Dev Tracker - News, Discussions

You'll need to kill them more! Each number unlocks a new regen/refresh/acc vorseal.
The number of kills needed to obtain vorseal upgrades are: 1, 5, 10, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 160, 240, 360

ah ok and holy crud thats gonna take a lot of killing xD

Looks like the 2 hand update might not be happening anytime soon after all.

It shows you how much the EN translators know about the game. It asks you if you want to accept the augment before it finalizes. And they recently just put in an item that changes the stats around? Thx SE, for hiring idiots. If only Byrth and Miang were the devs behind this game.

They won't hire Byrth... they fear him(her?)... also that would make too much sense. SE historically doesn't run on common sense lol

Dear SE,

If you don't want to rebuild UIs, don't design obviously bad ones.

Thanks,
Everyone

90% of the time they post a "this is a nice idea, but we wont do it because we dont have a dev team anymore". Jeez, that's the most passive-aggressive way to make people leave.

They're being honest and it's true, though. The goal is to find something they CAN do. Newest puppet attachments for example.

Yea its weird for new jse capes they didn't do something like:
Trade 1 item to set augment > Then allow for multiple items to increase it.

The player would then have 2 opportunities to see that they made a mistake and after that they have needles to use if they still botched it up. After that its their own fault lol.

That being said I do like all the new things they added. Some of the small things like making most items stack, the moogle npcs that holds/returns crystals, and food having its effect spelled out to you is just so nice. Things that the game should have always had. Since the 75 era I have found that I enjoy and want to play ffxi more and now I'm getting into crafting cause its just less burdensome to do. Can't imagine what it was like having each gold ore take up 1 entire inventory slot and trying to spam gold ingots.

I feel like with ambuscade if they could do something like multiple different battlefield types or event types would be nice. It gets a slight bit boring spamming the crap out of one fight multiple times per-day. Like if hallmarks could be obtained though different events: vagary, delve, maybe even an ilvl dynamis, ilvl limbus that way ppl aren't burning out fighting 1 bcnm and dreading next month cause they gotta do it again and it would help rekindle content that new players/current players/returning players may need. Similar to how the delve/vagary campaign rekindles ppl to do those events.

They have been advertising for jobs on the Dev team for a while now iirc they just haven't been getting many or they haven't been meeting SE's er... standards.

There's a game called Runescape. It has 2 versions, a new one, and an "old school" version which has few devs/staff. People were suggesting a redesign of an area and they loved it. Unfortunately the lead guy said something along the lines of this: when they do content for Old School, they only think of getting and keeping subs. They ask themselves if a redesign would meet the criteria. The answer was unfortunately no. They'd be better off making new content or updating major QoL stuff. I think this is how SE operates. They ask themselves if sending man power to update something small like an augment trade system is going to keep or get new subs. It won't do either. However, working on a new monthly fight WILL. Stuff like expanded chocobo areas MIGHT.

Taken from BG (thanks Kincard!):

The last part detailing the efficacy of Magic Accuracy Skill is interesting. Basically, the formula appears to be:
Magic Acc = floor(Magic Accuracy Skill / 2) + 1
This would mean some weapons with low skill but high magic accuracy, like malevolence, are more effective than we realize (or would it be accurate to say high skill items are less effective?).

Time mage and Viking jobs would be awesome with a few updates. 2-3 far north zones and 2-3 south islands zones would make the game feel complete.

It's also possible that SE is being SE and barely knows their own game. I just did a test, /checkparam naked with a non ilvl dagger with no dex/acc, str/atk: 628 accuracy, 597 attack. I put on a 119 dagger with no dex/acc, str/atk: 829 accuracy, 839 attack. Attack is still 1 to 1 with an increase of 242. Accuracy was more complicated. With skill and merits I have 440 dagger skill, so 160 of the ilvl skill would be at a ratio of 0.8 with the other 82 being at 0.9. That would be an accuracy increase of 201 which is confirmed by the /checkparam.

Shame we just can't do a /checkparam for magic accuracy.

People been asking for it since they added /checkparam, SE said they would look into it, but this is SE after all.

In another dimension where SE never let this FFXI project die.. sure maybe yeah you are right Time Mage may need some updating...Yet, I think you are from that other dimension.... lol

In this dimension Developer Sage Sundi and Tanaka were annihilated and SE started another project called FFXIV...