Coming back from the World of Warcraft.

[Blood Red Poet]

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taz, you are such a show off ;p

[tazirai]

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taz, you are such a show off ;p

Just to let you know your sig is my new Wall paper haha!!

That thing seriously rocks...

As far as Summoner is concernd I hate it when People Downplay what we can do , into a 1 min BP, like thats all we are hehe. (Not specifically to you Tyrien, but folks in general).

We are so much more, but Even "experienced" Summoners, I use that loosely fall into .. Heal, Heal, Heal, BP(WOOT teh WIN). No we can do more.


And your sig still rocks heh^^

[guz_rdm]

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Appreciate all the useful information and learned a bit about summoners in the process! ^^ On a side note my friend who is also returning and myself decided we'd like to make characters on Fairy, so if anyone could spot us 2 world passes it would be greatly appreciated and we would pay you back ASAP once we got some gil. I'd be willing to help someone do the buddy system? That they put in if thats what it takes to get a couple of world passes.

Email: narzul@gmail.com
AIM: notmisfit

[Tyrien]

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Totally disagree ^^
If a Summoner just stoneskins and Blinks they really shouldnt leave their moghouse's.

Theres more to Summoner than just Stoneskin/Blinkage, Theres also a lot we can do to offer the PT more flexiblity in Chains and MB and Support that has nothing to do with our 1min( if you have no BP reduction Items).
Seriously. To quote mysefl from another thread....

i know that summoner has loads of potential, and that the job is very great, which is why I play it. In fact, if summoner was not in the game, I doubt that I would be playing. I know the potential the summoner has, but I was discounting our bp and sc abilities in that post, because I was refering to us before that patch.

I would also like to refer you to a post i made today on the Summoner section, bashing the SMN 1 Minute timer(the bane of every smn). I cannot stress enough what a set back this is. I see the Summoner class (w/ Fenrir) as a Buffing and Debuffing class, though we are much more of jacks of all trades class than rdm.

I just do not understand why we have this stupid 1 minute timer. its like making white mages only be able to cure every 1 minute, or blm can only nuke every 1 minute. (and my bp timer is in the low 50s, cant quite recall right now. i just say 1 minute because thats the base setting.)

well about that post taz, before you get mad at me about all the smn bashing, it was just that i felt sooooo useless in that pt because of that dumb timer and the limitations i had on me. that pt was chaining for higher exp before i got there, and basicly all i could do was dish 500 dmg and throw an ecliptic grow (moon was 5% and i couldnt land a lunar cry for my life, along with a bunch of other downers specified in that thread). I really think that Fenrir is a great addition to any smn, but having the moon that low he wasnt good for his debuff which i feel is his best bp until the party eva+/acc+. read the thread and tell me what youd think or what you would have done in that situation (not being sarcastic btw)

[Blood Red Poet]

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ty ;3

[Madison]

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In tearms of game managment wow ffxi ive just come back from wow and the way square handled this patch puts them to shame....

[Tyrien]

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In tearms of game managment wow ffxi ive just come back from wow and the way square handled this patch puts them to shame....

would be cool if square could get bitorrent for their updater. i remember having the japanese version and if i had to reinstall it, id have to wait on an 5-8 hour patch on DSL.

[guz_rdm]

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You should try the new raid dungeon in WOW, Blackwing Lair if you would like to see poor management. Its the 2nd raid instance ever to be introduced to the game and it took them 7 months to put it out. First few days the door 50ft in would not open for people. Also due to a bug you are only able to attempt the 2nd encounter within the zone 1 hour per week. If you don't succeed in that hour, come back a week later!

On a side note still looking for 2 Fairy world passes if anyone can help me.

[kuu]

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July 04 eh.... that's about 4-5 big updates...

Let's see.. I believe Assasin trait for thieves... very useful when one takes advantage of it...not to mention less stressful in general.

Fishing system, food system, ballista, xp ballista (for your PvP fanatics)....XP change post 50(lol that's a big one..can't believe people forgot that).

ENM was in feb.. so ENM! The hotest new thing in ffxi, xp and treasure.

That's all I can remember but you can sea playonline for the big updates.

Don't forget the update 2 days ago... Raise that pokemon!

[Madison]

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Blizzard have a few bugs but atleast thery were fixed and in some cases when its their bad they made up for it with free days and full rested exp pretty good imo and their only new to this where ffxi has been out for 3-4 years??

[DakAttack]

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A few bugs? Shall I list as many as I can off the top of my head? It's rather pathetic that they don't see a need to fix them.

[vadrek]

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Played Daoc, FFXI and Wow, and left daoc for FFXI
Taked a break in FFXI to play WoW
Left WoW to come back FFXI

RL > FFXI > ALL

[kuu]

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Blizzard seems to like money...well more then normal...is that an oxymoron?

They're busy expanding...

Not even 5 months and already, EU, korea then china localization, and moving onto taiwan and japan singapore(did I miss any localization?). At least with taiwan, it's only about 160 character or so difference from Chinese...

But blizzards seems to like to spend effort localizing more then anything.

While teams are split and doesn't necessarily need one to do the other, all these localizations doesn't help...not to mention piorities.

And yea their servers and update decisions kinda reflect cutting corners as well...

On their updates... how many have they had? I think it was 9 and if you're a realy number follower it would be 1.6 now? so 6 major changes?

If they're still stopper related bugs around, then they have to think on their priorities.

[DakAttack]

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Their priorities have been centered around the new rather than old. They've been ignoring bugs that make playing the game terrible, while adding in new content with new bugs and releaseing it all into new countries. Why do people enjoy mucking through bugs to complete a mindless task? Beats me.

Besides, their gauge of success is placed on their "unique user" count, which means zilch. The unique visitor count of a strip bar in Vegas may be high, but how many of the visitors return on a continuous basis? How many visitors attend on a consistent basis? What's the average amount of time visitors have been attending the strip bar? What's the average amount of time visitors spend in the strip bar? See where I'm going with this? The average WoW player wouldn't even know what I'm talking about, so it works for them.

[Blood Red Poet]

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FFXI only downfall is its update system... outside that, blows WoW away when it comes to game management.