What's your pet-peeve in FFXIV: ARR?

[Malacite]

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Titan Hard is pissing me off somethign fierce.

I went from 47 to 50 DRG yesterday all the way to Titan HM today, and he's the last thing cockblocking me from my Gae Bolg

[Takelli]

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Garuda hm.... Just that...

One day I'm able to kill Garuda fine no problem. Three runs easy kill no drop. Forth she drops some one else gets the weapon, then I get stuck with incompetent people and I just keep having my ass handed to me over and over. She's so fucking easy, but people just can't kill her for some reason.

[Malacite]

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Hmm, I remember one time being in an all-BLU party, and it worked stupidly well. At first we were all a bit iffy about it, but it just sorta worked o.O

Poor Goblins never stood a chance with all the headbutt spam.

[ItazuraNhomango]

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I had a Dunes party that went all the way from low/mid level (for the Valkrum Dunes) to Qufim Island to Delkfutt Tower. It was 5/6 JP, but they managed to teach me how to Magic Burst on BLM.

The party didn't break up for Japanese players' meal time; we just all came back after half an hour. One guy even had an unexpected visitor IRL--but we kept him in party until he could get back to the game. People were polite, but joked around. The couple wipes we had, no one was upset; positive attitude ruled the day.

To this day, I'd still rate that as the best exp party I've ever had.

(It's also probably one reason why to this day, I still want to join JP groups more than NA groups--except the people from my FFXI/FFXIV LS.)


Also, had a blast taking my WAR through that zone of too bright sand--got my first taste of tanking. (Leveled PLD in Buburimu with LS--even better time!) There were also a bunch of half-LS parties, and those were always enjoyable, good or bad exp.

Over all, mostly ho-hum, and more than enough bad parties--but there were some truly good times, too.

[Mezlo]

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Bolded for emphasis. I'm pretty certain that if you were in a stoic party, you wouldn't have remembered anything.

This is for you. Tons of memories... Mal, post a few...

http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/gen...rum-dunes.html

[Aeni]

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No, it's not just rosy-eyed nostalgia, I legitimately had a number of good dune parties back in the day where we blazed through it in no time and everyone was having fun being social while it happened.

Bolded for emphasis. I'm pretty certain that if you were in a stoic party, you wouldn't have remembered anything.

[Malacite]

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No, it's not just rosy-eyed nostalgia, I legitimately had a number of good dune parties back in the day where we blazed through it in no time and everyone was having fun being social while it happened.

[Aeni]

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Believe it or not I actually have a fair chunk of good Dunes memories (and just as many horror stories rofl)


I'm just saying, some things were better in XI and it makes me wonder if SE should have just left well enough alone. For everything they fixed that sucked about XI they've created a new issue ><

That's just that (forgot name of pyschology terminology) where you are wistfully remembering the good old days, but if you had the opportunity to do the exact same thing now, I'm almost guaranteeing you're going to be all like, "god, wtf is this b*s*". It was a different time, with a different set of circumstances. There were hardly any other MMORPG alternatives at that time that could even come close to the triple A works like Everquest, and later, World of Warcraft. Now the genre is over its head in all forms of P2P, F2P, and B2P titles, most bad, some good. But enough variety there that people aren't so enamored with the one or two things that all they had to choose from. I tried to go back to FFXI a year ago and in 5 minutes, wondered wtf I thought was so great about the game. Then I realize that two things helped made it good At the Time (tm): (1) The community and friends (2) no real competition.

[Mezlo]

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Believe it or not I actually have a fair chunk of good Dunes memories (and just as many horror stories rofl)

I'm going to check and see if there is a thread devoted to "Good memories at Vulkrum Dunes" and if not I'm going to create it... I took every single job to level 25 or so and I have tons of great dunes memories. Plus, today is slow at work...

[ItazuraNhomango]

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In ToAU and WoTG it was healing as RDM or DNC or GTFO with most groups. Even my LS stopped throwing the WHMs pity invites towards the end and the WHMs all switched to RDM, COR or BRD to get merits for WHM.

I guess every LS is different; while we did use RDM + BRD + COR set ups at times, we also had plenty of WHMs in merit parties, plus the likes of BLU, PUP, BST--pretty much whatever people wanted, as long as we had a healer and someone to provoke/flash. (We did make ask front line to use /NIN, though.)

Heck, we once had an alliance of 7 people, with the 7th (my PLD) outside main party as the primary puller at the Colibri camp.

Of course, we didn't try for zillion exp/hour*; a bit of fun while getting a few merit points was our goal.

* I did a lot of parsing back then; the LS parties easily beat out the majority of the pick up merit groups I got, so it wasn't exactly "waste of time" from the the exp/hour angle, either.

[Malacite]

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Believe it or not I actually have a fair chunk of good Dunes memories (and just as many horror stories rofl)


I'm just saying, some things were better in XI and it makes me wonder if SE should have just left well enough alone. For everything they fixed that sucked about XI they've created a new issue ><

[Mezlo]

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In ToAU and WoTG it was healing as RDM or DNC or GTFO with most groups. Even my LS stopped throwing the WHMs pity invites towards the end and the WHMs all switched to RDM, COR or BRD to get merits for WHM.

Well that's because whm's suck.

[Firewind]

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In ToAU and WoTG it was healing as RDM or DNC or GTFO with most groups. Even my LS stopped throwing the WHMs pity invites towards the end and the WHMs all switched to RDM, COR or BRD to get merits for WHM.

[ItazuraNhomango]

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No! Bad Mal! *whacks with newspaper* Nothing is worse than that!

Except for trying to merit on WHM pre-Abyssea.

Honestly, there were good Dunes parties.

As to WHM meriting pre-Abyssea, was it that bad? My view may be skewed, but the LS I was in had no issues with WHM (or any other job) in merit parties.

[Firewind]

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No! Bad Mal! *whacks with newspaper* Nothing is worse than that!

Except for trying to merit on WHM pre-Abyssea.