Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

[Akashimo]

Re: Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

Probably a weapon maybe. Everyone likes showing trophy weapons in cities while afk.

Body, eh, I got too many.
Hands, see body.
Feet, with exception to pld, probally best option for reward piece.
Head, better not be another glory crown.
Back. I see no problem there.

[Malacite]

Re: Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

I was going to say feet but there are some pretty good foot equips and that's not an accessory slot


My only beef with using the Neck slot is that Sea Torques are f'ing amazing for their respective jobs. Though, when considering the effort and likelyhood of getting one it's a fair compromise.

[LilithAngel]

Re: Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

I simply macro in my Light and Shadow Gorgets when I pop my WSs off. The rest of the time is spent wearing Chiv Chain.

Chuchulain's accessories seem to be rather popular lately, and for good reason, so that's another thing to work for. Any reward for finishing Wings should be at least as good as its own accessoris.

[TheGrandMom]

Re: Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

Aren't we getting a bit ahead of ourselves? We are assuming that whatever reward we are given will actually be worth using. I wouldn't get to worried about what slot or it conflicting with another piece of valuable armor just yet.

[Raydeus]

Re: Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

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I don't care about gear, they can give an (Insect wing) as reward for all I care. I just hope the fights are good and the rest of the story interesting.

Although I seriously doubt even Altana herself would be as epic as Prishe.

[Ziero]

Re: Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

Neck.

Waist is too good 48-75 with Life Belt, they'd have to introduce something absurd to replace Life Belt.

Back is too good with Amemet Mantle and stuff like Boxer's or Cerberus's, same thing.

Although in my opinion Feet is an even more useless slot for a lot of jobs for a really large part of the game, but that won't fly.

"Congratulations of saving the very fabric of time, space and the universe itself! Here, have some shoes~"

My money's on neck piece.

[Nuriko]

Re: Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

But you can NEVER have too many pairs of shoes...

[Balfree]

Re: Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

I'm like that but with hats.

[TheGrandMom]

Re: Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

I'm like that but with hats.

OMG I have a hat for you Bal! It's something thats big mostly in our state. LOL I would so send one to you too! LOLOLOLOLOL KingOfZeal will know what I'm talking about!

[Balfree]

Re: Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

I can give you my address.

Shipping costs its weight in gold though ><

[TheGrandMom]

Re: Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

My nephew was in London for a few years and I used to send him "care boxes" of food from the states. It would be at least $50 shipping for one box of $20 of food. So I know the rapage....been there, done that.

[Balfree]

Re: Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

Yeah. I've imported goods from yon country much cheaper than that, I guess it can depend on many things.

[Malacite]

Re: Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

But you can NEVER have too many pairs of shoes...

Not funny @.@

for my MNK I already have like 4 or 5 pairs and I still need my Relic...

[Karinya]

Re: Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

Back, Waist and Neck are still viable for mission rewards. I think adding more earrings would just further diminish the value of things like Diabolo's of Fenrir's earrings. I'd like at least some of the avatar rewards to count for something.

Back and waist would clash with CoP Dynamis belts and capes, as well as sea obis, the MNK belts and some capes from Limbus (boxer's, etc.). Oh, and the capes that come from ix'aerns. Neck would conflict with sea torques (both the skill and ws types) for melees - for mages there's a variety of not-too-awesome neck items (the bcnm skill torques, ugg pendant, etc.) that you could probably surpass fairly easily.

Every piece of equipment is going to conflict with other equipment in the same slot - it's the nature of equipment - but monks would have a right to be pissed if they had to choose between black belt or the mission reward, I think. The awesomeness of monk belts relative to other belts has probably already been taken into account in job balancing, so by pushing everyone to the same level of belt quality, monks would lose a comparative advantage. On the other hand if the new belts were "only" on the level of Ninurta's Sash, why would a brown belted monk be interested?

Frankly, I don't envy the dev team the task of designing stats on new items so that players will want them but they won't push power levels too far. There's only so many ways you can slice that (especially when you consider how much players can gain from gear swapping). I think they may be forced into a situation where new rewards aren't better, just different, and players who already have *all* the old stuff have little to gain from the new stuff.

[Ziero]

Re: Wings of the Goddess Missions! (11/25/2008)

Back and waist would clash with CoP Dynamis belts and capes, as well as sea obis, the MNK belts and some capes from Limbus (boxer's, etc.). Oh, and the capes that come from ix'aerns. Neck would conflict with sea torques (both the skill and ws types) for melees - for mages there's a variety of not-too-awesome neck items (the bcnm skill torques, ugg pendant, etc.) that you could probably surpass fairly easily.

Not one of those things is a Mission reward. They're good items, but there are already great rings and earrings outside of the storyline's gear. Infact many people take Snipers+1 over Ulth's ring because outside of ToAU events, it's really not that great.

Mission rewards should be great, but not the absolute best over every other possible option in every possible situation. And a new neck piece could easily be added to fit that spot.