Relic Weapon Revival (06/06/2012)

[SniperRifle]

I can confirm now WHM is MND. (I believe most people already assumed this.)



and we pulled off a double-melded Sarnga right after.



We assume Full Moon might have hidden CoS. No clue though really, lol.

Also, for being in the Top 3 Provisioners in Hamlet, you can be rewarded a seal upon exiting the Hamlet. i.e You can obtain 2 seals from a run if you are in the top 3.

[Mikheli]

Technically having to sing less often in longer fights increases your DPS (depending on how long of a duration buff) could also make positioning yourself in longer fights alot easier.

As true is that is I'm already pulling out 60-66 DPS on Moogle fight. I just don't see how casting a nearly insta cast song is gonna make much of a difference.

[Dzian]

thats 120 hours worth of hamlets, and you can do that in a week, 2 tops

WTF???????? 120/7 = 17 hours a day!!! 120/14 = 8.5 hours a day!!!!

compare that to dynamis again, where you would get 5 currencies tops maybe if you ran a full dynamis group.
5 currencies, out of 10k+ that you needed
thats over 2000 dynamis runs
oh and you can only do 2 per week.....

again wtf???? I must have had the luckiest dynamis shell ever. could almost guarantee ~50 1pieces a run with the the random 100piece thrown in. did they heavily nerf drop rates in abysea. (i quit the day the cap hit 80)

so let me ask you this, if you could do hamlet only once every time its available, and have it on cooldown once you beat til the next time it cycles around, would you be willing to do that for a 100% drop rate? cuz thats basicaly what itl take

YUP! grinding the same thing over and over isnt fun. if i could only do av/cc/hamlet once every 3 days it wouldnt bother me. even with a less than 100% drop rate. as long as theres enough content to keep me occupied during the timers i wouldnt care. much the same as xi. limbus once every 3 days only.. so what. theres a whole ton of other stuff to be doing with. einherjar was the same...

imo the reason people whine about reentry timers has less to do with drop rates and more to do with the lack of anything else to do.

Glad its really hard to get. This forces it to be rare. Which imo makes it more special. Not everyone can have a trophy, even if they practice hard.

It's not Hard. It's Luck. which is kinda the whole point of the thread

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

and we pulled off a double-melded Sarnga right after.



We assume Full Moon might have hidden CoS. No clue though really, lol.

THANKS FOR THE MELDING SNIPER!

Mats only cost me half of my bank but I'm happy!

[Estellios]

Very nice, guess its time to work on my Alkalurops =X

All that's left is to find out what is needed on the PLD sword, i suppose.

[Deltara]

I would just like to say...


Thank you, SniperRifle for the trailblazing and sharing of info. While lesser mortals complain about how it is impossible and only luck-based, you just shut your mouth and get things done.

Respect~

[Req]

Any word on the paladin weapon yet? Alot of people have been saying it sucks but I guarantee this to you all! A paladin with this thing will be hands down the best tank in the game. Don't be a non believer.

[Sylkis]

his posts have had quite an effect on the economy

[Fated]

I can confirm now WHM is MND. (I believe most people already assumed this.)



and we pulled off a double-melded Sarnga right after.



We assume Full Moon might have hidden CoS. No clue though really, lol.

Also, for being in the Top 3 Provisioners in Hamlet, you can be rewarded a seal upon exiting the Hamlet. i.e You can obtain 2 seals from a run if you are in the top 3.

Can you confirm whether or not the extra seal goes straight into inventory or into loot list?

[Darkillumina]

I've read this whole thread and have yet to see a viable defense out of the defenders of this system as to how and why it is hard work. The only thing coming out of people's omuths seem to be, 'not everyone' can have them. If this is all you people can muster your defense fails horribly.

Others have broken it down so I don't need to, but nothing in this quest line requires hard work. If you've been playing for a long time and have gil, time, and above all else - luck this whole thing is easier than limit break in ffxi.

I also question SE's decision in adding these weapons at this point in time. They are diggin themselves quite a hole here. Let's break it down.

In the near future SE will probably raise the cap. In doing so new weapons will be introduced. This could have a effect like Burning Crusade did for WoW. For those that remembe the cap was raised and common greens were better than many epics that people had slaved away to get. The no-lifers got pissed off and blizzard did nothing. Complaining ensued. Judging by the elitist mentality here, a similiar thing could happen.

In response SE could do nothing or add on power up queststo keep them viable. This would piss off new players because they would be forced to do old grindy content that was designed for an old version of the game. On the developer side of things SE would be forced to constantly look back at these relics when designing new content which for a dev is a major pain in the ass. Imagine this:

Dev 1: Ok new expansion x is ready for release.

Dev 2: Sir, the common items are better than the old relics from 1.0.

Dev 1: Goddamit, I forgot about those old things. guess we'll have to whip up another convoluted add on to the quest line to keep the old no-lifers happy.

Dev 2: Fffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu again?

Aside from the above this also has the curret effect of sending tier iv materia's to stratospheric levels. They are already very expensive. Imagine what it will be like for new players who want to buy a new piece of materia to meld to their boots so they aren't totally gimp.

More people need to look at the long term and not just the short term including SE. This whole thing reeks of a grind to placate the no-lifers who are complaining on these forums of lack of things to do currently so that SE doen'tlose their subs.

I've already said my part about the rng grind about 18 pages back so I'll leave it at that.

Regardless I think this is a incredibly short-sighted reactionary move by SE that will lead to many headaches down the road for them unless they give the no-lifers a colletive fuck you like Bliazzard did in response to the green controversy in WoW BC.