DAMAGED GEAR?!

[hrdndv]

It makes people scared to die so they play better and pay more attention :3

Fine no delevel at 50 then?

No. It does not make people afraid to die. It makes people play in their underwear!

No. I hate exp loss. If you die you are weakened for 5 min... so make it weakened for 30 min... no exp loss, then people won't want to die.

Personally I find gear damage badly implemented. Gear is too weak. It should last longer. Ironskin is too brief ... it should be a better spell. Gear damage and Ironskin make for a major annoyance. But like someone said, I won't play a game that is too easy.

Final Fantasy has always been a frustrating game, but it makes you proud of every achievement you get. That makes for a fun game.

[Griffster]

XP loss doesn't matter. Its not a deterrent to dying unless you are on your only max level job/class. In XI we made it a point to have merit parties just to cap XP and merits for each class. You'd go and die several times and as long as you had a raise the xp loss was insignificant. Gear damage is also just an annoyance. Really doesn't end up mattering.

[Riv]

I don't have a problem with it. Don't suck and wipe all the time and you'll barely have to repair.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

no rly bring back xp loss, makes ppl work harder

No really don't bother ever thinking about bringing back such and old and outdated mechanic that severely sucked in the first place.

[dragorian]

Yes please bring back XP loss.

ok if they did ud be kicking your tail when u just leveld up sever /client crash and you delevel and have to do 5 leves to level bk again but w8 that was your last leve and have 2 w8 another 11 hours b4 u can get close to geting your level gained so heck no that was in 11 and i hated it and still do do you relly want to level/ delevel all the time and have to grind instead of doing quest's missions or otherwize have fun doing go and also if they did put that here it would also apply to crafting im shure you wont mind that would you WAKE THE CHOCOBO UP !

[Jaimie]

Maybe with the new engine they'll get to the visual aspect that was supposed to come with it. if not then yeah its pretty dame useless.

Wahoo I'll be runnin around town in rags all the time then. I might even start /beg in for gil.

Then again some teenagers might start a sagger trend in game if their belts break completely.

[Jinrya-Geki]

People who want exp loss should just have their characters erased every time they log out.

[Angelas]

Tonight had someone playing in party with only 3 pieces of gear on because they didnt have crafting classes to fix it or materials and didnt want to to back to town... lol

[Antipika]

lol did you not play ffxi? people did anyway. and i'm not just referring to trying over and over again until they finally win. i'm referring specifically to zombying tactics, knowing fully well the xp penalties involved.

you people are so strange

That's mostly post-ToAU though, where EXP was fast to get. So yeah no one was caring about losing 12-20K by zombying something. It was less than one hour of EXP... Also the balance was completely different in XI. One single player zombying could help a whole linkshell to kill a NM or recover after a wipe. Benefit was really high compared to the effort involved regaining the EXP back.

When one guy loses 20K while zombying for a whole LS, it's in the end only 1K/player loss, when you average it. What's better? This or losing your NM (which mean losing several hours of efforts to either collect pop items, either camp the nm.)

It all about effort/benefit balance. If EXP loss on XI was exponential after repeated deaths, less players would zombie (or LS would rotate/use mules).

(Note that I am NOT in favour of EXP loss in XIV, but I'm just explaining you how XI is a special case.)

[Griffster]

People who want exp loss should just have their characters erased every time they log out.

You logic in this escapes me. How does that compare to an exp loss upon death? Not that I have a horse in this race, just don't understand the relationship.