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Much better rating this time around. :)

I think its getting all the good credit it deserves. As much as there has been problems at launch, SE really has turned this game around into a very enjoyable experience.

i got maxed carpenter, best two items i can make are ilevel 55 and 70, the 55 should be good enough for starting out at endgame and its pretty easy to make, plus its the weapon required for BRD/DRG relic weapon quest, the 70 one requires an obscene amount of control to make(318) and stat-wise loses to HM primal weapons and up, the upside is that you can meld stuff into it(2 slots) so if you manage to get 5 materia i bet it could get beastly.

Hmm so there might be potential in crafted stuff beyond 50 then...good to hear.

The more I think about it, the more I hate reviews like this (despite it was positive about a game I like). Its just some guy who probably didn't play more than an hour and reading a bullet point of things he probably read on a forum or were handed to him by the developers.

Lets be honest, the guy really doesn't sound like he knows what hes talking about....you just cant review a mmorpg without playing it for ages imo. Id have been happier if they just said "its not buggy, it looks and sounds good, people seem to like it" but then that would be boring I guess lol

they have relic tools for crafting too? oh gawd im sure getting two relic is gonna suck...

Do lvl 1 -> 5 -> 10 -> 15 -> 20 -> 25 -> 30 -> 35 -> 40 -> 45 -> 50 quest for DoH/DoL. The lvl 50 quest reward Relic tool (same stat as Luminary). Super easy. I call it Relic because the tool give you a unique (bad *** looking) crafting table during synthesis sequence.

Isn't IGN a gil selling site? Or is that IGE - confused

So that's what all the fuss over FATE pt spam is all about. Didn't realize it was being abused to the point of neglecting party mechanics. Glad I haven't sucked into that just yet. Personally looking forward to the up coming dungeons. Here's hoping I don't get kicked from pt for actually enjoying the storyline as it happens...

There's no way I'd ever skip through cutscenes during my first time watching. I'll just state that at the start of the run, and leave if they'd rather have a different tank.

The current alternatives are just not good enough, specifically levequest for DoW/DoM/DoL.

DoW/DoM levequest at lvl 40 give a small sum of around 5,500 EXP as a base, when you start needing something like 350k a level. Toward the end of 1.00, you could solo like 10-20 leves for a lvl at higher 40s. Now you have to solo 35-50 leves a level at early 40s... The completion bonus is also capped at 25%, not good enough to sustain performing well. DoL fare a little bit better, with 10-15 levequest a level. However at the same time unlike 1.00 they can't gather any item that is not levequest item (and will be taken away upon completion). Again, completion bonus is capped at 25% and unlike DoW/DoM to achieve this you need to slot a lot of Materia into your gear to raise % gathering on the higher level item to get more score.

Guildhest doesn't reward enough to encourage people to join. We could do without more EXP but how about specific drop like the old 1.00 Faction Leves? Those stuff are now moved exclusively to Dungeons.

Dungeons can see a slight boost to EXP to encourage more people trying it.

Also rework the Materia cap system, the current Materia cap works exclusively in favour of DPS. Healer might get some benefits but that's only from Determination/Crit Rate. Currently, very few people outside of crafters/gatherers bother to make Materia at high-end because only very few people actually use them (like Bluegartr).

Edited, Sep 11th 2013 11:15pm by Khornette

No, it was ZAM who was bought by IGE..IE the Gil sellers. Here is one link that talks about it, but be warned, it's a mess. IGN is supported by Gamestop. I'm not sure which company is worse, RMT or Gamestop:P

IGE's parent company, RPG Holdings, purchased Allakhazam.com in November 2005,as announced in May 2006. This purchase followed that of ThottBot.com.

During late 2006 and 2007, Debonneville was forced out of the company. Later Debonneville sued Pierce for various reasons related to an investment made by Goldman Sachs a year earlier, which Debonneville ended winning in a settlement.

IGE tried to restructure its upper management team by recruiting new executives. IGE began to lose revenue due to the frequent deletion of accounts involved in trading. In 2007, a lawsuit was filed against IGE by Antonio Hernandez for "substantially impairing and diminishing [player's] collective enjoyment of the game."

During the final months of IGE leading to its reformation, the board of directors decided to sell the company to their former partner Jonathan Yantis. IGE's parent company was then renamed Atlas Technology Group Inc,which is owned by Yantis, while Brock went with Affinity Media.

Affinity Media was said to be one of the parent companies of IGE, though the company no longer has any ownership stake. Affinity Media's senior vice president of business development John Maffei, noted that "we’re no longer in that business." Affinity retains control of Allakhazam.com, Thottbot.com, and has since purchased Wowhead.com.

http://forums.riftgame.com/general-discussions/general-discussion/124924-zam-owned-ige-aka-gold-sellers.html

Edited, Sep 11th 2013 10:57pm by ShadowedgeFFXI

As a tank, I always ask whether there are any newcomers. If so, I tell them I'll explain the boss mechanics right before the boss,
and to be sure to lean back and watch all the cutscenes. And if anyone complains... I care **** about it. Because this is a game.
Well, maybe I'll forget to flash once or twice. Accidently.

My take on this is more that there aren't enough crafters to meld mid-level and higher gear. If you do find one via shouting or whatever (and wasting time, to boot), odds are they'll want to charge you a mint because they know there's little competition. As such, for gear when leveling you know you'll be replacing in a few hours of solid play, skipping materia may actually be the wiser move financially until you're working with endgame gear.

Though, I do find there no AF+2 counterparts saddening. The why not probably involves the perpetual conditioning of the hardcore crowd hating how someone could visit the AH and get the same gear. Though my usual take on this is raid gear is simply too grindy, as such encouraging their vehement defense. With enough rarity and expense, the time required to actually buy a piece should ideally be comparable to running a dungeon X times. But even then they fall back to the tired excuse how you wouldn't need such gear for overworld stuff, which is ultimately just telling certain types of players they have no reason to keep playing once they hit 50 here.