armory system useless? Mythology Cap

[Wolfhammer]

Love the post Yoshi.. Really looking forward to getting my hands on all the new content/ways to get tomes.

[Stevie100]

Producer and director Yoshi-P here.

We're working to have everything ready in a timely fashion, and we greatly appreciate your continued patience.

thanks yoshi-p for going through everything, as a uni student i'm looking forward to daily quests, as a busy 3rd year student, runnig 9 dungeons at 1 and a half hours each with DF is very hard to do, so with this now I can just do quests if say, I have a deadline coming up.

Also, i'm very surprised that 2.1 will add Storyline quests, looking forward to that

[Machineglow]

Really? because I did it just fine.

skill > gear and that's even the case for turn 5, but most players don't want to admit it.

LOL , I'd like to see the video with your group downing turn 4 in DL and NQ relics. If you or another member didn't record it , I would imagine it never happened sorry :/

[Xairos]

Many players are still approaching the game with a rigid "progress" mentality. I completely understood what Yoshida was saying about either/or as opposed to A then B. Currently I am gearing (casually) though AK/WP and i love the 300 cap because I can pepper "grinding" throughout the week as opposed to just rushing it on monday. At the moment, I am a university student, with loads of free time to game, but I choose to study/other game/whatnot. After I gear, I plan on doing coil for the experience as opposed to gearing. I like the looks of AF-Relic and aesthetically I want to stick with that.

I dont knock Hardcore players, in fact i used to be one. That being said, I see FFXIV as a platform for SE to provide OPTIONS for players rather than one path that all players must go though (i.e. Dynamis in FFXI). I would love for them to introduce a system that drags hardcore players along for weeks like they did with Dynamis (which was, if i remember correctly, only able to be ran once a week) with horrible drop rates. But in this day and age, everyone would just rage over that.

[Alise]

Extreme Primal Battles and Good King Moggle Mog

- Confront a mysterious new enemy and three familiar foes to obtain new gear and tomestones.


I want to know what gear will the hard mode primal drop? Primal armor? or Primal Weapon+1? I guess they will be level 80 ?

[Babydoll]

Hmm I see Yoshi mentioning casuals and blah blah. Well...making stuff for casual people is fine, I dunno if that is the word I'd use though. My BF plays casually (As in couple hours a night or less) and he has allagan/AF2/relic+1 and has some of the best gear DRG can have atm. Also is decked out on his PLD. We do coil easily and all that...in an hour or less. I'm just not sure what SE means by casual, I thought it was stuff that can be done in a short amount of time?

Does he mean people who just play...at a slower pace then normal? >.> Not trying to start a flame war or anything..lol legit question.

Also...cool that SE is raising the cap...I can gear out my second myth job faster now I look forward to the HM dungeons and new primals....but can we see some more open world content please, besides fates/quests?

[OldGeezer]

Hmm I see Yoshi mentioning casuals and blah blah. Well...making stuff for casual people is fine, I dunno if that is the word I'd use though. My BF plays casually (As in couple hours a night or less) and he has allagan/AF2/relic+1 and has some of the best gear DRG can have atm. Also is decked out on his PLD. We do coil easily and all that...in an hour or less. I'm just not sure what SE means by casual, I thought it was stuff that can be done in a short amount of time?

Does he mean people who just play...at a slower pace then normal? >.> Not trying to start a flame war or anything..lol legit question...

The number of hours you play doesn't determine whether you're casual or hardcore. Since you can get to 50 in a couiple of days and max out myth in a few hours, time is a useless gauge to assess a player's style. Now if your boyfriend did nothing but emotes and collecting pets all day, then you could call him casual.

Casuals are probably the players whose focus isn't to get to end-game content as quickly as possible.

[glen7187]

Thats a good point of what is a casual and what is a hardcore. I thought I was a casual because I have work and other activities and I just can't devote lots of time to FFXIV even though I want to. But my mentality as a player is that I like to gear up, I like to try to learn and be the best possible skilled player for myself, I want to do end-game content and I want be in those big FCs where they have scheduled farming and end game content. That's my mentality as I love playing at a high skill level, but since I don't have the time to put in, I'm not able to join the big FCs and I don't have 4 or 5 level 50 jobs and I don't have full DLs and such. Yet the system seems fine for me because of the time I can invest.

[SimplyEe]

I doubt this was mentioned in the thread, but trading high lvl gear would be good at this point. Trading coil drops u dont need for AF2 gear out vice versa. Or to trade Myth/ allagan gear for Myth points ; ignoring the weekly myth cap

[abzoluut]

Yoshi, how about providing Mytho cap per class? I think 300 was all ok but many people would like to spend their time on several classes. This can still be done by creating multiple characters but what is the reason for armory? I think ther is no sense in forcing people into creating multiple toons...

Yes please, would be nice to have a cap per job!

Let's vouch for this peeps!!