ZweiHerzen wrote:
Kazen wrote:
ZweiHerzen wrote:
These nerfs against player efficacy are fucking stupid, and seem wholly mindlessly implemented sorely for the sake of trying to copy-paste the values of buffs from an era in time before most of the decent balance adjustments were implemented.
It's just plain retrograding.
Game was super hard and punishing then, that's what Nasomi and a very large number of players want.
If you want a challenge, challenge yourself. If you're too dumb to challenge yourself, then fuck off with your attempts to ruin the experience for other people who don't give a shit.
Want a challenge? Play fucking quirky jobs in ways they weren't meant to. Play less efficient jobs. Deliberately use low level shitty gear. Challenge yourself, basically.
It would seem the kind of mindset requesting more challenge is unfortunately already too challenged as-is, if this simple facet well within your own control as a player and the way you play your character has eluded you.
Sorry, I want a sense of accomplishment when I defeat something in FFXI. I don't want everything to be so dumb downed that I must gimp myself(whether that be gear or jobs used) to feel that. I and many others also believe everyone shouldn't be allowed to do all the content, the skill floor has always been low in 75-cap FFXI, it was just significantly lower in RotZ/CoP than ToAU and WoTG raised it even more.
You realize there used to be a Cross-Server HNM "Prestige" meter on BlueGartr? A lot of shells were missing things like Wyrms, Baha v2, Jailers, Cerb, Khim. Not because they didn't want to kill, because they literally couldn't.
People like challenging video games, even when played at the highest level of skill. Look at the Dark Souls franchise and all the other titles that followed their lead.
Edit: Mentioning to my LS/friends/IRC and hearing confirmation that Cure values seemed OP, instead of posting on the forums doesn't mean that I'm gaslighting. Try harder.
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