Temporary FFXI & FFXIV Server Shutdown

[Murphie]

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That's the other thing keeping me from coming back to WoW. Everyone I know is so busy doing their own thing, or NOT doing much of anything, so it's not like we'd really interact at all. So why bother?

[Aksannyi]

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I don't even know how the f to play my paladin anymore...

Bleh that's one of the things I hate about WoW, they change the game and the classes fucking constantly. You get used to a good dps rotation and you gear a certain way then they change some minor aspect and it changes the way you have to play to perform acceptably. And that's not even counting the level cap raise, of course that was going to change things but then every month or so since, they've made tweaks to classes and fucked around with balance and it's definitely annoying. SE didn't really do that so much that you had to relearn how to play after an update.

But I'd totally add you guys to my Real ID friends so we could at least chat like it's MSN. XD

[Taskmage]

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This is a major problem with MMORPGs, imo. I really appreciated in games like Planetside and Shattered Galaxy that you could have a newb friend or be the newb friend of someone whose level was partially merged with infinity, and the game design was cool with the two of you playing together and both having a meaningful experience and making progress on your goals. I don't know how you'd design an RPG-type game to accommodate that, but somebody needs to figure it out. Level sync helped, but only for experience parties and I hear those don't even exist anymore.

[Aeni]

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Shattered Galaxy

Had a flashback ... whoah! I haven't played that in forever. That was what I played before I got asked to participate in the FFXI Alpha. Good memories ... but I hated the gangbanging aspects of it.

[Yygdrasil]

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They exist... I run them. I'm not sure who else does... but I do.

[cidbahamut]

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Bleh that's one of the things I hate about WoW, they change the game and the classes fucking constantly. You get used to a good dps rotation and you gear a certain way then they change some minor aspect and it changes the way you have to play to perform acceptably. And that's not even counting the level cap raise, of course that was going to change things but then every month or so since, they've made tweaks to classes and fucked around with balance and it's definitely annoying. SE didn't really do that so much that you had to relearn how to play after an update.

That's one thing I really appreciate about FFXI, none of the forever-fiddling with the classes constantly fucking everything up. I'm also under the impression that a lot of that fiddling is tied to balancing PvP, and really...fuck PvP.

[Aksannyi]

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I love PvP I just wish they'd give us the option to set our PvP specs and our PvE specs then they could tweak each side of the equation separately. Maybe that's not possible though.

And Frost Mages are still OP as hell in PvP.

[Yygdrasil]

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And Frost Mages are still OP as hell in PvP.

Reminds me of how Frozen Orb Sorcs were in Diablo 2 PvP.

OP as hell.... before they gimped the crap out of them.

[Aksannyi]

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Yeah it's the current fad job. I'm going to laugh when they get nerfed.

[Taskmage]

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I never understood how people got into PvP in Diablo, tbh.

[Yygdrasil]

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I never got into it myself... I did a lot more farming for Exp and Unique gear. All I remember about PvP was that you were either a Sorc or a Barb. Anything else couldn't stand a chance against either one. Not without 1337 hax0rz

[cidbahamut]

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I never understood how people got into PvP in Diablo, tbh.

Pissing contests I guess. It didn't seem to be very well tailored to it. Much more fun to grab a few friends and stomp all over a dungeon IMO.

[Yygdrasil]

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I used to take my mules and run into PvP rooms to pick up all the gold they dropped.

I had a gambling addiction.

[cidbahamut]

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I think my favorite aspect of PvP is probably messing with other people and getting in the way. Bard was so much fun in RO

[Neverslip]

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When I was deeply addicted to Diablo 2, I had a Rogue. Didn't do too bad in PvP rooms. But yeah I was more into getting unique gearz too.

I remember finding a friendly Sorc named Shaft and we'd irritate players until they gave up hunting us and left our room by just keeping up with a text based Shaft theme song remix a la Diablo.

Damn Diablo was a great game for it's time. I'm wondering if it will enamour me just as much with the forever-upcoming third 'go'.