FFXI FAQ 03/07/2011

You're missing my point- with how 80% of endgame content has stagnated since Abyssea's release, it's still going to remain that way. These augments, judging by the Haidate experiment, are going to be situational at best, and people aren't going to be just rushing back to old content like it's a hot new hangout. It would've been better to just to get Trial of the Magians directly involved with the content and perhaps get a direct augment that would bring it just enough on par with Empyrean gear so that it catches up. At least, that's what people wanted anyway, right?

Well, i know my issues is caused more by not done seals/+2 items and pop items ._.

Since when have JSE's ever been more then macros peices? I really hope you didn't full time your AF and Relic sets on rdm, drg, blm, thf, ect...*(first jobs off the top of my head I did not look at what jobs you had)*edit*
Salvage gear was superior then majority of Relic gear, so as such it should be at the very least on par with empy +2 if not superior.
Of course there are differences and I really don't like the fact that after all the years I have to learn a new craft in orders to have a random chance at possibly making my gear better. Synergy was not really worth the effort when it came out(cept a few pieces), if they made worthwhile augments that you could pick what you wanted to modify, but they already said you wont be able to.
"It will not be possible, however, to alter specific attributes only"
I mean Not a single player I have spoke to has ever thought the augment system(not foV, trophies, or add-on's,) or synergy system where ever properly implanted, the idea was great but the follow through was worthless, but honestly we won't really know until they give us details so I deleted the rest of rage on that and said let us wait to see. It sounds to me like it will be like a kill a nm for an item that you have to use to unlock it for synergy, then collect certain other items from other new nms(or as rewards/scylds(sp?)) to use in synth(basically ToM but you craft it instead of the moogle). Just like they did the first synergy system.
I guess I just don't believe SE will actually implement this in a way, I mean if I could choose like, +6str -2 dex, or +6dex -2 str then I could role with that. Or kinda like the way you choose your stats from a list like in the add ons I could role with that too, but not this * fire ws damage +1 dagger evolith that they have right now.
For goodness sakes just stick with the damn trial moogle system as people actually enjoy and stop beating a dead horse with a stick, synergy.

people mostly only do abyssea lately only because it's 1) the new thing and 2) they dont have the gear from there yet. it happens with every game with new content. people will slowly go back to old content to get gear from there. for example brd cant get a refresh body with pluvaile sooooo that leaves A. Body (good luck) and marduk's which also has better chr than +2 body and has fast cast, if you dont finish a song in it, you can open with it AND idle in it. people still need old ***, just havent finished key whoring their jobs in abyssea yet.

You've got some points, I'll give you that. But, I think it would've been better to just to do something that keeps the content constantly active until you're happy with what you've got instead of making it a "just go pick it up and mess with it" kind of thing. That's what I mean by SE shooting themselves in the foot on variety. There is a lot of content, but relying on just Synergy just seems like it's limiting the game's potential fun factor. And that's why I'm hugely annoyed with it.

it's not like ToM is any better =[ killing Xmonster 9001 times just to upgrade one time, is NOT my cup of tea.

Eh, they could do something like a twist and mix of NM killing and item procurement or something. It shouldn't have to be just killing countless exp mobs.

unfortunately thats how it is with relic/mythics and i thought of that since that is the ToM system for augmenting items pre-abyssea.

^ This

While it would be a nice change, whats stopping you form doing it now? Take one day to get points, rank up, then go back in 4 days.

Not like you have to spam it to keep your rank like before.

i really couldnt agree more with alot of this , bruh . a prime example of how fail Synergy is , all the new things that are crafted are Synergy !! "lets make universal tools to save Ninja's some space in thier inventory , but they'll be done thru synergy so that way ALL tool will sky rocket in price" (i dunno about your server but tools prices are gettin dumb on Odin). I said it in another post but i'll say it here too : they put an easy button on Lving , change Crafting too . a single Craft @ 100 is harder and more time consuming that a few Jobs @ 90 . More proof of this is the statement by SE that the Skill Lv and Craft skill required to do this will be Low Lv Synergy cuz they know gettin any craft up to the 60+ mark is fairly intensive .

I dunno, I'd be perfectly comfortable with killing Proto-Omega 4 times just to help a group get something decent on an extinct body piece (Yes, Corazza, people are looking at you!), and I also wouldn't give a flying *** about other people doing an alternative (Synergy).

Ask yourself answer yourself, they don't listen community as usual. This game is getting really really boring. Maybe it is because I tried RIFT and found out I'm having fun every second I play that, or maybe I can't show any patience no more to "very little" improvements that FFXI offers each update.