SP nerfed. We were lied to.

[Hayden]

Anyone who is complaining that SP has been nerfed has not been out there playing the game but have been in here whining and shaking their fists in rage. They have no evidence what so ever to support this crazy notion. In one relativity short 2 hour play I managed to get from half way to r46 to half way to r47 gla. All I did was one behest, a few quests for 3000 sp, the rank 45 Ul'dah story quest for an INSANE 46,000 sp, and a few leves. That is over 80,000 sp in two hours.

I then did a few DOL Miners leves for over 10'000 sp and called it a night.

SP was not nerfed it was just balanced.

Get over yourselves.

Yoshi P you did a good job.

[Reika]

Anyone who is complaining that SP has been nerfed has not been out there playing the game but have been in here whining and shaking their fists in rage. They have no evidence what so ever to support this crazy notion. In one relativity short 2 hour play I managed to get from half way to r46 to half way to r47 gla. All I did was one behest, a few quests for 3000 sp, the rank 45 Ul'dah story quest for an INSANE 46,000 sp, and a few leves. That is over 80,000 sp in two hours.

I then did a few DOL Miners leves for over 10'000 sp and called it a night.

SP was not nerfed it was just balanced.

Get over yourselves.

Yoshi P you did a good job.

Note sir that people are mostly talking about how BATTLE LEVES were nerfed too severely while GATHERING AND CRAFTING leves got a major boost. at least thats what I am talking about.

And some people no longer have the opportunity to obtain that major SP off of story leves, they are all done. Some people also dont have the opportunity to obtain the new sp increases from side-quests, some people blew through all theirs.

But one can argue that these changes are not for people who have been playing, they are for people that will be coming.

What they can do to reduce all this anger from the people who have been playing is reset the story quest, class quests, and side quests for everyone.

[Kensei]

the rank 45 Ul'dah story quest for an INSANE 46,000 sp

Yeah because story quests are unlimited. Oh wait..

SP was not nerfed it was just balanced.

Well the if you want to call it that the "balancing" resulted in less achievable SP/hour gain that pre-patch. Slower ranking up process = nerfed ranking up process.

[TheVedis]

Yeah because story quests are unlimited. Oh wait..



Well the if you want to call it that the "balancing" resulted in less achievable SP/hour gain that pre-patch. Slower ranking up process = nerfed ranking up process.

so let me ask you this

is it reasonable to get the last rank in less then 2 hours in ANY mmo?
i call that unreasonable, and way too fast by any standard
you dont want people getting the ranks too too easy, and thats what was happening before(and thats not counting the fact at rank 30 you were getting a rank an hour which was even worse)

now you still get ranks at a fairly quick rate(4 hours tops id say) which is reasonable

if you wanted easy quick ranks, you lost your chance at it, time to get with the times and play it like its a real mmo and actualy take the time to earn stuff

[Kensei]

so let me ask you this

is it reasonable to get the last rank in less then 2 hours in ANY mmo?

No, of course not.

i call that unreasonable, and way too fast by any standard

I agree 100%.

you dont want people getting the ranks too too easy, and thats what was happening before(and thats not counting the fact at rank 30 you were getting a rank an hour which was even worse)

I completely agree with this too.

now you still get ranks at a fairly quick rate(4 hours tops id say) which is reasonable

Well I don't know that we can throw specific amount of time it would take to rank up now because it depends on what rank we are talking about but I think it is agreed that it takes longer than before. Now I am NOT discussing whether or not it should have been slowed down (I do agree that it was too fast), I am talking about the fact that it was stated it wouldn't.

Why would they go out of their way to tell us, a day before the patch went live, that ranking up would remain the same and then nerf it? It upsets me that they would attempt to sort of reassure everyone and then do that. If it was done consciously that's just a slap in the face to everyone who has remained loyal through thick and thin and if it was done by an oversight then sadly they unconsciously did what they said they wouldn't.

if you wanted easy quick ranks, you lost your chance at it, time to get with the times and play it like its a real mmo and actualy take the time to earn stuff

I did not want that. I just don't want to be given false information. I do think that while it needed to be slowed down some it was slowed down a bit too much but that's not for me to decide and that is not the point of the thread.

[TheVedis]

No, of course not.



I agree 100%.



I completely agree with this too.



Well I don't know that we can throw specific amount of time it would take to rank up now because it depends on what rank we are talking about but I think it is agreed that it takes longer than before. Now I am NOT discussing whether or not it should have been slowed down (I do agree that it was too fast), I am talking about the fact that it was stated it wouldn't.

Why would they go out of their way to tell us, a day before the patch went live, that ranking up would remain the same and then nerf it? It upsets me that they would attempt to sort of reassure everyone and then do that. If it was done consciously that's just a slap in the face to everyone who has remained loyal through thick and thin and if it was done by an oversight then sadly they unconsciously did what they said they wouldn't.



I did not want that. I just don't want to be given false information. I do think that while it needed to be slowed down some it was slowed down a bit too much but that's not for me to decide and that is not the point of the thread.

4 hours tops at ALL ranks

remember, you get 25-30k an hour on raptors still
thats 4 hours for the final rank, 5 tops

and since you start that at 44(when the sp is slightly over 80k) you can only guess how fast the ranks below it are, and you dont even need as much sp per hour to rank as fast then

[Kensei]

4 hours tops at ALL ranks

remember, you get 25-30k an hour on raptors still
thats 4 hours for the final rank, 5 tops

and since you start that at 44(when the sp is slightly over 80k) you can only guess how fast the ranks below it are, and you dont even need as much sp per hour to rank as fast then

Well there you go. If your numbers are accurate then yeah 4 hours. But as I explained that's not what my point is. It's what was stated in the letter and what they actually did.

Anyway, thanks for being so respectful and actually giving input instead of going "LOL you are wrong I got 200k last night in 2 hours. Learn to play noob!". The forums need more people like you, cheers!

[Abriael]

Well there you go. If your numbers are accurate then yeah 4 hours. But as I explained that's not what my point is. It's what was stated in the letter and what they actually did.

Anyway, thanks for being so respectful and actually giving input instead of going "LOL you are wrong I got 200k last night in 2 hours. Learn to play noob!". The forums need more people like you, cheers!

the not so hidden point in what TheVedis Said and that you conveniently ignored is that it's still very possible to get a LOT more SP than what you used to get in your precious behest. No behest out there used to give 30k/hour (actually, it's entirely possible to skim just under 40k hour with raptors and similar grinding). Hence, your false point has been proven for what it is: False.

If there even was any further need of it, considering that many already posted several verifiable figures way higher than old behest figures, achieved with several activities.