Thread: Your thoughts on the updated 2.2 news

Originally Posted by Nekodar

I haven't seen anything certain about Levi EM requiring current EM's beaten to take on...

Simple inference. You can't get to Titan or Ifrit if you haven't beaten Garuda yet, so that's what I'm going on. Plus, Leviathan apparently drops his own weapons. Whether it's for the Hard mode or EM I don't know, but I doubt they'll let you jump right to him like everyone would want to. You will need to do the HM modes to get to his HM, and the EMs for his EM.

Originally Posted by Huntington

Simple inference. You can't get to Titan or Ifrit if you haven't beaten Garuda yet, so that's what I'm going on. Plus, Leviathan apparently drops his own weapons. Whether it's for the Hard mode or EM I don't know, but I doubt they'll let you jump right to him like everyone would want to. You will need to do the HM modes to get to his HM, and the EMs for his EM.

You don't need to do the Ifrit/Garuda/Titan HM trio in order to reach Leviathan story mode... Main quest doesn't lead to them. Main quest led to King Moogle Mog XII and will lead to Leviathan next.
I seriously doubt they're going to lock Leviathan Ex behind the current Ex trio. Current Ex trio is it's own questline that is finished...

Honestly, I could care less about vanity, new hairstyles, mounts, etc. This is all cosmetic content that really adds nothing to the game other than a new way to pose in Mor Dhona while waiting for duty finder. The game needs depth and is way too streamlined to ultimately have any lasting power.

Has it ever been clarified as to whether new classes/jobs and level cap raise will be in patches or expansions? I've seen Yoshi-p interviews that contradict each other in this matter, so what's the latest word?

Also, not remotely excited for the new upgrades to relics if it will be another tomestone grinding quest to add a few more of the same stats. Give us *some* variety please, be it additional damage versus specific mob types, enhancements to particular skills, or even a means to unlocking a whole new weaponskill. Go ahead and say all this "crap" was already in XI, but the game needs more to it, period.

Originally Posted by Theplatter

Also, not remotely excited for the new upgrades to relics if it will be another tomestone grinding quest to add a few more of the same stats. Give us *some* variety please, be it additional damage versus specific mob types, enhancements to particular skills, or even a means to unlocking a whole new weaponskill. Go ahead and say all this "crap" was already in XI, but the game needs more to it, period.

What you call variety has horrible balance issues. Would you really want a drg relic upgrade which only does increased damage against dragon type monsters?

Originally Posted by Zumi

What you call variety has horrible balance issues. Would you really want a drg relic upgrade which only does increased damage against dragon type monsters?

None of the DRG ultimate weapons were useless against everything but Dragons and you know this. Stop countering anything XI related brought up on these forums with situations that never existed :l

Originally Posted by Tupsi

None of the DRG ultimate weapons were useless against everything but Dragons and you know this. Stop countering anything XI related brought up on these forums with situations that never existed :l

That was a response to the posters make weapons strong against 1 type.

Well here is something FFXI related before mythics and empyreans, and eventually delve, for the longest time the ultimate dragoon weapon was Gungier. When you used its special WS Geirskogul it was weaker then the other DRG WS but it gave aftermath shockspikes buff. Whenver enemines hit you they took a couple points worth of thunder damage. Now then Gungier also had a def down proc 17%, however this overwrote the superior def down from a fully merited Angon which was 25% when used with AF2 gloves, and longer duration, so your relic overwrote the superior def down with a weaker one that had a very short duration.

Almost nobody made this relic unless they were a hardcore drg even then they knew it wasn't good when making it.

Now then compare that to THF mandu, it could proc poison on the mob, 10 dot, Mercy stroke was the best WS for a thf, and the aftermath increased your crit rate by 5% All good bonuses when you start giving stuff procs you end up with good ones and some horribly bad ones thus having balance issues.

Originally Posted by Zumi

What you call variety has horrible balance issues.

It only has horrible balance issues if the developers design it poorly.

Originally Posted by Vensaval

It only has horrible balance issues if the developers design it poorly.

I agree

Balance=excuses; creativity is key. If designed poorly, any aspect of the game can have balance issues. Heck, if it was up to me, bst would get a peiste pet that shoots instant death lasers from his eyes; screw the other job/classes^^ I do agree with the premise that balance can be an issue, it is just how they choose to handle it imo. They should not to afraid to try new things^^