Massive fail by Matsui - telling melee range to suck it up for not getting invites

[Neptune]

I believe that adjusting the balance will also change the flow of a battle and require different strategies for bringing down tough (boss) mobs. Therefore, for now i tend to put the lack of melee invites under the "balancing"-work they will be doing for the patches 1.19 and 1.20.

For all we know, the introduction of the Job-system might reduce MP Cost for healing abilities when selecting the "Healer"-job or maybe increase the damage dealt melee classes when the "Warrior"-job has been selected. But, i do not want to speculate what SE has in store for us in the upcomming patches.

Personally, i'm going to wait untill they are finished implementing the new battle- and job-system before diving into game. But that's just me...

At best you're right, and at worst you're horribly wrong. But that's why I post on these forums, to ensure the best possible outcome. I just want to do my part to make the issues clear. Your suggestions would be great and I hope that is exactly what happens. I was talking about flow of player behavior actually.

I really don't see this being a problem when people are beating this w/o all arc teams. Meowwowie had shown us a great vid of them slaying the ogre. it just feels like you are saying they should lower mp's cost and let melee stay in and just get hit and so mages can spam cure's.

If you don't see a problem you should ask around your server and talk to some of the melee players who have had a lot of trouble getting into Darkhold runs. The real problem is that the dev team doesn't see the kind of feedback that is right there in front of them. MP costs should be lowered because it should only take 2 mages not 3-5. Spam curing is fine for a few minutes, maybe 5. Right now you could maybe get off like 1 minute of true cure spam before wipe.

[Aldora]

At best you're right, and at worst you're horribly wrong. But that's why I post on these forums, to ensure the best possible outcome. I just want to do my part to make the issues clear. Your suggestions would be great and I hope that is exactly what happens. I was talking about flow of player behavior actually.

Just to be make sure that we are on the same wave here, my post was not intended as an attack of any kind. I just stated my view on the lack of invites. (^_^ ) There's always a time when certain jobs are in favor with the "public". I remember a time where my little brother and i were playing Final Fantasy XI. I was leveling a Red Mage while he was leveling a Thief. We got a certain point where i got invites for parties, simply by logging on. He on the other had was waiting for hours, just to get an invite, just because there were "better" jobs out there. After a few weeks, he was on the verge of quitting the game because he was so fed up with waiting for hours and hours, just for an invite. Thankfully he managed to create a static Linkshell party with a couple of LS members and got his Thief to 75 in a "jiffy".

It was the same with other jobs as well. Dragoons, waiting hours on end for a party. Then an update arrived where pentathrust gave massive TP and suddenly everyone was leveling a Dragoon. Puppetmaster, the same...

I can only hope that after the rebalancing and job introductions, each class will have equal use in a party. After that, it's the community that decides which classes they want in their parties. (Even though they are already doing that with parties like GLD, ARC, ARC, ARC, CON, CON) (^_^; )

Time will tell. (^_~ )