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Only after Tachi: Gojira

Looks like the May update will be in two parts as well. Not because of the login campaign, but because they want to do the regular update stuff like ambuscade earlier in the month and the conclusion of Voracious Resurgence and the Prime weapon update later in the month since they apparently aren't finished yet.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/60643-「第65回もぎたてヴァナ・ディール」?p=652734#post652734

Getting to the point where they can deploy multiple times a month is great. Hopefully the downtime per update drops as well, though.

Based on what they have said, the mid-month content updates probably won't be with us very long anyway, though.

That's just *** stupid. Delay the first, don't do two. Or push the weapons to june.

Also, minimum "off time" is like 80 minutes. It can't go lower. (according to them, don't ask me to find that post!)

I remember, it was something like "that is how long the servers take to update the DB and restart the servers!"

If they add low/mid/guaranteed drops to sector bosses/Amnion and don't screw people over with the muffin cap, that's honestly not a terrible system.

Add some gear drops to bosses and some kind of sellable crafting materials to trash and Sortie would feel much more complete than it does currently.

But what about if they did none of that!

PLAY EVERY DAY! 6 people ONRY! PRAY TO RNGESUS FOR ALL DROPS! PRAY HARDER! Now drop the first R. Perfection.

You're going to do Sortie's broken, boring content because they are going to put Prime Weapons in it. They don't need to sweeten the pot to get that sub money. They have no motivation to make it better.

The ole se trick...

Make you put a ton of hours into something just to tell you to do it again because now your getting points for it...

I wouldn't put that past them to require a rare drop from the zone boss, but practically, I think it'll probably be a combination of both things: you need a drop but you can also buy the drop item with a lot of galli. If this wasn't the case, then I don't think they would have implemented the absurd galli cap they have in place now. They've taken lessons they learned from Odyssey and applied them to Sortie to prevent people from stashing currency then using it and never redoing the content, so they are trying to slow it down.

While I agree with him that 6 months probably isn't the consistent reality of it, he also made a point to say faster groups will get one done in half a year and that the time gate is the issue. They can be somewhat oblivious to the realities of things, but I doubt they are oblivious enough to let people get one a month. They have every motivation to drag it out and none to make it accessible, so that's probably what is going to happen, but hopefully it's a grind and not a drop only.

SE still gives MNKs gear with +subtle blow on it, and NINs with gear that has +Dual Wield. I'm not reacting to their estimation of ANYTHING regarding gameplay.

god, i'm getting flashbacks to when someone blamed me for not having enough SB on my mnk (despite having capped SB) as the reason for failing a corse ambu

just threw my hands in the air because at that point everything's my fault i guess

Honestly the idea of having to do an hour long event every single day or else I fall behind on my Prime fills me with rancor

Everyone's rancor, you might say

One simple trick; don't give a ***if it takes an extra week.

bro - ima beat bumba v25, quit ffxi and then ima play Nikke goddess of victory

Weapons cant compete with jiggle physics

I'd love to be pleasantly surprised, but I'm absolutely not giving them the benefit of the doubt. My expectations will be on the floor. Just like the important half of next month's patch until their 2nd maintenance.

Maybe in half a year they can begin to turn this around, but that's not how it's been. Fujito stepping up seems unplanned and if he manages to keep the lights on for the rest of the year then he will have met my expectations. But that's not going to stop me from making comments like, I guess someone's dog ate their homework again this month. Shock

Wouldn't be fair to say that it's.... Everyone's Rancor?

*badum bush*

Well, he mentioned being able to solo it, so a boss drop seems unlikely. My guess is some new items that can come from boss drops or boxes. People who can clear the hq box conditions and beat bosses will have much higher chances to get said items. But the real hold up will presumably be galli related. With a 100k per attempt cap no matter what, and a functional cap of 1 run per day, making it a sixth month minimum is as simple as requiring somewhere in the vicinity of 18 million gallimaufry or 18 mil galli worth of items you have to buy from the npc. Either way would accomplish that time gate.

Well, there's definitely some hopeful posts here but from a long history of ffxi, this generally says it all:


This is how its always been in my mind for SE implementation. I always chalk it up to they have different priorities than me that came from their internal discussion like spend a bunch of money on music (which I know a lot of yall enjoy so all good) or create content just to get money from us instead of making it fun.

I also think, they will never read a word of what is said here.

Does that matter? Not really, the base game etc has enough strength to make it enjoyable as a mmorpg despite their foibles.

You all are assuming prime weapons will be usable in every content even tho they said they had to create the new content in order for the weapons to have sense.
I smell something similar to the early stage of the relics, when you would get the ws only in Dynamis.

I could be wrong, but I thought the devs said that the new master trial would be a good place to showcase prime weapons? I guess the master trial could be locked behind the 'battle-content' but it sounded like they could be used anywhere.

To me it feels like what they mean is that since we can already clear all contents with the current available weapons, we wouldn't really be able to see how strong prime weapons are, hence why they are making more difficult Master Trials to provide more challenge where they would be needed(even tho if Prime do somehow have stronger dps than current REMA, it would definitely benefit a lot of groups for stuff like Gaol..)

I also have a feeling if they go the aeonic route and make every Prime kind of the same, it will be something like DMG limit+ 10% on all of them.

And they take 10x more damage like voidwatch qutrub, so without Prime you will do 99k and with Prime 500k, making Primes required.

Wielding a Prime weapon in the new Master Trial unlocks your subjob!

Pretty clear primes aren't exclusively for master trials, but new master trials may require prime power. What's unclear is whether that'll be some content-specific mechanic, or if finished primes are just intended to be more powerful than any current options.

There are def. some players who would still do it, but grinding 180+ hours of Sortie just to unlock some cosmetic challenge mode fights isn't going to be most people's cup of tea.

Use: Completely stagger(proc) target,
1/1 (5:00 / 24:00:00/24:00:00)
Use time is 10s. Duration of stagger 30s.

Imagine 30s of freedom vs any boss and an immediate fetter removal system.

Says the crowd of people that spend 180 hours for 1 STR in the past.

Getting that last Master Level takes a lot longer than that.