Rhapsodies of Vana'diel [Missions]

[Damane]

It does feel a bit slapdash, thrown together. Felt like maybe they'd already created a Siren asset a while ago and never got around to implementing it so they just stuck it in so the work wouldn't go to waste. One thing that occurred to me recently was that if the dev of xi relied on ps2 dev units - wouldn't a ps2 emulator be able to do the trick? Guess it's probably a legal gray area they just don't wanna fuck with.

not only that but escha zitah feals slaped together too. there seems no big thought process behind it. slap an old zone, make it grey, introduce some armor, slap in underwhelming/underlvld mobs, and introduce the delve armor upgrade system. Its garbage. i was looking forward to new CP camps or so, but this feels such a waste of everything...

[Sechs]

disappointing is an overstatement considering how much the dev team hyped the story ¬.¬, this is utter garbage we got now

What did you expect. They started working on RoV in November lol. We're in May now :D
Were you guys expecting anything other than nonsensical shit full of retcons? :D

[Damane]

What did you expect. They started working on RoV in November lol. We're in May now :D
Were you guys expecting anything other than nonsensical shit full of retcons? :D

no but, not even the main event of this update is thought out well... its like full of fail atm unless there is a way to instantly make all escha zitah mobs ilvl 125+ and good CP areas its just FAIL. good lord why cater to fuckign lvl 75 people with the main event too....

[Thanix]

As a returning player with a fresh account, what is the minimum level required to start/complete these missions successfully?

[enoch]

good lord why cater to fuckign lvl 75 people with the main event too....

cmon you know the answer to that. they want it to appeal to folks who'd put the game down years ago and forgotten about it. they want folks to come back, be it ever-so-briefly or only during a play-for-free period. maybe they'll score some extra paid subscriptions on it, but i'd wager a large part of it is to gather analytics data about usage/interest for the mobile stuff they're doing so they can spec that out accordingly. and if it's not, then it should be... but cmon, this is SE we're talking about here, they'll screw up anything.

[Sechs]

no but, not even the main event of this update is thought out well... its like full of fail atm unless there is a way to instantly make all escha zitah mobs ilvl 125+ and good CP areas its just FAIL. good lord why cater to fuckign lvl 75 people with the main event too....

Damane I'm not sayin this is not fail (it is).
I just asked what were you expecting?

As much as it's shit, it's nothing different from what I was expecting and from what they TOLD us it would have been. Not like they didn't warn us it would've cathered to low level people and not like people didn't whine because of that.

[enoch]

As a returning player with a fresh account, what is the minimum level required to start/complete these missions successfully?

They say you can start at level 3. But some of the pre-reqs will require a higher level - like navigating through Qufim and SSG/Yuhtunga and the whole Shadow Lord fight thing. It takes less than a day to level up to something decent (60? 75? just shoot for 99 while you're at it) and there's a bunch of running around for the pre-reqs. I'd think a fresh character could get done with these new missions in maybe 2-3 days, depending on how much time you want to put into it.

[Firedemon]

Is there a list of what each Rhapsody does?

[Thanix]

They say you can start at level 3. But some of the pre-reqs will require a higher level - like navigating through Qufim and SSG/Yuhtunga and the whole Shadow Lord fight thing. It takes less than a day to level up to something decent (60? 75? just shoot for 99 while you're at it) and there's a bunch of running around for the pre-reqs. I'd think a fresh character could get done with these new missions in maybe 2-3 days, depending on how much time you want to put into it.

Gotcha, thanks for the quick reply. Right now I've just been going about trying to unlock things (i.e. my Khazam airship pass to unlock Samurai). Is that a waste of time for now or should I be focusing my efforts elsewhere?

[Khiinroye]

Is there a list of what each Rhapsody does?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/46977

[Firedemon]

Thanks, I must have skipped a section there.

[enoch]

Gotcha, thanks for the quick reply. Right now I've just been going about trying to unlock things (i.e. my Khazam airship pass to unlock Samurai). Is that a waste of time for now or should I be focusing my efforts elsewhere?

Can't tell you what's a waste of time because I don't know how you value your time nor what you consider to be fun.

@firedemon, rhapsody effects are here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/46977

[ccl]

Well it was obvious the missions were going to be super easy/fast for this part since they said it was going to be lvl60ish wich is why I was dissapointed back then, I enjoyed them kinda

[Zumi]

Well that took all of 3 hours most of the time spent because there were dozens of people trying to fight the nms. See you in August I guess.

[Seha]

I'm not talking about difficulty. The amount is just so low considering these are the last we're getting...I really hope next two batches are bigger .-.

[Malithar]

Spoilerish question I guess.

Spoiler: show

Is Lion dead? Or just incorporeal? I DCed during the CS at the crag, so to see what I missed I checked the goblin footprint. There's two entries for the same CS with very slightly different text. One is obviously pre-end of Zilart where she's got her normal hume model, the second she's glowing and is see-through, and rather than walk away at the end like in the first CS, she just fades away.

[Teorem]

Spoilerish question I guess.

Spoiler: show

Lion has been alive and recovering in Norg since Apocalypse Nigh (but is still suffering from nightmares, aka CoP Dynamis). In the cutscene, her desire to help you manifests as the Lion II trust cipher.

[Mairja]

Not impressed by this, not so far at least. Too few missions, new zone is AWFUL - why grey? Why not just really really pale colours? Feels like the whole thing was slapped together in 5 minutes, no effort put into it whatsoever.

(The nms I've encountered so far are kinda nasty though, not solo-friendly.)

[Chimerawizard]

the mission after the sea serpent's grotto.
1-15, impurity... where do I go?

I tried home nation, norg, gilgamesh, yuhtunga.

EDIT: 1-15 Impurity
*check the ??? at (F-11) in Yuhtunga Jungle.

[Isiolia]

Run outside of SSG and there's another sparkling ??? not too far away from the entrance on the edge of a pond.