expansion wishlist

[epigram]

4 axes (2x rune, 2x melee)
1 Exp Band
1 Apollo's Staff
1 Warp Cudgel
1 Stack Silent Oils
1 RR gorget
1 Gaudy Harness
2 Pet Food
1 Crab Jug
13 Charm gear (not including Staff)
13 Melee gear (acc based)
4 Melee gear (att based)
2 HP rest gear
3 survival gear (earrings, earth staff, for miss charm crap with no zone)
4 WS gear1
2 lower enmity gear
1 food
2 Utsu
1 Tonko
1 BC
1 KS

59/60 for bst
56/60 if I ditch survival gear and farm.

[Matricide]

whether its been mentioned or not

how bout quiverable ammo for ALL arrows and bolts. why do all ninja tools get bundled but only 5 eventually oudated bits of ammo for ranger can get quivered?

i just dont understand this, and im tired of having no inventory space or auto sorting after every 2 battles when i go XP.

i also cant count how many times ive ran out of ammo during decent/long parties.

[edgarfigaro]

whether its been mentioned or not

how bout quiverable ammo for ALL arrows and bolts. why do all ninja tools get bundled but only 5 eventually oudated bits of ammo for ranger can get quivered?

i just dont understand this, and im tired of having no inventory space or auto sorting after every 2 battles when i go XP.

i also cant count how many times ive ran out of ammo during decent/long parties.

rngs still get parties?

[NynJa]

a rdm banish2 plays no justice to lemures compared to a whm banish3

[DrObvious]

They pretty much did exactly that when they released Blessed gear for whm. Out of whm, blm, smn, and rdm jse, rdm jse is by far the worst.

Blessed doesn't get used all that much either really. You still want... Noble's when healing, AF2 when regenning, blessed when barring, errant when resting mp, raven jupon for -enmity (flash)... I'm sure there's many more.

Yeah, raven gear pre-empted Blessed in many slots, but we have to remember that there was a good deal of time where Blessed existed and Raven didn't. The point was that a long time ago most whms would be in full erant minus the body when doing white magery(assuming they had nobles). Then Blessed came along and suddendly you only need Errant body for resting. You don't even need Errant body anymore if you have af1+1 body. This is in stark contrast to they guy who said that SE doesn't want to obsolete any gear sets such as Errant when they already have. I'm too lazy to look earlier in the thread, but I think that was the justification as to why rdm jse sucks.

Having 2 or sometimes 3 choices for each slot is fine, but 9+? Give me a break. SE's itemization has always been bad, but it's getting out of control.

I'm not aruging here. There is definitely too much gear that has a very slim use, but that you want to keep around for when the need arises. I'm sure we can all agree that any mage who wears the same equipment for all situations is a noob.

[FFXIFlux]

Then Blessed came along and suddendly you only need Errant body for resting. You don't even need Errant body anymore if you have af1+1 body.

Errant/Mahatma is still highest MND for banish/slow/stoneskin (although a whm should not have a problem hitting cap on stoneskin without it, assuming appropriate gear on other slots.) So not completely obsolete.

[Bryn]

I'm not aruging here. There is definitely too much gear that has a very slim use, but that you want to keep around for when the need arises. I'm sure we can all agree that any mage who wears the same equipment for all situations is a noob.

I wear the same gear for my whm in all circumstances, mostly. All Relic except for a zenith crown, blue cape, tamas, medicine ring, death earrings, ele staves. Only switch out the Heirarch belt for the lightsday/weather obi as situation calls for it. >_>

I do a bit more switching on SMN, between YY and Relic doublet, then pants and boots switching between AF1+1 and Relic, depending on if I'm using a BP or not.

As a result, I carry all my gear for SMN and WHM around, and only have 45/60. ^^;;

[nivlakian]

Was that 2 RDM then?

Yeah, MNK, MNK, MNK, RDM, RDM, BRD. Banish II still works well enough on Lemurs anyway. They're only a little tougher than skellies if you make sure to A) save TP when you know one is next and B) the mob is Banished before you start the SC.

I was just wondering. I haven't had a 2RDM party in KRT before. My last two PTs, I did with LS members with 2MNK 2BRD RDM WHM. That also works.

[DrObvious]

Then Blessed came along and suddendly you only need Errant body for resting. You don't even need Errant body anymore if you have af1+1 body.

Errant/Mahatma is still highest MND for banish/slow/stoneskin (although a whm should not have a problem hitting cap on stoneskin without it, assuming appropriate gear on other slots.) So not completely obsolete.

