Vana'diel Tsuushin - Developer Q&A

[Tendael]

I think you maybe missed the point. What I said had nothing to do with being afraid of WoW but rather that it comes across as a little cheap to have FFXI make an expansion focusing on a wintery northland when the biggest MMO on the market just pushed the same concept through only weeks prior. This I believed would be the biggest reason why FFXI's next expansion couldn't focus on the northlands.

Which depresses me because I like snow, but don't play WoW. If you're suggesting I should just play WoW to satisfy my love for Winter, then... uh... yeah. No thanks, one MMO is more than enough. I'll just wait a few weeks and go roll around in some real snow.

Oh no not at all, I didn't mean anything personally. Not saying you should go play WoW or anything, just saying something in general about the usual WoWphobia that seems to keep SE from doing anything cool. You're right that opening up the northlands would be walking a little too close, but the excuse of "This game is being WoWified" is one of my pet peeves. Again, I just quoted you because it showed what I meant, not because I'm accusing you of anything.

[Spider-Dan]

The question in of itself said "relic equipment". That could include weapons, but I made the assumption that it just meant the armor, since no-post Zilart job has gotten access to the weapons either. Hence why I said 'AF', as that is the term used to signal out the 50-60 quested armor JSE. AF2 if you want to be specific, but as been determined by a previous post, AF2 sounds "retarded".

AF2 is ambiguous (is RNG "AF2" the Scout's set or a Hunter's Beret? Depends on who you ask) and, most importantly, wrong. The game itself refers to the job-specific armor that drops in Dynamis as relic armor (e.g. Sagheera offers to upgrade your relic armor).

I really need to justify the linguistics? Isn't that just a little bit asinine?

The reason why you got the responses you did was because the interview referred to "relic equipment" (which is the correct term for Dynamis armor), and you presumed to correct them by saying that they must be talking about "Dynamis AF."

There is no such thing as "Dynamis AF." AF2 (as it relates to Dynamis job-specific armor) is a dumb, incorrect term invented by the players.

[BRP]

Calling Relic AF is like calling Mythic weapons Relic weapons. They might be similar, but maybe the game's has the right idea when it comes to names.

[Kilhart]

Edit: nvm.

[Tradition]

Blizzard doesn't own the copyright on northern continents being cold.

(lol)

[algrensan]

You won't be getting that much in nyzul.

Here are the things that could drop Alexandrites :

Doors
Gears


And you don't run into them very often. Unless you guys are thinking all mobs would drop them.

and then, avoid discovery by gears or do not destroy gears!

[Not Kuno]

You won't be getting that much in nyzul.

Here are the things that could drop Alexandrites :

Doors
Gears


And you don't run into them very often. Unless you guys are thinking all mobs would drop them.

What about the non-gear mobs in Salvage that drop alexandrites? D:

[GaelWanderling]

What about the non-gear mobs in Salvage that drop alexandrites? D:

They drop pouches! >.>... i guess they killed gears and put them in a neat little linen bag..

[Talint]

They might be similar, but maybe the game's has the right idea when it comes to names.

My apologies, then.

[Hicks]

You won't be getting that much in nyzul.

Here are the things that could drop Alexandrites :

Doors
Gears


And you don't run into them very often. Unless you guys are thinking all mobs would drop them.

Don't forget racing chariots and when leader floor = chariot. Those could drop pouches easily.

[Ramses]

/targetnpc. Will solve all your nyzul pole problems.

[Xanthe]

­Al Gore invented snow

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[Suteru]

Fixed it for me. Who wants to be crew on my pirate ship! Arrr!

And yes, it would be awesome! :D

Beat me to it.

[Priran]

Adventurers can be sucked into an instanced area by the Notorious Monster, Sandworm. However, if this happens, you cannot obtain the “Sandworm Catcher” title.

If you defeat the worm before being sucked in, you will obtain the title. Since there is a high probability of being sucked in during the second half of the fight, you need to quickly rush the monster, interrupt any [Doomvoids], and use TP as you accumulate it.

last time I read a thread about an interview Elmer translated, everyone was like "omg the JP get such better interviews"

I say they're equally crappy, because not even the JP can get an interview with someone who plays the game

[Corrderio]

I will admit I'd love to see alexandrite drop more often in Salvage and off stuff in Nyzul. Since unlike a relic where you gotta aspend a !@#$-ton of money. You need to do the same thing for a Mythic weapon as well as 3 other objectives that will take awhile. In order to advance to the next quest. Which will also be VERY time consuming.

As for Nyzul I was thinking something like....

Gears/Ramparts - Singles, same rate as gears from Salvage.
Notorious Monsters - 1 Single 100, 5% at a Cotton Coinpurse
Hyper Notorious Monsters - 5 Singles 100%, 20% at a Cotton Coinpurse, 5% Chance at a Linen Coinpurse.

[Spider-Dan]

Isn't the "point" of the Alexandrite requirement to be the Salvage equivalent of Balrahn's Eyepatch (100k Therion Ichor from Einherjar) and Wyrmseeker Areuhat (150k tokens from Nyzul)?

It seems it would defeat the purpose if you made it just another requirement than can be fulfilled by spamming more Nyzul.

[Spekkio]

Isn't the "point" of the Alexandrite requirement to be the Salvage equivalent of Balrahn's Eyepatch (100k Therion Ichor from Einherjar) and Wyrmseeker Areuhat (150k tokens from Nyzul)?

It seems it would defeat the purpose if you made it just another requirement than can be fulfilled by spamming more Nyzul.

comparison fails when you take into account that alex can be bought and sold. not so w/ ichor or tokens. they're fundamentally different.

[Corrderio]

Isn't the "point" of the Alexandrite requirement to be the Salvage equivalent of Balrahn's Eyepatch (100k Therion Ichor from Einherjar) and Wyrmseeker Areuhat (150k tokens from Nyzul)?

It seems it would defeat the purpose if you made it just another requirement than can be fulfilled by spamming more Nyzul.

True, I'm just saying when you put the work between a mythic and relic a mythic will need more work. Since you need to pay out the ass for both, but for a relic you also gotta do those other 3 quests, unless my prayers have been answered and it was proven you only need to do one of the 4 quests >.>

[Tomiko]

As always, thank you for the info Elmer.

Ichor from Einherjar, Tokens from Nyzul, Alexandrite from Salvage. It's spread out evenly and makes sense.

I assume you mean that they're spread out evenly in that each zone has its own requirement, but to say the amount for each is equal is far from the truth. Even with a good run where you get 1 Boss Pouch, 2 NM Pouches and ~15 singles that would still take a hell of alot longer to get 30k (just from Salvage) that it would to get more than double the requirement of the other 2.

I'm pretty sure this is the main reason people would like to see it added to other places. (Or the total amount lowered again. I'd be happy with 20k and they only came from Salvage.)

[LD]

far east and aht'urhgan part 2 gogo!

I'm thinking it'll be Far East or Far West (since they only ruled out the north & south).
I'm betting Far West, since it would be a lot less complicated for them; all they'd have to do is do the ferry thing with Selbina. The easiest way of implementing the Far East would be to make a ferry from an expansion area, but I get the feeling they wont do that just yet.