What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

[Ketaru]

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The player was even dumb enough to stay in party. He got d2'ed and now his reputation is tarnished on Seraph. Win win

Pet Peeve: People in Final Fantasy XI are too quick to forgive and forget. I have no doubt said player will be joining other LSs, sniping their gear, and finding people to join his events in no time. People will even forget what he did that's so bad. They'll just remember that he did "something" that they probably don't care about.

[Mog]

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Pet Peeve: People in Final Fantasy XI are too quick to forgive and forget. I have no doubt said player will be joining other LSs, sniping their gear, and finding people to join his events in no time. People will even forget what he did that's so bad. They'll just remember that he did "something" that they probably don't care about.

Thankfully, it won't be any of my linkshells.

[Grizzlebeard]

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So, I'm levelling Cor and absently just zone into Al'Zahbi to buy my next ten levels of dice before heading to Nashmau to get the others I need. Oh wait, I'm in the middle of Beseiged as a level 31 Cor, I'll just wait 30 mins and read a book till it's over. Okay, good, it's over now but where's the vendor... oh, of course, he's been taken prisoner...

I'd forgotten how many blatant and pointless timesinks were in this game that only seem to have been added to. What possible fucking benefit could this stupid shit have on the game? I mean, it's bad enough you can't access vendors at certain times of the day, or for a whole day depending on the shop, but this is just taking the piss. Is it supposed to give some sense of immersion or make me care enough to try and go and rescue them because all it does result in is me logging off in frustration and considering cancelling my content IDs.

[Elwynn]

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Guild points.

Because no matter what you do, when you almost have the points you need, you'll be less than 100 points short. (Today I'm 60 points short.) And then you'll hate yourself for that day when you didn't want to do the extra 0.1 item worth of points.

And then naturally the next day the items will be worth 2000 points each, and you'll have to take the change in HQ crystals.

(By the way, did you know that you can't turn in HQ crystals to the gate guards for rank points? I have a stupid single glacier crystal I got from an event a few months ago. Of all the HQ crystals to get from that event, grrrr!)

[Firewind]

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Getting stuck with a Plasma Crystal is annoying too:

Moogle: And here is your reward kupo!

Sardia: So I can umm sign a desynthesis? umm thanks SE /confused

[ItazuraNhomango]

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quick thought on tools especially for gear swapping..

Ever think that SE never intended gear swapping to be used as rampantly as it is???

Yes, that was exactly the intention. Why else would SE have made the /equip command available to us?

It would be trivial work to get rid of the command from the FFXI client, should SE ever thought of it as harmful.

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Hecatomb Harness set
Only the most brain dead DD would want to wear that full time due to the Slow+ stat, yet many pieces are quite impressive for WS use for STR, accuracy, and DEX is great for THF's Sneak Attack.

These (and many other) equipment were designed from the ground up with macro equipment switching in mind.

[Feba]

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The command isn't proof, the proof is that they implemented gear swapping penalties in Ballista years ago and never implemented it everywhere else.

[Taskmage]

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To play devil's advocate for a moment, I would like to say that my tanking macros are set up so I only swap non-visible equipment and I do just fine. I could probably eke out a little more performance swapping my head/body/legs but if I'm holding hate, keeping shadows up and not having mp problems then why?

Hmm actually .. maybe I should swap those gear slots more so when I do get hit I'll have a better shot of landing the Cure IV before Cure V hits.

[ItazuraNhomango]

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the proof is that they implemented gear swapping penalties in Ballista years ago and never implemented it everywhere else.

That only that proves is that SE thinks equipment switching may create problems for Ballista, while not so for elsewhere--likely would have been nearly trivial to 'gimp' gear swapping everywhere else once the code for doing so was implemented for Ballista.

To play devil's advocate for a moment, I would like to say that my tanking macros are set up so I only swap non-visible equipment and I do just fine. I could probably eke out a little more performance swapping my head/body/legs but if I'm holding hate, keeping shadows up and not having mp problems then why?

If you're doing fine, then that's great.

I don't think anyone here advocates blinking constantly for the sake of blinking constantly.

