Those "...Particularly challenging Chains of Promathia battlefields..." are what seperates Final Fantasy XI from WoW and other games out there.

There is nothing better (and I can say this without a shadow of a doubt) than beating one of the 'crazy' bosses because you did you job, your tactic was sound, your party knew their roles, you farmed/quested/researched beforehand, and everyone else was on the ball. It seperate the real players from the sub-players, those who are prepared to put the effort in against those who aren't commited to it.

While I think that the rest of the update is good; experience gains - good, allowing items to be traded/sold - good, I think that changing the difficulty will lead to a new style, a new type of CoP that isn't what it should be, and in the end, will not be as prestigious, or give one that same amount of self-achievement as before.


/ Palm0r

I don't normally say this, but to all of you griping about the update: get over yourselves.

You're acting no better than the idiots bellyaching about the Thief's Knife.

FTW...

emo kids offically ruined this game...just stfu and learn how to play before you start moaning that "Oh my gawddd its toooo hard...mom can u do this for me?" ....this update fails

WEAK!

Fucking weak.


Now because everyone cried about it they're making it easier. If you have smart people you can do it easily, no need to adjust the difficulty.


As far as I'm concerned, anyone who beats CoP post-update hasn't really accomplished anything.

I am only on CoP 2-5 because we have been slacking on doing the missions
I like the EX and Rare removal

I also like the exp points

Am I the only person who thinks the idea of making the mobs easier is bad; the best part about CoP for me is that it is freaking hard. I like that not just anyone can make it to sea.

Getting Sea was hard, I'll give them that much. Some of the missions really favor specific jobs and specific job setups, and many people doing the missions, even for the first time, refuse to do these missions without these setups.

Really though, the difficulty of the actual missions were overshadowed by the difficulty in simply getting a group for them. I mean yeah Diabolos was a rough fight, but it took two tries to beat him. On the other hand it took about three months to get a pickup group for the fight. Snoll Tzar was definitely one of the hardest missions, if not only because of the crazy time limit. However, I can say I went 3/4 on this mission, and the one loss was due to yes, a very bad party setup.

I'm not sure what inspired them to finally give in and make Sea easier to get all of a sudden. I always figured I was the poster child for someone who could NEVER get Sea: Relying on pickup parties for many missions, and having "undesired" jobs available for them. But even I got Sea eventually. I hate to use that tired cliche, but "if I can do it, anyone can." And I did the *original* difficulty Promyvions.. hoooo boy those were the days. If there was ever the "I walked to school five miles in snow uphill both ways" story to tell, those old Promyvions would be that story.

I don't think the EXP bonus will make most people drop what they are doing and gear up whatever cap gear to help people with a mission, but it's a nice perk. I would like to see CoP get more pickup-friendly.

Update = Win ^^