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Originally Posted by Velhart

Your 25 million gil is safe, Yoshi-P already said that they are using the same exact looting system from CT. So get ready to spam the raid 20+ times a week to never see the particular item you are looking for.

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don't forget half the group bailing after the boss that drops thier loot passes. Can't wait for that.

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Originally Posted by Nalien

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/64b...1ddf34f3_1.png
Who is this?

Seems to have one of those scouters on his shoulder, that all the Scions have, so I thought it might be Papalymo, but he had short blond hair...

That hood reminds me of Final Fantasy V... Kriles White Mage outfit... Hmmm...
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/...20130522012236

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Aren't they wearing the Winning hairstyle from the contest? >o>

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Originally Posted by Warlyx

lol what? how do u see it? :S

because the image is big :S

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It's really tiny on my screen. :B

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Originally Posted by Velhart

Your 25 million gil is safe, Yoshi-P already said that they are using the same exact looting system from CT. So get ready to spam the raid 20+ times a week to never see the particular item you are looking for.

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http://images61.fotki.com/v1609/phot..._r2_500-vi.jpg

We did it guys! New and innovative game play with improved loot systems! Lets all take Friday off, three day weekends for everyone!!! We all deserve it!

Diabolos' return is NEIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

On a serious note I hope that he still has his signature AOE where you had to go through the doors to avoid or else it's a wipe.

Stop putting my healer gear on those damn potato-fells! D:<

...that being said, I like most of the sets. Feel bad for tanks getting another dress though. I'm also not looking forward to having to collect most of these if there's no token system and I have to pray to RNGesus for a drop. x.x

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Originally Posted by Maikeru

Thanks for sharing. So... uh the tank gear is...

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/2dd...b8d5b774_2.png

The one on the right? I'm not really sure how I feel about it. However, I loved the bard one.

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I just like the Lallafell "Fuck you guys, you tell me to came in white T_T"

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Originally Posted by zar

http://gamerescape.com/2015/10/15/ff...-and-void-ark/

more pictures

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http://gamerescape.com/wp-content/up...pach3.1_16.png

Sooooo, we gonna get the Caith Sith minion we got with the ARR pre-order but, instead of a ribbon, it's gonna have a cape?

Ugly gear :x

White., healer.... Again. Come on.

Most of this gear look too much like WoD gear, and at least that stuff had more color variety than purple and black.

At least Diabolos is back.

Meh chances are as usual that i would need to run this place 150 more times then most people as usual to even get a drop, lol
And Bard gear will be a plenty....
I agree that the gear all have similarities but look @ what previous raids had, it is not the most ugly ;)

If that tattered coat is part of the tank set, then I will happily gear my tank through Void Ark, that looks swag as hell.

Everything else...eh, its alright, better than Syrcus gear at least.

Well more terrible bard gear from the 24-man. Yay. I guess I can run smn/sch through it though at least...

I actually like how the gear looks. /unpopular puffin

I guess the gear isn't bad. As a blm myself, I kinda wish all our gear wasn't the same old black, but I guess it comes with the name. I really liked the CT red caster set, but never got around to farming the gear for that. By the time I reached lvl 50, ST was already out and WOD came shortly after. I worked long and hard for the WOD set though, and I loved it.
Anywho, I foresee long hrs grinding Void Ark in my future lol;)

All the (totally valid) complaints about palette swapping aside for the moment... Can we please get some non-healing/casting gear where the shoulders aren't bulked out to hell and back? Like, does every single piece of gear in this game need shoulder pads, shoulder armor that doesn't seem proportional to the person wearing it, randomly floating shoulder decorations, collars larger than the shoulders they are supposed to be sitting on, etc. etc.?

I understand that some people like that aesthetic, but good lord, there's a such thing as too much already. I want to enjoy wearing armor in this game, but I keep finding myself glamouring crafting gear because that's the only stuff that doesn't turn my character's shoulders into potential lethal weapons...

Is anyone going to mention that Diabolos is back?!
Yoshida long ago told us we havent seen the last of Diabolos, I thought it was a forgotten promise ><

so much gear to glamour, not sure why so many ppl care about bad looking stuff...


anyway, the inside of the ark looks really nice. though having diabolos return here feels wrong to me (especially since i was expecting Amdapor City hard in 3.2 or sometimes down the road). after all the ark might not be as unique as they told us...

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Originally Posted by Starkbeaumont

anyway, the inside of the ark looks really nice. though having diabolos return here feels wrong to me (especially since i was expecting Amdapor City hard in 3.2 or sometimes down the road). after all the ark might not be as unique as they told us...

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Amdapor City (hard) will get another endboss. I can't remember a hard dungeon with the same endboss as the normal counterpart. Even the endboss of Hauke only returned as an add in Hauke (hard).

