Ideas/Changes you would love <3

[Wilimac]

How about NA LS's stop helping gil farmers with Kirin. That would be cool

2nd

[Alina]

Abjuration drops in KS99 would make camping kings pointless. LSes would just go on KS Farming runs and just spam the BCs. No competition for claim and you can do it whenever you want? Sounds WoWish ;x.

The drops aren't rare/special anymore, the fights aren't (that) challenging. When the difficulty in obtaining an item is based on claiming the mob, and not killing it, there's something wrong.

Furthermore: 99KS don't just fall out of the sky. We wouldn't expect the drops to be 100%, either. However, I think it's silly to say that mobs of equal or greater difficulty to their regularly popping counterpart shouldn't drop items of the same caliber.

[Ankiseth]

When KS99s first came out, they were really rough for a lot of people. When Kirin first came out, he was a big deal for most LSes. When the wyrms first showed up, they were impossible dreams for HNM teams.

When the stuff first comes out it is as hard as you say, but people learn strategies and adapt and eventually they become really easy. So even if you do add something really hard like you want, it is only a matter of time before you're posting this same exact thread over again.

[Squirrels]

To start he will launch at you and use touchdown and begin engaging you as she would.

sounds like a UFO to me.


Angelsin/Wilimac which LS are you talking about?

[Francisco]

More stuff that allows smaller groups (2-6 players)... Fun stuff like the new "Apocalypse Nigh" quest.

Quests with rewards besides gil and XP scrolls. Maybe Questable Nomad Moogles in Selbina and Mhaura. Questable mog house expansion (multiple safes, multiple rooms). More control over Moghancements. Can't stress that last one enough. I like to keep actual "furniture" in my mog house, and display the fun stuff like nation flags and mannequins. But I'm stuck with a crapload of tarutaru stools all over the floor so I can level clothcraft 88-98 (lol 100) without blowing my gil wad.

MNK JSE? I would KILL for a piece that had "increases 'Guard' activation rate" on it... Skilling up Guard is damn torture. Maybe a new job ability "Guardingstance" where you lose all ability to kick, counter, and you only swing with one fist for half damage... but your "Guarding" rate goes up to a similar rate as Counterstance. My guard skill goes up 0.2 points and I almost feel it's worthy of starting five new threads on Killing Ifrit to celebrate. It's that bad.

Three zones similar to Limbus; basically taking place in an alternate reality version of Oztroja, Davoi/Ghelsba and Beadeaux/Palborough. It'd be possible to obtain rare/ex versions (maybe even HQ type versions) of CGF monopolized NMs like Mee Deggi. Other drops also, obviously. Completing the zones would grant a rare/ex item to an instanced fight against Fafnir (Yagudos), Behemoth (Orcs) or Adamantoise (Quadavs)... each instance would have a 10-20% chance of dropping King instance items.

Toss in two new Limbus zones... One Temenos (only sorta outside) and one Apollyon. Hard as hell, but chances to pop stuff like Serket, Cassie, Simurgh and Arthro.

But that's mostly the ramblings of a bitter old player tired of camping against the damn Chinese gilsellers and dumb-as-fuck NA Vokebots.

[Dein]

You know what I meant in my post, I don't know of anyone that doesn't want to fight something challenging here and there but to have something come out of nowhere in zones that can already be dangerous would piss more people off. If you think I don't have any experience with some of these mobs then you're mistaken.

Just imagine for a moment Ulegurand (sp?heh) Range where Jorm could come flying over you in the sky and aggro you while you're trying to get past some of the IT demons and Tauruses on the way to exp. Is your idea of a challenge the chance to be aggroed by a giant dragon in the middle of mobs that can quickly tear you apart? I'm saying this although Jorm already sits in a large clearing with some bombs and the common ice ele pops around him but most groups are prepared to deal with that. I could understand if you were suggesting Jorm and Tiamat be flying around in the areas they already stay in and coming down when they aggro like the yovras in al'taieu but there is no "challenge" if a mob that's meant for at least a full alliance can aggro anyone, anywhere in the zone.

Oh and about my last comment, I dunno about you but camping 3 different monsters against about 600+ people with a 75 job isn't what I'd call fun. King camping would probably still happen even if abjurations ever got added to KS99s, I'd just like to see the possibility of them dropping off their respective counterparts to ease up the sheer amount of people that can be at any given king. I'm not going to lose any sleep either way, I'd much rather get a Valor surcoat than a Koenig body. XD

[Genosync]

As much as we love FFXI there are a lot of things that could be different that could make things more intense and exciting and after talking to my friend about them I figured I get some other insights on what the rest of the community thinks.

A main topic of conversation I have with a lot of people is the difficulty of HNMs. Now sure, they could be hard, but with the optimal setup all major HNMs in this game are a joke and beaten without very little to be worried about (Counter me here with Sea Gods, but from what I've seen their not a big deal). I would love to see a spike in the difficulty of these mobs and here are some examples --

Lets take Wyrms for example. Huge dragons with huge wings yet they only use them for hovering. When i first saw Jormungand just standing around, her wings spread out all the way, you think its going to turn around, see you, take flight towards you and give the word "Touchdown" some real meaning. Yet all Tiamat and Jorm do it hover in the air in lame position and spit fireballs. I would absolutely love to see Jorm and Tiamat take control of the huge areas and airspace within. Fly around and rain fire(or ice) upon us, make us have to chase you and get you out of the sky.

