CoP, Where's all the new equipment?

[Bigokk McGock]

And for someone who started a rant thread on how bad CoP is, it's just lame to use "Games < Life" as an arguement to try and put down other people. You're the one who started the arguement. Almost as if this is a trolling thread in disguise >.<.

The guy questions why I had time for EQ quests but not FFXI quests in a generally rude tone. I answered his question in a demeaning manner because he replied to me in a demeaning manner.

I used to be a hardcore powergamer when I played EQ. I graduated college, got a job, got married and had a child all within my last year of EQ. I wasn't neglecting my son since about their first year, babies sleep 18 hours a day. I still had plenty of time for gaming. As my son got older, my gaming time dwindled down to almost nil (10 hours a week).

Then I quit EQ because out of those 10 hours, I did the same thing over and over. I was max level, gear maxed out, AA points all gathered for everything I wanted and all I did was do long boring "quests" (killing previous boss mobs for guildmates so they could accomplish the things I already have accomplished).

It got boring waiting for the next expansion to be released so I quit when FFXI was released.

There are many things that I love about FFXI, I don't hate the game. However, it does appear as though I'm ranting on how bad this expansion is for anyone who doesn't like to quest. The reality is that I am having a hard time logging on at all knowing that I only have a few options.

1. Make a 3-4 hour slot in my busy schedule so I can get the last 15k I need to make 63.
2. Make a 3-4 hour slot in my busy schedule so I can gain Rank 7.
3. Level up a new job so I can solo for an hour here and there when time permits.
4. Farm

Problem with 1 and 2, a 3-4 hour slot comes once a week. Saturday nights between 10pm-2am. Not many people are on at that time like they were in EQ. Cerberus tends to be dead on the weekends after 10pm.

Problem with 3, once I get to a certain point, I will start needing the 3-4 hour slots again so it doesn't really solve anything.

Problem with 4, farm for what? No new gear to keep my interrest until level 70. I am 10+ levels (70+ XP hours) away from having to worry about gil for Tarbazin or Juggernaut and I already have a mil rotting in the bank.

It has been said a billion times: no one has killed a single CoP HNM yet... hell... only a handful of NMs Id say... so WTF you talking about? What do you know, that I don't that will give you this crap.

So, since I know little about the game and "JPNs" know only a little more...You mean the guy that runs Mysterytour (uses a program to analyze the .dat files and finds all the equipment as soon as it is released into the game. It doesn't have to drop to be in a .dat file downloaded in the patch smart guy) doesn't know what equipment is in the game yet?

I know that not 100% on Mysterytour is correct, but I tend to think that after 7 days, he would have updated the equipment if there were more items.

The only way this is possible is that SE did not release all of the equipment yet. IMO this is the only acceptable reason for the lack of items. I hope they are not following in the footsteps of SoE by releasing expansions before they are finished.

Plus... if you play this game as a race... on day you will run out of a carrots... look back and say "Wow I missed so many things... why the hell did I just do that?".

Isn't that the beauty of having the ability to start over at level 1 with any job at any time?

I'm not racing to anything though. Every level I get, if there is a piece of gear that I can use and is an upgrade, I will farm for it before I go back to leveling again. New gear makes me look forward to leveling again, then I test, parse, calculate results and report what I find to my fellow Warriors (you can see all the work I've done in the Warrior forums).

Some people like having fun with new quests (as posted in some replies) and I like having fun with new gear. Why are some of you trying to make it seem like there's something wrong with that?

Now that you have more information than you ever wanted to know about me, I'm sorry to report that you cannot have the minutes of your life back you spent reading this post.

Have a nice night.

[Blood Red Poet]

Damn really? I liked those minutes :X.

If that is the case... why do items added recently come from updates... months before? :D Also, I think the owner of Mystery Tour is taking a short break or something... he said it somewhere on the page(Sorry, update slow for short time or something were the words).

Oh I never said racing to level is wrong... but you called something i like (CoP missions) a waste of oxygen. So it is you who has no accepted what i think, not vice versa :D.

[Bigokk McGock]

You make a good point. If I offended you, I offer my apologies.
/bow

[Voila!]

If you really expected to see 'customizable' chocobos, or even hoped in the least:



That is all.

[LawDawg]

Originally posted by Blood Red Poet
Damn really? I liked those minutes :X.

If that is the case... why do items added recently come from updates... months before? :D Also, I think the owner of Mystery Tour is taking a short break or something... he said it somewhere on the page(Sorry, update slow for short time or something were the words).

Oh I never said racing to level is wrong... but you called something i like (CoP missions) a waste of oxygen. So it is you who has no accepted what i think, not vice versa :D.

