From the Desk of the Community Team (11/19/2010) - Holy @#$% BlueGartr Shoutout Edition!

[Gergall]

http://na.square-enix.com/ffxi/newsl...tter_44_05.jpg

Source: http://na.square-enix.com/ffxi/newsletter/44/index.html

[Gergall]

Who is going to take up their challenge? I know they are probably reading this so...yeah...hi guys. I'm wasting my one and only chance to talk directly to you guys, aren't I? Damn...um...damn.....

[Not Kuno]

I'm an internet superhero.

Also, I'm pretty sure ragn already made the biggest threads of each year a while back somewhere.

[Appie]

Am I reading too much into this sentence:

The current form of the Empyrean Weapons and their respective weaponskills are really powerfull.

Or are the glory days of Empyreans going to be as shortlived as the Footwork mnk days?
Obviously as relic owner I won't complain, but I'm probably reading too much into it.

[Khamsin]

For as long as they've been isolating themselves, finally paying someone to keep up with and make people think they're actually involved with the community has been a smart choice. Though something tells me the community team is just some guy they have read forums on his own time and do a little light-hearted prose once in a while. Nonetheless, for such a simple and cheap solution, it makes me feel a lot better about them.

[Massimo]

Am I reading too much into this sentence:

Or are the glory days of Empyreans going to be as shortlived as the Footwork mnk days?
Obviously as relic owner I won't complain, but I'm probably reading too much into it.

I understand that you're wanting to have your Spharai and Usu to be the best again, but you don't have to post about it in every thread. We get it.

Nice that the community team's actually trying, I guess. Question is how much they actually get to affect the FFXI gameplay though.

[shepardG]

Good show SE. Whatever corporate power decided to give your development process a shot, should be given a raise, along with the folks working on the game currently. Give Tanaka a good slap in the cock for us and tell him not to ever come back.

[Hookah]

Oh wow, I remember the lifebelt gloves... that's from a looooooooong time ago.

[Appie]

I understand that you're wanting to have your Spharai and Usu to be the best again, but you don't have to post about it in every thread. We get it.

I actually wasn't one of the guys expecting them to do Usu +1, still don't. So don't put words into my mouth. I only said it might be possible but I don't see it actually happening. Also care to back up "every thread" with a quote I shit up with mentioning Salv gear? I count one.

As for the relic, I don't know if that will happen either, but that upgrade is far more likely than seeing Salv gear back on top, you know that too. And like I said before, I don't care if SE wants Emps on top, just tell me so I can stop doing trials. We'll see in the dec patch I guess.

[LinkNZ]

Haha, thats awesome.

Hi! *waves* Umm... gimme more things I can summon on SMN! Plz!

What is the lifebelt gloves thing about? Anyone got it still? I don't think I've seen it.

[Fereydoon]

Image is in the other thread a few down on the same topic.

[Gergall]

Image is in the other thread a few down on the same topic.

Oh sorry...I feel dumb now. I thought I was the only person who posts these :-/

[Septimus]

Well, considering how "holy-shit monkey balls awesome" Abyssea has been, I think that they have been paying more attention to the community. Look at Empyrean Armor, with the exception of a few pieces (looking at you DRK feet and legs), nearly every piece is actually useful for the job as opposed to being made by the Random Stat Generator™. Another on-the-go storage system and the ability to store individual pieces of Artifact, Relic, Limbus, and Salvage gear were announced today, something that we have been begging for them to do for years.

Sure, people will say "about time", but really the Dev Team has really done some awesome things with this game in the last year. Look at the first three add-ons versus Abyssea so far, it isn't even a comparison.

And to the Community Team: Hi guys. Sorry about the FFXIV video, that one was really, really mean. Could you guys do me a favor and kiss the Abyssea team for me? On the mouth. With tongue. Thanks.

XXX OOO,
Septy.

P.S. And if you guys could tell the Dev Team to make furnishings separate from the mog safe so we could decorate with wild abandon and still have room for our things, I would appreciate that also. Oh, and how about more national missions, and bigger mog houses for people who have completed Rank 15 in all three nations?

[Sho]

Ey Community guy person. How are you? I'm fine thanks.

TELL TANAKA AND THE OTHERS TO LOWER THE GOD DAMN ALEXANDRITE AMOUNT REQUIRED FOR MYTHIC WEAPONS.

































...of course that was a semi joke post. However, now with Empyrean weapons slapping Relic and Mythic weapons around like a used prostitute, there is no need for Mythics in question to require 30,000 Alexandrite. A ballpark of 15-20k is more reasonable, considering the length of magian trials that is to come after. That is all, thanks!

P.S. Make sure you relay it, or I'ma get ya! E-thugs always get at their person. Or they sit at their armchair and talk smack. Which ever comes first.

