Survival Mode

[Altijacek]

I would really like for this game to have a special survival mode. Form a light or full party. Enter an arena suited for your level (like PVP) at level 30, 40, 50 random and 50 premade. Fight like in T4 against mobs. You have a minute before second wave and so on. Mobs get harder and harder and harder and so on. Doesn't stop until you die. A lot of older video games had something like this, and this totally should, seeing as it seems to fit this game well. It can drop exp, Gil, tomes, and random items/gear depending on how much you survive. 50 Gil per wave (at wave ten it becomes 100, at wave 20 200, and so on) exp per mob, 10 philo tomes per wave, 1 myth per five waves, HQ items every ten waves, gear dependant on wave as well, potentially some BiS gear too.

Thoughts?

[Altijacek]

Man I can't stop dreaming about this! An example:
Full party:
Wave 1: 6 imps, 2 sprites
Wave 2: 3 lamiae
Wave 3: 4 spriggans, 2 ziz, 1 treant
Wave 4: 3 void sent, 1 Succubus, 5 yarzon
Etc, etc. mobs obviously designed for this and not just pulled from open world gameplay.

[IzumiRaito]

Add world ranking, server ranking, fc ranking, personal best tracking and a cheap long lasting content is ready. I already made a topic about it but it got hated down.

[cearka]

except for gear drops, this sounds like it would be a lot of fun.

maybe gear drops if you survive like 50 waves.

[Altijacek]

Add world ranking, server ranking, fc ranking, personal best tracking and a cheap long lasting content is ready. I already made a topic about it but it got hated down.

Sorry didn't mean to steal your idea XD heck it isn't even mine many other games use it lol. And yeah of course I forgot to mention you'd be able to see rankings :P and with each new patch new arenas and bam.

[Altijacek]

except for gear drops, this sounds like it would be a lot of fun.

maybe gear drops if you survive like 50 waves.

Yeah gear drops for low level unless you survive ridiculous amounts of waves...I was thinking actually it would be a random drop not even for your class, and it would be item level whatever wave you survived divided by two and you would have to roll for it, meaning it wouldn't be a cheap way of getting gear, but a very difficult one. Surviving just thirty waves will be difficult.

[Enkidoh]

Some Grand Company-issued battlecraft guildleves are like this, where they're basically just a survival mode where mobs endlessly spawn over and over and you have to kill as many as you can within the short time limit, with a set minimum you have to kill in order to complete the leve. Unfortunately though you can only do them solo - you can't even have your chocobo out to help you.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

I like the concept of survival mode too but more of an instance or gauntlet type zone where there is an objective to get to the end of an obstacle course with multiple levels or mobs and content, indoor and outdoor, party and solo, battle and non battle encounters with speedrun options and non. Including the new treasure maps would be cool also. It could start at lower exp levels and end at max level content. They could make it possible to rejoin and map your progress as you go at various landmarks. Achievements and rewards for time trials and completion at various exp levels.

Anyway thanks for starting this thread @OP, been wanting to see this type of discussion for a while.

[Altijacek]

I like the concept of survival mode too but more of an instance or gauntlet type zone where there is an objective to get to the end of an obstacle course with multiple levels or mobs and content, indoor and outdoor, party and solo, battle and non battle encounters with speedrun options and non. Including the new treasure maps would be cool also. It could start at lower exp levels and end at max level content. They could make it possible to rejoin and map your progress as you go at various landmarks. Achievements and rewards for time trials and completion at various exp levels.

Anyway thanks for starting this thread @OP, been wanting to see this type of discussion for a while.

No problem! I did mean for it to be instanced, and a gauntlet mode would be sick!

[Rizzo_]

sounds like a good idea but how will it fit to all the jobs? wouldnt tanks and healers be more advantaged?