Dev Tracker - Discussion

It's no secret that I love ffxi's story content, but I recognize how much of an opportunity cost a new mini expansion would be. If they are dedicated several years of work on new content, it wouldn't make sense to make that content 1-time quests that reward some need accessories.

That having been said, we've heard this aversion to new stories before... If and when FFXI' budget gets a bump and they are still singing the same tune, that would be more cause for concern.

I think it's that they are spacing out the gear after all. Next is AF / Relic upgrades to be more in line with existing Odysea / Emby +3. I think maybe next year we might see Ambu +3 gear to be slightly under them.


Woah there, that's asking too much. Gotta keep expectations manageable.

Honestly. VR story was so bad I wish they will just use resources to make fun content.

Thus spake Saevel, the idiot sandwich.

Fucshia. We've talked about this.

Pretty sure they also said that Sortie bosses would have weapon/armor drops added to them, years ago. They say a lot of things.

It did say the opposite.

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Had to double check because I've been telling people the wrong thing lol.

Ok maybe this came out stronger than it sounded in my head lol

Still though, SE hasn't had a "hard requirement" of 18man for content in a very long time if ever? and SE has said for a long while now they are making adjustments for newer players and making the game more solo friendly, Sortie was that partially for at least the +2 upgrades to empy and now Limbus is going to fulfill that even more.

Imo not having alliancable content has hurt the game more than help, as my LS is now 1/3 of the size that it was 3-4 years ago, a bit after ody released and then sortie was not going to be alliance content.

You all are acting like all content is either party or alliance. They've had scaling content for a long time

I really hope this does give EP on par with Apex monsters, but maybe not Locus. I like the idea of farming something else and getting progress towards Master Levels without just having to mindlessly kill EP designed monsters. It would be a nice "kill time" kind of content where I can do a few hours here and there and upgrade JSE, while also getting a few points on a variety of jobs.

1000000% this.

The other thing that's nice about alliance content is that it's generally easier to include people who might be at a lower level of gear/skill, but still allow them to participate in a "real" endgame event and improve by doing the same fun thing the rest of the LS is doing. And hey, that helps them get leveled up in both gear and in familiarity with the new hotness, so those people CAN level their performance by participating in the big new event.

It sort of sucks that newer or improving players have a harder time being good contributors in something like Gaol or Sortie, where 6 slots only means way less wiggle room. I mean, yeah, you can tell those players to go mess with stuff like Ambu or Seg farming instead, but I much prefer the more inclusive approach of just letting LS groups carry some people and bring them along. It's an MMO, it's about participating in content with other people. So having large scale group events that can better accomodate a wider array of people is only a good thing to me.

Current meta isnt scaling. I covered this earlier though.


Current endgame content is built around having a strict six people. You cant do the content with less than six and obtain respectable results.

Can you do Sheol with 4? of course. Are you gonna get anywhere near a full clear with 4? No, not even close.
Can you do Gaol with 4? Of course. Are you gonna get any further than V5 with 4? Maybe if you're lucky, but thats a very tall order. I know unlocks are doable solo with trusts (and thats only because they removed the enmity lock on summoning trusts)
Can you do sortie with 4? Of course. But you're probably gonna wind up with 20k muffins per run.

Yeah. I agree with this. My earlier point was against allowing alliance and making it so difficult that now you need two 9-boss sortie static to get anything done.

If it's more like what you are saying, where some weaker players can actually be carried by stronger players, that would be super cool. Much more engaging for the community as well.