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Re: New Version Update Announcement! (08/11/2010)
I'm sorry you DRGs can't use Byakko's Haidate. Oh look, another piece of gear that has reigned supreme since the beginning of the game that every piece of legging since has been compared against. "Well, it's nice, but it's still not as good as elemental staves." Don't you think it's bad for a Dev if you keep making new gear, and nobody wants to use it? Even Scorpion Harness was considered premium gear at one point. The doomsayers picketed when Pahluwan gear was introduced. "Oh! No one will respect players who poured tears, blood, and sweat into getting gear anymore! Instead all you have to do is spam Assaults and get gear that has reduced my totally leet SH to just another Acc set!"
DRG aside, some people still think the new gear is complete and utter trash, at least when you give in to the temptation to full time it as a whole, as some of the most gimptastic on the server have done. Full Perle may not, in and of itself be bad, but 9/10 times, you check somebody with full Perle, you can guess how bad the rest of their gear is.
I myself am trying to avoid using the new gear, but I don't have Haidate yet so switching to Aurore Legs and Feet could not be helped. But the fact is neither set gives my particular job certain niche attributes that I need, like Pet Acc.
It's broken because it doesn't reward you the way you want it to? Or it's broken because it doesn't conform to the standard ways of getting EXP before it was introduced, which would basically make it- I don't know- new?
On the other hand, they created a battle event in the game that people do on a regular basis. It no longer has the pull it once had simply because the EXP gained from Abyssea is broken (you don't seem to mind that Abyssea zones are simply cragless rehashes of the old zones). It was something you could log on to and just do, rather than seeking for hours or window shopping the AH for things you can't afford. And no matter how much people may hate the "But I have to have melee levels skilled" or "But I have to sub a healing job" factor to it, the fact is there are people playing jobs that do try to explore niche facets of those jobs and would like to be rewarded for putting effort into them. I have +19% Haste on my RDM and I know where to get more. Should I not have somewhere in the game where I am allowed to put it to good use?
Oh. And I seem to recall that, after the level cap increased and before people "discovered" the wonders of Abyssea, people flocked to Campaign in droves.
Straight from the bowels of Allakhazam:
No. The Dragoon community is all abuzz because for TPing in Perle beats the hell out of all the old stuff so long as you have appropriate store TP pieces. I seem to recall the consensus was that unless you have Dusk Gloves +1 you're better off just going with Perle. If that isn't eclipsing old gear entirely, I don't know what is.
I was thinking more along the lines of items from events that can take months or even years to show up acquire suddenly being regarded as complete and utter trash.
DRG aside, some people still think the new gear is complete and utter trash, at least when you give in to the temptation to full time it as a whole, as some of the most gimptastic on the server have done. Full Perle may not, in and of itself be bad, but 9/10 times, you check somebody with full Perle, you can guess how bad the rest of their gear is.
I myself am trying to avoid using the new gear, but I don't have Haidate yet so switching to Aurore Legs and Feet could not be helped. But the fact is neither set gives my particular job certain niche attributes that I need, like Pet Acc.
broken mechanic's (campaign)
On the other hand, they created a battle event in the game that people do on a regular basis. It no longer has the pull it once had simply because the EXP gained from Abyssea is broken (you don't seem to mind that Abyssea zones are simply cragless rehashes of the old zones). It was something you could log on to and just do, rather than seeking for hours or window shopping the AH for things you can't afford. And no matter how much people may hate the "But I have to have melee levels skilled" or "But I have to sub a healing job" factor to it, the fact is there are people playing jobs that do try to explore niche facets of those jobs and would like to be rewarded for putting effort into them. I have +19% Haste on my RDM and I know where to get more. Should I not have somewhere in the game where I am allowed to put it to good use?
Oh. And I seem to recall that, after the level cap increased and before people "discovered" the wonders of Abyssea, people flocked to Campaign in droves.
And I know for a fact that people bitch just as loudly when SE gives them too much to do.
I wish they would slow down on the level cap increases, a lot of people are still recovering from the last one with leveling/skilling up/magians etc and now they are not only doing it again really soon after the first but it's gonna be an extra 10 levels for every job. Far too much grind in a really short space of time and not much else, even for FFXI.
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