The Final Fantasy XI Team Answers Your Questions! (07/03/2011)

[ronin sparthos]

not only that, but it says in the OP the "upcoming major update" If it's such a big update shouldn't we have heard something by now?

I just figured that they are holding all the info to dump on their new forums to make them relevant from launch.

If they went with the usual small bits of info they'd have nothing on the boards to talk about and most likely the forums would go down in a ball of flames like the Linkshell Community nonsense. The official forums still stand a good chance of crash/burning but at least news will make them worthwhile for a moment.

[Guitarman]

That's true. i have a feeling the dev's will see the braindead posts and QQ and give up on the forums after a week.

SE's willingness to make a forum after all these years does give me hope that they're reinvesting effort into the game, and not planning on let it stagnate, though

[Gwynplaine]

I just figured that they are holding all the info to dump on their new forums to make them relevant from launch.

If they went with the usual small bits of info they'd have nothing on the boards to talk about and most likely the forums would go down in a ball of flames like the Linkshell Community nonsense. The official forums still stand a good chance of crash/burning but at least news will make them worthwhile for a moment.

Yep, so let's see what happens tomorrow. Remember when the Linkshell Community came out and they made that weird holiday event that required logging into it to post poems? I wonder if they'll try something like that again to insist people use it. Not that I think they'll need to, the forum will probably get tons of traffic.

[Jex]

Now I have to level synergy? Really? The game is already full of tedious bullshit SE makes us do guess its time to add another.

[ronin sparthos]

Now I have to level synergy? Really? The game is already full of tedious bullshit SE makes us do guess its time to add another.

I know right. Why don't they just drop the completed in my inventory so I dont have to bother doing anything at all.

[Tribe]

Now I have to level synergy? Really? The game is already full of tedious bullshit SE makes us do guess its time to add another.

The worst part is that leveling synergy will be the easy part. would love to see how many synth's it will take to actually get anything decent. And if the system isnt ridiculously random then I wonder what peices of hear will actually get augments even worth using. Even with the insane stats on Af3+2's there are still pieces with wtf useless stats that SE thinks is relevant.

Either way I think its sad that they have to keep old gear alive. why the hell does it matter? just because people cant let go? wasted time on the gear? I lol every time.

[TacoTaru]

Question about synergy. I know there were some R/EX earrings (Ducal Earring I think) that were made from synergy and they could be made for you by someone else, but is there any gear currently that this works with too? Mainly if I level synergy will this cover just me, or can I augment Haidates for my friends as well; or is there any gear that follows this type of augmenting yet for this to even be determined?

[Myrrh_Quetz]

The amount of people that are going to be spamming synergy after this update is going to make selling Fewell so awesome. Yay for leveling Alchemy when I did.

[Jex]

I know right. Why don't they just drop the completed in my inventory so I dont have to bother doing anything at all.

Never said anything about that maybe use your fucking head...

Would be better if you upgraded them using trial moogle and just kill different NM's for items like used for +2's (Does not have to be abyssea NM's but anything) Leveling another fucking craft is fucking retarded even more since gil isn't worth shit anymore.

The worst part is that leveling synergy will be the easy part. would love to see how many synth's it will take to actually get anything decent. And if the system isnt ridiculously random then I wonder what peices of hear will actually get augments even worth using. Even with the insane stats on Af3+2's there are still pieces with wtf useless stats that SE thinks is relevant.

Either way I think its sad that they have to keep old gear alive. why the hell does it matter? just because people cant let go? wasted time on the gear? I lol every time.

I completely agree, I mean AF is trash and you don't see SE letting you augment it (I guess you could argue the fact of +2 AF but that's not the case). The game is changing and why shouldn't our gear? Salvage isn't that hard, I will admit SE's drop rates w/ certian 25's/35's was fucking stupid but still crying over out dated shit is just redundant next SE will be giving us a reason to camp HNM's again because people are QQ because they spent so much time in DA...

