one year has passed...

Woot! One year today now! This expansion was really good. Easy and fun missions. Assaults are a lot of fun filled with decent gear that almost everyone uses now.

Everyone uses the new areas to exp, Sanction is great.

Everything is pretty much Pros, the only Cons is the huge lag in whitegate, sometime overcamped ptys in the new areas, and times when the Astral Candy is gone.
 
Pros-

*sanction <3
*new areas to explore & monsters to kill!
*new areas to fish!
*new armor sets
*new theme
*really cute green duckies :D
*runic portals
*new zone music

Cons-

*not many people exp in conquest areas post 55, lack of CP
*lag
*monsters that eat food :(
*little chigger bugs
*beseiged
*lag
*more true sight mobs ;(


more to come I imagine XD
 
Pros:
Um... I'm struggling here that bitch stole the only good thing I found in the new areas (Glory Crown for the dur dur dur's on the forums)
I guess Mount Z is cool, but that's only cause I'm a mage.

Cons:
People are leveling BRD too much
Elitism has grown to a new level
Fun jobs (DRG, DRK, RNG, SAM) are thrown to waste in favor of the cookie cutter "1337" jobs (WAR MNK BRD BRD and BRD)
People are leveling jobs now without know how to play it effectively because it doesn't take much skill to get to ~55 and then hop in some cannon parties to 75
People are leveling BRD too much
Besieged blows when we lose the candy
People are leveling BRD without even having appropriate subs (its kinda rediculous when brd/nin without whm sub and without meleeing gets a faster invite than a whm/smn-blm-rdm)
 
Pro

If you level BLM to 75 u can solo merits for all your jobs.
Assault gear and salvage gears.

Level gap ? what's that ? Duoing say wamouracampa with BLM75 and <insertjob>60 gives 200xp each ...



Con


Everyone seems to know only a few camps even though there are a lot different. You end up doing better xp soloing blm.

Beseiged, chocobo raising ... waste of time.

Chocobodiggers have been penalyzed by SE (only 100 item per day can be dug) while they initially intended to remove RMT bots diggers..
 
pros: new jobs, equip, salvage, assault, missions and zones with really easy exp. I am almost done with merits. Some fun new mobs with interesting abilities.


cons: new jobs are incomplete after a whole year, several messed up assault missions and salvage has drop rates hovering around 0 makes much of the new gear unatainable.

I have now outparsed more wars, nins and mnks on my drg than I have any other jobs, this is what bandwagoners have done. This has always been a problem but now that you can lvl faster it's a much larger problem.

I have to hear blms bitch about not being able to get PTs when they can now solo better exp than I got in PTs when I lvled blm.
 
Eulore said:
You get better than 15k/hour solo?
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You get the convenience of great exp/hour whenever you want it without having to rely on anybody?

Yeah, I'll gladly take my no-strings-attached 7k/hour. :P And there's no wait to make a group. I can get that 7k/hour whenever I want to without waiting for anyone.

I think when you add in the LFG time other jobs have, a good solo blm will come out about even. We won't get 15k/hour, but we'll get 7k by the time you get your party to camp.
 
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Pro: Assault is fun, not too difficult, quick, and gives some very nice rewards.
Awesome new camps from mid levels to merit levels.
Two new and useful jobs.
Salvage added some great gear.
Colibri are freaking cute.
Poroggo's and frog song makes me giggle like a schoolgirl.
Mobs like Soulflayers and flans returning make my inner FF Fan happy.
Besieged is still entertaining.
New and interesting plots (Nashmeira, Vizier dude, crazy human experiments, Dark Rider, Luzaf, etc.)
Some wonderful job boosts (Paladin, woo)

Cons:
Puppetmaster is...disappointing.
NMs and gear from 2004 still not fucking phased out.
Too much shiny new useless gear
The way Salvage is set up is fucking lame, IMO.


I'm certain I forgot some stuff, but it's 2 am so screw it.


Ruffyreborn said:
Fuck cannon parties, the users who came up with the idea ruined the game
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Yes, let's all go back to those awesome 3k/hour Bibiki Bay parties! People are crazy for wanting to go out and get 2 merits in one hour of exp!
 
Eulore said:
You get better than 15k/hour solo?
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The xp/H doesn't mean anything if u have lfp for several hours. Also this 15k/h is done when few parties are at your camp. If you go in Valkurm staging point, and another team shows up you are fucked.

A blm solo does 7k/h if he achieves chain 3. You beat that only 1) when you have a party 2) when your party is full 3) when you have a rdm or whm 4) when you puller is skilled 5) when no other pt around 6) once you are at camp 7) if your party lasts more than 1h o_o.

Thats a lot of "if", but yes, if was sure to have this kind a pt 100% of the time i would go for it, but if you count all the time from the point you start lfp and the time you stop xp, blm solo is better xp over time.
Also u can meet other blms soloer at the camp and team up with them, 2 BLms achieve chain 5 easily for more xp/h.
 
Shyrra said:
QFT.

12k/hr in Ru'Avitau with a decently geared pt was not hard at all.
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I got chains 50+ in cannon pts in ullegerand range and lufaise. Of course silly NAs cannot do that. JP>all. pre TaU
 
Skaw said:
Thanks for reminding me.

Con:
Soulflayers.
Soulflayers.
Soulflayers.
Soulflayers.
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<3 Soulflayer thats why i love Helldiva isle: no one at my favourite secret camp ever.
 
Con:

Those fucking Apkallu Npcs that i still have no idea what they do >_<
 
Skaw said:
Thanks for reminding me.

Con:
Soulflayers.
Soulflayers.
Soulflayers.
Soulflayers.
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QFMFT!

I hate those bastards

i'll dread doing that blu quest where you need one of their silks >_>

are they soloable by any 75 jobs? the weakest ones i've seen are like 80-82(according to wikipedia)
 
Pros:

Most of what ToAU added.

Cons:

No significant additions to crafting, be it a new craft or new sought after items. The big gil-makers are the same as 3 years ago. And don't even reply "Automaton upgrades"!
 
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait... wait.

... there's a valkurm staging point?
 
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