Comments from the Devs

[Stanislaw]

Did you do dungeons after A Relic Reborn was released?

I did them shortly afterwards to help when people were trying for the salt or whatever for the first time and they seemed to think 17 minutes was enough. There wasn't much info back then. I faded away from the game shortly after because of hamlet being terrible.

No offense, but you do realize that Rocl was being sarcastic, yes?




Edit: Oh my god, I can't believe I wrote that. I had thought Rocl said "When A Realm Reborn" was released. Leaving that unedited so everyone can have a good laugh.

[Raldo]

Edit: Oh my god, I can't believe I wrote that. I had thought Rocl said "When A Realm Reborn" was released. Leaving that unedited so everyone can have a good laugh.

There there, I almost posted the exact same thing.

[Churchill]

Rokal pls

[Lucavi]

Out of all the pointless and stupid arguments people have here this is the one you jump in and stop? My god.

Why knowingly contribute to another one? :/

[Gokulo]

No offense, but you do realize that Rocl was being sarcastic, yes?




Edit: Oh my god, I can't believe I wrote that. I had thought Rocl said "When A Realm Reborn" was released. Leaving that unedited so everyone can have a good laugh.

No worries, I read it the same, lol.

[Alkar]

Well yes, Salvage isn't a good example at all but it's a similar idea. If they implement it correctly I don't see the issue though.
Clearing content in 1.0 was a big issue even if you were in a LS. Most of my LS was scared to try anything new lol.
Hopefully ARR fixes this.

[Sephiroth]

No offense, but you do realize that Rocl was being sarcastic, yes?


Edit: Oh my god, I can't believe I wrote that. I had thought Rocl said "When A Realm Reborn" was released. Leaving that unedited so everyone can have a good laugh.

I won't lie, I thought the same as you when I first read it and thought it was some witty post. Then saw the word relic and realised he was referring to the quest name.

[Rocl]

No offense, but you do realize that Rocl was being sarcastic, yes?




Edit: Oh my god, I can't believe I wrote that. I had thought Rocl said "When A Realm Reborn" was released. Leaving that unedited so everyone can have a good laugh.

To be fair I was being snide about semantics. I just never followed through being a dick. You understood the tone correctly!

(The sixth chest always exists; the drop-rate only hits 100% if you are under 17min but it's possible to get those items w/o that speed-run. Someone in my group ended up getting 4 salts cuz she got one while we were figuring out how best to do CC with our group and I hate her)

[Sephiroth]

To be fair I was being snide about semantics. I just never followed through being a dick. You understood the tone correctly!

(The sixth chest always exists; the drop-rate only hits 100% if you are under 17min but it's possible to get those items w/o that speed-run. Someone in my group ended up getting 4 salts cuz she got one while we were figuring out how best to do CC with our group and I hate her)

So I was right that 17 minutes is the only criteria for that 6th chest to be 100% drop and you don't need to get the other 5 to pop? I mean if you skip chests on the way there surely you'd save time and make it easier to get under 17 minutes. Thus my comment about people choosing between darklight gear and salts. If it's anything like Darkhold then to get 5 chest speed run you had to collect all the chests along the way.

[solracht]

No, you're not right.

The 6th chest always appears at the end if someone is on the quest. The salts/mythrils just have a retardedly low droprate.

If you get all 5 chests at the end and you do so in under 17min, then the salts/mythrils become a 100% droprate from the 6th chest.

EDIT: I failed hard at reading too, Rocl's post was missing information

[Sephiroth]

Fair enough. All this is pointless discussion anyway as it will change in ARR.

[Rocl]

oh, whoops, i took for granted getting a 5 chest run wasn't difficult i guess

[Elcura]

oh, whoops, i took for granted getting a 5 chest run wasn't difficult i guess

It isn't really, what's difficult (and always has been for the most part) is finding 7 other people who aren't retarded. Otherwise 17min runs feel very clinical when you know what to do, but then again that applies to most things.

[Charismatic]

That's all fights in all MMOs... forever.

[Oreth]

Any word on how the Alpha updates went this week? Is it another week of JP only then NA/EU?

[Fievel]

Any word on how the Alpha updates went this week? Is it another week of JP only then NA/EU?

They had this last week off as a break.

[Oreth]

They had this last week off as a break.

Oh i thought this week was to fix some of the issues raised from the original testing like number of players on screen, ghosting etc... then retest it then if they go well NA/EU should see Alpha around the 26th which is end of next week.

[Stanislaw]

Oh i thought this week was to fix some of the issues raised from the original testing like number of players on screen, ghosting etc... then retest it then if they go well NA/EU should see Alpha around the 26th which is end of next week.

This. Except the Alpha tests themselves went on break as the devs were focusing on fixing issues before testing resumes. That and something to do with how well the game handles when servers go 'offline' for an extended period of time, too.

[Fievel]

I apologize, I misread your post and thought it said alpha tests, not updates. My bad!

[Lucavi]

That's all fights in all MMOs... forever.

Its different in FF online titles, because FFs have better communities than other MMOs.

That's their story and I'm sticking to it.