Dynamis Reborn!

* Dynamis Reborn!
Various aspects of Dynamis will be overhauled in the next major version update and beyond.

o Applicable Areas:

Dynamis - San d'Oria / Dynamis - Bastok / Dynamis - Windurst /
Dynamis - Jeuno / Dynamis - Beaucedine / Dynamis - Xarcabard

o Adjustments:

+ Reservations will no longer be required to enter the above areas.
+ New key items will replace the "Timeless Hourglass" and "Perpetual Hourglass" items needed for entry.

# The key items need only be obtained once.
# It will be made available at an affordable price via the Goblin NPCs presently dealing in hourglasses.

+ Time restriction for entry will be changed to once per Earth day.

# Duration of stay will be initially set at 60 minutes, extendable to a maximum of 120 minutes.
*Leaving the area will render you ineligible for reentry, regardless of time remaining.
# Time extensions will be granted via key items obtainable by defeating certain monsters.
*Only one of each individual key item may be possessed at a given time.
*These key items will be lost upon leaving the area.

+ Monster distribution will receive drastic revisions.
+ Standard monsters will respawn at set time intervals after being defeated.
+ Monster groups will each be assigned a specific home territory. Enemies lured outside these designated regions and disengaged will disappear, then respawn back in their home territory after a short time.
+ Trigger items will be introduced as a new spawn condition for certain notorious monsters (NMs).

# Battling attestation- and fragment-yielding NMs:

* The format will change to standard battles in which a maximum of 18 players face a single foe.
* These NMs will no longer use Warp.

# Battling boss NMs:

* Battles will be conducted in Confrontation format, with a maximum of 18 players able to participate.
*Confrontation: A unique battle format in which the combatants are isolated from all non-alliance players and monsters for the duration of the battle.
* Key items obtained from boss monsters will be awarded to all alliance members.

+ Monster claim and item drops will work the same way as in regular fields and dungeons.
+ Monsters will yield experience points (excluding certain NMs).
+ Treasure:

# There are no plans to change the drop rate of Relic equipment.
# Along with the reduction of the entry time restriction, the amount of Ancient Currency earned per session will be lowered. Overall, this change should increase the Ancient Currency distributed across the World.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/237

I....am still not excited :/

I wonder what this affordable price will be ;o

And its something besides aby to do every day! I'm pumped

I like it and will be trying it out.

Hurray, assasin's armlets for my mule!

I'm actually on the fence, it could revolutionise Dynamis but I have been part of a dynamis linkshell for a year and a half now that has been running for about 6 years, this update is probably gonna kill it which is pretty sad.

So... have they said anything about new drops from Dynamis? Because if its the same old ***just a new format for it, what is the point?

"man I *** hate dyna 2 times a week...but gotta get that currency!"
"Less currency but you want me in there even more to break even? bull ***!"

It sounds like it will unless you plan on doing it more now. :/

Yep.

This is what caused me to suddenly lose a good amount of motivation to do Dynamis now.

So like 300 people could be in there at once but only 1 ally can kill bosses at a time? Is that what I'm reading?

Reservations will no longer be needed for entry

Really do have to be in there longer, they reduced the maximum allotted time to stay inside.

yep, sounds like sucking *** a lot!
monopolizing ls' selling Boss kills here we go!
what a load of ***..

*sees this as SE's solution to Relic Holders Q.Qing about over powered empyreans*

"sorry guys but it's not THAT hard to get a relic anymore (trollface) so you lost the argument that they needed to be bumped"

I dislike the fact that it will no more be istanced, meaning like abyssea and WOE everyone can come in and it will obviously be a ninjapopwar... T_T

just have to see how low currency droprate will become.

i'm sure they will set it very low. maybe not and SE decided everyone should have a relic.

ninja edit:
^
this gonna happen a lot. promised!!

btw: hey Kog :)

Yeah :< was it that hard to instance it lol oh well, atleast its no longer gonna be 500k to *** around in dyna for a bit, can't complain too much

I didn't read anything that would sway someone to do dynamis besides the entry cost, which honestly is going to end up being 10k or something stupid low.

They need to either
-leave the currency alone, or increase drop rate.
-add new items that compete with at least AF3+1 items.
-make the exp received from mobs 400+/kill immediately.

I'm not even sure these would sway me into the zone.

And everyone who is all "zomg this is gonna be awesome i can't wait!!!" is gonna end up being "zomg QQ they popped it and now we have to wait for respawn QQ *butthurt* */shout profanity*"

EDIT: And honestly who really *truly* needs more ways to get exp? It's already easy to get...in many different ways

thank God for COP-Dynamis-Areas!

cuz people still care about AF2.

Just because they care about it doesn't mean this update is awesome...

Plus if you have 3-4-5+ linkshells who do dynamis at the same time and they all decide to jump in Xarc....how many AF2 drops do you think an average casual linkshell is gonna see?

They shoulda made the mobs give ISP D;

Did I need to include the sarcasm symbol..?

*** casuals!

That makes it seem like when you pop a boss, it's going to auto-instance your group to the boss fight. That would be pretty damn cool, honestly.

Yes because i'm all drugged up atm D:

Anyway, it was better I throw that argument out there now because you know 5 pages from now someone will be all serious about it :/

maybe a comparable thing like Sandworm?
kill a certain nm etc and get warped into another area.