What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

[Armando]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Spiders are super squishy, even more so than scorpions.

Not quite. Their statistics aren't any different than any other generic WAR mob (which is most things really.) Which means that Crawlers are squishier by being just about the only mob family I know of with a sub-standard Def rating (E instead of C), any mob with a piercing weakness is squishier by virtue of having a type weakness, and most non-WAR/PLD/THF mobs (especially mages, RNGs, and BRDs) are squishier by virtue of having lower HP and worse evasion ratings than WARs. Oh yeah, and Mandragoras (although those fall under the "piercing weak mob" category.)

Basically anything that's not a crab or beetle (PLDs) or a THF (certain Goblins) is just as squishy - or squishier - than spiders. If you think they're squishier it may just be that you're not overhunting on them (which would be a natural decision considering how dangerous their Sickle Slash can be) combined with good party setups. Or you may be comparing them to crabs. Or it may be a placebo. I don't know. But from my old days of tracking down mob stats and reverse-engineering their job/sub combination, I can say with certainty they're nothing more than generic WAR mobs from a stat point of view.

[Arkitan1]

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Pet Peeve of the Day: Farmers farming FoV targets. I understand that the mobs aren't mine until claimed, and I get that people need to make money, but man, I just need one more damn bat/crawler/bee/whatever in order to finish this page before 24.00 passes me by so I can grab another page. I get that you want to make money or find some Gothic Sabatons, but could you at least leave something for me?

To be fair though, the guy in Behemoth's Dominion the other day did totally leave me a Greater Gayla when I asked him nicely. But the guy farming Crawlers in Buburimu yesterday told me to fuck off.

Been there, done that!

Best thing I can say is to team up with an ls member and just clear them out so no one else gets them!

I know what I do is to farm the mobs that give you xp while farming for the items you want.

If theyre high value items either pick and choose or go to a place where noone farms them. (There are plenty of places)

Thats my advice,

Ark

[Firewind]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Signet now giving TH1 under the new Kupofried powers. Ever since those Kupofried powers went up anything that is worth farming has been flooded on the AH, is vastly overcamped and has crashed in price because of the above. It's pretty depressing when you have to drop your price of Coeurl Meat to less than 10k just to make a sale. It's even more annoying when you look at the sales history to find out that all of the names are blatant RMT names. i thought SE was trying to combat them yet they only seem to be helping them.

Farming always bored me to death but there was an incentive to do it. Now there's really nothing worth farming and because synth profit are crashing due to the ingredient prices crashing making money is a huge pain. I used to be able to make 50-100k a week despite only being able to really play on weekends. Now I'm lucky to break 10k.

Anyone else noticing this or am I just being unlucky?

[Karinya]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

If prices are crashing, what do you need more money for?

More seriously, there's lots of ways of making money that aren't affected by TH (BCNMs, HELM, gardening, chocobo digging, fishing, selling conquest/AN items/Assault gear/imperial currency, FoV), or are helped by the Gilfinder that also comes with the kupowers (beastman farming), or aren't affected at all because they come from areas the kupowers don't reach (which is about half the game IIRC). Synthesis based on any of those things has no reason to be affected by the TH-related market flood - if it's also dropping, it's for other reasons.

[Firewind]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

If prices are crashing, what do you need more money for?

Because I only have 30k and want to actually be able to take BLM and COR past 48 and 40 respectively. I've also only been playing the game for a year so I don't have the luxury have sitting on a huge pile of gil built up during the massive inflation stage like the majority of the players I know.

I usually craft for gil but just lately it's been a pain to sell things due to the markets for alchemy and cooking being completely flooded lately and bolt quivers being hit and miss depending if the region vendor for ash logs is nation controlled.

And the other ways you listed need people to actually willing do it (BCNM, KSNM, ISNM, ANNM) which is highly unlikely since with YOYD runs the first orbs are always spent on wiping until the group either listens to the strat and gets nothing from the last couple of orbs or disbands out of frustration leaving you stuck with an orb and a pile of meds you can only sell back at a loss. WHM is also the only job I have levelled and well there are very few BCNM strats that even use WHMs and very, very few people are willing to try out a different strat.

HELM, gerdening, digging and fishing are just RMT dominated. My Delivery box is usually filled with stacks of fish for several weeks until the current wave of fishbots get banned before I can sell the things.

Conquest and IS items need me to get party invites. CP isn't too bad but it can take anything from a few days to a few weeks for Sig staves and Aketons to sell (the current Sig Staff in my bazaar has been there for 3 months). IS is impossible to build up since the only 75 job I have is WHM and the only invites I ever get on that are level sync invites for Qufim. That means the only way I have to get IS is besieged and besieged IS tends to get burned through very quickly on coins for WG teles and mog locker rental fees.

[Elwynn]

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I usually craft for gil but just lately it's been a pain to sell things due to the markets for alchemy and cooking being completely flooded lately and bolt quivers being hit and miss depending if the region vendor for ash logs is nation controlled.

Or you could find other things that are going up in price. The past two weeks on Fairy, Water crystals (and to a lesser extent Lightning crystals) shot up in price in Bastok (and later for a few days in Jeuno) because of RMT grinding Alchemy mules. (I figured out why I see them in front of the Bastok Mines MH so much, it's because they're selling things to the nearby RSE1 armor NPC.) I probably made a quarter of a million in the past two weeks by farming clusters to meet the demand, even when others caught on and started camping Pashhow. Even now the prices are still a bit high (3k/stack instead of 4k), so it's still worth making a pass around Pashhow every now and then. And this is something that a high-level WHM is best for: you can hop around with teleports between Holla and Dem, and a Banish 3 + Banish 2 mostly finishes off a Pashhow elemental.

there are very few BCNM strats that even use WHMs and very, very few people are willing to try out a different strat.

