Skirmish (07/10/2012)

[Zantetsuken]

Wow, out of the blue... it looks like fun and the weapons look pretty cool. (Rein translated they are 99.9% as good as Relics, so these battles are likely gonna be crazy tough)

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My theory.. they are actually testing out some mechanics that they will end up using in the Crystal tower. (much like the Bomb escort for Firefall festival was a test for Caravan escort)

Oh and it'll be fun fighting more Buffalo type mobs

[yukikaze_yanagi]

If it's fun, i'll take it, weapons or not

[Thanos]

Why more weapons? so stupid

[Vydos]

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.

They did mention two islands for skirmish. And yes, I've been on an island for the BSM quest. I don't know if it's any of those two though as I can't even remember there being a beach of some sort. Did that quest many months ago. Also, I simply mentioned that they might be giving a "glimpse" to tropical islands. I probably should have written teaser to avoid confusion .

[Krausus]

I can't believe people are complaining

[Starlord]

I can't believe people are complaining

Mostly about more weapons weapons :P. and not the Actual content.. lol

[Tonkra]

from when till when is this event going?

[Morticous]

not everyone has every weapon, and some people turn their weapons into materia. I like the lance

[Doho]

in SE terms: from soon to soon.

[Airget]

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.

That's a good way to look at it, hopefully when 2.0 is release the engine they are using them allows them to have a more flavored loot pool compared to just weapons. Though these weapons may be useful for the end of the 7th Umbral kinda like a Mcguffin which has latent power only released when fighting Omega or something lol. Since the weapons have a Crystal look to them I can imagine that their main strength and usefulness will come from the end of this story arc.

Of course though these weapons may either be better or the same strength as the GC 25k weapons but with more potent Sanction effects so it will be weapons for those who can stay alive. The event itself, I can see it being more varied with class/job setup. While sure yes AOE spamfest WAR/BLM is used, how useful will said tactic be if hordes of mobs are coming faster than can be dispatched. Using AOEs and quickly lowering mob HP isn't always the best strategy since if you widdle down to many at once they'll all use their WS moves in unison and decimate the group.

Just imagine a group of 20 chigoes make their way to the one performing an AOE, 2 seconds later bam you just went from 100% HP to 0% lol.