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[ertyu]

Fuck all these questions, ask the stuff that people have been asking forever to Sage Sundi and getting a bunch of "I don't knows" and shit.

- When will more players be given the chance to battle land kings?
- Why doesn't SE understand the concept of Risk vs. Reward in designing new battles?
- When will more players be given the chance to fight Ullikummi?
- When will it take less than 6 months to get a Jailer of Love pop set?
- When will CoP dynamis be fixed?
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Uhhh, 6 months to get a JoL pop set? When we actually try we get one in like a week, two tops, don't know what you're talking about >.>

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[Ruffles]

Exp changes

Changes made to make normal parties more common.

Enhanced Skillchain effects: Level 1 skillchain having 1 effect while level 2 has two, effects couldn't stack and it would be temporary effects.

Fire:

Liquefacation Str of Target is Lowered by -10%
Fusion: Str of Target is Lowered -20% defense slightly lowered

Ice:

Induration: INT of target is lowered -10%
Distortion: INT of target is lowered by -20%, -20% Mnd.


Thunder:

Impaction: DEX of target is lowered by 10%
Fragmentation: Dex of target is lowered by 20%, Agility lowered -20%


Dark:
Compression: Attack is lowered -10%
Gravitation: Attack -10% Moderate Defense is lost.

Earth:

Scission: Vit is lowered -10%
Gravitation: Attack -10% Moderate Defense is lost.

Light:
Transfixion: Defense - 15%

Wind:

Detonation: Agility lowered - 10%
Fragmentation: -20% Dex and -20% Agility

Water:

Reverberation: Mnd lowered -10%
Distortion: Mnd lowered -20%, INT -20%

LV3: Light - Damage now less resistant

Defense lowered -35% (Can resist on HNM but not full resist)
Added Effect: Flash

LV3: Darkness - Damage now Less resistant.

Attack Lowered -35% (Can Resist on HNM but not full resist)
Added effect: Blindness

The overall idea is fantastic but the actual effects themselves would not be any significance. Typically if you setup a SC + MB a BLM will usually finish off the mob. If the melees open the fight with a skillchain and the BLM MBs then typically the mob will be all over the BLM (death is imminent).

What if the effects were changed?

Ie. SC setup is LIGHT, BLM MBs with Fire. This would ineffect grant the party within a certain permeter of the MB a 10 second STR increase.

If you MB with Thunder it would grant the Party 10 seconds of DEX bonus, etc

[Retrieving/C.D/Searain]

Uhhh, 6 months to get a JoL pop set? When we actually try we get one in like a week, (...)

You're a moron.

Ask em why the fk Absolute Virtue hasn't popped on our server on the last seven (or 8) JoL kill, by the way. I sure as hell won't go farm that shit from scratch everytime to try to figure it out for a while.

[Masterofshade]

Instanced Dynamis: Yes Please!

Sting Operation: Yes Please!

Aggresive Interviewing: Sure! Lets toss away our one and only shot at talking directly to the Dev Team!!! >.>;;;;;;



And my own personal question:

Is there any plan to allow us to re-quest items? CoP Rings, ZM/CoP Earrings and such? Allowing a very fluid make-up of jobs (allowing one character to posess(sp?) up to 18 different jobs) contradicts horribly with a one time unchangeable choice. The option for obtaining a second, or at least switching these quested rewards would be a great boon to the FFXI Community.

[FFXIFlux]

Ask em why the fk Absolute Virtue hasn't popped on our server on the last seven (or 8) JoL kill, by the way.

Last 6 or so JoL pops I've heard of on Gilgamesh haven't popped AV either. SE people need to be kicked to the head.

[Aodh]

- It costs 1 million gil to enter, and you walk out with only a handful of currency.
- It's on the same timer as other Dynamis.
- Mobs are too spread out, and not enough until after you kill the Mega Boss.
- If you don't zerg rush haul ass zomg runrunrun to the Mega Boss as fast as humanly possible, or you wipe to it because of bad luck, you lose 1 million gil and have absolutely nothing to show for it, not even the ability to farm.

Ding ding ding ding ding!!! You get a prize for hitting the nail on the head.

If CoP Dynamis is half as long as regular dynamis you should get twice as many drops to compensate. (OK, 1.75 times the drops since it isn't exactly half.) Harder things are supposed to give better rewards, either quantity, quality, or (brace yourselves) both.[/quote]Drops seem to be at City rates from what I've seen, but there isn't enough time to completely farm the zone.

They should make either the job NMs or the dragons give a time extend, even if it's just 5 - 10min each. That way you can properly farm before the boss, and after as well.

[Lhexh]

Ask em why the fk Absolute Virtue hasn't popped on our server on the last seven (or 8) JoL kill, by the way.

Last 6 or so JoL pops I've heard of on Gilgamesh haven't popped AV either. SE people need to be kicked to the head.

Question to all these LS that struggle to pop AV, do you just pope Love once on a given night, then if AV doesn't pop go home? I'm just curious because we have only gotten AV to pop on the first Love set once, but on 5 straight occasions AV pops on our second Love set of the night.

[FFXIFlux]

Is sky ever going to be adjusted to fit the growth of the level 75 population?

