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

Nah, in Windhelm, ***is racist and ***-backwards as hell there.

what I want to know is.. do the dev's even play ffxi???

Matsui is on the record as saying his highest character was level 40.

Bet he doesn't even gear swap yet.

wish we knew what his char name was so we could treat him badly in game :-D

Criticizing his decisions on a forum is one thing, harassing him directly isn't really cool at all imo.

And I bet he'd be able to harass you much better than you would him.....or simply keystroke ban you....for life....and 3 generations.

Hes kinda unpopular atm so I don't know if he could afford to lose points from that... then again it might depend on who he banned.

Just suggestions that my father and I have been discussing today on how we could upgrade R/E/M. If SE decide to allow us to upgrade them in any other way but Magians.

Relics

New Dynamis area - Castle Zvahl Baileys

It would be like old school dynamis. All monsters are true sight and sound, and be similar to Dynamis Tavnazia, where only eighteen players can enter, as long as they have cleared Dynamis-Xarcabard.

Drops:
-Dynamis Currency
-New Forgotten (Could be renamed) items to upgrade Afv2+2 to Afv3. **
**Afv3 would automatically get the augment from Afv2+2 and increased stats, and may only be upgraded by doing the trial for that augment (and collecting enough of the new item) to upgrade, or possibly require double/triple the amount of the new item to automatically upgrade Afv2+2 to +3.
-New item that need to be collected in order to upgrade Relic 99s. (Will add a severe damage boost augment at the very least.) Will be Exclusive, and may require a decent amount of them.
- Difficult NM that drop a new item (similar to paper/fragment) that may also be needed to add augment(s).
- Possibly, new JSE equipment for other slots (Rings, Earrings etc.)

Of course it would be the most difficult area, and scaled to groups that have acquired the higher level weapons from Seekers of Adoulin (Delve).

Mythics
As Mythics are notoriously much more difficult to obtain, they could introduce a much easier system. Just some ideas:

- Make Neo Salvage bosses drop specific items that need to be collected. Encouraging more Neo Salvage and not having to create new content.

- Create a new BCNM type battlefield that can be done once a week, drops new equipment, but most importantly drops an item 100% (that you may need multiples of) that would be used to augment the Mythic. Certain conditions could be put in place to encourage players to Rank up more in Aht Urhgan/Do more Salvage/Do more Assaults etc.

Empyrean
Empyreans are quite easy to create compared to the other two, so to augment the 99 version should be tougher.

-Introduce a new Abyssea zone, where Afv3+2 can be upgraded to +3, while also having NM that give items needed to upgrade 99s with a new damage augment.

-Make a second fight in Abyssea Empyreal Paradox, like an Arch Shinryu, a six man battlefield where temp items are not allowed, and make it an exceptional challenge that cannot be repeated over and over.

All

Alternatively they could introduce a new battle ground that covers all three in one, like a new area in Provenance (The most neutral place I can think of, and encourages players to clear VW) where you can go in and do content on the level of Delve that will help players to augment their 99s.

What do you think?

Let it be known that you have the coolest dad ever!

I was under the impression that Relics and Empys took around the same amount of money to get to level 99?

I'm not to sure if they should focus on adding content in older areas with the new expansion being out. I do like the idea that R/E/M weapons should be upgraded in their respected expansion.

Of course these suggestions would only ever occur after SE have finished the majority of Seekers content. It shouldn't effect Seekers too much, because anyone progressing in the game, will likely do a little Abyssea, get the standard Seekers gear, do low tier Delves to get a decent weapon, and just progress from there.

Basically you come round in a circle. You go to Outlands/Aht Urhgan/Abyssea to obtain your R/M/E so you can do all the Seekers content, so you can go back and finish your R/M/E.


Yea I'm told this a lot :) He has a 95 Bravura and 90 Ukon, true Warrior.

At current currency rates most relics cost about 10%ish less to 99 than empys. 1500hmp x 50kish each + 60riftdross x 400kish = 99mil each vs 18,000 currency x 5kish each = 90mil

This all depends upon item prices of course. I've seen currencies as low as 4,600 each, hmp as low as 45k, but you have to keep an eye on ah.com for those.

