Dev Blog: Hard mode dungeons and equipment drop

[Felis]

I remember that on 1.0 (too lazy to find the source) SE blamed gear looks reskinning on PS3 limitations... I wonder if that's still the case lol

Hmm, no?
SE only said it take around 6 month to create a new gear model. Reskinning already existing gear models is faster.

[Azyurel]

Anyone else a little upset that the Hard Mode dungeons have an average Item Level requirement of 48? I would have hoped they would have put it up at 60, since that's at least on par with AK gear drops....or are these just laughable excuses for making level 50 easy mode dungeons of old content. I honestly doubt the challenge will be there for those that are in mostly DL gear by now.....hope they prove me wrong.

[Naunet]

Wonder which game this was? Guessing it was WoW since I know in FFXI when the cap raised I sure as hell had nothing like Dancer's Empyrean Armor at level 1.

It's definitely not WoW. Nor Rift. I'm not sure which MMO the person was referring to.

I've just about had all I can stand of the reusing of the same few armor models in this game, though.

[Twiddle]

Level 99 white knight here....

Meh, that armor not worth it, ugly!

[Husband]

Anyone else a little upset that the Hard Mode dungeons have an average Item Level requirement of 48? I would have hoped they would have put it up at 60, since that's at least on par with AK gear drops....or are these just laughable excuses for making level 50 easy mode dungeons of old content. I honestly doubt the challenge will be there for those that are in mostly DL gear by now.....hope they prove me wrong.

Agreed... I do not see how ilvl48 will be....hard

So it'll be on par with WP ? Just a guess.

[Feyniphia]

Agreed... I do not see how ilvl48 will be....hard

So it'll be on par with WP ? Just a guess.

Blame the lack of jewelry. >.<

[Azyurel]

Agreed... I do not see how ilvl48 will be....hard

So it'll be on par with WP ? Just a guess.

Yeah I'd wager WP or AK sadly. Which people are already speedrunning adnauseum.

Blame the lack of jewelry. >.<

Yeah definitely hard to get all your 60+ jewelry without filling it out with DL or getting lucky with AK runs. Although I'd assume most already have their DL Jewelry in their main role if they've played consistently since release. I know I've got two fully DL geared jobs and working on the third and I took my sweet time getting my first job to 50.

[VanillaH]

hahahaha are they even trying anymore?? Effing gear reskin?? are you kidding me? They really don't want me to resubscribe, do they?

[Hanemakikaze]

People talking as if anything in this game were hard to begin with, what, gonna say twintania? K.

More variety is a always good thing, I swear people will find any excuse to bitch and moan. Stay classy forum.

[Azyurel]

People talking as if anything in this game were hard to begin with, what, gonna say twintania? K.

More variety is a always good thing, I swear people will find any excuse to bitch and moan. Stay classy forum.

Yeah like people bitching about people bitching right?

You are right, there really hasn't been anything overtly challenging in this game. Titan was just a latency check and a complete derp check. Coil 1-4 really is fairly face roll and T5 is funny.

Still not out of line to ask for an actual Hard Mode to be exactly that....Hard.