What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

[Solymir]

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I wanna share stories too!

I have had Cable t.v. and internet with the famed TWC (formerly Comcast) for 5+ years now. Believe it or not my service has been really decent and my internet connection has been very good.

About 3 months ago 1 of the 2 set top boxes stopped allowing us to use the On-Demand feature (I love On-Demand). So I call them up and we go through the whole reseting the box process. This consists of me unplugging the power, waiting 30 seconds, plugging it back in, and waiting for thebox to boot up again. They also tried resending programming from their end, whatever that consists of. Neither of those worked so I took the box to the local office and swapped it out. Which is nice since it's about 5 city blocks from my house, though I learned never to go after work, long ass line. I get home plug in the new box, and it works great.

So then about a month after that I started having an issue with my other set top box not showing certain channels. Phone Support and I try the reset procdure, no luck. They resend programming from their end, no luck. Once again I take it in, on my lunch hour this time,for a much shorter wait time, and swap it out. I get home and the same channels won't display.

So I call Phone support again and we both come to the conclusion the cable from the wall to the box most likely has an issue. I go to the Fry's store (a large electronics/appliance store, the real life equivelant of Outpost.com), buy a coax cable, connect it to the box, and now I have even less channels. At this point I give up and I called to setup an appointment for a home visit. The tech guy shows up and says the quality of store bought coax cables are crap, plugs in a cable from his truck and voila we have all the channels! I felt so dumb.


TL,DR version: I fail at troubleshooting cable television. Just to throw my two cents in, I had DSL about 7-8 years ago and I hated it. I'm sure they have made some improvements since that time, but for now I will go with cable over DSL.

[Rothy]

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In Australia, we don't have cable internet anywhere besides two main cities. We all run on DSL.

The DSL here is run by the giant phone companies with retarded tech support and workers in general.. for example, the other week they cut my internet and phone off, so I called them from my girlfriend's mobile and sat on hold for 45 minutes. When I finally got customer service they checked my bill and informed me that I owe them $900 and if it's not paid they will blacklist my name and prevent me from ever getting credit cards or anything like that.

So after 3 redirects and another hour of waiting, I finally got a guy who was decent and he told me they had not grouped all my stuff together in a bundle package (Phone x2, DSL, Mobile Phone) and were charging me the normal price for each of them + some extra fees he had no idea about.

So then he had to disconnect my internet for a week to make sure everything was set up correctly. So basically out of 2 months I've had this new internet, I've used it for like.. 5 weeks.

[Murphie]

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Damn you Wyvern Skull! Why must you stand in my way of a pretty crown?

[Rothy]

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Damn you Wyvern Skull! Why must you stand in my way of a pretty crown?

'cause I want one first.

[Mog]

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Someone punch me in the face next time I have the urge to duo/solo ix'mnk.

[Mhurron]

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ok, will do.

[Arkitan1]

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One of my major profits is Bloody Bolts. On my server for the first time that I can remember, the price has stayed the same on Bloody Bolt Quivers for about a week. On that same note I've noticed that recently the prices of Revival tree Roots have gone up and the prices of Beastman Blood has gone down. Tree roots went down after SE lowered the NPC price of Remedies now they're back up because this one guy keeps buying them all off the AH. Not only is the guy buying all of the Tree Roots, but he's also buying all of the Beastman Blood so nobody else can make Bloody Bolt heads. So now he's doign it all, selling bloody quivers and bloody bolts too, he might also be selling the heads but I didn't check. I mean seriously, do I need to start camping the AH just so this guy can't buy them anymore, or do I need to go level THF and get TH4 so I can farm my own! The droprate for Beastman Blood with TH1 isn't great and the Droprate for Revival Tree Roots isn't much better. I was in Gusgen Mines yesterday for almost 3 hours just to get one stack of Tree Roots. Over the past 3 days I've noticed that the guy has bought 15+ stacks of beastman blood and about the same amount of Revival Tree Roots. At the very least, that's 375k (25k/Stack) for the Blood and 225k (15k/Stack) for the Roots, so total 600k for just those materials, you'd also have to calculate in cost of crystals and Bronze Ingots to make the heads, so about 100k. Total he's bought 700k worth of materials which is enough to make almost 2Mil worth of bolt quivers.

