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Hi, I'm a noob who doesn't want to be a noob!
Server: Sylph
Game: FFXI
Posts: 294
By Sylph.Agentblade 2014-06-05 20:42:08
I'm kinda at an Impass atm, doing all of this solo seems like such a chore, I wish i had frens :(
I even did a shout in jeuno and got greeted with a bunch of hate.
me- "how do i play this game again? idonteven."
them- "you logout"
me- "k"
good olde sylph, how i missed thee
Yeah, sylph never changes and people from fairy like us have to put up with alot of that on this server.. Good to see u back, been along time. As for catching up, its not that bad. Game is pretty fast paced for the most part unless you building a mythic, which imo is the last grind this game has to offer. Hardest part you might find is getting a group that is a random pickup that is CAPABLE of clearing things. Between this server being dead, friends being long gone, or the lack of people during NA primetime will prolly be your biggest hurdle. If you havent found a good shell, i know a few full of peeps from fairy. Might be able to help you out and get you bk into the swing of things.
 Leviathan.Xsoahc
Server: Leviathan
Game: FFXI
Posts: 107
By Leviathan.Xsoahc 2014-06-05 21:11:16
 Cerberus.Conagh
Server: Cerberus
Game: FFXI
Posts: 3189
By Cerberus.Conagh 2014-06-05 21:17:56
last night I was told by a friend to not bother coming back unless I have pld,rng,rng,brd,cor,whm leveled and already geared >.>;
You friend is clearly biased, he missed SAM MNK and SCH on the list.
I am a sam main, or was rather, he told me sam isn't used much if at all for the hardest setting bc's.
he also elaborated as to why;
they apparently took out any other values of CE gain other than dmg, making it even harder for a tank to keep consistant hate, "all rngs MUST have anni, or they are worthless"
and then he proceeded to tell me the strat that everyone uses.
it makes sense, but is that really the only way to beat this bc? starting to think maybe i should wait until af3 reforge comes out D: lol
But SAM is one of the most power melee DD in all delve zones except marj, which is RNG zone. This game isn't AA BC only, there are plenty of other content too. Your friend is still biased cuz he only used a few example that needs RNG to promote RNG.
Further more melee can still do lower difficulty AA BC. Some BC are melee strat too.
Also, I'm not sure if I ever see that "none dmg CE gain adjustment" if someone can explain it.
RNG also isn't completely worthless without anni. It is still possible to DD just fine with decoy shot and enmity- set. My LS mate's none relic often outparse other RNG, and only a few % behind above avg RNG. He doesn't pull hate. COR has no decoy shot and even worse hate management than RNG, but last 2 BC run I also didn't pull hate on COR and I was only 1%~4% behind gimp relic RNG in pt. On the other hand, I've seen relic RNG pulled hate.
The only None damage CE gain nerf I remember is barspells to stop RDM tanking properly.... Like 2006?
he quoted me wrong so i'll restate what i said here;
They made it so the only way to gain CE values are FROM dmg.
not even 100% sure it's true, but this is coming from a pretty reliable source, the guy knows more in depth game mechanics more than most people do.
many nights lost arguing with him about such maths and stuff.
I think the only person to ever beat him in an argument was tigerwoods/creamsoda back in like 07~08 (something about haste values)
I don't know where he came up with this, but it's an incredibly wrong statement. /blu and to some extent /run are great ways to build CE because of the great CE values that the spells and job abilities have.
I asked him to clarify his source and he told me to check the update notes about the enmity change to cures.
either it's possible he knows something we don't or I took what he said mistakenly and he was only talking about cures.
/shrug #His reference is to cure only, forgot about other shiz? like Pollen spam! Run Spells and self JA's ! not to mention flash.
Honestly cocoon on /blu reduces your emnity decay from damage taken considerably and if th nm is 99.99% physical attacks it'll beat /run imo.
Sucks I don't know many nms who don't spam some type of magic/magical ws..
Your friend doesn't know anything we don't I think he's just gone "Cure dont work" and whitewashed everything else.. or never heard of blu and run subjobs before............................
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 Ragnarok.Afania
Server: Ragnarok
Game: FFXI
Posts: 2822
By Ragnarok.Afania 2014-06-06 06:54:49
If he was referring to cures then yes. Cure cheats as a source of CE are useless now and blu spells are much more efficient for enmity/mp ratio.
His friend's original statement was "none anni RNG is completely worthless because it's hard for PLD generate enough CE to keep consistant hate". Which is just biased opinion....none relic RNG may do less dmg than relic RNG, but it is still possible to keep hate with PLD/BLU, decoy shot and enmity- set for TP/WS. Not even /DRG is necessary...and you still have the choice to /DRG if decoy shot/enmity- set fails.
Another biased opinion!
By TotalInfinity 2014-06-08 08:00:38
Progress so far!:
Almost full set of artifact 109, have them +1 just need to grind the chapters
Attending voidwatch, hovering around 2mil so plenty of gil to buy things
Leveling WHM to 99, figure I might as well, as much as I like SAM actually doing content is more important. I'll focus on gearing SAM, SMN, and WHM and that'll be it for me
Still haven't done much of any adoulin content, still no idea what/how skirmishes work or what they are, and only seen the occasional wildskeeper reive shout, just was busy at the time. Any idea on how/what I should do to progress from here on?
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Hi peoples, I've been playing Final Fantasy XI off and on for about the last two years or so, joined a bit after aby came out, have taken massive breaks here and there, and just recently came back since some friends play it as well. While my first 99 was SMN and I love it a lot, I played when SMN was considered that weak class that was an inferior solo to BST, and an inferior support/dps to literally anything else (obviously buffs have helped it but yeah). I never ever touched endgame content, never found a group that would put up with me and help me get through all the content I missed, so I put the game down for a while but now I'm back.
I've recently taken my SAM to 99, capped G. Katana, and now I actually want to play some of that fancy stuff I see everyone doing. Problem is, I'm sitting on a full outrider set with the sparks katana and that's probably not good enough for anything >.>. So I want to look for a linkshell that actually does fancy stuff like skirmish/delves/high level bcnms or something, people who wouldn't mind molding someone who has utterly no idea what they're doing into a DD that actually can help not wipe everyone. With how little people XI has now and this server in particular I'm not holding out for much, but hey, you never know.
I currently have PLD/SMN/SAM at 99 and subs leveled for each, SMN sitting at full empy+2, PLD is underskilled and undergeared in outrider and SAM is not much better >.>. But anyone who has the patience to help me not suck, please teach me, and I promise to be the best noob I can be! I might even one day actually be good enough for actual recent content (which seems like a distant dream now).
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