Amdapor Keep and Wanderer's Palace Adjustments

So, after just finishing an AK run I can say that the speed run thing is pretty much done for. I'm not particularly concerned, as I figured it would happen. What they did was make all of the mobs run at almost sprint speed, hit slightly harder, aggro from further away, add a magical door that doesn't open until certain mobs are killed. They also added a few mobs in certain places in the dungeon. I wasn't even able to make it all the way through the first hallway before the first boss before dying, which I was usually able to do prior to the patch without even getting hit once. While I'm glad they fixed this (it was a pretty obvious exploit, regardless of how you people feel about it or not) I still think they should at least add some minor rewards to killing these mobs. Grey item drops, random allagan bronze pieces, etc.

You don't actually need AF2 though. Binding coil can be done with Darklight, and AF2 should be seen as gear to put in gaps where you haven't had the allagan gear drop from binding coil

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Originally Posted by charlemagne

Hardcore players will be furious that yet again time sink rather than challenge is the obstacle.

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Time spent IS the challenge. Not dedicated enough? Not sorry to see you leave. I predict the FFXI veterans will take this in stride, and the ERMAHGERD HARDCORE kiddies from games that shower them with free epix will ragequit.

2 Person per chest get now 7 pieces, 2chests in amdapor so 4times the change now u get 700Gil and i just did a run where we tested if we could still speedrun it (all doors closed u need to kill some key mobs, like smr , dullahan/gargoyels, Sucubus till the bossroom open) and died a few times - overall Gil repair was 498Gil.

So u really cant complain at all about the repairs now, u will still have +gil from one AK run.

I agree with the change just not the way it was done, as many have already said if I am going to be forced to clear trash mobs MAKE IT WORTH IT! im sick of the time spent to earn things argument -_-. especially a PUG where some don't know what they are doing (takes even longer) at cap the only reason people run AK or WP is for tomes and relic quest. funny thing is this is effecting the people who where complaining about others advancing to fast more than the people already geared and relic ready for BCOB.

im just glad I only got H-garuda and H-titan left for my relic with my DL gear half complete

good luck to those just getting to 50!

This sums up all the QQ from impatient people who can't cut corners by playing the game the way it wasn't intended to be played. http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7...xv6qo1_500.gif

Sooooooooo.... is there any point even running AK more than once now? I mean philo stones are faster from castrum and it's easier. Theres the gear drops in AK but you dont need them to grind castrum and why slow your philo speed down to acquire gear that isnt as good as the gear you get from the philo stones themselves? Doesn't make sense. As for Mytho stones it's faster to run Garuda with a good team, you can beat her in 7-8 minutes for 7 mytho stones and a garuda wep which is great, not to mention shes way easier than keep once you know what you're doing. You can get 80ish an hour for 8 people as opposed to 4 and get garuda weps which is probably the best you'll get pre relic. So really AK is kinda pointless now unless I'm missing something? Same applies to WP as far as I know

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Originally Posted by FrionielHope

Sooooooooo....

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You can't speed run anymore so it's now pointles? Ok.

i'll just put these here
the reaction threads compilation :p

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...t-I-m-quitting
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l-alternatives
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...re-you-serious
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-myth-tome-cap.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ash-drop-stuff
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...the-real-issue

Well that's dreadfully boring. Guess I can play some music or watch TV during these runs, nothing different from usual except I'll get to watch a full show instead of only 25 odd minutes of it.