May Update Trailer Is Live

The first words on that video...

It's exceedingly rare to have multiple people exping in any low level zone these days, so trusts are only a benefit for the person who's otherwise going to be solo. (and I know you were just throwing out an example, but even in the old days you never could never team up for exp in West Ron since you couldn't join parties until level 10 - there's always been some forced soloing)

Even CP farm parties often have a hard time filling up, so it's fantastic to be able to do something like get the 4 people who want to go, and fill extra slots with trusts. It's either (a) fight with only 4 people, (b) shout for ages to get people to come and fill the party (not fun!), or (c) go ahead and start fighting stuff but fill the party with trusts. Also nice if you're doing something like SKCNM chapter fights with friends and there's a free slot or two - call some trusts, make the fights go faster! Or if someone has to leave and the rest of the party wants to stick around another 30 minutes... rep em with a trust!

Trusts don't hurt the community aspect of the game in the least. We have two linkshells, unity chat, /yell in cities... there are plenty of ways to communicate and team up besides forcing 6 people into a party to go exp. This isn't 2004. If anything, Trusts allow for partial parties to get started and go do stuff. Without, say, a trust healer, that party might not start at all and people would just be dicking around solo in town.

By all means, don't use trusts if you don't want to. And I'd very rarely prefer a trust to an actual player of the same role. But it seems silly to me to complain that this extra convenience exists.

no new blu spells yet huh? maybe next month

Trusts have been the best thing FFXI ever created personaly i DO prefer them over human lol. course depends the content but with them getting increased attk and acc it will be even better

Random guess... this "expansion" is an after "Zilart" thing, based on the Zeid and Lion bits, and will benefit from having completed all the Zilart storyline.

So will next one be Promathia related? Just curious.

Trusts are cool.

I wish they would bring back the versatility of the magian weapons by allowing us to 119 them.

Hopefully they decrease the hate gain. Shantotto is always tanking for me :P

well I would assume after both zilart and CoP because there is that apocalypse nigh quest line where both zilart and cop mission lines come together for 1 last fight. then there is The Last verse mission that is triggered after that. so never know might have to be on The last verse to do this.

they said emnity will rise on tanks and lower on healers, no word on blm tho

The big argument against joining a party is the XP / CP penalty experienced with multiple players. This cause's a situation where soloing with trusts may produce more reward then joining a non-optimized party. This was one the things abyssea got right and that I was sad to see not implemented in the SoA zones. There shouldn't be any penalty for having more people in a party.

I agree, but if you played the previous FF titles you would know that this kind of penalty has been around for quite a while. SE probably wanted it to stick around...even in a MMO...but well...yeah, that's what they probably intended.

I love that Trusts exist. I can play with different combinations and do lots of SKCNMs even on normal difficulty with DD trusts. (It takes about 18 minutes, but still...it's kind of fun to do once in a while, if there's time to kill and you don't want to spend it trying to make a group).

while i agree that trusts are nice (having a mageybuffer alt might be giving me a different outlook) i find myself using combinations of healing buffer and nuking (rarely) trusts. i mean those melee trusts seriously become nearly useless against content that you would hope they would at least contribute, i mean another support healer over nearly any melee trust to support you (unless mage?) just seems so much better

this right here, yes now n days many people soloing with trust because of the no xp penalty. it kinda stupid to have that rule now, at low lvl 1-75+ (the DD trust become sucky higher lvl. maybe new update gonna fix it?) the trust is badass! and takes no xp, why would i have random human players if it gonna kill lot of the xp?.

sure it would be fun having a player in the pt other then soloing all the time. but dont you guys think it time for that xp penalty to be dropped?

dumb question inc but is this the rhapsodies update that is going down now? I couldn't find a date for when that is actually supposed to take place

I believe that the gates zones (Sih, Woh, etc...) do not have penalties when you have a party of players, I honestly don't know anywhere else that's worth while to exp/cp in especially outside of the double campaign periods as you should easily get 1k+ with bonus from RoE bonus (collectively all that give), a decent augment on CP cape and having some of the Gift bonus. This is not to mention the CP ring.

First of three. One in May, one in August and last in November.

thanks!

i can tell you that taru amchuchu isnt worthless he tanks like a BAD ***!!! keep hate even after Spell VI in a cap point party its crazy

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/46977

suddenly, the anti-botting fervor has been made much more clear

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/46976-May-14-2015-%28JST%29-Version-Update

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/46977
Some of the rewards for Rhapsodies...

Just read those, actually quite amazing for people who want to work on farming Mythic/Relic items, just kinda sad no KI to enhance HMP's/cinders/etc from VW lol

The rhapsodies KI rewards...lolwut?

wow

what the ***.

solo a mythic in a week. jesus *** this is unexpected

what of the new job point/ job gift categories?

Seeing a lot of new spells, GEO Aspir 3 o.O

Wow SMN got a BP dmg job point, increase dmg by 3 per point.