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Re: The ONE thing Square-Enix should change to make this game the only MMORPG for me
I think the problem also lies more with the inabilty of the vast majority of the playerbase to think outside of the box. With my b/f and I (he's a dragoon, I am a summoner) agreeing to static our first jobs to 75, we usually *would* form our own parties, as the "Invite also ..." thing never works. Sometimes we would split up and go lfg and agree to quit at certain limits, but for the majority of 50-60 (where I've currently stopped b/c this game has burned me out) we would form our own parties.
The problem with that? Tanks seem to be in mysterious short supply on Ifrit. We would attempt making parties at various times of day, varying 'peaks' and still would find very few ninjas or paladins within our range that were not afk, in a party, or just unwilling.
On the converse, we decided to help a dragoon build a party in Al Zhabi one day, invited a blu, who promptly dropped because we had a war/nin Galka for a tank, as there were no 'full' Ninjas or Paladins. He came crawling back a half hour later asking to be let in, but we were full by then and doing quite well exp wise. The tank did quite well, excellent hate control. So we just filled up on 3 drg, a rdm, a whm, and myself. Next to zero downtime and excellent chaining.
And that blu missed out because he was unable to think outside of his little 'tank box' for post 50 or wtfe.
And he's just one example of the entire problem many people face even when they step up to make their own party. You get people who refuse to join or won't stay once they arrive just because 'xx job' isn't here. But people aren't going to change the way they think on this game because.. well, thinking must obviously be painful.
One of the best parties I ever had: 3x blu, whm, rdm, smn (myself). Oh noez! No Pld! No Nin! I'm sure people laughed at us as they went past, but we were handling ourselves very well. The blus were amazing.
I think the problem also lies more with the inabilty of the vast majority of the playerbase to think outside of the box. With my b/f and I (he's a dragoon, I am a summoner) agreeing to static our first jobs to 75, we usually *would* form our own parties, as the "Invite also ..." thing never works. Sometimes we would split up and go lfg and agree to quit at certain limits, but for the majority of 50-60 (where I've currently stopped b/c this game has burned me out) we would form our own parties.
The problem with that? Tanks seem to be in mysterious short supply on Ifrit. We would attempt making parties at various times of day, varying 'peaks' and still would find very few ninjas or paladins within our range that were not afk, in a party, or just unwilling.
On the converse, we decided to help a dragoon build a party in Al Zhabi one day, invited a blu, who promptly dropped because we had a war/nin Galka for a tank, as there were no 'full' Ninjas or Paladins. He came crawling back a half hour later asking to be let in, but we were full by then and doing quite well exp wise. The tank did quite well, excellent hate control. So we just filled up on 3 drg, a rdm, a whm, and myself. Next to zero downtime and excellent chaining.
And that blu missed out because he was unable to think outside of his little 'tank box' for post 50 or wtfe.
And he's just one example of the entire problem many people face even when they step up to make their own party. You get people who refuse to join or won't stay once they arrive just because 'xx job' isn't here. But people aren't going to change the way they think on this game because.. well, thinking must obviously be painful.
One of the best parties I ever had: 3x blu, whm, rdm, smn (myself). Oh noez! No Pld! No Nin! I'm sure people laughed at us as they went past, but we were handling ourselves very well. The blus were amazing.
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