Don't let anyone tell you WHM can't do Royal Jelly. Sure, a RDM has Gravity, but if the DDs are decent, a WHM's Bind is enough to keep them away from the center. On the other hand, BCs are a good reason to level RDM to 40.

IS is impossible to build up since the only 75 job I have is WHM and the only invites I ever get on that are level sync invites for Qufim. That means the only way I have to get IS is besieged and besieged IS tends to get burned through very quickly on coins for WG teles and mog locker rental fees.

Locker rental fees? Those are nothing. It's the warps that will eat you alive. That's why I sell my IS as silvers, set my HP in Windurst, and use the free taru. (I presume you have BLM to at least 17.) He gets rescued pretty quickly anyhow, since people want their Wizard's Drink. If you need to get to Jeuno, go through WotG: Recall-Jugner, Invisible walk (or choco) to the A.C., warp home, warp to Rolanberry_S, then go through the maw. Of course this is even easier if you can get BLM to 55.

I refuse to exp in AU areas, but I currently have over 80K IS just from Besieged. And that's after having sold at least 60k more over the past few months as silvers. Admittedly I have a freer schedule to make it to Besieged battles, but I don't spend my IS on anything else other than Sanction refresh for Besieged.

If you want more money, spend less. And if you want to spend less, think cheap.

And now I have to sell another couple of stacks of silvers. That Penitent's Rope I got the other day dropped me below my 1M gil "safety margin" level. And I still have over 300k of scrolls left before my BLM hits 75.

[hexx]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Because I only have 30k and want to actually be able to take BLM and COR past 48 and 40 respectively. I've also only been playing the game for a year so I don't have the luxury have sitting on a huge pile of gil built up during the massive inflation stage like the majority of the players I know.

I usually craft for gil but just lately it's been a pain to sell things due to the markets for alchemy and cooking being completely flooded lately and bolt quivers being hit and miss depending if the region vendor for ash logs is nation controlled.

And the other ways you listed need people to actually willing do it (BCNM, KSNM, ISNM, ANNM) which is highly unlikely since with YOYD runs the first orbs are always spent on wiping until the group either listens to the strat and gets nothing from the last couple of orbs or disbands out of frustration leaving you stuck with an orb and a pile of meds you can only sell back at a loss. WHM is also the only job I have levelled and well there are very few BCNM strats that even use WHMs and very, very few people are willing to try out a different strat.

HELM, gerdening, digging and fishing are just RMT dominated. My Delivery box is usually filled with stacks of fish for several weeks until the current wave of fishbots get banned before I can sell the things.

Conquest and IS items need me to get party invites. CP isn't too bad but it can take anything from a few days to a few weeks for Sig staves and Aketons to sell (the current Sig Staff in my bazaar has been there for 3 months). IS is impossible to build up since the only 75 job I have is WHM and the only invites I ever get on that are level sync invites for Qufim. That means the only way I have to get IS is besieged and besieged IS tends to get burned through very quickly on coins for WG teles and mog locker rental fees.

Ummm just how the heck do you fly thru so much many IS? Im constantly travelling between the cities and yet I dont blow thru my IS the way you do LOL. Besides, I'm sure there are PT's out there in the ToAU areas that will use a WHM, just gotta wait and decline a few of those crappy Qufim invites (hell, I do it *shrug*) People are tossing possible solutions at you, and you discredit them right away. Seriously, things arent THAT bad, i mean hell, if all else fails, /thf and go to town on gigas' in delkfutt's tower (its what i do )

[Durahansolo]

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LOL I guess even RMTs have competition.

Guess now we'll be getting tells from them too.


EDIT>>

Just saw Taskmage's Topic http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/gen...tml#post840106 I've never seen a Brosale tell before today only Brogame.

[Taskmage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Brosale started like two days ago I think. It's funny the way they're undercutting eachother. If I actually had more than $15 a month worth of disposable income and no sense of honor or dignity about my game I might actually consider the prices they're at now.

[Yellow Mage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

and no sense of honor or dignity about my game

I am under the impression that you understate this part.

[Taskmage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

You think a greater absence of virtue than I suggested would be required to buy gil?

[Yellow Mage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

You think a greater absence of virtue than I suggested would be required to buy gil?

I suppose it would fall under the realm of opinion, but yes, I do think that.

[Taskmage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Fair enough. If I ever actually buy gil I'll let you know exactly how far my personal character has degraded so we can test your hypothesis and have a benchmark for that level of morality.

[Murphie]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Been there, done that!

Best thing I can say is to team up with an ls member and just clear them out so no one else gets them!

I know what I do is to farm the mobs that give you xp while farming for the items you want.

If theyre high value items either pick and choose or go to a place where noone farms them. (There are plenty of places)

Thats my advice,

Ark

Well, when I start leveling in an area, usually there isn't someone already farming. And when someone does show up an monopolize mobs, I generally just move, or switch to a page that doesn't involve the mobs they are farming. But what I was complaining about specifically was trying to finish a page (usually 1-2 mobs left) so that I can move on and not have wasted the time I spent on the rest of the page. Usually people are pretty good about it, but from time to time they aren't. And that's what my peeve was.

[Akashimo]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Trying to skill up summoning magic from bp spamming on DC mobs ; ;
It just won't skill up ; ;
Why can't smn skill work like pup's automation skill? ; ;