[Dev] Battle Balance Adjustments

Limbus for gil making, fine. That isn't much better than doing Salvage for gil making. It's getting updated but it isn't now, and that's why I didn't add it to my stupid list that I shouldn't of even made.

Don't even know why I post here sometimes, some of you take things way to damn seriously when I was just making a stupid point. That point being that SE has seriously *** up and made the majority of their events obsolete, that's all the *** list was meant to be.

I like how everyone is ignoring the context of the original post that's being called into question and magnifying the one that's normalizing it.


The mixing and matching of store TP, haste, and other such stats is a delicate procedure. Rajas Ring makes it much easier and more lenient to provide more optimal parameters (especially considering that it's also a damn good weaponskill ring), for both newer players and older ones, than, say, an ACC ring or a hoard ring.

Point being made is, your list is very subjective, as is my response to it. Implying that CoP isn't worth doing simply because the content is outdated, thus missing out on the items that you could get for doing it, is silly. Just the same as saying that the content in Abyssea is outdated (aimed at level 80~95 capped players) but the items you get from it are not.

We all knew when the cap raise was coming, and it would have been an effort in futility to assume that 75 cap content would be relevant after we hit level 99. They're correcting that error by adjusting past content to be more suitable for higher level players. That plenty of the drops and other such devices of these dated events have stood the test of time should tell you something.

Just don't take it so personally, like you're being attacked. Your post was imperfect, and thus the imperfections led to disagreement in what should and should not be considered "outdated".

My issue is this: SE loves to use the word "Balance" for everything, yet with every new update the equipment just replaces what we JUST got. That does not promote a wide range of events, it does nothing but destroy the work they just did.

Regardless of what I titled the list of what content is being used by the majority of players today, SE is just creating more problems than they are fixing with these upgrades.

I like that they are coming, but it isn't going to fix anything until they use that word properly and actually balance out the events so we will have to do something from all of them. At the moment that is not happening and the only thing that is happening is players jumping from one event to the next.

I'm sorry for the label I put on my list, I could change it now but that doesn't really even matter. My point was to list what content was relevant today, and I may have forgotten a few things (and I may disagree with the importance of CoP today at this stage of level 99, so what that's my opinion and I never labeled my opinions as being facts (yea yea so what, my opinion needs to be corrected because its incorrect blah blah blah)) but I feel that my goal I set out to do when typing the list up was done fine enough, which was to list the length of the content in game and how much there really is, compared to what really people do today.

My issue is this: SE loves to use the word "Balance" for everything, yet with every new update the equipment just replaces what we JUST got. That does not promote a wide range of events, it does nothing but destroy the work they just did.

Regardless of what I titled the list of what content is being used by the majority of players today, SE is just creating more problems than they are fixing with these upgrades.

I like that they are coming, but it isn't going to fix anything until they use that word properly and actually balance out the events so we will have to do something from all of them. At the moment that is not happening and the only thing that is happening is players jumping from one event to the next.

I'm sorry for the label I put on my list, I could change it now but that doesn't really even matter. My point was to list what content was relevant today, and I may have forgotten a few things (and I may disagree with the importance of CoP today at this stage of level 99, so what that's my opinion and I never labeled my opinions as being facts (yea yea so what, my opinion needs to be corrected because its incorrect blah blah blah)) but I feel that my goal I set out to do when typing the list up was done fine enough, which was to list the length of the content in game and how much there really is, compared to what really people do today.

I could be wrong but doesnt most MMOs tend to release new content that then makes old content to become dead?

at 75 cap, SE kept almost all events relevant which got us used to the way the game was. Hell good items still came from sky over all these years at 75 cap.

But it seems now instead of giving us new content to get new gear (well, besides legion and I suppose VW), they are just going to go back and revamp old content to make it all relevant again.

I could be wrong but doesnt most MMOs tend to release new content that then makes old content to become dead?

at 75 cap, SE kept almost all events relevant which got us used to the way the game was. Hell good items still came from sky over all these years at 75 cap.

But it seems now instead of giving us new content to get new gear (well, besides legion and I suppose VW), they are just going to go back and revamp old content to make it all relevant again.

Honestly, id rather keep moving forward and get new, fun content, then keep going back and revamping old content.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed doing it, when it was relevant, but even some events that I had done for years (sky, sea, limbus, HNM) got really stale and boring.

We've been level 99 for only a couple of months, it will take time to build the infrastructure back up to what it was. FFXI didn't start on day 1 of 75 cap with 20 things to do, it came progressively.

You do the new content to outfit your character, why can't you also do old content that has relevant gear to outfit your character? If something isn't relevant, in terms of gear/character progression, then that means there is 0 reason to do it. Garrison would fit this example, CoP content would not.

We've been level 99 for only a couple of months, it will take time to build the infrastructure back up to what it was. FFXI didn't start on day 1 of 75 cap with 20 things to do, it came progressively. While I do agree that doing only two events over and over for the current cap gear is mind numbing, old content still has enough relevant equipment and fun enough experiences, though augmented now, to make it worth doing, which was the entire point to begin with.

The rewards from it help, but it wouldn't break you unless you want to be an elitist. I think it is nice to have, and is a great bonus having, but I do not think it would break you not having things from CoP. I think it would enhance the jobs though but not break them.

Did you think that every piece of gear from level 80~95 would remain BiS? A lot of it is in the circumstances that those piece of gear were designed for. Without having something new and more powerful to strive to achieve, the game would get boring after a while, that's the entire business model behind a game like this. Extend the life by extending the content, and to extend the content you have to raise the bar of attainable player strength to make that content worth doing.

Sure some would only do it for fun, but that's the minority.