INTERVIEW !!!!!!!!!! MAKE IT STICKY OR BURN :P

[Isildur]

M body is not overrated lol, relic body and M body are also completely different, M body is defensive gear whereas relic body is hate control gear. To be honest, i wouldnt use relic body for anything other than PLD/NIN on wyrms, JoL fight, or kiting really slow ass things. M body surpasses relic body in almost every way, enmity gear isnt hard to come by...especially when you have +4 in merits and there's a plethora of +Enmity gear to use now, i usually tank in 20-24 and hold hate just fine...i cant imagine tanking Fafnir in relic body over mbody and getting hit for 20-30 more damage.

[Krandor]

Gratz on having no idea how VIT works at endgame

(Here's a hint : I doesn't do shit)

[phirien]

M body is not overrated lol, relic body and M body are also completely different, M body is defensive gear whereas relic body is hate control gear. To be honest, i wouldnt use relic body for anything other than PLD/NIN on wyrms, JoL fight, or kiting really slow ass things. M body surpasses relic body in almost every way, enmity gear isnt hard to come by...especially when you have +4 in merits and there's a plethora of +Enmity gear to use now, i usually tank in 20-24 and hold hate just fine...i cant imagine tanking Fafnir in relic body over mbody and getting hit for 20-30 more damage.

I have Koenig Body and 4 Kaiser Pieces and i'll be the first person to tell you VIT is overrated. I really only wear it for the HP bonus, and because I can afford to stack up on enmity in other slots (2x hades+1 etc..)

[Don Katsu]

I know that there is usually a better piece for that slot in each situation but everyone wants the best gear for every situation and that is just not going to happen no matter how hard they work with the current system.

Not saying that a new system will make this better but it would at least it will clear people out of dragon's aery, VoS, BD and bring in new people. I enjoy doing something while I'm logged into the game, not sitting at a camp afk for 3 hours in a lagged zone but there somethings you just do to help others.

[Pacha]

Wanted to reiterate the nice job on the interview, cheers from Lakshmi. Definately cool that you put the time into doing that.

One thing that was mentioned in some of the previous posts was the question of "Why do all the new HNM's, such as Hydra, new beastman gods (and even cerberus and the world wyrms to a lesser extent) drop such crappy items which pale in comparison to other items" in other words, why has there been no progression in the gear in the game in the last 2-3 years? It seems that this question was condensed into a more general question in the interview which is cool and it actually produced probably the best response out of the questions in my oppinion. However, it would be cool if a question with similar wording could be sent to them via e-mail. I just want to get them thinking about this and stress that it's probably the biggest thing on the mind of most of the end-game players who have been in the game for a long time and gotten mostly what they want from kings after multiple years of camping. The lack of progression has really taken away from my personal playing of the game.

There have been a ton of really good ideas in these threads and it's great that there's someone that's getting them to the developers (whether they actually take them seriously or not is always up in the air). I actually even agree with the instanced type of king fight and that chart was very well done to illustrate that idea. Even from my perspective as someone who has koenig pieces from all of the kings, it would be cool to be able to fight them in instanced arenas like suggested. The key, as stated previously, is to keep the fights incredibly difficult and keep the timers relatively long so that not everyone has the stuff.

One thing that would be awesome to see is a whole new cycle of king HNM's that is setup in an instanced way which is similar to what was suggested in the chart. These HNM's would drop gear that you will have to have to withstand attacks of the HNM's in the next tier. At the end, you will recieve gear that mirrors the uber gear from the Zilart kings but has different stats (M. body type armor for instance with -dmg reduction like the fake adaman body that was rumored a while back or even a d. ring type ring that gave dmg reduction at a lesser percentage but higher than jelly ring). I still hold onto hope that they will put something like this into the game with the completion of TOA. Until then, I would rather do not camp fafnir for the 100th time.

PS M. body made a drastic and extreme change in my ability to stay alive in fights that I would die in before. Other ways of tanking are great and work almost as well with other setups but with our LS's ways of killilng things the hate of Pld/war with a koenig setup was really effective. I don't think it's overrated.

[Machazareel]

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3 KINGS ARE AWESOME!

[Sasarai]

Is it just me or is CFH on Fafhogg like a daily thing now

[Krandor]

rofl @ You find a bike on the Nidhogg

[Machazareel]

It never ceases to entertain me, regardless :>

As much as I detest botting and such, I'll have to be honest and say that DA mpk fests are by far one of the most entertaining things I see in this game.

