Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

[Malacite]

Re: Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

I got a feeling this will be a big hit.

Garrison sucked because you had to go out and farm orders, and then gather a lot of people and someone to kite/sleep the last mob... it just wasn't very fun, and quite frankly the rewards sucked.

Plus, some of the higher ones were insane; Xarcabard is a death sentence. Perhaps if they'd removed the death penalty from it it might have seen more action but quite frankly I'm happy to see that SE trending more and more towards low-man events.

Now if they would only increase Dynamis drop rates even more and cut the time limit to a flat 120 minutes it'd be perfect. I don't know about the rest of you but personally I can fucking stand to do any one activity on this game for more than 2 hours anymore. While they're at it they can drop some of those ridiculous NM "???" respawns too.


Lastly, while this is in no way a pressing matter, a feature to turn off battle music altogether would be nice. Sometimes, particularly in WotG and Sky I happen to like the music in the surrounding area and don't care to have it interrupted every 30 seconds. Oh, sorry, thought of one more gripe; how about fixing the auto-target option already?


Seriously what the fuck SE; I'm tired of turning it off only to still end up auto-attacking mobs after they die in dynamis. WHY HAS THIS GONE UN-FIXED FOR SO LONG?!

[Armando]

Re: Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

While they're at it they can drop some of those ridiculous NM "???" respawns too.

Like Hakutaku.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

Why does every topic Malacite posts in turn into some kind of wishlist?

[LilithAngel]

Re: Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

Besides, and correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they add some option to turn off battle music already in a recent update (the one that let mages and other bystanders in the party hear it when a fight occurs)?

It also seems like Mal's wishlist of stuff grows with every update, asking for more and more stuff. Kinda makes you wonder why he bothers, since we all know, even him, that he'll NEVER be satisfied with any update, ever.

Even if SE some how brain farts and adds Mystic Knight, Mal will find a way to bitch about it ("This isn't the Mystic Knight I'd have added...").

Nothing personal Mal, but your posts (read: rants) tend to be comedy in that regard. Keep doin what ya do, tho. It's why I like DiV. Kooky people.

[Satimasu]

Re: Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

It's called /autotarget off.

[Ziero]

Re: Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

It's nice to see more low-man stuff that's fun and profitable, and not a total hassle like Assault.

My buddy who's having a horrible time struggling with his 64 BLM will love this!

The only hassle with assaults is getting people to do them. But a half decent LS is all you need to fix that.

And to be honest, I doubt this stuff will be all that great for the post 50/60 crowd.

[Karinya]

Re: Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

For one thing, there are no outposts in the Empire where there are all those abusable colibri... you might actually have to fight real monsters, and who wants to do that anymore?

I predict a wave of whining along the lines of "I have to fight what? But those could hurt someone!" (Of course they'll try to avoid putting it in precisely those words, because it would reveal how pathetic the complaint is.)

[ruffrydasean]

Re: Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

I haven't fought any Colibri yet because my main is BLM(68 for now) and next closest job is WHM37, So I have no idea.
I want more info on the Treasure Caskets next.. will that be after each mob or what...

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

Now if I'm understanding this right, this event is basically them saying "Go kill X mobs"...and then you go out and kill XX Mobs....but the XP gained only comes from things you've killed? So it's basically killing XP mobs...then getting bonus XP and cash on top of it.

In before FFXI is becoming WoW.

/obligatory

[Balfree]

Re: Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

Nah... these aren't quests... more like grinding missions.

FFXI still has proper quests and missions.

WoW does not.

If it turns out like Ziero's saying, FFXI becomes more like "This is FFXI but you can also enjoy it if you're more into this kind of thing, maybe."

[Ziero]

Re: Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

My only concerns are that this will be a purely low level content type thing (lower then 60) and that people who are expecting this to be the new "it" way to level will be sorely disappointed. But then again there's just no pleasing many people. Level Sync, imo, is absolutely great, but people still call it a "failed" system because of the "problems" with scaling gear.

[Armando]

Re: Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

People complain more about uncapped skills than the gear scaling. Hopefully MMM will help fix that.

[Malacite]

Re: Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

SE's also adjusting the gear nerfs again this month putting back in evasion and hhp/hmp.

[Darkhound]

Re: Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

What is today´s maintenance going to add to hte game?

[Ellipses]

Re: Fields of Valor Beckon You! (11/28/2008)

What is today´s maintenance going to add to hte game?

Nothing. At least not that they've announced. They're doing it to complete the off-Odin transfers they started offering a few weeks ago.