Matsui: "Don't Throw Away Your R/M/E Weapons Yet"

I agree and hope so. Where we differ in opinion is the scale of the consequences SE should suffer for their ***.

Currently the Rare/Ex weapons from Delve out do most of the R/E/Ms. They are also extremely easy to get. An alliance I did yesterday took about 4 hours to kill the #5 Crab NM in Foret de Henetiel. We unlocked several weapons which are all superior and require only 30,000 Delve points to get them. This means it takes about 11 runs of farming a Delve fracture for 45 minutes per run.

Even the easiest Empyrian to get to 85 requires several days of work what with farming the 100 items and doing the trials. Getting it to 99 is a different story. In Delve we have items that can out damage 99 R/E/Ms and take around 2 days at most to get.

Here is my question: WTF WAS SE THINKING?!?

They really should have waited on these weapons until they updated the R/E/Ms or made these weapons waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay harder to get.

doesn't need to be best, just competitive, that's all I ask for, and I am willing to work hard for that. It is sad but true that I would rather do 3 times what it takes to get the 30,000 point KI weapons and upgrade my relic to maybe 90-95% as good as the 30,000 point weapons than just flat out replace my relic with it. It was never about that marginal gain, but when you make it completely destroy relic without giving us a chance, that's personal.

I'm starting to just think it's funny how wildly out of touch the development team is.

As much as I would like to piss & moan some more, where's the better game? I haven't been able to find it, or I would've quit sending my sweet titty american dollars over to japan long ago.

Booze

I have not bought my mules Adoulin and will likely deactivate them instead of doing so. It has been a long time coming, and I have enough gil/items. Plus, given the difficulty of Delve content, it is hard to argue for keeping them around.

while I agree, I played that one pretty throughly from 16-24 or so. it gets old.

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to be honest, I mostly had to slow down because I turn into a lusty man *** when intoxicated. It's pretty great, but not so conducive to married life. :(

Guild Wars 2. Only reason I hadn't quit this game is because I've played so long and have gotten attached to the familiar surroundings and people.

One reason I say Guild Wars 2 is simply because Arena Net actually listens and cares about their players. The game is free after you initially buy it as there are no monthly fees. Free updates constantly with no reused content. They have some quality programmers in that company.

At that point you're supposed to upgrade to wine

You can even post on /r/wine to talk to other people with superior intoxication techniques

Same for me. I have zero interest in bringing my mules to Adoulin, even if that means dusting off my own WHM gear.

I'm probably going to take advantage of the crash in currency + plates to whip up a ghorn + derpderpala so I can do events while watching Netflix

I usually load up on PS3/Xbox games when XI looses its luster. Fable V is supposed to be good.

I have also been considering this. 25/75 souls!

dont do it ;_; http://www.ffxiah.com/player/Asura/Fondle#equip I would have liked to play other mages on him but nobody will let me!

I actually brought mine over but it only cost 9.99 so I said why not. I hate playing them there though lol but they still come in handy for some things.

They were nice for doing reives during that one-month span when reives were relevant content.

SE is the soup nazi. You can't stand to deal with them but you just can't get a better product elsewhere.

For what it's worth, I do ascribe value to my experiences. I spent a lot of time over the course of five months making my Ryunohige. (I came back to the game after a 6-month break or so, and only had 12 mil, so I had to earn it as I went.) And I'm a parent to a baby under a year old, so every bit of free time that I get is valuable.

But while I can see and understand where the distress from other R/M/E-holders is coming from, I don't exactly feel it myself. A few months down the line, if it becomes apparent that they aren't going to do anything to make my commitment valuable, it may bother me more then. To me, personally, there's just no value in getting worked up now when I haven't given myself a chance to see (a.) how I really feel about the change when I've spent some time experiencing it, and (b.) what, if anything, is actually going to happen with the R/M/E thing.

Don't get me wrong. I have a mythic, so I'm invested in how it all turns out. I'm just more of a wait-and-see sort of person. I do the best I can with what I've got, and give myself time to see how my perspective shifts as I (potentially) gain more experience/knowledge with whatever my problem is. And I've done this (and am currently doing this) with far more consequential things than the future state of my mythic weapon in FFXI.

From my perspective, I do find it a bit strange that people are reacting the way they are so strongly and so quickly, but I understand that not everyone handles things the way I do. That being said, I hardly think that my attitude about it means I've ascribed any less value to my achievements than anyone else.

As I stated, but I could be wrong, I think delve's weapons are base.
The only thing that made me sad is that SE said we'll have to toss our REM because of those after having used them a last time just to transfer the ws on new weapons.
If we have to make our REM to 99 and use them with base delve to make an ultimate weapon (by synergizing) that is completely different then I'm ok. If not that just plain sucks.
And of course they have to give ultimate weapon a cool skin.

In the mean time, I've been playing FF 4HOL, since I'm not exactly sure what I'm building towards on XI, but hey, maxed out Spell Fencer. Not bringing me down like RUN's uselessness.

Pretty much this. There is content where they would help, but I find dual boxing annoying and there is no content like Salvage where they are necessary. I only really missed them during the brief period where people cared enough to cleave skirmish ***. Now that Delve looks difficult to lowman and their outlined personal moogle island minigame looks soloish, I think I can cancel them. Makes me happy that I never got them ghorn, daurd, etc. because then I would almost certainly keep them active.

Pretty much the same place you did, except I took the 3 seconds required to convert yen to dollars.

haha wow

you seriously do not understand how much of a *** you sound like


protip: they get to decide whether or not they want to keep playing a video game

you can try to understand or not, but which you choose pretty much determines whether or not you've earned the right to call somebody a "close friend"

This will probably end up like New Coke

SE will do something to satiate the players but we'll end up with high fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar anyway

Or bring back vanilla coke

This is unfortunate. Right when semester is winding down I come back to read this BS.

They never took vanilla coke away.. I can still get it in stores. Crystal Pepsi however I'd totally be down for them to bring back!

They did in england for ages, although they brought it back recently.

Can you still get 'Urge' over there? [discontinued American Surge]
I'll ship you some Vanilla Coke if you can get me some Urge!
Ahh.. tastes like the 90's.