What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

[Romyro]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Too bad you’re not on Cerb…

My buddy and I are going to see how far we can duo with our jobs.
Me: Bst, Pup, Smn, Blm
Him: Bst, Dnc, Pup (think he has Blm & War at 75)

I think were as far as unlocking WoE.

[Raydeus]

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That's the story of my life.

[Ketaru]

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Other RDMs in the alliance. I don't know if there is any other job in the game that is so redundant if you don't work closely with each other. In the past, casting debuffs over each other resulted in wasted MP which is pretty annoying already.

But now you run the risk of wasting a potent job ability. Can't count how many times I queued up Saboteur to cast a better Slow II and some other RDM casts it before I get the chance with no Saboteur.

Ideally, I think a better scenario would be you use Saboteur Slow II. Leave it to another RDM to Saboteur Addle. And yet another RDM Saboteur Paralyze II.

[Raydeus]

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Once upon a time I used to split duties with other RDMs in the party/alliance to both lessen the load of spells being cast and to save MP.

So I guess RDMs nowadays have forgotten about the very convenient uses of /t messages.

[Ketaru]

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I guess we just let it slide because it isn't quite on the level missing Stun on Supernukeofdeath-ga III. I loathe to take charge, honestly. But I did have to tell this one RDM several times to stop casting her full roster of debuffs against the Wamoura Abyssea boss.

[Aksannyi]

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Once upon a time I used to split duties with other RDMs in the party/alliance to both lessen the load of spells being cast and to save MP.

So I guess RDMs nowadays have forgotten about the very convenient uses of /t messages.

No, trust me that shit does not work. I've lost track of the times when I've suggested a RDM duty sharing rotation and two fights later, there's idiot over there casting slow before he even touches the spells we agreed he would cast. And it's not even an, "Oops, sorry, wrong macro" thing, it's an "I'm a total idiot and even when you ask me wtf after the third time I've cast the spell we agreed you were going to cast I still don't quite get why you're upset with me." It's not fucking difficult. Cast the spells you say you're going to cast.

For this reason, 1-75, I refused to party with other RDMs. I just got tired of the frustration of, "Dude, why the hell are you refreshing me? And not the PLD, like we agreed?"

For such a cooperative game, people really do suck at cooperating.

[Clever Ninja]

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And yet another RDM Saboteur Paralyze II.

Having used this several times I dunno why someone thinks this is still a good idea. Even with a potency set Paralyze is such a poor choice for this spell, would rather toss it with Blind or Gravity if its a kite fight. But yea if I go duo RDM for stuff I generally call which of us is doing Slow 2 and who is doing the other thing to avoid that issue, cause Saboteur is hot and seeing it wasted makes me rage.

For this reason, 1-75, I refused to party with other RDMs. I just got tired of the frustration of, "Dude, why the hell are you refreshing me? And not the PLD, like we agreed?"

I'm pretty sure if I go back in this thread I'll have a couple posts bitching about other RDM's in parties. "Hey how about I refresh and haste and you handle enfeebs and main healing. Or I enfeeb and haste and you refresh. Oh, what's that? You're gonna Refresh yourself and then randomly Haste to fuck up my cycle? That's lovely."

[Ketaru]

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That reminds me of being in parties with other healers with Haste. I would shoot them tells asking about how we're going to split Haste duties. I get no response so I don't know if s/he wants me to Haste them all, or s/he wants to Haste them all, or what. Before you know it, we're both bleeding MP because we're casting Haste on the same people.

Even with a potency set Paralyze is such a poor choice for this spell, would rather toss it with Blind or Gravity if its a kite fight.

Sadly, Gravity is almost irrelevant in a lot of fights.

[Clever Ninja]

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Yea it's irrelevant, but for a few choice things like Cep-Kamuy or Cirein-croin etc it's very very useful, so I just mentioned it. Having extended duration on Gravity for those are lovely.

[Aksannyi]

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Especially since when Gravity partially resists (and thus wears quicker than usual) it fucking sucks donkey balls waiting for that damn recast. When you need Gravity to be working at max potency (think solo kiting KV, obviously I'm behind the times but losing Grav can fuck you up if you're solo kiting), waiting for the recast to tick down from a partial resist really sucks.

[Elwynn]

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Wow, SE, can you make it any harder to join a Linkshell Community? First of all, "Auto-Login" seems to always be broken for me. It says a server is busy or wtf ever.

So here's what you have to do:
* Go to the login screen
* DON'T click on the shiny candy-like "log in" button, but instead click on that button at the top that says to join a community
* Now you can freaking log in and choose which character to work with
* Okay, now it shows me the new linkshell (we had to re-pearl recently) and gives me a button to join
* Hey, great. Let's back out and log in properly
* Oops, that didn't work
* Guess what, there was a "Confirm" button at the bottom of that page!
* Click it and another screen of the linkshell... hmm let's scroll down just to be sure
* Yep, now there's a join button! Yes, I had to confirm my choice TWICE.
* Finally I'm in. That was easy. Not.

[Elwynn]

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You know how SE said they fixed all the times when the game took your automaton away so that your 20 minute activate timer didn't reset just because of the cutscene at the start of Besieged, etc.?

Well I just found one that they missed.

Activate your automaton, then get on a chocobo. Hello Activate recast timer.

Good work, SE.

[Mhurron]

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PEBCAK

[Raydeus]

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[Ketaru]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

I keep telling people:

If you can see Guivre, you're too close.