I admit I also thought the second one was the aiming gear, mainly because all the others lacked a swag hat. On closer inspection though...

I don't envy what seem to be striking and scouting gear though, those look really bland. Everything else looks good, I'm nearly always wearing black/dark colors anyways (because I'm ~edgy~ or ~emo~ or whatever people want to go with).

But really, the same loot system as CT? Can't we at least get more than one piece of gear per chest? :/ I liked the actual raids but I hated having to run them over and over, especially as most people either don't try to educate themselves on mechanics or ignored them entirely (I'm looking at you WoD and 1st LotA boss), fully expecting other people to carry them through.

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Originally Posted by zosia

Bingo! Someone get this guy a cookie or something

Also, I am willing to bet 25 million gil that they have not fixed the TERRIBLE loot system of their 24 man "raid" series.

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just curious, why did you put raid in quotes...CT/VoidArk is the only content that deserves the RAID tag. 8-man lobby bosses are not even remotely deserving of the moniker...difficulty has nothing to do with it

Meh just more primal encounters. These shouldn't even be called raids as sadly they are not.

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Originally Posted by Maikeru

http://gamerescape.com/wp-content/up...pach3.1_16.png

Sooooo, we gonna get the Caith Sith minion we got with the ARR pre-order but, instead of a ribbon, it's gonna have a cape?

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Don't think that'll be a minion, they've shown that same cait sith at other live letter announcements for Void Ark, so assuming that it/they will have some connection with the void ark storyline.

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Originally Posted by Ayerinn

just curious, why did you put raid in quotes...CT/VoidArk is the only content that deserves the RAID tag. 8-man lobby bosses are not even remotely deserving of the moniker...difficulty has nothing to do with it

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I barely call alex a "raid". The only thing that ever came close to an authentic raiding experience in this game was first coil.

So, spare me your assumptions about my personal beliefs.

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Originally Posted by zosia

I barely call alex a "raid". The only thing that ever came close to an authentic raiding experience in this game was first coil.

So, spare me your assumptions about my personal beliefs.

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I agree with you. While I did not do Coil I hear it was an alright raiding experience, nothing compared to world of warcraft raiding though sadly. I miss Ulduar, Nax, and ICC.

If SE wants to make an actual raid then learn from wow. Give us 10-15 boss raids with trash that can drop end game gear and materials in between. Remove the stupid raid timer and let it save your progress until it resets on Tuesday. If they do that, then I will call this game's end game content raiding. Until then, all we have are primal boss fights over and over again. I will never accept 4-5 boss fights per "raid" when Ulduar was 14 bosses, ICC was 15, and Nax was I think 15 as well.

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Originally Posted by Madjames

I agree with you. While I did not do Coil I hear it was an alright raiding experience, nothing compared to world of warcraft raiding though sadly. I miss Ulduar, Nax, and ICC.

If SE wants to make an actual raid then learn from wow. Give us 10-15 boss raids with trash that can drop end game gear and materials in between. Remove the stupid raid timer and let it save your progress until it resets on Tuesday. If they do that, then I will call this game's end game content raiding. Until then, all we have are primal boss fights over and over again. I will never accept 4-5 boss fights per "raid" when Ulduar was 14 bosses, ICC was 15, and Nax was I think 15 as well.

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cant agree more!

dont forget how awesome was the INSTANCE ITSELF , ulduar was huge! , even had a train! , ICC was climbing to the top ...to face the Lich king!....

FFXIV 2.0 "raids" were just corridors to the boss ....some trash that wasnt important (some gil ? or some rare mats?)....3.0.... Alex....we dont even have trash anymore.

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Originally Posted by Warlyx

cant agree more!

dont forget how awesome was the INSTANCE ITSELF , ulduar was huge! , even had a train! , ICC was climbing to the top ...to face the Lich king!....

FFXIV 2.0 "raids" were just corridors to the boss ....some trash that wasnt important (some gil ? or some rare mats?)....3.0.... Alex....we dont even have trash anymore.

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Trash is fun the first two weeks. After that it becomes more of an annoying thing. T11 was very unpopular after echo and whatnot.

I rather have 10 or more difficult bosses. It does not necessarily have to go from less difficult to most difficult. Random is fun with the very last boss the most difficult one of course.

Maybe someday..

What I want to know is why dungeons give 2 pieces of loot, Alex and Coil give two pieces per chest.... but seriously? I only ran the entire CT thing once.. was it really only one item per alliance? The hell is up with that? 2 per 8 people makes more sense.

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

What I want to know is why dungeons give 2 pieces of loot, Alex and Coil give two pieces per chest.... but seriously? I only ran the entire CT thing once.. was it really only one item per alliance? The hell is up with that? 2 per 8 people makes more sense.