True enough I guess. But honestly do you really want to carry around errant just for +8(add in 3 more for hat) mnd? It's not really that significant a boost just for banish. I personally wouldn't go that far.

[FFXIFlux]

True enough I guess. But honestly do you really want to carry around errant just for +8(add in 3 more for hat) mnd? It's not really that significant a boost just for banish. I personally wouldn't go that far.

It's an extra 1-2% on slow, 16 or so extra banish damage, and probably means paralyze will actually go off occasionally. I'd probably not keep errant just for that, but I have rdm as well so theres more than enough reason between the two there. That and the AF+1 upgrade is so fucking painful I may never do it so wouldn't have the tunic anyway. I can't believe they made storage as pitifully bad as they did, and screwed you out of using the AF at level 60 without requesting everything, ludicrous.

[Orfeo]

Although this thread got really off track (like all good BG threads), something else I would like to see is added effects on armor for equipping the full set. Like.. if you equip 5/5 cursed gear, the negative effects go away. Full af2 gives you stats your job can actually use (like say for war, +acc/attk/str/dex/vit/hp... drk acc/attk/str/dex/int/mnd/mp, etc).

It just bothers me that easy to get gear is so much better in general then most AF2's and the majority of cursed gear is situational/ws onry.

[Ankiseth]

You know that would actually be really cool if armor sets had set benefits if you were wearing the full thing. Could make some of the seemingly useless sets that have no bonuses be surprisingly good and whatnot. Of course, this could also end up in the following:

Crafter synthesized a Cursed Hauberk -1.
(Warrior) NOOOOOOOO I DON'T GET THE SET BONUS NOW /cry
(Crafter) o.0
Crafter dances.

[Orfeo]

lol

But technically the HQ is the same as NQ as far as set goes, so maybe even with mixed hq/nq you could get bonuses.

[RustyMetal]

I doubt you will ever see set bonuses in FFXI, due to SE not wanting to copy WoW in any way (MPK system gg). Full cursed sets should have bonuses tho..

[thompkinsthebrian]

be like copying diablo II

next thing you know there will be sockets in the armor etc

[Solefald]

unless the full sets had some really uber bonuses, hardly anyone would wear all 5 pieces. maybe koenig and adaman, but that's it. but if SE implemented set bonuses, it would cause some people to bitch because senior members of hnm linkshells would get priority for all the abjurations and the newer members would get squat.

i'd like to see mnk, rng, and level 70+ smn jse in the new expansion, and a whm jse headpiece.

[Posterboy]

My only wish for the expansion is that it not suck.

[angelkitty]

My only wish for the expansion is that it not suck.

[Orfeo]

unless the full sets had some really uber bonuses, hardly anyone would wear all 5 pieces. maybe koenig and adaman, but that's it. but if SE implemented set bonuses, it would cause some people to bitch because senior members of hnm linkshells would get priority for all the abjurations and the newer members would get squat.

i'd like to see mnk, rng, and level 70+ smn jse in the new expansion, and a whm jse headpiece.

Yes, because nobody would want to wear full hecatomb (notice I suggested they take away negatives, so no -slow...hell maybe they could turn the negatives to positives), and ofcourse mages wouldn't want to wear full zenith when they would be doing nothing but cure.

be like copying diablo II

next thing you know there will be sockets in the armor etc

Except the concept of full sets giving bonuses is much, much older then diablo 2. And hell...sockets in armor? Why not, that's from old FF games. I wouldn't mind being able to put some +STR on my maneater, or add acc/str/dex to AF2 body and sell my haub.

That's actually a good idea, customizable armor through sockets. Not stealing another companies idea (gogo FF7, I don't remember if older ones had sockets) while accomplishing a seemingly large goal of theres; not having everybody exact clones.

[Maguspk]

be like copying diablo II

next thing you know there will be sockets in the armor etc

Except the concept of full sets giving bonuses is much, much older then diablo 2. And hell...sockets in armor? Why not, that's from old FF games. I wouldn't mind being able to put some +STR on my maneater, or add acc/str/dex to AF2 body and sell my haub.

That's actually a good idea, customizable armor through sockets. Not stealing another companies idea (gogo FF7, I don't remember if older ones had sockets) while accomplishing a seemingly large goal of theres; not having everybody exact clones.

I am very turned on by this idea lol, sockets would be teh pwn.