What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

[Reverent Knight]

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This a pet peeve its a rant at the GD picky bs that is FFXI

Divine might fight last night, I asked my ls is there any prequisites except having ark angels zm14 active I'm told no, check all nope. go to the fight and win on the 3rd try after 6 deaths in total so I lost 75 on my samurai but we get the win in the end

Go to the unmarked target guess what I get not a shiny new earring for my trouble, i get a f****** CS. and do i get my reward do I F***.

So all i get out of all my deaths was 2 0.3 skillups and have to go get samurai to 75 again. I really want to quit the game over crap like this, makes it just not worth it. My Ls wont be doing DM again for o like a year!!!!

[Firewind]

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Remembers kids: Always make sure your CS's are done before entering the BCNM.

If you are thinking of quitting the game because you lost a level that will probably only take half an hour to get back in Campaign you should really stop and consider if this is the game for you.

Death happens. Delevels happen. I lost my WHM 75 3 times while farming for my Esuna scroll alone. If you are really so upset about delevelling then why didn't you get a buffer before attempting Divine Might, where dying is practically guaranteed.

[Reverent Knight]

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Do patronising ppl always thing there funny?

I'm not bothered bout the stupid level, its a game, am I'm bothered because I asked and checked first and there was no mention of it, no. I'm bothered because once again I loose out when everyone else there (about 30 ppl) doesnt simple shit like this all mount up to make life one big kick in the teeth.

[Elwynn]

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I'm guessing that's why there's a line in boldface on ffxiclopedia telling you that you have to click an unmarked target on a wall first. Seriously, I don't do any kind of major mission without having the wiki page in front of me. Sure, it's a little easier for me than for most because I play on PS2, but that's still no excuse for not reading the page in the first place.

So I guess to get back on topic, one pet peeve is people who don't read up on the mission and check things over three times to make sure all cut scenes are done. In this case, only the one person lost out for that, but it's a real pain when everybody has to wait an hour or more because one person doesn't have all the cut scenes done.

[Ketaru]

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- Then there is the insufferable drama whore...

Allakhazam.com: Final Fantasy XI

This guy shouted in Whitegate for 3 hours about how my LS allegedly bots and cheats in Ballista...

[Mog]

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This guy shouted in Whitegate for 3 hours about how my LS allegedly bots and cheats in Ballista...

wut?

Why would anyone bot in ballista? lol. And better question is, who cares?

[Rostum]

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I don't know what was up with people last night. Meriting with a friend, kept getting people that would AFK without notice, people that would disconnect and never come back, a replacement who made it to camp and then said "I gotta go do CoP!" and some moron who said "Goodbye!" in the middle of a fight and warped out.

Despite this though, we still managed to get quite a few merit points.

[Aksannyi]

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I think he meant bots. And cheats in Ballista. Not does both things in Ballista. And really as far as both goes, who cares? Show me an endgame ls that doesn't have at least one botter! (Even if you think there are none in yours, I bet there's at least one.) Shit's old. Sucks to feel that way, but it's true at this point, everyone is so cynical.

As for the guy a bit up here complaining about DM, really, I know you don't want to hear this, but you're angry because it was avoidable, you're angry because it was mostly your fault. You can try to blame your linkshell or your alliance and all that, but really, if you had double triple checked, you'd have an earring right now, and I think more than anything you're upset with yourself.

Not to sound condescending, I've done the same kind of shit and wanted to blame everyone in sight knowing it was my fault, and just not wanting to accept it. Yeah, it totally sucks, and I feel for you, but you'll get another chance to do it.

[Ketaru]

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No, actually I do mean he complains about people botting in Ballista. For example: doesn't understand how anybody can WS him in Ballista when he's running away, but forget SE extended the range of WSs for PvP. Or using plugins to make enfeebles last longer. Or mules all over the zone to tell the other team exactly where he is. All sorts of wacky stuff that he imagines...That shouting marathon in Whitegate for 3 hours is true, by the way.

