What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in FFXI?

Yeah, I'm gonna have to start leaving parties whenever a PL shows up. It's just insulting to be the main healer and have a PL doing your job for you.

Oddly enough the party disbanded once I left even though they still had the PL. Doesn't really make sense to me.

[Clever Ninja]

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With the addition of WOTG you can essentially solo in the starter zones in the past once you hit level 10-12 in present for most jobs. I took BST there and it was shaky the first couple of levels since alot of mobs were EM-T+, but once they started checking EP-DC pretty much raped every Worm/Bird/Sproutling in North Gustaberg[S]. I'm planning on going back and doing the same thing when I finish updating my game.

The only job I'd prolly take to the Dunes is BRD, which I never plan to unlock, and MAYBE SCH, and that's a maybe if it was a party made within my social LS.

[Durahansolo]

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Pretty sure anyone whose leveled NIN to 37 has had that happen. I leveled it to 37, tell the party I have 20 minutes left. I could have said 20 minutes left before I dinged to just be out, cause I dont need a buffer for a job that's never going to be my main job, but I wanted to be nice since the WHM was close to 37 themselves, and I remember how much I HATED capping WHM as my sub cause of the parties in that level range. They ding, I say last boss, they keep pulling after that. I tell the guy in a tell to warp outl, he warps out and I 2hr.

LOL I was just getting ready to post a similar story. That's how my NIN got to 38 when I attempted to leave my party when I dinged 37. Kinda hated to leave them since there were no other tanks seeking, but the jackass puller just kept pulling, and I didn't wanna let the whole party die just because he was an idiot. Eventually I said "STOP PULLING!!!" "ITS WAY PAST MY TIME TO LEAVE!!!" *Left party*

[Viciouss]

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I generally solo all my jobs to 20 just to avoid the dunes.

yep, or duo. Duoing to 20 is fun and works really well.

[Neverslip]

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Moogle Expansion Missions... or Gatherstravaganza as I know it now. The first few were okay but having everything be a fetch mission and in extraordinarily out of the way nooks and crannies of Vana Diel seems like a good way to stretch the content. Instead of obligatory "wait til Jp midnights" they basically made it a marathoning session. Chocobo Jig FTW.... too bad I didn't have warp though.....

The Cardians: I solo'd the fight pretty easily (got all 4) but the farming of the key item "orbs" was a pain... I killed sooooo many cards cuz they wouldn't spawn the one (cups) I needed for damaging the mobs in the fight. I couldn't imagine trying to do that with competition for the mobs.

Logging/harvest/mining mission... pretty simple til I got to using a sickle in Giddeus. Suddenly I was surrounded by several people seemingly doing the same thing only they hadn't read the bit about having a full inventory so the Harvest points kept going away. Way to go you big dumb Galka Pld... course this was the one that just wouldn't happen for me. Took idk how many tries once I found my hidden garden plot of my very own.

Sea Serpent Grotto... yet again.. lets make road blocks... Had the chest key so I searched out the chest for the map I'd been wanting for a while now to do...then had to fish up a Norg shell as the fishers were slacking or something... but I had to buy a Comp. Fishing pole first... then in my stupidity and rush to get done before dyna, I used the Sahagin Key I'd just gotten but didn't investigate the sconce somewhere... well... at least I knew the route, right? Course I had to go to the furthest reaches of the World to find a AH with Mythril Bst coins again... then the damn dude asked for a Gold coin... thank god I had several.

Quicksand Coffer Key drop rate... there's gotta be a few threads/aneurisms/ritual suicides associated with this one. I had to get the map to advance in the Moogle missions... Tbh I'd been avoiding getting the QSC map for a while now after farming a key for my Sam AF and I'm glad I finally have it but farming 75Dnc/37Thf + Treasure Hound Kupower made this session about 4hrs (I sh!t you not) of rotten meat. When I finally started kinda going a lil stir-crazy when another 2 parties and a couple of solo'ers arrived to further my frustration, I finally landed the drop. Thank god the coffer had been found where ever it was originally when I'd started farming cuz it was actually in the section of the maps I happened to be farming by the time I found it. So... now I have to get someone to hold my hand to look in the areas only accessable by those stupid pressure plates. But I gotta check the areas in E. Altepa before I know that for sure...

