Void Ark Preview: 10/15/15

[Niiro]

It will always be like that, stop beeing surprised. They said that CT type dungeons are used for Bridging with real raid

Except the original CT was supposed to have been released at launch and was delayed because they couldn't finish it in time.

If it was released when it was supposed to have been it would have dropped useful gear.

Why have they repeated the same "too late" pattern with CT raids ever since?

"Well we set the bar low at the start, might as well keep shittin it up, don't wanna "confuse" the players!"

[Elcura]

Imagine a world with a somewhat challenging CT?

Considering how people handle the current iteration I think harder is definitely asking for your cake and eating it.

[gaira]

i love 24 man stuff, even if it is easy. casting set looks ok, too.

[Destinye]

Except the original CT was supposed to have been released at launch and was delayed because they couldn't finish it in time.

If it was released when it was supposed to have been it would have dropped useful gear.

Why have they repeated the same "too late" pattern with CT raids ever since?

"Well we set the bar low at the start, might as well keep shittin it up, don't wanna "confuse" the players!"

Yeah, it's laziness more than anything from a design standpoint. The pattern would have been corrected by Syrcus Tower and given the DELAY on 3.1, they could have actually made it a usable raid. CT was to bridge raid and help you give your alt jobs gear..or glamour or w.e. Esoterics came out ..4 weeks? or so after HW launch..3.1 is in November. Alexander Normal was 2 weeks after HW..and like...Sky exploration is supposed to give up to ilvl210 gear..

Void Ark is literally obsolete before it even comes out in all senses..not even just gear wise unless it drops ilvl220 gear or they actually implement "confuse the new player" stats to gear to make it worthwhile. More content is nice..,but it's kind of like throwing in the tutorial on how to play after you complete the game.

[TheDirtyHobo]

casting set getting the sable death mask made me laugh a little
(i think it's striking, aiming, healing, scouting, casting, maiming, fending in that order anyways)

u wot?

Aiming, Casting, Healing, Scouting, Striking, Maiming, Fending is my bet. Maybe Aiming<->Scouting. The second set is incredibly obviously casting unless I'm missing something.

[Niiro]

Who the hell cares really.

7 armor sets, 2 colors, boring as fuck.

The only thing that's gonna keep people running this is the required weekly clear for your upgrade mat.

Good gear hasn't looked cool since 2nd coil.

[TheDirtyHobo]

I don't mind it being a thematic set since this cluster got AF3, which is more unique to job identities.

[Almalexia]

There's a high res version of the arc gear. Because we def need more purple: http://gamerescape.com/wp-content/up...pach3.1_15.png

giant, asymmetrical Aiming shoulderpad

Okay.

giant, asymmetrical Striking shoulderpad

No.

[Fhloston]

Diabolos door mechanics with 24 ppl on DF... God help us all. Gear looks terrible. Hopefully the music is still good at least. Always liked their 24 man tunes.

[Taint]

All they have to do is i205 the gear and 90% of the player base will shit their pants with excitement. But we all know it'll be i200 during a time when secondaries matter very little and even better gear won't help you with the A3S wall. I really do hope they do something to spice up the game, 3.1 is critical for a lot of people.

[Destinye]

All they have to do is i205 the gear and 90% of the player base will shit their pants with excitement. But we all know it'll be i200 during a time when secondaries matter very little and even better gear won't help you with the A3S wall. I really do hope they do something to spice up the game, 3.1 is critical for a lot of people.

Sky exploration will drop up to i210 gear for smacking trash mobs and it comes glamoured with any armor in the game AND randomized secondary stat. That's yoshi's idea of spicing things up If it dropped i205 that'd be interesting, considering the relic quest will be under ilvl too..but since most people can't do A4S anyway, guess that's the least of anyone's concern.

[Taint]

Sky exploration will drop up to i210 gear for smacking trash mobs and it comes glamoured with any armor in the game AND randomized secondary stat. That's yoshi's idea of spicing things up If it dropped i205 that'd be interesting, considering the relic quest will be under ilvl too..but since most people can't do A4S anyway, guess that's the least of anyone's concern.

If they spoon fed us i210 gear 99% of the player base couldn't get past A3 let alone A4 for their weapons. Incoming weekly lockout i210 random piece that will be hands,belt,feet only until 3.15. If they give us i210 body,legs,head then whats the point of alexander? I really feel like they are pinning themselves in a corner in terms of gear progression.

Relic will probably be 3.15 and at that point better be i210.

[Prothescar]

OH GOOD ANOTHER FENDING SET THAT INCORPORATES A BATTLE DRESS I'M SO EXCITED I COULD SHIT

[haroldsaxon]

It would be nice to have i200 gear that is upgradable by raid items. And a jewellery set would be nice.

But that would make too much sense and effort.

[TheDirtyHobo]

If they spoon fed us i210 gear 99% of the player base couldn't get past A3 let alone A4 for their weapons. Incoming weekly lockout i210 random piece that will be hands,belt,feet only until 3.15. If they give us i210 body,legs,head then whats the point of alexander? I really feel like they are pinning themselves in a corner in terms of gear progression.

Relic will probably be 3.15 and at that point better be i210.

Haven't they been down-shifting items during the odd patches? A1 with Gobcoat, A2 Coat+Twine, A3 Twine+Dip, A4 all of them. They always seem to open up accessibility to the max level items during these patches so that slower groups can have time at max ilvl to do the endgame content.

[solracht]

If they're repeating the ARR pattern, they'll do that when the next 8man raid is released, odd patches just add coats/twines to Hunts

EDIT: I'm wrong, they're down-shifted near the end of the odd patches:
2.38 - http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...6869b10e012e57

[BaneTheBrawler]

Void Ark will probably drop Gobdips/etc.

They've set everything up to be a clone of the Crystal Tower dev cycle. Void Ark is Syrcus Tower (skipping LotA). ix00 gear + upgrade items for equivalent ilvl currency armor. In CT that was i100 and Soldiery upgrade items. Eso is the new soldiery. By the time 4.0 rolls around, we'll have a new currency, Eso will be unrestricted and gained from everything that drops Law/poetics right now, Law/poetics will be phased out, and the final coil of alexander will drop i230 gear and upgrades for i220 currency gear to become i230.

Y'all might think I exaggerate, but just you watch. It'll be exactly the same cycle.


Edit: Right down to the hunt drops, as Solracht mentioned.

Also, 4.0's first currency gear will be i270, upgradeable to dye-able i280.

Actually, they might not be skipping LotA. If they plan on having 3 non-alex raids (i dont recall) then the Void Ark stuff will be i180 and it won't drop any Dips etc. Because lawl.

[Neon_Sea]

Terrible gear, fucking rehash ugly black ROBES whyyyy.

[TheDirtyHobo]

Dug through patch notes, the downshift was 2.38 for second coil, and apparently didn't happen for Final. I could've sworn it was earlier.

[solracht]

It would be nice to have i200 gear that is upgradable by raid items.

They should really do this, plus undersized mode.