Your thoughts on the updated 2.2 news

[Ecks007]

Like some have said already, I too am also glad to have some new beastman dailies to be able to do. It gave me something else to do every day I logged on. True, I could technically still do the current beastman dailies, but there isn't as much incentive now that they have been capped to the highest reputation available.

That being said, I actually enjoyed doing the beastman dailies everyday and welcome some extra new daily quests to give me something else to do each day. Not to mention I am actually looking forward to both mounts this time, not just one of them as was the case with the last two.

[Vensaval]

What you call variety has horrible balance issues.

It only has horrible balance issues if the developers design it poorly.

[Starlord]

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Everything in the game currently has the opportunity to evolve into something even more meaningful. Yes, atm the vanity system is only for your class/job only. Is that a bad thing? No, mainly because you can still equip a good variety of gear from your class/job. If I recall most classes namely DD, can be worn by any class the begin with ( Below AF gear). Jobs can still wear class gear, so if a you want to wear the Foestriker set on any DD related Job, you can. If you want to wear the Acolyte set on any mage related Job you can.

There is still alot of choices to choose from. On a personal level, I wouldn't want a DD wear WHM AF namely because it can spark confusion within the party.

In the Future, I do hope they expand on it, but I am happy with it atm.

[Naunet]

Not even interested. Sure a few new dungeons, but with an ilvl 55 to enter, I really, really, REALLY do doubt that we will have any gear progression in there.

My only hope for the new dungeons is that they give us some actual new armor models. Otherwise, yeah...

[Swagcity]

It only has horrible balance issues if the developers design it poorly.

I agree

Balance=excuses; creativity is key. If designed poorly, any aspect of the game can have balance issues. Heck, if it was up to me, bst would get a peiste pet that shoots instant death lasers from his eyes; screw the other job/classes^^ I do agree with the premise that balance can be an issue, it is just how they choose to handle it imo. They should not to afraid to try new things^^

[JHeezy]

Just think about this:

The recent Live Letter regarding 2.2, the big "content" patch, focused on the new vanity system. Nothing content related.


Which leads me to believe there's really not much content in 2.2.

[Starlord]

Just think about this:

The recent Live Letter regarding 2.2, the big "content" patch, focused on the new vanity system. Nothing content related.


Which leads me to believe there's really not much content in 2.2.

1) 4 more Coil Turns
2) Gilgamesh Fight ( doesn't seem FATE-like from the picture we saw).
3) Leviathan HM/EM
4) 1 New Dungeon and 2 HM Dungeons
5) Beastman Dallies (Sahagin and Kobalds)
6) Upgrading to the next Relic tier (A Quest simular or harder than A Relic Reborn.)
7) More Hildibrand quests
8) Challenge Log of sorts ( whatever that may entail)
9) Gardening ( If you have a House yet)
10) Main Scenario Quests

Etc.

Could be more, but all that I can remember atm. Personally I can't wait! ( I want that Sahagin mount!) The Wandering Ministerial could have some fights ( EM Gilamesh? XD)

Edit: I said Could be more because there were things that just got announced today ( Challenge Log and Relic Upgrade) at least I haven't heard about them.

[Cathasaigh]

I'm seriously disappointed in the vanity system.

Me too, I'm pissed that the odin armor I worked so hard to get before the vanity system came out won't work with it.

[Zumi]

None of the DRG ultimate weapons were useless against everything but Dragons and you know this. Stop countering anything XI related brought up on these forums with situations that never existed :l

That was a response to the posters make weapons strong against 1 type.

Well here is something FFXI related before mythics and empyreans, and eventually delve, for the longest time the ultimate dragoon weapon was Gungier. When you used its special WS Geirskogul it was weaker then the other DRG WS but it gave aftermath shockspikes buff. Whenver enemines hit you they took a couple points worth of thunder damage. Now then Gungier also had a def down proc 17%, however this overwrote the superior def down from a fully merited Angon which was 25% when used with AF2 gloves, and longer duration, so your relic overwrote the superior def down with a weaker one that had a very short duration.

Almost nobody made this relic unless they were a hardcore drg even then they knew it wasn't good when making it.

Now then compare that to THF mandu, it could proc poison on the mob, 10 dot, Mercy stroke was the best WS for a thf, and the aftermath increased your crit rate by 5% All good bonuses when you start giving stuff procs you end up with good ones and some horribly bad ones thus having balance issues.

[Zumi]

Don't know why I am even going to post this but what the heck...

Not even interested. Sure a few new dungeons, but with an ilvl 55 to enter, I really, really, REALLY do doubt that we will have any gear progression in there...

They already said we get the new tombstone by running the new dungeons, in addition to levithan and coil6-9 which also drop the new tombstone.

So there is gear progression in the new dungeons by getting the new tombstone we can buy higher ilvl gear.