What Do FFXI Players Want for 2011 and How Was 2010?

[Tsuko_Asura]

Ugh no... never ever make world spawn HNMs that are worth while. It's just terrible, we need to stay away from camping shit as much as possible. I want to play the game not wait around for shit to appear and then maybe get a chance to play with it.

Definitely Pld needs some big buffs. Atonement should be uncapped/damage raised or Pld should get a significantly stronger WS. Being that pretty much most melees are tanking there's no reason Pld shouldn't have better damage. I would much rather see Pld get a damage boost then see DDs get screwed by some nerf or just having mobs with incredibly retarded AoE spam. Sadly even in the case of massive AoE Plds don't really take significantly less damage which should really be the case.

I like the idea of fixing cover and SE had talked about it lowering the recast and just having it redirect the damage off the targeted alliance member would be best (without any positional BS.) I remember also in FFIX you could use Fire Sword, Ice Sword, etc. giving Pld a stance to allow magic to be directly cast through them to avoid the Blm and Rdm pulling hate would be amazing. Other than that Pld probably needs more ability to support Flash II and Shield Bash II would be nice.

Do you people even play this game? You're all suggesting things that make absolutely no sense. Paladin being unable to reliably secure hate against anyone competent isn't what's wrong, the issue is that even if they could keep hate for the duration of a battle, they'd still be a waste of a slot. You're suggesting more ways for a paladin to get involved, while not suggesting a single way for them to be involved in a way that doesn't make them a complete redundancy.

[Jex]

The only sort of job recommendation I can make is about PLD. A job that has been lost in the world of MNK's tanking everything. Give them some sort of ability that works like cover (which is worthless in its current state), but converts a party member's enmity into your own. That way you can have one MNK or BLM going buckwild on a mob and the PLD still have a god damn job. It would be a short recast/long duration but you can only use it on one person.

Other than that, another boxed expansion would be nice. The boxed expansions have such nice story lines and I actually want to do them.

Then from there, they could do 2 things that would please me. Level 90-99 better have some new, epic zones with epic monsters and epics quests. This has gotta be the pinnacle of FFXI. They better do it in grand fashion.

If they don't do it big, they better revive old content in a big way. Add life to every old event, as previously mentioned. Make doing quests WORTH a damn. Hell, I'd even welcome the return of HNM. Add a lotto pop off of the HNM's nobody camps anymore. HQ Khimaira, HQ Cerberus, HQ Hydra, HQ Jorm, etc. Get a wide variety of shit to keep us busy for a long time.

All in all, add more variety and make PLD not suck again.

Ugh no... never ever make world spawn HNMs that are worth while. It's just terrible, we need to stay away from camping shit as much as possible. I want to play the game not wait around for shit to appear and then maybe get a chance to play with it.

Definitely Pld needs some big buffs. Atonement should be uncapped/damage raised or Pld should get a significantly stronger WS. Being that pretty much most melees are tanking there's no reason Pld shouldn't have better damage. I would much rather see Pld get a damage boost then see DDs get screwed by some nerf or just having mobs with incredibly retarded AoE spam. Sadly even in the case of massive AoE Plds don't really take significantly less damage which should really be the case.

I like the idea of fixing cover and SE had talked about it lowering the recast and just having it redirect the damage off the targeted alliance member would be best (without any positional BS.) I remember also in FFIX you could use Fire Sword, Ice Sword, etc. giving Pld a stance to allow magic to be directly cast through them to avoid the Blm and Rdm pulling hate would be amazing. Other than that Pld probably needs more ability to support Flash II and Shield Bash II would be nice.

I agree with 2 points, As i would love to see PLD emn. cap raised, Make them fucking useful... Mnk out shines pld in abyssea when it comes to tanking 99% of the time i would love to see pld get some cool new abilities since it seems like all the other jobs are getting new JA's/Spells and we are stuck with another fucking useless JA (Seriously SE Sepulcher? Really?)

