Summit Q&A Highlights/Exciting things in the next update

[miokomioko]

I understand the whole putting pups in non-heavy armors and non-martial arts armors (aside from usukane), but if they want us to wear shit that enhances the automaton, how about they add some fucking gear that enhances the automaton. Pet: DEF+10 pants are a goddamn joke. Guignol earring is macro-onry for whopping +6hp/tick. Adaman Sainti is what, a reported 0.5% HP increase? Nice. All we really got is a set of AF and useless h2h. Kenkonken is a big step forward... melee-friendly and helps the automaton. SE needs to get off their ass and actually implement some armor that actually enhances shit for Automatons like 90% of what SMNs wear for their avatars.

[Imitarate]

And here we see SE's problem -- they don't seem to know HOW to enhance pets. Look at SMN's gear -- other than perp- and auto-ref, they have, what, a piece of AF and a piece of relic that actually has a decent effect on the pet? Puppetmaster should have WAY more than this, but even summoner should have a better selection of avatar-enhancing gear (especially since SE said they want to make SMNs keep avatars out more often). And I don't think I need to bring up the various BST JSes. Outside of the AF/relic hat and body, they haven't given wyverns anything other than HP, either (not that dragoon is a pet job!).

Either they know something we don't, and buffing pets at all will break them horribly somehow, or (more likely), they just don't know HOW to. I've been waiting too long for some way to make summoner appealing, and while I respect pups and bsts, I could never level them. SE just shits all over pet jobs, and it's not new, pups you aren't special, and everyone should be pissed. Pet jobs have much more potential than they've ever had applied.

[Kairos]

Relic should bring a bunch of pet enhancements for pup. the relic summoner has grants a boost to avatars on 4 pieces of it, but i think the boosts they provide should be bigger. They need to add more sellable gear that has an effect on pets so that you can mix and match and get the maximum pet benefiting gear combination. The rare-ex gear always adds pet bonuses, but for pup there is just not enough of it yet. There is only Af, when there should be relic and AF+1 as well as possibly a JSE set to complement them.

Maybe SE will do this soon.

Maybe they will do nothing.

[Jkun]

I agree with every post on this page so far.

Speaking of keeping SMNs out, how about shit that stops your Automaton from getting two shotted, like a piece of gear that helps it's DEF GREATLY. Yes Steamjacket and Analyzer are great, but Stoneskin is a fucking joke with and even more retarded recast rate for 100 dmg, and my Valoredge still gets bent out of shape in Dyna or even pulling a simple mob towards me.

SE fucked up PUP in a lot of ways, plain and simple. Now they need to fix it.

[Feedmenow]

And here we see SE's problem -- they don't seem to know HOW to enhance pets.

Maybe they could start by having AoE party buffs hit pets as well?

[miokomioko]

Remember that week or so where SE severely broke the entire game by allowing pets to have the benefits of DNC sambas? Good thing they fixed that right quick... before anyone exploited the shit out of it...

[Jkun]

Remember that week or so where SE severely broke the entire game by allowing pets to have the benefits of DNC sambas? Good thing they fixed that right quick... before anyone exploited the shit out of it...

I wrote an E-Mail asking them to bring it back, lol.

Faggots still haven't replied.

[Kairos]

Remember that week or so where SE severely broke the entire game by allowing pets to have the benefits of DNC sambas? Good thing they fixed that right quick... before anyone exploited the shit out of it...

well yeah, that really got out of hand so I can see why it had to be done. We don't want pets living through AoE's, that won't be fair.

As far as the defense thing, they need to go ahead and revise the defense rating for all frames. If bone crusher is ever going to do good damage on anything, It needs to have somewhere around a 500 defense rating. A weaponskill based on defense with added stun effect? Its like cannonball without a def buff or def gear.

[Sumy]

I wrote an E-Mail asking them to bring it back, lol.

Faggots still haven't replied.

Someone needs to demand this at the next QnA.

Edit: watch it be one of DNCs merit abilities...

[Jedimasta]

It's probably been talked about but I'm very interested in seeing what's gonna be added to the 100th floor of Nyzul Isle assault.

[Skjie]

It's probably been talked about but I'm very interested in seeing what's gonna be added to the 100th floor of Nyzul Isle assault.

Man, I had to go back to notice they didn't say "nothing new for floor 100"

[SephYuyX]

FIX BST FFS!

[Kenai]

Since the Enkidu set and a few other pieces gave a nice boost to melee stats, I was hoping that the AFv2 would be a nice boost for the puppets. They made most of the AF since ToAU pretty good so I was just hoping for the best there...

(Activate timer -2 min for each piece! Believe!)

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[Jedimasta]

My guess is Alexandrites or some higher denomination of Alexandrite.

[Vlorsutes]

Might as well be the first to post it here.

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[Epical]

Hmm...

[Rocl]

One HP to Two MP is my guessing but requiring WS for M.Acc is Unless they REALLY buff RDM Melee this patch lol

[Maxxthepenguin]

Wow, they decided to go just plain wacky with this gear

[Cloudius]

Allakhazam updated their notes:

Highlights of Q&A Session with FFXI Development Team

- The ability to rapidly exchange campaign tags will be adjusted to discourage players who spam songs and self-buffs to gain experience in campaign.

- A security feature is being planned similar to the Account Authenticator device created by Blizzard.

- Dynamis costs will be reduced in next version update.

- An addition to the battle system is being planned to encourage melee and mage jobs to work together to coordinate attacks.

- The development team is considering revealing hidden food effects, but some effects will remain hidden.

- Campaign in the cities is intended to reflect the harsh times of the Crystal War, but adjustments are planned to keep certain NPCs, such as the warp NPC, from disappearing during battle.

- More job adjustments are planned, but no adjustments are planned for puppetmaster spell priorities.

- Square Enix is working on improving the account recovery process.

- There are no plans to enhance the Square Enix-sanctioned windower.

- Winning numbers for the Mog Bonanza lottery were randomly chosen, and the process was strictly supervised to prevent any improprieties. Participation in the lottery was a huge success and the event will likely be repeated next year.

- A new scheme is being created to help low- and mid-level players gain experience.

- No immediate plans are in place to increase the number of weapons players can merit.

- Group 1 merits are planned to be added soon for Scholar and Dancer.

- Additional rewards will not be added to notorious monster bosses on floors 20, 40, 60 and 80 of Nyzul Isle assaults.

- The development team is against the concept of transferring content IDs because the feature could possibly be exploited by RMT.

- It may be possible in the future for players to change their faces and hairstyles.

- Chocobos will soon be added to the WoTG areas.

- A hint is in the PlayOnline topics banner about new relic armor for recently added job.

- More sellable gear is planned to be introduced as the RMT threat declines.

- More SE employees are being trained in hopes of increasing the frequency of in-game weddings.

Bolded the updated stuff.

[Epical]

- More SE employees are being trained in hopes of increasing the frequency of in-game weddings.

I... just... nope.