FFXI Skill

Im just unlucky then, also I dont feed wiki info so thats one less unlucky person thats feeding them info for their average.

What floor do you kill QAs on? I'm told the drop rate is always higher on the final floor before the boss. Pretty mcuh anyone I've met with ares body has gotten the 35 on that floor.

At this point in the game though, any good player has had plenty of time to get at least some good pieces of gear, anyone who hasn't would most likely fall into the lazy catagory, and laziness is the primary ingredient for bad players.

I think Salvage gear is a good example. It is currently some of the best gear in the game (it's another debate whether it will stay that way), and there are very few impediments to players who want the gear.

You don't need an alliance of players, especially since level cap, any zone can be full cleared with 6 players.

It isn't time intensive, any player should be able to find some time to play for 100 mins straight on a regular basis, and you can do it any time you like (and can find other people to do it), so when you play doesn't factor in like with HNMs.

A few pieces are expensive to upgrade, but if you want good gear you'll find a way to make money, and should already know some ways.

Salvage isn't particularly difficult. I wouldn't call it easy, and there is definitely a significant difference between new or pickup groups and an experienced static. Player skill does play into it as well, there is a significant difference in my group between having my 2 main MNKs in it, and missing even one and having a backup MNK in their spot.

The only impediment is if you're lacking appropriate jobs, it can make it difficult to find a group. I'll admit that I'm at my most elitist when I'm leading Salvage, if you don't have at least 1 of MNK, BRD, TH4, RDM, WHM you're not in my group. That doesn't mean though that other jobs don't work in Salvage, or that any balanced group of six couldn't do Salvage, it just wouldn't necessarily be as efficient in all zones.

If you set your mind to doing Salvage though, there is no reason why you can't put a group together. Either from friends / lsmates who also want to do Salvage, or shouting. Salvage can be done as pickup groups or in a static. My current static I put together by shouting for members. I found some fantastic players that way, and we've been together since February.

Gear does matter though. Somebody with better gear will perform better. More accurately, gear would detirmine your character's potential, whereas skill would see how close you can get to fullfilling that potential. Zero ammount of skill will make a character with full BLM AH gear out nuke a full morrigan's blm. 1 INT can never do more damage than 2 INT. There are still limits on your character. Now if you don't know how to use that gear then you arent living up to the limits of what your character can do.

hmm I agree and disagree on that.PPL who finish by getting the good gear or being pimp, finish by being the lazy player and get easily pawned by the new players that give their 300%. A pretty good exemple is this: Ever did the count of pimp character that "fake AFK" in whitegate? :p I have few names in mind

hmm I agree and disagree on that.PPL who finish by getting the good gear or being pimp, finish by being the lazy player and get easily pawned by the new players that give their 300%. A pretty good exemple is this: Ever did the count of pimp character that "fake AFK" in whitegate? :p I have few names in mind

Gear vs skill.... my only opinion on this really is for melee gear matters more somewhat than skill than what it means for mage. Example I say im a very good blm yet have 2/5 morri vs my 4/5 usu mnk which is pretty bandwagon now ;; . You can be fairly agressive and on the ball but playing monk well say in merit does mostly come down to the gear/food lets face it. Whereas I strongly believe mage jobs are different and I can sometimes imo outperform blms where when using our best nuke gear they often have zmitts+1 and morri body over me. Possibly not through dmg but through other means in which a blm can assist and they either choose not to or arent too fast (stun/crowncontrol). Often youll find blms stand around alot too or admire their dmg without curing members in other alliances or getting back to resting. I spose this then boils down to how much effort u can be arsed to put into an event. Squeezing every ounce of mp throughout a 4 hour dynamis.... dont think I could ever do that again lol

some "1337" players seem better than they are because they only operate in ideal conditions.

I feel bad because when I said "some "1337" players seem better than they are because they only operate in ideal conditions" I didn't picture how bad it would look on it's own.

I feel bad because when I said "some "1337" players seem better than they are because they only operate in ideal conditions" I didn't picture how bad it would look on it's own.

You're completely right though. A tank is only as good as their support.

Excuse from gimps that never entered salvage. If you do salvage, you get stuff. A skilled RDM will at least want to do salvage for body.

A skilled RDM would be level 80 by now.

A skilled RDM would be level 80 by now.

Besides, hasn't a lot of salvage gear been replaced by lvl 76+ gear by now?

A skilled RDM MNK would be level 80 have capped merits and usukane hands/legs/feet by now.

Being skilled in FFXI is a choice. Anyone can do it if they choose to.