Besieged Adjustments 2/20/07

[solsovly]

People play FFXI without their stupid filter on?



And by stupid I mean shout, since there has never been anything intelligent said in shout.

I leave it on soley for when people shout about selling cheap gear. There needs to be multiple shout channels similar to other MMOs. A shout for buying/selling goods and a shout for the rest of the whitegate spam that's not even fit for KI.

[fantasticdan]

There is a reward. It's a 15% exp bonus while partying in ToAU areas, and the ability to use runic portals.

Oh really? On my server atleast, you don't have very many of the people that actually make use of the AC defending it. Instead, you mostly end up with a ton of drgs/pld/smn/blm/etc who were sitting around LFP, pretty funny when you think about it.

[Naver]

Just think about how this 10hour Maintenance is going to get the Astral Candescene stolen on all servers!

[Alvinho]

Players should need to meet a certain level requirement in order to participate in Besieged. SE should start it out at say, level 50, and go from there. Level requirement may be increased or decreased on following updates, depending on results.

[Rocl]

Just think about how this 10hour Maintenance is going to get the Astral Candescene stolen on all servers!

Actually, Undead Besieged on Bahamut began @30min to maintenance, Medusa hadn't even zoned in when they retreated.

They retreated not too long after the 5minute log out warning, I'm in CS now and I'll post a ss in a sec.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/Rocl/retreat.png

ta-dah~

[Alexei]

I think Besieged would be generally more appealing if it offered something different than exp/IS. For example, SE could borrow and adapt WoW's faction reputation system, and make players build reputation points with the empire for participating in Besieged. As your reputation goes up, empire vendors start selling you exclusive stuff, and when your reputation is at its peak, you get to buy epic loot!

...Sorry for bringing up WoW please don't get mad at me!

[LD]

Players should need to meet a certain level requirement in order to participate in Besieged. SE should start it out at say, level 50, and go from there. Level requirement may be increased or decreased on following updates, depending on results.

This is the correct answer.
They also have to add something to kick out people who have been idling for at least 30 minutes.

[Dohorehn]

I think it's funny that they're giving generals new WS's and not players. Especially after ignoring the whole throwing weapon skill request. meh.

That rhino looks cool.

[Coren]

Look how am I supposed to cap my singing/string/wind skill on my 21 brd AND get 900 xp/is if I can't come to besieged?

(I got about 90 xp on my drg because I ate about a dozen 2000+ dmg aoes).

Besieged is pretty broken.

[Popsiclestick]

Side topic on Besieged:

I am a 47 now BST, but over the weekend I went as 46 BST. Now, I know I can do hardly much at all, but my Jug pets (Courrie and Funguar) were hitting the mobs. They would be like at 10-20% acc (hitting for 20-40 a hit). Also, their HP seems substantially high. I would say they have HP about 1400+. They would often take aoe damage twice of 600+ and live.

Is there any explaination on the pet's in Besieged being slightly stronger than they should be? Any level 23 BST want to try a jug pet to see how much damage it can take and its acc?

[NynJa]

I find it funny how a NIN/RDM/BLM is getting his/her panties in a bunch because people want to get out of Besieged 30-40 minutes quicker instead of going for an extra 160 xp.

[fantasticdan]

Is there any explaination on the pet's in Besieged being slightly stronger than they should be? Any level 23 BST want to try a jug pet to see how much damage it can take and its acc?

Most pets have defense ignoring properties, atleast wyverns/puppets/jugs do.

[Popsiclestick]

Is there any explaination on the pet's in Besieged being slightly stronger than they should be? Any level 23 BST want to try a jug pet to see how much damage it can take and its acc?

Most pets have defense ignoring properties, atleast wyverns/puppets/jugs do.

The incredible amount of HP is staggering too

[Shuemue]

Needs Nynja to respond to the guy who burned him over Temp axe.

[Lordender]

stupid changes, besieged already takes long enough and is already annoying now its going to last even longer. I mean this is ridiculous, eventually we're gonna have 1hr 30-2hr besieges.

[Sykes]

stupid changes, besieged already takes long enough and is already annoying now its going to last even longer. I mean this is ridiculous, eventually we're gonna have 1hr 30-2hr besieges.

You didn't used to have 2 hour besieges? Before the last update (or perhaps an earlier one ... I think it was the one that introduced Lv. 6), we had several 2 hour undead Besieges on Phoenix.

[Martinius]

Needs Nynja to respond to the guy who burned him over Temp axe.

>.>
<.<

[Lordender]

You didn't used to have 2 hour besieges? Before the last set update (or perhaps an earlier one ... I think it was the one that introduced Lv. 6), we had several 2 hour undead Besieges on Phoenix.

nope never seen a 2hr besieged, thank fucking god too. We still have the chocobo racing details and that should put us in march depending on what SE says early march is.

[LD]

It's either the 5th or the 12th, anything later isn't 'Early March' (Hell, the 12th is friggin Mid March, imo.)

[Pendas]

straight 3k exp would be reasonable I think (same as burning an Empress Band) but they would need to keep the IS reward the same or it would bone the coin market even more than it is

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I think the reason SE created the 1.2K exp cap (when Mega Boss is killed) might be because everyone is going with a low level job and /WHM and cure spamming free exp. 3K may not be much at 75, but its near 50-25% of a level at low levels.

What SE could do it place a cap of exp in accordance to player levels. Level 1-50 1.2K Cap, 51-60 2.2K Cap, 61-70 3.2K Cap, and 71-75 4.2K Cap. That would give incentive to use higher level jobs in Besieged instead of just bringing lowbie ones for quick exp, and make Besieged worthwhile for your time.