How would you feel about end-game gear only being useful for 3 months?

[Tempestmoon]

Can someone help me out here. I don't see anywhere, where they say gear will be useless after three months. This is what I see.

A small group of hardcore players will skip sleep or the need to eat and jump into a high level battle right after it is released. These players will then be the first to obtain a shining rod that has devastating powers and can only be equipped by a black mage. Other players will gaze at these hardcore players with aspiration. However, in 3 months time, a solid strategy will be formulated and the difficulty level of the battle content will be adjusted too, allowing players “who cannot put their entire life into gaming” to eventually obtain the shining rod.

This simply means that at first the content will be hard until people figure it out and develop a solid strategy. That strategy will spread by word of mouth and the dungeon will become "Easy" for future adventurers. So when you go in you know you have to go by steps A-B-C to Finnish it successfully. By that time the next patch will come out and the hardcore players will have to fumble around to find that strategy and the cycle repeats. I don't see anywhere it says equipment will be obsolete. Just that the community will figure out a standard successful strategy to beat the dungeon therefor making it easier for the next wave of players....

[ChiefCurrahee]

^ this happens because some people like the OP lack critical thinking skills and/or have played games that have tiered gear like WoW and apply them to this game.

look at FFXI, level 75 gear (cap / end game gear) was largely balanced amongst each other. Gear from limbus wasn't more powerful than gear from Sky which wasn't more powerful than gear from sea, than gear from Nyzul Isle, than gear from Dynamis.
They all shared similar stats, carried their own prestige.
It wasn't until the level cap was raised and that gear then became obsolete.

While gear in FFXI was largely situational, you can count on XIV to be similar.
You'll find several pieces of gear that are for Gla. Some will be made with tanking in mind, some with casting in mind, others with DD. How you equip them is up to you and your play style or just your taste in gear alone.

gear will not become obsolete every 3 months. You'll just have different "flavors"

[Korbei]

The idea that it will only be useful for 3 months is a misrepresentation. The gear doesn't change after 3 months. It will always be obsolesced by something new in a matter of months. That's the endless gear hunting treadmill of MMORPGs.

How do I feel about the means of acquiring gear easing after 3 months? Mixed.

I would like to see drop rates on rewards increase over time gradually to 100% or close to it. I would prefer the difficulty of any given content remain unchanged. I like to go back and tread through old content from time to time. I still want the same difficulty so I can gauge my own growth since the last time.

I'm not inherently opposed to letting less inclined players experience the content they paid to experience. I would prefer an option, at the very least, to play everything at default difficulty. Higher rewards could be offered in that case to benefit the more dedicated players. The most obvious bonuses being high gil rewards and something like EXP scrolls.

[DNO]

If we can get new gear every 3 months that means we get new and better content every 3 months is that not what we want? You guys gotta get off that ff11 kick..... gears in ff11 lasts a long time but it does not have to be like ff11. Give the system a try just becase new and better gear comes out does not mean your already gimped.

It gives me something to work almsot non stop and thats what a MMO should do IMO.

[DNO]

Can someone help me out here. I don't see anywhere, where they say gear will be useless after three months. This is what I see.



This simply means that at first the content will be hard until people figure it out and develop a solid strategy. That strategy will spread by word of mouth and the dungeon will become "Easy" for future adventurers. So when you go in you know you have to go by steps A-B-C to Finnish it successfully. By that time the next patch will come out and the hardcore players will have to fumble around to find that strategy and the cycle repeats. I don't see anywhere it says equipment will be obsolete. Just that the community will figure out a standard successful strategy to beat the dungeon therefor making it easier for the next wave of players....

True people always go crazy over little things.

[Forbin]

I like the idea of side grades like FFXI had.. I HATE that end game gear becomes out dated in WoW every expansion.. and is easily replaced by gear from quests in the next expansion STUPID..

[Arcell]

Personally, don't really care. I mean that's just how things go. Without raising the level cap, if they introduce new gear from new content it has to be better in some way than the previous stuff or there's no reason to go get it.

It's just how things go in MMOs.

[Dallie]

Hate it, but why is everyone taking Yoshi's '3-months' as a literal statement that's how it will be in the future?

I have seen very little tied down to any solid number since he took over the helm, so I would wager you'll get four.

[Azurymber]

Just want to point out a few things.

1.

Post how -YOU- would feel and nothing more

The fact that people actually tried to personally attack me over a topic asking people to -only- post an opinion really says something about those people.

2. at the moment about 5 times as many people would hate the system rather than love it

So please if you want to debate the issue or personally attack -anyone- go make another thread
If you don't like the topic DON'T POST.

[Ragz]

OP's post is disingenuous and purposely misleading.

What if I make a pool that says "How would you feel were you to be hit in the head with a baseball every time you watch a ball game" and pretend that the pool is about going to baseball games?

The premise of the OP's pool is not what they are doing or planning to do, it's just what OP (erroneously) understood from Yoshida's post.