How SE is alienating talented players

[KiraAmane]

As of right now, we are just plowing through until 1.22. The LftP and 1.22 has given us all a second wind to suck it up and farm away.

Also, I was hoping the Memes would put an end to this thread, but it was not the case lol.

[Alerith]

Nothing sais fun like Killing Ifirit....and then doing it again 10 seconds later, and again, and again...

I have my Ifrit clear. I don't have the sword, but I'm not concerned with it considering it's ugly and my cobalt winglet has enough materia in it to surpass Ifrit's Blade.

I do the Ifrit fight because it's fun. I've done it as a GLA tank, PLD tank and GLA DD. The fight, for me, is enjoyable, and I wouldn't want to be locked out of it if I were helping my LS or decided to try something new over several runs.

[Jynx]

I wouldn't want to be locked out of it if I were helping my LS or decided to try something new over several runs.

I personally think that the best compromise would be to allow retry attempts but to lock you out once you win. Of course everyone is going to have their own idea of how long the lockout should be.

But I don't think failures should be penalized, other than that I think that soon enough there will be enough content to cycle some different fights instead of just spamming the one.

[ScorchyWorchy]

This is not a QQ post, more of a ZZZ post.

Just wondering how many of the "elite" players/LSes are just fed up with CC and AV speed runs/ the game in general.

We have been farming CC on the regular to being with, but this weekend we decided to go non-stop, periodically. We have just done 25-30 speed runs in the past day and a half a row and got ZERO Darklight gear. Meanwhile, random people are getting drops on non-speed runs.

There seems to be something wrong with this reward system. You complete the dungeon faster than 95% of the people, get no drops, then have to wait 15 minutes just to re-enter. Anyone think that wins should be automatic reentry with the abysmal drop rates they have? Three of our LS members, who are madly in love with the game, over the past two days have grown to hate the game. Clearly something is wrong with this picture.

1 DD curiass, 3 heavy DL gloves, 1 DL dd boots in 85-100 runs (I lost track). A majority of them being speed runs. Mathematically speaking, that's absurd.

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[Aceofspades]

Hmmm. Soo leme get this strait, "Elite" players are doing 25-30 speed runs in a day and are seeing low if no drop rates at all....That reminds me of a game I played once. Realy nice, very hard to attain items, and quite frankly was 50% luck if you even got it after completeing the task or dungeon, at all. But once you got that Item, that was an Item worth showing off, stats be damned, You only got that Item cuz you and your crew were realy good at the game and thats how you proved it. ... What was that game called?? Oh yeah Final Fantasy XI. If your burned out then take a break. But please stop asking the Devs to make the game even easier and acheivments less prestegious because you and your LS weren't the first ones with the gear. The way i see it, the harder to attain said gear, the more I want it. start handing that stuff out like its candy and its the next item Im just gona NPC. Personally, I think AF gear should be much , MUCH harder to acheive, But thats just my opinion. Game is too easy as it is, bring back the honor in being "elite" in this game before you start calling yourself elite , at this point half the server is "elite"

[illriginalized]

lol OP's LS has horrible luck.

But I agree drop rates (Ifrit, Moogle, DH, CC, and AV) are junk.

[KiraAmane]

Lol is anyone bothering to read or see the progression of the thread? Passive aggressive QQ -->> troll -->> acceptance, farming regardless. More memes the better though.

[Kasathar]

I bet this is how SE is fight back "farmers"

But seriously, maybe the game is intelligent enough to give people - who are excessively trying to farm these items - the finger.

[Lux_Rayna]

I think AF gear should be much , MUCH harder to acheive, But thats just my opinion.

Agree except for this. AF is nowhere near good enough to warrant the level of difficulty you're implying. I mean if AF was the best armor in the game bar none, sure. If it was better than double-melded gear, sure. As it stands I could single meld an entire set of armor and have it be superior to AF. If AF armor got a significant buff, I could support what you're saying lol.

Game is too easy as it is, bring back the honor in being "elite" in this game before you start calling yourself elite , at this point half the server is "elite"

Its not finished, it kinda has to be easy lol. Can't balance a game's difficulty without having a strong foundation. Let them get the job mechanics and stuff hammered out, then you can throw all the difficulty you want at ppl. Give it some time lol.

As far as the elitist thing goes, reminds me of all the F2P's I played...everyone was "elitist" rofl. Even on those cartoony faceroll games bahaha

[illriginalized]

I just wanted to add... this guy (OP) that claims to be talented is the same guy that is complaining about how fast and easy it is to level jobs.. this guy took advantage of the exp rate and now that he's achieved all 50s on his char he wants to screw all the newer players by telling SE that they need to lower the rate of exp to make it a longer drawn out mission to level classes/jobs to 50.

OP is a hypocrite and quite frankly I'm satisfied with him and his linkshell not having received a CC/AV drop yet.