... think they coulda called these missions... Moogle Cock Blocking 101.

... I would say that "fetch" quests do go with the what we know of moogles so far cuz the MH expansion quests are just fetch quests... I just don't like it.

+ side... I'll never need to farm that goddamn QSC coffer key again... until I need to get another AF I guess... \(ToT)/

[cidbahamut]

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Qufim Pond camp.

Everyone says it's good exp but every time I go everything turns into a clusterfuck. The DDs all roam recklessly regardless of where the mages are or how much mp they have and attack anything and everything. I swear that camp just makes people stupid.

We had a Black Mage Provoking worms, I shit you not.

We had a Dark Knight who would punch anything in sight and do everything he could to have aggro or low hp. The DDs are all in the yellow, he has aggro and is in the red and asks me why I'm blowing my two hour when the mages are running on empty.

[Takelli]

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We had a Black Mage Provoking worms, I shit you not.

Thats just sad.

But the pond camp is good exp if you have people with you that tell you that they found a worm, before they provoke it to make sure that no one else has one. And they keep an eye on the mages Hp. The DDs run around the pond in a circular motion as they don't know how the worms pop. If you kill them in order, you wont have to run around in cricles if theres no one else there. Only issue is at night. But, you can kill crabs for exp when waiting for day break.

[Durahansolo]

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We had a Dark Knight who would punch anything in sight

He didn't have a weapon!??!?

But, you can kill crabs for exp when waiting for day break.

Those are a little strong until 22/23ish iirc. If you have a PL at the pond, or at least a 2 boxer that can kill the Banshees lol. Other than that running around there is a hassle, but in parties I've been in we always "Call them out" so that way we don't end up with a split party fighting them.

We had a Black Mage Provoking worms, I shit you not.

BLM/WAR is not Ghetto DRK....Stop it, just stop.

[Takelli]

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Those are a little strong until 22/23ish iirc. If you have a PL at the pond, or at least a 2 boxer that can kill the Banshees lol. Other than that running around there is a hassle, but in parties I've been in we always "Call them out" so that way we don't end up with a split party fighting them.

Yea. I was only saying it as an option. They are killable at lvl 20, but are a very long drawn out fight. Its still exp if you don't have a pl and waiting for day break.

[cidbahamut]

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He didn't have a weapon!??!?

Technically yes he had a weapon, but I'm sure he would have attacked without one too.

We had a Black Mage Provoking worms, I shit you not.

Thats just sad.

Actually in retrospect it was actually working out well since I managed to keep the worms silenced so it just meant the worm was sitting around getting smacked while not doing anything.


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That's it!
I've had it.
I am never going back to Qufim pond ever again.
It makes people stupid.

Front line jobs run around like idiots aggroing multiple mobs without telling anyone. No one bothers to let mages rest for mp. Oh, and the Thief was more interested in looting chests than attacking the mobs.

Once we got out of the pond we were fine.

Every time I go in there with a party, it makes them all stupid.
That camp doesn't work, stop trying to get me to go back in.

I'm gonna have to just disband from the next party that tries to get me to go there. It's not worth the headache.

[Viciouss]

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Well tonite after my LS got done getting obliterated in their static Nyzul run (drk whm whm smn thf thf lmao) without inviting me I asked for some help getting the Light Fragment in zm5.

Of course, they arent on ZM5, they are all on ZM4, and have been since July. In fact, they have been rank 7, on zm4, on promy 2-5, nowhere in ToAU since July. They pitched a fit upon my request for help because they wanted me to wait and help them with zm4 and zm5. Of course, when I asked when they planned on doing it, they clammed up. I have invested hours in helping these guys with AF gear, cap quests, missions, but when I ask for one little fight, that will take longer to get to than kill, nothing. And its all I need to get on to zm6. So i just went to try to solo it as 75 SAM/DNC and no it just didnt work. I got him to like 85% but then he started to resist gravity so kiting became impossible. However, by trying it, I know I can duo it with a healer, so I just need to wait till tomorrow to ask some of my non-LS friends for help.