Level 75 population is on the decline as is the overall population. Better question would be, "Why the fuck wasn't ToAU complete on release with high-level content to keep people playing?"

The development cycle for FFXI's never done so before, why would they start now with an immense release guaranteed to deluge people in buggy content?

They've had over a year to do the expansion. If it's buggy it's their fault.

Never done QA work before, right? You want to see what happens when ineffective QA hits an MMORPG, go see Everquest around Planes of Power. Constantly having buggy boss fights, clipping issues, and worse is not my idea of "end-game" content that'd hold population.

PoP was a VASTLY superior expansion to ToAU in every way you can name. It was also done in far less time, had the majority of content complete on release (yes, not all, but the majority), and was many times bigger than ToAU with MANY times the content, including a raise to the level cap, more merits, more tradeskill items, more zones, more mobs, far far far far more boss mob fights and storyline, far far more quests, far more gear and equipment upgrades, new spells etc. etc. etc. SOE put out as much content with PoP in less than a year after Luclin was out as SE has put out since NA release 3 years ago.

How often did end-game guilds camp Vox and Nagafen with PoP out or SoL or even SoV? Never. How often do they camp 3Kings with ToAU out? Every fricken day. Because theres nothing else to do

And there is high-level content. It's just not the raid-till-your-peen-bleeds stuff you seem to crave.

Meritting isn't high level content.

[Retrieving/C.D/Searain]

Ask em why the fk Absolute Virtue hasn't popped on our server on the last seven (or 8) JoL kill, by the way.

Last 6 or so JoL pops I've heard of on Gilgamesh haven't popped AV either. SE people need to be kicked to the head.

Question to all these LS that struggle to pop AV, do you just pope Love once on a given night, then if AV doesn't pop go home? I'm just curious because we have only gotten AV to pop on the first Love set once, but on 5 straight occasions AV pops on our second Love set of the night.

We popped 2 JoL in a row a few weeks ago, killed both in less than 3 hours I think, with dinner breaks in between the two fights and stuff, still no AV. 1/8 sixth virtues and 268675098609 alcoves checked to pop Temperance on our last pop-item set farming sessions made me hate Al'Taieu, with passion.

We spawned 2 or 3 AV on our first 3 JoLs or so though, too bad nobody had a clue about how shutting down his abilities back then and we were also undermanned every single time to be honest.

[levish]

Meritting isn't high level content.

Considering you have to be 75 to do it, I'll go out on a limb and say it is and you are wrong.

It's also endgame content (as in character progression after you hit the cap).

[layoneil]

Meritting isn't high level content.

Considering you have to be 75 to do it, I'll go out on a limb and say it is and you are wrong.

It's also endgame content (as in character progression after you hit the cap).

i hate to agree with Flux but i was chaining mobs to improve my character way back at Lv 1.

[aurik]

Meritting isn't high level content.

Considering you have to be 75 to do it, I'll go out on a limb and say it is and you are wrong.

It's also endgame content (as in character progression after you hit the cap).

i hate to agree with Flux but i was chaining mobs to improve my character way back at Lv 1.

And I was doing pop nms at 11...

[layoneil]

And I was doing pop nms at 11...

in an alliance?

[Hyjynx]

Is their any plans to increase the level cap anytime soon?

SE said quite some time ago that there are no plans to increase the level cap. In fact, they went so far as to say that they had discussed it and definitively decided against it.

Which is a good thing and I think we all can agree, increasing the level cap and making all the shit we worked so hard for over the past few years useless best left to WoW.

[Akroma_Seraph]

And I was doing pop nms at 11...

in an alliance?

A certain crab in gustaberg?

[Fhqwghads]

Fix Ulli. Window too huge, too easy to monopolize. 'Nuff said.

(``)/

[NynJa]

1-2 weeks to get a full JoL pop set ?? If you're going like 5-7 times a week and get lucky with the drops maybe....

[Dbill]

Let us fight GM's

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

Don't ask any flux questions. He basically is trying to turn this game into a game that its not. Most people play the game (not necessarily this board, but this board is f'in weird) because we LIKE what it is.

Anyways, I'm going to repeat a few questions/make new ones. For emphasis and such.
-What is the purpose of Hydra gear? No, seriously, why does it exist? What was the idea behind the development of it?
-Ridill is still a rediculously dominant weapon, far better than any other weapon. Are there plans to change that (in any way.)
-Is it possible to increase CoP dynamis drop rate by ~1/3 or 1/4 or such and increase currency drops (maybe make dragon farming in Bubu drop great currency)? It seems like that would please many people.
-The h2h DMG calculation is broken. No other job can get close to 50 DMG/174 delay. What are your plans to fix this issue in any way possible?
-People are retarded. Can you fix this in any way?
-Etc

[Dbill]

-What is the purpose of Hydra gear? No, seriously, why does it exist? What was the idea behind the development of it?
-Ridill is still a rediculously dominant weapon, far better than any other weapon. Are there plans to change that (in any way.)

I'll try and shed some light on what I think some of your answers should be.

1. This is just a beginning of some awesome gear coming out in the future updates, so we had to get the LolDrg out of the way.

2. Ridill is sure a dominant weapon bout how many actually drop per month, 3 or 4 if that. But grant SE the power to take the ridill away for those dickhead wars that think they are all that when they get it??