Dev Tracker

[Byrthnoth]

I would be unsurprised if it was a forked path, based on what people have been saying.

[Dimmauk]

Since people keep asking for it (and I missed it myself!)



http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...-System-Legion

They should have done this a couple years ago.

[Draylo]

Only a certain few will have it? No fair!

[Avarice]

4452 Ochain Rare Ex DEF:40 VIT+25Increases song effect duration by 30%Grants two additional song effects

What an interesting upgrade for a shield.

[Classikmage]

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[Gokulo]

I'm gonna do a combo breaker here.

[ronin sparthos]

So they're really gonna keep that ridiculous tier trial in afterall. Way to waste development time on content virtually no one will ever finish in this lifetime.

Well at least the lvl99 trials will be doable and Legion sounds like Walk of Echoes with a larger entry fee.

[Alkimi]

Legion sounds like Walk of Echoes with a larger entry fee.

From the description it sounds like what Walk of Echoes should always have been, not a free-for-all log/ingot/ore fest swarming with idiots who ruin any semblance of strategy.

[Taint]

Pretty happy with the easier trials split into 2 stages. Relic Afterglow isn't even worth going after....ACC? lol

[Draginhikari]

To be honset I don't really care if they make the second stage extremely difficult to complete. Considering the second stage appears to be mostly the afterglow and not anything directly related to the power of the weapon itself, I have no issue with it. The more devoted people can chose to focus their energy on it and the majority don't really have to care.

[Limlight]

Pretty happy with the easier trials split into 2 stages. Relic Afterglow isn't even worth going after....ACC? lol

relic? definitely not. But empy afterglow looks promising

[Darkmagi]

Afterglow in general looks like shit. Low potency, 30 second duration, not stacking with aftermath(should be on 90% of the time for most jobs)

[Takiwaki]

What I could never understand is them taking up so much manpower and game resources to put so much shit into the game that will never be used by most of the game population. Including equipment that is never touched/useless gear, abilities that we never use or makes no impact, magic, crafted items that never get crafted, etc. Then they say shit like cant add or split timers cus they are at limit? They obviously do not play their own game. Especially at this point in the game, it boggles my mind.

[Appie]

@ the relic, mythic, emp dev note
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnk7s...7c8ho1_400.gif

Assuming this part of the message is true:

Step 2
Possible upgrades will include special animations along with "Afterglow" effects that grant status benefits to party members.

You don't get increased base dmg, increased ws dmg, everything step 1 does, but you do get afterglow and special animations (SE never heard of datswap?) and they expect people to do this content because? So I can give other people in my party some acc? Really?!

Especially when you mention this right after:

The corresponding Magian trials will be exceedingly difficult to complete, such that only a select number of PCs will be able to upgrade weapons to this stage.

Nobody in their right mind would ever get a step 2 relic with that bullshit on the table lol. As Taki said, why waste manpower on content nobody will do?

This took them 6 months to think about?

[TummieGaruda]

Since this seems like how Dynamis used to be (pay to enter each time) I wonder what the lockout timer will be for this event and if the points buyable equipment will be worth it.

[drwaffles]

500 PW drops

Do they even realise that just farming the zeni for 500 PW's alone would literally take over four years' worth of 24/7 play? Assuming the kind of player likely to take up this challenge (hypothetically speaking, since no one actually will) spends an average of 10 hours per day playing FFXI: once you factor in killing the NMs, killing PW himself, the occasional day off or lowered play time, you're talking about a trial that could literally take more than a decade to complete. More than anything else, things like this convince me that this dev team has absolutely no idea what they're doing.

[scaevola]

I would be unsurprised if it was a forked path, based on what people have been saying.

Why would anyone think this would be a forked path and not two linear stages?

[Lucavi]

Do they even realise that just farming the zeni for 500 PW's alone would literally take over four years' worth of 24/7 play? Assuming the kind of player likely to take up this challenge (hypothetically speaking, since no one actually will) spends an average of 10 hours per day playing FFXI: once you factor in killing the NMs, killing PW himself, the occasional day off or lowered play time, you're talking about a trial that could literally take more than a decade to complete. More than anything else, things like this convince me that this dev team has absolutely no idea what they're doing.

They really are (and always were) about copying the EQ gameplay experience with slightly more "plot" (I say slightly more because they haven't done shit for plot since the beginning of RoTZ, years ago).

[Evane]

Do they even realise that just farming the zeni for 500 PW's alone would literally take over four years' worth of 24/7 play? Assuming the kind of player likely to take up this challenge (hypothetically speaking, since no one actually will) spends an average of 10 hours per day playing FFXI: once you factor in killing the NMs, killing PW himself, the occasional day off or lowered play time, you're talking about a trial that could literally take more than a decade to complete. More than anything else, things like this convince me that this dev team has absolutely no idea what they're doing.

True.. But imagine 36 helpful and willing LS members help their leader with everything they've got! The leader will be done within months! That's the spirit of FFXI.

[Maksudyst]

And then they quit after it is complete!