The WHMs I normally work with during LS events already use <stal> and <stpt> and they were used to blinking PLDs even before those were added. So, my own macro switching of visible gears have a little to no down side when on PLD. (Doubt my swapping bothers anyone else when I'm on RDM or BRD.)

At the minimum, Flash and Utusemi: Ni should get a healthy load of Haste gear before casting. That's my opinion, anyway.

Hmm actually .. maybe I should swap those gear slots more so when I do get hit I'll have a better shot of landing the Cure IV before Cure V hits.

At Lv.75, WHMs (and RDMs, SCHs, BRDs, SMNs, ... etc.) should know how to work with equipment blinking alliance members.

Instead of worry about that, I say work on "HP cheater" macros which gives you extra HP when you're already full bar in normal standing gear, so you can land full strength Cure III's on yourself at will.

If your HP is down enough to warren a Cure V, the party/alliance is probably Cure bombing you anyway. Instead of fighting with Fast Cast RDMs and Light Art and Cure speed merited WHMs over your HP bar, Cure someone else, Flash, and/or use JA--then, after the bombing stops, use the "HP cheater" macro and give yourself a Cure III. (Or Cure IV, if your gear is good enough to create that much space.)

[Taskmage]

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I keep forgetting to work on that +hp set.

[ItazuraNhomango]

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An alternative to HP cheater set is to get the WHM to constantly proc his Devotion set--this is actually a better option, since you don't have to swap out any Enmity+ gear to get HP to cure. Keep in mind that Curing the WHM does nothing until the WHM is on the monster's enmity list.

[Yellow Mage]

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These (and many other) equipment were designed from the ground up with macro equipment switching in mind.

I still don't fully believe this, and think that the Dev team honestly believed that wearing a set with that much Slow on it wouldn't be that bad. I mean, come on: these are the same guys who made Aht Urghan, the misters and misses "we honestly believed that all the monsters in Aht Urghan would be more difficult than normal monsters," after all.

If only I could find that freaking interview so I can actually link to it for once. I'd sig it, I think.

As for gear-swapping, I'm with the Febz.

As for third-party tools (illus est Windower), I personally don't use them, and honestly, nobody's forcing you to use them either. I don't think even at 75 I'd need to swap out 10+ pieces of equipment for each spell I had to cast, weapon I had to skill, and each attack I'd have to defend against; that'd be quite excessive, wouldn't you agree?

[Murphie]

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At 75 I have more swaps than I ever imagined I would. Of course, I don't really endgame anymore, so I could probably stand to leave some of it at home. In meripo I really just haste/heal/refresh. Not a lot of swaps needed for that.

When I did Sky or Kings, swaps were a bit more necessary, but these days all I do is solo.

[Armando]

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I still don't fully believe this, and think that the Dev team honestly believed that wearing a set with that much Slow on it wouldn't be that bad. I mean, come on: these are the same guys who made Aht Urghan, the misters and misses "we honestly believed that all the monsters in Aht Urghan would be more difficult than normal monsters," after all.

Well now, that's not being very fair. Many ToAU mobs are leagues harder or more annoying than what CoP introduced. Anyone who's had the pleasure of fighting Soulflayers or Chariots knows that. And hell, who gives Ghosts a Death move? Or makes Morbols with permanent Endrain and that always use a TP move that steals (not dispels, steals) ALL your buffs? That's not really the issue with ToAU. It's having the weaker mobs available in very large numbers, with quick respawns, a skip and a hop away from the game's new hub city. They basically created a high level Kazham. Just because mandragora are defensively weak, respawn quickly, and have completely inconsequential TP moves (sound familiar?) it doesn't mean RoZ doesn't have difficult mobs though.

I mean, look at spiders. They're one of the worst possible EXP targets I've ever seen, between that god-awful second-tier Slow and a crit move. With only one other TP move, there's a 2/3 chance that each TP move will suck hard.

[Rothy]

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You also don't need third party tools to be an effective NIN tank....

Who said you needed them?

I said to the frustrations of others... I don't gear swap so when I'm being attacked so no one can cure me....

Why not swap to your earth staff to reduce the damage you get hit by 20%? Why not swap to a Wind(?) staff when on /RDM to use gravity to kite the mob away from you?

By just standing still and not swapping gear to DO something, you're making it harder.