Carbuncle : Some paladin was shouting for AM44 party so i joined in. Waited around for people for an hour +, then started.
First, I went DRK/THF because i've tried DRK/SAM before and i figured when using hasso it makes the stun timer longer so I decided to try it this way. (Great sword >> Spinning slash with gear swap / 519 atk and 75+46 STR.) We defeat the blu mage without too many problems, then came Alexander. We wiped on him, so we exited and i go back to town to get key item and a potion tank when I get this:
Kachijin >> Hey I'm getting a SAM from my LS to replace you so sorry ><
Me >> uh wtf?
Me >> Why's that?
Kachijin >> Yeah... you're not doing as much damage as I expected.
Kachijin >> Sorry
Me >> the hell?
Me >> eh.. ok but you're messed up dude
Ok since we all know Alexander is a super tank can someone enlighten me as to whether or not this paladin is being an ahole or is the am44 mission really only for the super elite drks who are supposed to do a million damage per hit?
I'm pretty pissed as I wasted over 2 hours trying to finish this mission only to have some guy kick me because I couldn't live up to his lame expectations. I didn't complain that he was distance tanking Alexander using sword and shield or that his annoyingly pointless macros made it hard for me to see the blu mage's "eyes on me" through all the "Relinquish your pain on me <t> ! PROVOKE!" or "+++ SOLAR FLARE+++ Flash!" nonsense.
i can't rely reply to whether what you are doing is good bad or ugly, but judging from his not trying to talk with you to see if you can make changes but went straight to im getting a replacement for you, i'd say he had a freind on the ls who needed the mission or whatever and you got the shit end of the stick. youd be surp[rised how often crap like that happens.
doesn't it figure? we should have known the devil is a female... it seems so obvious now
How'd he even manage to get that far is beyond me... Although the TOAU missions are a joke.
Because you know, Hasso as main SAM just totally outdoes Souleater+Last Resort+Hasso(sub)+DRKs Natural Attack Bonus.(Sarcasm)
But i wont get into an argument over DRK VS SAM, cuz they all have their ways of damaging, SAM with skillchains (well, smart ones who know what a skillchain is), and DRKs with their whatever they do to make them do 3k+ Spiral Hell's. But im not a SAM or DRK so i wont pretend i know the dirty details.
I also hate people that have stupid macros like that too...
No Offense to you people who like to roleplay macros, but id much rather see
"CureIV >>> <t>"
Instead of
"May the divine holy light of altana bless <t> with a cure IV"
Yep nothing like seeing that during a 4 hour exp party(More Sarcasm), especially if you are one of those annoying SAM or DD who have like <call2> in their WS macros.
I'm sorry you encountered one of the many retarded people of FFXI, hopefully you will have better luck with the mission someday soon. Maybe this time with a Paladin who has "Provoke <bt>" as their Macro instead of
"Eyes on me <bt> I am your target, i am the one you have to fight, face my shield, and face my sword, and we will battle until the end, you will die to my blade, so get over here!!Provoke!!<call1>"
"Eyes on me <bt> I am your target, i am the one you have to fight, face my shield, and face my sword, and we will battle until the end, you will die to my blade, so get over here!!Provoke!!<call1>"
OMG! i LOL'd so hard with this
Edit: and u know what is better that that... that lolpld with this kind of macro didnt even get the mob to face em cuz they spend too much time typin stupid macros than actually knowing how to keep hate from mob...
"Eyes on me <bt> I am your target, i am the one you have to fight, face my shield, and face my sword, and we will battle until the end, you will die to my blade, so get over here!!Provoke!!<call1>"
You all laugh, but I had a Pld who used almost this exact same macro word for word for his provokes.
You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be misqouted and then used against you.
Seeing as how I don't know you or the leader, I really don't know which one is in the wrong. I've had to kick people from EXP parties because they were so terrible, I was doing them a favor. What kind of gear setup did you have for this fight?
If you're going to roleplay, at least don't do it in macros you're going to hit every thirty seconds; it kind of dilutes what little flavor there was.
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Last edited by Yellow Mage : 03-30-2008 at 09:04 AM. Reason: Preferably don't do it in macros at all: just hand type all of your role-play stuff. That way, at least you can make sure it doesn't get redundantly stupid.
I agree. I actually havew an alternate copy of my macros, one for roleplay text and one without. I might use the roleplay two or three times, then switch to the normal set. Though sometimes I switch back if the party's getting dull.
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Seeing as how I don't know you or the leader, I really don't know which one is in the wrong. I've had to kick people from EXP parties because they were so terrible, I was doing them a favor. What kind of gear setup did you have for this fight?
Regular stuff for this fight.. for Tp thick set and various other accuracy items, Balin's sword, then switch to Str items for WS like plastron / Ruby rings / pallas's bracelets / warwolf belt.. just my regular set for WS's in general.
Anyways.. screw it. I guess at the end of the day what am i expecting from a total stranger? While the game is largely based on a social relationship some people just don't really care about others.
Maybe I would've done more damage if i went with the flow and started doing macros like "omg i'm so sneaky ! tip toe tip toe! Surprise! [SNEAK ATTACK!!!!!] "
lol one time in a party in the CN, there was another party fighting nearby and their SMN used flavored macros in /SAY so evvvveryone could hear them. If that wasn't bad enough, they basically had text in every macro evar. I'll let your imagination fill in the gaps but yes, they had macros to summon and dispel every avatar and they were all in /say.
If you're fighting Alexander, chances are your DPS as a melee means crap. Unless you're in a setup that's hard to work with in the conventional strategy, your job is to make skillchains for the mages to burst on. Dude's just a jerk and his excuse was crappy, sorry you had to deal with him.
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/p <Sneak Attack> BITCH WILL NEVER SEE THIS COMING LOL
/p <Trick Attack> BITCH IT WASNT ME LOLNO
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Just some of the better macros I've seen for Thf or /Thf. I bet if you would have stated you were doing massive amounts of damage in your macros he might have believed you.
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