Best thing they ever done in this game and im returning because of it if done correctly like i think they will.
Game is getting dead so I predict this will happen and make this game super epic again.
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New Job traits, job abilties and subjob JA. Sure PUP gets A in h2h skill but do they get the 4 martial arts traits that monk will gain by level 99. Will they get monks chi blast II or mnks weaponskill that is a 16 fold attack when they reach 400 h2h skill?? (No such WS, just an example). Maybe mnk gets a focus II to take over when focus 1 timer is down etc. RDM gets tier 4 spells and haste 2, blm gets meteor and tier 5 spells shown in the dats and NIN gets utsemsemi:SAN. Sure /rdm sub can convert now but do they get fast cast VIII which will give rdm a chainspell speed utsusemi:Ni from their /nin sub. The subjobs won't take over the main jobs role like you ppl think it would. Giving rdm sub refresh and convert doesn't mean that rdm main job won't get refresh II and maybe even a refresh III. (thats alot of MP you would need to rest if you were level 99 and they only had access to refresh 1)
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.Upgrading relics to relic+1 is the most epic shit i seen so far. Nomore gimp ragnorok, they will make the weapons good to todays battle standards in ff11.
The most amazing thing yet.... The thing that made me quit was my server was WAY TOO SMALL to do PW and AV anymore and PW only drops like 4 items and needs 40+ ppl to defeat him. Now he drops 4 items and only needs an alliance to defeat.... now the game is being more fair on effort vs reward.
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The drop rates are better when soloing NMs with /thf TH2 like your peacock charms or in this case, ancient torques lol.
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EVERYONE will finally be able to get a Ninsurta Sash by using 12 level 99s.. even noob players at lvl 99 can kill AV with some friends.
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DYNAMIS will no LONGER be 4 hours long and will less then an hour I would predict. Dynamis xarcarbard can now be full cleared PLUS dynamis lord dying 100% of the time. You can probably rack up over 1000 dynamis coins per xarcabard if full clearing every single time. Relics will be easier and currency might drop. I think SE will say f*** it to being strict about their relics weapons in a dying game and finally make dynamis instanced so that ppl don't go in soloing dynamis, otherwise ppl would never be able to enter dynamis. .
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Things will finally be able to be done with your 6 real life friends and you won't need a massive amount of players to kill stuff and that drops the stress level of the game off big time.
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SE already said the giaint blob and crab (new HNMs) will be very difficult battles. And imo, I think they are most likely going to still have HNMs in the game that are difficult to an allaince of lvl 99's.
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Pops like tiamat and KB will now decrease I think will happen in order to accomdate the number of lowmans. I think tiamat will be 24 pop now and NQ behemoth might be 12 hr pop and KB maybe every 2-3 days pop. They might lower the rage timer to 20 mins just like they did for cassie, roc and simi.
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The new add-ons are actually EXPANSIONS and not ADD-ONs.
They will feature NEW ZONES (Confirmed) while the add-ons had no new zones, they were just new quests same zones. They will be like dynamis battlefields but will not be 4 hours long (also confirmed) and they drop AF3 armor (confirmed, there is screenshots of pld and blm AF3 on playonline page). AF3 will enhance the job abilites of the JA's that come out from 76-99 just like AF and AF2 enhanced job abilties of jobs. (so macro peices basically but some will be good idle peices i'm sure... like the rdm af2 hat was).
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WOTG will feature badass shadow lord gear and a badass greatsword and the end of it will feature some end ring or bonus reward. The medal of atlana might feature some level 75+ gear too maybe.
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The castle Z (S) will probably have higher lvl mobs to exp in from lets say 80-85 being that that place is supposed to be badass and most ppl can all gain exp from campaign if zones are over crowded.
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everyone will have access to pw and av gear rejoice... they will become the new "kirin's osode".
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All the force pops with over camped but I rpredict that they will make EVERY FORCE pop in the game 3 min timer. This has been talked about now for currect 15 min timers to be decreased to 3 mins.
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Very excited for new JA's and seeing what they have to offer to make things new. They also confirmed new weaponskills already. (some from beseiged and campaign battle WS's that the NPCs use, we can use them too).
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duoable attestation/fragments and mythic weapons trophies. Expect the relic+1 quests to be hard as f*** though just like SE said they would though.
Everything can be accesible without an alliance anymore since the game is smaller in population anyway this is amasing news and you can lowman stuff with your real life friends if they still play which is about 6 ppl... Less drama with small numbers I love the idea. Nomore needing 40+ ppl to bribe into doing dynamis with u anymore.
Even though AV gear will be very farmable, I can still expect items to be 4mil+ and thats some good farming gil again for awhile.
this is amasing news... lowman with low population is the biggest game saver thus far. I will return for sure.