SE Wants You To Bring Along "gimp" Players...

I did Skirmish. Two runs, got H2H and GAXE. Used Ninza to farm Delve on MNK. Put together my own Tax'et run for KI clear.

Also what kind of boils my nerves is the attitude of some people. They will only "help" you get a clear for a cost. Now for the Mega Boss Delve NM's i fully accept this. Totally. No doubt about it. But charging 5mil for a t4/5 clear? wtf lol I mean i know people are desperate and want to enjoy the game but hell lol, at that point id rather quit....

You see people are saying, why should we take a gimp player or 2 and make it harder for ourselves, yet that same group is selling the KI with 3-4 slots open. So the excuse of why should i make it harder for my self is kinda mute. Taking 1 player should not affect your progress, but alas, such is the way things are lol

If people were smart enough they would realise a lot of these mobs can be low manned by as little as 3 players in some circumstances. If finding out and understanding a monsters weakness is so difficult then maybe they don't deserve the ki in the first place. Taxet as a mob is a complete joke how alliances wipe to this mob still is ridiculous.

That would be ideal of the game weren't in the sorry state it's in from years of Abyssea/Voidwatch style content where anyone could theoretically come back from quitting and be able to compete on even ground with the stalwarts if you had half a brain. SE has tried to flip the switch back to a style of content we haven't seen since late TOAU in an era where the population has been gutted due to aging and a differing philosophy of game design.

The way XI works today isn't very different than how it worked back in '05 but what has changed is the available pool of players to choose from and thus your ability to progress up the ranks to Delve Bosses or whatever the top tier content is.

You've got the best players who use any available tool to optimize performance and these individuals rarely have time to baby or go on backtracking adventures to gear up people who aren't armed to the teeth with the greatest gear money/time can buy. You can't get Odin or NNI going? I did that crap ages ago and I dualboxed two characters while doing it.

Suck less.

And this is predictable behavior. Why? Because likeminded people will congregate together to complete goals just as they did back when buying expensive bots was a thing. What has changed is now you've got a void where the "not quite top tier but not scrub tier" linkshells used to be caused by the paradigm shift in content creation wedged between the timeless sea of bads.

I daresay that Abyssea destroyed the middle class.

So for the player that doesn't know the damage formula by heart yet isn't drooling HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE there is an identity crisis going on that I feel leads many people to lash out and complain. Where is your place? Is it among the elite who will call you out on not using tools to optimize performance? Is it among the scrubs who think PUP and BST can somehow through magic complete Delve bosses? Who think bucking the mainstream just for the hell of it is fun?

You could make your own LS but that would require most likely picking up a ton of bads and today's content doesn't support that style of gameplay (throwing legions of bodies to win content), hoping you can get picked up by the top-tier groups (either through buying a slot or coming on a non-essential job) or forever resigning oneself to never touching the top tier content period. See where the problems lie?

Most of the "old" content Matsui wants done is for 3-6man groups yet the Delve content wants 18 people in sync. It's not conducive to building unit cohesion and it results in the current dynamic of people just throwing themselves at the Delve plasm farms or getting plowed under by NMs like Tax'et or Chapuli until they logout.

I can pretty much guarantee that the reason you'd be losing even if you have appropriate gear is because you're playing with people who don't know wtf they're doing. Everyone needs to be on the ball and doing their jobs properly, there needs to be coordination and precision.You're focusing too much on yourself and not realizing that the problem is probably the people around you.

well, when the ruling class is full of "skilled" players, whats left for the rest of us? Bads and "okays".

You need to nut the hell up, put together a group of people that you feel comfortable doing things with, and lead them to being capable of achieving what you mean to achieve. Sitting and bitching about it being too hard to get into a good group or having to eat up the scraps of others is solving nothing.

The "ruling class' is made up of people who've already gone through the trouble of doing this.

it's unreasonable to think that people are obligated to do for you what you won't do for yourself

I agree that one should progress through the tiers of content before entering Delve, but what if i have progressed through the content? What if that content only has a plethora of sidegrades? Do you REALLY need to do VW,OdinII,meebles,and Skirmish to be "competent" enough for Delve?

I can pretty much guarantee that the reason you'd be losing even if you have appropriate gear is because you're playing with people who don't know wtf they're doing. Everyone needs to be on the ball and doing their jobs properly, there needs to be coordination and precision.You're focusing too much on yourself and not realizing that the problem is probably the people around you.

taken the time to have proper swaps, gotten together a good TPing set--and that means you've got capped ACC, not necessarily the haste-focused milieu that dominated for so long

This, so much. People eating RCB with a sub 50% hit rate is not doing it right. It takes so much effort to tell people to gear for ACC and eat ACC food and when they fail to listen and the parse results are lopsided with 3 of your DD at 90%~ hit rate and 80% of your DMG while the other 6 DD make up the remaining 20% with lackluster hit rate. Something is totally wrong. Hell, give me someone who can atleast hit for 80%+ with a subpar weapon and I'll take that over a whif fest anyday.

well technically, you can get a hybrid ACC/capped haste/multi-attacks set on pretty much every job :< It only becomes difficult when you need hydrid DT sets which not all jobs have a lot to work with.

This, so much. People eating RCB with a sub 50% hit rate is not doing it right. It takes so much effort to tell people to gear for ACC and eat ACC food and when they fail to listen and the parse results are lopsided with 3 of your DD at 90%~ hit rate and 80% of your DMG while the other 6 DD make up the remaining 20% with lackluster hit rate. Something is totally wrong. Hell, give me someone who can atleast hit for 80%+ with a subpar weapon and I'll take that over a whif fest anyday.

-and that means you've got capped ACC, not necessarily the haste-focused milieu that dominated for so long

If you're on a job that can't cap or at least almost cap haste and accuracy at the same time, you should probably consider changing jobs.

Is the OP the same guy that wrote this drivel?

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I won't argue with that--but I've run into DDs that seem to focus on Haste myopically and don't seem aware of the pieces they need to be able to do that. In most pre-Adoulin content, you're already capped almost automatically, so it seems that a lot of folks learned to cap Haste and then worry about other stats (and Accuracy was never one of those stats).

My point in general was that you shouldn't be sacrificing Accuracy to get to the Haste cap unless you're over the Accuracy cap, and I've seen DD who didn't seem to know this. That's a rule that's never actually changed--we just had a lot of content that basically capped us on Accuracy automatically (or with the help of temps).

im not sitting around bitching, i have a group of 6-8 people, but you cant just do a delve boss run with your homies like you can salvage and meebles.