[dev1243] New Job Enhancements: Gifts

and for once i WAS thinking about coming back to FFXI but it seems like every day i fallow the updates they making it harder for people who do quit and come back and so on and so forth get over ran by people who make it harder for the veteran players who know the game TRY to do events cant get new gear

Party Leader: what's your iLevel gear at??

you: oh i have a few ilevel 117 and one ilevel 119 peace and i have a ilevel 117 weapon

Party Leader: oh you cant come your not ilevel 119 and you don't have no ilevel gear or good weapons.

you: really how am i suppose to get new gear if people like you don't let me join to try and GET new gear

Party Leader: well do you have a WHM or COR or BRD??

You: I have Bard

Party leader: Sweet you have you have empy harp or anything like that?

You: no why does it matter

Party Leader: sucks to be you now run along we have filled your spot with this shitty player who is ilevel 119 and has a empy harp and don't know how to play the job...goodbye


people like this is why i don't come back to the game such crap this game just needs to die and it is dieing slowlycause soon their will no people in the servers like when they did a merge

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Have you actually fought monsters in Doh or Woh gates before? They have some HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE evasion numbers, so much that it makes delve MB's look like p*sseys. Woh is something like 1050~ 1100 evasion while Doh is somewhere around 900~950. 2 evasion = -1% hit rate so if a player is 50 accuracy off then they just took a 25% hit rate loss. With number this big it quickly becomes a game of throwing as many accuracy buffs as possible onto the most accuracy DD's you can find. For folks with access to high end resources, BRD and COR mules, a healer who doesn't mind being 10/10 in every category already (or someone's mule), extremely well geared full 119 melee's, this isn't hard to get. For casuals players who are wearing 117 spark gear who haven't even got all their delve MB clears, getting CP's in a party is simply impossible, unless they only have support jobs.

Remember CP's don't carry over to other jobs, so a player can't "just go BRD / COR / WHM" and get CP's for their SAM / BST / NIN / PUP / BLU / WAR / MNK / PLD. They have to actually play on those jobs and kill those HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE normal monsters which for most groups would be a waste of a party space. They would never get invited nor would any BRD / COR / GEO / WHM join their group, since those support jobs can easily find a much better gear to go with. It's the 75 era merit scenario all over again. So that leaves the only realistic option for casual players being trust soloing VE / EP mobs for 80~120 CP per kill. Which as anyone who's done this knows, takes FOREVER to make any progress. So most don't even bother.

Remember this is supposed to be casual level content, not difficult mega boss's that require carefully orchestrated strategies and an experienced support crew. This sh!t is supposed to be nearly brain dead easy for most folks to participate in.

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The solution for JP farming is pretty easy, just knock 150~200 evasion off the monsters over level 110 or so. Would make it feasible for casuals to form PUGs with 113~117 level gear and get some progress while they work themselves up the gear ladder. This isn't "end game" LS type content, this is supposed to be brain dead mass slaughter of what is the very definition of "fodder". Fodder shouldn't have defensive stats higher then delve megaboss's.

Reducing evasion for those targets would be awesome, but I'm afraid WoH gates doesn't have many viable camps.
A couple of months ago I tried to look for one with a pretty solid party (not awesome, but way better than average) and we were having issues with the repop, magic aggro, links and elementals.
I reckon some of the fault was in our setup (wasn't made to handle sleeps and such) but still, there weren't many "relaxing" camps.

We found a pretty good one in a room in between 3 other rooms with bombs and worms, Pretty awesome sauce but in this middle room pops an Elemental and those WoH gates elementals are incredibly annoying with their AoE terrorga move.

I agree that SE needs to introduce more "campable" areas, Doh gates has only one good party camp, and a bunch of small weak camps for soloists. Morimar isn't too bad but again the mobs are too low level for a party to get worthwhile CP at. Same with cirdas caverns. Really they need to introduce a few more zones with mobs that are killable to a party of 115~117 geared players.

The New sub zones added in the November patch might fill that role? I still haven't been there don't know how many pts can stay in those zones and if they are good camps or full with mobs with insane Eva, HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE tp moves and links everywhere.
There's also inner ra'kaz, never been there but heard it sucks for that.

and for once i WAS thinking about coming back to FFXI but it seems like every day i fallow the updates they making it harder for people who do quit and come back and so on and so forth get over ran by people who make it harder for the veteran players who know the game TRY to do events cant get new gear

Party Leader: what's your iLevel gear at??

you: oh i have a few ilevel 117 and one ilevel 119 peace and i have a ilevel 117 weapon

Party Leader: oh you cant come your not ilevel 119 and you don't have no ilevel gear or good weapons.

you: really how am i suppose to get new gear if people like you don't let me join to try and GET new gear

Party Leader: well do you have a WHM or COR or BRD??

You: I have Bard

Party leader: Sweet you have you have empy harp or anything like that?

You: no why does it matter

Party Leader: sucks to be you now run along we have filled your spot with this shitty player who is ilevel 119 and has a empy harp and don't know how to play the job...goodbye


people like this is why i don't come back to the game such crap this game just needs to die and it is dieing slowlycause soon their will no people in the servers like when they did a merge

I'm still trying to figure out why people are making a connection between Superior 1 and level 100.

I think some people have decided Superior 1 is going to be a 1 level increase which to me seems unlikely, I doubt it would even be an ilvl increase, just some specific gear for superior people I suppose.

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People what would u rather have? Delve 3 that has a ilevel 129 oat ilevel 129 tsumuru that will take the elite shells 5 months to figure out to beat or simply 50 Jp on yr leisure and get a superior equipment ?

All it takes is 50 JP to equip Su1 gear. That's a couple of hours of your time at worst. That's like complaining that you have to exp or merit a job. Stop all the butt hurt people.