Ther case for -Prep as related to gear ect

[Clou777]

you know you've abyssea burned summoner when you spell perp PREP! >.<;

[Dallas]

Raz, last trial was Azdaja and it has been ages since I worked on the crappy staves. I think it was DC cockatrices in Abyssea level 85. I was top kill contributor in a murex alliance in vunkurl. I ran laps around the non-melee SMN in GOV. I melee everything but frogs and flayers in Nyzul, including all bosses. I melee all avatar battles. I have meritted 4 jobs to max only with SMN, and always meleeing.

The excuse to melee is because it is the best playstyle by a landslide. All jobs have best players. SMN is the only job that coddles the gimps.

[Razushu]

Raz, last trial was Azdaja and it has been ages since I worked on the crappy staves. I think it was DC cockatrices in Abyssea level 85. I was top kill contributor in a murex alliance in vunkurl. I ran laps around the non-melee SMN in GOV. I melee everything but frogs and flayers in Nyzul, including all bosses. I melee all avatar battles. I have meritted 4 jobs to max only with SMN, and always meleeing.

The excuse to melee is because it is the best playstyle by a landslide. All jobs have best players. SMN is the only job that coddles the gimps.

There's Cockatrice's that won't last the BP recast in Meriphataud Mountains [s], no need to melee there. So thats a no to the soloed merits? Congrats you can melee in Abyssea(psst.... everyone can just fyi). Are you bragging about meleeing on the Trial by [element] fights?

[Korpg]

Raz, last trial was Azdaja and it has been ages since I worked on the crappy staves. I think it was DC cockatrices in Abyssea level 85. I was top kill contributor in a murex alliance in vunkurl. I ran laps around the non-melee SMN in GOV. I melee everything but frogs and flayers in Nyzul, including all bosses. I melee all avatar battles. I have meritted 4 jobs to max only with SMN, and always meleeing.

The excuse to melee is because it is the best playstyle by a landslide. All jobs have best players. SMN is the only job that coddles the gimps.

So, you say you were a top kill contributor in a murex alliance in Vunk, was that because you were always trying for pearl lights and waited until the mob was at 20% before using a BP? Because, you know, that isn't hard.....

Can you do anything by yourself? Or do you always need 17 other people with you so you can melee and feel good for yourself? Here is a hint: How can you consider yourself the best if you are not the best in the group of people? SMN shines in its ability to solo harder mobs/NMs, and you have yet to show you done so.

[Arciel]

come on! everyone knows murex alliance is where all the endgame action is these days!

[Dallas]

I dont solo merits because merits flow out the ears. Ever try to get a grounds drop? Half a merit per page.

I accomplish gear tasks: KI farming, gold chest farming, VNM farming...

Remember my 2 in 50 seconds comment? That's T-IT mobs in Abyssea. That's DC outside (haven't found any reason to try.harder outside). There is never an exp shortage.

[Dallas]

Arc wants to play, then he wants everyone to ignore me, then he wants to play again.

Bipolar much?

[Razushu]

I dont solo merits because merits flow out the ears. Ever try to get a grounds drop? Half a merit per page.

I accomplish gear tasks: KI farming, gold chest farming, VNM farming...

Remember my 2 in 50 seconds comment? That's T-IT mobs in Abyssea. That's DC outside (haven't found any reason to try.harder outside). There is never an exp shortage.

Dom Ops 1 Grauberg [a] is 1/2 a merit per page, no exp shortage in this game anymore. I accomplish those same tasks too, usually without bothering to melee. Especially VNMs Tier 1's drop like flies, and I usually like to kill Tier 2's with 3 DD Atmas(can make for some b*lls to the wall kite moments).

[Dallas]

Just think, in the time you spend defending 250 staff skill, you could have levelled it to cap, or accomplished a lot less by not meleeing.

[Razushu]

Just think, in the time you spend defending 250 staff skill, you could have levelled it to cap, or accomplished a lot less by not meleeing.

Or in the time it took to skill up a skill that's high enough for my purposes, I accomplish everything I've set out to do so far, and lack of a melee gear set has yet to effect me negatively. I solo merits at 8~10 points every 2 hours without meleeing, I've brought down NMs the length and breadth of Vana'diel and Abyssea, without feeling like I need to whiff at them. I've turned the tide in battles that would have gone south without me there, precisely because my hate was at a low level from not meleeing.

I've yet to encounter an obstacle that wouldn't have been there if only I meleed, for mages those obstacles just don't exist theres always another choice. Where as you either melee in a party(and lets face it theres 5+ others fighting the same mob, so it won't matter too much that you're dealing 1/4 the damage of a melee), where your slack can be picked up easily, or you pick targets that give you an excuse to melee ex. For cockatrice's you went to Abyssea for DCs & up that an Avatar would have trouble tearing down quickly, when theres perfectly fine EP-- Cocks in Meri. Mts [s] that won't last a recast timer melee or not.