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Uh no it was one item per party per chest so...
four items per party, and any special mat/minion WAS rolled between the whole alliance

LOLEDIT:
this is for the 24 man stuff not coil....

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

Uh no it was one item per party per chest so...
four items per party, and any special mat/minion WAS rolled between the whole alliance

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Every time I've walked into Coil with my four man group it was 2 items + material. Didn't do Coil when it was relevant.

Alex has two items per 8 people. Doesn't matter if it's in two chests or not.

Three items for an entire 24 player raid is a stupid idea.

There is nothing in the preview about changing this to a real raid... I agree with Madjames, these are primal fights, not raids. Not at alllllllllll.

Please tell me they did not do 2 massive delays to change nothing...AGAIN.

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Originally Posted by Iromi

There is nothing in the preview about changing this to a real raid... I agree with Madjames, these are primal fights, not raids. Not at alllllllllll.

Please tell me they did not do 2 massive delays to change nothing...AGAIN.

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Well. Airship voyages are new. So thats not "nothing...AGAIN."

This constant association with white:healers, black:destruction mages is racist yo. Requesting dye option.

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Originally Posted by KaedrianLiang

This constant association with white:healers, black:destruction mages is racist yo. Requesting dye option.

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The correct term is African American Mages, not blackmages.
Racist.

the correct term is mages of color

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

What I want to know is why dungeons give 2 pieces of loot, Alex and Coil give two pieces per chest.... but seriously? I only ran the entire CT thing once.. was it really only one item per alliance? The hell is up with that? 2 per 8 people makes more sense.

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After every boss 3 chests appear and every group have their own chest.
If you are in goup B then you can only get gear from the chest B. You will not know what is in chest A or chest C until you ask the other groups.
The only chest that is shared with the whole alliance is the 4th chest that can appear with a chance at the end of the endboss with a minion in it.

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Originally Posted by Iromi

Please tell me they did not do 2 massive delays to change nothing...AGAIN.

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Normaly people don't work during vacation ^^


For me, i hope there will be again something like the mechanics of Atomos in CT1 or Cerberus in WoD (where the groups have to fight separate)

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Originally Posted by Maikeru

Thanks for sharing. So... uh the tank gear is...

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/2dd...b8d5b774_2.png

The one on the right? I'm not really sure how I feel about it. However, I loved the bard one.

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PLEASE FOR THE LOOOOOOVVVEEE let that male au ra be the monk set ;A; please ;A; i want a set that looks NICE :D and isn't a tunic ;A;

but..from left to right meh..good, good ,meh, so much want, so much want, tank but want.

what is going to be the monk and ninja looks so... plain and bland D: compared to the others

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Originally Posted by Felis

After every boss 3 chests appear and every group have their own chest.
If you are in goup B then you can only get gear from the chest B. You will not know what is in chest A or chest C until you ask the other groups.
The only chest that is shared with the whole alliance is the 4th chest that can appear with a chance at the end of the endboss with a minion in it.


Normaly people don't work during vacation ^^


For me, i hope there will be again something like the mechanics of Atomos in CT1 or Cerberus in WoD (where the groups have to fight separate)

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That's not my point.

My point is that 8 player raids drop 2 items for the 8 players present.

24 player raids dropping 3 items for the 24 players present is a crap ratio. That's 1 item per full party vs 2. B. S.

Edit: can we please start sticking the BLM/SMN gear on the lala for once?

Really hard to see what the healer sets are going to look like when you stick it on a 3 foot potato.

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

That's not my point.

My point is that 8 player raids drop 2 items for the 8 players present.

24 player raids dropping 3 items for the 24 players present is a crap ratio. That's 1 item per full party vs 2. B. S.

Edit: can we please start sticking the BLM/SMN gear on the lala for once?

Really hard to see what the healer sets are going to look like when you stick it on a 3 foot potato.

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Coil and Alex (Savage) are a lot harder than the (faceroll easy) 24-mans. Theres also a weekly chest lockout, and you cant go back to try to get a piece you can use, let alone a specific piece

EDIT: And dont forget, you arent guaranteed a piece of loot from the 8-man raid. 2 chests per fight, but thats between 8 people for the entire week

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Originally Posted by PArcher

Coil and Alex (Savage) are a lot harder than the (faceroll easy) 24-mans. Theres also a weekly chest lockout, and you cant go back to try to get a piece you can use, let alone a specific piece

EDIT: And dont forget, you arent guaranteed a piece of loot from the 8-man raid. 2 chests per fight, but thats between 8 people for the entire week

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That's still not the point.

You shouldn't be able to rerun the others either.