What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

[Takelli]

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@ Firewind.

I see the same thing at times when I am just sitting in Aht Urgan planning on what to do next.

I see some one shout for healers, and DD for a few mins. After about 15 mins, I see it changed to Sam, and Rdm only. I hate how picky people are.

Same thing is for level sync. Some one has lvl sync to 55+ only. I will send them tells some times, especially when I am close to leveling for a lvl 54 sync. Some of them will bitch at me for asking them, but I just ignore it. So I fill my party, gain a few levels, and come back about 4 hours of killing stuff, and I search the person. Still in the area still seeking. Some peopel are WAY to picky. Hell, if I get a party invite for a level lower than what I want, I accept it. Some exp>none

[Aksannyi]

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I don't know why it has to be one or the other. RDMs and WHMs used to be a team. Remember that?

Of course, they want to take Bards to Nyzul. No. Just ... no. We split on kill all floors. I'm not making a Bard run around to both groups to sing. Also, take a WHM and a RDM, RDM refreshes the WHM at the start of the floor, WHM can use Sublimation after that wears, 2 DD + WHM go one way, 2 DD + RDM go the other, mobs die rapido!

Nyzul is stupid easy anyway, you could go with no healer and probably be fine if people aren't idiots. (Okay, maybe not for some of the higher floors.) Unfortunately, there's always one idiot.

[Firewind]

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It's even better if the floor has Aspirable mobs since the RDM won't even need to cast refresh. Just flick over to D. Arts and enjoy Aspirs from a B rank Dark Magic skill and flick back to Light Arts when anyone needs a heal/haste

[Aksannyi]

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Hell, I do that Refresh or not. MP flows like wine on WHM now, it used to suck really bad but it's improved so much. People who don't play WHM don't realize how well most of us (the good ones!) can go just as long as a RDM. Screw Convert, I've got DA + Aspir, Sublimation, Gear/Bard/Sanction Refresh, an exceptional hMP set, and my Cure Potency is at 27%. Oh and let's not forget Solace. Have fun not getting hit as much.

And let's face it, in a good merit party I need to do one thing: Haste. Occasional curaga or two, but mostly, just Haste and chill. And people struggle with this, even RDMs. It's not hard to heal a merit party, it's boring as shit but it's not hard. And yet, WHMs are still, according to the people who just don't get it, incapable of this task. And honestly, it's gotten so bad, that if I actually got an invite to merit on my WHM, I'd say no simply because people are "lowering their standards." Bear with me here. And by virtue of them "lowering their standards," I can assume at least one of the DDs is absolute shit, and the xp/hr will be crap. Not because of me, but because people who are willing to accept "less than optimum" setups (even though WHM can be optimum!) will not care as much about xp/hr. Shitty cycle that is, but that's how it's worked. I would love to merit on WHM (would have loved ) but not with any random pick up group that is just "settling" for me. And anyone in my linkshell already knew I had RDM so if it came to meriting, well, dust off that RDM you haven't played in two months and come merit damn it.

Refresh does not make the merit party. THE BARDS DO. Lulz.

[Takelli]

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New pet Peeve... Having to shoult for hours on end just to get help for a single quest. And all the while your chat log is spammed by "So and so examins you"

Genkai 3, and Af comes to mind for that. Hell, I'm doing that right now trying to get help.

[Elwynn]

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Of course, they want to take Bards to Nyzul.

...and then there was the time I saw someone shouting in Jeuno for a promy run, specifically wanting a Bard.


And my peeve for today is RDMs in Besieged who won't dispel Mamool Ja Hussars.

Some of them will remember they have that spell if you say "{Dispel} {please}", but in my last run the RDM 75 not only wouldn't dispel, but was spamming both Bio I and Bio II (obviously for skillups, even though Bio I is fast enough that you don't need to alternate, especially with Fast Cast!), so thanks to this moron I couldn't even use Dia II to help keep the whiffs and donuts away. And I had even eaten some Bream Sushi (as a BLM) so I could have a chance at Staff skillups and was still whiffing.

