Idea Last Update In November!

Yes the population of the people still playing

I'm sure a lot of people are in a similar situation as me. Whilst the game has changed, I don't have the same amount of time to play as I did 5 years ago.
It's a vastly different FFXI, but it's also nice to be able to jump on for an hour or two and lowman/solo some stuff. Those still playing clearly enjoy it too.

This isn't going to happen for the simple reason of them not wanting it to happen. They literally want to shut this game down, and leech whatever they can from the playerbase in the process of that. That is the harsh reality here.

This is why you're seeing terrible content, and things likes stupidly designed revamped Cursed Equipment. All in the effort to draw this out for every sweet drop it can get from the foolish subscribers, while using the least amount of work as possible.

I'm guessing you don't play anymore, because aside from a few flaws, recent content has been on the whole pretty great.

I'm inclined to believe a fair portion still actively playing are hoping for good content in the future, and not actually enjoying what is being offered right now. Staying on top, so they'll be geared for when (hopefully) something good comes along, I imagine. I also imagine they'll be quite disappointed, though.

As for the rest well, I have no excuse for them.

More of the same zones with different colours, rehashed enemy galore, very few unique instances that aren't remotely challenging, unless the challenge is to endure the boredom, and awfully revamped cursed equipment. Cool content, bro.

Vagary, sinister reign, are the two last event SE release.
Both are pretty fine event.
Now SE need to continue on this way and release many content like this to allow us more fun for the next few years we gonna have on ffxi.

I would like to ask if you don't insult the people who's still playing or present insulting ideas such as closing server in nov. thanks in advance.

Idea for server merge

Just block him, he is just another guy fishing for the lulz.

And this is what happens when you clearly don't play the game anymore: you lose touch with the playerbase and can only go off uninformed and biased assumptions.

Some people have come back specifically because they haven't played in a while and way to see the game at its end. Most of the ones I've helped lately have enjoyed the current content provided and the easing of restrictions. The ones that come back and leave again do so for the same reasons they left before.

Some of us that have stayed actually are enjoying the content provided and have friends to enjoy it with. I disagree with those wanting large group events or endgame LS again as that time has passed and those ideas are outdated for the current population. I don't even see the need for linkshells at all anymore since we have so many ways to communicate.

Anyone foolish enough to wait for future content like you think they are got impatient and left quite a while ago.

I highly highly doubt they would put in the effort it would take to add a whole new tier of ilvl. Honestly I'm hoping they adjust RME stats so that people simply have things to work towards once the patches end. I could possibly see them bringing RMEs up to 122 or so just to make them have more skill but I'm not holding out for it.

It is honestly sad how even Mythics, the best of the 3, are almost entirely outclassed currently.

I haven't been looking too hard at some of the new weapons. Which ones have you observed outclassing mythics?

The Blm and Sch staves are just straight beat even with AM up by the new Escha weapons, and usually lost to keraunos months ago. With current accuracy requirements you'll see a lot of the "benefit" AM3 gives on things like Koga and Tizona go down the drain. How useful is Yagrush in a Bst or Nuking setup. I could go on, there are very few good mythics left honestly, let alone ones actually worth the effort to get.

Out of all the mythics the only ones that even seem worthwhile anymore are Burt, Death Penalty, Aymur, and Nirvana.

Hmmm, I suspected as much but thanks for confirming it for me.

Vajra is unquestionably the best dagger for THF, having a much larger gap in potential compared to other weapon types. Both Ergons (if you count them as mythics) are also of extreme value to their jobs. It's true that some of the mythics are tied to mediocre bonuses and WSs, and those ones definitely start looking crappier when you can't even make use of AM3.

I don't own one, but I imagine Aymur is a grey area since you probably can't build TP/maintain aftermath (without even accounting for axe swapping) in the same situations where accuracy is an issue, in which case something as simple as Kerehcatl would suffice.

I don't think Aymur relies specifically on attacking to be useful however, Ready+1000 is double what you can aug with other axes. Once the update hits and Bsts have to melee you will probably not want to switch axes much which will make Aymur way more valuable. It also has passive attack boost for stats.

I considered Vajra to be borderline the best mythic before the Thf nerf because Mandalic Stab with +40% damage was insane, the nerf hurt not only the job pretty hard but also Vajra. Thankfully Thf has pretty good Accuracy so it doesn't have to worry much about losing an accuracy mainhand like Samurai does. It's kind of like Conq in my mind, sure Conq is probably still undoubtedly the best Gaxe but it's tied to not Blu/Sam so who really cares.

Don't forget about Terpsichore. Pyrrhic was the only common dagger WS to not be touched by the nerfs, and Terp escalates it into ridiculous territory. A mythic DNC is definitely in the top 2-3 DDs at the moment.

That's a good point, I guess it'll depend on how the update plays out. I still see Aymur's TP Bonus as something you can't always make the most of if you're having accuracy/magic accuracy issues. A real BST who owns one would have better input on this than me though.

Mandalic Stab is still pretty potent, and short of major attack boosts/low defense enemies/3000% TP, it's at the same level or greater than Rudra's. Added bonus of being a Fusion WS (giving THF all level 2 SC options). The SA/TA bonus on Vajra is what makes it crap on all other knives due to WS damage still being the major contributor to THF's damage output, in spite of the reduction. Very true that THF has excellent accuracy options too.

I thought Dnc was going to be far and away the best DD after the nerf because of this. Pyrrhic not having a Light/Darkness property is extremely annoying however. Does not play well with others.

According to the SMNv2 Thread, Nirvana is only good as a precast staff now. Basically, it seems you precast in it for the Avatar lv+2 bonus, then switch to an augmented Espiritus.
From one of the posts:
http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/46440/the-6th-ministrys-secret-a-summoners-guide-v2/16/#2949120

RIP another mythic to Escha then.

It mainly has to do with Darkness Affinity being easier to get (Pixie+1 essentially), Crossbows being pretty weak and having a large damage difference between something like Phaes, and Death Penalty having extra bonuses like QD. Hard to justify switching from Phaes+Jishnu to Gast+Trueflight.

We become gods fighting in a new god onry world

My mistake about Nirvana.