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Hmmm good point. WELL at least do away with BS gimmicks that insta-kill parties (Nightmare Frog..) or otherwise enforce SMN burn tactics.

I understand your logic but kinda hard to apply it to FFXI.

FFXI is a game that relies a lot on powercreep, buff synergy and so on.
How would you raise the difficulty of a fight without using gimmicks?
There's an unbelievable difference in the damage output of groups because there is no standardization of jobs, abilities and scaling of gear (like in most MMOs, take WoW or FFXIV for instance).

With such a huge difference how would you find a spot where a fight is "difficult" for a good part of the population but not literally impossible for everybody else?
Without the use of gimmicks.

I would make a snide comment about complaining about third party tools in this stage of FFXI's life cycle, but I'm hardly surprised that it's coming from someone who plays on the cancer server.

I don't disagree that you've experienced that. But, do you that is still true in 2018? I'm not so sure, given (1) the incredibly low frequency of NA Community Rep posts from February-April and (2) if a post occurred, it was from an account we haven't seen post in ~2 years.

However, I think we can agree, there isn't enough NA community Rep. support (translations, Dev answers, etc).

Where's our Accession Haste/Flurry they promised?

I'd literally make an escutcheon for rdm for the ability to accession my buffs...

Then you haven't play ffxiv, lol. It was basically death retry death retry death retry death retry.

Honestly gimmicks are what modern mmo do.

About SMN tactics, probably more of a job problem now. Other setup has no problem killing the NM almost as fast, without the need of 2hr. but community still smn all things.

Moogle ambuscade is the exception though, having to move on the battle field and wait for 1hr really slow down.

I sorta hope summoner becomes more powerful just to see the endless bitching on the ffxiah.

Smn only needs to make about 8(72) more nirvana until it gets nerfed. It wont be long.

595 of those summoners are terrible also !

The way I see it summoner OP is there way of compensating how terrible summoner was for a long time...

And they just hate people that play monk or don't care...maybe both.


Hell I remember when people thought DRG was too powerful...now I can't remember the last time I was in a party with one.

Your time is coming monk...just keep waiting next update....then the next update...

Some day monk will be great.

Give us more wardrobes.

For free.

I pay 20 bucks a month for a game I cant enjoy its full potential because of gears storage issues. Fix it.

AMEN
Damn even if it cost $$$ i need 4 more a year ago

I know it would likely get the "We need all the money we can get to keep the game going" response from Matsui, but I'd love to ask them if it is possible to bring back the campaign where people that sub to XIV get a discount on XI. It would be a great boon to both games due to how often XIV enters patch lulls, while XI has near endless content to grind on for more casual players.

Hmm I feel the people who paid for both extra wardrobes should get 1 or 2 free. Don’t be a cheap *** the end.

I've always been curious about the exact values of Foil's evasion bonus.

I'd like to know why is Inquartata only half potency! >:(

What the literal heck SE!?

How about buffing EES to make it actually useful given barrage is more potent and - wait, they will just nerf barrage if they take this. Never mind, I guess.

Similarly, can my perfect dodge dodge ranged attacks please?

Thanks Zenoxio for your efforts and Good Luck,


I have few questions:

-Will SE reduce "Call Wyvern" timer from the ridiculous 20 min?

-Will SE make Wyvern permanently upgraded or reduce "Spirit Link" Timer or even put it in [Group 2 Merits] and make each level -10s on recast?

[Dont see any valid reason what so ever for Wyvern to reset after each NM fight Unless SE thinks its a GEO bubble]

-Will SE fix the drama of Jump gear description/uses?
-Will SE give Dancers "Raise AoE Waltz" " and "Haste II Samba" capping JA haste?

At the very least, EES needs to be changed to be unavoidable by any means (goes through shadows, ignores stoneskin/phalanx), ignores defense, stacks with barrage (for multi-shot EES) and can inflict a "Chainbound" effect for 5 seconds shortly afterwards.

Honestly, most jobs get 1 "good" 1hr and 1 "meh" 1hr, and very few get something amazing for both. BRD does with Soul Voice/Clarion Call, but by comparison COR gets Wild Card(amazing)/Cutting Cards(wut), RDM gets Chainspell(amazing)/Spontaneity(ok-ish), PLD gets Invincible/..Intervene?

Overkill is an amazing 1hr ability, and more than makes up for EES. Now would I like to see it scaled to where our original 1hr is always going to hit for more than a solid Last Stand, definitely. If I were to change it, I'd seek the following:

1. Scale Damage up to 125%-200% current damage. (for the math challenged, saying at most double it)
2. Make it 100% ignore shadows/stoneskin/damage ignore mechanics.
3. Zero enmity.
4. have it grant 3k TP. This way I can at least WS>EES>WS for SC dmg as well.

Please god SE, more wardrobes for gear... I need like 4 more, not even exaggerating.

ill think about it

this is a damn solid idea for EES, I'm in favor

Fantastic - and realistic - EES suggestions! To iterate on your excellent ideas:

For #2, maybe also just freaking give it 100% accuracy already. EES is high accuracy as-is, but it's kind of obnoxious that a single hit SP can miss entirely. Especially considering THF gets a guaranteed hit on SATA (assuming positioning is OK or Bully is up for SA), with 60 second base timers! And, I mean, the name of the ability alone makes it feel so dumb that it can whiff!

For #3, possibly even worth considering having it shed some enmity. Would be nice to see it work like Super Jump (setting you at 1CE after use), but even a 50% enmity reduction a la High Jump would be cool.

An alternative #4 (which is really the only of your points where I feel the slightest bit of hesitatation):
4. Add a SC property (light?) to EES.

More wardrobes so you can wait 10 minutes after zoning to equip gear instead of 5 minutes!