BALLISTA needs to be fixed!

[Kael]

They should make Dragons Aery a Ballista instance. Winner gets a Fafnir pop!

[Valin]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned anything of SAM/RNG with a soboro.

[Deejay]

Holy shit your sig is hilarious.

oh my god

[Meian]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned anything of SAM/RNG with a soboro.

Don't normally mind this too much because SAM is just lol in most Ballista when not using this combo (unless they cheap shot). Seems fair to them (its only annoying in 60 cap if I remember right)

[Dohorehn]

sam/rng is a formidable opponent indeed. I think we can say there's a lot of scary job combination out there.

that heat breath in your sig is fucking ridiculous. It reminded me of my own, but it pales in comparison. How the hell did they not see you casting, I had to bind my prey lol

http://emitcham.googlepages.com/windurstians.jpg

[Valin]

Besieged <_<, I WISH I could get that many people together in a ballista to hit all at once.

[Dohorehn]

wait... so those are all charmed people? NICE! I mean you're EVIL, lol.

[Raek]

and just a thought, maybe if they made those damned bar-spell ointments you pick up worth two cents and a shit. add barpara, silence, sleep to the mix.

I like that idea. They should definitely add more stuff to quarry such as those barspells you just mentioned, hermes quenchers, and instant reraise.

They should also have a new point system where you could get ballista specific gear for points that you earn. Also should be 3k exp for the team that wins and 1k for the losing team.

A someone mentioned earlier, it would also be cool if they made it so charm would actually charm players. If the charm lasts for 15-30 sec, but players build resist fast, it wouldn't be broke but would allow BST's to have fun and be useful.

[Valin]

wait... so those are all charmed people? NICE! I mean you're EVIL, lol.

It was pretty funny, I actually only meant to hit Coejus with it, but 14 other people ended up being in the line of fire. We were both pretty shocked when we saw the battle log xD

Also, a raise to EXP bonus is not asking for too much at all IMO. People get 20k/hr in meripo at times and even in campaign they can get a good amount in an hour. I think it would be fair if they raised it to 3,000-4,000 EXP for 1 hour of work--and I'm sure more people would join because of it.

[DancingEdge]

This guy didn't read my earlier posts.

Find it funny he also said Blu > Rdm


Back to "Dancing Edge" (somehow I bet you're a thf), no this isn't what glorifies THF in pvp the being able to change bolts and not be penalized (fairly silly that this happens). Steal and Mug are game breaking (if you are being serious about winning) and Flee with Petras is aggrivating but fair.

Do people seriously play to actually win ballista?

Can't say I'd give two shits about doing all that jazz...
Dunno what on earth would give you the impression that I'm a thf...

[Raek]

Holy shit Valin lol

You may have just convinced me to dump all my enchainment merits and go full convergence.

[Dohorehn]

Do people seriously play to actually win ballista?

Can't say I'd give two shits about doing all that jazz...
Dunno what on earth would give you the impression that I'm a thf...

some people actually do; it's a smidgen annoying when they obsess over it though lol

"OMG GUYZ WHY AREN"T U SCOARING" -that annoying guy, you KNOW you know him.

hence, why they should freshen up the sport with more modes of game play.
*cough*deathmatch*cough* whaaaaat....

[Valin]

Holy shit Valin lol

You may have just convinced me to dump all my enchainment merits and go full convergence.

Convergence limits you to 1 target >_>

[Nalta]

They need to get rid of 30, 40, and 50 cap and replace with more 60 and uncapped.
And about BLUs and RDMs, if you run out there w/o posion pots on you deserve to be slept and killed, and BLUs can be avoided just as easily as any other job. idk why people think MNK/NIN is good, MNK/DRG is still hella good, jump can stop Utsu recast and kill low hp mages. I just feel bad for the tarus, get 1 shot so much. Ballista is dead on Ragnarok so havn't done in a while.

[Dohorehn]

They need to get rid of 30, 40, and 50 cap and replace with more 60 and uncapped.
And about BLUs and RDMs, if you run out there w/o posion pots on you deserve to be slept and killed, and BLUs can be avoided just as easily as any other job. idk why people think MNK/NIN is good, MNK/DRG is still hella good, jump can stop Utsu recast and kill low hp mages. I just feel bad for the tarus, get 1 shot so much. Ballista is dead on Ragnarok so havn't done in a while.

oh my god, yes! does anybody actually do those god forsaken low caps? I mean it's enough that they even exist but... it would be SO much better if you could have access to 60-uncapped ALL day, instead of waiting for those BS caps to cycle through. I hate it when uncapped falls into JP time. Not like anyone shows up anyway, but still.

Also, interesting to note: Brenner {official} matches yield 1500 experience points at 75, but people don't participate. So I'm thinking, xp alone isn't enough to get em out there... Why ballista yields 1/3 this amount over the same time period is beyond me. GET ON IT DEVS.

[DancingEdge]

I dunno, I just don't get what SE's allergy is to giving players what they want and ask for...

It's gotten to the point where instead of the typical bullshit where players would be all like OMG GIV ME TEH UBER ITEMZ!!!111, people are making constructive and well thought out suggestions... and still being ignored.

If SE managed WoW it would have died years ago.
If Blizzard managed FFXI, it'd be the best selling MMO world wide.

[Valin]

I think SE should make official ballista matches instanced, and run all caps at the same time--that way you could pick which cap you wanted to play in. I'm pretty sure it's not conflicting with any system limitations, since they tried it with Brenner--It just wasn't as popular as Ballista.

[DancingEdge]

Instancing is of course the cure for the cancer of all FFXI's ills.

Will they do it?
No.

Instancing I think, iirc, logistically, uses more resources and costs them more.
You need more servers.
Better servers.
More bandwidth.
Again, iirc.
If that's not the case SE's management needs to fucking kill themselves.

[Valin]

They could always just dump Brenner, which was a failure, and use the bandwidth from that for official instanced ballista matches!

I just had a random thought--What if SE made it so that you needed ballista points instead of taking pictures for ZNM!

Actually, I think that would end up pissing more people off than making happy, but at least thats one surefire way to raise the attendance rate, haha.

[Shuemue]

Also, a raise to EXP bonus is not asking for too much at all IMO. People get 20k/hr in meripo at times and even in campaign they can get a good amount in an hour. I think it would be fair if they raised it to 3,000-4,000 EXP for 1 hour of work--and I'm sure more people would join because of it.

I would do tons of Ballista if I could get 3k+ for an hour of fighting.