Just out of pure curiosity for you long-time players. [Regarding nerfs]

[Cedric]

You could be NA or Importer or JP, I'd still say you were a moron for thinking the game was easier before. This has nothing to do with being elitest or racist or whatever stupid whiney thing you complain about. I don't hate NA, I hate idiots. It's just a shame that most of the people that fall into that category are of NA version origin.

[Deedlit]

This has nothing to do with being elitest or racist or whatever stupid whiney thing you complain about.

It has plenty to do with it. It's someone making an observation on some previous posts, and a bunch of elitists, INSTEAD OF saying "Yeah, they seem kinda like that, but we also didn't have such-and-such to make it easy" - they have to go off like children "OMG U IDIOT, YOU SUK CAUSE OF WHAT YOU THINK< GO DIE!!1!!one! STUPID NA!" That's what there posters come off as, and I guess it was worth it for the laughs, at least for me.

Anyway, thanks to Johnny for making the ONE actual response to my post, it's nice to know at least one person here reads - though I would suggest losing the anti-NA stuff, myself. The main reason I saw it easier (besides for ballad) is that my high-level friend THFs talk about how easy and quick it was to level as high as they did, whereas I see plenty of skilled THF's having problems doing this, from what they claim to be the fuidama nerf. Now that it takes skill to perform, lots of THF's can't do it, and make a bad rep for the rest - not to mention making a PLD's job much harder, which means the rest of the PT has to compensate for it.

[Cedric]

The only thing fuidama nerf did was make lazy and unskilled players unable to speed through leveling like they did in the past. I had no trouble getting 4k+ an hour with a thf from 30's to 50's.

The nerf isn't so monumental or anything if people can still function the same way. All it does is take an ounce of skill as compared to before, where every fool with the 100k for eq could level up thf after someone shows them yokodama in rolanberry.

[Deedlit]

The only thing fuidama nerf did was make lazy and unskilled players unable to speed through leveling like they did in the past.

Like I said, easier. Sorry, even you can admit, there are many THF's even post-50 that can't do this right. Which is giving a lot of THF's bad names - I won't PT with unless I know them or are recommended by a friend. I remember back when the nerf happened, a lot of people here were moaning about it.