Abyssea Adjustments

This has more to do with where the game is today vs the changes mentioned in the new updates. Making an emp upgrade item more available or making an NM more available does not change the skill needed to acquire the items.

The separation of skilled players vs non-skilled players has been a pretty thin line for a long time in this game. Other than specific missions that were capped by level or content that was 'difficult' at level 75 (hard cap in the game @ the time) idunno AV or what have you. What exactly has separated skilled players vs non before? Please don't even whisper HNM.

Keep in mind I missed a lot of end game from back in the day because of when I quit and changed server with a new character so I'm legitimately asking. Was Dynamis difficult where only a set number of people could do it? Was salvage difficult where most people could not participate? Limbus/Sea/Sky? I was under the impression other than the real pioneers who for example were the first ones to beat AV or figure out strats on specific NMs that most people were able to participate in most end game activities without requiring an insane amount of skill.

The only thing that really slowed down the spread of gear and drops to everyone was piss poor drop rates coupled with long durations for chances to even get drops i.e. 24 HNM repop window.

So SE contemplates whether or not to make drops more available, throw away the 24 hr repop time windows and yea perhaps even easier than before (this is only directly related to atmas and the difficulty of mobs has nothing to do with drop rates) but to say the activities before were so much more difficult that it required a high amount of skill I think is a stretch (unless I'm told otherwise) As far as I'm concerned other than having a decent group and showing favoritism over drops going to either people who are close to leaders or people who have dedicated more time than others were the ones who got the better gear before not "the most skilled" players. It wasn't a matter of making things more difficult before it was a matter of making drops so exclusive and rare to the point of absurdity.

So now that SE decided ok let's make drops more available, all of a sudden there became a large congestion for the newest end game content, now you got 5 parties camping 1 Guku every single 10 minutes because each party needs to kill Guku 25+ times to get what they need. By alleviating something like this (part of the patch discussed in this thread) all they are doing is making it more available to more people they aren't making it "easier" if you're the best damn player in the game today how would this make it easier for you exactly?

If you're already running through all the end game content as quick as people act on the forums then you should have already ran out of ***to do. The way people talk it's as if everyone from ffxiah.com all have 5+ empy weapons and +2 items on all 20 jobs. Allowing others to get items more frequently does not make the game easier it just creates additional paths so people can go at their own rate rather than sit around and have their progress determined by how often a timed NM will spawn or how frequently an NM can be popped.