Hey remember SC > MB? Make it required.

[Greatguardian]

I've been playing since windows release in October 2003.

People got better.

Want to know the biggest thing people finally got through their heads years after the game was released?

Fighting IT++++++++ monsters as an EXP party is pants on head retarded.

DDs didn't get uberbuffs out of nowhere. They just started targeting VT monsters which gave them tons more EXP/hour and weren't flooring their Accuracy and Ratio.

Tiamat and Fafnir were also always piss easy, even before the 2H buff. Vrtra was only ever really difficult because of his pets, area aggro, and charm - which meant bringing a larger number of people. Most shells with the requisite numbers were capable of killing him, hell most still are, it's just rarely worth it. Besides, nowadays he's always down because BSTs solo him for the Cashmere.

[Chriscoffey]

I've been playing since windows release in October 2003.

People got better.

Want to know the biggest thing people finally got through their heads years after the game was released?

Fighting IT++++++++ monsters as an EXP party is pants on head retarded.

DDs didn't get uberbuffs out of nowhere. They just started targeting VT monsters which gave them tons more EXP/hour and weren't flooring their Accuracy and Ratio.

Tiamat and Fafnir were also always piss easy, even before the 2H buff. Vrtra was only ever really difficult because of his pets, area aggro, and charm - which meant bringing a larger number of people. Most shells with the requisite numbers were capable of killing him, hell most still are, it's just rarely worth it. Besides, nowadays he's always down because BSTs solo him for the Cashmere.

How exactly are you going to sit there and compare this overbuffed shit we get now to back then on those mobs?

EDIT: I never thought they were the GODS of FFXI but to say they were "easy" in the same sentence as "easy" abyssea/VW shit is seems crazy talk.

[Sappho]

Now you're just comparing apples to oranges.

If you knew people that were still fighting IT+++++ monsters in EXP parties when CoP came out, then I guess *those* people got smarter.

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together quickly figured out that if it took 5 minutes to kill one 200 EXP monster, but you could kill ten 100 EXP monsters in the same time...well DUUUHHHH!!!!! No shit Sherlock.

But we were talking about Skill Chains. But if the people that were playing on your server couldn't do the math on IT+ monsters then it is small wonder that they couldn't get it together for SCs.