[ItazuraNhomango]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

And my peeve for today is RDMs in Besieged who won't dispel Mamool Ja Hussars.

Some of them will remember they have that spell if you say "{Dispel} {please}", but in my last run the RDM 75 not only wouldn't dispel, but was spamming both Bio I and Bio II (obviously for skillups, even though Bio I is fast enough that you don't need to alternate, especially with Fast Cast!), so thanks to this moron I couldn't even use Dia II to help keep the whiffs and donuts away. And I had even eaten some Bream Sushi (as a BLM) so I could have a chance at Staff skillups and was still whiffing.

Dia doesn't lower evasion; it lowers defense.

If melee weapon skills are seriously behind, go /DNC, find EP crabs. They have a nice defense up buff to last a long time each.

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Got to Nyzul Isle floor 100 in static party a few weeks ago--with a Bard (he didn't have any other Lv.75 job), since floor 1. He is always the person who volunteered to run back to starting point to get us to next floor.

Willing to hustle is more important than having the jobs for the optimal set up, in his case.

[Blucan]

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1. joining and forming numerous parties that don't work out
2. farming

[Rothy]

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I couldn't even use Dia II to help keep the whiffs and donuts away.

Were you using Gravity aswell? That'd help on the missing.. but the 0's.. That RDM is an idiot.

[Elwynn]

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Dia doesn't lower evasion; it lowers defense.

Hence why I was mentioning the "donuts". Hussars love to cast Protect (III?) and Shell on themselves, in addition to the usual MJ evasion crap. It's bad enough to have a hard time hitting, but it's worse when your few hits always land for zero.

If melee weapon skills are seriously behind, go /DNC, find EP crabs. They have a nice defense up buff to last a long time each.

Uhmmm, look at my sig. I would have to level DNC before I can go /DNC. Also, I'm not going to skill up to cap on EP mobs of any sort. My Staff skill is 233, so I need at least level 73 mobs right now, and have to main BLM. I did crabs two months ago. (Yeah, I'm whiffing with an almost capped B- skill, a Life Belt, and sushi. Yay, Besieged.)

And I kind of like to have the /WHM in Besieged so that I can Reraise. Chochoroon seems to be the least favorite prisoner on Fairy to release for some reason. When I'm WHM main in Besieged these days, I go /RDM and I damn well do dispel Hussars.

Were you using Gravity aswell? That'd help on the missing.. but the 0's.. That RDM is an idiot.

If I were able to Gravity, then I'd be dispelling them myself, duh. And I'd say that RDM is one of the jobs that tend to attract idiots, so that was no surprise.*

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For those who I know are going to read that wrong and hit the reply button in under 0.5 seconds, I did not say that RDMs were idiots, simply that idiots love to be RDMs. Sheesh.

[Rothy]

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He was there for skill ups, not to make life easier for everyone else. If you want a form to dispel, you should know better then relying on random people in FFXI to help.

If you want to dispel, come /RDM. You shouldn't be meleeing right in the middle of Besieged anyway.. too much AoE.

I tend to skill up staff just fine on BLM/RDM with Cure III.

[Arris]

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I'll go on a rant now, I have been highly pissed, well not pissed but annoyed. This game has totally changed. You can call it looking through rose tinted glasses but whatever, anyone old school knows and remembers.

Since when did people think you rolled onto the game with elite equips? I seen in WG and all day people ragging on this guy because he didn't change equips and had none of the elite stuff. (I've pted with the guy and he was awesome) Does anyone not remember the time when we never equipped changed? The times we wore AF to 75. I'm not saying people should wear sh*tty stuff. But hey remember there was a time when YOU ran around in gimp equips.

