What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

[Callisto]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

So we did Dyna-Sandy last night, and the LS members were actually awesome, we completely obliterated the zone, noone did anything especially retarded. 21 members in the zone, and 21 AF2 dropped...except not one damn COR legs, lol. How are the odds of getting 21 AF2 but not getting one of the only 3 anyone actually needed(go fig, another was BRD hat which dropped 10 minutes after both BRDs left)?

We left with:

BLU x5
NIN x3
RDM
BST x2
PLD x2
WHM x3
PUP
RNG
WAR x2
BRD

and 2 100's...but no COR!




The good news is I'm still riding RDM Hat high so any thing that does drop for me in the next month or so is just icing on the cake.
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Also good things perhaps, but still bad: Since my hat finally dropped it crossed me over 2 lines: One being that I officially can no longer fit all of my gear into my 360 macros the way I'd like to, which is kind of forcing me onto the PC version more and more. I prefer playing on 360 but kind of pointless if I can't actually use all the gear I need because S-E is too stubborn to implement more macro lines.

The second is a similar issue, I've officially reached the point where I can no longer fit all of my casting gear and all of my melee gear in my inventory at the same time, which essentially means the death of my melee RDM Really hoping for 2 more GobbyBag quests in the next update.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I found out why one post-update Dynamis shell Odin was resistant to my inquiries as a COR. The one doing all the recruiting wants the COR relic, too.

A COR/WHM with a Trump Gun.

Go take a look at the relic, kids, I see no mage stats there. I do see magey stats on BRD relic, go play that.

That's not to say COR/WHM isn't viable for Dynamis, because it can be, however if you're still rocking the Trump Gun at 75 I can't take you seriously, because it tells me you've probably made zero effort in a ranged accuracy or melee build.

Its funny, Odin just has an ocean of horrible CORs. Still, it makes me look great.

I'm doing my best to raise the LBR CORs right, at least. We have four others there and they play the job pretty well and level various subs for use with it. And they know I'll get on em of they don't update the guns and bullets XD

Back to this Dynamis LS, just struck me a funny that a Dynamis Manaburn LS was resistant to having more CORs, you'd think they'd want as many as they could get.

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Also, side peeve - people who shout for BRDs specifically for BCNMs and events BRD pretty much suck in. The job does have weaknesses, folks. BRD has never been a strong performer in time-sensitive situations and BCNM missions pre-60 (with a scant few exceptions). I'd much rather have the dependability a RDM and COR can bring to Nyzul Isle or Assault run over a BRD, personally.

[Tek(Selphiie)]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Yesterday in whitegate these two kids were arguing over the stupedist things in /shout yesterday.

So i guess:

1) TWO people shout /shout like little drama-queens to eachother instead of talking through /tells, most likely doing it for attention but failing miserably.

2) People who keep adding fuel to the fire... basically people who just spam "Fight Fight Fight!"

Solution:
Get laid

Making a party is also a pain in the ass sometimes, whenever i make a party it never ever fails to get those nutjobs that won't party unless you have a Bard, and this is like mid level 50s. People who have that burn party mentality. Had a perfect party setup yesterday, NIN,RDM,WAR,THF,WHM,COR, and the NIN had to leave, so im looking for a replacement when a NIN pops. I ask the NIN if he wants to party, he asks me two questions:

1) Do you have a Bard?
2) Whats the setup?

I answer both of them honestly. He doesn't want to party because there is no Bard....

...get f*****. In reality theres not always going to be a Bard in every single party, and while im getting experience points your still sitting in whitegate like a whiny little nerd not getting experience points.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that they didn't think to hire Morgan Freeman to do the voiceovers of every important NPC in the game. That would be so much win.

Can you imagine the Shadow Lord starring Morgan Freeman?

Boss...

[Callisto]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

I found out why one post-update Dynamis shell Odin was resistant to my inquiries as a COR. The one doing all the recruiting wants the COR relic, too.

A COR/WHM with a Trump Gun.

Go take a look at the relic, kids, I see no mage stats there. I do see magey stats on BRD relic, go play that.

That's not to say COR/WHM isn't viable for Dynamis, because it can be, however if you're still rocking the Trump Gun at 75 I can't take you seriously, because it tells me you've probably made zero effort in a ranged accuracy or melee build.

Its funny, Odin just has an ocean of horrible CORs. Still, it makes me look great.

I'm doing my best to raise the LBR CORs right, at least. We have four others there and they play the job pretty well and level various subs for use with it. And they know I'll get on em of they don't update the guns and bullets XD

Back to this Dynamis LS, just struck me a funny that a Dynamis Manaburn LS was resistant to having more CORs, you'd think they'd want as many as they could get.

