Would You Trade Your Relic Weapon Back?

Uncensored naughty words on my ffxiah??

I think that was part of the problem - people who in 2009 would never ever ever consider a relic actually attainable found out in 2011 that "I can do this - it's gonna be rough, but I can do it!" But by the time they actually finished, it was "too late."

It's got to be way tough to try to cater to as many people as they can, and to be honest, I think SE does alright with this. Is it even possible to make something enjoyable for both the person that takes 1 week to do something and the person that takes 1 year to do the same?

And they way "it is now," is fine, too - just the switch from "this weapon you've used for years" to "this weapon you're using this month" was kind of rough. (If it even is that way - can't guess what's coming/going in the near future.)

As far as being a step behind people - I said it was frustrating, but that's not all it is. I'm also very happy - I'm doing new things, improving my character, and having fun. As long as I focus on myself, there's no problem at all. But every so often, some jerk in a Ferrari pulls up next to my Sentra at a stop light... rrrrr...

/em slaps OP with his Yoichi.

It's not as entertaining as KI/BG were back in the days, though.

I really miss this 2006-2008 forum era. Everyone would make fun of Alla, boomerang penises would be posted and so on.

*nostalgia tears*

I'd prefer my time spent [read:wasted] refunded rather than the gil. FFXI pulled the ultimate troll with RME bs.

You are a virgin, aren't you?

For what?

the ***?

Funny that you say this, I'm in the process of getting rid of the Mandau I had worked on. I was in my final stage currency wise, I hadn't traded anything in yet, when the whole R/M/E issue exploded.

I looked at doing annihilator, aegis, or gjallarhorn as an effective replacement, but then considering the jobs I'm on most and se's original plan, just said screw it. Mandau was meant to be my thf's toy.

So now my thf gets gil for whatever's next down the pike.

naa, seriously, what the hell else are you gonna spend that gil on?

Man, I'm glad my RME is still useful.

That being said-- gil is useless today. What would you possibly spend it on? Other than Behemoth pops and daily meds/food, of course.

Um... Airlixirs to upgrade Delve armor/weapons? You're talking ~10-12 mil worth of airlixir to get one Rank 15, and a lot of people will have multiple armor sets/weapons to upgrade. You're probably not farming all those Airlixir drops yourself.

Maybe those items will also become obsolete (heck, the Delve mega-boss weapons already trump the NQ Delve weapons), but at least they're currently top tier. As opposed to R/E/M being clearly inferior today with vague promises that maybe your 99s will be upgradable. I'd rather dump my cash into something that's at least currently useful rather than hope my outdated REM gets a reasonable upgrade path some day.

Some jobs also do still have big ticket buyable items available too: Senbaak, Arise, etc.

The sentiments here weren't exactly what I expected!

I'd trade back my Mandau and Ragnarok if not doing so means they're just going to collect dust. I don't see the point in keeping them if they're destined to be crap.

And there's still plenty that one could blow gil on. I'd work on Defending Ring more (0/14 so far...), fund a Harp99 and Ghorn99 for my mule, quickly rank15 new gear, buy new crafted weapons, level up crafts, etc. Saying that gil isn't useful anymore seems short-sighted. It's just that gil is now primarily for luxuries whereas before it was required to meet baseline expectations.

I was looking forward to spending gil on Defending Ring then I went 1/2 :(
Owell back to stockpiling!

Yeah, gil is only useless for that fraction of the playerbase that consistently clears Tojil to farm a gajillion plasm every run so they can max out their Delve gear really fast. So basically either JPs or like 2-3 linkshells per server. Somebody's buying those Airlixirs from you and it probably isn't other Tojil clearers.

No one is buying Airlixirs from Solanis, she has over a million plasm because she never uses it!

I bought a bunch of Airlixir+2 a while back because I was impatient and wanted upgrades NOW instead of tomorrow '-';

I wouldn't trade a R/M/E back at all.

I worked for it and i worked hard for it and i'm not going to throw away hard work like that.

The Empys i have weren't put together in 45 minutes by some "loleasyaby" ls.
So even my empys mean work for me.

I'll trade mines back for a month's supply of vanilla coke. Ragnarok was dull and ugly to look at anyway.

I too made my Empyrean back when you actually needed parties to beat those guys, I marched both ways in the snow etc.

But yeah, I wouldn't trade back my RMEs back either, but then the ones I made were for loljobs anyway so it's not like I can't still use them if I want to (And RME99 katana are still the best anyway, because I doubt people are wasting Bztavian Wings on Pamuns >_>)

Why not!

quick magic capes obviously

Odin has had 8 Pamun sold at 36M a pop.

Leviathan must be a slow server then :(

(Or is Pamun one of the borked items on XIAH that doesn't show the history?)

Borked. No listing.

There are so many kills on bee that the wing is the common mat. Belts/ingots/whatever are much harder to come by really, considering that you can fight the bee as much as you want for a 100% drop.

oh wow i dont come to these forums for a while and people are still bitching about wasting time and money on relics. really if you are pissed tell SE about it and give up this useless discussion on these forums. This is borderline full retard here.

delve weapons are here to stay, SE probably wont put money into really fixing the problem so deal with it or give me all your stuff when you quit. also I am not giving it back when you come back and try to get your characters restored.