Things I'm waiting for:

[Neverslip]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

I thought it was free... I'm not sure though. Maybe I'm wrong.

Yyg... could always come to Cerberus. I'm new to my current LS cuz my other two LSs have fizzled away, so Idk them very well yet.

[Aeni]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

Transfering is free now. Think it just takes a certain amount of time. I've not done it ever.

Oh shi-

I'll go look it up. Thank you NEVERSLIP! I'll go bug my friends on Middie >;D

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

I thought it was free... I'm not sure though. Maybe I'm wrong.

Yyg... could always come to Cerberus. I'm new to my current LS cuz my other two LSs have fizzled away, so Idk them very well yet.

I'm currently taking bids for my presence on your servers!!! I hear Cerberus!!! Do I have another? Will no-one bid against SLIP?

Going Once...

Going Twice...

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Oh shi-

I'll go look it up. Thank you NEVERSLIP! I'll go bug my friends on Middie >;D

Aeni.... report back... tell me if it is actually free or not. I need to know this.

Make it snappy... we're having an auction for my <sweets> <tarutaru> @$$!!!

[Neverslip]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

Aeni.... report back... tell me if it is actually free or not. I need to know this.

Please do... cuz I'd like to know if I'm wrong, lol. I don't like giving out misinformation... but I will if it's forced upon me to do so.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

Please do... cuz I'd like to know if I'm wrong, lol. I don't like giving out misinformation... but I will if it's forced upon me to do so.

You better hope you're right... or so help me...


I already started editing my Sig.... you had BETTER be right!!!

[Aeni]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

FINAL FANTASY XI Official Web Site

That's all I found. Maybe they had offered it at one time when they were combining servers?

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

FINAL FANTASY XI Official Web Site

That's all I found. Maybe they had offered it at one time when they were combining servers?

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Slip... c'mere...

[Neverslip]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

I'm blocked at work... so I still don't know how much it is... can't be that much, right?

Yeah, come to think of it... I think that transfer was free for a Come Back to Vanadiel promotion... idk... I've never had the inkling to transfer... wouldn't know where I'd want to go. Hades is still too familiar... I still refuse to call it the dog...

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

Oh trust me its a personal thing. You go on about how you dont like BRD, yet you leveled it.

I took BRD and COR to 75 back in the day. I had fun with BRD during the leveling experience and I was a BRD puller well before ToA came into the picture - I was doing that in the RoZ/CoP content with a /WHM sub and very good at it.

The problem is BRD consumes a party slot without contributing to combat or healing. We can point out a BRD does these things vicariously through buffs, but they themselves don't gain any benefit. At least with COR we can point out that they add to the damage pool in melee/ranged and magic damage, meaning they draw some benefit from the buffs the push out at least 50% of the time.

Even with the hit a COR/DNC could take on TP, it extended the range of buffs a COR could do in a way BRD couldn't even hope to contribute.

Yet look at how little skill is required to obtain the very powerful buffs BRD gets. The +1 instruments are not as valued as they should be because the bonus they provide is too small for a party member to know the difference. And there's nothing that makes string instruments more valuable than wind save for their range.

Then ToA came along a bred an entire generation of horrible BRDs. Using /NIN was all they know and that BRD job they "loved" so much often magically vanished at endgame because they had no /WHM sub. Instead of the BRD that applied to your LS, you got a THF or a DRK - because we all need more of those.

Which brings me to my next point. BRD is the "tag, you're it" job of FFXI. People might groan at having to play a tank or healer, but BRD is the role that gets pawned off the most. LS leaders and officers levelled it for merits, they never bring it to events, same as the bait-and-switch BRD/NIN that applies to your LS and comes MNK. So the job is pawned off to the people who treated the job with some respect, except the role is always pawned off to them, they hardly ever get to shine in the other jobs they love.

I loved COR to pieces because it was so not like that. COR was largely unplayed because of expenses and the first sign of a bad COR is one that never fires a shot to save gil. Then there's the gambling element, that balance of risk and reward on buffs. Turns out people notice when you do nothing but play it safe and dole out mediocre buffs and sit on 6s. COR/WHMs are common, but a COR with /DNC, /WAR, /RNG, /SAM and other mages subs is something rather special because now you have a COR that can function capably as a healer in a melee party with COR/DNC or boost up your RNG party and shoot it up along with them.

That's not to say COR was without its endgame frustrations, but it was thankfully not as redundant and tiresome as being the BRD. The role of COR is not just pawned off, chances are if you leveled COR, it actually is because you enjoyed it because there are so many fiscal downsides to put up with.

But with Regain and -Delay in their corner now, I just don't know how I'd feel about returning to it, seems a bit broken off the hinges. If you ask me, NOBODY should get Regain. Plus COR already had Samurai Roll. I doubt melees even want Chaos Roll now if you can just constantly juice them Regain and Store TP buffs.

So again, I think its just better to distribute such skills to all jobs. in FFXIV, they can give Archer the accuracy buff and Pugilist the critical hit rate buff. Gladiator can have the defensive buff.

Plus I just have to say it, the fewer jobs you have out there, the less you complicate the system. Yes, its all good fun to have your candy-coated Final Fantasy flavored jobs, but FFXI's biggest problem was managing them all and keeping everyone happy.

