Echoes of Vana'diel FFXI Alliance Raid

[Gurgeh]

I hope these three don't end the disappointing way Endwalker's did. The last RAID was so disappointingly unchallenging. I never once saw a wipe I don't think and was playing from day 0. I gather there were wipes in the AM, but by the time I played in the PM it was being cakewalked. No skill, just "do enough of you know the mechanics 'at all?, we got a couple of SMN or RMD still alive? We do? super... lets call that GG then!"
You hit Extreeme that for the first time has challenging damage and mechanics, and they throw an enrage on top of you too. Yet for these alliance with still mediocre mechanics and damage, no DPS check whatsoever. It doesn't need much, just a Token DPS checks like in the SB alliances.
Well I guess we'll see. I just got used to being disappointed is all.
They probably will be unchallenging for me, because I'm not going to be there until people have over geared. This is not enough to make me re-sub and embark on making friends on a new DC.
If I see people raving 'massively' enough that I think they will be around for more than four weeks, maybe.

[Fawkes]

They slightly adjusted the location of the stairs next to the chocobo stable.

UNPLAYABLE! HOW DARE THEY! RABBLE RABBLE!

It was like the first thing I noticed thanks to AMAN Trove. I've run between those stairs and that home point plenty.

I assume they did it to widen Jeuno so they can fit stuff to fight in there.

The video on twitter has sound BTW and it's the Dynamis music. I wonder if we'll have a zone exploration after beating it and get the regular Jeuno music.

[Roehann]

I think SE has missed part of the boat with this cross over.. I play FF11 and like it. I don't LOVE it, but I do like it.. The rough around the edges on how to get somewhere and do something is interesting.. it's a grind but the fact that gear I got as a level 15 or 25 is still partially BIS in some cases with some skills or spells excites me.. Makes me want to gear my character the best it can be AND makes me want to go after 'older' content (yes I know it's ALL old content at this point)

With 11 having such a mass following and 14 being their cash cow, they should have done several things BEFORE this cross over...

One, Fix that damn log in for FF11.. bring it to modern times.. I can't count the number of friends I have had to hand hold JUST TO GET LOGGED INTO FF11.... This is stupid in this day and age... I understand why it was like this in the beginning, but fix the log in so more people might give it a go...

Combine subs.. Give a discount to those of us that play them both.. It doesn't have to be a large discount, but at least acknowledge those that play them both... this discount would also increase the people willing to give FF11 a play through old content or not...

Instead they will haphazardly throw something at us and it will die off and then FF11 will be back on the back shelf. FF14 will continue to churn onward, boring between expansions like always and at some point, the users will start to leave.. then FF14 will be in the same shape as FF11. When that happens, it will be too late to fix it.

SE has trouble changing, and this will be the downfall of them... not saying it will happen overnight or soon.. but things that don't change will die.

There are too many new games coming out where the developers are actually paying attention to the users and those games will rise to the top.

I am not a fan boy of SE but I do love FF14 and like FF11, but given time even my attention will be drawn elsewhere.. There is only so much time for games and so much money for games in the end if SE don't change they will fade...

Unrelated but along the same path.. there are so many user requests that actually make sense that SE hasn't addressed... the time between EW and DT would have be a great time to make those changes... With a new outlook could have come great changes.. instead we got slight graphics and some double dyes... again it's too little too late it seems...

Yoshi P wants us to complain to him, but he is deaf when it comes to things like this..

[CidHeiral]

I can't wait to see what FFXI sets they chose for the gear drops!

[Nebelheim]

I can't wait to see what FFXI sets they chose for the gear drops!

I hope at first we get zilart/promathia era gear and the ff11 raids will be the first time i'm going to willingly farm all glams and gear and orchestrions/hairstyles/emotes.

[fulminating]

I really wonder if this will have the dragonborn dlc effect where they nostalgia baited to the point that I kept turning skyrim off to play morrowind. Skyrim too is a more streamlined game that doesn’t quite have the charm of the original despite being more user friendly.

Glad it’s not ff7 or 8, the former has been done to death and the latter already has Eden. Better to explore parts of a more relevant world, particularly if it’s done well and they manage to incorporate some of the traits- gear swapping in combat would be very silly here but there’s probably something that could be done. Token effects on the alliance raid gear for the alliance raid instances could be fun, a raid funny numbers aren’t serious at the best of times so someone getting a kraken club shirt or hermes’ boots shouldn’t really matter.

[Dirwen]

I hope at first we get zilart/promathia era gear and the ff11 raids will be the first time i'm going to willingly farm all glams and gear and orchestrions/hairstyles/emotes.

I'm not gonna expect much from the raid as not to leave myself disappointed. Slightly optimistic about the drops. FF11 best looking gear came from salvage/znms but doubtful we get those since isn't iconic enough. Early endgame gear were mostly hideous especially for mages except for AH items like noble's tunic.

[Kisshu]

Trailer drop.

Good news, it's voice acted.
Bad news, Prishe's voice doesn't really fit her, especially if you remember her from Dissidia. (Can hope it's a copy-cat and there's a real Prishe).

[Powercow]

Trailer drop.

Good news, it's voice acted.
Bad news, Prishe's voice doesn't really fit her, especially if you remember her from Dissidia. (Can hope it's a copy-cat and there's a real Prishe).

JP Prishe sounds fine so... I'm guessing that's just the direction they wanted to go with her? I dunno. Sounds a little off.

Plus side, all the zones look amazing.

[Powercow]

Looks like the armor sets are

The Ark Angel gear.

Which I am cool with. It looks like it dyes well too.