Dev Tracker: Discussion

[dasva]

Ah barance I was almost starting to you... almost.

Well more ways to get points will be nice. Especially synthing... actually give me a reason to go back and finish some testing on that even with all this new content if it gets me something

[Spira]

i guess barance is where lv99 M/E items are nearly worthless because nobody can reach that stage anymore without Alex/HMPs, but Plutons can continue to command a price.

[NynJa]

nothings stopping anyone from soloing salv...HMP/rifts is an entirely different issue since you cant solo for those.

They really need to reduce emp 95/99 items at this point

[Sechs]

They won't reduce them. They should do something to address the thing though.
Increasing drop rates, even if just slightly, adding HMP pouches to all end-tier bosses instead than just Zilart and putting RoE VW goals might be good enough to revamp, a little, VW.
Letting people buy HMP/Cinders with Cruor/Sparks would be another good idea.

I wouldn't mind a use for Cruor in general, sitting on millions and millions of cruor and nothing to do with it.
If balanced right, it could give further motivation to do VW (altough technically you can get Cruor in Abyssea too... but yeah)

[dasva]

Yeah a simple 50k spark per cinder/hmp pouch/some amount of alex would probably at least get some on the market without flooding it

[Spira]

i think even having 2 copper AMAN voucher = 1 linen purse or heavy metal pouch would be good enough.

[Kincard]

The barance basically means they want to make it so you can't get everything from one event so it's possible to see it as a reward from something else, otherwise they want you to just do old content (that's how I interpret it at least), which is kind of dumb when you consider the entire direction the game has taken since Adoulin has come out. I'm not really against going back a more horizontal progression system, but just make up your damn minds already.

Some new posts:
-Confirming the error that Reverence Gauntlets +1 are actually just SM+1
-Question if Vishap's Jump TP Bonus is similar in error, but he says each point is an extra 0.1 TP so Vishap Mail and Gauntlets are both correct, with the mail giving +3.5 TP and the Gauntlets giving +3.0 TP

[Martel]

They should have just used a freaking decimal in the first place. It wouldn't have been the first time they used one in gear stats( Mekira Toshugai +1 ). And the Rev hands bit was just freaking mean. Should get the damn +10 just as an apology. Not like it'd break the game.

[dasva]

Yeah 10 shield mastery is kinda something very pld like that would actually help it compete somewhat as a DD when it's tanking. Under normal circumstances it would've just been a nice decent boost... Hell could've even lead to odd strats where the pld pulls stuff and just keeps the adds on him for tp while he fights the main.

[Damane]

Yeah 10 shield mastery is kinda something very pld like that would actually help it compete somewhat as a DD when it's tanking. Under normal circumstances it would've just been a nice decent boost... Hell could've even lead to odd strats where the pld pulls stuff and just keeps the adds on him for tp while he fights the main.

while i agree it would help pld alot, i think SE was scared of a combination of ochain + this + sanguine blade

[Helldemon]

Actually DRG is on one of those staffs, Surma Staff is 166 DMG which isn't so bad. Destroys bones and skellies with 5/5 Shattersoul with all the INT stat vomit we have now.

I've been using Voay, didn't notice that staff, guess I'll get it. Still pretty crap though. Atinian Staff NQ/+1 / Balsam Staff / Astralwatcher / Uffrat +1 / Lehbrailg +1 / Baqil Staff / Venabulum Eminent Staff/Pole. All those staffs beat Surma for damage easy.

[Teryu]

He means for drg.

[Ophannus]

+65 TP on Jump/High Jump every 50sec/100 seconds woudnt have been so bad considering 1) those jumps dont crit and 2) other melee do ridiculous shit too, like relic rangers doing 50k Barrages and 14k coronachs and Tsurumaru SAM having 3 hit builds and basically Shoha as their autoattack for 5-11k every 2 seconds.

[Martel]

+65 TP on Jump/High Jump every 50sec/100 seconds woudnt have been so bad considering 1) those jumps dont crit and 2) other melee do ridiculous shit too, like relic rangers doing 50k Barrages and 14k coronachs and Tsurumaru SAM having 3 hit builds and basically Shoha as their autoattack for 5-11k every 2 seconds.

I actually did a bit of spreadsheet work when we first saw the Jump TP bonus +30/35.

IF those had been the real values, Jump and high jump would have yielded over 100 TP per jump, before multi-hit. And with Ryu, jump and high jump DO auto crit. Under those conditions, Jump and high jump would have become superior dps wise to spirit/soul. lol. Would have been an entertaining paradigm shift.

[NynJa]

+65 TP on Jump/High Jump every 50sec/100 seconds woudnt have been so bad considering 1) those jumps dont crit and 2) other melee do ridiculous shit too, like relic rangers doing 50k Barrages and 14k coronachs and Tsurumaru SAM having 3 hit builds and basically Shoha as their autoattack for 5-11k every 2 seconds.

50k barrage = relic proc and 10/10 hits (7 base, +1 ASA, +2 orion hn)

dont throw that number around like its the norm.

[dasva]

And those 14k coros are clearly on something weak to peircing, ranged, or physical.

[Darkmagi]

5-11k shoha?lol

[Ophannus]

5-11k shoha?lol

http://cdn.ffxipro.com/images/ss/mid...Rrg2mBgEmM.jpg
http://cdn.ffxipro.com/images/ss/mid...9841K6eT6T.jpg

And with Ryu, jump and high jump DO auto crit.

Ah didn't know it was 100% crit with Ryu, just thought it was a high amount of +crit%

[NynJa]

If those were averages, he wouldnt screencap them and post them around going "look at the dmg I did", because they would be AVERAGE, and no one posts AVERAGE damage.

[Darkmagi]

Seriously, what is so hard to understand about that? Getting a quad attack proc 3% of the time for epeen ws pic clearly means the ws is overpowered.