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On May 03 2017 21:02 Redox wrote:
So what do people think about the upcoming M+ changes?



I like the non-depleting keys because it hurts boosting a lot.

What really sucks is the lower amount of loot. 3 items for a run in time, same as 1.5 chests now. Usually you can easily 2-3 chest on 10-12 even with subpar random groups, so loot is almost cut in half. Also you will not get the item lvl upgrades for 2nd and 3rd chest you get on lower keys now. And less chance for legendary as well.

Then again if you want to kill boosting doing away with the 2nd and 3rd chest is necessary. Makes you wonder though why they needed more than half a year to realize that they do not like the boosting.

On May 03 2017 23:36 Rebs wrote:


How does it hurt boosting? This makes it even easier, we sell alot of 15 runs for easy gold and having your own key makes it even more convenient. Infact with so little loot on offer rerunning keys is even more viable.

Additionally you can target farm a specific key for certain items people really want at high ilevels. It makes no different to boosting, the only thing it really stops is people with low geared characters have less leverage because their key isnt of much value anymore.

On May 03 2017 23:36 Rebs wrote:


How does it hurt boosting? This makes it even easier, we sell alot of 15 runs for easy gold and having your own key makes it even more convenient. Infact with so little loot on offer rerunning keys is even more viable.

Additionally you can target farm a specific key for certain items people really want at high ilevels. It makes no different to boosting, the only thing it really stops is people with low geared characters have less leverage because their key isnt of much value anymore.

On May 03 2017 23:40 Gorsameth wrote:

It helps people who sell runs but hurts people who currently get boosted for free because they have a good key others want to use.

On May 04 2017 05:24 Alventenie wrote:
I like how FF14 handles it.

Dungeons: 1/1/2
Trials and big dungeons: 2/2/4
Raids: 3/6/15 (3 groups of 1/2/5 with separate loot (each boss drops a chest of 2 items per group))

Raids still seem weird, but I like how it is handled overall. The smaller content gives good ratio and it has enough spread of classes that you aren't really short of a specific role.

tanks and healers and support will always be in demand for non-raid stuff in any game ever.
the reasons for why you play them are simply not the same as for playing the damage classes.

On May 04 2017 13:05 nanaoei wrote:



tanks and healers and support will always be in demand for non-raid stuff in any game ever.
the reasons for why you play them are simply not the same as for playing the damage classes.

the 24mans you're talking about actually count as big dungeons but for anyone who hasn't played the game, raids are all 8-man in ffxiv and will likely never change.
raids are also 2/2/4, the 4 being a split of 2-3 ranged and at least one melee exclusively for a non-class specific damage boost to the raid.

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