Voidwatch Finale & Porter Moogle Service Expansion 3/16/2012Follow

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/21890



http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/21894

Edited, Mar 16th 2012 7:03am by Szabo

Haven't they said they've posted the "thrilling" conclusion to Logwatch like, 5 or 6 times already?

No problem with having a lot of wood so long as you know what to do with it.:P

Also, ax, I think they post it once for when they add it to the test server then again for when they are officially going to add it the next version update.

Hey, there's that new zone......?

I feel like the guy in the Coke Zero commercial.



And...?

but a log was acquired.

Edited, Mar 16th 2012 2:47pm by Kaup

Any reason to add the gear to a storage slip instead of putting in holiday storage? Or did they forget that guy even existed?

Craptastic.

First update note is just going to be a BCNM area exactly the same as the Shinryu area. Won't be an explorable zone, just a small 40-50 distance BCNM size zone lol.

Second update was news for the sake of news, that should be crap posted on at the end of the update notes on update day.

I like how they are finally learning that their updates are so crappy it's better to hide them from the test server at least.

The final boss of the VW saga must be a tree and a golem.

Given the nature of items you can currently store, you would only be able to store a single seal/+2 item.

Makes the gear free to withdraw, for one thing.

Oooooh, I could totally imagine that with this music.

In all seriousness though, given the look of the zone, I have a feeling that the one Crystal Wyrm that had been found in the .dat files will end up being the final Notorious Monster and the overall culprit behind the incursion of the Voidwatch mobs. Given his design (specifically the red eye in the center of its chest) though I'm concerned that it's going to be another Shinryu-esque situation, except replace Promathia with Proto-Omega and have a situation where its mutated from being exposed to or merging with something else (maybe a Proto-Ultima and Proto-Omega merging?).

Even though the drop rates have for the most part been horrible for me (though I know it's been kinder to me than most), I've actually somewhat enjoyed Voidwatch, so it's not something I'm super excited to see end. Even if it's a very loose semblance of a story, I'll follow any story given for an event or battle system with interest if there is one.

Personally I really enjoy Voidwatch's battle system. I think it's the most creative they've been since assaults really. Visions had a good run with Nms and monster clusters not appearing until the servers met a certain condition. But they quickly abandon that concept.

The whole staggering system with multiple staggers to a wide variety of jobs keeps everyone busy(if that is the main goal) while most higher tiered mobs could level anyone in ranged if they felt like it rather quickly adds a necessary level of tension.

Maybe becuase I don't spam it as much it doesn't get old for me but I sincerely enjoy it. The story, not much is to be had but I heard when you get access to the Jueno path that cut scene full of wtf.

This is the story behind every fantasy RPG ever made. At least all the Japanese ones.

That being said, they could at least give the semblance of a back story. Something other then "we're introducing these fights, you can do them immediately, but don't expect much loot, we don't want you guys getting stuff too fast". I'll be happy when it's finished and we can move on to different content, they abused that stuff entirety too much. I'm hoping for a remake of Limbus / Salvage, wanting AF +2 and hopefully Homam / Nashira being upgraded. Yeah it's sad when the only thing you can look forward to in an MMO is rehashed old content.

No you are confusing plot with story. The plot is something bad happened, someone is being bad, and you and your friends are the heroes.

The story to get from A to B is the meat, and there is no meat in Void Watch, or Abyssea either for that matter.

The meat was learning about the Zilart
The meat was learning about the Darkness
The meat was saving an Empire

(I admittedly stopped doing WoTG after the dragon fight, because frankly spreading it over 3 years with no real new worthwhile content was introduced, no Skys, no Seas, no Salvages. No enjoyable content with a sense of adventure, Fighting Gods, and Jailers of emotion just sounds bad ass.

Hell even Dynamis had a side story line in relation to the main nation story lines.

This is evidenced in virtually every RPG out there. There has been no story really since WoTG, and frankly it is pathetic, WoTG made me quit the game, Abyssea kind of brought me back in little weekly spurts, but really where is the meat to the game. On top of that the epic feeling of killing baddies isn't even present. Either no attacking until procs are done, or spam the piss out of sh*t as fast as you can, while spaming temp items in a vain attempt to zerg a boss before he 1 shots everyone.

Bad content design meets lack of story, essentially we are now just killing baddies because they are bad.

SE has no story to give us, (probably because they imagined the game would die off with 14, but that failed) they are just feeding us plot, no epic adventure, no heroic reason. Just spam spam spam and die die die, or the land of farting rainbows, where you can get anything you want with little effort. It is kind of sad, but tbh they haven't really had a story since ToAU, WoTG may have been good (i don't know nor care anymore) but taking so long to conclude was a disaster.

Eh... I just want meat again, who really enjoys a burger without meat and only the bun. I sure don't.