BALLISTA needs to be fixed!

[Not Kuno]

Make summoner not suck complete ass. A few ways to do this would be making the avatars 100% immune to enfeebles of that element (ie no sleepgaing fenrir or binding shiva). Also make the BP range a looooot longer.

[Myrrial]

My real question is when the hell does one-on-one combat actually happen in Ballista? Do you people run around and single one another out to duel? Of course I can bind a target to the ground and murder them. In Dioajfjlfhjkhkjfshfhkdhj then sure, dueling can be fun. But on the real Ballista field...? When the hell does this happen? Last I looked folks traveled in a nice big pack of condensed asswhoopin'.

Any one-on-one skirmishes generally very rapidly dissolve into being a group brawl. As a RDM in particular; we generally have to apply a bunch of spells to our target before we really get anywhere. This invites quite a bit of opportunity for disruption to occur in the form of another player. Which, is far as I'm concerned, isn't an irrelevant consideration since it makes us dead.

[Priran]

Ballista used to be fun until about the point where class-specific nerfs became an update note mainstay.

Trying to make it so that all classes have an equal chance of killing each other in a one-on-one fight isn't balanced, it's fucking boring. Emphasis on "trying", because it isn't possible. SE just throws the nerf bat at whatever people whine about, then by next update they're whining about something new until it's no longer PvP, it's Allakhazam Presents: Nerf-A-Mole.

put a herald in white gate

I assume you mean Pursuivant, because Heralds only appear in Ballista areas. There already is one.

[Charismatic]

Do you people run around and single one another out to duel?

A lot more often than you might guess, but then again... since I don't play FFXI much at all anymore, obviously I don't join Ballista as much as I used to when I played my old character... but yeah.

We actually did that.

[Myrrial]

Thats kind of cool actually. It never seems to work that way on Odin. Or at least it didn't when I was around. If it did I'd love to bring my PUP out there and duel with other players. But I took PUP to Ballista all of ONCE and the entire enemy team decided to kill my puppet above anyone else, player character or not, on my team.

That was about the most depressing thing ever.

[Priran]

Thats kind of cool actually. It never seems to work that way on Odin. Or at least it didn't when I was around. If it did I'd love to bring my PUP out there and duel with other players. But I took PUP to Ballista all of ONCE and the entire enemy team decided to kill my puppet above anyone else, player character or not, on my team.

That was about the most depressing thing ever.

because pets are free gate breach

[Myrrial]

I'm not sure if that makes me feel better or worse. It makes me feel a bit better that maybe they weren't just making an effort to beat down the one and only PUP that bothered to show up (This was back before 90% of the job's adjustments had been made). Like, I guess its good that they had a tactical reason for doing it and didn't simply just want to grief me into stopping. That was such a lame match though. Never has the 20 minute Activate timer felt so long.

[sleekmotorwurkz]

The point is, RDM is overpowered in Ballista, sure there's still ways for you to die.
But let's face it, vs most jobs in the game RDM owns face.
BLU is the same way.


In PvP there's supposed to be balance, not 2-3 jobs own all the other jobs.

Kinda like how diablo pit in pankration is owned by like 2-3 kinds of mobs? same shit, certain jobs are always going to be stronger.

[Cloudius]

Never has the 20 minute Activate timer felt so long.

That's another reason to beat on pets.

[millionsknives]

BAWWWWW RDM.

People seem to forget that Ballista is a TEAM game...

But I do agree it needs to be updated, I dont think gear etc should be used as an incentive to get people to play, people should go because they find the matches fun. SE just needs to add some variation into the matches to keep it fresh (same with Brenner, its great but gets so repetitive). Also I be happy if they altered the settings for when Ballista matches run, it sucks that they run on the vanadiel calender.

[Apelila]

You know what the best update to Ballista ever would be?

If I could turn off the GOD DAMNED MESSAGES that happen when I zone about it.

[feril]

You know what the best update to Ballista ever would be?

If I could turn off the GOD DAMNED MESSAGES that happen when I zone about it.

Nah, that message is great when its spammed 100 times in jugner while waiting for KA to pop last window........

[Burnsy]

this thread is in no way advanced...

and 1v1 any job can beat another job in pvp, it's a question of preparation, timing, and luck....

[Suiram]

Can't Corsair do Quick Draw spam (aside from the normal COR buffing stuff)? I think it ignores shadows, and I remember Delekii talking once about Quick Draw > Random Deal > Quick Draw > Wild Card > Quick Draw > Random Deal > Quick Draw oneshotting (well 7-shotting or whatever) people in Diorama. Granted this was over a year ago, but my impression is that Ballista hasn't really changed since then anyway. I'd imagine it's even more effective now, and probably without the need for 2H since you can store charges.

[Charismatic]

this thread is in no way advanced...

and 1v1 any job can beat another job in pvp, it's a question of preparation, timing, and luck....

Tell me then, how's a BST gonna beat a RDM? (Not a RDM that sucks either)

[Not Kuno]

Tell me then, how's a BST gonna beat a RDM? (Not a RDM that sucks either)

1,000 needles.

[Kayos]

I would like to be able to change gear in ballista. Tell me again why we can't do this?

[Starless]

Can't Corsair do Quick Draw spam (aside from the normal COR buffing stuff)? I think it ignores shadows, and I remember Delekii talking once about Quick Draw > Random Deal > Quick Draw > Wild Card > Quick Draw > Random Deal > Quick Draw oneshotting (well 7-shotting or whatever) people in Diorama. Granted this was over a year ago, but my impression is that Ballista hasn't really changed since then anyway. I'd imagine it's even more effective now, and probably without the need for 2H since you can store charges.

Well sure - anyone can do awesome if they use their 2-hour. The only way I could get close to that without my 2hr as COR is to be COR/RNG and use barrage for a free 80ish%TP to Slug Shot and pray to Altana it all hits. :\

[Charismatic]

1,000 needles.

I thought better of you Kuno.

[Suiram]

Well what I meant was, if 4 Quick Draws could kill someone back then, using 2H, couldn't it be done now without 2H since there are charges? Also, I don't see why you'd have to be COR/RNG since the you just need AGI and Macc for accuracy and MAB + Gun/Ammo damage for damage.