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Upgrading old gear doesn't fill wardrobes enticing purchase

They keep wanting to bridge that gap between Ambuscade/Unity/Omen and content like Odyssey/Sortie/Dynamis-D. Which is great, because unless you have friends carrying you through the harder content, it's a stretch to imagine returnees progressing solo or in a small group without extra help.

I just pray they don't do something stupid like... you know, add a new HTB with drops that would help if drop rates weren't so ridiculous.

Hell, I'll even concede the following accommodation for adjustment:

Atonement 1 can be climbed vertically, right?
If you can clear Atone1 at V20 (which means all the V0, V5, V10, V15 too), you get access to Atone2 at V15. Clear Atone2 at V15, you get Atone3 at V15. Clear Atone3 at V15, you get Bumba V15.

If you can clear Atone1 at V20, then it stands to reason you can handle Atone2 V15. There you go, all caught up for 60k segs (presuming going 1/1 each fight)

Sorry for the confusion, I was specifically talking about v5. Since augments are unlocked at v1, I just . If you want to attribute r15 to v5, then I guess you have to attribute the gear to v5 as well.

Didn't quite follow the v15 farming quote that you included. Was that to explain how to cap your r15 gear while doing v15 clears?

I mean, fair enough. I guess my question is do you think those players are trying to progress in Odyssey right now and if anything can be done to help them?

It's a slog just getting to ambu +2 if you're truly solo starting from scratch. Speaking from experience.

Again I wonder why bother with all this progression, if you can just get V0 Odyssey armor and use that.

Won't a progression that allows a new player to more easily unlock V0 Odyssey T3 be better?

Not anymore. You get ambu+2 in ONE VD2, 3 VD2 gets you the whole set. Valaineral can actually tank most VD2 no problem. not all...

You have to wait 45 days to get ody R0
(They could, easily just get rid of that, it doesn't do what they want it to anyway)

This is the only logical reason behind releasing an entirely new set of gear for said players, when they could just do ambu +3. Infrastructure right there. But they would rather add a whole bunch of NMs, reposition mobs all over zones and add gear for middle-of-the-pack players.

Don't ever tell me SE doesn't have resources to do things, they clearly do, but choose to waste dev time reinventing the wheel.

(they literally threw Empyrean +1 into a blender of the same recycled stats to create +2/+3 and it took them YEARS to get it out)

This clown thinks a brand new player is doing Ambu VD lol


The only new players doing Ambu VD are mules or people replacing a banned character from their multibox. Guess what these players should also have access to: a Gaol uppies.

Yes, I'm calling them uppies

The worlds longest bridge is the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge


Sorry, was the worlds longest bridge, that title is now held by the Square-Enix Amb-Uni-t'Omen Gaoltie Diverging bridge

They must have analytics on this, but concerned they're mis-reading the numbers. Are there really THAT many new (organic, absolutely brand new non-FFXI-lifer/mmo) players coming into the game to support an update like this? I'm all for helping newer players get up to speed for sure, but I feel like they're seeing a ton of mules and alts getting created, and some dev is going to his boss and saying "the last 6 months, new player creation has spiked by 65%, we have to DO SOMETHING for these NEW PLAYERS!!!"

And it's just some guy creating his 6th alt because he needs to solo his Prime weapon faster.

Help me out servers that are NOT locked down: are yall seeing new players flooding into the game more than usual? Just wondering what's causing this sudden "interest" in gear for "new" players.

The numbers don't lie. They're not transferring and rag fenrir and shiva go up every single day.

Fenrir is on the verge of closure. In less than a month. And no less than one more month for rag.

It doesn't make the slightest bit of sense but it's happening.

Figure they're just late to responding to the influx of players from the crossover event/id assume people remaking/moving chars to open servers, causing their numbers to spike, while the closed servers slowly dip down.

Feel like by the time they have their plans for new players fully realized the well would have already dried up and those potential new players that did stay have already outgrown whatever stuff was put in place and itll only benefit that few that trickle in over time.

Correct. Theyre slow to react and miss the boat entirely.