Thinking about it tho, I have no idea how I am gonna get zm6 done.

UPDATE - well, thank god for friends, I asked my rdm 75 friend to help me, and we knocked it out. Pretty long fight with 17k HP, but we brought him down. Thank god for RDM ^^

[TheGrandMom]

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Well glad to hear that you finally got help. I have to say that is a very aggravating part of playing, asking for help. I'm old so we were raised to "do it yourself" and I'd get quite frustrated in game sometimes. It would be my own damn fault for being too proud to ask for help or if I did ask, not being vigilante and asking every day till I got it done.

[Elwynn]

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My Peeve for the Day is Die-abolos. What a cheating haxor bastard.

First night, four runs, or was it five? I don't remember exactly, because it was 3AM when we called it a night. As we recovered from the last one, our leader thought about the 1250 or so damage I was doing with my Freeze II from the platform, and multiplied by eight. "Hey, let's try it with 4x BLM." I ended up down about 4K xp from various R1s.

Second night, eight people show up, because multiple people didn't realize that, hey, this is just like the tuning forks, and you can't go back in until JP midnight has passed. We get a couple more to show up, ten of us, and two pick-ups. Three hours have passed. But one of the pick-ups wants to go in the first group with one of our regulars, so I get booted to the second party. Another half an hour while both groups get ready and we go in. SAM starts skill chain, and as I'm about to drop the Thundaga III burst, wuhwuhwuhwuhwuh Nightmare. Seems that the /BLU stunner managed to miss it, but, hey, big-D is always doing it for the lulz, and I've basically lost faith in the whole concept of stuns apart from RDM/DRK+2hr. And just to kick us in the balls again, Diabolos wakes us all up with his 2hr. SAM has already used up his 2hr, one of the members of this second party needs to go, and I'm down 1200 more xp. And I had to wake up early the next morning, in about 5 hours.

Third night, we get a pick-up RDM/DRK He doesn't make it into the BC. "It's test your might [sic], right?" Turns out he had been saving a Diabolos whisper for Fenrir. What's that, you say? Spot on! Fenrir doesn't need this whisper! We do okay for a party of five, but still die. This time I make sure to wait for an R3 (WHM is not in first party), and leader goes in as RDM/DRK. Then we go in for a dry run and lose at 8%. But the SAM 2hr'ed after a minute or so, enough time for the BLMs to have fallen over by the time Light hit.

Well, the next run finally did it, even without SAM 2hr. I opened with a Freeze II for 1610 (!) points of damage instead of the usual 1250 or so, because I cast it with Elemental Seal. And as a result, I promptly became the lolBLMtank. Three hits in the mid 200s, followed by Nether Blast for 510. Sometimes you just need a {Tarutaru} {Sacrifice}. But the Nightmare got stunned. Since I didn't end up in the same area as the WHM, I had to take another R1, and it was so worth it this time. But now the second group needed a pick-up RDM/DRK, who apparently cast a stun BEFORE popping his 2hr. So there's going to be yet another run tonight.

[Vyuru]

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Seems that the /BLU stunner managed to miss it,

IFY, I rarely can get a Head Butt to actually stun as Drg/Blu, it will interrupt spells due to the knockback, but I have only gotten it to stun once or twice.

A Blu with Sushi and Head Butt and Temporeal Shift ought to be able to easily keep Diabolos stun locked unless he has a resistance to those two stun moves. A Blu with more haste gear than I have could get his Head Butt recast down enough to keep a mob almost stun locked with it really.

Don't lose faith on a Blue Mage stunner!

But do get an actual Blue Mage to do it, not some /Blu wannabe.

[Viciouss]

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Take a DRK, thats what I always say.