99 Relic-Class Weapons

[Romyro]

Re: 99 Relic-Class Weapons

most are speculating it's just a filler number. the relic item (from what i've read) drops of Arch Dynamis Lord.
i personally think it's going to be 5 or 10 of said items. all i can do is pray.

If not, i'm pefrectly fine with a 95 Guttler and soon to be 90 Farsha.

And if Alex is easier to come by in with the new nyzul. I'm cool with a 95 Amyur as well.

they beat any 99 ToM/Droppable axe anyway.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: 99 Relic-Class Weapons

I certainly hope Alex will be easier to come by. Once I finish my Armageddon, a Nirvana is my next mission. As previously stated... that is my end all beat all "I've done it all" goal. I know it'll take me forever and a day to gather 30k Alex, tons of Inchor and all the other crap I need... but It'll be worth it in in the end when I can say I finally made what I've been drooling over for 5 years.

[Malacite]

Re: 99 Relic-Class Weapons

most are speculating it's just a filler number. the relic item (from what i've read) drops of Arch Dynamis Lord.
i personally think it's going to be 5 or 10 of said items. all i can do is pray.

If not, i'm pefrectly fine with a 95 Guttler and soon to be 90 Farsha.

And if Alex is easier to come by in with the new nyzul. I'm cool with a 95 Amyur as well.

they beat any 99 ToM/Droppable axe anyway.

More like 50~100 ... I wouldn't put it past SE.

It's shit like this that's keeping me on the fence about resubbing. The prevailing theory at BG is that the old FFXI dev team that went and FUBAR'd XIV, is now back on XI hence the recent slew of weak updates since Abyssea's conclusion.

[Romyro]

Re: 99 Relic-Class Weapons

While 50-100 is entirely possible. That seems like an insane amount of work and I can’t see why a company would make such a grueling task that only less than 1% of the population will ever experience. The game is old, now isn’t the time to add completely ridiculous time sinks. That just seems a little too extreme. Even for SE.
I don’t think a full relic/mythic should be easy, but even casual players can get relics now if they put in the time (it still takes plenty of time for the casual to get a relic mind you).

I’m 80% sure that I’ll be at a 95 Guttler forever. Which I’m totally cool with. Maybe they’ll only make it 5 or 10 and I can find some LS that will merc the items for me. guess I should start saving gil now…

It's shit like this that's keeping me on the fence about resubbing

Really…stuff like THIS is what’s keeping you from resubbbing?

Lets get real…you don’t even have a relic do you? From posts here and on BG all I recall is you having an 85 emp GK…which still took you longer than any emp should take. And I’m willing to bet your 0/75 for 90 trial as well as 0/1500 for 95. A 99 emp/relic/mythic is not in your future regardless of how easy they make it.

How is something that doesn’t pertain to you in any way keeping you from resubbing?

[Malacite]

Re: 99 Relic-Class Weapons

While 50-100 is entirely possible. That seems like an insane amount of work and I can’t see why a company would make such a grueling task that only less than 1% of the population will ever experience. The game is old, now isn’t the time to add completely ridiculous time sinks. That just seems a little too extreme. Even for SE.
I don’t think a full relic/mythic should be easy, but even casual players can get relics now if they put in the time (it still takes plenty of time for the casual to get a relic mind you).

I’m 80% sure that I’ll be at a 95 Guttler forever. Which I’m totally cool with. Maybe they’ll only make it 5 or 10 and I can find some LS that will merc the items for me. guess I should start saving gil now…


Really…stuff like THIS is what’s keeping you from resubbbing?

Lets get real…you don’t even have a relic do you? From posts here and on BG all I recall is you having an 85 emp GK…which still took you longer than any emp should take. And I’m willing to bet your 0/75 for 90 trial as well as 0/1500 for 95. A 99 emp/relic/mythic is not in your future regardless of how easy they make it.

How is something that doesn’t pertain to you in any way keeping you from resubbing?

You mean like how they originally designed relics and especially mythics?!.

Yes, I can 100% believe they would be that asinine. Or were you not around when most relics took 200+ million gil to complete? (or a LS willing to slave away at farming for you)

[Romyro]

Re: 99 Relic-Class Weapons

You have your thoughts about it, I have mine. You say 50-100, I say 5-10. We are certainly entitled to our own opinions. SE has made a lot of odd decisions in the past but none that extreme if you ask me. If you don’t like the trial, by all means bitch away.

But its comments like this that annoy me.

It's shit like this that's keeping me on the fence about resubbing

‘OMG, SE is making some stupid decisions on something I’ll never have. Now I’m definitely not coming back!!!’

that makes a lot of sense.

I think i'm gonna quit now. I don’t like what they’ve done with the DRK job. For the record, I don’t have drk unlocked, nor do I plan on ever unlocking it. But so what, SE ruined it, I"M OUT!

If you’re not gonna re-subscribe...fine, at least blame it on the new shit you’re going to actually participate in.

Or were you not around when most relics took 200+ million gil to complete? (or a LS willing to slave away at farming for you)

I was there 6 years ago when they cost 200m+. I was also there 6 or 7 months ago when my Guttler would have cost 195m (had I straight up bought it). Don’t be fooled, a relic is still extremely expensive and/or time consuming. Just easier to obtain gil/currency.

[Malacite]

Re: 99 Relic-Class Weapons

Yeah except for the first time ever, Empyrean Weapons were actually accessible to the masses - SE seemingly learned from the horrible design flaws of Relic and worse yet Mythic (the requirements just to get the basic mythic are still complete BS and no amount of gil can expedite the process like it could with relic or to a lesser degree empyrean).

Case in point, I loved my masamune and was working on several others because even just at 85, they they were just beyond the pale in terms of power.

Then along comes the 95 update with a bogus upgrade quest for all the 95 weapons (but especially Empyrean, giving us a taste of what Relic & Mythic owners had to put up with) and just a lack of genuinely interesting things. 99 update did much of the same, mostly flash and very little substance.

So yeah, if they're going back to how they used to do things, then they can forget about me resubscribing. Abyssea was the first real dose of fun I'd had with the game since the early days of WotG - a good 2 years really now that I think about it, and obviously they couldn't continue it forever but there's no reason to go back to the arduous, archaic ideas of the old dev team either.

They really should just sack Tanaka already. He's done some truly impressive things, but the guy just refuses to get with the times. Less Tanaka, more Yoshi P.