I do have to say It would be nice to add an HQ version of the HNMs and maybe even add some new awesome items to the old ones since anything not HQ is a waste of time (Even some HQ drops are shitty) People bitch and complain about spending 3 hours waiting for an HNM to pop and then go spend 8 in abyssea.... I enjoy my 3 hours 8 hours in abyssea means i have to be there paying attention if I'm doing a LS event which gets old fast, HNM camps i turn my bot on and play Call of Duty or get some fucking homework done until i hear the music go off... As for the exp in abyssea i have no complaints for it as 99% of the time i have an Exp bot on while i sleep for 8-10 hours being lazy or watching TV.

What i would like to see in the update is another boxed expansion. You get what you pay for, the $10 add-on's give you $10 worth of content (Which isent much but a few zones w/ new/old mobs)...

-I would like to see new HNMs added but not with stupid fucking window timers (hi2u Tiamat) for dismal rewards.

-Make EXP for lower jobs easier to obtain, not a chore... I mean time is not a real big issue for me but some people don't have 6-8 hours a day to spend in abyssea to get decent exp. Only to have to warp out after they finally hit the cap and are starting to get good exp to have to change jobs.

-Universal chat would be nice, The idea of buying a server wide LS pearl w/o a cap would be nice that way if your out solo'ing and still wanting to wait for a shout you can, Put a level limit and time limit on reply's and that helps fight RMT shouts and kids fighting over who's cooler in fucking Naruto.

-PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, can we get a "Skip Cut since" button.... I spend more time spamming enter then i do getting to the place i need.

-This is a personal thing but could we get some decent looking gear? I'm sorry but some of the stats on the new gear are amazing but fucking do i have to look at my characters ass crack every fucking time i put on my War AF3+2?

[TehKerm]

New worthwhile drops to HNMs added, maybe raise their levels slightly, along with lowering their respawn times, i.e fafs respawn becoming 12 hours not 21-24

for christs sake a way to transfer remaining time over 120 minutes into stones to joachim, sucks when you get an epic fell cleave spam going and get around 1000 mins and you can only keep 120 of it when you need to go dump merits, change jobs, ect.

new worthwhile drops added to Dynamis, Ein. ect. give us a reason to do these old yet still kind of fun events.

take away that stupid 5 trial max shit ffs!
stackable empyrean items!

Magian trials for those hard worked on salvage sets, make them worth it still at 99, even if they only become macro pieces.

I want a pet jormy too, that is all!

[Cantih]

New worthwhile drops to HNMs added, maybe raise their levels slightly, along with lowering their respawn times, i.e fafs respawn becoming 12 hours not 21-24

Actually 10-12 or 11-12 respawn wouldn't be that bad.

[Khory]

Umm... things i want...

1) Fix experience outside of abyssea. Abyssea is great, yes, but nowadays it is horrid when you need to level a job before abyssea. The only fast option is key leeching inside abyssea. FoV gives you 3~4k per hour. Normal parties dont exist. Even when they do, you are looking at ~8ish k per hour.

The game right now is only abyssea - it is stupid to keep the lowish level grind as large as it has been. I think that even doubling the exp of mobs outside abyssea wouldn't be too bad.

2) Raise limit on how many magian trials you can have

5 Worked when we only had weapons. Now we have armor pieces. For each one of our jobs. We should get 10 trials at minimum, most likely something like 15 trials.

3) Lower difficulty of skilling up

Skilling up is very boring. Weapons now have a reason to be skilled because of abyssea. It is depressing thinking that i have to bring scythe, staff, great sword, axe, sword, dagger and polearm from the 75 cap to the 90 cap for my warrior.

4)Raise limit on combat merits and magic merits

Come on, anyone that has more than 2 jobs knows that the limits are way too low. We need like 40 combat merits.

5) Keep pumping content

This is the most important part. Please dont let us have another 2009 year.

[ronin sparthos]

I agree with 2 points, As i would love to see PLD emn. cap raised, Make them fucking useful... Mnk out shines pld in abyssea when it comes to tanking 99% of the time i would love to see pld get some cool new abilities since it seems like all the other jobs are getting new JA's/Spells and we are stuck with another fucking useless JA (Seriously SE Sepulcher? Really?)

