Campaign

Today's NM will be put on hold for me to tell you about the rape on a what used to be fun aspect of FFXI, Campaign. First item on our list; Campaign Ops. You used to be able to get a nice chunk of exp and AN from these. Since the update the rewards have been cut in half.. HALF. Even the truly hard Ops aren't worth it because the reward does not even come close to justifying the trouble gone through. Next item; Fortifications. Ever since boosting the defense on Fortifications the past has been lost. Spells that used to do 200 damage to them now hardly do 49. As of this moment the Beastmen own 15 zones.. Sandoria 2 Windurst 1 and Bastok.. poor Bastok has none and its capitol is being attacked constantly. I understand they wanted to make it more difficult since it was pretty easy before... but this is impossible. People have stopped campaigning altogether. I havent given up because I want some items really bad but I have seen a noticable drop in Player participatio. I'm typing this while double-weakened in Sauromugue Champaign [S] and I have Aegis Scream up so I have to stick around for a few fights and the number of people here is rediculously low. I DID see a lot of people in Bastok trying to keep it safe (as I was since it IS my country in the future). Now, SE has maintenance and an update prepared for tomorrow and I hope to God that they fix this. I loved campaign and I want to love it again!