Ring in the New Year with Adventurer Assistance Campaigns!Follow

http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics/ff11us/detail/14378/detail.html

A disappointing find: capacity and trizek rings (so presumably all the other rings too) don't seem to give double the amount of maximum point bonus that they used to during these double xp/cp campaigns, which makes the trizek ring last even shorter than it already did :/

I would go ***** about it on the OF too, but seems I've been banned for life there. There is a real trigger happy mod over there, because I don't think I've ever posted anything ban-worthy.

Edited, Dec 10th 2015 10:40am by Fynlar

Well I mean, the rings were doubled for all of these campaigns before. Heck, the very last one just in November had the rings doubled. And believe me, it's noticeable when I would be up about 6-7 job points with two trizek rings as opposed to just 3. I carry eight trizek rings and cycle them often, and I have a good idea for how long they last.

Either they had to actually expend effort here to make sure the rings didn't work this time, or it was just something that mysteriously got broken with this patch, like how Marine Mayhem was apparently causing server crashes just now. I'm just curious as to which one it was.

Edited, Dec 10th 2015 11:20am by Fynlar

Yet another thing to complain about: these stupid WoE campaigns. Well, more like my issue with how surge walks were implemented and how we don't even get a choice in the matter of whether we want to do one.

They popped up too damn often as it is; why is a campaign that makes them 100% viewed as a good thing? All they serve as is an annoyance for people that are trying to farm their WoE weapons...

Would it have been that hard to simply make it so that whoever enters a conflux first gets to pick what difficulty it is?

that's amazing... how? I mean I posted tons there with zero issues and I know I annoyed people with it... I mean, too bad for them, but... if mods really liked banning people I expect I'd be a pretty easy target.

I am not playing for now though. Maybe once my holidays start... dunno. I am not really missing it atm and I just got a new laptop so I think I am going to pack up my desk machine... and I hear FFXI does not play well with optimus machines...

If they made BST range un-stupid I would resub just to show my appreciation, even if I wasn't going to play... but that seems unlikely.

Edited, Dec 15th 2015 1:15pm by Olorinus

Given the **** some people gave me while I was still subbing, likely the same troublemakers you're alluding to, I wouldn't be surprised if they just collectively reported a dissenting opinion and a lazy GM was just like, "Oh, that many? BANNED!" So, while I'm for strict-ish posting policies, enforcement's gotta be fair, too.

What's broken about BST? The Japanese bsts me and my friends still run with seem to function perfectly fine and not missing any beats since the "BST party only or gtfo" days.

Thank you, this.

I am not a super BST. I liked soloing stuff. Chasing after my pet and standing on it's head and no longer being able to solo stuff (I'm talking stuff like Voidwatch and Abyssea not frigging end game here) the way that I used to be able to solo before is not fun. I liked the way BST played. I liked being a PET MASTER not a PET SLAVE that has to chase their dumb AI animal around to get it to respond. I liked not having to stand in nasty auras. I liked being able to deal with monsters that can charm.

And yes I fully expect someone to say 'WHAT YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SOLO X ANYWAY" but whatever, maybe I can I don't care I don't want to do it differently than the way I did it for 10 years, thanks. I liked the way it played before. I don't like it now. Taking away the one advantage the job had for scrubs like me just took all the fun out of it.

The game already was declining in fun greatly because of the widening disparity between old ilevel stuff and new ilevel stuff and ilevel overall really. The gap between players and the lack of people doing the bridging content made the game really start to suck for someone without folks willing to drop doing things that were beneficial to them to help people that couldn't participate in higher level content. I tried shouting for people to do stuff like lower ilevel unity NMs and there was like zero interest ever. Of course, that's because the higher level ones drop better stuff but I didn't have the gear to be useful on the higher level NMs... the gear on the lower level NMs could have helped me get there, but no one wanted to do them. Catch 22.

I mean when a game gets to the point where the best you can hope for is to amass enough currency to pay someone to help you bridge the gap or that someone take pity on you and let you leech some half decent gear, or that you can sneak into a group you have no business being in... it stops being as fun. And when the job you like gets a change to it's entire mechanics so that it's not even enjoyable anymore... well you start to feel like the devs don't care if you want to play their game anymore.




Edited, Dec 31st 2015 12:25pm by Olorinus