[solanis]

PLEASE BUFF DRKS

[Tagus]

Hmm... this might be akin to that guy from the movie Sneakers who asks for world peace, but could you pretty please with sugar on top reduce the entry requirements for Salvage?

Requiring a minimum person number is awful, and the redonculously hoopjumping timesinker nonsensical maddeningness that is the Assault Point requirement has made me want to ragequit the game on several occasions, not due to difficulty mind you, but due to the absolute lack of value that the requirement has in any conceivable way other than to take my time.

Thank you and an early Merry Jebus Day to you sir

[Fereydoon]

On top of the alexandrite things mentioned. Please either stop limiting assault tags or give us more/a lower recharge time. I hate that if I can somehow find all the alexandrite I need it still takes months because of assaults.

[Calintzpso]

Please please keep up the work, but also please please fix a few things that bug not just me but my fellow friends.
I have drk 37 and no desire to level it, why must I get 2 stacks(TWO!!!! FML) of leg seals before I get even half way to 8 rng leg seals? Buddy of mine got the ranger seals and needs the drk seals and he doesn't have rng.

Maybe a 1 to 1 trade npc? Make a party with another member who has seals you want and you have the ones they want, give the ability to trade via npc? Like a Gold pass style guy. Or if in party doing the quest the seals go to the treasure pool? This keeps it out of short of selling the seals/RMT getting involved with it, to a point.

I'd do the nms but I usually don't have right jobs, the time or find the people, and the nms people I go with don't do the ones that drop the jobs I can use. Most people are me me me. Sorry but statistics read the world is more then 50% wicked in that sense(theres a song about this).

Or how about just plain if the job you finish the quest on gets you the seal of that job(maybe a better chance?)

Secondly, a relic user busted their ass to get the relic, now they have to murder like 10k mobs with a killing blow to get its dmg/acc up? Sounds a little harsh. Abyssite NMs repop rate is stupid both in and out of Abyssea, hate multiple kill requirements for magians well needing the thing equipped.

Third. give pre-level 30 and level sync an incentive to end game players to participate in, outside of begging linkshell members. When will we be getting that skill up effect under level sync effect finally like promised long ago? or give people above a high level more exp per kill for helping in level sync parties. I hate seeing some friends I invite to the game quit cause I'm not around enough or have the time from linkshell duty to sync with the 12 non-party friendly jobs I find in the dunes. Not all jobs are FoV friendly unless you like killing rabbits for 2 exp for 3 months. A feeling of doing something nice and good helping out a low level noob is no longer a good enough incentive to some. Endgame tends to be full of evil, busy, vile, not interested people; like myself without better rewards to goad us.

That poor pirate bob from PFA this week. Feels overloaded from all the content and no help when starting FFXI. Sucks that his PC got browned out too.

Fix it SE.

[dannyl]

AWESOME! Congrats BG

[Artemas]

A few things:

Thanks for abyssea. Even with the time limitations, I think abyssea was well done, overall. But blue ! should guarantee the rare drop. I've seen a lot of blue ! end with nothing new in the drop pool, even with TH5.

Can you increase sources of cashmere? Vrtra is on the verge of putting out a match.com ad, he's so lonely. And getting up to Bahamut is just a convoluted process that no one wants to take part of anymore.

Would it be possible for players to retract alexandrite from the NPC? Or at least be able to change weapons?

Can you add new sources of alexandrite? Little to no incentive for anything salvage related so the alexandrite pool has really shriveled up.

Why isn't it possible for multiple aftermaths to exist at the same time? The whole point of a player doing a relic is to be the BADDEST MOTHERFUCKER around every 100/200/300 tp. Extremely disappointing to find that out, by the way.

AF3 looks GREAT. It's really really great to see jobs look like their jobs, instead everyone wearing the same things and then you guessing what job they are by the weapon they have equipped. The JSE set bonuses made it even better.

Can you expand the merit system? This merit system was fine five years ago when it was a rarity to have multiple 75 jobs. But now, even mules are acquiring Maat's Hats. Players are having to make Life Choices on whether to do Elemental magic, Enfeebling magic, Blue magic, etc. While you're considering it, can you expand Level Two merits also? There's actually a valid reason now for ninjas to unlock san spells beyond raiton. If they even did raiton.

Please increase the abyssite change rate inside abyssea. Going 0/20 on colorful changes in a timed area is very, very disheartening.

Magian trials literally suck the souls from players. 1500 of any mob is like an invitation from SE developers to try out that free WoW trial. Also, some of the trials include mobs not found inside abyssea (looking at you slimes). Please fix that. Would you consider adding a gil related option to the magian trials? I'd gladly pay gil instead of doing some of these.

Thanks for all that you do.