Do you look forward to the upcoming 8/5 update?Follow

Oh god yes. I recently crafted my third delve weapon in anticipation of it becoming significantly more useful (Balsam Staff). I'm also really looking forward to all the changes that will make the concept of "item level" actually make sense. Before, I didn't really understand what they were getting at with item level because those items didn't really increase your level in any way, shape, or form. Now that they're boosting things like evasion and magic evasion, in addition to having higher-than-normal defense and bonuses to attributes across the board, now we're getting somewhere. Now they really are going to feel like being higher than Lv99.

yeah I am looking forward to monstrosity. If delve shouts haven't completely died off (or if they are not now too cool for my 2 song bard) I'll probably join a few runs to try to get enough points for a weapon... and if anyone ever does the axe NM I'd totally join it for my bst... otherwise I'll just get a sword for my BLU and engage in general fooling around for a bit.

I don't have a lot of time though so we'll see

Doubt they'll do that. What I'd like to see, however, is a staff or even better a sword with "All Songs +1" on it, that would complement both the 95 and 99 Ghorns and the Dharp.

True. I'm still 48 Apademak horns away from the 90 harp so I'm not sure how I'd feel about a "third song effect" horn or harp.

Again, I'd be totally okay if they added actual weapons for it, though. The bard mythic needs some competition.

nope but i am looking forward to ffxiv :o)

sadly the new team just doesnt understand how to make a game popular or enjoyable...had alot of hope for them but they no better.
way too old fashioned and stagnant in their thinking ;;

That's why I'd rather see a sword or dagger based weapon instead of another instrument.

It also benefits the existing horn and harp owners that way, and is a nice little nod to the battle bards of yore.

I wonder if they ever regretted making REM weapons much, much easier to obtain. Before the level cap increase very few seemed to have a weapon like that. They haven't said anything about how you will be upgrading your REM weapons, it could be alliance content that requires you to farm it for two years.

As much as I welcomed a reboot, I was hoping for something a bit more polished than this. They just didn't think about the balance and they didn't roll it out evenly. Having different jobs that can't get certain item levels or don't really benefit from new mechanics for months at a time is really bogus. BST was ruined as soon as the expansion hit, unlike SMN or PUP they got absolutely nothing for their pet until July, and what they got was crap - thousands of plasm for a half **** single use item - vs a really powerful weapon + an accessory that can be used forever.

I don't like their approach - they should have balanced content/items for jobs before releasing the content.

Edited, Aug 2nd 2013 12:15am by Olorinus

3,000 alex
500 plates

And make Umbral Marrows purchasable with ancient currency from the goblins.

It's a start.

Dynamis weapons should also see a currency cost adjustment with the time requirements from the goblin removed. I'm kind of torn on the phases that require various kills in Dynamis. On one hand, I'd simply like to see Dynamis a freely enter-able zone, maybe even tweaked to be similar to Abyssea to dictate some kind of reasonable activity to maintain presence within a given zone. If this is possible, currency reductions wouldn't even have to be as drastic. If not, by default you'll be looking at a few forced days just to rotate to different zones for bosses/attestation/weapon NMs. Some might be okay with that, but I view it as a consistency issue given Delve is basically spammable.

For mythics, I'd probably just outright drop the requirements from Assault, Nyzul, Ein, and the ToAU king kills. Of course, the first 3 could remain if entry limitations were lifted/revamped, but the kings do have potential pop issues relative to Beseiged and if people kill them there. Might be a good thing to add a pop option if SE doesn't want to yield there. Later phases are really just a zeni cockblock, so I'd say lift that and let people turn in a 100+ Naul pics if they want. I guess PW, like ADL, may give individuals some issues, but you may see more people going for it if the whole mythic process is more reasonable.

Early Emp phases could probably benefit by shaving the 3 NM kills to 1 for each tier. Make the Abyssea NMs always double drop and put all KIs into chests, as well as cutting the requirements to something like 20/20/40. Cut the timed spawns to 3-5 minute repops and improve abyssite color change rate. Make VW mobs always drop a pouch for their tier on top of diminished reqs.

"But people did such and such the hard way! It's not fair!" Well, by that logic, the Dynamis adjustment should never have happened and anyone who made a relic after is probably a casual gimp or some other colorful insult. Or the level cap increase. Times change and I'll forever feel the sentiment someone needs months just to get "current" on some MMO task is dumb since it puts an undue pressure one what you need to do unless you want it to take even longer. I also find the idea that those with 99s now getting a free pass to Upgradesville a bit silly since they'll inevitably need another upgrade task when Delve 2.0 pops. As well, it perpetuates the silliness of years old content being top-notch just because, participation in new things not required.

If you're PC, someone tends to upload the patch files to a torrent or download site to avoid that fate. I can understand not trusting such, though. But it is an option to bypass SE's ****** update client if you're someone who can't get back to the game until a bit after patch time due to RL or whatever.

You cannot get skillups in reives, which shares the same emblem as campaign. If only skilling up wasn't such a chore and has to be dedicated 100%... I usually see healing skill level up a few levels, per year.

Regarding the ToAU beastmen kings, it seems like it might be easier to just wait on maintenance for those. I think that they always spawn in the strongholds 21-24 hours after server up, maybe unless a Besieged with that army occurs within that time frame. But that's only what I've heard/inferred.