Voidwatch: Regarding Loot and Weaknesses/Storage of GearFollow

Happy Friday everyone!

After looking into everyone’s feedback in regards to Voidwatch weaknesses, we will be proceeding with the below adjustments.

• Red Mage

While there is a concern that red mages would lose the ability to exploit weaknesses that only they can execute, we have decided that there are more concerns with merit point spell limitations, so we will be removing the merit point spells similar to other jobs.

• Ninja

As a majority of feedback we received had no problems with removing San-tier of elemental jutsus, we will also be following through with this.

• Beastmaster

Since there were no real objections to this, we will be proceeding with being able to exploit weaknesses without relying on specific pets/abilities.

• Puppetmaster
It seems like there was a large amount of feedback mentioning that Strobe would be good. However, instead of limiting this to Strobe, we would like to increase the amount of freedom, while still keeping the possibility of selecting Strobe.

The above content will be reflected in the May test server update and will begin with the final chapter for now.

That makes entirely too much sense. Especially with Mr. Balance at the helm again.

Some players suggested that we remove the low quality drops, or “useless” items, from the rewards at the end. We aren’t providing those lower tier rewards to cause players to be upset, and it is possible for us make it so those drops are removed and no item drops in their place instead.

However, if we were to replace certain items that are perceived as useless, with no drop players may feel that the loot system is bugged when they don’t receive any reward.

Anyone try Taisaijin? :p

-Crystal Petrifact stack quantity increased from 12 to 99

I can sell Voiddust on the AH (and I have been), but petrifacts are Ex.

I would happily sell petrifacts so that the gearhounds could spam their low drop rate events.

Hello, Ito here!

I would like to reveal which adjustments (from the proposed adjustments in the previous post) we plan on implementing in the next update.

Please read through this when you have some time to spare, since it’s rather long.

Objectives

As stated in my previous post, the overall goal is to make the game easier to play. We are also focusing heavily on addressing some critical issues.
We will add more ways to overcome situations such as:

“There are shouts for content, but I can’t participate because I haven’t progressed enough.”
“I am trying everything I can, but I can’t defeat the enemy. Only if I had 1 or 2 more party members…”
“I really want this item!”

caused by the following issues:
-Players were late to participate in content during its peak time
-Players are unable to log in during peak hours
　
Apply the weakness system which is currently only used in the final chapter to all routes

Based on feedback regarding the battle in the final chapter, we will apply the following adjustments to all routes.
Opponent’s attack/magic attack is reduced by triggering weakness
Elimination/addition/consolidation of weaknesses triggers
Change weakness triggers for jug pets and automatons to all special abilities.

※The 3rd category is currently not applied to the final chapter
　
Ticket system for specific items
Players are frustrated with the fact that players are unable to give away duplicate items to other players who want the item. As such, we have come up with a way to give players who were unable to obtain the item a better chance.
　
Eligible items

The following are the eligible items:

Mextli Harness/Anhur Robe/Fazheluo Radiant Mail/Toci’s Harness/Heka’s Kalasiris/Mekira Meikogai/Murasamemaru/Aytanri/Ephemeron/Coruscanti/Asteria/Borealis/Delphinius

There are 2 reasons these items were chosen:
1. All other gear items are relatively easy to obtain, so we would like players to obtain these items on their own.
2. The more items that can be ticketed, the more inventory congestion becomes a problem.
　
Ticketing

-Ticketing can only be performed when items are taken out of the personal treasure box
-When ticketing occurs, the character who is ticketing is announced and the ticket goes to the loot pool
-Tickets are different for each type of gear
-To obtain items via tickets, 3 of the same type of ticket must be turned in
-Tickets cannot be traded to other players
We separated tickets into different types to avoid players only farming areas with the easiest monsters to defeat or obtaining items from NMs that would not usually drop them.

Initially, we were considering allowing tickets to be traded or sold, but if this was implemented, tickets would be used for profit rather than to help other players. Since this does not fall in line with our original objective, in order to make it so tickets easily go to those players who really want an item and continuously participate, we have decided to allow only the members who participate in battle to transfer tickets.

To compensate, we were able to significantly reduce the number of necessary tickets to exchange for equipment and have set the number stated above.

Additionally, by having a the system announce that someone created a ticket, the player who created the ticket can then easily notify other members that they are free to lot on it or chose who to give it to.
　
Implementation of a system where weakening monsters is possible through paying a fee (Excluding the final chapter)

In order to aid those players to get past portions of content they are stuck on and also to make it possible to take on these battles with fewer party members, we will be implementing the below.

-Enfeebling items can be purchase with gil.
-Item purchases will be limited to a one-time use for a given period of time.
-It will be possible to stack enfeeble items.
-It will not be possible to trade enfeeble items to other players.
-Enfeeble items need to be traded to the Planar Rift prior to Voidwatch battles and converted into a key item.
- It will be possible to possess multiple key items.
-Whether you want to enfeeble the monster will be selectable when spawning the monster.
-If you choose to enfeeble the monster, the level of enfeebling can be selected.
-Enfeebling reduces the level of the monster.
-The amount of levels that can be lowered on a monster via key items will change based on zone.
We do not plan on making the cost for these enfeeble items extremely high. While it won’t be at a level of extreme ease either, we plan on making it somewhat in the middle.

There will also be limitations on the number purchasable in a given amount of time and though it will be slightly on the expensive side, there will not be any other different effects attributed to these items such as drop rate enhancements, etc.
By using multiple enfeeble items at the same time, it will be possible to lower the level of the monster and it will be possible to defeat the earlier chapter monsters with less than a single party.

We’ve set the items in this way in order to prevent making it critical to have for battles and also to prevent extremely efficient parties from battling the same monsters over and over again.


The above are the plans and adjustment planned scheduled for next version update.

We will first be implementing this on the test server and then perform the actual version update.
After this is complete, we will continue to make adjustments based on play conditions and feedback.

Is this ticket system so brilliant that I simply can't comprehend how wonderful it will be, or is it really as stupid and convoluted as it looks?

Pretty much. I also read it as you can specify someone to lot it, but that'll probably be a LS type thing, opening the door for point system VW, akin to the dynamis of old.

My favorite part was them deciding it cant be tradable. So someone could go 2/3 on tickets then get the actual item in the chest and have nothing better to do with the tickets then toss em. This system is almost working in full circle, causing the same problem twice.

That it addresses my primary qualm: watching the rare drops go completely to waste on people who won't even use them, or already have them, meanwhile I'm 0/400 and counting.

Of course I would prefer a loot system that puts everything in the pool just like other events of the game and lets players distribute loot in the way they choose.

I had a friend who frequently helped me kill Akvan. He's not gotten 7 Heka's and thrown away each one because he can't use it. If this ticket system was implemented sooner, I'd have had Heka's a long time ago.

Major Whoosh again by SE. Players aren't upset that they can't gift items to others. They are upset because they themselves are fighting things hundreds, possibly thousands (anyone have examples of that? because the highest I am is 0/424) of times and not getting anything but items they have already gotten.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/22046-Voidwatch-Final-Chapter?p=317844#post317844