Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

[Romyro]

Re: Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

Especially the long grindy ones like Limbus and Dynamis.

lol limbus is like an hour. sometimes 30 mintues more sometimes 30 minutes less ><

I agree about dynamis though...i hate spending hours upon hours there.

[Ziero]

Re: Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

Limbus is at max, 90 minutes long. And unless you suck (or are absurdly awesome) at it you'll want to be there the whole time. However, it's still nothing more then killing the same mobs over and over and over again. Honestly, the only 'endgame' events I've done and actually enjoyed was Nyzul, but even that wore on me after doing it the climb three times for different groups of friends and then boss farming for weeks just to get drops. Hell, the only regularly weekly event I still do and can actually enjoy these days is Assaults, as it's a different set of missions each week with an often rotating group of people, so each run is different from the last. And at the end, I'll always be able to get something out of it as long as we win.

[TheGrandMom]

Re: Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

I did Dynamis regularly from the time it was implemented until I quit years later and I always loved it. I still have the urge to get in a Dynamis shell and do regular runs again....even though I need next to nothing. lol

[Neverslip]

Re: Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

I'm slightly burnt out of Dynamis and having 5/6 DNC (stupid cape never drops), 5/6 SAM (haven't decided if I even want the belt)... and in a very long line for THF goodies... I'm glad the show I'm in is keeping me off of FFxi ... maybe upon my return it will be a fresher thing. I simply wish it wasn't so damn long. I really like Limbus because of it's brevity and instant action. Sea is interesting so far. It's new to me so I am enjoying it though my shell has very very late runs.

[TheGrandMom]

Re: Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

You will learn to loathe sea....

[Takelli]

Re: Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

I did Dynamis regularly from the time it was implemented until I quit years later and I always loved it. I still have the urge to get in a Dynamis shell and do regular runs again....even though I need next to nothing. lol

I HATED dynamis. lol. The items you are after never drop. And when a relic item does drops its either 7 relic guns with bst gear (That no one is after), or just a bunch of Ancient Currency. Then, after you do the run, you spend like 2 hours killing stuff. I found it quite boring the times I went. Would rather do Sea, or one other end game.

[Elwynn]

Re: Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

It takes all of 5, maybe 10 minutes to get through the Riverenes.

You're kidding, right? Trying to get a group of 6 people, all invisible, through there? People get lost, sneak and invisible drop at the worst moments, someone always manages to aggro something. And you still have to farm a scale. Even half an hour is optimistic.

It might not be so bad if everyone had a map, except it's a BC fight off to the side somewhere, and nobody ever wants to help with it. (Well, okay, I got people to say they would do the fight once, on the way back from a 4-2, but it was late, and I fell asleep for like 10-15 minutes, so they just all went on to get their next cutscene by the time I woke up again.)

[Romyro]

Re: Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

...disregard...posted in the wrong spot. dont know how to delete

[Cotners]

Re: Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

Limbus is at max, 90 minutes long. And unless you suck (or are absurdly awesome) at it you'll want to be there the whole time.

Just a comment but, I don't remember the last time any Limbus zone has taken us over an hour (aside from duos/trios). We usually take 6-10 ppl and clear everything.

[Romyro]

Re: Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

i think by (or are absurdly awesome) , he meant duo's and trios

[Malacite]

Re: Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

Assault & Einherjar are still the most fun events in the game IMO - 30 minute time limit, no TE's, and just go balls-to-the-wall fighting I love it


Hoping Abyssea is the same way. I got a feeling though even Dynamis will be condensed down to an hour (30 min for CoP) once people are 99.

[Ziero]

Re: Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

You're kidding, right? Trying to get a group of 6 people, all invisible, through there? People get lost, sneak and invisible drop at the worst moments, someone always manages to aggro something. And you still have to farm a scale. Even half an hour is optimistic.

It might not be so bad if everyone had a map, except it's a BC fight off to the side somewhere, and nobody ever wants to help with it. (Well, okay, I got people to say they would do the fight once, on the way back from a 4-2, but it was late, and I fell asleep for like 10-15 minutes, so they just all went on to get their next cutscene by the time I woke up again.)

People who are doing the mission should know to farm scales ahead of time. Easily something that can be duo'd/trio'd.

And half the time, you don't even need sneak/invis. In A01 there are no sound aggro mobs and only one or two places with Wyverns or bombs to worry about and B01 you pass Malboros once or twice (a single oil is usually more then enough) and again, very few bombs or wyverns really get in your way.

All you need is one person who knows where they're going and for the rest to be competent enough to /target that person and follow along. But if you're judging the entire player base by the skills of people who haven't learned the absolute basics of aggro avoidance, then I guess it is a bit more difficult. I mean, it makes sense to set the bar on the ground when you're basing everything on the lowest common denominator.

Also, I loved doin 4-2, did it at least a dozen times if not more. It was the whole reason I bothered to get Nin to 40 actually, to be that sacrificial lamb while the others did the killing.

[Losrase]

Re: Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

I HATED dynamis. lol. The items you are after never drop. And when a relic item does drops its either 7 relic guns with bst gear (That no one is after), or just a bunch of Ancient Currency. Then, after you do the run, you spend like 2 hours killing stuff. I found it quite boring the times I went. Would rather do Sea, or one other end game.

You know what was a kick in the face. I use to see BST gear drop all the time. When I got BST high enough level to lot gear, I didnt see any drop for a month. When one finally dropped, I was out lotted by another player who had BST leveled .

[Takelli]

Re: Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

You know what was a kick in the face. I use to see BST gear drop all the time. When I got BST high enough level to lot gear, I didnt see any drop for a month. When one finally dropped, I was out lotted by another player who had BST leveled .

Yea, thats another reason as to why I hate dynamis. Something you are after never drops then when it does, you get out lotted on the lot.

[Ziero]

Re: Chains of Promathia Areas Unfettered! (05/24/2010)

Of my two 75 jobs, there was really only one piece of Relic AF I was after. The rest was pretty much junk...kinda like the normal AF for my jobs.

Well, not counting the Accessory AF pieces, those were pretty nice.