Relic Weapons-Broken Promises

[NefGP]

Hmmm well I wouldn't know about that I never had any trouble with botters farming sky NM, but that is certainly a problem if it was happening. I could maybe see 1 hour kirin fights if a group had no idea what they were doing the first few times, but with a little practice it shouldn't take near that long. What do you expect from a mob that dropped one of the best pieces in the game? Was there any endgame content in XI that wasn't too hard for you?

You obviously didn't play XI from launch like I did, so I don't blame you for not knowing just how God awful many aspects of the game used to be. Zilart's endgame was just badly designed all around, sky was only the tip of the iceberg. Even after they fixed Ullikimi, farming the Diorites or w/e it was called was just un-freaking-bearable. Sometimes you'd get lucky and get a few within an hour, and then we'd go entire nights without getting even one which as you might expect, left a bitter taste in everyone's mouths.

But that's all Tanaka's brand of sadism, which is largely absent from this game now thanks to Yoshi P. I just don't want to see it ever come back. There are better ways of making something a legitimate and engaging challenge without simply turning everything into a luck-based grind that leaves you feeling more like you're working a 2nd job instead of playing a game.


EDIT: Speaking of materia, wasn't Yoshi supposed to give us a list what what items make which materia? And I'll take it a step further by saying HQ items, when converted, should always give either the maximum value, or near max.

For example if the parameters are 6~10 STR, then an HQ version when converted should give no less than 8 with a good chance of 10 and a very high chance of 9. As it stands, you can still get bottom-tier materia out of HQ items and to me that's just all kinds of wrong.