Raid Weapon Idea

[Prince_Calis]

So is this where I post ideas that will, inevitably, earn me much flaming, one or two comments of support and widely be ignored by all the rest?

Also there are some thousands of threads and I can't be arsed to go through them all because I am, quite frankly, very lazy. So if I'm rehashing someone else's idea... Oops my bad. Gomenasai.

Last but certainly not least, I have never played XI so if this sounds similar, too bad I'm saying it anyway.

[Prince_Calis]

Naturally I can't know where other ideas are going to be placed on the game maps but it seems to me there is little reward to being a hardcore raider. A mountain of gil only satisfies one for so long because we don't have a large money vault we can put it in to dive into. The biggest issue I constantly hear about now is that the raids yield no advantage anymore. As this is a pre-3.4 post (which obviously makes it pre-4.0) I have no idea what all is coming out.

[Prince_Calis]

Therefore, my suggestion is to utilize a cave currently outside the dome "containing" the Alexander raids in the Dravanian Hinterlands. You've all seen it spouting water to that river leading to the waterfall under Idylshire. The mountain it is a part of is huge and has virtually no realistic bottom depth. The idea is that it be turned into the location for a huge worse-than-savage-difficulty raid dungeon similar to POD. It was PoD that gave me the idea in the first place. It's reward is an RNG generated weapon line that is stronger than whatever happens to be the current max Ilvl by at least 5. It would have 5 meld slots which can only be taken by special materia gathered and strengthened in this raid dungeon. A max of 2 slots per materia type (ex. Savage Aim, Vitality exc.) which have a max strength 5 points above whatever the current max materia level happens to be. The 5th slot is reserved for a special DoT type materia that is easily aspected to any element.

[Prince_Calis]

Admittedly the DoT materia idea is pretty weak but it does add to the overall superiority of the weapon. I already know that people are going to use the "anima-this, POD-that, fair-play-blah-blah" arguments so I'll simply say why should Harry Hard-Raider be punished with the same gear and weapons as Sammy Sparse-Player. The weapons would be Unique and Untradeable and the catalyst can be placed in the dungeon under the sway of RNGesus.

Lastly the materia can be placed in the weapon (and subsequently powered up) by an NPC deep in the bowels of Idylshire. Or beside Rovena.

It doesn't take a genius to know that I don't raid hard. But it is just an idea for hardcore content that the every-day casual player simply won't be able to do without any real effort. Sorry it's so many posts and so long.

[ToppeHatte]

Gordias killed the bulk of the raiding community for lonnnnnnng while due to it's difficulty, do you really think an even harder version would benefit anyone except maybe sub-1% of players?

Even past that, using weapons as a reward always felt sorta bleh to me. Since they only ever come at the END of a raid tier, the only benefit they provide is helping you farm faster after the fact.

[Moomba33]

You can get around the character limit by editing your original post.

[Prince_Calis]

Gordias killed the bulk of the raiding community for lonnnnnnng while due to it's difficulty, do you really think an even harder version would benefit anyone except maybe sub-1% of players?

Even past that, using weapons as a reward always felt sorta bleh to me. Since they only ever come at the END of a raid tier, the only benefit they provide is helping you farm faster after the fact.

I mentioned Gordias so people would know the area I am talking about. Think more along the lines of PoD but not quite it. I am too lazy to think up gear and will leave that for greater minds than mine that will invariably make something better. The first dungeon releases the full weapon or pieces of it and your chosen paths after determine your materia choices and what-not. Also, this is for the top 5-6% who actually want something to do that will push them. And reward them for it.

You can get around the character limit by editing your original post.

Thanks for the tip. It's been a while lol.