[dev1026] Changes to Claiming and Engaging Enemies

[MeowyWowie]

Why so against instanced content? Who cares where you fight your enemies? As long as you are playing with the group of players you want to play with what does it matter? Because you can't smack talk a competing LS while killing stuff? Minor element, FFXI had a lot of instanced content, BCNMs KSNMs ENMs and whatever else there was even Sea was instanced, sky and HNMs was pretty much the only thing in FFXI that wasn't instanced as far as end game content goes, oh wait they did have some other things I didn't mention but it was a zone based game and in a sense that is instanced content with open world enviroments and factors. Personally I had a blast in the two new instances and that is just the tip of the iceberg of content they will be adding. Which I can understand to some extent why you don't want instanced content fully but on the other hand I cannot see what there is not to like, assuming all the instanced content isn't going to be purely dungeons. Perhaps we will get BCNM battles and stuff like that along with the Primal battles and what not.

I didn't even bother reading this whole post, just like you didn't even bother reading my whole post. If you did you would have seen..

Instanced content is great

I'm not against instanced content. I'm against 90%+ of the game being instanced.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

I didn't even bother reading this whole post, just like you didn't even bother reading my whole post. If you did you would have seen..



I'm not against instanced content. I'm against 90%+ of the game being instanced.

Must I always go through this with you? I read your full post and gave you feedback on that post. I guess I will always end up giving you the same answer you hate but if you don't like it quit or grit your teeth and bare it and enjoy the game. Simple as that because the game is going to be 75%+ instanced content and I am not against it nor exactly am I fully for it but it is better than what we have at the moment which is next to nothing. You complaining about it ain't going to change anything and I understand you have all the right in the world to voice your opinion but as Yoshi-P was saying, You can't please everyone 100% someone is always not going to like the changes. It seems you don't ever like any of the changes and I am starting to wonder if you really even support this game at all. If you did it is a proper assumption to think you would welcome the new and be glad to be done with the old. Perhaps you just want your FFXI back? If that be the case go complain on those forums about changing the game back to what you want in a FF title. Me personally as do many others want no FF game to be like the last, they are always changing and always different and that's what makes the experience either better or worse depending on the game, this applies to the MMO titles as well.

they try to tie the idea of claiming multiple monsters or getting reward for killing multiple monsters to having a free kill system, but there is no real connnection. They are doing free kill because they want to, they are choosing to do first claim gets all rewards because they want to. It really has nothing to do with claiming multiple monsters.

I would be fine with the change if it made sense, but it really doesnt. The only difference between the free kill system thry plan to do, and having only one person/party claim is that you kill for no reward. I really dont see the point. the only thing it will effect is power leveling. They have not talked about any new mechanics or things that will take advantage of this system, because there really is no advantage.

What does this have to do with mass scale pve or pvp? they want to have a huge event where you can take part in an epic battle, help everyone, risk your life, maybe die....
and get no reward? no exp, no loot not even quest credit? Its really senseless. It could be interesting, but with the reward system, it just seems like a call for help option is always on. It was always stupid how in FFXI you could help kill an HNM for an hour, getting swapped in and out of parties, but only the team that finished him got credit. SO now, you wont be able to swap in an out, but you can also help them for nothing! what a crappy plan. Screw simple answers, they should have came up with a real system for distributing rewards rather than the first claim nonsense.

By the way we still don't have the full details on how the system is going to work. Sure he did give us a nice outline that cleared up some stuff but I believe that was only a partial post and it is also always subject to change. If it needs to be changed after it has been tested in 1.19 then they will make the proper changes to adjust the loot. Honestly though it isn't much different than the current system except you have the ability to help kill enemies. Unless he announces more on the specifics of the system we are still in the shadows.