[TehKerm]

Love how people bitch about lvling synergy and gil when it costs not even a fourth of a normal craft and gil is easy to come by cause of abyssea. el oh fuckin el

[Jex]

Love how people bitch about lvling synergy and gil when it costs not even a fourth of a normal craft and gil is easy to come by cause of abyssea. el oh fuckin el

It's not even about the gil, Its the time I waste doing tedious shit when I could be spending it doing something somewhat more efficient.

Edit: inb4 leveling Synergy is efficient for arbitrary pieces of gear...

[TehKerm]

Like i said earlier, they said augmented gear isnt gonna be better than af+2 but on par, if you have empyrean armor completed already then synergy does not apply to you, hence it shouldn't be an issue with most everyone who has been doing abyssea since scars came out.

[Jex]

Like i said earlier, they said augmented gear isnt gonna be better than af+2 but on par, if you have empyrean armor completed already then synergy does not apply to you, hence it shouldn't be an issue with most everyone who has been doing abyssea since scars came out.

I can admit when I am wrong, I guess I missed that part. I seen a SS of aug. byakko's but the stats weren't good enough to make them worth leveling synergy imo.

[Gwynplaine]

If you don't want to level synergy you can probably just have a friend do it, or pay a crafter to do it.

[Sho]

It's not even about the gil, Its the time I waste doing tedious shit when I could be spending it doing something somewhat more efficient.

Edit: inb4 leveling Synergy is efficient for arbitrary pieces of gear...

While I'd love to agree with the "inb4" statement, I refuse because the current FFXI dev team has made the game more awesome in much less than a year than the last 3-4 years before it combined (and continues to cater). Can't wait to be impressed/shocked at what I can make via synergy.

Anyways, looking from the outside, playing FFXI at all is a giant waste of time regardless.

[dannyl]

I LOVE CAMPAIGN, that said, I haven't gone back to play a campaign battle in many many weeks/months. Why? Because I'm tired of seeing my Medal of Altana expire, I'm tired of waiting 5 days for a new evaluation. I know I can do the WoTG quests to father in my medal, but screw that! The allied note reward items are all but useless and they have yet to expand on them since who knows when. The lack of skillups doesn't make it attractive given all our jobs we leeched through abyssea.

The campaign battle system is great. Perhaps lift the exp/note cap during the battle so I don't have to 'refresh' my tags at every wave. Make it so battles don't just randomly end for whatever reason. Possibly incorporate Dominion type trophyies during big campaign battles to be exchanged for something (notes, augments, who knows).

If campaign would be given some love, a guarantee you, we'll see a lot more fun out there then defending the capital in every nation currently holds across all servers.... campaign is just not worth it these days. And I was a huge advocate of the system and leveling through it.

[Jex]

While I'd love to agree with the "inb4" statement, I refuse because the current FFXI dev team has made the game more awesome in much less than a year than the last 3-4 years before it combined (and continues to cater). Can't wait to be impressed/shocked at what I can make via synergy.

Anyways, looking from the outside, playing FFXI at all is a giant waste of time regardless.

I agree with the first part, SE has really done some really cool shit w/ the game over the past few months... As for synergy I don't really have my hopes up as it has been a let down in terms of gear/weapons... There are a few "Eh" pieces but most of them aren't worth the time granted I'm talking about the weapons/armor with aug. syenergy not the sellable items like Grim+1

[Kaisha]

I just want to know what the dev team has planned for down the road. I mean, if they're bothering with these Q&As, and actually bothering with an official forum this late in the game, they must have something in mind that they'll be releasing in the following year no?

[Gergall]

I'm tired of seeing my Medal of Altana expire

I haven't played in quite a while now but I still follow these forums and the patch notes. Didn't they change the medals so that they don't expire, provided you have progressed far enough in the WotG missions? The further you get in the missions, the higher your "minimum" medal is. If you finish all the way to the end, you will keep even the final Medal forever.

Am I mistaken?

[Taint]

You can lvl synergy to 80 in a few hours, the worst part will be finding people with the necessary crafts at 100.

Skilling in campaign would be a god send, so would the ability to unlock trial weapons during CB.