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I play a Mithran Dark Knight, my accuracy is a bit better then most races. This fact is important for the total point of the question I have coming. It gives me a bit of leeway when it comes to Gear purchase.
I have a very severe tendency to keep my gear at the top of the line level, taking if need be, weeks at a time of farming to get the gear I feel I need, then start leveling again.
At level 33, I could have obtained the Peacock Charm, but seeing as it is currently selling for 4 million Gil in the auction house, one can understand just why I passed it up.
Recently I got ahold of my friend in my linkshell, who hunts NM all days and night. This is what he does. He stopped levelling because he likes the challenge of hunting NM.
When I questioned him about the Peacock Charm and what dropped it, he told me it was impossible to get it, and that I was better off farming for gil to obtain it.
When I pressed him as to why Argus, the NM that drops it is impossible to obtain it from, he gave me the following reasons.
Provoke Bots, he said, was the #1 reason. He had hunted Argus for some time, along with other NM and knows the situations, and what he states, is the ugliest side of the game that is FFXI. Apparently these bots just camp this spot and as soon as Argus spawns, they provoke it and attack. I am assuming through some sort of Macro that a Third Party program uses.
I asked him for how he had proof of this, knowing the latency issues of the servers being in Japan, and mobs popping on US side to us, already purple because someone provoked it before it even appears on our screen. (( I have seen this myself. The latency issue does exist. ))
His statement was that a while back, he had seen others drag mobs to the provoke bots waiting, disengage the mob right near them, then watch the bots provoke immeaditley once the mob was open to attack again. Now, if it was a Normal human being behind the controls, they would not provoke a worthless mob, especially when it can lose them the prize that Argus Drops while they are engaged with something that is not their goal.
Talking with him further, he stated that one said person nearly got banned over this, because they were breaking the Code of conduct by dragging mobs to the bots. When I questioned him as to why provoke bots were allowed, yet other third party programs were not, he merely shrugged and stated he did not know why. Just that nothing seems to be done about the provoke bots.
As for the person who was dragging the mobs to the bots, and disengaging them, well, he was threatened with being banned. Come to find out, due to such, he quit the game.
The other reason was also due to Latency issue, he stated, which I believe him on. I have seen others grab NM or other mobs in front of me before they even pop on my screen. And trust me, I have a VERY good gaming Rig. Top of the line with a High speed Cable Modem. So I do not doubt the latency issue one bit.
As for the provoke bots, I am very inclined to believe him, as he honestly has no reason to lie to me or anyone else about this matter. This is someone I trust on such matters, and while I may find it somewhat disbelievable, I do not find it exactly improbable. I honestly believe he is telling me the truth about the bots. He has nabbed enough NM from others, has done it quite well and hunts them on a regular basis, but as he has told me, it is quite definitley the ugliest part of the game. And I believe him.
So, with those odds against me, of getting the peacock charm, and what I honestly believe to be the issue of what would be literally MONTHS of farming for gil to just obtain it, here is my honest question.
For a Mithran Dark Knight, is it EVEN WORTH the effort? I mean, I have two sniper rings that give me the benefit quite nicely, do I really need the peacock charm on top of all of this? Or can I just simply ignore it?
Will my accuracy suffer so greatley without it? Or, in all honesty, can I live without this item?
The reason why I am honestly asking this, is because I am quite well prepared to spend the months nessecary farming anything and everything to get the gil to obtain it.
HOWEVER.
I would much rather continue levelling, and keep progressing through the game if I can. If I absolutley do not need this item, then I will go on without it. I really, REALLY don't want to spend months and months of farming items to obtain gil to buy this, when I could otherwise be gaining levels and helping out my linkshell on Genkai and BCNM and Adv job quests etc.
So is it worth it? Or should I continue levelling? Do I absolutley need this item? Or can I forget about it completley and just move on?
Please let me know, I am asking the higher level Dark Knight's here on their opinion, as in the upper ranges I have heard and been told Accuracy caps period at a certain point.
Your help is really appreciated.
And please, no flames about the NM hunting issue, I just want my question answered about whether or not I need the Peacock Charm, or if I can live without it as a Dark Knight.
