How SE is alienating talented players

[darkstarpoet1]

This is where you find out who your friends are and who aren't.

this is so true. this is where you find out who is willing to help you when you need help and who is only willing to help when it's beneficial to them.

[StateAlchemist]

Yes because the thing I want the most is for every player on the server to be in full Darklight gear to make crafting gear even more useless then it already is. Everyone! Please. Keep the drop rate stupid low. Seriously.

[Aceofspades]

I agree to an extent, As the leader of a LS that takes pride in the fact that we make it a point to look after eachother, I refuse to help those that only ask for help. Also , its ok to take in some new comers but keep in mind, if your core group dose nothing but catch new comers up to speed, youre selfishly asking them to sacrafice their own personal progress for others who have just joined the group. If your in a LS and you do try to help yourself and when you realy need help , and there is no one in your LS/s to help you, time to find a real LS. Just my opinion

[Maxthunder]

Yes because the thing I want the most is for every player on the server to be in full Darklight gear to make crafting gear even more useless then it already is. Everyone! Please. Keep the drop rate stupid low. Seriously.

I have a wonderful suggestion not just for you but everyone thats complaining of drop rates. Let SE use the same drop from Ifrit and Moogle in these dungeons. Yes I said it but you know what none of you will be happy, and it is a very simple solution for everyone. See now no can tell you who gets what 1st or last, you are rewarded by doing the run hundreds of times.

The issue isnt really the drop rates are too low (i agree they need adjusting) thats beside the point. The real issue is simple some1 wants all that gear 1st, so they can say "Hey look, I'm the 1st person to have a complete set (mind you not 1 set but all 3 sets) of darklight gear.

Now as I see it the darklight gear yes it is nice and yes for now it might be the best, but within lets say maybe 1-2 or maybe not till 2.0 that gear will be replaced by better gear. I personally have not decided if I will go and collect this gear.

Now I dont buy crafted gear, I have ls mates who will make it as long as I get the mats so, your quote above really dosent affect me, and I am sure a lot of linkshell members will craft for another member. Sooner or later everyone will have a complete set of darklight (those who wish to collect it) if not every set.

[Scarface]

9/86 on DL (runs, not chests)
0/30 on Body (Speed runs, not chests)

Glad they made they gear rare, and still trucking through.

[Riaayo]

OP brings us to the real problem plaguing the entirety of this game which is dun dun dun Random Number Generating.

RNG ruins just about everything from making players feel unrewarded for their time with bullshit drop %s to making us lose a fight just because the dice roll decided we missed our otherwise perfectly timed weapon skill or ability.

The whole totem idea for Ifrit would have been an awesome "fix" to this problem except that those were also % drops and not a 100% drop per run. If you got 1 totem per run, it would still take you 70 ifrit wins to 7/7 the weapons. In my eyes that is more than enough. A system like that gives you a tangible reward for your continued progress, without necessarily just handing you the nice piece of gear first win.

But as it stands now the game CAN hand you that nice piece of gear your first sloppy, stupid run while someone who has honed their skills and worked hard to speed run 50x still doesn't have a piece. That kind of thing needs to stop and never return to MMOs.

While lockouts can keep people from becoming burned out on content this game has far too little content to only do a single CC and AV a week, or even a day to be honest. If Ifrit was once a day? Good God... Also don't forget the primals in XI were once a day but you got to pick an item reward EVERY time you beat it.

But either way, SE, please remove RNG in rewards, battle, etc (let me miss if I have no acc but at least let me cap it with gear). It's frustrating and is just useless player punishment even when a player has geared properly and is playing properly, and is nothing but fake difficulty.

[Celeras]

Gear is useless in this game, and the content is easy. So what do you do? You burn yourself grinding trying to get gear. Good call.

Meanwhile, everyone else dicks around, has fun, and waits for 2.0 to come out and hopefully improve on the worst MMO to ever launch. I suggest you get on board.

[Totobi]

Gear is useless in this game, and the content is easy. So what do you do? You burn yourself grinding trying to get gear. Good call.

Meanwhile, everyone else dicks around, has fun, and waits for 2.0 to come out and hopefully improve on the worst MMO to ever launch. I suggest you get on board.

Fun? I thought this game was about e-peens :s

[Yves]

I think the word "talent" revolving around a videogame is an oxymoron...

[Jeffdogg]

I think the word "talent" revolving around a videogame is an oxymoron...

Lol yeah but it makes the people that need to play video games to get a sense of accomplishment cause they fail at real life. So talented they feel