Has anybody tried Frontlines after the update today?

[blowfin]

Morale and Materia don't work in Frontline, so you'd be gimping yourself by wearing PvP gear because Morale replaces another secondary stat. This applies to all of the PvP gear. You basically want to deck yourself out in the best PVE setup you can get for i80, which might be quite different from what you want for uncapped content like coil.

[Adler]

Why is it a horrible idea for PVP gear to receive special treatment in a PVP map? What good is PVP gear if it is inferior to PVE gear in a PVP map other than for glamour? If Frontlines ilvl syncs gear and nullifies all materia, then what is the point of PVP gear existing at all? For that matter, why does Frontlines give Wolf Marks to buy gear that is inferior in PVP compared to every other piece of PVE gear already earned?

The point of PvP gear is to use it in Wolve's den.

[ZenTao]

Greetings,

I’m excited to hear players are enjoying the adjustments made to the Frontline queue! I have some extra goodies to share with the Frontline community.

The development team is aware of the issue where players are unable to vote kick other party members while in Frontline because they are considered to be in battle, and they are currently looking into addressing this. Once the specific method for addressing and the implementation period is decided, we’ll let you know.

The result screen when you finish a Frontline match is currently organized in alphabetical order, but we’ll be looking into a feature that will allow you to sort the results in other ways, such as total damage or total number of kills. This should help you see where you rank against others more easily!

Keep providing us with your Frontline feedback, and we will be sure to get as many of your requests and questions answered as we can.

See you on the Frontline!

after playing extensively on Frontlines, I feel the system in place is really good. However, some tweaks here and there will make it awesome. So I would like to see what do you think as a player about Frontlines tweaks that will make it even more successful. for me I have the following:


Frontlines :

1- Losing GC points if you get KOd in Battle: this will bring in even more tactics in frontlines, for example sending teams to attack with the objective of killing players to reduce their numbers , while at same time sending another team to capture outposts.
2- more points in KOing players. right now it has no meaning to kill people at all. its not even close to anything. if we get more points per kill , even just slightly, it will make frontlines more tactical.



Wolves Den:

each match should consist of 3-5 rounds. increase amount of pvp exp more then frontlines so that people have objective on why they would do it. waiting 30min for 1min match is completely off putting. 5 rounds with more EXP will justify it.

[Sadana]

I will hope they allow Glamours in there at some point. TBH, I read the job name of my targets but the character may as well be a stick figure for all I can make out as they (and I) run around like crazy. I don't know how anyone can take the time to check out someone's gear.

Finding 72 or almost 72 people can take a while though. Any empty spots we had in our alliance seemed to fill fast. I went as BLM and, even using "in progress", it took a while to get in.

I do not like Wolves' Den pvp but Frontlines is actually kinda fun.

[Rhas]

I don't want that personally. Seeing your opponent's gear allows you to assess their stats and skill in a quick manner (someone with full High Allagan vs. Someone in full Artifact, ie), and allowing glamor would prevent such a gauge. I also don't want to see a full alliance of snow men either... there's certain immersions that shouldn't be touched.

Sorry, but armour look makes absolutely no difference to the abilities of a player to PvP. Everyone is pretty much equal and its a matter of player skill, not what they are wearing since everything over i80 is dropped down to i80 gear and materia is ignored.

Its silly thinking you can try gauging a persons ability to pvp when they are wearing pve content gear, you know

[Rhas]

So, none of the PvP gear works at all in Frontlines? Not even the i55 crafted stuff? I knew there was a cap on the battlefield, but I assumed that the lowest set of crafted PvP gear would be worth it. I got a full set crafted and was going to work on materia for it. Do I not have to bother with it at all and go back to my regular gear? XD

Exactly. PvP gear has no effect on frontlines currently whatsoever. Gear is capped to i80 as well.

[Grekumah]

Greetings,

Can we pleeeeeease have Glamour enabled?

All these PvP gear we can get with wolf marks and you can't even wear it in PvP cause it gimps your stats, and you can't glamour it either sense glamour is disabled in Frontlines. ; ;.

To make it easy to distinguish which classes and jobs you are up against with a quick glance, we’ve made it so glamours are temporarily removed upon entry; however, we’ll be looking to remove this limitation once everyone has gotten used to this content.

[Nyalia]

To make it easy to distinguish which classes and jobs you are up against with a quick glance, we’ve made it so glamours are temporarily removed upon entry; however, we’ll be looking to remove this limitation once everyone has gotten used to this content.

By any chance, would it be possible to have a configuration setting that you can toggle on or off that would control whether you see glamours or the base item while in PvP content? It can default to the base items so players can get used to it, and then if they want to, they can toggle the option. If they want to retain the slight edge you get from seeing base gear, they can leave the setting as is.

I don't know if this is possible or not though for you to even do, but I think it would make everyone happy.

[Acala]

Greetings,
To make it easy to distinguish which classes and jobs you are up against with a quick glance, we’ve made it so glamours are temporarily removed upon entry; however, we’ll be looking to remove this limitation once everyone has gotten used to this content.

What? This makes no sense. i have no idea if im looking at a sch/whm or blm/smn or war/pld at a range that would make a difference, what i can do though is read their name plates which show what they are...

Wasn't the original reason so you could distinguish ~ilvl of what you were up against?

[Warlyx]

To make it easy to distinguish which classes and jobs you are up against with a quick glance

uhm....we already see the jobs on the NAMEPLATES on BIG BRIGHT red/yellow/blue i barely see what my enemies are wearing....