revive old content please

i few easy things the devs can do to make the game better as of now

1.make SH gear trade-able/meld-able

SH gear is worthless. Obviously it took some work to make the SH's please make them worth doing.

why:
person buys crafted gear, grinds for hours to get Sh gear, tries x2 meld=fail, buys crafted gear again, repeat.

2.revise stats on NM gear, add crafts to NM drops(lvl 50 versions maybe)
3.Adjust rewards to dungeons: make gear trade-able, meld-able, add seal completion rewards, add materia drops to chest.

you may not agree with these things but all these ideas would relaunch old content and make it worth doing again.

feel free to add some things ive missed and ill add them.

Stronghold gear is not worthless, much of it has stats you can't get in any other way.

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Originally Posted by AmandaHuggenkiss

Stronghold gear is not worthless, much of it has stats you can't get in any other way.

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ok............

Are you suggesting that U/U gear can only be melded by the person that owns it? If so, non-crafters are clearly at a disadvantange.

Otherwise, you are asking the devs would to develop a new system for trading and melding U/U gear...

if so, its not gonna happen pre-2.0 and Yoshi-P has said it's not part of his planned strata for gear power.

I'd just prefer that special mats dropped for new uber crafted gear dropped from SH, etc.. and that the U/U gear you get in coffers or from bosses had their stats adjusted to be equal to 2x meld gear.

i know his planned strat for gear power is for crafted to be best, however there has been an outcry for this to be changed. Many people would rather drops be best. Crafted gear would still have the potential of being best since multi melding is easier on crafted gear since its so plentiful.

I dont think blue rare gear should ever be tradable but green would be ok to me, after high lvl NM gear is already tradeable. SH gear stats need to be revised to be on par with high lvl 4 materia or be made meldable to be desired by the majority. And i believe the content was implemented for the4 majority.

i dont believe the answer to the game is to keep creating content and then wash your hands of it after its released. Modifying content to give it long term purpose makes much more sense.

example: because of dodore unique drop, it is still viable content far after release.

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Originally Posted by syntaxlies

ok............

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For exapmle, Sentinel Sabatons have +3 Enmity on them. If is not possible to slot that on the feet.
Another is the Sipahi Gloves, which have +15 crit-rate, again another stat you can't add on your own.
Depending on play style all of the SH gear has a purpose.

Sucks still no response from the devs on this topic.

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Originally Posted by Shyd

Sucks still no response from the devs on this topic.

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The post is 15 min old and you expect a dev response already?
Wow....
Here, have a cookie.

No fool. THE TOPIC. This is like the 4th or 5th thread on this TOPIC.

But i will take your cookie. Thank you.

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however there has been an outcry for this to be changed.

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Is that what the crickets say to you?

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Originally Posted by Shyd

No fool. THE TOPIC. This is like the 4th or 5th thread on this TOPIC.

But i will take your cookie. Thank you.

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some of the threads got moved so i made this on in suggestions.

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Another is the Sipahi Gloves, which have +15 crit-rate, again another stat you can't add on your own.

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still no where close to a high lvl 4 materia imo not to mention a x2 meld materia. certainly not worth spending hours farming. should be able to attach materia to them, imo.

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Is that what the crickets say to you?

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speaking of troll post i shuold transfer this to the troll thread going on

if your gonna troll, troll in this http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...forums-as-well

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Originally Posted by syntaxlies

speaking of troll post i shuold transfer this to the troll thread going on

if your gonna troll, troll in this http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...forums-as-well

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So you admit that your OP is a troll post?

yeah i would agree they revive all the NM gear and make those same NM's harder to kill, after the parties were reduced from 15 to 8 ppls they made those NM's a lot easier, we need difficulty and about the meldable gear rare/ex gear should be meldable too and i would like them to switch to a similar system like WoW were some gear had a certain number of slots, that way is easier to balance new gear/crafted gear/rare/ex gear/ HNM gear/dungeon gear, etc and if u want to repplace a materia in some slots be able to do it without breaking other materias in different slots.