I do have to say It would be nice to add an HQ version of the HNMs and maybe even add some new awesome items to the old ones since anything not HQ is a waste of time (Even some HQ drops are shitty) People bitch and complain about spending 3 hours waiting for an HNM to pop and then go spend 8 in abyssea.... I enjoy my 3 hours 8 hours in abyssea means i have to be there paying attention if I'm doing a LS event which gets old fast, HNM camps i turn my bot on and play Call of Duty or get some fucking homework done until i hear the music go off... As for the exp in abyssea i have no complaints for it as 99% of the time i have an Exp bot on while i sleep for 8-10 hours being lazy or watching TV.

What i would like to see in the update is another boxed expansion. You get what you pay for, the $10 add-on's give you $10 worth of content (Which isent much but a few zones w/ new/old mobs)...

-I would like to see new HNMs added but not with stupid fucking window timers (hi2u Tiamat) for dismal rewards.

-Make EXP for lower jobs easier to obtain, not a chore... I mean time is not a real big issue for me but some people don't have 6-8 hours a day to spend in abyssea to get decent exp. Only to have to warp out after they finally hit the cap and are starting to get good exp to have to change jobs.

-Universal chat would be nice, The idea of buying a server wide LS pearl w/o a cap would be nice that way if your out solo'ing and still wanting to wait for a shout you can, Put a level limit and time limit on reply's and that helps fight RMT shouts and kids fighting over who's cooler in fucking Naruto.

-PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, can we get a "Skip Cut since" button.... I spend more time spamming enter then i do getting to the place i need.

-This is a personal thing but could we get some decent looking gear? I'm sorry but some of the stats on the new gear are amazing but fucking do i have to look at my characters ass crack every fucking time i put on my War AF3+2?

lol

New worthwhile drops to HNMs added, maybe raise their levels slightly, along with lowering their respawn times, i.e fafs respawn becoming 12 hours not 21-24.

So we want to go backwards instead of forward in terms of progress?

[arus2001]

On the time thing... would think it kind of nice if you got like +3 max minutes for every abyssite you hold. So, if you got all 65, you'd have 315 minutes instead of 120.

[TehKerm]

Would be nice if we could cap out weapon merits on more than just 2 weapons tbh, shitty when you level a new job but cant even merit the weapon for it cause you already capped out for 2 other jobs @_@ same as with magic merits.

[Khajit]

We need to either lose the current merit restrictions or get new merits to work on soon because after day one of heroes literally everyone had capped anything they previously didn't cap which makes it hard to even find abyssea pts lately.

[Therin]

A real expansion, not the add-on shit.

[Defile]

/helmet off.

[mcb]

it feels like abyssea has been the sole event for a while, but for a long while we were limited on stones/time so that we had to pace ourselves. now that we can get 3 stones a day easily i wouldn't mind seeing 3-6 new abyssea zones (gear +3?, more ways to target upgrade items) in new areas with completely different fight styles (fights where magic dmg/kite works well, other's where melee heavy works well).

merits are capped and i have nothing to do with them, be nice if i could use them to buffer other jobs, remove the maximum limit on hp/mp, attributes, combat skills, magic skills, other. str/dex and hp/mp are the only 2 groupings that really work together to make us stronger. the rest is just lets all our jobs make use of these catagories instead of just a couple.

fire weather, and weather in general needs to happen more. i don't mind the # of kills on trials (though the +2 weapons were pretty lopsided in their upgrade effort) but the elemental paths can be very very restrictive on when you can do them. having to wait for fire's day on most of the fire path trials to make progress is pointless. if we need 300 kills fine, but don't make us wait 7 hours to start killing.

+1 version of old events. like having the option when popping a mob/entering limbus/dynamis to do the harder version. harder version could have higher drop rates/bigger drop pools. for example, dynamis mobs could spawn lv 90-95 and put out up to 5 coins each. kirin would have a much higher chance of dropping w.legs but be significantly harder.

more global communication. some way to shout across more zones (maybe just all cities). some form of goups looking for members (instead of just individuals looking for group). some way to register that your interested in doing xxx 3 events and people can look you up (like sign up for specific nm's in abyssea, weapon trials). not to remove linkshells but to allow smaller group events to meet up easier and with new people.

