Battle Adjustments (02/01/2011)

[Shenrien]

really.. they had to wait this long to get this out? :/

[SephYuyX]

There was no difference btwn the level cap increases now, and the ones years ago.
Everyone would rush (and I use that term loosely) to the new cap, and end up with under leveled skill, having to find a way to get it back to cap.

biobiobiobiobiobiobiobioFLAAAAAAAAAREbiobiobio

[EvilTheCat]

Hopefully more will exp. sync now instead of having those douche bags who seek in town at level 52 with a "Abyssea Party Level sync No thanks" seacom.

[Sho]

There was no difference btwn the level cap increases now, and the ones years ago.
Everyone would rush (and I use that term loosely) to the new cap, and end up with under leveled skill, having to find a way to get it back to cap.

biobiobiobiobiobiobiobioFLAAAAAAAAAREbiobiobio

Only now there are way more whiners that feel entitled to have their skills capped as they hit lvl 90. The sad thing is that, barring Parry/Guard/Enhancing/Summon, there is no skill on the table that is hard/difficult to skill to cap, just takes time.

[Kaisha]

Doubled at EM? Hope it's more for T/VT as I was hoping for a straight 300% XP increase across the board.

Ah well, anything is an improvement over what the game currently is like. I feel like resubscribing when the next content update is out to finish up some shit and some subs since it should be a joke to solo to 20 now to skips the Dunes.
(especially with the FoV XP bonus stripped of its once-per-gameday state)

[Alistaire]

Doubled at EM? Hope it's more for T/VT as I was hoping for a straight 300% XP increase across the board.

Ah well, anything is an improvement over what the game currently is like. I feel like resubscribing when the next content update is out to finish up some shit and some subs since it should be a joke to solo to 20 now to skips the Dunes.
(especially with the FoV XP bonus stripped of its once-per-gameday state)

Yeah, making tough mobs worth less than even match would definitely cause some complaints...

[Colenzo]

Well I guess getting to 30 will still be easier.

[Hyan]

Easy mode.

[SephYuyX]

PS. Glad I waited to level subs.

[Colenzo]

fucking final casual abyssea 11, thats whats up

[Siatdiat]

Doubled at EM? Hope it's more for T/VT as I was hoping for a straight 300% XP increase across the board.

Ah well, anything is an improvement over what the game currently is like. I feel like resubscribing when the next content update is out to finish up some shit and some subs since it should be a joke to solo to 20 now to skips the Dunes.
(especially with the FoV XP bonus stripped of its once-per-gameday state)

I soloed every job and sub job to at least 25 without much difficulty (Bst to 75 and Thf to 65) other than my first main and sub job, when I was a noob and listening to everyone tell me I had to do certain things, and in 2004 if you were a mage from Windy, you xped in Maze of Shakrami to 15 anyway! Didn't take much effort really. There was a time for me when I tried to get a job as high as I could solo then party with it so I could avoid as many new players spamming me with dumb questions as possible. Usually if Kazham keys didn't discourage them, something by level 40 would, maybe camping NMs for gear, or just trying to farm something ridiculous forever to get geared up, and by 40 parties would mostly only be the people who could hang.

It's true that they are obviously making the game easier in the general sense of xping to max level or skilling up, which is a dinosaur mmo time sink that doesn't survive well in the modern age anyway. Anyone who thinks they shouldn't change it ought to jump in the Delorian and go back in time with MJF. Abyssea proves they can make carrots that people enjoy chasing. You can accuse Abyssea of being too easy, but people willing can low man it all outside a few weird NMs. I prefer doing shit where everyone participating is paying attention, versus a big gagglefuck of people constantly going afk b/c they are bored off their ass at watching something be killed by the rest of the ls and just waiting to lot +2 items, or a gagglefuck who zombies shit to death with AoA atma because they are terrible.

[Vandalhart]

For instance, defeating an "Even Match" foe will yield roughly double the current amount of experience points.

This would indicate to me that they doubled xp all around, not just for Even Match and below.

[dannyl]

PS. Glad I waited to level subs.

this. Thank you whining community for making my skilling up faster

[Appie]

Recapping guard in easy mode go!

[Cream Soda]

You didn't learn your lesson the first time? (aka how fucking worthless capped guard is)

[Priran]

This took longer than I thought. I kinda got the hint they didn't care about skillups when Zvahl Fortalices went unnerfed (compare with how fast 1DMG weapons on Hpemdes and healing non-undead mobs got the nerf).

[Gergall]

Or a COR or a THF?

Random side note: I always thought that DRG should have a high parrying skill since they use a lance. Wouldn't a lance be great for parrying attacks? Or would it be too unwieldy for fast reaction times?

[Priran]

Random side note: I always thought that DRG should have a high parrying skill since they use a lance. Wouldn't a lance be great for parrying attacks? Or would it be too unwieldy for fast reaction times?

granted it's only a C, there is a lot of parry skill gear for DRGs.

[Sho]

granted it's only a C, there is a lot of parry skill gear for DRGs.

I always wondered why they gave DRG so many parry gears. Then again it's probably Parry-shenanigans akin to giving DRK Tactical Parry, and a few parry equips as well.

[TehKerm]

If they would jus lock the fucking maw so lvl 30s couldnt exp there then you wouldnt even need this fake ass double exp crap. this game has become the essence of failure lately.