What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

[Vyuru]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

To add to what Armando said, and my gosh I can't believe the math whiz forgot to point this out, but exp parties at later stages of the game are normally setup with 2x mage/support, and 4x DD. So you are really 1/4 of the people doing damage in the party, and not 1/6.

[Ketaru]

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The classic example is the Hecatomb Harness Set but there are others. That set is excellent for WS but one should NEVER EVER wear it for TP

Pet peeve: They shouldn't, but they do.

[Andromache]

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Adjust or quit. =/

Know what a pet peeve of mine is?

Ranting, in a thread intended to be a rant thread, and being told to basically put up or quit. That's kinda irksome.

Also maybe I should say that I usually don't say anything to people that irk me in parties, including gear blinkers, my bad I thought this was a place to rant.

It's annoying, to say the least, and then to get told that you have to use macros and whatnot, and that its absolutely necessary....

Pardon my rant.

[Aksannyi]

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Well to be fair, you made it sound as though you think people shouldn't blink at all.

I agree that it's annoying for healers, but it's still necessary. And ranting is allowed, just the way your post read (at least to me) it seemed as though you were trying to get everyone else to change the way they play because you dislike blinking. Guess I took it the wrong way.

[Andromache]

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In a perfect world, yes there would be no blinkers.

In a perfect world there would be no RMT, no noobs, no idiotic people who only use others for help getting them to 75, thus filling the world with more idiotic 75s who don't know how to play, no whiners, no people who force DC...no LS's that are only in it for their leader's gear/pockets/glory...

There's lots of things that people rant about, and tbh, I wouldn't have brought it up if someone else hadn't been angry about someone telling them they blink too much and are gonna die.

Trust me, I deal :D, basically if they gear switch, I try to cure them as best I can, but if they die, it's not entirely my fault (usually its because they ws and take hate too fast, like before a tank can even get hate, which a DRK was doing the other day... silly DRK lol....)

[Armando]

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Ranting, in a thread intended to be a rant thread, and being told to basically put up or quit. That's kinda irksome.

I realize that. You can rant all you want, that's what the thread is for. However, you weren't just ranting, you were also passing some rather harsh judgments on players that are doing things right. As long as you understand that there's nothing wrong with gear switching - and that in fact it's what what they should be doing - you can rant all you want. There are lots of things about this game at a gameplay level that are inconvenient or just poorly implemented and I've ranted about them my fair share as well.

[Zoltar]

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rant: was in Zi'Tah last night for a {Burn}, PT was organized but puller kept aggroing, lots of deaths between him and another who kept healing (thus agrroing goblins), yada yada. I didn't have OP warp there, so since there was so many interruptions, I warped to Sandy to do OP quest rq. Come back (in 3 min mind you) to find leader passed to someone else who repped me. I told leader I'd brb, he didn't pass the message. New leader says "who leaves in the middle of a PT for OP warp" I say "who dies 10 times in a burn? Crap like that pisses me off. I mean, I usually don't jump outta a PT like that, but it was so I could get there faster and improve downtime.

If I said I was 'wc' or brb drink, they wouldn't have cared. wtf mate.

/rant



[edit] at least I got a round out of my Kupofried's ring ^^

[Aksannyi]

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Trust me, I deal :D, basically if they gear switch, I try to cure them as best I can, but if they die, it's not entirely my fault (usually its because they ws and take hate too fast, like before a tank can even get hate, which a DRK was doing the other day... silly DRK lol....)

That just makes them an idiot, and not even Cure 5 can take care of idiocy. I've tried.

[TheGrandMom]

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I'm gonna throw my 2 cents in about gear swapping. I agree, its necessary.......but its not very wise to do it when you are getting pounded and you know people are trying to cure you. We have a tank in our ls that gear swaps like a maniac. Let's put it this way, we have another tank in our ls that is FAR better at his job than the blinker and he doesn't even blink as much as this guy does. And what is a tank thinking when he's getting owned....."Oh gee lets change some equips like crazy because I'm getting owned because you know that extra 2 def could save me"....Ya.....NO. Whats gonna save your ass is that whm's cure V IF THEY CAN EVEN CAST IT ON YOUR BLINKING ASS. Fyi, 2 of our other tanks keep a death count with this guy. With one of them right now its like 1 death to his 12 deaths.

[Andromache]

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but its not very wise to do it when you are getting pounded and you know people are trying to cure you. We have a tank in our ls that gear swaps like a maniac. Let's put it this way, we have another tank in our ls that is FAR better at his job than the blinker and he doesn't even blink as much as this guy does. And what is a tank thinking when he's getting owned....."Oh gee lets change some equips like crazy because I'm getting owned because you know that extra 2 def could save me"....

Summed up what I was trying to say in a much better way than I said it.

Lol

[Ketaru]

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I hate the whole gear swapping thing and my idea of what SE should do to fix it. But usually, the worst that can happen out of it is a wasted Cure or something. 95% of the time, people don't die because of blinking.

Unfortunately, it's the very fact that people's characters blink that they had to make it so gear swapping penalized you in Ballista.

[Armando]

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Unfortunately, it's the very fact that people's characters blink that they had to make it so gear swapping penalized you in Ballista.

I'm not entirely convinced it's because of that. I just think the whole min/maxing would be unfair in PVP. "Oh shit they're nuking me, MDB set go. K, back to TP set."

[Feba]

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Gear swapping is absolutely ridiculous from all perspectives; balance, strategy, logistics, realism and practicality, appearance.

However, if you play FFXI in its current state without using it, you're at best foolish, and at worst an asshole. Foolish if you don't realize the benefits it has for solo play, an asshole if you refuse to do it even in parties.

SE needs to fix it, but until then you really should keep using it, just like PentaSpam and RNG.

[Solymir]

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To go along with the other people talking about curing "blinkers".

Trying to Cure/Haste/Buff a Ninja who is kite tanking and uses a different macro set for haste gear (for casting Utsusemi), movement speed gear and evasion gear. Let's have at least some compromise here buddy. It's for your own good. I'm not sure that guy ever lived through a full Kirin fight.

[Neverslip]

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On blinking...

I personally hate the ridiculous difficulty it presents for me as a DNC main when healing people. I really don't like how /wait # after a swap is so randomly timed. That little purple arrow is sometimes the bane of my existence. Specially if say we're doing an epic fight where that 5% Waltz effect really helps but not if you can't get the damn target to stick.... or your nerves are leaping thru ya (I look at you CoP)Don't even get me started on when I blink into my "TP gain gear" for a Revourse Flourish or/and blink into my "Step landing gear" while still in my "Curing Waltz gear" ... OMG.. nightmare.

... still couldn't live (literally sometimes) without the ridiculous UN-reality of it all. A rabbit that can still kill me at lvl 75, I mean .. come on??!?!?!?!