April 29, 2013 Version Update

Just from reading accounts on BG, the strategies for a few of the NMs looks pretty varied. Think it's a bit too early to assume such a rigid group composition is required.

I still wouldn't count on BST/PUP/SMN having much to do either way though, lol.

I don't and I find that to be a severe design flaw if the top tier ***is required to be considered even functional. I sorta sympathize with this kind of update but not in the way I'd have preferred it to occur.

I'd have rather the team actually fix the inbalance of jobs to respectable levels where they aren't all "doing the same ***" but more along the lines of having exact and but very effective niches that can be useful for most battles.

Edit: Oh and the jobs capable of doing their roles effectively without needing to have the "end all/be all" weapon. But seeing as this new content is aimed at the top players I can see it's current set up as somewhat acceptable in context.

On lower content, there is no reason to bring Pld.

Old Top tier gear being required to do new top tier events is a design flaw? :/
Also if you really want to go pld, currency prices are plummeting and the costs of making an aegis arent nearly as prohibitive as they used to be.

SMN is actually quite useful on anything that punishes you for being close to it

Good news! Would be even better news if they would allow SMN to unlock a stronger avatar "DMG" level akin to the new weapons. I suppose they couldn't just allow it naturally because it would be like handing someone one of those weapons without doing anything for it. (Full SMN Delve PT!) But maybe new staves that gave avatars that sort of DMG level, or an item to unlock it through Delve or something.

top top tier needed for new top I'm fine with I'm just tired of REQUIRING top gear for content that as of now is no longer top tier. aka needed rag99 for nni or some nonsense.

How hard are these new weapons to get? Someone in a party I was fcing for had one.

Se try to make ppl quit ffxi so they start ffiv.But i say !!NO WAY!! I wont touch another SQUAERE ENIX GAMES again.Thank you se for wasting my time doing hnm/dynamis at lvl 75 to get relics that arent worth ***now.Normal i would say now !!take care se!! but i like to say i hope u have a bad future and all this ppl that have made those new weapons possibe will loose there jobs and bring me some McRibbs later when they work at a place where their brians are made for.If se arent pimp R/E/M soon all ffxi player will quit and start to play other morpgs.Everyone that isnt from se have a nice live and take care.Im Done with se.

No one wasted your time. No one promised you that your relic would be the best thing you could use forever.

Not completely sure what the economy is like in japan now, but going from game design for a major company to making mcribs(Is it even Mcrib season?) is one hell of a drop.

People are obviously quitting over this, but it's silly to think this is actually going to kill the game.

With those new weapons dynamis abyssea and VW died.Who will do dyna aby or VW for weak weapons?From now ffxi only has one event that is usefull and thats adouline and maybee Salvage v2 for the 3 4 usefull gear pieces.

so i havent been on in a week and they added 100+ dmg daggers and 250+ ga/gs/scythe..wtf?

And Garrison. Don't forget about Garrison.

Run away as fast as you can and never look back.

its sad that i'm considering it more after looking at this nonsense :/

what exactly is the plan with REM? you can upgrade them but you need afterglow first D: rude

There was an Ig-Alima(Though clearly more for gil and not Borealis) shout like 30 minutes ago, filled up pretty fast.

There are 12 people in Dyna-Valkurm right now, 6 in Qufim, and 4 in Buburimu. That's not so bad considering the time and day. Currency prices were falling before adoulin and that's led to fewer people bothering to spend that two hours in there.

I saw 4-5 different groups doing Carabossse yesterday while I was doing my own. Of course Arma wasn't really replaced like the others, but still. Emp making has been slowing down for a good while now, even before Adoulin.

Delve is absolutely the most important event in XI now, not going to try and deny that. There's still a good chunk of people that have little chance of really getting the clears to unlock gear though.
New gear existing doesn't make older things absolutely useless immediately, and not ever single thing pre-update was replaced.

Last I remember, Afterglow wasn't a requirement at all, just 99. And I think(i think) upgrading may not be their current plan.