Rough Draft: Q&A 2008 Thread.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Rough Draft: Q&A 2008 Thread.

Jotting these questions down before I forget them:

• When SCH was introduced to the game, the development team stated that they felt SCH wasn't a mage, but yet, as of the March 2008 update in which SCH was completed, it pretty much can assimilated any mage role quite capably sans Summoning, Haste and Refresh. What are your plans for WHM, RDM, BLM and SMN now that SCH can assimilate most of thier supportive and offensive aspects and how do you plan to make these jobs more unique?

• SCH and PUP are the only jobs that do not have questable weaponskills due to thier low ratings in weapons. Are there any plans for another questable spell for SCH or an automation frame for PUP so they both can have a similar quested ability or Weaponskill that other jobs presently enjoy?

• Will DNC and SCH be getting unique JSEs akin to CoP level 72 JSEs or perhaps be added to one of the existing CoP JSEs? Similarly, are there any plans for these jobs to be added to existing abjuration gear?

[ItazuraNhomango]

Re: Rough Draft: Q&A 2008 Thread.

I don't think search comment is nearly as much of an NA/JP thing as people say either, I don't think I can remember ever seeing an NA friend seek without a search comment up. It's much more do with what level and what job is seeking.

Well, my own experiences seem to differ. I tend to seek at "in between" time, around 11 p.m. or 12 p.m. PDT, which is 3 or 4 p.m. JST, which is the tail end of NA hours and before the start of JP prime time. So, people online tend to be about half and half in terms of English and Japanese speakers.

Levels do make a difference; just about every trip through Valkrum Dunes, almost all the people seeking with search comments have them in Japanese. On many nights, I was the only person with English in search comments.

At Lv.75, certainly I see many more English comments--around 50% or less of people with 'E' or 'JE' have search comments. At least 90% of the seekers with 'J' flag up have comments, though, by comparison.

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I don't think adding more features to the search system would necessarily mean people would use comments more or better utilize the search system. Also, don't think more comment length is needed; longer paragraphs just means fewer people would read.

As is, when I set type to "others" and put in "Linkshell Event", I'd get merit party invites with seek flag up during NA prime time. People in U.S. are not even paying attention to the existing features and comments, more of anything wouldn't make much of a difference.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Rough Draft: Q&A 2008 Thread.

As is, when I set type to "others" and put in "Linkshell Event", I'd get merit party invites with seek flag up during NA prime time. People in U.S. are not even paying attention to the existing features and comments, more of anything wouldn't make much of a difference.

I find this to be especially true if I'm in Ve'Lugannon Palace or Dynamis-Windurst. Come on, it's pretty obvious I'm not looking for a merit party in one of those places. Especially Dynamis.

[Jonastb]

Re: Rough Draft: Q&A 2008 Thread.

I would love to ability to seek on multiple jobs at once. This would be much easier than trying to guess at what job might be invited at that time. I am leveling SCH and BLM and meriting on MNK. I would love to put all three up and go craft or farm, and wait for an invite on one of them. This would sure as hell beat getting all dolled up for SCH to go and sit in the Dunes and wait and wait and wait, and find out later I could have gotten a merit party on MNK instead. A lot less wasted time!