My Eternal Thanks,
Draconis
I play a Mithran Dark Knight, my accuracy is a bit better then most races. This fact is important for the total point of the question I have coming. It gives me a bit of leeway when it comes to Gear purchase.
I have a very severe tendency to keep my gear at the top of the line level, taking if need be, weeks at a time of farming to get the gear I feel I need, then start leveling again.
At level 33, I could have obtained the Peacock Charm, but seeing as it is currently selling for 4 million Gil in the auction house, one can understand just why I passed it up.
Recently I got ahold of my friend in my linkshell, who hunts NM all days and night. This is what he does. He stopped levelling because he likes the challenge of hunting NM.
When I questioned him about the Peacock Charm and what dropped it, he told me it was impossible to get it, and that I was better off farming for gil to obtain it.
When I pressed him as to why Argus, the NM that drops it is impossible to obtain it from, he gave me the following reasons.
Provoke Bots, he said, was the #1 reason. He had hunted Argus for some time, along with other NM and knows the situations, and what he states, is the ugliest side of the game that is FFXI. Apparently these bots just camp this spot and as soon as Argus spawns, they provoke it and attack. I am assuming through some sort of Macro that a Third Party program uses.
I asked him for how he had proof of this, knowing the latency issues of the servers being in Japan, and mobs popping on US side to us, already purple because someone provoked it before it even appears on our screen. (( I have seen this myself. The latency issue does exist. ))
His statement was that a while back, he had seen others drag mobs to the provoke bots waiting, disengage the mob right near them, then watch the bots provoke immeaditley once the mob was open to attack again. Now, if it was a Normal human being behind the controls, they would not provoke a worthless mob, especially when it can lose them the prize that Argus Drops while they are engaged with something that is not their goal.
Talking with him further, he stated that one said person nearly got banned over this, because they were breaking the Code of conduct by dragging mobs to the bots. When I questioned him as to why provoke bots were allowed, yet other third party programs were not, he merely shrugged and stated he did not know why. Just that nothing seems to be done about the provoke bots.
As for the person who was dragging the mobs to the bots, and disengaging them, well, he was threatened with being banned. Come to find out, due to such, he quit the game.
The other reason was also due to Latency issue, he stated, which I believe him on. I have seen others grab NM or other mobs in front of me before they even pop on my screen. And trust me, I have a VERY good gaming Rig. Top of the line with a High speed Cable Modem. So I do not doubt the latency issue one bit.
As for the provoke bots, I am very inclined to believe him, as he honestly has no reason to lie to me or anyone else about this matter. This is someone I trust on such matters, and while I may find it somewhat disbelievable, I do not find it exactly improbable. I honestly believe he is telling me the truth about the bots. He has nabbed enough NM from others, has done it quite well and hunts them on a regular basis, but as he has told me, it is quite definitley the ugliest part of the game. And I believe him.
So, with those odds against me, of getting the peacock charm, and what I honestly believe to be the issue of what would be literally MONTHS of farming for gil to just obtain it, here is my honest question.
For a Mithran Dark Knight, is it EVEN WORTH the effort? I mean, I have two sniper rings that give me the benefit quite nicely, do I really need the peacock charm on top of all of this? Or can I just simply ignore it?
Will my accuracy suffer so greatley without it? Or, in all honesty, can I live without this item?
The reason why I am honestly asking this, is because I am quite well prepared to spend the months nessecary farming anything and everything to get the gil to obtain it.
HOWEVER.
I would much rather continue levelling, and keep progressing through the game if I can. If I absolutley do not need this item, then I will go on without it. I really, REALLY don't want to spend months and months of farming items to obtain gil to buy this, when I could otherwise be gaining levels and helping out my linkshell on Genkai and BCNM and Adv job quests etc.
So is it worth it? Or should I continue levelling? Do I absolutley need this item? Or can I forget about it completley and just move on?
Please let me know, I am asking the higher level Dark Knight's here on their opinion, as in the upper ranges I have heard and been told Accuracy caps period at a certain point.
Your help is really appreciated.
And please, no flames about the NM hunting issue, I just want my question answered about whether or not I need the Peacock Charm, or if I can live without it as a Dark Knight.
My Eternal Thanks,
Draconis
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