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YES. I really want my Hunahpu to get a boost. Frankly I like all my WKR weapons so much more than ROE weapons. Not just cause they look cooler but it's nice to have the unique stats.


Edited, May 23rd 2014 10:02am by Olorinus

I don't understand why the entire magian system is not just allowed to continue to ilevel. It makes no sense. They implemented this customizable weapon system and then just dropped it like a hot potato. Its bizarre. With it went the market for geodes and a lot of hard work from many people.

The system was great for letting players make weapons that supported their unique goals. They don't need to be the best at what they do, but it would be nice if SE at least let people bring them up to an acceptable level. I dunno, maybe they are afraid BST will be useful again if we had PDT axes that didn't lower the level of our pet.

Edited, May 23rd 2014 11:00am by Olorinus

Between the opening of SoA until a couple of recent H2H weapons added, it was usually preceded with "oat".

This was mostly for Delve content, especially Tojil, which of course is how you get oats in the first place. (I got oats for my pup by winning a Tojil run as whm, then eating shards for breakfast every day for a month to get the 60k more plasm I needed.)

I can generally agree with this. I know when RMEs were being "left behind" that the topic of other magians being ignored was brought up by some, but I think it just got swept under the rug with all the usual "dirty casual" rhetoric. Still, for giving players piecemeal, and usually fair objectives to chase for progression, ToM with a dash of Abyssea was certainly my favorite phase of XI when it came to having things to do without needing to sell me soul to an alliance.

Had I the means to implement some kind of "dream item" system of creation in the game, it'd basically allow players to add numerous stats at progressively escalating costs so one could eventually create the perfect equipment for their play styles. If I wanted to make a sword for my RDM/BLU with high end stat vomit, good DPS, ATK/ACC, MATK/MDMG/MACC, and so on? I could. I'd expect it to take work, especially later on in the process, but someone could also just do similar with a staff or club. Whether or not SE has overcome the item mod grouping limitation, though, I dunno. But let's just file this one off into the "Never gonna happen..." category.

Revisiting upgrades in modesty isn't a bad thing, though. I just hope they're fair about the process and don't forget that maybe not everyone is around or active during the launch of content to really get the most out of it. Makes me wonder how much some would **** their pants if we got quest lines for all the old RMEs to get them at their 99 pre-ilvl version without all the time gating and excessive currency grinding unfun.

Why does that sound like a case of... "Monks are too popular, so we're going to smash them to bits with a sledgehammer so they're not wanted at all"?

Making enemies for 'certain content' be strong against H2H? That's... 99% of a Monk's damage, which means Monk would then be useless fighting said enemies.

IMO, beating a popular job into the ground is not the right way to do it. Instead of making monk "useless" against certain enemies, why not either introduce mild nerfs to some of Monk's abilities to bring Monk in line with everybody else, or hand out buffs to the under-used classes so that they can do comparable damage instead?

As I recall Monks also have one of the highest staff skills for a non mage. Unfortunately Monks rarely use staff outside blue procs in abyssea, skill ups, or Shin.. If they dont give monk some kind of uniqe ability (increase counter, crit., or multi atks) or weapon skills that makes using a staff functional in party settups. Assuming there are staffs in the ilev path for monks to use. Then it's prety much a really big nerf if the "srtong against H2H" is actually a high blunt resistance and not just a specific weapon type.

This just won best update. Being able to "solo" skirmishes and some BCs will be very nice to those who can't always get groups or don't have the right job.

Admin Note: Edited because you had Szabo's post quoted three times.

Edited, May 26th 2014 5:56pm by Vlorsutes

One job being useful against one enemy in one battle while another job is useless against that enemy but good somewhere else is not job balance. Jobs should not be that situational. A job is more than a piece of gear to be swapped in an out willy nilly. /sigh

You're right, the way I read it, it seemed that because they could accompany you in Adoulin missions and be used to meet the requirements that it would work the same way with skirmish but upon rereading that may not be the case =/

Even without a continuation of material based trials, you'd think, with Squeenie being Squeenie, they'd implement some half-assed three second trial that'd let you cellotape two completed trial swords of different paths together, combining all the stats, tacking on an ilevel on the finished product, and would give you a lukewarm finished product that you may or may not use.

But no, Squeenie decided to drop the system in the same way a baby would drop an emptied milk bottle. SpoilerWithout hesitation, and with a shriek of malice.

At least this will give WKR's a good breath of life again. As long as the augments are worth it

Hopefully the waiting stuff they remove will include treasures of Aht Urgan missions. Because isn't it currently around three "wait till jp midnight" waits before the first actual battle mission when starting the storyline from the beginning?

I wonder if this will also affect the relic weapon upgrade quests?