Trump Gun also tells me you have put 0 effort into a decent QD build, which if you are going to /mage you better at least have that.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Trump Gun also tells me you have put 0 effort into a decent QD build, which if you are going to /mage you better at least have that.

Yep, if you're going COR/WHM, updated gun, steel bullets and a fair mix of MP and AGI gear is what I expect. And seriously, its not that that hard to pull off

Moldavite or Drone Earrnings for Ears
AGI Rings
Uggy pendant if you can get (I don't hold it against anyone who can't, that's just peen gear)
If your RSE has AGI and MP on it, perfect, use some of that.
Blue Cotehardie.

There's actually a lot of ways to go about it. This is why I've come to loathe COR/WHM, though, because so few people make the effort to do it right. And that's before we even get to guns and bullets. Its always just MP, MP, MP gear.

Going /WHM is not all about stacking on MP gear for Cures, it never was. Its about light backup cures, survivablity and status cure support. Save those other mages some MP by casting status cures. You're not there to be a curebot, neither is BRD. Going /WHM should not come at the expense of your other job functions for these two jobs especially. If you have over 400+ MP gear on your COR, you're doing something wrong.

And yeah, the BRD-onry people for merits are fucking annoying. Only BRD I want is a good BRD and those are just as few and rare as good CORs.

[Maerina]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

That damn invisible camping is so damn stupid. We were camping Ose one day and there was a alliance out there camping and like 5 people in it were running around invisible so they could get claim on him when he popped. Majority of them were watching us fight the coeurls while they just ran around doing nothing and fighting the behemoths. Eventually our SMN who was leading the group said something to them and they eventually started fighting them. Since we only had 3 people in our group there at the moment we all went invisible too just cuz they were. Of course Ose popped when we were all visible and I got claim but no drop.

Pet Peeve:

This is a superstition I've always had but it may not be true. A long time ago I stopped crafting things that could be toolbagged or quivered in front of npcs because it seemed like people were watching what everyone was crafting there and then they'd go craft the same thing right next to you. For example: I check ffxiah and there are about 2-5 stacks of acid bolt quivers in the AH and its been like that for at least 2 hours. During this time I'm in front of the npc crafting and by the time I'm halfway done somebody else runs up crafting them as well. Most of the time its the people that sell for about 40-50% less than the going price lol. So now when I craft stuff for quiver/toolbag, I only craft in my mog house. I thought everybody knew you could craft inside your mog house, but there were some people that are in my ls that have been playing since the game came out and didn't know it. BTW I'm probably just paranoid.

Wait, you can craft in your Mog House?

Hot damn!

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Hell yeah, crafting in MH is the best way to go if I don't need synth support. No lag from the people running around, and no chances of random "I cast Protect on everyone to skill up enhancing" people breaking my synths.

[Callisto]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

I prefer to quietly throw away my entire gil balance on broken synths and NQ results that lose 50k a pop as well.

[Ellipses]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

I like to gather up ingredients for recipes I just barely have the skill to attempt, get in front of the AH on a bad day to craft, and try for a full break. Then I /sigh and /cry a few times and say "Now I'm completely broke again. " before I pop a poison potion and fake a d/c.



Note: I'm lying.

[Callisto]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

I would try to Tractor you around town.

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Fuck, you guys need to level your DRKs, seriously. Emo sons of bitches.

XD

[Callisto]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

I've put off leveling my Smithing any further for 6 months now because I'm .3ish away from where I cap a break even synth and move on to a huge loss synth, lol.

[Lunaryn]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Yeah, I basically made a point of trying to synth in MH early on. Then about a month later I had to correct someone in LS who was talking about how it "would be nice" if you could synth in MH, or something along those lines.

Also, camping while invisible for VE does strike me as a little odd, but being invisible for Ose doesn't necessarily seem that odd since you can get aggro there on 75, and not everyone who wants Ose is going to be that high level. I don't consider informing fellow campers of whether you got the drop to be rude, though; if anything, it's good to know on Rare/Ex drops that you no longer have to worry about competition from that player any more, and when I get claim on such an NM when there's competition, another camper will often ask me whether I got drop.

If one is camping on THF, it'd be a hell of a lot more practical in trying to manage claim to sub RNG or BST for Widescan than a sub that can invis at will (you can get two invis moves from THF/RNG, but neither last long and both have long recasts).

[TheGrandMom]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Fuck, you guys need to level your DRKs, seriously. Emo sons of bitches.

XD

I still haven't leveled drk on my taru. First I haven't leveled ANY melee jobs on this taru and didn't plan on it. And I figure that as soon as I do my ls is gonna want me to be a chainspell + stun bitch and I'll be a dead fucking taru. {Thanks for the offer, but I'll have to pass.}

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Get a good THF in your ls to Accomplice you afterwards, he can PDodge and hopefully by then the PLD can rip hate back. Did that on a Suzaku once, it was so much fun!