November? really?

[ViktorMestrovic]

My posts are more or less replies to previous comments that challenge the validity of their statements. Length alone does not constitute as a "rant." I can assure you that there's absolutely no passion in my typed words. I'm providing relatively complete answers. Be thankful I am not listing actual citations to everything that I say, because I could. Colorful, thank you for pointing that out to me. I actually appreciate that and will do so in the future to avoid the clutter.

[Themis]

My posts are more or less replies to previous comments that challenge the validity of their statements. Length alone does not constitute as a "rant." I can assure you that there's absolutely no passion in my typed words. I'm providing relatively complete answers. Be thankful I am not listing actual citations to everything that I say, because I could.

It would be worth using the Reply with Quote feature for that. It looks like you are just ranting because we're seeing ~3 posts with no quotes referenced in them. With a quote, it looks like a specific reply to someone else's comments.

As for my own thoughts, I have no issues with the date of 3.1 especially not when the reason is vacation. As someone who works in development as a programmer (different kind of industry, but fundamentally it's similar), I know only too well how many hours you have to start putting in towards a deadline - you can easily expect to put in 6 days a week working 12+ hours each day and you don't always get paid for that time in money; it tends to be time off or even nothing at all in compensation.

I hope they took the time to relax and recover and are now ready to go at it again.

[ViktorMestrovic]

In ESO, ppl complained about content... the lack of it.. so they made it possible to change factions and said there you go! Now you can grind the entire way through opposing factions! They gave people something to do.. but no one really views it that way.. even their fan boys have turned on them over that foolery. Why? because it isn't something worth while to do. For the sake of argument, I do have friends on this game lvl 60 across the board in all jobs, gated by weekly caps. Guess what? Other than minigames.. lel.. they have nothing left to do, but farm more mats to craft more stuff... lol... and yes.. they are quitting now. Please see the definition of a rant... For the record, if you didn't have people like myself and others pointing out areas of concern, you'd still be living in a feudal system or with slavery :P

[Kemas]

Personally my bitterness stems from the ever present need to balance tanks in endgame content. As a PLD I've been waiting since savage was released to play my PLD and am still waiting despite having invested all of my esoterics into the class (career PLD back to the beginning of ffxi) if they're going to wait another month for 3.1 I would at least like to see some QoL and job balances that are loooong overdue. Yay for NIN, but blm, PLD, drk all need fixes even if they're minor.

[SpookyGhost]

Guys, no, it's okay, non-instanced housing with ridiculously inflated prices to even buy a plot is okay. It'll get better, it'll fix itself, don't worry.

Guys, no, it's okay, cash shops are fine. So many pay to play MMOs do it, SE is going to use the money for new exciting content it'll be fine!

Guys. Guys. Guys, no, seriously, it's okay. 3.1 is 2 months delayed, but it's okay, the entire staff needed to take a break after putting so much work into the MSQ and forgetting to design a decent endgame despite knowing that this break was coming and that the patch would inevitably be delayed.

Guys. Something you have to understand is that Square Enix are our friends. Every single person in the company is our buddy, our pal, our amigo - we share this experience with them, we go to brunch together, we've gone way back. Let's cut our close friends at Square Enix a break, they've worked so hard! Think of the poor souls. We, as customers, as people have supported them 2+ years, deserve this kind of treatment! My money practically means nothing to me - if I weren't shoving it into SE's pockets I'd be eating it or gluing it to the walls.

[myahele]

I wonder what raider think of this news? it was a given that items to upgrade ESO would be in the 24 man raid, but that's gated with a weekly lockout.

Now there'll be i210 gear (regardless of randomized stats) that can be gotten via sky exploration and it's possible to get a complete set is just a few days or less vs Savages loot lockout

[Spellbinder]

I wonder what raider think of this news? it was a given that items to upgrade ESO would be in the 24 man raid, but that's gated with a weekly lockout.

Now there'll be i210 gear (regardless of randomized stats) that can be gotten via sky exploration and it's possible to get a complete set is just a few days or less vs Savages loot lockout

Isn't that a bit of an assumption here?

[Nekodar]

I wonder what raider think of this news? it was a given that items to upgrade ESO would be in the 24 man raid, but that's gated with a weekly lockout.

Now there'll be i210 gear (regardless of randomized stats) that can be gotten via sky exploration and it's possible to get a complete set is just a few days or less vs Savages loot lockout

Since Blue gear is better than Green/White/Grey of the same ilevel, and Pink (Aetherial) tend to be about the same as White/Grey with random melds, I don't think it's going to change anything. People are going to want Eso gear plus upgrade items and/or Savage gear.
Pink gear will however be useful to spiritbond... or maybe hand in for points.

[Ultimatecalibur]

Since Blue gear is better than Green/White/Grey of the same ilevel, and Pink (Aetherial) tend to be about the same as White/Grey with random melds, I don't think it's going to change anything. People are going to want Eso gear plus upgrade items and/or Savage gear.
Pink gear will however be useful to spiritbond... or maybe hand in for points.

Uhm... Color does not mean what you think it means.

When equipment has the same ilevel the Primary stats (Weapon Damage, Def, MDef, STR/DEX/VIT/INT/MND) are always the same:

HQ Crafted White/Green = Random Stat Pinks = Dungeon Drop Greens = 8 man/Tomestone Blues = Relic Purples

NQ Crafted are 90% the "standard" ilevel (previously they were 80%)

With Secondary Stats:

Unmelded HQ Crafted = Dungeon Greens = Raid/Tomestone Blues

Each item has one secondary at cap and one secondary at 70% cap.

Pink items have 1 to 3 Secondaries and those secondaries are randomly selected based on the piece. Tank pieces can have any combination of Acc, Parry, Det, Crit and Skill Speed, DoW pieces can have Acc, Det, Crit and Skill Speed and DoM pieces can have Acc, Det, Crit, Spell Speed and Piety. The bonuses are also random and can vary between 70% of cap and 100% of cap.

Pinks vary between being being worse (fairly common) than other gear,roughly equal to (fairly common), and (very rarely) being better than other pieces of the same ilevel.

The big difference between Whites, Pinks, Greens and Blues before level 50 was the level you could equip them at in comparision to their ilevel. Most Whites (Vintage/Goblin gear was unusual) were on level, Dungeon Greens were equipable at the minimum level of the dungeon you got them in with the highest unsynced level being the item's ilevel (+3), Pinks tended to be on level with the occasional lowered minimum level and Blues had a significant gap +5.

[Pomelo]

These Airship things sound nice, I'm hoping they are randomized all the time, so each adventure is never the same....I'm hoping that these improve the "socialness" of the game...now to pick which of my friends to take xD