(yet another) Valkurm Dunes Rant

[Sabaron]

Re: (yet another) Valkurm Dunes Rant

You're supposed to provide an escort for mages through the Secret Beach tunnel. They cannot pass it themselves without Powder/Oil and a lot of low-levels are new and don't have money. You can't expect newbs with virtually no farming ability or crafting skill to pony up 30-40k for stealth items -and- keep their gear and spells up to date. Be nice.

A lot of high-levels get lazy about stealth because they have a tendency to run through areas where they're on the top of the food chain. This sets in a bit of subconscious laziness.

It should be a trivial matter for high-levs to pay for stealth in this region--that is as inexcusable as not bringing stealth to other dangerous areas like Ifrit's Cauldron.

[Eauijhkuu]

Re: (yet another) Valkurm Dunes Rant

Good.

Even thought we are possibly on different servers (hail Bahamut)
Don't you be a victim to this ignorant magnonimous bullcrap.

Ignorance is by no means an excuse to be gimped.

[Cavick]

Re: (yet another) Valkurm Dunes Rant

You're scaring me about going to the dunes my first time -_-

[Eauijhkuu]

Salutations.

Eauijkuu here.

Pissed to no end, when my feet hit the dunes and I'm faced with some horrid...just...irritatingly well expected series of happenings while I decide to level my RDM through dunes.

I guess even I came here as a newbie once. And you know what, I think it's great that newbies can gather together in this specific area and learn the ins and outs of what makes a party a party. This is a good thing for people who are new, to learn the game's mechanics - the pure basics of PT fundamentals.

But I think I have a slight problem with you when you've been through this craphole 5+ times with higher level jobs, and I see your HP bar suddenly dwindle from 300 to 140 to 0. What? Death by Agro? 7 times in one day in the same party? This is all too much I could ask for from more than four people today. So now that you've succeeded in irritating me, I have a few questions for you:

HOW many times have you been through Valkurm Dunes?
HOW many times have you agroed goblins and known that they obviously agro by sight?
HOW many times have you agroed bats and known that they were obviously agressive to sound?
Knowing that you were going to have to travel past 2 tunnels full of bats and potentially guarded by goblins, would you have made slight preparations just as you would in any other higher level party by purchasing items for sneaking and invising?
How much time am I going to lose by looking for a raise?
How wrong would I be for kicking your sorry cheap gimped unprepared carcass from my group?

WHY the heck...do people...take jobs through this zone...5 + times... acting clueless?!
Witnessing 7 deaths in one hour is just not cool.
Especially when they're all from agro.

We camped at the Secret hidden beach over near C-6 in Valkurm dunes...and in the process of inviting more players to replace old ones.
WHM died twice on his way getting to camp.
SMN died once, and had to wait 40 minutes to get a raise from a WHM who was pissing and moaning about having to run all the way over to C-6 to raise one person just for the shere pleasure of it all (Because he'll get sand under his perfectly peticured toenails! oh noes!)
PLD d/cs and dies from the WHM's agro, that he pulls to Camp...and doesn't zone.
THF Dies trying to get to camp.
WHM dies again coming from camp.
NIN dies twice coming from Konstatch Highlands. First from Tremor Ram. Then from agroed 3 bats(Not to mention all the other monsters he agroed along the way, which should of killed his lame arse). He dies, and figures that he's being inconveninced, and decides to HP back to Whitegate.

And the party has yet to start, mind you.
And this is all action from agroed mobs!

You would flipping think that flipping people would learn the flipping first time and bring some flipping powders or oils if they can't flipping understand how to flipping avoid flipping mob agro in the first flippin place, instead of causing massive player wipe on the server. Stop being so flippin' cheap and flippin' unlearned. There's no flippin' excuse as to why you shouldn't be able to afford them anymore either, because flippin' prices on the flippin' AH are flippin' 10 times lower than what they used to be.

UGH.
Get learn't or go home!

/end rant.

Now where's that bag of skittles?