More Horizontal Progression please

[Mindylou]

Are threads like this ever going to get a dev response? Remember when we used to get replies on things that matter in the game instead of test errors and glamours?

nope we have no rapport with se at all sadly.

they do not reply, suggestions are NOT forwarded, in game suggestions is as bad as talking to oneself.
when the game does dwindle..(and it will) it will not be from lack of us trying...but from no interaction from them.

i hope i am wrong, it has such potential but so far im not impressed by the developers nor CM input at all.

[Iromi]

nope we have no rapport with se at all sadly.

they do not reply, suggestions are NOT forwarded, in game suggestions is as bad as talking to oneself.
when the game does dwindle..(and it will) it will not be from lack of us trying...but from no interaction from them.

i hope i am wrong, it has such potential but so far im not impressed by the developers nor CM input at all.

Yeh for real...I just saw a reply to some music thing on the dev tracker...but yet these game changing threads and concerns get nothing.

[karateorangutang]

I guess I'm a bit confused by this thread. I played XI for a good long time and at cap you still were required to have a set piece to be capable of entering certain content. Most of those pieces were either extremely pricey or were a rare drop that required vast amounts of time and effort to get unless you were extremely lucky ( looking at you kote... looking at you...). At 75 cap ( before the game got really broken) if you could wear it then you wore haubergeon, byakko's haidate, Sniper's rings +1 etc. Tanks wanted jelly ring etc....

So even with horizontal gearing, everyone still wore the same thing as everyone else. The only difference being that it took so much time to grind to that point that it seemed like you didn't always need it. Make no mistake though, if you wanted in endgame content in a good linkshell that had a history of clears then you were required to enter into it with a certain amount of acc and other stats.

[Iagainsti]

At the very least, I believe the 3.0 story duties should drop Law tomes for 60s running them, helps the ppl leveling alts get their queues faster. I'm lvling mch because Warrior pvp is too easy now (or harder since everyone is catching on) and I feel bad for asking my FC mates to queue with me when they don't get anything out of it(ex. even AV drops tomes and it was lvl 47)

[loreleidiangelo]

I'm not quite sure if "horizontal progression" is what I'm looking for, but it'd be nice to have gear to chase that isn't gated behind weekly tome caps or weekly raid lockouts. Even if the combatant was RNG rather than a lockout, it at least would give players with more time on their hands something to do. Something to work towards with their oodles of free time when the raiding is done and they've already gotten their Alex drops and hit Eso cap.

[Nadirah]

this is not true? the entire group had to be able to survive Nerve Gas to clear T11.

T5 i think also had that issue when people didn't have enough HP to do 3 stacks on fireballs.

We are not in Coil.

[SendohJin]

We are not in Coil.

the quote you responded to was for FFXIV in general.

[Nadirah]

Ibi's explanation is exactly what horizontal progression is. Yours makes less sense and don't even know what you are trying to argue.

Critical mitigation was a mechanic introduced to deal with stat inflation.

When I last played, you *must* have had 100% crit chance or your dps sucked ass, your healing sucked ass. Since scaling was whacked, you'd need 300% crit chance because bosses would negate 200% of it.

Same with chance to be crit. Your defense was so high the boss had to negate it. You needed 300% critical mitigation to have a 100% chance to not get rekt.

[Nadirah]

Yet if everyone had gear choice like above there would be situations where one item is better in a situation yet all are viable.

No, there really wouldn't.

The way dps checks work is you'd find the mathematically best gear for that encounter and wear it, regardless of all else.

If you don't, you aren't beating it.

[Kaurie]

No, there really wouldn't.

The way dps checks work is you'd find the mathematically best gear for that encounter and wear it, regardless of all else.

If you don't, you aren't beating it.

That may be a problem more with the mechanics of a DPS check than with horizontal progression