The owner of mysterytour doesn't get that information himself. He has friends who do all the hard work, and he takes that information and puts it in a table... and unfortunately, thats most of the new equipment SO FAR. I'm not sure how much more "new equipment" is coming, but the ones that exist have already been determined ... and by the looks of it... not that exciting. And I really don't understand why people think quests/farming in FFXI is fun... farming is tedious and boring, and so lame its mind-numbing, and questing? I admit, missions are fairly fun if you do it with a group of friends, same with some quests like Eco-warrior, but 90% of the quests are, like farming, mind numbingly boring and pointless. If you can't see that, well then you are blinded by your own naiveness. Sure FFXI has its positive parts, but I am realizing more and more the much larger negative side of it =\. Not saying theres a better game, cause this may just be a flaw of MMOs... *shrug*, back to my single player RPGs and CS...

[Regulat0r]

Originally posted by Voila!
If you really expected to see 'customizable' chocobos, or even hoped in the least:



That is all.

Man you totally owned HIM with that big red x you posted there!

[Elsurion]

Originally posted by Bigokk McGock
I'm glad to hear that you're happy with the expansion because you don't care about end-game, but what about those 80% of us who do care?

Sorry to destroy your bubble.
You mean 20% are only EG focused.
Talk for yourself and let the other have their fun while playing 1 to 75.

[ibroyles]

Originally posted by Regulat0r
Man you totally owned HIM with that big red x you posted there!

[Navia]

I haven't bought the expansion yet but I am terribly disappointed in the lack of new armor options available to ninjas after asking around and browsing the AH.

-No new ninjitsu
-No new ninja ranged weapon
-No new ninja shurikens
-No new ninja armor with new graphics
-1 new (level 30)katana? -_-
-Bison jacket armor is BST only ( I hate S-E ) I want a new outfit! The Scorp harness look be damned.

I love 'the story' and all, but CoP looks like it would just be a distraction for me at this point when I am trying to level up so I can experience the rest of the zilart missions and kill some kind of HNM besides Roc ;3

I am having a hard enough time getting to 75 with such little free time to play, glad they didn't up the cap. Don't even get me started on all the pain I still have to go through to get fenrir so I can play SMN, the job I *really* care about.

I'm having a hard time seeing why I should buy CoP, i've got a lot of plans already ;x

[Voila!]

Originally posted by Regulat0r
Man you totally owned HIM with that big red x you posted there!

The image is there, I put it between the tags... I think the forums owned me.

Not.

[bonovoxpsu]

man, a lot of you were expecting the world from this...

i see CoP as being mission/quest based. that seems to be the focus. a smaller focus would be new zones and mobs. seems square is happy with the jobs they've fleshed out and the abilities each one has.

so if you're expecting the world, don't... you'll be sorely disappointed. CoP has a more interesting storyline and the chasm map quest was one of the best quests i've seen and done in a while. very storyline oriented - CoP missions feel much more FFish.

the M1 cutscene is freakin awesome too

[Aonir]

Alot of people see all the content they have added so far that teh DAT hackers have found and are liek thats it?? LAME!!!!

Buts seriously folks i mean look at the missions and the level ranges of the new equipment, all the CoP missions have lvl caps and this stuff all falls under those caps, its basically new gear to use in Emptiness and stuff.

I think this was stuff just to get our feet wet with, new gear we can use to do the missions and then later we will see more region specific rare/ex gear pouring in. Not to mention that alot of the stuff we know about still hasnt been found yet.

[Onte]

Since you played the EQ endgame and say you left because of the flags and backflagging, then came to FFXI, which is the exact reason I left after four years of EQ, I can say I know exactly what you're talking about.

I left EQ because that game is focused around endgame. I love this game because there are 50 bazillion things to do OTHER than wait on a rare to spawn and backflag 70 of my closest friends. This game is the exact opposite of that game and it hasn't changed a bit since NA release, so what's the problem? You, yourself, haven't made the current cap yet, you, yourself haven't hit the endgame gear yet, so again, what's the problem? You want instant mudflation, gear with 180+hp and mana, +25str, etc, etc, right now?

[Bigokk McGock]

No, if you read my other posts in the thread you would know the problem. Time is the issue. I don't have 3+ hour slots in my daily schedule like I used to. You cannot accomplish anything in this game in less than 3 hours, it's 6+ XP hours for one level and that's after you find a group. People are going to be less inclined to invite me if I tell them, "Hey I only have an hour OK?"

[Voila!]

You're complaining you have a life that doens't center around a computer game?

That's bold.