November 2022 Version Update

Atm stage 2 is easier and faster to get than Kaja Sword.

Sorry but this doesn't make sense to me.

RMEA-tier weapons are wrongly considered "required" by a part of the community to be invited into end-game content activity.
We already discussed over these boards how, most of the time, this is a very un-inclusive and unjustified approach, but regardless it was the game community requiring that, not the game itself.

It's a big difference Aerix, a HUGE difference.
Story has always allowed ANYBODY to enjoy it. Even people who exclusively do the story and ignore everything else.
I'm not being like the fox & the grapes, this thing doesn't concern me at all. I have multiple RMEAs, I do all sort of end-game activity and you can bet I'm gonna get at least 1 Prime Weapon.

I'm talking about everybody else
People who don't have a RMEA, who never got one nor is interested in one. People who never did end game content, who plays vanilla, who logs in just for the community or for super casual activities. People who do Ambuscade vol1 on E with friends and they struggle even on that.
There's A LOT of people like that. You just don't hear from them because they don't post on FFXIAH and people like us usually don't hang around people like that, but trust me there's a lot.

Now they're gating the story, the motherfucking bloody main story, behind what would be a super intense and insane grind for them. It's like telling them "ok, watch this on youtube because you'll never manage to do it yourself".

It's not that it's "unreasonable", it's more that it's a pretty big increase in terms of what was previously "required" to complete main story quests.

I'm talking about people who would struggle doing Vol1 E.
People who only have a small bunch of JPs, uncapped merits, ML0, shitty gear that's barely 119.
They have no *** chance to solo Sortie.
Would take them probably weeks of work to get 10k Gallimaufry.
Unless someone kind enough (i.e. me) let them leech points.

It's not that it's "unreasonable", it's more that it's a pretty big increase in terms of what was previously "required" to complete main story quests.


Please correct me if I'm wrong but I can't think of a single main story content/BC that "required" something this grindy to just even be able to access it.
And let's not talk about the BC fights difficulty because aside from a couple ones, they really are so easy they complete themselves on their own with you doing anything.

10-30 is not 0

Feel free to correct me, of course, but I'd say doing level capped promys in CoP back in the day was an order of magnitude higher requirement than solo grinding sortie for a week or 2.

well gravity II been nerfed doesn't even bind non-NMs now with composure and full potency.

People legit think you can't but v20 nm's without ML? My ongo v20 clear was done with ML1 BLM same with most of sortie nms my blm is ML 3 now because of sortie. People putting way too much stock in ML.

The shield is size 6 with 140 defense and shield skill +118. Does that make it our best physical shield now against high level content?

That would be a huge lol :D

Overthrone (by far) Ochain with shield that you can get in 2 Sortie runs.

That amount of skill with size 6 will also easily cap block on almost anything right? Especially with ML40+?

Light the Martel signal! I must know!

I think so, also I believe that size 6 has a much higher base % reduction, so I bet it reduces more damage than Srivatsa.

It actually reduces less damage than Srivatsa, but it's still massive upgrade, because blocked hits with phalanx will be doing 0 damage anyway.

Is someone really complaining that the story that's been hammering the point that the bad guy can only be defeated by a certain class of weapons is now forcing players to forge said weapons to progress in the story?

And everybody in your pt was ML1? Or were you the only one?
Aside from the fact that ML1 is not ML0, kudos to you if your group managed to do Ongo V20 with everyone at ML1.

I have a few friends from 2003 who wanted to come back just to do the story together like we used to do back in the days, but they'll never manage to get Prime Weapons, not even stage 1/2. They don't have jobs/gear/progression/time/will to do end-game content.

This is a first time in the FFXI history, right? That they're binding main story content behind end-game/RMEA content.
I dunno, I think it's pretty stupid.

wonder what happened to the new synthesis recipes they mentioned?

"character progression" is not "a partially completed RMEA weapon".
I mean are you talking about something specifically? Please enlighten me.
I'm not being sarcastic, maybe I'm forgetting something right now.

FFXI has never been a game where clearing current story content was something you could do casually. The 'end' for casual players was always well before the actual end of the story.

FFXI has never been a game where clearing current story content was something you could do casually. The 'end' for casual players was always well before the actual end of the story.

Now I'm even more confused snd don't know if this is troll or not. Do you think from ml0 to ml1 they give you +600 to all stats? The gain from ml isn't that massive also I said ml1 because I assume it started you out as that I've not done much at all for ml. My blm is ml2 so from sortie I got it from 0-2. Also blm would be the key factor in that fight so being ml0 for it would be bigger than others.

You can literally be a solo, naked 99 to collect the galli and new items for stage 1 and 2. Sorry it'll take a few more days compared to an active endgame player, but that time can be spent actually getting gear for the eventually difficult final fight. If the story actually required say, the new megaboss to be defeated, then you might've had a good point.