Quote Originally Posted by ThaiChi View Post
I'm honestly amazed that ABCs still sell on Quetz, there's really nothing to buy once you've gotten your Brutal, Boxers, Loquacious, and whatever job associated earring you chose to have. Charger, Jaeger, and Gunner's Mantles have been severely outclassed by Atheling, Terebellum, and Libeccio. Maybe if you essentially paid Sagheera in ABCs to upgrade Nash/Homam a la AF+1 style?
Just shows the truth of the matter, there be many players out there per server and they all have their personal goals. It's why I stress the fact that Empyreans are not as common and as easy as people on internet forums seem to think. Just about anyone who spends their time around forums are hardcore enough to care to do it, and there's many thousands more that play that never touch the forums or they do but never open their mouths. They'll never enjoy the fruits of an ultimate weapon, or +2 Empyrean armor, and any really great armor, and are forever doomed to being the laughing stock of BG threads and the like. Because they have real lives that dictate their time far more than FFXI can.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't feel guilty as hell for being enough of a loser that I'm as far progressed as I am in FFXI. But I shrug it off and push forward. I'll just say that my hats off to people who win at life and perhaps someday I'll join them. Until then, there be gils in them there mountains that need to be farmed.