I know I'm QQing but I wish I had enough time to just sit around and craft those all day >.>;

What server are you on?

I can craft you bloody bolt heads as its my alchemy skill up item.

And beastman bloods drop pretty good for me even withouth TH1.

Every other leech gives me one, (Am I the onle one?)

LMK,

Ark

[Mcinnis]

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3) People

Amen Brother

[TheGrandMom]

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And beastman bloods drop pretty good for me even withouth TH1.

Every other leech gives me one, (Am I the onle one?)

Well I was out leveling yet another character on rdm and was soloing in Pashow. I killed leeches for 2 hours and got one blood.

[Jarre]

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Yeah i've found beastmans blood very rare, was killing leaches in pashow looking for carbuncles ruby when doing sumoner quest a while back got 1 beastmans blood in 3 hours farming them...that was with thf1...

[Murphie]

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It's hard to stay focused with so many things going on in the game that I want to do combined with limited play time.

[Durahansolo]

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What server are you on?

I can craft you bloody bolt heads as its my alchemy skill up item.

And beastman bloods drop pretty good for me even withouth TH1.

Every other leech gives me one, (Am I the onle one?)

LMK,

Ark

I don't think you read my other posts. I have 81 Alchemy so I have no problem crafting my own, but thanks though. My problem is the dude that is buying the tree roots so I can't craft them. I spent 3 hours out in Gusgen the other day and got 1 Stack! And nobody has put any more up since I bought the last stack the other day.

Also if you get beastman blood via every other leech without TH you either haxx or you might have it confused with fiend blood. So parse on drops or it didn't happen. Also, where were you farming them?

Well I was out leveling yet another character on rdm and was soloing in Pashow. I killed leeches for 2 hours and got one blood.

Yeah i've found beastmans blood very rare, was killing leaches in pashow looking for carbuncles ruby when doing sumoner quest a while back got 1 beastmans blood in 3 hours farming them...that was with thf1...

I was running around in Pashhow for 6 hours one day farming them around where Bloodpool pops at. Ended up with 3 stacks which was pretty awesome because at that time they were 30k/stack so that saved me 90k.

[Elwynn]

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Farming for Flood.

As if the drop rate wasn't bad enough already, apparently the stupid turtles are in groups of three, so you have to kill whichever ones are possible to pull, then take them in rotation. So to get drops from one Sapphire, you have to fight three damn turtles.

I've just spent a about 3 hours on them (yeah, not long at all for this drop), and ended up with 3 Kindred Seals, a coffer key, a pair of white slacks, and a BLM testimony. And no scrolls of ANY type. During a full moon.

Hmm, looks like the white slacks may be what I need to turn in my Capricornus Subligar for that useless armor item. Whoop-de-doo. The coffer key lets me start getting my WHM AF, if I really want to take the inventory hit until I can get them all and store them.

And to add further insult, while I was resting up and writing this post, the larvas in the middle room decided to aggro me through the door. Good thing that didn't happen while I was fighting a turtle, even if they can barely hit me.

[Durahansolo]

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Not really a peeve but something really old that I had forgotten about. Back when I was leveling WAR and had to do one of the Limit Breaks in Davoi, I had gathered a few friends to help me and then I ran up to the 2nd level of Davoi. My friends went to help another linkshell member in the Davoi zone with a quest before helping me ,so I just got to my starting point and waited on them. I had done some fighting earlier in the zone so I decided to kneel for a bit to get my HP back.

Well somehow a orc saw me kneeling and casted banish on me. Mind you this orc is about 30 feet below me and I wasn't standing near the edge so I don't know how he saw me. The orc had to be like level 23ish so when he casted banish I laughed and said there was nothing he could do to kill me, however I was wrong. The orc then ran off around the corner.

About 45 seconds later the orc had gathered a possie of about 50 orcs ranging from Tier 1 to like Tier 4 and they all came at me and I got omgpwnd by by them. I remembered that moment the other day and got a good laugh out of it.

[Raydeus]

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Orcs-r-us Linkshell chat:

Low lvl Orc: "Hey I just claimed Durahan!"
Mid lvl Orc: "What does it drop?"
Low lvl Orc: "Nothing, but it's an Elvaan in the middle of Davoi. "
Everyone: omw


Or something like that?