Is it just me..?

[SpankWustler]

Abyssea exp alliances suck because 94.4% of the people in them aren't smart enough to kill a potato.

This sentence gives me an amazing mental image. A dozen of the worst melee imaginable are gathered around a gigantic potato, breaking their cheap plastic spoons against it's rough and rustic skin. Suddenly, someone appears with an Empyrean Potato Masher and Atma of the Malevolent Masher. He uses "Smashed Potatoes with Chives" which lays waste to the villainous but delicious root vegetable.

Everyone single one of those horrible melee cry out in fury and anguish, "RUUUUUUBY LIIIIIIGHT!!!"

[Sparthos]

Just as a side note to the mentality of this thread, you're saying empy users shouldnt solo mobs, but blms/blus/schs/rdm should leave camp and farm light...so in summary "Dont make this person go out of their way to help the party, but its okay to make THIS person go out of their way to do things." Not that i am siding with either side, but dont you find that silly that your advice at core is the same as the argument you are against in a nutshell?

Huh? My advice is pretty simple:

-Always kill as fast as possible.
-If you need Azure, don't be afraid to send someone out to go snipe Ephemerals or normal monsters for Azure.
-Always kill as fast as possible.

The only thing that may throw a wrench into this is a Vision zone party where you need Pearl as zonewide bonuses arent in effect.

[Xellith]

Still being as contradictory as ever.

Also, you may want to think about what you just said:




Unless you send your BLMs off to run around the zone (which most already do, especially emph hunting in some zones), you'll still have overpowering ruby which we do know, especially if you're a vet to Abyssea, red chests can cap off quickly and if all you get are red chests and no TEs you end your party pretty quickly, especially if you're the type to use a keyer or actually help out new players levels who won't have 100+ minutes to blow.

Anyone with an emp worth their salt will kill everything quickly.

If new players dont have the time then they shouldnt be in the zone without entering with more traverser stones. EXP/hr shouldnt be dictated by the weakest link. They can enter late or not enter at all. I usually tell people with low time to enter late so they can get in on the exp eventually.

Ruby is required for exp for gold and ebon lights. If your killspeed is fast enough and your mages can actually azure stuff then over time youll have much greater gains. Ruby isnt the devil that people make it out to be. It all depends how fast you can smash stuff in the face while the blms are off doing other monsters in another part of the zone/camp.

Dont blame empy users. This isnt an empy issue. This is down to blms/rdms/whatevernukes not getting azure. That being said, once again you have to be able to kill VERY fast to get good gains from smashing stuff in the face.

Another way you can do it is you would have 1-2 people outside the alliance cap ruby then get them back in the alliance and not ruby anything else again. You would then have them get killshots so the rest of the alliance can get TE and Amber but still leech gold, silver and ebon lights off the 1-2 people with capped ruby

[BorkBorkBork]

This sentence gives me an amazing mental image. A dozen of the worst melee imaginable are gathered around a gigantic potato, breaking their cheap plastic spoons against it's rough and rustic skin. Suddenly, someone appears with an Empyrean Potato Masher and Atma of the Malevolent Masher. He uses "Smashed Potatoes with Chives" which lays waste to the villainous but delicious root vegetable.

Everyone single one of those horrible melee cry out in fury and anguish, "RUUUUUUBY LIIIIIIGHT!!!"

Only acceptable image if said melee are wearing full pink at 90 and not swapping gear.

[cidbahamut]

Only acceptable image if said melee are wearing full pink at 90 and not swapping gear.

Full AF would also be acceptable.

[SpankWustler]

They are wearing a mixture of AF, Relic, and Pink. So as to better utilize the worst possible pieces from each set.

[Reiterpallasch]

Don't forget the NQ AF3