Relic Weapons-Broken Promises

[Byakko]

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.

Hmm no I was doing sky at about the same time, but I don't remember these issues being as bad as you describe. Actually I found it to be just the opposite. In 04 sky was kind of deserted because there weren't a ton of NAs doing gods yet, but as time went on there was alot more competition and the RMT showed up there later. It must not have been as bad where I was. I certainly remember being frustrated with HNM botting, but not Ulli,despot, farming water etc.