[Jawas]

People I guess are just closed minded. Not everyone tanks HNMs the same way. The only time, I ever use my AF2 body or any AF2 piece, is if I am tanking in Dynamis, or kiting. Everything else, PLD/WAR or WAR/WHM I use full Koenig. On Bismarck you rarely ever see any PLDs using /NIN, if we need a blinker we use Ninjas cause they tend to better blinkers, than a PLD/NIN. But again, other LS's use different set up and w/e works for you is cool, I think the beauty of this game is that we have options.

[Amara]

N.legs certainly aren't only good for thf, I don't understand why people think this. Other than drks, there isn't really a better weaponskill piece for any of the jobs that can use it.

[Fhqwghads]

This interview was great. Great at reassuring me of the move I'll be making to Vanguard when it comes out since it's obvious SE will continue to do the same stupid shit they've been doing with this game for years.

[aurik]

Why wait? Quit now, save some money, put your life back in order before diving deep into another mmo.

[Krandor]

Why wait? Quit now, save some money, put your life back in order before diving deep into another mmo.

Chocobo Digging

[Serif]

Koenig is basically not even needed anymore.

Since PLD/NIN is the future for all PLDs, IMO.

Koenig Body is easily replace by AF2 or if you are lucky or stupid enough to do Dyn Tav....Hydra Haubert.

Koenig Head - Assjammer or Baha Mask.

Koenig Hands - AF2 or Homan Hands.

Koenig Legs - Crimson, Homan, or AF2 Legs.

Koenig Feet - Homan or AF2 Feet.

PLDs stop bitching and do some Limbus.

[Fhqwghads]

Saving $15 a month doesn't amount to much and my life is in order now. If I wasn't playing games I'd probably be spending a few hundred bucks a week hitting the clubs, so I'm actually saving money this way, hehe. What can I say, I enjoy playing games. It's just sad that FFXI could be such a fantastic game if SE would only let it.

[Serif]

Saving $15 a month doesn't amount to much and my life is in order now. If I wasn't playing games I'd probably be spending a few hundred bucks a week hitting the clubs, so I'm actually saving money this way, hehe. What can I say, I enjoy playing games. It's just sad that FFXI could be such a fantastic game if SE would only let it.

I was going for a while, spending 50-70 bucks a night on alchohol. Then I got back into FFXI.

FFXI. My anti drug.

[Insanecyclone]

I wonder if they'll take the idea of BCNM orbs for HNMs or just 'look into it'

[aurik]

Saving $15 a month doesn't amount to much and my life is in order now. If I wasn't playing games I'd probably be spending a few hundred bucks a week hitting the clubs, so I'm actually saving money this way, hehe. What can I say, I enjoy playing games. It's just sad that FFXI could be such a fantastic game if SE would only let it.

You're upset with the current state of the game. You have no hope for the future of the game. Yet you continue to play it.

It's Flux v2.0!

[BRP]

So, aside from the poor translation of Sundi's replys and the editorializing of said replys, where was the actual interview here?

All this "interview" is proof of is how some people think posting on the internet makes them a journalist.

A lot of these questions were rather superfluous and short-sighted to boot. Its a online game, people are going to overcamp zones because they're just lazy jerks all crazed for the zomgEXPbonus. People are greedy, no surprise there and no update or patch can fix that.

Al Zahbi overcrowed and laggy. People are lazy, Al'Zahbi is the new cool place to go AFK for 20 hours. How is SE supposed to patch lazy, dumb players?

Outpost warps, teleport spells, rented chocobos, chocobo breeding, teleport rings, warp tarus, warp cudgels, airships, boats, warp scrolls, warp spells and Staging point warps... and people are still having a hard time getting where they need to go? Really, WTF? Are these people complaining in endgame, level 20 or just plain retarded? Getting around has only gotten easier, what else is needed here?

Gilsellers are eternal. As long as there are unskilled, lazy wannbe players who can use a credit credit card, there will be RMT in any MMORPG. SE can find ways to hinder them, players can try to hinder them, they'll come back, undaunted and their customers won't expose themselves, either.

And then WAAAAAAHHH, HNM camps are too crowded. *gasp* Competition. He actually suggested for the kings to pop more often? Hell, let's just ask them to increase the AFv2 drops in Dynamis and all NM drops to be 100 percent. Let's just install an LEVEL UP macro while we're at it.

Someone on FFXIOnline posted this. Remember they are the ones who can talk to the devs directly thanks to being a premier site.