New Mercenary Ranks and Assault Missions (10/05/2006)

[Taskmage]

Re: New Mercenary Ranks and Assault Missions (10/05/2006)

/murph also gets you the Subtle Irony trait

[neighbortaru]

Re: New Mercenary Ranks and Assault Missions (10/05/2006)

tbh, I didn't read the scarcasm in omnib's original post either, but Mhurron didn't need to be so blunt with his comments as well... both of you, hit the showers

Bah, just sub /Murphie and you'll get Sarcasm Accuracy Bonus trait.

rofl

[tazirai]

Re: New Mercenary Ranks and Assault Missions (10/05/2006)

To bad I havent bene on line much lately except to work on Chobi, I'm nearing Lance Corporal, and Would like to farm assaults just to sell the items hehe, Assault = My BC with less prep cost and higher win chance.

[nanatsu]

Re: New Mercenary Ranks and Assault Missions (10/05/2006)

Sarcasm
1.harsh or bitter derision or irony. 2.a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark
It was a harsh and bitter remark towards SE that they would put the importance of Aht Urhgan missions as their top priority when most jobs are in need of fixes that they need to make updates for.
In the interview at the Tokyo Game Show, they did state that they would make changes to all jobs. Perhaps not in this update, as we were all hoping for.
http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/gen...6-destiny.html
It's ironic that they made a statement saying that they would fix or change all of these jobs, yet they havn't stated when they should, noting the early news notes that the changes would only be made to a select few jobs.
I probably made the comment on a rude note due to stress at work.
I'm sure you'd be stressed too if someone decided to cut your budget by 2 million then realizing that you need atleast half a million more and need to close down some projects in order to meet the year end budget, you'd be stressed out as well.

Okay I'm gonna say this simply because this is a sore spot with me and I hate it when people get the idea of sarcasm wrong. So I'm asking forgiveness in advance but I can't leave this alone ><

Sarcasm is not when your target does something ironic. Sarcasm is when you SAY something that's ironic with the purpose of insulting your target. Your comment can't just be bitter. That's all it was. It has to be a working ironic statement. You can't just say Se should focus on jobs and call that irony/sarcasm. All you did was just state what you think SE should really be doing. You didn't display any irony at all. The very first and only mention of irony came about only when you pointed out that SE was doing something ironic.

A proper sarcastic statement would be to say: "Wow all this focus on assault and missions is great. I completely forgot all the job updates they promised us. Who needs a job update? SE just gets smarter and smarter everyday. >_>"

The irony is that you obviously care about the job updates, but you're saying that you don't and you're actually giving praise to SE for assault and missions. The harshness and bitterness is there, it's just not open. Since it's assumed that you don't really mean what you're saying, to say SE is getting smarter and smarter is saying that they're acting retarded. To praise their decisions means that you think their decisions are stupid. And that's what sarcasm is. A statement with hidden undertones where you mean the exact opposite of what you're really saying.

And thus ends our unsolicited linguistics lesson for today. :p

[Balfree]

Re: New Mercenary Ranks and Assault Missions (10/05/2006)

Holy crap even more assault missions.. i can barely get people for the PSC ones o.O;

I wish people took asssault more seriously, that or its just me being blind?

[Davitron3000]

Re: New Mercenary Ranks and Assault Missions (10/05/2006)

Holy crap even more assault missions.. i can barely get people for the PSC ones o.O;
I wish people took asssault more seriously, that or its just me being blind?

I have an assault static that meets once a week to do missions. Way better than pick-up groups. Also, if you can always do pick up Assaults on other days (just make sure you have all your ID tags ready for your static day )

I have noticed that not many people I know care that much about Assaults, and I just don't understand it. Most of them are really fun, and you can get some really nice items out of them. Hell, my static got Spectacles from one of the random ??? that comes from the final chest. 1.8 mil (at the time) for less than 30 minutes of work is hawt.

One last thing about them, I like to try to stay semi up to date on this kind of stuff, because you never know what the requirements for the new Endgame area are gonna be, and I don't wanna be playing to much catch up.

[KoukiRyu]

Re: New Mercenary Ranks and Assault Missions (10/05/2006)

I used to have an Assault static..kinda...my LS's SMN would take me along with her BRD and we'd do Illrusi Atoll PSC so that I could get a Pahlu Body...took about 20-some odd runs, but I got it :3 We'd randomly take others so I'd lose out on a few hundred points occasionally.

I also made pick up groups to get my Chiv. Chain, which was fairly easy, took me about 10 or so runs for that...but now I really wish I could get a static together to just go and get some done, like the really easy PFC one at Mamook, or maybe just go farm some at some zone to sell items...it's really worth it, and takes such a short time, but a lot of people aren't up for it ; ;