Comments from the Devs

**xopher** · 2012-03-31 11:07

Originally Posted by Draylo

Please tell me this is a joke.

That kind of content might make me want to play XIV again.

**Patriarch** · 2012-03-31 11:13

Originally Posted by xopher

That kind of content might make me want to play XIV again.

Openly supporting my ideas on BG, you are a brave soul.

Expect some long posts, drab arguments, and personal attacks.

**Corrderio** · 2012-03-31 11:42

Originally Posted by Stanislaw

By the way, the April Fool's joke they pulled off on the official forums is amusing.

I actually went back on the forums to check that. Pretty funny.

EDIT: And then I read a thread regarding class balance and wanted to punch a kitten in the face due to the dumbfucks that think "you can level everything" is a viable excuse.

**Patriarch** · 2012-03-31 11:51

Originally Posted by Corrderio

And then I read a thread and wanted to punch a kitten in the face due

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...t-for-Utsusemi

You can thank me later.

**Corrderio** · 2012-03-31 11:54

Utsusemi BRD is best BRD

**Elcura** · 2012-03-31 11:54

Originally Posted by ffffffff

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...t-for-Utsusemi

You can thank me later.

It's no mystery why people are so hostile towards you.

**Patriarch** · 2012-03-31 12:04

Originally Posted by Elcura

It's no mystery why people are so hostile towards you.

Internet hostility is very serious.

And I do agree, Utsusemi BRD is nice. We will never see anything of the like in XIV however, and I'm not sure if that is good or bad.

**Niiro** · 2012-03-31 12:07

It's called Decoy.

Enjoy.

**Fievel** · 2012-03-31 12:11

Originally Posted by ffffffff

Hmmm, I stood in front of them (couldn't have been 2-3m away) for the entirety.. I'll mess with it again tonight.

The forum humor is a little funny, I agree

Were you wearing AF body?

**Patriarch** · 2012-03-31 12:37

Originally Posted by Fievel

Were you wearing AF body?

Yes

**Niiro** · 2012-03-31 13:01

Were you looking for it in the log or watching your MP, apparently it doesn't display in the log.

**Patriarch** · 2012-03-31 13:14

I was mainly watching logs, but I have kept my eye on MP gauge as well. It's gone up a couple of times, about 4-6 mp at a time. I'm hoping the MP gain is supposed to be more than that..

I'm not sure how much was changed, but casting on CNJ and interruption is rough. Get interrupted on literally every hit

/edit: I'm liking Gugnir so far. Sniped a triple melded Cobalt Gauntlets +1 (x3 Strength IV) for 121k lol

**Niiro** · 2012-04-01 02:44

1st Ifrit and 1st Moogle drop in the same day!

AWESOME APRIL FOOLS SE, YOU GOT ME GOOD

Spoiler: show

**Ambrosia** · 2012-04-01 08:46

Congratulations! I don't understand why S.E. went with the whole you can't trade the duplicate item from the chest to another pony or have everything drop off inside the coffer and pass the items around accordingly. I would say I was one of the more lucky ones with the drops (Ifrit prior to Totems). I ended up gonig 6/7 after 48 runs. I knew a couple of folks that clocked in at 75 runs and had 0 drops. I knew about half a dozen that had close to 50 runs without one drop so it can get frustrating. On top of that several ponies had lag (especially Europeans) so that just made things worse, and made some of them rage quit.

I'm glad they are dropping the Totem requirements but I wish they would of upped the overall drop rate by a small % maybe 5% (of the actual weapon). Who knows.

As far as the "Darklight" armor is concerned, according to ZAM (only from several ponies: so it is a very small sample size) a few have said they have done close to 50 speed runs and have never seen a drop. One pony has done "supposedly" close to 100 runs and nothing. It seems S.E. knows this but isn't going to change anything... yet. The reasoning that they are the best armor (for the most part) doesn't really justify to make it so frustratingly annoying to get a single drop. I would not be surprised if the drop rate of each item is around 1-2-3 percent. Worst case scenario would be if the drop formula is tied to server-wide, which would make it excruciatingly rare.

**Niiro** · 2012-04-01 11:21

Originally Posted by Ambrosia

I ended up gonig 6/7 after 48 runs.

This first drop came somewhere between 1/35-40 runs. Moogle was maybe 1/15.

All jobs leveled and I get both drops for the same job, the job I use the absolute least.

Last time I was on GLA/PLD was to do AF. Before that....uh....I don't think I've ever used it for an actual event.

**Corrderio** · 2012-04-01 13:54

Originally Posted by Ambrosia

As far as the "Darklight" armor is concerned, according to ZAM (only from several ponies: so it is a very small sample size) a few have said they have done close to 50 speed runs and have never seen a drop. One pony has done "supposedly" close to 100 runs and nothing. It seems S.E. knows this but isn't going to change anything... yet. The reasoning that they are the best armor (for the most part) doesn't really justify to make it so frustratingly annoying to get a single drop. I would not be surprised if the drop rate of each item is around 1-2-3 percent. Worst case scenario would be if the drop formula is tied to server-wide, which would make it excruciatingly rare.

I really don't mind it rare, I just don't like how luck is the deciding factor. I wish they had a token system for dungeons where you could buy gear. Sorta like Assault in a sense.

**Patriarch** · 2012-04-04 19:46

Originally Posted by Rukkirii

We’ve been told that there are some very interesting ideas floating around the developer’s room for notorious monster spawn conditions in 2.0! Although, I cannot tell you what they have in store for you just yet (of course, right?

), I hope this information piques your interest.

There are a lot of great ideas in this thread so far, we would love to hear more of what you would like to see so that we can continue to share your ideas with the dev. team.

Gettin' there.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...onsters/page63

**Lordender** · 2012-04-05 00:08

Lol @ "we can't tell you". Like its some alien spaceship cover up, can't even say something like "this is the basic idea, although not set in stone yet."

**Corrderio** · 2012-04-05 01:11

Hopefully not a condition like "Spawns during full moon only"

If they bring back any of the "unique" (ie: beyond stupid) spawn conditions like they had in XI, I'm pretty much going to laugh at how they claim they're trying to save this game when they're pretty much alienating themselves from current MMO playerbase.

**Lordender** · 2012-04-05 08:18

Originally Posted by Corrderio

Hopefully not a condition like "Spawns during full moon only"

If they bring back any of the "unique" (ie: beyond stupid) spawn conditions like they had in XI, I'm pretty much going to laugh at how they claim they're trying to save this game when they're pretty much alienating themselves from current MMO playerbase.

Well they could turn use the leve system, they could make ridiculously challenging HNM but its SE and they will probably fuck it up. Would be hilarious if they put them in pvp zones in 2.0, now that could be entertaining.

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