Thread: The Current Status of FFXIV Patch 3.1 and How to Address it Moving Forward

Originally Posted by Ibi

3.2 crafting gear will be in that spectrum, but will most likely be far, far out of the price range of any new player.

Mhm, they're likely to be gated behind Scrips (and possibly Specializations), which is going to make them quite expensive. Even after they made the Red Scrip materials more available, it's still around 3 to 4 million to make one of the i180 DoW/DoM pieces on my server.

It's possible we'll see an entry level set, too, though (the Sky Pirate's gear *almost* fits the bill—why it's not i190 I don't really understand—so we might see additional sets like it in the future that might work), but that's just conjecture on my part.

Originally Posted by Belhi

The problem with hunts is they are broken encounters with no actual gameplay. Might as well have a vending machine that hands out rewards. As content they are only popular because of the rewards involved rather than the actual gameplay.

Your hardly being diplomatic and community minded with what is a rather condescending post by the way.

Still, I don't think an immunity will solve the problem much. The issue there is usually with hunts they are found a while after they have spawned anyway so their immunity will probably have run out before it serves it's intended purpose.

Hunts are more or less a lost cause under the current battle system. The rush of players is such that no monster attack will sufficiently hit enough players. Its literally just a pinata fight.

And I'm not sure about raid craftable gear. Given how things are going so far, I'd probably think they'll require almost just as much time doing crafting as raiding to even approach. and behind scrips....

I really hate scrips.

UBERHAXED: I tried searching and nowhere does it anything about how hunts where meant to be like you explained. Your description doesn't seem like it came out of SEs mouth. Sounds more like a theory you where listening to by Mr Happy. I'm a 1.0 player and I have my trampstamp to prove that I'm used to games beeing rewarding and competition wise. Since this game eliminated that feeling a long time to go I had to play differently since its pretty much teaching everyone should have everything. Hunts can be changed if SE would have wanted that but people are enjoying them eventhough its a mindless zerg buttonmash but so is almost everything else in this game. If hunts beeing zerged seem to bother you that much then try searching for servers that have the lowest population possible so you can solo your A rank with your chocobo and a buddy because you want a challenge.
Hunts wont change if they wanted hunts to change HW would have changed that but they did not. If you want to call SE lazy go for it I guess but its not like you will quit the game over hunts LOL.
Since you are saying you are a 1.0 player like the rest of us then you should know that 1.23 was when this game actually starting to get really good. It was unique it felt like it did not look like the rest and it was not a button mash zerg mode.

Originally Posted by FizzleofHyperion

UBERHAXED: I tried searching and nowhere does it anything about how hunts where meant to be like you explained. Your description doesn't seem like it came out of SEs mouth.

Hunts were basically designed to be like fates. just turn up and jump straight in. no special requirements or strategies, it was designed like this because they didn't want to exclude people.

the whole design was built around turn up and whack stuff. they were never meant to be complex encounters or anything like that.

hence why they never applied a closed claim system, they didn't want people to be excluded

Uberhaxed: The method of hunts beeing distributed to the rest of the server is an option we as players choose to play with. Its actually amazing that people can co-operate and share the rewards from a hunt. Zerg or not playing like that shows how amazing and kind players all can be. You just proved how selfish gamers can be. Regardless of what Yoshida said in that video (yes I looked). You have the option to call out a moob and share it with others or start killing it with your tiny party. Most people are doing it with the option to call out the mob.
Thats amazing to me and admirable. So please tell me again why you think you and 2 people should deserve a mob only that can also be shared for everyone else and help more than you and one person? ¨
Is there any reason why you want to feel this need to be a selfish gamer?
Should servers have weekly meetings on wich players gets wich rank at what hour?
I'm surprised how you are calling yourself a 1.0 where we got taught the value teamplay and co-operation as gamers but complaining over a method that got turned into something that can help many instead of few from 2.0.
Players outsmarted Yoshidas method and choose a path that more than one person can benefit from something and that bothers you?
Honestly I stand by my opinion to call your views selfish a gamer in the most respectable way.
This is the mentality most of us are still trying to eliminate not just by the hunts but how alot of people in my server work together when it comes to doing fates together in mass order so everyone can get the most XP possible.
Judging from how you seem to want to play you would probably start a turn in fate solo turn in everything and end the fate because you feel you have the need to that tiny 10k xp solo when everyone else is sticking together coordinating fates.
The option of playing with others on PF is presented to you wich you would have made you probably get 60-90k during that time you just choose not to because you will probably give me an explanation now that a fates is supposed to be done with 3 people and a chocobo and people should leave thoese 3 people alone because they called dibs on the fate.
I'm not saying your mentality is like this when you play but based of how you have been typing it feels like you want the Final Fantasy ARR I want to solo everything eversion.
This isnt meant to be as a diss and I apologize in advance if it came out harsh but you are playing an MMORPG with a mass amount of players if you can play with others yet you are feeling the need to play something almost solo? I really don't get it why it seems to be such a bad thing for you to help many people? We choose to play like this on Hyperion, Masmune and Ragnarok where I have my highest classes. If most EU JP and NA are enjoying playing together sharing fates hunts or whatever on the world map I truly feel your view of how everything should be solo maybe FFXIV just isnt for you. Witcher, Skyrim Fallout are options for solo games with an MMORPG feeling.