Raider to Non-Raider: an exhibition on thoughts and misconceptions

[Ibi]

if you recall, pink gear doesn't compare even against green of the same iLvl. The attack/defense values on the green and blue gear will always be higher than aetheral, and the stats as well.

This is false. Aetherial items have identical attack/defense and primary stats to equivalent green and blue items of the same item level (though there's only one instance of the latter), and the numerical values (determination's slightly different budget aside) for secondary stats are also identical.

[Anze-chan]

I agree with most posts regarding Alex Savage's difficulty taking a turn on the 3rd floor. Anyway, I think that the way the community as-is is pretty normal due to the fact that this mmo is not designed for people to be flat out competitive. Although the ones who strive to find some competition in PvE content are entitled to do so if they find it enjoyable, because let's be honest, everyone plays to feel good about themselves and that's mostly achieved through competition or social engagement. So in the end, how people perceive raiders and non-raiders in PvE content largely depends on their definition of 'fun' and to be honest so many people are incapable of understanding or acknowledging other types of fun not because they don't want to but because they are limited in terms comprehending what's on the other side of their bubble. This goes both ways for raiders and non-raiders.

[Sparktacus]

I'm curious where people is getting this dev quantity information, you can look at the credits when they roll and it lasts forever, and I'm only talking about japanese names, not the NA and EU team names which are pretty small, just for information, the credits roll of heavensward lasts more than 25 minutes.

Did you do The Rising? That is literally the dev team. I think there is one person that is in charge of raids. One.

[FallenArisen0990]

Did you do The Rising? That is literally the dev team. I think there is one person that is in charge of raids. One.

They did say they have a small team lol.

[NessaWyvern]

I would like to become a raider.... But being on a EU server when you live in NZ makes it hard XD Weird timezones and increased ping.

[Malzian]

This is false. Aetherial items have identical attack/defense and primary stats to equivalent green and blue items of the same item level (though there's only one instance of the latter), and the numerical values (determination's slightly different budget aside) for secondary stats are also identical.

Okay, I checked this and you're correct. Pink and green items of the same iLvl have the same stat values, though pink's secondaries are unreliable for what you get. I could not find a comparable set for pink to blue.

[Leshpar]

Hey, I'm still just trying to find a raid group that doesn't raid during the week. I have the skill and ability to learn, but apparently weekends are off limits to most people. O.o I started playing this game when Heavensward came out, coming from 7.5 years of WoW.

[Synestra]

I really hope SE can expand on the combat content of the game. Having a good combat system is useless when there is nothing to kill.

Well i have really high hopes for those airship islands, it could be a salvation unless it ends being hunt v.2 or it has some lame weekly limitations. If its nothing like hunts and you can farm it 24/7 if you so choose i will be EXTREMELY happy.

[Dererk]

Since this is the first expansion of the game (officially the first....). Lets just hope they learn from the stuff here and the feedback to heart for 4.0.

Not saying to give up on 3.x just thought that should be put out there.

[Malzian]

I'm curious where people is getting this dev quantity information, you can look at the credits when they roll and it lasts forever, and I'm only talking about japanese names, not the NA and EU team names which are pretty small, just for information, the credits roll of heavensward lasts more than 25 minutes.

25 minutes, yes. However, the full credits include people like localization, testing and marketing. The people actually designing the content are right at the beginning and those are (from the credits):

Lead Battle Planner: Kei Sato
Battle Planners: Tsuyoshi Yokozawa, Takashi Kawamoto, Hikaru Tamaki
Lead Monster Planner: Daisuke Sase
Monster Planners: Masaki Nakagawa, Kenji Hosoi, Ryouhei Ishizuka
Lead Level Planner: Arata Takahashi
Level Planners: Hiroyuki Kamada, Azusa Kamakura, Yoshito Nabeshima, Tian Xia

That's the full list (minus the main producers) that actually -make- the content we play. That's raids, dungeons and open world. 13 people to design the levels, monsters and mechanics (note: not do the art or program them). That's a very small dev group for the amount of content we've actually gotten.