Dev Tracker: Discussion (Old)

[Squah]

Yes, keep up with new content while completely trivializing all of the old. Not sure I agree with that.

[Fwahm]

You might not agree with it, but it's SE's new vision for FFXI, so it's presumably here to stay.

[Damane]

well thats a fast emergency maintance without announcement, there must be some bug giving players 500 million of gil!!!!

[Shadowstalker]

Yeah, what the hell happened? lol

[urat]

If SE does not release content that still requires Acc buffs with the new weapons, then the real answer is that you just won't need 8 songs anymore and having Daurd will be much less of a bonus. One more RME invalidated.

march/minuet?

[Chamaan]

Huh missed that dev post about more +skill getting added to current gear. Including Skirmish weapons? Clearly I need to get a Crobaci for incredible lunges.

[fantasticdan]

My personal thought is they are going away from DW to make it easier on the DEVs to balance out damage between jobs.

They are taking a flat DPS approach to new weapons, taking out (or limiting their effectiveness) more complex elements like DW makes it easy for them to add new content and items.

They'd really need to buff fencer/1h ws in general/something for this to be a thing. 1h weaponskills (besides maybe ruinator?) are significantly worse than 2h even with the extra DW hit already.

[Ligray]

More fail on the patch notes:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...099#post456099

We're very sorry, but it has come to our attention that the following information was left out of the English July version update notes regarding the announcement I made above.

Items can be now be obtained by the thief ability "Despoil" from the below monsters types:

Panopt / Velkk / Twitherym / Chapuli / Craklaw / Matamata / Umbril / Acuex

We will be checking on the reason for why this was left out of the update notes and take proper precautions to prevent this from happening in the future.

[NynJa]

well atleast they fixed that issue...it was a pretty major issue. I wonder if that means you can despoil umbril ooze off umbrils...150k/5 min?!?

[fantasticdan]

Yeah, until the market is flooded with umbril oozes a couple hours later.

[Spira]

they're in pretty high demand tho aren't they? its actually pretty easy to kill them umbrils to begin with.

[fantasticdan]

The drop rate isn't very good thou, and they're annoying to fight as a solo melee. If they were despoilable 100% of the time, there would be tons of people out there doing it, until the price crashed.

[Seha]

They're easy on run!

[Taim Meich]

You think they're easy on RUN... Until you fight them as any nuking mage. Then you don't fight Umbrils on any other job.

[pancakesandsex]

Hide should work on Umbrils shouldn't it?

[dasva]

Hide should work on Umbrils shouldn't it?

Aren't they sound too? Also I seem to recall awhile back them making it so you actually have to make them despawn to get the item back on them. Not sure if you could just run them really far or had to kill them

[Eldelphia]

Hide should work on Umbrils shouldn't it?

Unless they changed it recently I've used it and had it work.

[Taim Meich]

Umbrils are sight/magic.

[Helldemon]

Aren't they sound too? Also I seem to recall awhile back them making it so you actually have to make them despawn to get the item back on them. Not sure if you could just run them really far or had to kill them

Thought the change they made was that monsters wouldn't get new items if they despawned due to thf's constantly hiding and restealing once they repopped?

[dasva]

Thought the change they made was that monsters wouldn't get new items if they despawned due to thf's constantly hiding and restealing once they repopped?

Yeah that's what I meant. Just wasn't sure if they had made it so you just had to despawn or had to kill or whatever it's been so long