I think that's a big reason why crafts are just as much authentic jobs as melees, tanks or mages in FFXIV. While it doesn't lessen jobs in number, it lessens the need to take on a new melee, mage or support class each time around. Plus I'd have to imagine crafting jobs would be easier to balance in the grand scheme of things, though they may not feel that way right now.

[Neverslip]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

I don't see BRD anymore now that Abyssea is released. I've not seen one anywhere and I didn't noticed this until this discussion.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

I took BRD and COR to 75 back in the day. I had fun with BRD during the leveling experience and I was a BRD puller well before ToA came into the picture - I was doing that in the RoZ/CoP content with a /WHM sub and very good at it.

The problem is BRD consumes a party slot without contributing to combat or healing. We can point out a BRD does these things vicariously through buffs, but they themselves don't gain any benefit. At least with COR we can point out that they add to the damage pool in melee/ranged and magic damage, meaning they draw some benefit from the buffs the push out at least 50% of the time.

Even with the hit a COR/DNC could take on TP, it extended the range of buffs a COR could do in a way BRD couldn't even hope to contribute.

Yet look at how little skill is required to obtain the very powerful buffs BRD gets. The +1 instruments are not as valued as they should be because the bonus they provide is too small for a party member to know the difference. And there's nothing that makes string instruments more valuable than wind save for their range.

Then ToA came along a bred an entire generation of horrible BRDs. Using /NIN was all they know and that BRD job they "loved" so much often magically vanished at endgame because they had no /WHM sub. Instead of the BRD that applied to your LS, you got a THF or a DRK - because we all need more of those.

Which brings me to my next point. BRD is the "tag, you're it" job of FFXI. People might groan at having to play a tank or healer, but BRD is the role that gets pawned off the most. LS leaders and officers levelled it for merits, they never bring it to events, same as the bait-and-switch BRD/NIN that applies to your LS and comes MNK. So the job is pawned off to the people who treated the job with some respect, except the role is always pawned off to them, they hardly ever get to shine in the other jobs they love.

I loved COR to pieces because it was so not like that. COR was largely unplayed because of expenses and the first sign of a bad COR is one that never fires a shot to save gil. Then there's the gambling element, that balance of risk and reward on buffs. Turns out people notice when you do nothing but play it safe and dole out mediocre buffs and sit on 6s. COR/WHMs are common, but a COR with /DNC, /WAR, /RNG, /SAM and other mages subs is something rather special because now you have a COR that can function capably as a healer in a melee party with COR/DNC or boost up your RNG party and shoot it up along with them.

That's not to say COR was without its endgame frustrations, but it was thankfully not as redundant and tiresome as being the BRD. The role of COR is not just pawned off, chances are if you leveled COR, it actually is because you enjoyed it because there are so many fiscal downsides to put up with.

But with Regain and -Delay in their corner now, I just don't know how I'd feel about returning to it, seems a bit broken off the hinges. If you ask me, NOBODY should get Regain. Plus COR already had Samurai Roll. I doubt melees even want Chaos Roll now if you can just constantly juice them Regain and Store TP buffs.

So again, I think its just better to distribute such skills to all jobs. in FFXIV, they can give Archer the accuracy buff and Pugilist the critical hit rate buff. Gladiator can have the defensive buff.

Plus I just have to say it, the fewer jobs you have out there, the less you complicate the system. Yes, its all good fun to have your candy-coated Final Fantasy flavored jobs, but FFXI's biggest problem was managing them all and keeping everyone happy.

I think that's a big reason why crafts are just as much authentic jobs as melees, tanks or mages in FFXIV. While it doesn't lessen jobs in number, it lessens the need to take on a new melee, mage or support class each time around. Plus I'd have to imagine crafting jobs would be easier to balance in the grand scheme of things, though they may not feel that way right now.

BREATHE MAN!!!! BREATHE!!!!

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

BREATHE MAN!!!! BREATHE!!!!

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

I've made a decision. I'm going to transfer servers. Cost be damned.

Everyone I played with before the great server merge has either stopped playing/doesnt remember me or was forced to change their name to accomidate the "host server". That being said... I have exactly 1 friend who is ever actually on.

Rather than go out in search of more new friends, I'd rather just migrate to a server populated by people from this forum.

I leave the choice up to you guys! What server should I go to? Vote now. The server with the most votes is the one I migrate to this Friday. That gives you less than 2 days to make my decision for me.

(Edit: Although number of votes will be a substantial force in my decision... if you personally want my delightful self on your server simply because you think I'm awsome... include an argument as to WHY)

Happy Voting. My fate is in your hands!

[Aeni]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

can't be that much, right?

Costs $25 PER Content ID.

In my case, that means at least $100, because my gear and other items are spread over 2 accounts and 2 "mules" to my two mains.

EFF that.

(assuming I would also part with tons of mats totaling a hefty sum of gil even after the great "deflation" which are on an additional 3 mules)

[Neverslip]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

Costs $25 PER Content ID

That is outrageous!!!! That's pretty spendy. I could kill 2 content ID's leaving me 2 but $50 is insane.

Reason for Cerberus... it's really Hades but we haven't told the general populace this.

... but still that's a lot of RL muneez. I wouldn't do it.