What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

[Yellow Mage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

I tried my hand at gardening once, a long time ago.

I gave up when I kept on missing the times to check on my plants due to either real-life obligations or just plain forgetting.

Even half the price of what Grain Seeds once were is still much less of a gamble than that, as far as I'm concerned.

[Melody]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

My pet peeve, when your first starting out and your fighting a Carrion Worm and then you get ganked by 3 Orcs. That pisses me off.

[~²ºº²~ûmïkó~²ºº³~]

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I hate how SE can take your account no matter how many years you have put into it, and ban it, without even giving you a chance to defend yourself. But I guess its the world we live in right?

[Melody]

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Wow I never knew SE could do that.

[cidbahamut]

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There's a flexibility clause built into every game like that. They can take it away for no god damned reason at any time and we all agreed to it. Doesn't make it suck less, but it's not like they didn't let us know ahead of time either.

[Vyuru]

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My pet peeve, when your first starting out and your fighting a Carrion Worm and then you get ganked by 3 Orcs. That pisses me off.

Pretty soon though you'll be learn how to avoid those nasty links.

Then one day when you think you're hot stuff, you'll be goofing off in Kuftal Tunnel and Guivre will spawn on you and kill your party.

My friends who were in a particularly fateful party have never let me live it down that Guivre spawned and killed us about 10 seconds after I wrote, "/em uses Summon Guivre."

[Raydeus]

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"/em uses Summon Guivre."

This is why DRGs should be nerfed.

[Vyuru]

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This is why DRGs should be nerfed.

Oh man, and that was wayyy back in the day. Can you imagine what would have happened if I'd had Spirit Surge back then?

I like to say that it was the random HQ Wyvern we got to call since Call Wyvern was our 2 hour back then

[Aksannyi]

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I'll never understand why SE thought that would be the appropriate DRG two hour. The most essential part of being a DRG was having a Wyvern to fight alongside you and you could only call the thing every two hours ... that made absolutely no sense to me. I just can't fathom what SE was thinking back then.

[Ayrlie]

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peeps that tell you how to play your job, even though you been playing your job for 6 years

[Aksannyi]

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Not pointing at you, specifically, but just because someone has been playing a job for several years doesn't necessarily mean they know how to play it.

[Elwynn]

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FoV solo in the lower 60s.

Look at the "max level" column in the list, there's a gap starting at 63 where the only options are West Altepa (yay ants and cactuar) and Xarcarbard page 5 (yay blood aggro and 12 mobs per page). And because this is the max level, you can't really do it at that level because of too many Too Weak mobs. Or if you go by the top of the "target level" range, there's a gap from 50 to 65 with the same pages.

So FoV is kind of a pain at 62-64. You can't pwn a page of Easy Prey without dealing with ants or 1000 Needles (usually twice per cactuar), and Cape Teriggan (which is overcamped anyhow) still has Toughs on page 1.

I'm seriously considering doing some PUP/BST just so I can get the one cactuar per page. And the Wide Scan.

[Yellow Mage]

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Doesn't Campaign start becoming viable from 60 on up?

[TheGrandMom]

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Not pointing at you, specifically, but just because someone has been playing a job for several years doesn't necessarily mean they know how to play it.

Oh god.... One person that fits this bill was the "I know more than you because I've been playing rdm for years" b/f of the shell holder in my last ls. I spoke up and told him that casting P2 & S2 on REGULAR dynamis mobs was a waste of mp. O...M...G...you would have thought I told him to stick his penis in a vice! He got so lividly mad and spent the next 20 minutes ranting about how I didn't know shit about playing rdm, in both vent and ls chat. The mobs were dropping so fast that he'd barely get the spell off before they were dead. There were other things he would do or not do too....like refusing to refresh blms at all. We couldn't put him in the blm party at any events,and as some endgame folk will realize, that limited his usefulness.

[Elwynn]

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Doesn't Campaign start becoming viable from 60 on up?

Barely... at 60 you don't get gimped on XP awards, but until at least 65 or so it's hard to hit stuff reliabily enough to get points, depending on the job. And lolPUP. I still don't have enough MP yet to reraise while weakened on /WHM.

Also it doesn't help that lately campaign has gone gimp again. If there were plenty of 75+ around to hold mobs, no problem. But now there are plenty of times when it's just four people under 70. No way can I hope to solo one of those things until at least 70, and probably not even then.