To: Mr Akihiko Matsui

[scaevola]

The fact that people actually do fall all over themselves to book-burn and Abyssea their way to 99; in other words, the very existence of this thread is what stakes mine out as the majority position. What would it take to convince you you're in the minority?

[Eyeballed]

Shurikens and the Wheel (except for a brief stint between 40 and 60, after you get Ni nukes and before you get Jin) are a DPS loss unless your 60-75 melee gear is really lacking. The fact you wasted your parties' time by casting Ichi nukes to try to stay capped is their business, but you still wasted it. Kura/Hojo/Jubaku are fine, but they won't cap you alone.

As well, my 200+ criticals on Colibri with Manji Shuriken would like to have a word with you. But then again, I highly doubt you ever used them, so how would you know?

Bird parties, no THF, and that Penta Thrust SAM isn't taking hate off me. Not before it dies out-right.

[scaevola]

Mommy what's seigan

And good for you, wasting several million gil on using shuriken in XP parties. I'm sure way more than like a tenth of the people you party with even remember anybody did so, much less the name of the guy who did.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Wait, you're complaining about a terrible nin when you were a terrible nin?

[Eyeballed]

Mommy what's seigan

And good for you, wasting several million gil on using shuriken in XP parties. I'm sure way more than like a tenth of the people you party with even remember anybody did so, much less the name of the guy who did.

Who cares about who remembered? I did it because it was FUN. And because it was fun, the gil was hardly wasted. All 20-30k per stack. Woo.

[scaevola]

You know what else is fun?

Doing stuff other than pulling the same mob for hours and hours.

I really would like to know what I could do to convince you you're in the minority, other than what everyone else in the thread has been doing, which has, for whatever reason, escaped you.

(ps you should care who remembered, inasmuch as you're offering your experience as an example of how using shuriken or whatever in an XP party actually matters)

[Eyeballed]

The fact that people actually do fall all over themselves to book-burn and Abyssea their way to 99; in other words, the very existence of this thread is what stakes mine out as the majority position. What would it take to convince you you're in the minority?

You do understand the concept that the wholly modest number of people that remain playing this game are naturally, and wholly, going to be the remainder that "fall over themselves" to burn their levels, right? You know what the word 'skewed' means?

[Demon6324236]

Simple, stop fighting. If you cant win a battle, stop fighting. I assumed a diplomatic position, trying to find out info and convince rather than insult and attack. Which no offense to anyone but that is admittedly what it looks like everyone started doing. Thats why I brought up the point about people saying stupid things when they have no idea what they were talking about, like with the UO convo.

[scaevola]

You do understand the concept that the wholly modest number of people that remain playing this game are naturally, and wholly, going to be the remainder that "fall over themselves" to burn their levels, right?

Why? Anybody who remembers the old way of leveling and liked it enough to do it a lot is done leveling, so this whole debate doesn't affect them.

Gosh, it's almost like people are sticking around to do all the stuff that isn't leveling!!

[Eyeballed]

Simple, stop fighting. If you cant win a battle, stop fighting. I assumed a diplomatic position, trying to find out info and convince rather than insult and attack. Which no offense to anyone but that is admittedly what it looks like everyone started doing. Thats why I brought up the point about people saying stupid things when they have no idea what they were talking about, like with the UO convo.

Like I said long ago, and have demonstrated, I'm here to discuss and debate. I'm with you on this, at least.