[Suggestion] Trial of the Magians

[Kyata]

But I know better than to take the vocal minority as consensus, and sub numbers don't lie.

Unfortunately, that's how it seems to be going.

What my opening post looks like to everyone is this:

First off, for those that don't know what TotM is, it's a system for upgrading weapons and gear in FFXI $#%@%$^@#%&!$#%$%%&^$(*@#$^@$#%&$%&#$*@%*$%&$%^@$%^@$%&@$%^&*@$*(@$&@$%&@$%#&@$^*($%^*&@!$#%*&#$^*#^%$&@$%*@$*(*&^*&%*@$%&@$%*&$^*&#@^%$*@%&@$%^&*@#$^$&@$%&

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The premature bias is amazing, no one's even looking at my post or noticing that I mentioned it would have to be "tweaked to fit FFXIV and its playerbase" which obviously don't seem to like rewarding achievements or choices, they need everything handed to them immediately and without having to do much work to earn them.
I've seen people complain about the 24 mobs you need to kill for the relic quest, I know they won't take nicely to 200+.

I don't know about everyone else, but I like to get my rewards after hard work, so I can feel like I accomplished something worthwhile. I can count the amount of times I, or anyone on my vent channel yelled out in joy for something we did or received on one hand.

Anyway, I did my share of posting so the community reps can see it. If it's deemed worthy enough to pass on to devs, it will be.

Thanks for the thoughts anyway, regardless of how biased they were.

[Delsus]

*snip*

You honestly don't get it, people hated TotM, it's not because it's FFXI it's because people don't want to be forced to kill 2000 crabs for a small upgrade, then Impulse Drive 5000 times and finally for the meaningful upgrade hit 5000 Chaos Thrust combos, that is not hard work it's just tedium. The only way FFXI managed to get people to do these is because they had to for decent gear, if they added more drops to Limbus for example that were equal to TotM gear, even with a low drop rate people would have gone with that over TotM any day.

[SarcasmMisser]

The premature bias is amazing, no one's even looking at my post or noticing that I mentioned it would have to be "tweaked to fit FFXIV and its playerbase"

That has already been done as many people have pointed out. It's really just saying that it isn't like FFXI enough, and many people consider that a plus.

I don't know about everyone else, but I like to get my rewards after hard work, so I can feel like I accomplished something worthwhile. I can count the amount of times I, or anyone on my vent channel yelled out in joy for something we did or received on one hand.

I do that too it's called downing Twintania. Progression groups is where you get your feeling of accomplishment, and I'd prefer it in challenging content rather than a tedious grind.