Dear new Final Fantasy XI DirectorFollow

I'm also amazed and at the same time wonder how much extra work it is to actually include pet jobs.

New good things:
- Armors enhancing pet parts of pet jobs
- Atma working on pets

Bad things that I don't get why it is still there:
- Pet kills give no light... why?
- Still no songs/sambas for pets... why?
- Where are the spirit boosts? They cost 5+ more MP at 85... and have no new spells?

It is like they started heading in the right direction for pets, but were so many miles behind they have trouble finding all flaws they let slip by over the years.

Keep up the good work, but don't think you've done it yet. You are only half-way to making pet jobs equal to other jobs.

This isn't true. Seen loads of pet kills give lights.




Because it's inconvenient. They even apologized for it, remember?




Just face it already, spirits are always going to be useless for anything other than Elemental Siphon and when you need a quick pet to save your life. And even that alone gives them more of a purpose than some other things in this game.

Deodorize has been a stupid pointless spell for years now, but you don't see the rest of us mages complaining about it.

To say spirits make up nearly half of the SMN spell set, while true, is rather misleading. SMN's abilities also come in the form of Blood Pacts, and they're just about as close to "spells" as a Job Ability can get. They even cost MP to use.

That's all besides the point though. Bottom line, if something your job has works like sh*t but you have alternatives that work better, why bother complaining year after year about how the sh*t works? Just move on, like the rest the playerbase (and SE) has done.



Deodorize could easily be made useful by simply adding some scent aggro mobs. There's even a "detects by smell" phrase in the auto translate, so you'd think that there's something in the game that's supposed to do that, right?

Deodorize is for when you are being TRACKED by scent I guess. A substitute for running through water maybe? tbh, I never tested it myself.

But, back on topic of props/suggestions for the new director:

Kudos for the response to issues with Kindred's Crests drop rates and making Seals stackable.

Now, could you guys see it in your hearts to increase the drop rates on the new job specific feet armors in the new Abyssea zones as well. We had on LS member who only has PUP and BST leveled, and he was in our alliance the other night for 6 hours and couldn't stay awake any longer. His feet finally fell about 8 hours in--no other feet dropped during the full 10 hour run. We got plenty of other weapons and armor pieces, just none of the new job specific pieces.

Also, could we bazaar or maybe trade the seals to players? While having them stack is a nice space saver if we are needing them for multiple jobs--a lot of us are getting seals that are not needed. Would be nice if we had a means of getting them to players that do.

If not that option, maybe make it so the seals earned via quests have some means of prioritizing which one drops. For example, make it for the job the player is on, or maybe detect which trials are open and drop one for that line if it is on that quests reward list. Some have been suggesting letting the player choose, but I understand that might make the acquisition too simple. Just need help optimizing the drop somehow--someone who has specialized in mage jobs may not have a need for a melee class seal.

Raist

I just view them as 2 Handed weapons. Nobody force you to use them, but an update making them equal to your 1 handed weapons would be nice, you know. (Of course if spirits got the same kind of buff, they'd replace avatars just how 2 handed replaced 1 handers)

This, and for any mage who plays with a THF pre75 around orcs, that's a good thing.

As far as feet drop rate from new abyssea areas is concerned, are you making sure to max out amber lights? Our last run we certainly did, because every single gold chest was gigantic, they dropped roughly 1/3 of the time, and although the drop rate of feet in there was still rare, we got 3 blu, 4 sam, 2 pup, and 1 drg feet in about 5 hours. Almost all of them came from when we maxed amber light, which was about 3 hours in.

As far as things that really need fixing, which I hope the new director sees and changes, the pup community, every single one of us, still wishes that the AI of automatons would be addressed. Our white mage automaton, soulsoother, will cast a spell such as poisona, paralyna, etc over healing spells such as cure VI if a status ailment can be removed by it, no matter what combination of maneuvers, or how low in health the master or itself are. We would prefer that the automaton prioritize healing magic over status healing magic, ALWAYS. Also, make it so that the cure priority is person tanking if in party > person with lowest health, as opposed to master/itself > tank > person with lowest health. It is a problem as it currently is. It's like having a white mage that is unable to cure unless itself and it's buddy are at high HP at all times, and oh, its a 18 second recast. The tank should always take priority over all else, and this change would not affect soloing pups either.

Our black mage automaton, Spiritreaver, is also in need of fixing. if it falls below 75% hp or MP, and the monster can be aspired, it will always drain or aspir over anything else, no matter what combination of maneuvers you use. Honestly, most of us pups would prefer drain not to be there at all, and pretty much all of us despise aspir with a passion. (I know that sounds strange, but we have a vast amount of other options to get our automaton's MP back. we do not have the same choice over the global recast timer) It would be nice to change it so that a dark maneuver is required to cast these spells, or remove them entirely from the spell list.

Another minor issue is Stormwaker, who hasn't gotten any new spells since 75. It would be nice if it eventually got cure V and tier IV nukes, to keep up with the other two. Automatons also often wait past 100% tp to weaponskill, which is annoying. Then there's flashbulb and strobe, which the automaton will use if it's too far away to have an effect. Seriously, normal people's job abilities don't dissapear if you use it too far away to have effect, instead you just don't use it. Change these two things so the automaton only uses them once it's in range to have an effect, please! Speaking of which, I hope you will give our automatons more weaponskills! Valoredge in particular needs a very strong weaponskill, as it is currently terrible for spike damage. (seriously, our best weaponskill is cannibal blade, and it doesn't even break 400 damage. A teir II version of this, doing 1k+ would be nice, especially if it healed the automaton like CB)

The last issues I can think of for pup are the automaton's paper thin defense, which needs a huge boost. Seriously, it needs to be tripled. That's how low it is. More attachments, pet boosting gear, and master/pet combo gear like what you've been releasing is all wonderful too, but these AI issues and adjustments to automaton defense are the biggest remaining issue left to pup that needs fixing. I hope that with a new director, these issues can finally be addressed!

Oh, and to whoever thought up Deus Ex Automata and repair change. . . THANK YOU VERY MUCH! ^___^

Had a very similar group to yours, 5 hours, about 3 hours of presumably maxed amber. Still saw not one piece of AF.

It shouldn't be this hard to get the dumpy base materials. If they were completed AF pieces (like in Dynamis) it would be another story.

The "new team" has indeed its own bag of flaws.

They totally forgot the existence of the auto-translate function.

Walk of Echoes deserved far more than a battlefield area (it's more personnal, but I thought WoE would be something more like what's been done in Abyssea : a big sky-like area where there are ton of things to do... I wanted to wander in WoE =| )

And they're useless when it comes to making cut-scene : during the WotG cut-scene for the 2 (more?) last updates, when you see something in another area, the cut-scene is interrupted, our character is teleported to this area (loading screen everywhere, music change everywhere, chatlog appearing and dispapearing), and then we can see the scene... just to be teleported back to the first area. (I've just looked again at CoP Intro, we see inside and outside of Delfkutt tower, without any interruption)

And I agree with the absurdity of the "Moogles > All" phenomenon.

Edit : seems they forgot Key Item has 4 categories too.. everything from Abyssea in Temporary Items ; ; what a mess. (fortunately, maps are actually in maps category)

Edited, Sep 19th 2010 12:38pm by GenzaiKawakami