[Sorai]

This is all speculation, but if things in ffxi are going to be drastically changed, and jobs will be stronger in ballista vs. each other,
is there a chance the ballista trend will come back? Especially since servers will be merged.

[Tizer]

Sorai, on 01 March 2010 - 01:06 AM, said:

This is all speculation, but if things in ffxi are going to be drastically changed, and jobs will be stronger in ballista vs. each other,
is there a chance the ballista trend will come back? Especially since servers will be merged.

I bloody well hope so, cos the sport of ballista has died down as we know. But i feel that it once was the heart of the game, somewhere to get away from storylines....EXP'ing burn all the time. A time to chill out and enjoy the game for what it was.

Anywho, now that im back to reality, i do hope the merge revitalizes ballista cos i for sure will be joining it.

[lolwtfbbq]

Lakishmi is getting merged I think?

That is the only one of the 3 active ballista servers left being merged.

I hope they add new caps and areas for 80/90 etc... but I really doubt it. SE really does not care about ballista, it was a failed experiment, and I doubt they will put in a ton of time updating an event that hardly anybody participates in.

[Aeonknight]

lolwtfbbq, on 01 March 2010 - 06:16 AM, said:

Lakishmi is getting merged I think?

That is the only one of the 3 active ballista servers left being merged.

I hope they add new caps and areas for 80/90 etc... but I really doubt it. SE really does not care about ballista, it was a failed experiment, and I doubt they will put in a ton of time updating an event that hardly anybody participates in.

They don't really need to put a ballista update out when stuff like raising the level cap is going to influence it as is. That nonsense makes uncapped matches an entirely new ball park. No one knows shit about what works and what doesn't anymore.

Good enough for me.

[Riousa]

I can see it now... Wave after wave of RDMs and Blues with large quantaties of MP cure bomb and or nukega...

[Cream Soda]

Well the tiers are 30 40 50 60 uncapped. If anything, we lose lv 75 ballista, unless they actually adjust it, which I doubt, as they don't give a shit about ballista.

[Metticus]

I thought ballista was 30, 40, 50, 60 and Uncapped matches. You didn't need to be 75 iirc.

[Karpp]

I belive that 99 cap comes only new add ons, however I might be wrong well anyways will see...

[Wyvernheart]

i thought it says "non restricted ballista" and not 75cap ballista if im right. been a while seance remora dosnt ballista. matter fact in dio it says 75 and uncaped restrictions. comforting thought.

[Sinistralx1]

To be honest, for at least the 1st few months, factoring a level cap increase into ballista may be quite grim (though still fun heh). You may have a team of slackers 75-80 vs a team of 'neo-high lvls' 90-99. Any vet can tell joo for instance in 60 cap what happens when a 59 person shows up. "HEY! So-n-so is a 59drk..lets rape his arse!' Bam..gb whole match for free. Even at 74, a huge difference can be felt. So unless people don't mind the unevenness, at least for a while (IF, like some here are suggesting, they allow the cap raise into 'uncaps' (75?)) uncaps gonna be wierd.

2-3 months down the line now when the majority of ballistians are all 99...shieeeeet. Ballistas gonna be awsome (/em prays for 3000hp!) No idea whatsoever how subjobs are gonna be tweeked (just know theres gonna be ninjanerfing somewhere down the line in ballista) but more abilities for subs = lotta new fighting styles heh.

...just too bad refresh is gonna get bumped up to lvl 50rdm >_>

[Aeonknight]

Sinistralx1, on 20 March 2010 - 05:43 AM, said:

To be honest, for at least the 1st few months, factoring a level cap increase into ballista may be quite grim (though still fun heh). You may have a team of slackers 75-80 vs a team of 'neo-high lvls' 90-99. Any vet can tell joo for instance in 60 cap what happens when a 59 person shows up. "HEY! So-n-so is a 59drk..lets rape his arse!' Bam..gb whole match for free. Even at 74, a huge difference can be felt. So unless people don't mind the unevenness, at least for a while (IF, like some here are suggesting, they allow the cap raise into 'uncaps' (75?)) uncaps gonna be wierd.

2-3 months down the line now when the majority of ballistians are all 99...shieeeeet. Ballistas gonna be awsome (/em prays for 3000hp!) No idea whatsoever how subjobs are gonna be tweeked (just know theres gonna be ninjanerfing somewhere down the line in ballista) but more abilities for subs = lotta new fighting styles heh.

...just too bad refresh is gonna get bumped up to lvl 50rdm >_>

Except that they're not raising the cap instantly to 99. it's going to be done in increments so they can watch game balance, and what this does to... everything. So if people are too lazy to level in 5 level increments over the course of probably a year or so... then chances are they were never anything special to begin with. hi2u full AF DRK.

[ShugotenshiOfOdin]

Hey now, don't forget full AF SAM! Those are always neat, y'know?