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  • Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

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    • Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

      Originally posted by Yellow Mage View Post
      Ketaru: I have nothing against Chant du Cygne itself; if it ends up being such a dramatic dealbreaker, I'll work on upgrading a Badelaire like you. It's just the Almace that disgusts me so much.
      Is it the requirements to acquire it or the visual design? Because I can totally relate to hating the airplane wing look of it and that's part of the reason I haven't really given much consideration to making one.
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      • Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

        Do you play on PC? If it's a matter of not wanting to look at it, a dat swap could be done for a less ostentatious model.
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        • Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

          Not only the visual design, but the weaksauce lore for what ended up being an absurdly powerful Sword.

          Even if I did .dat swap, TM, just about everybody else would still see that eyesore, so it's not quite as comforting.
          Originally posted by Armando
          No one at Square Enix has heard of Occam's Razor.
          Originally posted by Armando
          Nintendo always seems to have a legion of haters at the wings ready to jump in and prop up straw men about hardware and gimmicks and casuals.
          Originally posted by Taskmage
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          • Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

            Originally posted by Yellow Mage View Post
            Not only the visual design, but the weaksauce lore for what ended up being an absurdly powerful Sword.

            Even if I did .dat swap, TM, just about everybody else would still see that eyesore, so it's not quite as comforting.
            I don't really get the lore part of it. Abyssea's backstory is pretty weak, but as for the story behind Walk of Echoes, the Book of Genesis it is not. Personally, I only worked on the lesser weapon of the two knowing it is inferior because I like to play this game on my own time and I really didn't want to feel compelled to log on a schedule to work on it. Yeah, making 1 Empyrean doesn't take that long if you really haul ass. But it wouldn't just be my Empyrean. It would be one for everybody in the group.

            If you don't mind the grinding, just go for the real deal. Personally, I'm always going to play with doubts like, "Yeah, it's pretty hot. But what could it have been?"

            As for aesthetics, this game has never had pleasing aesthetics as far as gear goes. Right now, we're see DRKs wearing trousers beneath all that heavy armor because many feel like they need to use Calmecac Trousers. I'm don't know much about DRK gear so maybe Calmecacs are really gimp for DRK or really godly. But to me, worrying about aesthetics in this game really doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

            Unless you don't gear swap, which is something else that needs to be addressed entirely.
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            • Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

              Originally posted by Ketaru View Post
              As for aesthetics, this game has never had pleasing aesthetics as far as gear goes.
              I beg to differ
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              • Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

                Just... just stop. Please... just stop. Before they come.


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                • Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

                  Originally posted by cidbahamut View Post
                  I beg to differ
                  Gimp ass rdms using swords instead of staves. What? That's their AF weapon? Oh.

                  Also, empyrean weapons have lore behind them?

                  ---------- Post added at 04:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:50 PM ----------

                  Btw, on the subject of gear aesthetics, walahra turban+goliard saio+nashira seraweels+dusk gloves/boots coordinated quite nicely back at 75.
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                  • Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

                    I liked Abyssea's story. Of course, I completed it right after CoP so it had a fair amount of resonance for me.

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                    • Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

                      From what I've seen of Abyssea's storyline it consists mainly of comic book nonsense and lots of "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope."

                      That's not really the quality of writing I expect given what they've managed to come up with for the other missions.
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                      • Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

                        Originally posted by Ketaru View Post
                        I don't really get the lore part of it. Abyssea's backstory is pretty weak, but as for the story behind Walk of Echoes, the Book of Genesis it is not.
                        Originally posted by Taskmage View Post
                        Also, empyrean weapons have lore behind them?
                        I'd expect more out of Empyrean Weapons, as the new breed of "ultimate" weapons. Maybe Moogles make miserable myth makers? At any rate, it would be ridiculous for me to hold the "penultimate" weapons to the same expectations.

                        Concerning the Almace specifically, it holds similar legendary roots to Durendal, Joyeuse, and Curtana, but its merits basically end there. It was basically just given to a priest and never mentioned again until said priest died with it in battle. Gee, nice message to send to not only RDMs, but PLDs and BLUs as well, S-E! And this on top of the issue of it looking like something the Buster Sword threw up. The fact that this legendary footnote outperforms freaking Excalibur just burns me to no end.

                        I mean, Excalibur. You know, SWORD OF POWER, forged when the world was young, man/bird/beast/flower were one, death was but a dream, all that stuff? Cookie if you get the reference.
                        Originally posted by Armando
                        No one at Square Enix has heard of Occam's Razor.
                        Originally posted by Armando
                        Nintendo always seems to have a legion of haters at the wings ready to jump in and prop up straw men about hardware and gimmicks and casuals.
                        Originally posted by Taskmage
                        GOD IS MIFFED AT AMERICA

                        REPENT SINNERS OR AT LEAST GIVE A NONCOMMITTAL SHRUG

                        GOD IS AMBIVALENT ABOUT FURRIES

                        THE END IS COMING ONE OF THESE DAYS WHEN GOD GETS AROUND TO IT
                        Originally posted by Taskmage
                        However much I am actually smart, I got that way by confronting how stupid I am.
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                        • Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

                          And this on top of the issue of it looking like something the Buster Sword threw up
                          More like something the people that designed this game's great swords threw up.
                          I mean, Excalibur. You know, SWORD OF POWER, forged when the world was young, man/bird/beast/flower were one, death was but a dream, all that stuff? Cookie if you get the reference.
                          Not really sure what reference this is but Excalibur has always been the sword-of-not-dying >_> Its sheath at least.

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                          • Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

                            I suppose that's just really what they wanted when it came to the Empyrean weapons. They are all big and in-your-face (...I suppose I'm setting myself up for a that's-what-she-said moment) and are supposed to be the first distinguishable feature when you see somebody who has one. Can't deny it. Almace is kind of hard to ignore.
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                            • Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

                              Originally posted by Yellow Mage View Post
                              The fact that this legendary footnote outperforms freaking Excalibur just burns me to no end.

                              I mean, Excalibur. You know, SWORD OF POWER, forged when the world was young, man/bird/beast/flower were one, death was but a dream, all that stuff? Cookie if you get the reference.
                              On that note, I've been poking around some more and it looks like the dust hasn't really settled on that issue yet. CDC is riding high because it's a crit-based WS and Abyssea makes those broken, but outside it's less clear. Honestly, I'd just gun for the Excalibur if I were you. It's a damn fine sword by all accounts and as Romyro has shown us, it's now possible to hammer out a relic without a ginormous Dynamis shell sponsoring it.
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                              • Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

                                Originally posted by Yellow Mage View Post
                                Concerning the Almace specifically, it holds similar legendary roots to Durendal, Joyeuse, and Curtana, but its merits basically end there. It was basically just given to a priest and never mentioned again until said priest died with it in battle.
                                Ah, you meant the story behind the name itself rather than the in-game origin. Swords have had it relatively good for a while, though. Look at the relic knife and h2h weapon. They're just ancient and/or primitive weaponry. Nothing mythological at all.
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