All Worlds Maintenance (Sept. 11)

[StrangerousDangerous]

The problem with server transfers is that 25% of people on each server are going to try to enter one of 4 servers that is locked. Everyone believes they have a right to be on those servers because their friends are their.

I would be shocked if they didn't allow only people leaving certain servers. So if you want to play with your buddies on those locked servers its just going to be them leaving that server...in fact it always works in this manner.

I see a LOT of people assuming that once transfers are implemented that their friends will be able to come to a server already character locked. It wont happen.

Let me repeat: They are not going to let everyone flood onto those 4 servers that are already locked...only off them. If your friends don't want to leave those servers better make some new ones for this game.

[Kraggy]

We'll be adding a requirement to participate in high-level dungeons and hard mode primal battles that will make it so you need to have equipment above a certain item level equipped to participate. To coincide with this, we will be implementing a system that will display the average item level for your gear in the character window.

Ah, so you're going down the Blizzard route of iLvl-gating .. when do we get the horror that's called 'Gearscore' as well?

[Rohirrim]

Ah, so you're going down the Blizzard route of iLvl-gating .. when do we get the horror that's called 'Gearscore' as well?

The problem is the Fates in my opinion and the leveling system in general. When the clearly superior way to level 1 to 50 is mindless roaming from fate to fate, spamming the ability that will net you the highest contribution and your gear doesn't matter, then it is normal that people will not give a shit about their gear. I made a level 25 dungeon yesterday and had a DPS inside with half his gear level 1-10...I am leveling all crafting classes in par with my main and spent countless hours so I be able to craft my own gear and always have level apropriate gear. Why should I carry in dungeon the fate runner that don't give a shit about? Sorry if this sound elitist but this is what I feel. I am also against those gear checks, but since they made their leveling system like this, they must now find a way to make people care about their armor

[Diyne]

It would be nice to see what item level average is recommended to do certain content, especially when using the duty finder. I don't necessarily mind this, since there isn't much difference between telling someone "You need to have <this> much damage/stat/ect." as opposed to "You need <this> i-level average." However, will this item level requirement also be in effect for situations where you are bringing your own full group to the dungeon? There's been plenty of times that I can recall in my gaming history where my guild/ls would just bring mostly properly equipped players, and maybe one or two people who are underpar, with the sole intent of gearing them up in the 'higher tier' instance instead of slow gearing them in the instances of their proper tier.

[ChickensEvil]

In regard to the gearscore change, I would assume that it will work like queuing as a group of 4 (or 8) does right now. They don't run any checks and assume you are not completely retarded. If you choose to run a dungeon with 4 dps, what do they care? They don't. Which is why, when leveling and tired of waiting for long queues some people in my FC decided to queue as 4 "dps" (one was an arcanist... which registers as DPS, and he was using his tank pet, and throwing out heals). The ran all the way up through level 30 dungeons like this pretty easily.

So I would hope they do the same with any kind of gear check. It is only there if you are looking for PUGs.

[Jinko]

Actually talking to my partner last night we kinda figured there are no servers in North America just a data center with the hard line to their servers in Japan. So shutting it down during their business hours is the only thing that makes sense. They should really be a little clearer understanding that we backlash at the mention of what others perceive as minutia...we take our gaming seriously! :-)

I believe this is the case, I can't see why EU can't have their own Datacentre also if it is.

[DwightParkman]

GEARSCORE?! NO SQUARENIX! BAD SQUAREENIX! VERY BAD BOY.

[Luciano_Bozzelli]

Greetings,

In case you haven’t seen the news announcement posted on Lodestone, we will be holding a long maintenance on Wednesday, September 11th from 5:00 p.m. until September 12th at 3:00 a.m. This maintenance will address the below three things, which Yoshida mentioned in his post:

We apologize for any inconveniences this maintenance may cause, but appreciate your understanding as we do our best to enhance the servers to ensure comfortable playing conditions.

Will you guys be doing anything to fix the FATE's and the lag which is occurring when to many players are at a FATE? I'm on PS3 and its gonna be no fun doing large FATE's when I hit 50 with my LS if I can't even see the mob... Let alone I'm the tank... And that's gonna be a problem.

[iolanthe]

I have several friends who are unable to play with me that just returned from vacation abroad because the server is locked. They are going to end up having to play elsewhere which is lame.

The least that can be done is enabling us to have cross-server friends that we can queue up for dungeons with.

[KitCat]

I just want my friend to be able to play on ultros with me :s