What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

[Clever Ninja]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

I loved how he states his level, then takes it back like level doesn't matter XD.

My pet peeve? Summoners who don't have all their avatars. I don't mean the difficult ones like Fenrir and Diabolos, I mean the ones you can solo at elvel 20. While it's not a big issue at level 19-, at level 46+ you should have all those basic avatars. End of story. I had to kick a Summoner today because he said he didn't have any other avatars besides Carby, and I invited one who had the elemental avatars with him. If I have to take time to Refresh everyone and farm gil to buy all my new scrolls(which are costing me 15-25k a pop at this level), you're gonna go and get those avatars or not pt with me. Nuff said.

And Aksanny just get Spider Torque, 2 Enfeebling skill won't make that huge of a difference IMO <_<

[Olorin401]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Pet peeve as of last night: "I'm only leveling white mage for teles," or "I'm only leveling {xxx} job for a sub," but put much less effort into the job than their mains. Example:
Leveling my war (36 atm) for a sub for my pld in a party in the CN fighting crawlers. As we all know, crawlers spam defense buff and slow-ness for all. The nin couldn't hold hate for crap, so I was basically tanking, which is what I do best anyway, but still. So, crawler spams its slow-incuding ability (forget what it's called), and after a few mins of still being Slowed, I politely say, "Can I get an erase please?"
Whm > "I don't have it."
Me > "Why? >.>"
Whm > "I was only going to take whm to 30."
Me > "And you're 37 now."
Whm > "I'm just after 38 for teles."
Me > "And i'm only after 37 for a sub for my main, but I still put some effort into my job..."
Basically the whm stopped talking, the party was lame, and I ended up D/Cing from internet issues.
It just burns my chops that I can drop ~200k on leveling war from 30 to 37, abut the whm can't drop, what, 40k for erase.... Ugh.

Wanna hear somethin' funny?

When I first started playing I was a WAR.. got to 27 and realized i needed to make some money FAST. SO I started playing White Mage for the teles...

I liked it so much, I stuck with it and it's my first job to 75. WAR is still at 33 - I can't stand playing it.

And Erase was 600k when I reached the point I could use it. So I got it thru BCNM and then got another three to sell. That was good times heh..

[SharMarali]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

OK I'll be honest, I didn't read this whole thread because it's like 52 pages now, so I don't really know if this has been said before or not. I'm going to say it anyway though, because it REALLY aggravates me.

My pet peeve? WHMs without a light staff. After level 55.

I'm SO not an elitest when it comes to gear. You want to level WAR but you don't have enough gil to buy a haubergeon? NIN and you can't afford a SH? I don't care. I'm fine with it. Just please buy a cheap body piece if you're a WAR and don't use your AF, because you'll be driving the tank insane with your +8 enmity. Eat some good food and do your best. I don't really care what you're wearing as long as you're trying.

But there's no excuse for a WHM not to have a light staff. Unlike BLM and SMN, they don't need the full array of staves. They just need light and dark. A light staff goes for about 50k on Ramuh right now. I realize the economy went south, but two stacks of silk thread will get you a light staff. Who can't farm crawlers for two hours at SOME point between level 1 and level 55?

There are very, very, very few pieces of equipment in the game that I feel are "must-haves." White mage. Light staff. Must have. OK, so you hit 51 when you weren't really expecting to and you don't have one. I can understand that. Or you decided to buy a dark staff first and now you're broke. I'll give you that one too. I figure you got a couple of levels of leeway before it becomes a major offense. But lately, I've been PTing with all these level 55+ WHMs without one. Last week I PTed with a level 64 WHM who didn't have one. As a BRD, I was curing for 209 HP while he cured for 193. End result, it cost him about 10% more MP to keep the PT alive than it should have.

[FinnDS]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

I really don't have a pet peeve, but yesterday (my first day at the Dunes) I got to experience the frustration one can get with a party. It just seems to me that noone wants to be in charge at any time, noone says a word, noone pulls, nothing happens. And this happens alot. And the time it takes to get a party together is pretty long aswell, which can also be frustrating.

[hongman]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

There's not enough Bards.

Not enough Cors.

[Necropolis]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

The price of FFXI gil increases crazily~~
Welcome to our new website, and check the price list of ur server.
Don't miss the chance to sell ur gil. *(^O^)*

How fitting our newest user posted in our pet peeve forum as well as almost every other thread.

Which brings up one of my Pet Peeves. RMT.

[Akashimo]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

People starting mission parties that ditch after everyone wipes trying to get to the area and no one has RR. That same person was the leader of it, gotten aggro 4 previous times before the Soulflayer wiped us. I kept stating, invis and sneak, he just ignores -.- Oi *punts first taru in line of sight!*

[hongman]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Promy-Holla.

Thinker is a Bitch.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

There's not enough Bards.

Not enough Cors.

Each time I hear this, I say this:

"If you're not going to be one, stop complaining."

[BurningPanther]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Each time I hear this, I say this:
"If you're not going to be one, stop complaining."

I say the same thing... even if it's me complaining.

I think we're all secretly hoping a mass of players will come along, leveling these jobs, saying "I love support! I could do it all day!" Allowing us all to play our happy little offensive roles without having to roll up our sleeves and play the more boring ones.

[Murphie]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Of course, if you hate BRD, and just level it for the benefits it provides, you'll be derided just as much for playing it for "the wrong" reasons.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

I say the same thing... even if it's me complaining.

I think we're all secretly hoping a mass of players will come along, leveling these jobs, saying "I love support! I could do it all day!" Allowing us all to play our happy little offensive roles without having to roll up our sleeves and play the more boring ones.

Of the four you'd categorize as "boring," I'd only consider WHM and RDM amoung them, they just get too repetitive in EXP, almost puts me to sleep. COR and BRD are more active and exciting, always in the mix of everything.

However, BRDs and CORs would be a lot better off if BRDs weren't all "zomgpullpullpull" and CORs weren't exclusivly "zomgDD" CORs. BRDs can sub WHM and do full support, its not as good for COR to do so, but possible.

CORs sure as hell can pull at merit PT level, they get the lowest delay gun in the game and Light Shot, they can set up fights just like a BRD and Light Shot sees fewer resists than Lullaby. We're better hands-down the Greater Colibri camp, Light Shot can't be reflected.

But no, they look at the DMG on Peacemaker and scurry back to thier 600 delay Martial Gun and get outclassed in their DoT and DD by a wide margin.

Oh well, I get more merits per session than they do. /shrug

Of course, if you hate BRD, and just level it for the benefits it provides, you'll be derided just as much for playing it for "the wrong" reasons.

Level it for merits, fine.

Level it to get in an HNM and always come to camp as a DD = Misleading. Don't level BRD if you're going for a hetacomb set on your THF and have no intention of improving BRD. Don't bid on Osodes if you have a BRD, but never play it and no other job you have can use it.

[Murphie]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

See?

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

See?

Should we not scrutinize those that do?

[Murphie]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

No. Because it doesn't matter what everyone else is doing. You're not the arbiter of what is or isn't the right reasons to level a job. No one is but the person leveling that character.