Official SE- FFXI Survey

Alliance mid core content is a major void.

I know people hate Voidwatch but it was great for joining a shout alliance, playing random jobs I normally wouldn't and it had great drops even if rare. You could also do your daily 3 kills (I think I'm remembering that right) in under 30 minutes.

Drachenhorn +1 anybody???

They could release it over time just like the original and have craft pieces for the set bonuses just like before. It was a well rounded event and grindy which is FFXI.

It's still less depressing as posting on an unofficial forum for a 20+ year old game that you're still playing because the gaming industry doesn't make good MMOs (or anything) to replace it. Self burn. Come share the warmth

Is it though?
I thought I was one of the few hating Voidwatch lmao.

VW had some great ideas in my mind, focus on quick, repeatable fights with not too much lost time. Some fights were really hard, with means to make them slightly easier by farming and powering up the right atmacites (the last tier was really though I gotta say!)
And with an epic ending of the content with the Provenance stuff.
There was even a way to scale the difficulty with the (expensive) items, up to 5, to make fights easier. Well thought I guess?

What was wrong in my opinion?
1) The proc system. It was good for the "necessity" of bringing a lot of different jobs that you wouldn't have brought otherwise. But we experienced that style with Abyssea for years, and after so many years it really grew old to play the proc machine then zerg game. Some fights were going from too easy when procced to really hard when not procced. So really, while it was a very good idea on paper and I loved, it really grew old after so many years and changed the playstyle way too much

2) the Personal drop system. Too many people whined about the low drop rate of items that had to be shared with others so they thought about this solution? But it was even worse imho. It would've been good (with a lower drop rate) if it was an ADDITIONAL chance to the regular treasure pool but it was insane that way. I went 1/3800+ on Coruscanti, don't tell me that amount of farming and grind was sane, meanwhile a lot of my friends were getting Coruscantis they didn't need. Pulse cells were a nice patch but not enough to fix a system that was fundamentally broken on its core


Soo... yeah, can't say I was a fan of VW but I, regrettably, farmed it a lot and I acknowledge there were several nice ideas and things behind.

Here comes everyone beating the "but mercs" dead horse.

I mean unity NMs was basically VW 2.0 so I doubt we'll get another version of a portal that you can put together an alliance for on command if you have the people and everyone gets personal drops. Get the proc to make it easy, etc.

They could add more fights that go higher now that odyssey gear is finished and put lusterless wings on them to soak up that part of the market.

They could just ilv the fights and gear and people would do it. Theres a lot of content that people would do again if they simply update it. Very low hanging fruit that they refuse to pick.

Yup something recycled is way better than nothing

Or new items added to old content - people do Sinister Reign just to get Tights or whatever, they'd do that Invitation fight with the five Serpent Generals to get a fun drop from there. There's plenty of abandoned content.

In basketball terms

What some people want


How SE works


Most would be happy with

Who ever played in the period between WOTG(Abyessa) <- here -> Escha Zones(ROV), those are the people who will probably play whatever SE throw at them.