Quote Originally Posted by Azurymber View Post
1.18:
-released raids based on a system that will be outdated in 1-3 months from now
-broke numerous leves completely by placing huge groups of mobs directly ontop of leve requirements and changing how mobs agro (this is -somewhat- fixed but not really)
-Released a fairly complicated non-nonsensical way of ranking up (ex. its easy to kill mobs 15 ranks ahead of you solo, really easy as a group, but capped sp 10 levels above)
-Made gathering jobs a joke to level up with leves. Like you can get an easy 30k+ sp for 2 leves if you guardian aspect. Not really complaining about this since it let me get miner to rank 36 in like a week but it kinda diminishes the exclusivity of gathering.
- designed raids where damage dealing jobs like lancer and pugilist tend to get overlooked for ranged jobs (especially in speed runs)
-released a bunch of easy-to-get weapons so close to craftable weapons that for the most part its killed the market on weapon sales
-released a bunch of somewhat easy-to-get armor that out-does most of the faction-NM armor and craftable armor
-Severely broke the games economy by dropping leve reward prices without creating a large enough gil sink to pull mass money out of the economy
....etc

How is that not rushed? I get people are having fun, so am I. But the patch is an unbalanced mess. Especially since the "core of the game" was supposed to be completed by the end of the summer Now it won't since battle "jobs" aren't coming since 1.20 which will prob be november/december-ish.
Ok there are good points here but not all true.

-You say that the system will be changed completly in 1-3 months, not true, they already done the major change for battle they added autoattack (thats pretty much changing the battle system entirely) they're gonna add jobs, yes but those jobs will be in the same system maybe more restricted when equipping skills but thats it.

-Leves arent broken, sometimes i had trouble doing leves especially at nanawa mines because the mobs were spawned in areas infested with high level mobs or NM, well that was pre patch i've been leveling thm there lately and didnt have any trouble, sometimes spawn in rooms with aggresive mobs but soloable if you're good. Now if you want an easy quest type like WoW, "Oh yeah go kill five wolfs r5 as r45 and get 100k sp for completing that" well you are in the wrong game, i like having a hard time doing stuff in game because it adds self achievement, and i dont think im the only one, everything can be done with tactics.

- I agree that mobs should be a little bit harder to kill or at least encourage people to kill several mobs at the same time, Oh wait they are actually adding that stuff, if you dont know that, read the lodestone.

-You think that the armor and weapons available right now are the best ultra magnificent end game equipment we will have for years? No, they are the best no, i even think that the crafted items right now are far better than several new gear there like alpine war jacket, looks really impressive but the stats for an archer are not the best once the stats function properly, i think bowman's tunic have better stats than that piece, i do believe that faction leves items should be a lot better because all the points you spent to get the chance to have it or add a good effect for having the complete set, but i dont mind if they leave it like that, as long as they add more gear there.

-Now about raids, well ive done several times the rank 45+ dungeon with different classes around, yes they need to improve a few things but right now if the player knows how to move in battle can avoid AoE damage, i even think that marauder is a pretty good tank for batraal, or grab skeletons, theres an easy all the way formula with ranged classes but that doesnt mean that is impossible to be done with close melee jobs, you only have to skill yourself up.

-Theres gonna be fairly a lot of gil sinks in game after patch 1.20, i know they already figured out with materia system implementation, chocobos, airships, repair system, and who knows what else.

There you go, im done with this thread.