Bounty reissued

We tried this a while back, but now I have more gil, so here we go again.  

The bounty

10 million gil for one win, 100 million for a best of five

Master levels: No SJ increase under Sync

New update dropped today, with a new 99 upgrade that as usual threatens our game balance.  This time it's some shit where you kill even more crabs and at some point you unlock increased subjob levels.  As far as we know it goes up to 5 so far, with 99/54 being the cap.  So naturally my first thought was how fucked things might get with level 60/35 ~ 60/60 jobs in ballista.

Fortunately, ballista is safe - tested a 99COR/51NIN with my 60 BRD with level sync, and he was synced to 60COR/30NIN.  Whew.

EDIT:  I was told you get some attribute bonus and skill ups as well every master level, so I tested that too.  Doesn't have any effect under 60 sync, so we're safe.  Thanks to Aldraii and Alizka for testing help!

Hako in 2021

Alright, so we've had some hako matches with the new crew.  Everything went pretty well.  I'm working on a diorama guide here for those looking to set things up.

WIP hako guide  3v3 specifics

 

 More to come later

2021...!!

 Well, here we are in 2021.   Ballista never dies, we all know that by now.  There's a huge following on Asura.

I saw a diorama video recorded by our very own Megume, now Alizka - and came back to see how things were going.  The video she posted was classic traditional hako style, a mirrored match with PLD WAR SAM.  Pretty enticing. 

Of course I resubbed and played some OM.  Same as before, general players doing their best to activate hyper with poison and reraise...  A few black mage players, though.  I've been trying to turn them away from that.  Otherwise the OM aren't terrible.  The players that play balanced jobs are decent, surprisingly so.  There are some super ooof new players, but I think there's room to grow.

I haven't been able to make any of their hako games.  I have seen a few that are just random, OM-style, come as whatever, which is a bit sad.  But there have definitely been some intense mirrored games as well.  There's potential here for sure.  Even in OM there are players whose game sense really pops.  I'll try to get them into serious hako soon.

To the veterans (and new friends) who happen upon this blog, I hope it finds you well.  The last few years have been harrowing beyond what I think we all thought was possible.  Please be safe, and healthy.  That's an order, maybe the only one I'd ever give, from your old man LS leader, Teishi.