not everyone. i'd pay every last gil and piece of relic on my accounts just for that difficulty revamp

Just because you can dyna merit doesn't mean that you have to. It's like heroin. It's always available, but you don't have to dip that sweet, sweet needle into your arm. You can drop your relic(s), ask Nasomi to reset your merits, and pretend those avenues aren't available. Unless you are confessing that you have no impulse control, and that you are a slave to your own weaknesses...

You be you.

apparently we also pretend that dyna meriting doesn't have inflationary effects on those who skip the cheese

Inflation is inherently relative to the system that you buy into. If your happiness is being an island, be an island.

Wanting merits to be retail accurate in both cap and the way you obtain them is my stance. Why would I drop my relics when I only have a problem with the merits? Why would I gimp myself super hard when the competition isn't? Why does me using the tools available on the server make me a heroin addict?

People were talking about merits, when that happens dyna merits gets mentioned. Doing that means you will get replies saying how some wish it wasn't like that. Is it really that hard to grasp?



Yes and we're saying it was a shit system that I'm willing to bet all my gil, Nas didn't know acted in this way. For a guy who loves the old school party experience and hates people exploiting to get past it(sync restrictions, sync bug bans), I'd imagine he'd have a pretty big problem on 6 characters getting 110-130k exp in 2 hours.

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this.. is very dumb.

No one is saying they're forced to use dyna merits, they're saying the game is largely devalued because of it. That's not a personal thing, that's more of a game balance thing. You're not supposed to have an alliance of people with capped merits, and a relic, to do the content. Spoiler: The next wave of content in 2025 won't be satisfying either. It'll feel busted and broken and easy, and that's because we're playing the game in a way it wasn't intended for the content. It's whatever, but pretending it's just because we like merit parties is dumb lol.

Also, like Deft said, it'd be dumb for someone to purposefully make themselves worse than everyone around them. That isn't the goal... Also, like Deft said, realistically there's a 0.0% chance that Nas realized how broken Dyna burns were.. and now just probably feels like the horse is out of the barn.

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I'm happy on my island. I've done maybe 2 dynamis since the entry and such was finalized, never expd in dynamis, no relics, always broke and out of gil, most of what I do is 2 box soloed, or with 1 or 2 other ppl that may also be 2 boxd. I stay lowkey and within my circles. I haven't ran out of things to do in 5.5 years, and have fun just about everytime I login. I chat, and teach ppl things, and do stuff for ppl. I don't share the same epeen as others, my epeen is more about how many people I've helped and mentored over the years. I enjoy how I play, and I love the friends I play with. Relics and merits are nice, if that's your thing hey go for it. I prefer challenging myself. If I were to snatch up all the BiS I could get my hands on, I would just faceroll everything, would be no point in continuing like that. I'm still around because I haven't sold myself into burning myself out.... Well I'm a little burnt out of progressing folks these days but after 200+ full clears, I guess it's expected I'd need time away from that scene. The point is the game can be anything you want it to be. I wouldn't say nasomi didn't foresee the dyna burns being what they are. Really though, once you put dyna on farm, you can set a clock by scheduling relics. The system here just expedites that at a much more rapid rate. As far as merits in dynamis go, sure you get 130k in 2 hours, but you waiting 4-6 hours to get in to get those merits (unless you're a dick that skips) which means you don't have anything better to do for 6-8 hours a day xcept wait in the dyna-line.... *shrugs* can spend the same ammount of time and get more merits without the boring wait, but eh, to each their own. The kicker is the currency drops, which even if u knock out 700 pieces in a 2hr burn you're getting like 2mil tops to split across 6 ppl.... You can do better than that outside of dynamis. I don't really see much of a problem honestly, it all balances out as it is. I think if I could peg a single point of player habit that could be a problem, it'd be npc gil. This is kinda ffxi tho, so npc gil is always going to be a thing, and inflation is always going to creep itself up and down. The micro-economy in ffxi was a flawed system from the instant the developers created it, nothing going to miraculously happen to fix that, just have to adapt, and play the game you want to play, and never forfeit yourself into playing the game others want you to play. Good luck^^

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There is no better method of gaining gil or XP than dynamis burns on a per hour basis.

If you disagree, you're doing the dyna burns wrong.

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so glad that Aeroo let you out of your cage again today.

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