A Message From Your Producer, Akihiko Matsui

i remember back when it was hip to dualwield war for meritparties.

remember that time when you had a use for that ridill?

i don't...

8D

Sorry I ain't getting this reference. Is this just full on sarcasm or?

back then, all the ridill dualwield wars thought they were kingshit, but in reality (lol, lack of better term here) ridill is a terribad weapon.

I ended up one of those polearm sams that would probably make you look like garbage if we ever partied lol. I would like to blame all of that on Tigerwoods. Him and I would always try to "outparse" each other everytime we go. we'd make a night of it (inb4 bromance)

but yea, was fun lol. (and yes i did lose pretty much everytime, not by much though, because he had salvage gear and i didn't QQ etc )

so many times i lost to him by like 1-2% X_x one time it even got to the point where we were actually eating [good] food at birds, so we could get higher % on the parse. no *** given LOL

Oh I see, why would a WAR use a Ridill in a Merit party when they can use a polearm?? xD Some silly people out there.

war always did more damage with Greataxe, even with the piercing bonus from polearm.

also;

youmad.

Lol yea, he did make me mad years ago, not anymore though :P

Also I partied with this awesome Warrior using Polearm once, he was just decimating more then I had ever seen in a merit party, I never saw a WAR doing more damage with a GA. Guess I partied with the wrong warriors lol.

You guys must of started with the EU / ToAU release.

Prior to then "merit parties" were not on colibri but on deco weapons, tigers / cockatrices or even demons on the mountain. RR didn't crit and instead was a generic 3 hit WS and typically did about 500~600 damage, there was no Hasso and 2H got the same Acc / Atk as 1H.

At that time WAR's would go /NIN for the 20% DW bonus (25% increase in melee DPS) and spam Rampage with a Maneater / Ridill or Maneater / Joy. You used those off hand weapons for their multi-attack nature to build up TP faster for more Rampage spam. Great Axe was awesome in the lower levels for Shield Break (-40 evasion), once you got access to Rampage you went full time Axe. It was like this for years until SE finally buffed the sh!t out of 2H and altered half the 2H WS's to make them good.

I remember those days, but I didn't reach 75 til Aht Urhgan had just been released. I knew of those parties and how awesome Rampage was, I even had people tell me to level axes on DRK just for that reason.

I don't see why those players would use this if they aren't already willing to look for the information themselves.

Lol, I see you still have your sense of humour. Well done.

***gets real so quickly here, you guys must have nothing better to do.

As for the job tutorials thing, I guess you're right. Its a sucky idea, idiots will be idiots, I should have thought that one through a little bit more.

What page was your post and what name i will read it and if i like it then i will give it a like.

I think SE should make a new system where we can convert our merits to exp and depending on the jobs level is how much exp you can convert.Like you have to be lvl 10 to use it and 1 merit gives you 1k exp and then every 10 levels you can get a increase in the amount of exp.

I am sorry but no that would be over powered and i cant think of any way to change this i am sorry this is a really bad idea.

LOL.

They already have higher base damage (and higher fSTR cap as a result), so I don't see how this isn't in play regardless. By that sort of logic, two-hand weapons having higher accuracy than one-hand weapons is absurd and needs to be nerfed.

Yes, that's so overpowered compared to Abyssea and GoV.

Side note: complaining about Abyssea parties should be a bannable offense. FFXI is different from most MMOs in that it never really had any sort of midgame, and we're tired of explaining why leveling "the right way" is not beneficial to a player. Shut up and move on.

Well they really need to let us get more than 3 merit ws or hurry and add new merit groups, cause I dont have anything to use merits on.

There is so much already wrong with XI but people continue to complain about something that changed the game for the better for nearly every player.

The ability to level nearly any job without discrimination, long LFP times vanished, repetitive sync parties made obsolete, ability to make gil while partying enabled and EXP variety left up to the player? So much win the game desperately needed.

As for leeching? People sucked in EXP and they continue to suck in Abyssea so forcing 6man parties will do nothing to "improve skill" as the opponents so frequently love to drill home.

I really do wish for MMM style EXP parties with loot though. Work your way through a maze killing trash mobs to reach a chest at the end with potentially good lvl-99 loot. Quick, fun, effective and a nod back to the days gone by without ruining Abyssea.

I just miss the slow transformation of your character going from level 1 to 75. As you leveled your armor changed, you learned new spells, and visited a variety of areas. If you were adventurous you could even go to unpopular leveling locations for a slight hit in EXP/hr, but you could fight things you normally wouldn't in EXP parties like demons.

I'm not saying I would want to go back to that, because it is still available to players who wish to do so. The only challenge is finding players who would want to do the same. I personally like to explore and try different things and part of the game for me was leveling in a new area at each stage. Level Sync, and ultimately FoV/GoV/Abyssea, made that part of the game pointless when you could just get it all over within a few hours.

Did it for a number of jobs back in the day. Had my fill of it. I liked the actual parties, but I don't think I'd ever do it again, not for XI at least.

Lets remain on topic and less of the butthurt pics since they aren't related. No more name calling even in jest.

I was using rampage in abyssea when it first came out.
I was mad.

Real mad.


Brah.


NEVER GOING BACK!
I told myself.

But.
There.
I was.


:(

08-27-2012 01:13 PM [source]
Akihiko Matsui Dev Team		Thank you so much for the large amount of comments! There are a huge amount of suggestions from Japan, North America, and Europe, but I will be looking over each and every post that followed the instructions, and will be taking it all into consideration as I think about the future of FINAL FANTASY XI and the mutual feelings of the community. I also have one more request for you all. I hope that you all could read over all of the posts in this thread (of course, reading over what you can is fine, too). After playing with your friends for so long, you often start to think and play the same way as them, including your linkshell members, and players that you spend a lot of time with and grow close to. In this thread there are posts from these people as well as people who think in a completely different way. I’d like you to try and understand what adventurers other than yourself are thinking and looking for. In order to continue to protect the FINAL FANTASY XI that we all love, we need everyone's cooperation or we'll be unable to accomplish anything. I'd like to place more importance on the community and work side-by-side with you all. From here on out I would appreciate it if you could consider the fact that there are people in the community who think in a variety of different ways and to sometimes write your feedback and opinions from an open-minded standpoint. Thank you all very much!
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