Dev Tracker - Discussion

Although I know it's fun to hate and botters and what not, the notes says you only need Aurum Tome Key Item, you get that KI before you touch any of the sphere farming phase, so you don't need to bot anything to make those weapons, do ppl with "finished" shields have aa advantage since they'll most likely just HQ and overprice things? sure, but that's another point, can't say you "CAN'T CRAFT NEW WEAPONS, DIDN'T BOT A SHIELD" at all.

This discussion is proof I don't know ***about what's really going on in FFXI. All this talk about shields, botting, spheres. I thought I was doing something farming Fu's stones for money. I'm always behind ; ;

Other additions include new synthesis recipes for those in possession of aurum tome key items and the monthly updates to Ambuscade.

Trade the completed shield to your Guild Master for the final cutscene with them, where they grant you the aurum tome Key Item for your craft.

Argentum =/= Aurum

Aspis > Ecu > Scutum > Shield (Argentum Su3) > Eschuteon (Aurum)

Most, if not all, existing shields are already botted. SE is giving them more means to gain gil and sell it and whatnot.

Most maybe but not all, took ne almost 3 months of cutthroat bs farming to end mine.

Gonna need you to make new weapons for me, thanks! lol

Q2) What plans does the dev. team have for the future of FFXI? Have those plans changed at all in the last couple years?

A2) For major updates, we’re planning to further expand on the Dynamis – Divergence content in the upcoming July version update. This update will also introduce new synthesis gear that utilizes the items obtained from Dynamis. This gear not only features new graphics, but superb stats as well. Afterwards, we’re planning to expand on the Master Trial content, and also make improvements to weapon groups, such as Relic, Mythic, and Empyrean weapons. Furthermore, we’re planning to introduce additional scenario side stories similar to the ones covering the story after the Seekers of Adoulin.

Originally, we didn’t have plans for these when we scaled down our development team, but both the development and operations team wanted to strive to make some changes in Vana’diel, and also wanted the adventurer’s to experience something new. The addition of more content, such as Omen and Dynamis – Divergence, were happy miscalculated additions.

The reason we scaled down our development team was to try to maintain operations for as long as possible; however, this minimized the number of changes happening to Vana’diel, leading to a conflict where it affected our adventurer’s motivation to continue. However, this has become a trigger for each of our staff to try and challenge new things. The development plans changed within the last two years, from focusing on maintenance of the game, to offering new features to our players.

A20) This is applies to Mythic WS and Empyrean WS as well, but there were no such plans to begin with.

Well at least that's how the real economy works. Government made the Gil and lend it to ordinary people through the banks. Except the government gets nothing while the banks get the juicy meat.

A lot being said here. Very interesting. People quitting because of no new content forced their hand to create new content it seems. Additional Master Trials looks interesting and the first I've seen this.

L oh *** L


The fastest an event ever got a campaign? Officially the shittiest event recognized by square? Someones job depends on you doing Dynamis... they are literally begging you to do it next month.

If you're smart (which, who are we kidding, you aren't) you will continue to not do this garbage and show them you won't put up with ***. They will keep making dynamis more and more attractive.

On the other hand, there is room to consider expanding the field of play by redesigning Voidwatch and Salvage content for item levels

If nothing, this is response is a direct contradiction to what players said on these forums for years: "If we just keep buying more stuff (wardrobes, characters, etc), SE will have more money to make more content and keep the game alive".

Nope. They admitted that they created Omen + Dynamis as a direct response to player negative feedback about the game (i.e. not playing due to nothing new to do). They did mention Salvage + VW in the interview, so it's likely we wil see ilvl gear from those events in the future, possibly.


Wasn't bad content in either of these, and would love to revisit this with groups of players rather than solo.

We all have the opportunity to complain about things we don't like in the game we still play, the same as you do.

We all have the opportunity to complain about things we don't like in the game we still play, the same as you do.

If the company is still making the same or even adequate money from the people complaining then it rings hollow, this is the case for any type of product apart from when there's a major issue where theyre forced to change, business only responds to changes in revenue.