What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

[KingOfZeal]

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I found undead reasonably nice when I was on them for my H2H Tapian Fangs +1 (ice path, Pet MAB). The first trial I killed the skeles in Ugly Range, later when I needed pet kills I went to Fei'yin, where the ghosts were lower level (sometimes TW) and easier to kill.

Personally, I'd rather be on undead than Lizards for my OAT H2H weapon. Also... weather bonus, I can has it?

[Neverslip]

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I'm really not looking forward to killing hundreds of gollems (at least I think it's gollems)for my lightning dagger... been taking a break from FFxi cuz the bees for my GKT kinda drained my soul, in a musical, and trying to play games I didn't make time for but wanted to.

Where's the best spot for gollems anyway?? That dungeon out in Beaucedine ?? Name escapes me atm... Pso something?

[Raydeus]

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(The Celestial Nexus)

[Elwynn]

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The other day, I NPC warp into Vunkerl_S, start running toward the tags NPC and... a sword-icon orc starts attacking me?!?!?! Hooray -1200 XP!

WTF SE?

I was in a party with three others, one who had just arrived at the same time, and another who wasn't even in the zone yet. I didn't notice if the 4th was there before me or not. Maybe there was some kind of party hate thing that happened, but I doubt it.

[cidbahamut]

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(The Celestial Nexus)

Or just anything in the auto-translator that begins with "the" really.

[NightShayde]

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For the magian trial after the current trial I'm doing, I apparently have to land the killshot on plantoids with Steel Cyclone (if what my husband told me is to be believed). I haven't even gotten to that point, but I just KNOW it's going to be annoying.

[KingOfZeal]

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Killshots aren't that bad. I thought my pet kill trials would be a pain in the ass, but it was actually fairly nice, since Nutcracker can easily hold his own with the mobs I was fighting and Ventriloquy makes it easy to handle 2 mobs at once... when he finishes, just switch the hate on mine onto him.

It just takes a little more concentration that going by and blindly beating on mobs.

[Raydeus]

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Or just anything in the auto-translator that begins with "the" really.

I was actually replying to Neverslip about places to kill Golems at.

[NightShayde]

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Killshots aren't that bad. I thought my pet kill trials would be a pain in the ass, but it was actually fairly nice, since Nutcracker can easily hold his own with the mobs I was fighting and Ventriloquy makes it easy to handle 2 mobs at once... when he finishes, just switch the hate on mine onto him.

It just takes a little more concentration that going by and blindly beating on mobs.

I'm thinking more of waiting to WS until the mob is near dead, then whiffing -- then either scrapping that plant and moving to the next, or letting it pound on me until my tp is built up again... or aaaaaalmost killing it with the WS, then hitting one more time for the final kill & not getting credit.

[Romyro]

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People who royally screw up Abyssea XP parties are my newest pet-peeve.

I guess kudos to them for starting parties because I never start my own but geez…if you don’t have a decent clue how the lights work by now, maybe you should just seek and hope for the best.

The party I was in last night had about 3-4 Blms, at least 1 Brd and at least 1 Rdm/blm (pretty sure he was /blm).

Problems….
The puller was pulling 1 mob at a time then meleeing with group. Only pulling another when the mob died. There are about 5 people who can sleep ><…pull a group of at least 2 or more so the DDrs aren't sitting there after EVERY fight. Puller didn’t listen even after we asking nicely a few times.

Blms started off killing Em Murexs for azure lights. Once that was done, we could barely get a spell off because the DDers were ripping though the mobs pretty quickly. Sure that’s a good thing but that made us blms useless. So we decided to kill a couple on our own so we weren’t just sitting there like jackasses. After nuking our own mobs to like 20-30% the puller would try and pull the mobs we were nuking…thus wakening them up so they could kill us.

Once that got to dangerous, we would pull 1 and sleep it in front of the alliance while they were fighting. It was weird, kills became a little faster, seemed to get a little more chests/xp. Then the puller must of gotten offended cause he eventually just warped out.

Not to mention accidental ruby lights everywhere at the start…

I’m going to start my own party soon and try to follow this format.
Mages go kill 3-4 Emp Murexs (azure lights)
DDers go kill 3-4 T1 VNMs (pearl lights)
Find camp and kill like crazy (avoiding ruby/amber kills in the beginning)

That sound about right?

[KingOfZeal]

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That's how most people I know low-man chests when they go feet hunting. Since XP isn't as much of a goal, you go nuts on Emph for both Azure AND Pearl lights (no reason you can't melee emph Murex), and after no more than 10 total kills you start on the mob you're targeting.

It may be more difficult with a full alliance since it's not a traditional setup. Most aby alliances I've been in have the BLM group separate from the melee group, with one puller each. That allows for both azure and pearl lights at the same time, and kills probably a little quicker as well.

[Raydeus]

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Peeve: Who has the time and patience to level up all the crafts because NPCs don't have gear for levels 30-50 (at least NQ) for sale?

If crafters don't want to craft (if they are still playing) why not put items for sale at NPC stores at a decent price?

[Blonde]

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Peeve: Who has the time and patience to level up all the crafts because NPCs don't have gear for levels 30-50 (at least NQ) for sale?

Thats because your supposed to Level Sync to 37-40 and fight colibri to get through those levels

[Romyro]

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From what I’ve read (and thus far personally experienced), T1 VNMs give guaranteed pearl lights (if killed in the correct fasion). And since they are NMs it’s more than your typical mob.

You can pearl Murex’s as well but it’s not guaranteed. if theirs one in the same area as the VNM, they by all means.

[cidbahamut]

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Curse.