Preview of Adjustments for June Version Update (Part 2) (05/20/2008)

[Arctyrael]

Auto-sort is a huge deal meriting. Losing out on KS and BS because you have 11 single crystals without a chance to sort on your own (yes, i'm serious) is a pretty big deal.

That. And it isn't even so much just meriting as exp'ing in general. As a BLM, coming from personal experience, you're lucky if you have 10+ slots open with all the gear you have to carry. I know melee jobs have this problem too.

Auto sort is good news.

All of this as said repeatedly now should have been done long ago. Ah well, we can be happy it is done now.

 

[Xerius]

Selbina nomad moogle would have been nice 4 years ago like people said before I got my Valkurm OP and before they lowered the level. IIRC, you used to have to be 15 to use the OP warp to Valkurm, which meant many low level parties would have to hope for a raise from someone else.

I'm more excited about the OP warp change, when they implement it, I'm immediately going to get my Ronfaure and Sarutabaruta warps, and ill never have to use the airship again

 

[Zethren]

hehe valkurm parties. I remember long ago, I'd set my HP at the OP and get some gear for the above lvls and didn't leave the dunes until I was 20 and ready to ride the choco back to Jeuno.
Glad they put NPCs there though.

 

[Xalioniaf]

Except that windower does this. While it's nice that they're doing it officially, them doing something that's been around for a large part of the player base is not a "yay".

Those who play on PS2 and 360 don't have the benefit of Windower plugins. So yes, for us this is a welcome feature.

 

[pchan]

Except that windower does this. While it's nice that they're doing it officially, them doing something that's been around for a large part of the player base is not a "yay".

except that the "windower" does this only since recently lol.

 

[Sharpe]

except that the "windower" does this only since recently lol.

Did you even read the part you bolded? He said "been around" he didn't say "been around FOR AGES".

 

[Myrrh]

Where is my new Avatar(s)? D: This is total bullshit!!!!! /fume

 

[Jeska]

Nomad Moogles in Selbina and Mhaura

Nice addition i guess, but somewhere they really need Nomad mogs is Sky, all too often players have to warp all the way home and run back up (if they dont have tele-sky) to fill a job change needed.

 

[Tim Wakefield]

Back in my day we had to walk to the Dunes. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways!

I was gonna say "Too late" as well, but at least they're making an effort?

 

[Rappa]

Finally a nice update. Late but still nice. Auto-sorting just makes sense. Being able to change to other nations and then back to your original and retaining your outpost warps is also nice. The reason I never got a bastokan gold medal on Rappa is because she had every op warp including gustaberg and ronfaure. Now I'd be able to do the bastok and sandy chains then go back to windurst and have my warps. Cool. And you can try to be captain badass all you want to about how "hardcore" xping in valkurm was w/o moogle access but I'd much rather "pussy out" and be able to swap to whm and raise my pt and get back to what I was doing than have extra hair on my nuts while my 8th pt disbands because someone dies. Of course all my jobs on Rappa save scholar are past the dunes anyway, lol.

 

[bootz]

Too little too late, etc.

 

[Tyrath]

Nice addition i guess, but somewhere they really need Nomad mogs is Sky, all too often players have to warp all the way home and run back up (if they dont have tele-sky) to fill a job change needed.

Eh, the sky tele is there. If a player doesn't have it, they should work on it

It doesn't make sense to add a shortcut and then add another one for people who don't get the first short cut <.<

 

[Shirai]

Where is my new Avatar(s)? D: This is total bullshit!!!!! /fume

I've stopped hoping for new avatars long ago.
After countless of fanboy threads, discussion threads and speculation threads since pre-ToAU (ZOMG Odin, Cerberus! yeah right!)

I'll just not expect anything for smn in any update so that when they actually give us something I can only be happy.

(Still <3 Elemental Siphon!)

 

[Arien]

Jeebus they are way behind on this update. Didn't they have some excuse a few years ago when people were begging for moogles in Seblina and Mhaura?

 

[Veld]

A B B A - Name the code!

I would love to do Sandoria and Windurst missions, but not at the expense of losing my outpost capabilities. If that's still the case, then this means nothing to me.

It's a Trick! It's a Musical Group!

 

[JerkFace]

A B B A - Name the code!

Ikari warriors!

 

[Kalefury]

I think SE is just adding these Nomad Moogles to the Dunes because there are hardly any parties there anymore, almost to where there is only 1 party in the entire zone and when someone dies there is no one there to help with a raise. Leveling jobs are now becoming much harder unless you have a static or friends of the same level available to you. To me this seems to be the main issue that SE is trying to address but so far no luck.
As for the auto-sort, it is going to be great for crafters! But in exp or merit parties I don’t see manually auto-sorting your gear as being that arduous of a task. It takes maybe 3 clicks that maybe take 2-3 seconds. To complain about how you’re not getting a BS or KS because you had 11 single crystals taking up space seems lazy. You get to see what the mob has dropped and it will be a while before those items drop so doing a quick inventory check between pulls or ability recharges fixes all that.
I’m not overly impressed by these changes as players have learned to play with these limitations and so removing then now has little to almost no effect on the game to me.

 

[Langly]

Auto Sort is a very welcome and smart addition on SE's part.

Nomad moogles in Selbina/Mhuara. Minor convenience now. It almost feels like SE is -really- grasping when I think of this.

 

[Tristam Green]

Nomad moogles in Selbina/Mhuara. Minor convenience now. It almost feels like SE is -really- grasping when I think of this.

That's what I thought.

{SE Devs} shit! they're leaving our game! what do we do?
{Sage Sundi} Assholes, do I have to think of everything?! Give them what they've been asking for for years, and they'll come groveling back.
{SE Devs} You're a genius, Sundi!
{Sage Sundi} No shit.

 

[Wakmidget1]

Lately I've noticed there's 2 different types of replies when someone posts Update info on QCDN, those people who say yay, and other who complain because it's not enough. But over the years I've noticed SE rarely gives you info on BIG shit in advance for their updates in these small posts. They tell you about the small piddleshit that they are releasing in the next update. With a small amount of info on a few decent things. But the huge parts of the update they usually don't release to us until the day of the update in the "Update Details".

So to those of you that complain that auto-sort, nomad moogles in Selbina-Mhaura, and NPC level caps going to 70 is not enough enough. Please STFU and wait until the update is released before you complain about what SE DIDN'T do.

To those of you that keep bitching about job updates, theres been job updates in almost every major update since FFXI has been released, some of them have not been as big as others, but they have been there. Has SE ever told us about them in the pre-posts in the weeks counting down to the updates? Very rarely.


Sorry, it's been a long day and I'm just tired of see'ing people bitch and complain before they know for sure whether or not it's coming.