It depends really, Relic requires a lot of money, whereas Abyssea requires teamwork (depending on the one you make).

So any thoughts on the ideas put forward?

That may been true until empy 90. But 90-99 cost 130m for HMP + dross. and 150-160m if you need cinder. I guess that equals out though as a relic to 96 is 120m and +40m for marrows.

ummm, you counted dross and not umbral marrows?

8mil x 5 = 40mil

so Relic: 130mil
Empy: 99mil

the empy to 90 and relic from 75-95 are basically a wash

I kind of wish they would have made the extra dmg a latent instead. have the 99gs with a base of say 129, latent: dmg 240 while in SoA area. Then add the augments and so on. Would have helped counter all the griping about new weapons.

As for the crafted, make dmg scale with the others that are available, but with better stats. Like a dagger with base dmg 53 str 13 dex 13 acc 15, atk 15 dual wield 5% haste 5%, or something to that effect. I'm not sure I like the overpowered new weapons, it kind of royally screwed the scaling of how weapons are each level.

I knew I was forgetting something, my bad, I stand corrected. Been helping a couple ls mates farm their relics, was only looking at the currency to be done, kind of tired of qufim, but no excuss for the derp I spewed.

Well we're not doing the content they way they designed it to be. The rage "hyper mode" timers on the NMs were supposed to be a form of gear check. If you couldn't beat it in 20m or less then you were expected to go back and gear everyone up. SE expected us to farm out Wildkeeper weapons and other stuffs then do the Tier 1~3 and get their drops fully upgraded then do the Tier IV~V nms and get those upgrades ~then~ attempt the boss's. SE, not playing the game, didn't realize we knew how to zombie / slowly kill sh!t using PLD's and SATA WS from the old days of Sky / Sea. So we've essentially skipped the entire front part of that ladder and we're at the end.

Does he even lift?

Pretty much every developer underestimates the creativity and cleverness of the player base, but honestly, SE should know better by now.

perhaps if Skirmish was half as easy to enter as Delve was, we might have bothered doing things in the "correct" order. instead, putting together the three items for Skirmish is a pain in the *** whereas getting into Delve is downright simple.

Even with that logic it makes no sense. The Wildskeeper Reive weapons aren't going to back that big a difference against Delve NMs, Skirmish is setup as a rare event (unless you're sitting on bundles of cash) and the Bayld armor upgrades again aren't huge upgrades moreso light replacements for a handful of pieces.

The way SE has things setup Delve makes sense to approach first since you can farm points indefinitely without a cooldown and the upgrades are potent gamechangers rather than the limp Bayld armor and the random deal Skirmish weaps.

The wildkeeper and skirmish stuff were all for the Tier 1 ~ 3 Delve NMs, you know to kill them before they "rage" and instantly wipe everyone (what SE thought would happen). We were then supposed to get that armor and futilely throw ourselves against the higher content while failing miserably most of the time (think original Legion implementation). Kinda like how NNI was when it first came out, a carrot on an infinitely long stick. As players we're smarter then they are and find the loopholes and mechanisms to bypass their artificial limiters. That's the real reason for the upcoming nerf to field Delve NMs. Their shocked that we actually found a way around their content and now their trying to think of ways to stop people from grinding out a 2+ hr fight.

You forgot umbrals.

Even that doesn't matter. At least two of the Shard IV and V NMs are mostly trivial even with pre-Adoulin gear provided that you're willing to make the epic sacrifice that is having your BRDs use their 2(1) hour ability. Even if the third zone (Morimar) didn't have a NM capable of being beaten flat (I think the Peiste is easy or something, I haven't done it) - the NMs in Ceizak and Foret give access to the new Great Sword, Great Katana, Hand to Hand, Scythe, etc. which after a few hours of plasm farming would give people the ability to smack down the TIV-V in Morimar - rendering the whole point of Skirmish futile.

As I posted on the OFs:


Most of the time, I'm capable of analyzing the dev team's actions and seeing where they're coming from. But to be pefectly honest, more than ever, it seems like they just don't understand the mechanics of the game for which they are designing content.

Are people still bitching here?

Still some bitching, but mostly just discussing the state of things because it's less boring than Reives.

Ok good, now Ill read, thanks Rooks!