[orson]

Do you people even play this game? You're all suggesting things that make absolutely no sense. Paladin being unable to reliably secure hate against anyone competent isn't what's wrong, the issue is that even if they could keep hate for the duration of a battle, they'd still be a waste of a slot. You're suggesting more ways for a paladin to get involved, while not suggesting a single way for them to be involved in a way that doesn't make them a complete redundancy.

Do you even freaking read? Where did I say anything about not being able to hold hate?
- Raise the damage Pld can do closer to that of a regular DD.
- Give Pld better ways to control hate spikes/hate resets.
- Give Pld more support abilities to mitigate damage on themselves and party members.
Learn to freaking read before coming in here with your sandy vag.

Also what's the obsession to revive old content? Aren't people bored of dynamis, sky, salvage, etc.? You complain about reskinned gear, zones, and mobs all the while bitching that your rose-tinted, nostalgic content is being forgotten about. No we need NEW content GFTO with asking for more rehashed content and/or forcing players to redo old content. Having to do the same stuff over and over can only tolerated to a point.

[Calessa]

Also what's the obsession to revive old content? Aren't people bored of dynamis, sky, salvage, etc.? You complain about reskinned gear, zones, and mobs all the while bitching that your rose-tinted, nostalgic content is being forgotten about. No we need NEW content GFTO with asking for more rehashed content and/or forcing players to redo old content. Having to do the same stuff over and over can only tolerated to a point.

Personally, I want old content revived that hasn't really been used in years. Many things in FFXI are never touched anymore. Eco Warrior, Garrison, Expeditionary Forces, most BCNMs, etc. -- There's no reason these things can't be updated and/or reimagined.

[rog]

Personally, I want old content revived that hasn't really been used in years. Many things in FFXI are never touched anymore. Eco Warrior, Garrison, Expeditionary Forces, most BCNMs, etc. -- There's no reason these things can't be updated and/or reimagined.

I did eco warrior back in 2004. I don't get what's fun about running through some easy mobs with an alliance of level 20 noobs, and killing an easyish nm.

[Humblejoe]

I would like DRK to not be so gimp =(

[Ansems]

I want a new AV.
the game has become non challenging.

[mcb]

Do you even freaking read? Where did I say anything about not being able to hold hate?
- Raise the damage Pld can do closer to that of a regular DD.
- Give Pld better ways to control hate spikes/hate resets.
- Give Pld more support abilities to mitigate damage on themselves and party members.
Learn to freaking read before coming in here with your sandy vag.

1. raise dmg a pld can do...like make them a melee dd?
2. control hate spikes...learn to tank? if your using everything you have just to maintain a baseline hate...
3. mitigate dmg on themselves (sentenal?) others (support jobs/healers?)
pld is great...in fights where you want to hold onto the mob for a while before you kill it. the rest of the time just /sam or /nin and take 0 dmg while you obleterate it.

[darkepyon]

Abyssea was great but I think the whole atma thing really spoiled us. If they do something different for 91-99 I think they'll have a tough time weaning us off the "crack" we're used to now. As mentioned before, this isn't an exactly sustainable path we're on here.

One thing that I really wish they had done was made the minimum level for abyssea like 70 as opposed to 30. Of course this means nothing for people with Maat's caps (unless they stopped a particular job at 66 but wanted to revisit it). I hope they take this into consideration if they plan to do something similar in the future. There's almost zero incentive these days to take up anything new. God help you if you have anything below 30.

Most of how I feel about this has been brought up at some point or another. All in all, 2010 has been a solid year for this game. I hope the dev team has learned a good deal from this year and carries it forward into next year.

[Snprphnx]

give us something to do with our old AF, Relic, and Salvage gear. maybe once at 99, add a magian trial to upgrade the AF3 by using some, if not all previous gear, and a bonus if you use the +1 of everything.

example, trade Nin Tekko+1, Koga Telkko+1, Skadi Hands and Iga Tekko +2 to get something with
-Haste+5
-Str+25
-Dex+25
-Agi+15
- misc ninja bonus stuff