'm so with Camate. I absolutely love Chigoes as pets. My best one had innate attack speed bonus, and I gave it auto-terror. When I was lucky, my opponent would never even get to swing at me.

My biggest request for Pankration would be BALANCE. (Yes, I said the naughty word.) It's so boring to go in day after day and see the current champion with 478 wins is a Dark Elemental. I personally don't think elementals should even be allowed as pets. I'd also say that there are a couple abilities like auto-phalanx, and auto-stoneskin that are far too strong. I'm totally against them existing, but they need to be tweaked down a bit.

[Earwig]

Attack speed bonus + instant haste opo-opo... My favorite...