Skirmish (07/10/2012)

[Victor]

Well, that was a little unexpected

[Momita]

Better than AF weapons...


Like a wow style

[Velhart]

I hope this goes differently than I expect, because all I see right now is another WAR/BLM spamfest. I am going to give SE the benefit of the doubt like I always do, but doesn't usually come into my favor.

Also, I am guessing stuff will be RNG as always. I think this is the team's last opportunity in 1.xx to prove me wrong that they have a great system in place for this event.

[Karbine]

I'm sick of weapons. I really appreciate the new unexpected content but for gods sakes. NO. MORE. WEAPONS.

[Griss]

Yes, some things in there resemble la noscea zones. But I'm hinting to this image and the palm trees. I don't remember seeing palm trees around la Noscea.

Trees are easily added with shaders. Seems your a r50 blacksmith I would wager that you have already been on the island where this event is going to take place.

[AsterBarnivere]

Sounds like a BLM/WHM spamfest to me, especially the one where you have to stand still...

[Starlord]

I hope this goes differently than I expect, because all I see right now is another WAR/BLM spamfest. I am going to give SE the benefit of the doubt like I always do, but doesn't usually come into my favor.

Also, I am guessing stuff will be RNG as always. I think this is the team's last opportunity in 1.xx to prove me wrong that they have a great system in place for this event.

In, 1.xx RNG is exactly what your going to get, nothing new... because they need to give us something to do that will last us for 3 months till they close down the servers. Not that I blame them for doing it this way ( Yoshi-P) because the servers and FFXIV 1.0 will be history come 2.0 Beta...

However, if 2.0 is the same thing with RNG and crap, I don't know what I'm going to do :/. but with all the feedback and RNG being one of the top complaints in FFXIV, I have faith that RNG won;t be an issue come 2.0.

Skirmish does appear to look like fun though regardless of Rewards, so of course I will try it out to see what its like.

[Velhart]

In, 1.xx RNG is exactly what your going to get, nothing new... because they need to give us something to do that will last us for 3 months till they close down the servers. Not that I blame them for doing it this way ( Yoshi-P) because the servers and FFXIV 1.0 will be history come 2.0 Beta...

However, if 2.0 is the same thing with RNG and crap, I don't know what I'm going to do :/. but with all the feedback and RNG being one of the top complaints in FFXIV, I have faith that RNG won;t be an issue come 2.0.

Skirmish does appear to look like fun though regardless of Rewards, so of course I will try it out to see what its like.

That is false. They made a token based system like Garuda and it worked beautifully. What isn't to say they can come up with a good system for this one?

[Starlord]

That is false. They made a token based system like Garuda and it worked beautifully. What isn't to say they can come up with a good system for this one?

"Most" things that they came up with have been rnged, Garuda and GC are the only exceptions to that. But the most recent additions like Garuda and some parts of the Relic quests have been about skill Drop rate of Garuda is 100% for X2. So, I do hope its going to be like that "not 100% obviously" but something like 30% drop rate would be fine.

[Hulan]

I obviously cannot say for certain, but I think the reason we keep getting weapons is quite simple, and also the reason for quite a few of the similarly lazy design decisions we've seen in 1.xx. I think the reason we keep getting weapons is simply because they're easier to make. Armor need to be remodeled and reskinned for every gender and race, while weapons just need to be sized down or up. That's a huge difference in time commitment. With most of the team working on 2.0 at this point (probably for a long while now, honestly), they are likely scrounging for every second to get content out on time.

1.xx is mostly just filler for those of us who stuck around to keep us paying them long enough to release 2.0. Sure, constantly releasing weapons is getting grating, but it probably isn't going to cause many people to leave. So from a cost benefit point of view, it makes sense to keep producing weapon rewards.