I started my character over again. I was a 30 something RDM when a guy asked me if I was lvling a sub, I said no then he goes on to ask why my gears suck...wow really? I had a few white pieces of equips but all up to level or atleast with a nice stat on it. I just don't understand it. And a new player in my LS was lvling thf, some elite player tells him unless he has nice equips be prepared to get kicked from pts. I've pted with ALOT of people who have a ton of 75's. All they talk about is how great they are, what equips they have, how many 75's they got. They spend the whole time dictating anyone who doesn't play "right". I'm so sick of seeing, "well I played for 5 years" or this "<-75 blah blah blah".

I was going to say something but not to offend anyone so I'll just say it seems to be a certain group of people. Since I moved I play in a different time zone, it's just maddening to me.

Oh and level sync, thank you for the high level noobs. I remember taking a year to level WHM and knowing it like the back of my hand. And in no way am I saying it should take you a year to level I actually enjoyed getting dnc to 75 in a month. So weird to see people kick GOOD players in decent equips get , but they'll take some noob with elite equips. Maybe it's just phoenix, I don't know but I think I might either quit or try to find another server. I've been playing since JP release and I love alot of the changes, but seem alot of the changes in turn changed the players.

I know people put in time and work for those equips but I guess they forget the times they struggled with stuff. Still doesn't give them rights to treat people like sh**. I hate trying to find people to PT with and seeing their search comment says " <JOB> do you need it? You can have this ....The best equips ever".

Anyways my 2 page rant is over lol. But I just had to say it somewhere.

[Armando]

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The only thing I'll point out is that there's really something wrong once you reach a certain level, if you're not gear swapping at all.

But besides that yeah most players are dicks and idiots. They were dicks and idiots 5 years ago, but they couldn't gloat about their e-peen and their eleven Lv.75 jobs back then. I wouldn't expect any better from any other MMO community though.

[Takelli]

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*Snip*

I've seen people quit over this kind of thing. Two people in my Ls didn't have the Emporers pin by lvl 30, and it was their first lvl 30. Some random pick up party starts bashing them because neither one of them even had the pin, nor did they even know what it was. Then, the next thing came... No nin sub. They where War/Mnk, and the other was Thf/War. They where bashed hard about not having a nin. They where fairly new to the game, and they where both good players for being new. But having 3 people bashing on them about not having nin sub, or the VE pin... Not right. They both quit the game right there.

I've been bashed on my gear as well. I make sure I have good gear as a Rdm, especially a set for healing. I have quite a few Mp+ Rings, and Mnd + gear as well. I was wearing a Garish(I cant remember Its the lvl 30 tunic that gives +2 eva on earth and windsdays) tunic, and I was being bashed hard by some lvl 75 just because I was wearing a "Piece of Garbage". It actually saved my character from a few deaths actually. That +2 eva, helped me tons when I happened to pull hate. What may seem as bad gear, is actually fairly good gear (And it helped me keep a good evasion skill for Rdm 127 at 59 lol)

As for the search comments that say they have the best equips ever, or veterin player... I just ignore those people as they are the people who tend to be very cocky, or cause Party wipes, or leave the party if exp is the "best" it can be.

[Satori]

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I got gear bashed too the other day. I managed to lvl Pld to 30 for the promy's I did it in a couple of days and tried to do it on the cheap as I didnt really plan to take it much further than 30.
I had leaping boots, Empress hairpin, centurions body, hands, legs. Kite shield, centurion's sword. Spike necklace, Warriors belt +1. Wolf mantle, 2 beetle earrings and 2 vit rings and I got slated by a 75 Rng who had come to help.
first I had the /check done on me a few times followed by an emote of laughter. followed by tells of "You know Pld isn't a dd" "you need to gear your pld better" it wasnt until I asked him for suggestions as it was my understanding that many frontline jobs had universal gear when starting out. I asked him for some suggestions and he coldn't come up with one suggestion.
I on the other hand suggest he'd been a 75 for too long. I couldnt believe it, He had the nerve to call me out on gear and didnt even mention the breath mantle thingy. To top it off after we had won he told me I played pld very well.
I guess I must be an ace Pld considering my gear was so bad. lol