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Originally Posted by elreed

yeah i would agree they revive all the NM gear and make those same NM's harder to kill, after the parties were reduced from 15 to 8 ppls they made those NM's a lot easier, we need difficulty and about the meldable gear rare/ex gear should be meldable too and i would like them to switch to a similar system like WoW were some gear had a certain number of slots, that way is easier to balance new gear/crafted gear/rare/ex gear/ HNM gear/dungeon gear, etc and if u want to repplace a materia in some slots be able to do it without breaking other materias in different slots.

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for very op gear id suggest using the blue/rare color or red for gear that cant not be melded.

i like the idea of allowing rare gear to also be doubled melded since allot of people will try ad break them and have to farm them again.

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So you admit that your OP is a troll post?

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Funny, that was my thought too.

i actually would rather they balancing materia system. All contents drops aren't useless...they're just very weaker than multimelded gear. IMO materia bonuses should be lowered to like STR I = +1, STR II = +2, STR III = +3, STR IV = +4 and STR V = +5, having bonuses even to what you can find on these gears.

This way these gears would be even to a crafted gear with 2-3 materias.

But, to not make crafted gear worthless, would be nice having combination bonuses between materias so a certain combination would also generate an additional effect (example: STR + fire resist = additional effect: chance of dealing fire damage) that cannot be obtained by melding just one materia. This would also nnot only prevent the brainless stacking of the same materia we see now but also add value to those "chocobo down" and similar materias.

Also, i would love to see the spiritbond reseting after every meld (but not reseting upon trade for melding purposes) and the success rate being proportional to spiritbond (the spiritbond gain rate would drop after every meld) so a player could potentially target a 5 materia gear if he's willing to spend enough time with that gear (by enough time i'd say like 2 months worth of killing for someone that plays 2hrs/day). This way the risk of meld failure would be even to players' lazyness...if he wants to be safe he just need to raise spiritbond more for a better success rate, up to the time it will be full and success rate will become 100%. This would also apply even to the first meld...no spiritbond = even first meld having minimal chance of success.

The thing is that in my op. rare/ex gear most of the times you get it by killing NM's or dungeons or something harder, so the fair thing is that crafted gear will be good enough for parties and endgame content, but rare/ex gear should exceed by far that gear, if i can get a good piece only with money i wont have the need to crack new content, the thing here is if they want crafters to be an important role in gear they should give /rare/ex mats and let them craft without trading.

At the end everyone will get something. In FFXI rare/ex gear and crafted gear was balanced in a way that you needed some crafted parts and some AF or rare/ex parts to have ur character best geared. They should look for something similar.

most of the idea i posted are not my ideas, just some random ideas that fit under the same umbrella i support. There are alot of different ways they can approach rare gear and older drops. I personally think most of the gear shuold be closer in balance so that we see more variety in game and people wont be so obsessed with best in slot. If al the SH gear had stats that were more comparable to a crafted piece with a x2 grade3 meld i would find that acceptable as well. If you guys think SH gear is so great how come barely anyone is using it(except the random few pieces that are decent)

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i actually would rather they balancing materia system. All contents drops aren't useless...they're just very weaker than multimelded gear. IMO materia bonuses should be lowered to like STR I = +1, STR II = +2, STR III = +3, STR IV = +4 and STR V = +5, having bonuses even to what you can find on these gears.

This way these gears would be even to a crafted gear with 2-3 materias.

But, to not make crafted gear worthless, would be nice having combination bonuses between materias so a certain combination would also generate an additional effect (example: STR + fire resist = additional effect: chance of dealing fire damage) that cannot be obtained by melding just one materia. This would also nnot only prevent the brainless stacking of the same materia we see now but also add value to those "chocobo down" and similar materias.

Also, i would love to see the spiritbond reseting after every meld (but not reseting upon trade for melding purposes) and the success rate being proportional to spiritbond (the spiritbond gain rate would drop after every meld) so a player could potentially target a 5 materia gear if he's willing to spend enough time with that gear (by enough time i'd say like 2 months worth of killing for someone that plays 2hrs/day). This way the risk of meld failure would be even to players' lazyness...if he wants to be safe he just need to raise spiritbond more for a better success rate, up to the time it will be full and success rate will become 100%. This would also apply even to the first meld...no spiritbond = even first meld having minimal chance of success.

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the problem with str4 =4 is it takes big numbers with stats in this game to see a difference. crafted gear will never be worthless cause that's were materia comes from.