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I know they're going to do it, but I'm going to be pretty agitated if they tie relic upgrades to group content. I even *have* a nice linkshell, but not enough steady playtime to actually schedule things with them (I still don't even have Vagary clears!).

The standard model stinks.

*reads previous page*

So many nopes from SE.

"No plans" is a trademarked by Square enix now huh.

SE posted a pic of a Naraka type for new NM, fun stuff.

edit: durp, pantafernando beat me to the punch.

Final Noplans XI.

And he has nice pictures. :P

To the people worried about their afterglows going away, you shouldn't because

Who needs AG when you can have an RME with three stars on the blade? Three stars is the epitome achievement, now glow needed.

I wouldn't say it's screwed up...
Just that that's a natural occurance for a level cap.
There's a massive amount of 74/75 gear, because that was the cap for FOREVER.
It's just that we've gotten content super fast compared to then, so even though it's only been a few years, we're quickly catching up to the 75/99 bloat.

(I'd also disagree about pre-statvomit feeling like 20 levels higher... +25 to two stats isn't all that much more than +15 to three. But that's a different conversation entirely that also hates on the false-117 gear from sparks for their blatant 106ish level. Literally only existing for Trusts and noobs was poor design.)

The way iLevel works is that SE has a template stating an item of level X (1,5,10,20,75,99,119) will have Y number of stats that do not exceed Z. Then each piece if tweaked individually. Something with a higher then average stat would have to have a correspondingly lower stat somewhere else to compensate or be restricted in some way. Now us min-maxers could easily work around that to create some truly broken builds (for that time) by deliberately choosing stats we want while ignoring stats we don't care about. What the past 99 world did we raise the stat levels on all items and have it such that you didn't get STR / DEX +80 on an item and instead STR / DEX +40 with VIT/AGI/CHR/MND/INT throws in too. When this is done on all five pieces of major gear you definitely experience a "level up" effect. Two pieces didn't make you "20 levels higher", all five together did. This armor also raised your resistance, defense, HP and evasion levels to that of someone 20 levels above. Then we have the weapons, which SE just added 20 levels worth of skill to, jacked up the DMG values to ridiculous numbers and added a lot of big stat upgrades to.


What's happened now is that an item says "Item Level 119" but it's really more like 121 or 122 when it's total stats are taken into account.

If everyone glows, then no one glows!!

You should move to Sylph, the little server that could.

Did they really have to show SAM in both pictures?

Oh wait, that's a DRG I think in the second one. Hard to tell, a pixelated mess when zoomed in.

Sylph is a shithole lol go to asura if any.

They are just playing the wait and see game, don't care at all about the people who have reasons to not move to another server. From a moral point of view, that is so crappy but from the business point of view, it appears that they are pushing their chances to milk some more transfer fee revenue before they take any action.

Was just a joke, I really don't give a ***who moves where. Would be cool to hang out with some of the people from other servers though, but I refuse to leave Sylph.

I don' think it's some revenue milking scheme. In the past involuntary server transfers were very harsh on people. Many had to change names and lots of people were pissed when their server vanished or they went to a server they didn't like. Now they are just letting things make their own voluntary server moves, which they are. It seems Bahamut and Asura have become the servers that people are choosing to move it. I'm pretty sure we'll see a merging of all the left over smaller servers sometime in the middle of next year, could be wrong but that's about the time when it won't be economically justifiable to do maintenance on such low population servers.

QFT

SE ACTUALLY ANSWERED ME! HOLY ***!

Hmmm...

Pretty much lol

...yay.