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I play no more than 2-3 hours on days I play, and I play -- maximum -- five days a week.

Meanwhile, I have a very good full-time job, and engage in other hobbies and a robust relationship with my wife.*

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So you just admitted to sinking 10~15 hours per week, 40~60 hours per week, 520~780 hours per year into a game with zero real life benefit? Think long and hard about how much wasted time that is and how much you invest your ego into that. And you do invest your ego into that otherwise you wouldn't of replied defensively.

So you just admitted to sinking 10~15 hours per week, 40~60 hours per week, 520~780 hours per year into a game with zero real life benefit? Think long and hard about how much wasted time that is and how much you invest your ego into that. And you do invest your ego into that otherwise you wouldn't of replied defensively. And from this heavy time investment into fictional storytelling you derive some sort of ego boost / internet social status vs real status from some accomplishment that has meaning. This ego boost has such value to you that your demanding a company provide you with it even to the detriment of many others.

If you think about it. SE is really just preping the smart players for this update.

Dumb people spending millions on random ***augments which are given to players that dont and instead are the ones selling the items for millions.

then new update comes out and who has money to have the new gear day one? the smart ones that avoid this random bs but instead make gil off it.

Dont think I am screwed, it's the rest of the people who ate up this random bs like it was great. Selling skirmish items is great gil. I am happy they added a worthless event for people to waste their efforts on.

Now your being obtuse lol.

Typical difficulty in FFXI is get highly geared DD's together and then buff them with a combination of BRD, GEO and COR until their stats are higher then the target monster's stats. You then have a WHM babysit them spamming aoe cures while they tear the NM apart with their superior dice rolls. This as known as "zerging" and something lots of people lamented against and so SE did a strategy where the made the boss so powerful that it would destroy such an attempt. So then we resorted to using stuns to prevent the boss from destroying our roided DD's. Then SE, in an attempt to prevent that, made their NM's immune to stun with the same powerful moves, thinking they had finally forced us to fight "strategically". We then proceed to use ranged DD's with a specific relic that enabled them to deal damage with no or nearly no enmity buildup while staying out of range of the damage from the NM. Fighting the NM at close quarters, like SE intended, was never a favored strategy.

And so finally SE has given up on trying to counter our buff DD zerg strategy and instead designed an event where that doesn't matter. And even then, PEOPLE STILL TRIED IT. People actually tried buffing a bunch of DD's then using a GEO or SMN to hold the initial mobs as the melee's zerged down the stronghold.

This event, more then any others, has forced players to stop doing "buff DD kill now". The winning of the event is no longer about how many Idris GEO's or REM BRDs you have, but how much people read and cooperate. Hell you have just proved my point so completely that it's funny. You don't even see it do you. When judging people you first judged them by their gear and not their ability. You judged the difficulty by the stat requirements (have X or Y to win) vs judging them by the cooperation or how much attention they paid, even though the even has almost no correlation to stat requirements. And because the events stat requirements are so low as to be almost irrelevant, you judged it to be "easy" vs actually looking at the coordination and teamwork required to get get a full inventory of drops from it. Getting to the end of a 555 pop, getting that full 10 items in the shared inventory and 10 in your personal inventory, that is the difficulty. Seeing how many floors you can go up after killing the boss, just to see how far you can push it even with a full pool, that is difficulty. No amount of BRD, COR, GEO or WHM can help you win, in fact those jobs buffs are entirely ignored. It's down to pure player skill, knowledge and coordination.


That is how much this is making me laugh. SE finally released content with true difficulty and players have been so conditioned to think dice rolls = difficulty that they can't even recognize it.

I think I remember sometime in the past hearing something about empy reforge would be over 119. I can't confirm it, maybe someone else can?

Also suspect that Empyrean reforge will be 'Superior II' equipment, that's the only way I can see them keeping the set bonuses on the pieces.

But more to the point, why are you even posting here with opinions about a game that you consider worthless? Quit entirely and stop playing?

The set bonuses on empyrean sets range from good to utter super ***.
They are NOT OP enough to warrant "su2"...

Because it brings me great enjoyment and I value my enjoyment quite highly. Yes I'm selfish like that.

Because it brings me great enjoyment and I value my enjoyment quite highly. Yes I'm selfish like that.

I just meant that, if valli agreed with, probably isnt something good.

But talking serious, i dont really aggre with you by trying to foresee a future that may or not may be, agaisnt a present that is right there and its solid. Valli is the same, keep comparing a possibility against a reality, and says the possibility is more true than reality.

Well, if the possibility result true, im already aware who will laugh of us who are happy with new set.

But please, if youre wrong, dont forget to come back for us to laugh of you also.

Then how in the rutting hell are you going to sit here and look down upon anyone else who plays, regardless of how much -- or in what fashion -- they play?

I don't like to throw the word "hypocrite" around the forum in P&R or game threads, because I know I can be one myself sometimes, but seriously.

You're being a bit of a ***.

Because it brings me great enjoyment and I value my enjoyment quite highly. Yes I'm selfish like that.

A bit?!?

Long angry post!

As for rewards, I make millions of gil worth of stones on every run and now pass all the armor because I already got 5/5 on everything.

Right now put everything involved with the game down and go to a random public place, a mall or other location. Strike up a conversation with a random person and tell them about your in game "accomplishments" and how much that difficulty means to you.

Just do it, then watch the look on their face. And that's how we see you.

Longer angry retort!

I will do a simple thought experiment to demonstrate the insanity here. Right now put everything involved with the game down and go to a random public place, a mall or other location. Strike up a conversation with a random person and tell them about your in game "accomplishments" and how much that difficulty means to you.

Why must you thwart me at every turn....

Because *snide insulting comment*!

However, I am laughing at the present as well as the probable future as well.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Like I said earlier let's have a content where the elite can beat it but still challenging and the next group of well geared (non mythic or idris) can beat it as well.

Let's not have something where the best of the best can barely beat the content.

they need to have at least 1 bit of content in this game that is only able to be beaten by the best of the best.

or all the battlefields on VD.