MithraPride

I have to wonder though. I've found a couple of NPCs that seem to have no purpose other than to explain that they are the leaders of the regional defense forces around the home cities, and frankly the last thing we really need are more pointless NPCs that just talk to us. Besieged-II. S.San'd'Oria ...

I swear that food quality is inversely proportional to your distance from a coast. Midwest? <shudder>

Then again, isn't Sugami Brittish? ^~

Yes, Ambrey and now they're gone. Say what you will, but SE has done a pretty decent job of taking care of the RMT in endgame. From my point of view, what they did was get rid of the 24x7 sky farmers and gut the economy. Better than doing nothing, but they still continue to support the claim-bot cr...

There's really only one goal in FFXI I'm working toward diligently and deliberately right now: Captain rank in Assaults. Ideally, I'll hit Captain in about 4-6 weeks at our current ranking pace. If I have too many hard goals, the game seems overwhelming and I just bail out and do other things. One r...

Grats on that one! Whoever told you "group only" was exaggerating or remembering back to the days of ToAU release before any maps were posted on the web. It's definitely not an easy solo, though. Something to do with RR up while keeping "safe death spots" tucked away in your mind...

More to the point, are you dumb enough to think you'll get more than the spiky side of her mace upside your head for letting her be kidnapped in the first place?

It just doesn't seem terribly wise to "rescue" that cat!

The 2H-weapons definitely needed a fix, but they didn't need what they got. The reason that 2H weapons "sucked" prior to the patch was that attributes (str, dex, acc, atk) had TOO MUCH of an effect on the damage you did with a melee weapon. In general, the lower your delay on your weapons ...

I'd put it in the bank and hope it breeds more -- saving up for a speed belt atm (25m! :oops: ). There's currently little I can buy from AH in the way of upgrades other than really outrageously costly hq/+1 stuff. -=-=-=- BTW, speaking of conquering a city -- I did that once by accident. Not Bastok,...

I don't have a problem that Genbu was Gravitied- the issue I have trouble accepting was that someone with 70 less skill than I have was able to land that spell. Against mobs of that level and defense our skill level should have an effect on the rate of success of our enfeebles- but they often don't...

I'm curious what is upsetting the RDM crowd. The ones in my shell seem rather amused by all the emo melee. I can understand the upset with melee. THF just got totally eliminated from the job-list basically and all the tanks are having a very hard time tanking. The new 2H melee are finding out that p...

Its said they intended NIN to be a ranged DD and never saw the blink tank coming. They should have darn well seen the /NIN craze. What was the level cap when they added NIN to the game? 60? The "ranged DD" job comments only make sense really until about level 40. Past that, the ammo becom...

Ya, back in the "old" Zilart days, Abjurations were a thing to collect just to get a full set -- mostly because there were no other options. Most of my shell doesn't have abjurations. They're just not interested in them. I think it's because there's so much gear out there now and so little...

Einherjar is soooo broken. The randomness is utterly ridiculous at the start. SE has absolutely no clue about how to make things "hard" if they think randomly varying the difficulty from ultra-easy to impossible just based on initial spawn is the only way to do it. Abjurations are nice, bu...

I could attack the mob, go afk and make some coffee to come back, toss a WS and get my coffee before the next mob is pulled. Personally I like the active way of playing even though I will probably level warrior too eventually. Back in EQ, there were end-game mobs where I would literally set my monk...

Nine hours server-side is a pretty huge update, but I don't think there will be a significant size to the client update. Client would need the new 2H grip icons and data, but that's really about it. Hmm, the choco thing might be pretty big. I always forget about that -- imho, all the choco breeding ...

The only real downside to NIN is that it's hard to be chatty while you're blinking. I've died from too much talking.

FFXI is the Hotel California. You can check out any time you like but you can never leave. :lol: :oops: :lol: It's true, though. Get a decent slow end-game shell or dynamis shell. Then just log on once or a couple times a week for events. I played FFXI like that for YEARS after I hit level cap. It'...

For a second there I thought you meant BIG Ouryu with 6 people. So many people are doing hard stuff with light groups these days. IMHO, it's much more satisfying to win smart than to win easy.

Grats on the mission win! It's a fun fight. ^^

I'd weigh them all individually if I were you -- including the general merits -- based on your own playstyle and intentions for endgame. The only hole I'd shoot in your original plan is to ditch Prot-V, since I don't see that being useful anywhere in game. For you and from your comments, your origin...

The problem with setting the mode is that people forget to set it back. I've seen so many people delevel and shout "omg, I forgot to set XP mode." Personally, I had capped XP for so long before merits were added that I just got used to the automatic switchover. It's really very convenient.

Hmm. I'd suggest making your own list and evaluations on all the merits you could get. BTW, I think Prot-V is worthless. It's only an extra 5-9 DEF over Prot-IV which translates to less than 1% improvement in damage reduction for a typical def-tank. We have a whm with it and we don't even bother to ...

Regen is for XP. If you ever do any big hitters (sky gods and harder), regen is a pointless waste of time. It's all about Cure-V speed and efficiency there. If your tank isn't at 100% HP on things that can one-shot the tank, you're not doing a good job as a WHM. If you're regening a tank that's at 1...

Grats Keavy! BTW, my advice on 75 buffer is to never deliberately set merit-mode. Just let it switch over by itself after you cap it. Then you'll pretty much never delevel -- unless you stop playing whm completely.

I think any job can solo EM and lower now, in Signet areas, with the right sub and some Evasion+ perhaps. Any melee job/nin can solo up to DC pretty easily. When I couldn't put a group together for leveling my DRK, I'd go dual-box DRK+WHM. VT gave the best results, but sometimes had to kill other s...

Ya, DRK is kind of a 2nd-tier DD job (a lot like THF) when it come to XP'ing. It's on fast TP-burn HNM kills that DRK really shines. Nothing comes even close to them there and they don't even need a kraken to do more than double of anyone else. That's a myth; regular rune-chopper drks do outstanding...

Advice for BCs: just like crafts, hit FFXI-AH for the profit after checking the drop lists. That and always go with friends and use full-share method. "My orb / my drops" usually ends up with just 2-3 people making gil.

If you want to make gil crafting, use FFXI AH . Carefully check the profit on your server for every single item that particular craft can make before you decide to level it up over 60. If you're looking to make money on HQ, know that the tiers go 11: 10%, 31: 25%, 51: 50% for "skill over item-l...

Safe-mode doesn't mean your HW isn't broken. I have a couple cards right now that only work in safe-mode. They've been deep-fried by trying to run too hot. One of the problems is that the Radeon drivers for the fried card I have runs in two modes. Basic 2D and 3D. The 3D mode is automatically overcl...

It could just be one of the simple HW issues. Try removing the card and gently cleaning the contacts with an eraser. Blowing away all the dust inside the comp can fix things, too. My experience has been that Radeon cards are very intolerant of heat. They don't seem to run particularly hot, but their...

The only shells without any drama at all have no people in them.

I really like my current shell. There's a tiny bit of drama now and then by for the most part everyone is really nice. ^^