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I like the RUN adjustments and the self cures will help it tank much much more. It allows us to now use /nin and be more self sufficient. The new acc trait will allow us to eat meat possibly on lower content and on stuff like AA fights I will no longer have to load up on all acc gear in order to hit the AA.

Also from the wording I think Vivacious Pulse will have some sort of status curing property. It's an ability that can be used without runes. Having certain runes up should allow for more curing? Sounds like it should to me but I guess we will see pretty soon.

Could technically call hundred coins the equivalent of Dynamis pouches, but those are either reliant on NM kills or ! pops in CoP.

Nah, my sentiment on the whole need for adjustment is there's basically no "catch up" mechanism to it. There's a reason why other MMOs tend to alleviate difficulty or requirements as newer and more rewarding content comes about. I can't think of many people who find solo farming Dynamis daily for 3 months to be fun. Emps' issue obviously pops up with HMPs and Mythics are similar to Dynamis in the "gotta farm daily" thing, but with worse drop rates. The additional reqs also could stand to be lessened or outright removed.

This issue could've been avoided if SE simply let RMEs rot, but they acquiesced to the grumbling and merely succeeded in adding to the requirement pile. Let's fast forward to some day in the future where ilvl is 149 with stops at 129 and 139 along the way. Do you think someone deciding to start a Relic then will enjoy participating in a giant chain where it's really only just them doing it on the 129 phases and earlier for half a year? Sure, multiplying drops exponentially could do the same as lowering costs, but that's conditional on just how much RNG is involved.

Would also contend that less demanding requirements would take some of the stigma away from the lesser weapons, while also serving as a bit of an indicator who best favors a given job. Granted, Claustrum did finally get MDMG/MACC with the 119 jump. :P

Vivacious Pulse will likely just end up curing based on the amount of runes given how lazy SE can be at times. Honestly, I was a bit sad at the name itself. RUN had a very nice fencing theme going on there. Would have preferred something like Prise de Fer or Passata Sotto. Was hoping to see the new job abilities use new runes that aren't elemental runes. The storyline so far already shows not all the runes that are used are elemental.

I am a bit curious why they described it how they did though. "The amount healed will be modified by types of rune(s) harbored."

The Help text description states "Restores the Caster's HP". Either it simply restores HP based on 1, 2 or 3 runes or the translation is wrong and it does more than plainly restore HP based on number of runes. I'm just hoping saying "types of runes" is incorrect, because if it's somehow based on runes matching the current weather or something akin to Elemental Siphon. That would suck.

Edited, Feb 1st 2014 4:24am by Rwolf

I agree Rwolf because of the wording, "types of runes harbored" I saw it as a possible mis translation. Well, we'll see in a couple of weeks.

Beat me to it Szabo...nuking my new topic.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/39893

Edited, Feb 6th 2014 4:18am by Szabo

that would still be verrrrry slow.

This!

Which mission would that be? All the others use missions that I can find in wiki. Either they used the wrong name or they are going to add a new mission. (There's "The Chains That Bind Us", but that's Bastok mission 8-1, an unlikely requirement for getting Prishe.)


It's still got a once a week limit, but I'll be sure to spam this one now.

Now if they can just remove the cap from ENMs so we can get Paeon V already.

Yay!

And buh-bye bazaar taxes, their reason for existing is now long gone. (Did you realize that a 99,999,999 item has a 9,999,999 tax?)

And hooray for the changes to fix where CoP couldn't be soloed because of game mechanics.

The video where they show what the new area Outer Ra'Kaznar looks like. The community reps said they were going to translate it but dunno if that's still the case. It's all japanese but you can see what the area looks like with no monsters in it. Wish they showed with monsters so we can see what's going to go on in there. Looks like some permanent darkness weather in there. I wonder if it means we'll see a dark amorph Naakaul as the 7th and light ends up being chucked away or some story related out.

Freshly Picked Vana'diel 2 Video in Japanese (marked at the point they start showing Outer Ra'Kaznar)

The one creature in that picture looks like a Skeleton Mage of some sort, so it looks like we'll be certainly seeing some undead at least.

Looks like they are finally adding the big twitheryms from the .dat files. Pic

While the name does seem reminiscent of other Zilart-based zones (Al'taieu, Tu'lia, Ru'Avitau, etc), the technology itself seems different.