Dev Tracker: Discussion

[Sechs]

I have mixed feelings on this.
The ABJ system was far too reliant on HQ rates benefitting only a small percentage of the player base (same old story: rich players get richer, a big fat fuck you for everybody else). Doesn't seem they're adjusting any of the original mats and that's one big problem that they're not bothering to fix.
The new system is completely random, but greatly accessible for all sort of players. Pros and Cons I guess.

Given how powerful new gear can be, I think a small adjustment to the stats of old abj gear is only due, but at the same time that creates another secondary issue: it increases the gap between Reisen gear, adjusted ABJ gear, and everything else.
I'm not sure it's gonna be healthy for the game. Having a wide array of interesting pieces from older content (reforged Empy, reforged AF, reforged Relic, Alluvion skirmish gear, etc) ensures those content still have a minimum level of appeal for players.
Increasing the gap means that more likely than not everybody will only care about abjs and reisen gear and fuck everything else.


The "error" here is that Reisen gear/augs are too strong. Fixing it by buffing only the abj gear is gonna solve one issue but create more...

[The Assman]

Are the RME upgrades not coming in this patch?

I guess they want Aeonics to shine for a bit before rereforged RMEs steal the spotlight.

[dasva]

Oh joy. Glad this announcement came out at the end of the log in campaign right after I burn all my points on not cursed gear because it doesn't seem worthwhile anymore

[Sechs]

Will we have to wait the march/april big patch for RME updates now?

[PSOfanatic]

I don't really think it's that big of deal that they are boosting abjurations to still be at the top. If people are rich and are able to do it...let them. If anything, a lot of that gil will now be more spread about on the market which will maybe lower the prices of things. If new abjuration gear started getting outclassed, then no one would do that content anymore. It really hasn't even been out that long to begin with. It's probably going to not be a HUGE boost. I wouldn't worry about it.

[Ihina]

I, for one, am ok with not everyone walking around with the best gear in the game.

[Mojo]

Oh joy. Glad this announcement came out at the end of the log in campaign right after I burn all my points on not cursed gear because it doesn't seem worthwhile anymore

Even if they didn't buff it, HQ amalric legs and hands are still BiS I believe (not sure if you play/care about BLM.)

[dasva]

Even if they didn't buff it, HQ amalric legs and hands are still BiS I believe (not sure if you play/care about BLM.)

I know hands were but when I meant worthwhile I meant that and not BiS. Using up all my log in points and then still spending several million per synth on other materials for marginal upgrades aren't really high on my list right now when I still got a lot of other gear to get lol

[Hoshiku]

I, for one, am looking forward to the jump emote! But I do wonder what they mean when they say they are specifically making adjustments to battle in reisenjima, on top of the global battlefield reduction.

[S N K]

Interestingly enough I have recently seen shouts asking for jobs with job master... the funny ones are the ones asking for events that were made and beaten solo before jps or trusts existed lol.

lol wut?

[Trumpy]

SE adds a jump emote... still cant climb 1 inch ledge.

[Neoex]

I wonder if the abjuration stuff will be able to goto rank 20 instead of 15 or something like that

[dasva]

lol wut?

I saw shouts asking for sch job master a couple weeks ago for early soa missions and even some pre soa stuff <.<

[Trumpy]

I saw shouts asking for sch job master a couple weeks ago for early soa missions and even some pre soa stuff <.<

I hope they were usin autotranslate (Master) as in experienced. but I guess they usually use (Veteran) for that eh?

[Lyramion]

Freshly picked 23 is currently live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dB15_qTN-Y&pxtry=1


- Apparently they dropped some hint for Teles pop.
- Taru riding a Raptor
- "free" Dark matter augments x6 a day planned

[Sechs]

I expected we would have to wait "a bit longer" for RME upgrades and they just confirmed.
Hope it will be sometimes in january and not until the next "big patch" in april though. That would be very disappointing as far as I'm concerned.

[Kincard]

They said you need 4 items of some kind to get the Grisly Trinket for Teles.
It seems they're thinking of adding variations on what we can ride (Raptor being the example), but they're still working out some kinks.
All that concept art for the ideas they couldn't realize for Adoulin make me sad, it looked really cool. I hope they'll post that concept art when they do the writeup or whatever.

[Damane]

in before 3 new reisen helm items & Pandemonium Key to pop teles

[Sechs]

Given how there still is no use (unless I missed something?) for Void items, I was thinking that maybe a combination of those (100? 10 if you have Afterglow?) could be required for updating RMEE

[Draylo]

I thought the emergency maint notes were funny:

FINAL FANTASY XI Updated (Dec. 10)

A version update was performed on FINAL FANTASY XI at the following time.

[Date & Time]
Dec. 10, 2015 4:20 (PST)
Dec. 10, 2015 12:20 (GMT)

[Affected Service]
FINAL FANTASY XI

[Update Details]
The following issue has been addressed:
-An issue wherein receiving special attacks listed below from certain monsters may cause the server to shut down.

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