Well I have various other ideas, but I'd rather get raped for one then a slew of others lol. Tell me what you think!

Replace alla with KI. Seriously, we've had this same exact topic at least 30 times before, it's seriously old.

We know some things need to be done, updated, etc; BUT THE BOTTOM LINE AT THE END OF THE DAY IS THEY DON'T CARE, they're still getting your $13.95.

Take this crap to KI, please.

[Heian]

As much as we love FFXI there are a lot of things that could be different that could make things more intense and exciting and after talking to my friend about them I figured I get some other insights on what the rest of the community thinks.

A main topic of conversation I have with a lot of people is the difficulty of HNMs. Now sure, they could be hard, but with the optimal setup all major HNMs in this game are a joke and beaten without very little to be worried about (Counter me here with Sea Gods, but from what I've seen their not a big deal). I would love to see a spike in the difficulty of these mobs and here are some examples --

Lets take Wyrms for example. Huge dragons with huge wings yet they only use them for hovering. When i first saw Jormungand just standing around, her wings spread out all the way, you think its going to turn around, see you, take flight towards you and give the word "Touchdown" some real meaning. Yet all Tiamat and Jorm do it hover in the air in lame position and spit fireballs. I would absolutely love to see Jorm and Tiamat take control of the huge areas and airspace within. Fly around and rain fire(or ice) upon us, make us have to chase you and get you out of the sky.

Well I have various other ideas, but I'd rather get raped for one then a slew of others lol. Tell me what you think!

Replace alla with KI. Seriously, we've had this same exact topic at least 30 times before, it's seriously old.

We know some things need to be done, updated, etc; BUT THE BOTTOM LINE AT THE END OF THE DAY IS THEY DON'T CARE, they're still getting your $13.95.

Take this crap to KI, please.

Genosync you are getting good at this card game.

[Genosync]

saves me from having to type a couple lines of text

god bless kuno and his godly cards

[Hirronimus]

Seriously, we've had this same exact topic at least 30 times before, it's seriously old.

Seriously.

[Genosync]

SRSLY

[Wilimac]

Angelsin/Wilimac which LS are you talking about?

Aolas old ls, And latly I have had the supisson that rocdynasty has been. When ever the gilsellers are up there they are up there, exact same spot.

[Lordender]

Changes i would love to see would be

1. Stop adding all this new gear and not adding JA or job traits to actually better the jobs that need it, most of the new gear doesn't change anything when everyone and their grandma does a burn party @ 75

Example: theres always more mnks, war's, blms, nin's on by almost double than any other job.

2. Make the 3 kings less demand, add better and harder non-jew stew hnm's

3. fire the cop team, they are morons, sea is jew stew along with jailers that rarely drop anything.

[Ohemgee]

Cross server ballista

[BRP]

Have Devs and Test players play this game for three months as four - five HNM LSes. Farming Sky and Camping HNMs. Doing Dynamis, mainly CoP ones, as well. Maybe make two of the teams play in USA to add realism. The team with the second lowest amounts of drops, watch their family die and are murdered a few moments later. The team with the lowest amount of drops have to continue playing the game. That'll change a few things.

SE needs to create more situations that cater to the story lovers(NPC, CoP) and the drop lovers(Sky, Limbus) at the same time, but stop releasing stuff that neither like(Sea).

[Izzy]

I'd like to see some new Fellowship quests, and the possibility to expand their armory a little more. It'd also be nice if we could have more conversation options when talking to them. Perhaps a new fishing ability for your NPC so they can fish alongside you, I think that'd be pretty darn nice. They could also take part in the fishing contests against other NPCs and we can see who has the best NPC. That'd distract us from all this HNM nonsense.

[Ankiseth]

I'd really like to be able to use them in sky/sea, though they have made it impossible atm I guess because of the Gods and whatnot. It would be soooooo nice to be able to exp them on Flamingoes or Hpemde though.

[Sekkite]

I'd like to see some new Fellowship quests, and the possibility to expand their armory a little more. It'd also be nice if we could have more conversation options when talking to them. Perhaps a new fishing ability for your NPC so they can fish alongside you, I think that'd be pretty darn nice. They could also take part in the fishing contests against other NPCs and we can see who has the best NPC. That'd distract us from all this HNM nonsense.

I can see SE doing that. Instead of addressing real problems in the game, they'll make more adjustments to the fishing system. Lets not forget, in the next patch they will write in the patch notes that the placement of rooks has been adjusted an inch to the right for every rook.

[royze]

merit-able boost merit-able chiblast

GG

[Janice]

$1 a month for bigger safe and inventory on your main character. Take our money, but let us have the extra space on our main.

Mage weaponskills that actually have a use in battle. More things like starlight/moonlight. And let mages get tp by casting spells instead of attacking. WS like +mp healing, INT or MND boosts, weak refresh, etc....