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Old 06-06-2008, 06:54 AM   #97 (permalink)
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Re: New Notorious Monsters (06/04/2008)
Originally Posted by Armando View Post
Using phrasing along the lines of "NMs of the same caliber as Sky and Sea NMs" speaks more of their difficulty and epic factor than rewards if you ask me. Yeah, the rewards will probably be good, but I have to side with Lmnop in that it'd be foolish to expect an easy way to get hard drops like Abjurations.
Who said getting to fight these mobs will be easy? They pretty much said we have to "buy" our way into these battles and we can only get a limited amount of points to "spend" per game day. It's basically like doing quests and getting Beastmen Seals as a reward. And for all we know these quests may be as simple as "go fetch me this item" to "go kill XX mobs" or whatever. And again, it wouldn't be that far fetched for them to put in some sort of tiered system where certain NM fights drop certain items that open up more NM fights.

Originally Posted by Akashimo View Post
Right, 4 jobs that can make actual good use out of kraken is consider broken, Pld, whm, drk and mnk. That's zomg sooo broken. Ridill, don't get me started on Ridill wars please. Honestly.

Don't Rng and Cor make good use of Kclub? There are more jobs that can make good use of the K club as opposed to the amount of jobs that can even equip the Ridill, let alone use it to it's fullest extent.

Originally Posted by Akashimo View Post
Only when you see maneater/ridill wars. Which is a lot more people out there than the 4 jobs combined. Its rare to see people with KC, yet ridill's are spotted a mile away.

If anything is truely broken, its parsers, mainly people who use them like oxygen, that drove the game to this point with gear and weapon combos.
I see more Kclubs then Ridills, because more jobs can use it effectively. Ridill, it's a War and Drk toy, maybe even Thf. But those three jobs also have other weapon types and combat builds that are just as effective on many mobs, if not moreso, then Ridill. Hell, just about everyone and their sister nowadays has a Joytoy, including yourself, how would you feel if that was suddenly nerfed into uselessness?

And Parsers didn't drive people to "this point" of the game, people drove themselves there. If there were no Parsers someone would make one. People like to see their progress and effectiveness and doing it with numbers is a solid way to see this.



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