It is petty to publicly rant about Ballista of course. But then this guy just has a big bag full of reasons to think the whole world is out to get him apparently.

Allakhazam.com: Final Fantasy XI

[Reverent Knight]

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Not to sound condescending, I've done the same kind of shit and wanted to blame everyone in sight knowing it was my fault, and just not wanting to accept it. Yeah, it totally sucks, and I feel for you, but you'll get another chance to do it.

Thats All i wanted, an I never mentioned in my post about blaming anyone. I know its my fault but it doesnt make it any less annoying. I'm still quitting the game for a while. I was in a bad mood about this for 2 days an I know soon as I log on Ill be right next to that stupid unmarked target which will just annoy me again.

Ive devoted too much time to something thats just a game, gonna go have a real life for a bit rather than spending all my free time playing this.

Have fun guys, sure Ill be back soon

[Murphie]

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Nothing particularly noteworthy, but definitely classifiable as a pet peeve:

Qufim undead. I mentioned in another thread that my schedule is odd right now. I log on for a bit, log back out, and then log back on again, usually several times in any given day if I have enough time to play. I'm soloing DRG/BLU (Hit 30 last night), and though it's a lot of fun, having to constantly worry about the undead in Qufim (or anywhere) is on my nerves. As I'm sure you know, as a DRG/Mage, I run around in the orange/yellow pretty much all the time. Not really ideal in an "undead in the area" situation. I haven't actually had any problems in Qufim, but it limits my leveling ability when I have to creep around looking for weak mobs nowhere near the undead in the zone.

Oh, and punishment for not thinking ahead, as I dinged 30, I found that nothing I need for this level is on the AH. No RS Halberd, no MC Gear, no Brass Grips, etc. I would use CP, but I just switched to Windy, so I have about 3k. <_<;

[Aksannyi]

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If you use firefox Murphie, get the FFXI addon, it lets you see the Vana time of day in the lower right hand corner of your screen. That way you can avoid logging on during undead hours.

@Reverent Knight: How did you manage to quote me but attribute it to someone else? lol. That's probably a good plan, there are times when I get really pissed at this game so I play for the bare minimum (Dynamis and Einherjar, lol) Things will be more fresh to you that way.

[Reverent Knight]

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@Reverent Knight: How did you manage to quote me but attribute it to someone else? lol

Who knows just magic I guess )

Read up, you are now credited with the quote )

[Nuriko]

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Depending on how many marbles you have, you may want to consider getting a rune that will restrict the mobs to a certain family. I use the lizard rune since I'm going for the Koggelmander, but if I wanted something really easy I'd probably go for the bird rune.

Don't forget that now the mobs no longer link, but they still aggro. Not linking opens up quite a bit of possibilities for MMM, especially in the solo area.

I think I'll have to do some MMM as solo BST, now that you've mentioned that. I have a 'vermin' rune, so it should be pretty easy with charmed pets and a jug or two for the end. For that matter, not linking will make things MUCH easier, as the time I tried this before I died to a trio of toughs that would not split up...

[Ellipses]

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Don't forget that now the mobs no longer link, but they still aggro. Not linking opens up quite a bit of possibilities for MMM, especially in the solo area.

Ooh, neat, I missed that. Nifty. I'll have to give it a shot again now that I'm working on DRG.

On to peeves! Guild Points were the main thing bugging me last week. Bastok finally manages to get itself into first place again (so yay hero fame in Windy), but it means that I had to skip a few items because stuff just wasn't available. Bastok's safely back in last this week, so hopefully that won't be so bad this week.

And again with the nobody buying my crap streak. C'mon! Who doesn't want to buy a bunch of bone arrows? All the cool kids are buying them. You should too. Also those two extra stacks of arrowheads and fletchings I bought 'cause I can't count. It's the hot new item for spring, I tells ya.