Why durability loss on return is stupid

[Abriael]

This is sapping all the fun out of the game for me right now. I imagine I will adjust, but /sigh this is getting too hardcore for my casual butt. :S

You're not serious, right?

[Cendres]

Yeah I am, perfect parties here we go, no more taking chances to do the impossible or improbable. You'll have to look up how to do things and be prepared ahead of time. Gear swapping..

I didn't want to play XI again, ah well. This is better then a xp loss, sure by a bit. It's not perfect though.

Also combine this with un-adjusted leves, and well...

[Abriael]

Yeah I am, perfect parties here we go, no more taking chances to do the impossible or improbable. You'll have to look up how to do things and be prepared ahead of time. Gear swapping..

I didn't want to play XI again, ah well. This is better then a xp loss, sure by a bit. It's not perfect though.

Also combine this with un-adjusted leves, and well...

Look, your gear doesn't stay damaged forever. You know you can repair it, right?

[Seirra_Lanzce]

Hi, I'm one of the casual butt player and i dont find this stupid, hard, or anything, if its leveling, is super easy to get it now compare before 1.18.

[Serio]

Gear doesn't get damaged for dying, it gets damaged for using Return after you died. You can die all you want as long as there's someone to raise you, but it sucks totally when you're soloing some wack leves and keep on dying. My wife has experienced this problem several times, and has kind of sworn off leves for a while (they're not worth a crap before rank 30 anyways). Then again, she and I always try to do hard leves.

Luckily, she and I have used the repair NPC now that it's cheaper. I don't need my gear at 100% all the time, unless i'm going to sell it off. I can also get overnight repair in the Mender's Row if i want 100%. Doesn't bother me too much, but then again I spend time to actually make money, so it's really no sweat for me. I would imagine if you're the kind of player that doesn't take time to make gil, then it sucks even worse. Of course a player like that is probably going to have crap gear anyways, so why not just roll with broken gear?

[Cendres]

Gear doesn't get damaged for dying, it gets damaged for using Return after you died. You can die all you want as long as there's someone to raise you, but it sucks totally when you're soloing some wack leves and keep on dying. My wife has experienced this problem several times, and has kind of sworn off leves for a while (they're not worth a crap before rank 30 anyways). Then again, she and I always try to do hard leves.

Luckily, she and I have used the repair NPC now that it's cheaper. I don't need my gear at 100% all the time, unless i'm going to sell it off. I can also get overnight repair in the Mender's Row if i want 100%. Doesn't bother me too much, but then again I spend time to actually make money, so it's really no sweat for me. I would imagine if you're the kind of player that doesn't take time to make gil, then it sucks even worse. Of course a player like that is probably going to have crap gear anyways, so why not just roll with broken gear?

Yep will have to wait for reraise at some point. I haven't been using the repair merchant yet, kind of don't want to. So far I'm sitting in Ul'dah on my down time. Perhaps my experience was bad because I had a bad party experience yesterday. Just finished a duo leveling party and that was great. Time will tell, people need to learn their jobs I just hope this isn't the start of the community dictating what food to eat, what to wear and that kind of thing from XI because then I will leave, no question.

[Jynx]

I just hope this isn't the start of the community dictating what food to eat, what to wear and that kind of thing from XI because then I will leave, no question.

This happens in MMO's regardless of anything. There will always be the "Optimal" way to do things, and then there will be the way you do things.

If you can't handle people saying what the best gear/skill set is. Then I suggest you don't play Multiplayer games period. Hell you get this kind of elitism even in Call of Duty message boards, and clans. Any form of multiplayer game will have people who are number crunchers and want to optimize every aspect of their game.

Then you have people who play how they want to play.

So if your going to leave because people have optimal gear suggestions I suggest you leave now and never play a MMO again because it happens in them all.

[Cendres]

This happens in MMO's regardless of anything. There will always be the "Optimal" way to do things, and then there will be the way you do things.

Blah blah.. FFXI was the worst offender I've ever seen, I've played most MMOs out there. There's NO other winner for an MMO with the most amount of elitism, you play XI long enough and you know there's a right way to do this and that and no other way counts. And that is lame, you want to play that game, that's cool. But that's not what I was signing up for originally. I'll have to join gifthorse's picket line pretty soon here.

[Serio]

Yep will have to wait for reraise at some point. I haven't been using the repair merchant yet, kind of don't want to. So far I'm sitting in Ul'dah on my down time. Perhaps my experience was bad because I had a bad party experience yesterday. Just finished a duo leveling party and that was great. Time will tell, people need to learn their jobs I just hope this isn't the start of the community dictating what food to eat, what to wear and that kind of thing from XI because then I will leave, no question.

Actually, the Company Quartermaster sells Reraise potions lol. But they are like 1k Seals I think.

[Rjain]

So would you rather SP loss instead?

Personally, I would.