What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

LOL! I have a penis one too! I love using it right in the middle of arguements on vent.

I usually do it when it's really fucking quiet. All of a sudden PENIS. Many lol's ensue.

[711rocks]

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ls retired from endgame
chat onry

it was an amazing 2 years lol

[Mhurron]

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Why is it so goddamned hard to find people who need shit done? Why the fuck is it that the only things I accomplish in this game are things that I can solo?

It seems that many people don't think about what they need until they decide to do it, (then complain that there's no one to help). You end up shouting for Mission X and get no replies. Then next day or so you see Bob, who was shouting about how bored they were when you wanted to do Mission X, shouting for Mission X with 1/6 people. No one seems to pay attention.

Of course, to add insult to injury, you will always see a shout for a mission you need when you can not in any way participate.

[Vyuru]

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I know people like TGM's son who spams stuff over and over in LS chat, I couldn't stand that if it was on something like Vent.

You've probably given me the best reason never to use the thing!

And yes, you heard it, no sexy english accent for the LS peeps!

[Aksannyi]

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Of course, to add insult to injury, you will always see a shout for a mission you need when you can not in any way participate.

God this is so fucking true. If I have Dynamis in 20 minutes, someone will be shouting for something I need.

[Aksannyi]

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For the love of god don't automerge me ><

Being told to sac pull the first tower in Xarc (I don't mind, my buffer is good and I have RR at all times) and then waiting THIRTY FIVE FUCKING MINUTES for the BLMs to do the time nukes. God I about cussed out the entire linkshell for that shit.

[Audioma]

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The fact that whenever I swap in an equip in the same macro as casting a spell, my avatar doesn't come back to the fucking realm of visibility until I'm HALFWAY into most of the casting animations.

Why exactly does it take a whole three seconds to change the mere color of the frikkin' BEAD on my Tarutaru's elemental staff!?!?!!

Spell animations make up much of my enjoyment of the game..so if I'm going to end up seeing a tiny brown koala-thing that fades in and out of visibility every 10 seconds from lvl 51 on, I'm going to have a few problems. ;_;

[TheGrandMom]

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Spell animations make up much of my enjoyment of the game..so if I'm going to end up seeing a tiny brown koala-thing that fades in and out of visibility every 10 seconds from lvl 51 on, I'm going to have a few problems. ;_;

/comfort

Thats all you'll be seeing.

[Balfree]

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Not failing a charm for 5k exp, then when Im 100xp tnl, failing all charms until finally I die.

And I forgot reraise.

/quit

[Pavonti]

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New members to the linkshell who come in and keep bugging me to make them a leader.

[TheGrandMom]

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You know, I always thought it odd when some linkshells had rules against apps that were b/f & g/f, husband & wife, or best friends etc. Well I guess I kind of understand it now. While 2 people that are in some type of relationship wouldn't be that bad, can you imagine 7 or 8 of them? You invite them and they act like the ARE the ls and all the old members can go fly a kite. Yep, I would have to rethink inviting couples but its a definate ABSOLUTELY NOT to groups of friends. Just not worth the hassle or the drama.

[Aksannyi]

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Yeah, the fundamental problem with "couple apps" is, "What if one of them is good enough to be accepted but the other isn't?" Then you're faced with whether or not the accepted will join without his/her honey, or if they'll try to pressure you into accepting them both.

It's far too much of a hassle. If you can't get one without the other, don't bother with either of them. CK and I are in diffrent LSes and it's fine. (To be fair, I know I couldn't get into his - yet - and I haven't even applied, but I also know that I can not and will not expect to ride his coattails to get in if I do apply.)

[The Mauva Syndicate]

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Of course, to add insult to injury, you will always see a shout for a mission you need when you can not in any way participate.

UGH!!!! that's the worst!!

Happens all the time.

[Firewind]

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Found out why I hate Qufim Island again. I was invited to join a party and it was PL'd so I could play with BP's with my 20SMN. Then I realised we had no tank. The NIN/MNK ended up being a tank and refused to sub WAR despite me asking him repeatedly. We also had a RDM who sat there doing nothing but aggroing links for the party duration, a 20DNC/NIN (wtf?) and some other gimped DD that was /NIN before Lv50. Only competant member was the WHM and he could barely do his job properly. Of course cue deaths every other battle, my avatars taking hate so fast I couldn't even get BP's off, me taking hate by summoning CARBY, me outdamaging everyone with my staff alone (on 20SMN), link after link after random Gobbie aggro and generally a complete and utter mess.

The party ended after only 20 mins (which came as some relief). Must have been 20-29 because my initial protect still hadn't worn. I did get an appology off the leader (the RDM who seemed to have vanished into thin air) and the WHM (since he's a friend and the guy who invited me to the party) for the party just disbanding so fast though.

Don't get me wrong I don't complain about exp, any I can get is fine but dear lord that party was a complete and utter waste of time. i would have gotten more off Campaign as a 20SMN. Not even the Dunes are as bad as Qufim partied (yes I went and said it).

It seems that many people don't think about what they need until they decide to do it, (then complain that there's no one to help). You end up shouting for Mission X and get no replies. Then next day or so you see Bob, who was shouting about how bored they were when you wanted to do Mission X, shouting for Mission X with 1/6 people. No one seems to pay attention.

Happens a lot on my LS. I'm levelling SMN to sub for WHM and i only have 3 avatars not including Carby so I need the other 3. Trying to organise avatar runs and carby Mitts runs is a nightmare when people tend to ignore avatars until they start levelling SMN again

Of course, to add insult to injury, you will always see a shout for a mission you need when you can not in any way participate.

Dear gawd I'm missed out on so many promyvion runs that way it's just not funny anymore.

[Ziero]

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My newest, and biggest, pet peeve is when Campaigning in Bastok markets, when people sit there fighting three to four units of enemies with only one Allied NPC unit right in that first alleyway near the Mog House, a place that I've seen called "Death Alley". People will sit there and let the NPCs get slaughtered because they're woefully outnumbered, while large groups of completely untouched NPCs will mull around the far corners of the zone. Eventually that one troop will get beaten so much that every NPC in the zone will flee for their lives, leaving us with 20-50 PCs and about 50-60 Mobs, including 4-8 NMs.

I've taken it upon myself to keep that area as clean as possible, to the point where I kited three entire groups of Beastmen grunts to each corner of the city within minutes of each group popping all in one fight, and gained myself a net total of 600 exp (only dieing once!). In doing so I found out that not only does it keep the NPCs alive longer, but that they can drop the NMs real fast when they have no other attackers on them while the PCs can take their time with the grunts.

Sadly the only way to continually win campaign is to have some sort of organized effort where the goal isn't about Exp gained, but NPC/Fortification protection...and people just don't seem to care about those things. And as soon as SE adds the warp NPCs that stay around even during fights, I doubt we'll ever get control of a zone back again ._.