Quote Originally Posted by FrankReynolds View Post
Can you honestly say that if you spend the next 3 months leveling your thief while I spend the next 3 months (minus two days of leeching) doing Twashtar, Empy +2, NNI, VW etc. on mine that at the end of that period you will actually be better than me because you were practicing getting two tanks to line up for SATA for the last 90 days while I was out using mine in actual events?
Nope. I'll have actually played the game, though. And seriously, you think it'd take 3 months?

Doing something with people who may turn out to be lame is almost always going to yield better results than doing nothing at all. If nothing else, it will boost your ego as you will feel vastly superior to the noobs you invited.
So you consider having a collection of noobs to feel superior to a good reason to encourage them to reach 99 by windowing out of FFXI as your buddies chop up worms for them? THAT'S HEE-LARIOUS.

Leveling up -was- the idiot filter for FFXI- yeah, we got our mouthbreathers in the days where 75 was the level cap and exp grinding was another word for suffering, but it did a good job of cutting down the numbers compared to the ones who couldn't figure out much past how to activate autoattack and still thought DRK/WHM was l33t endgame material.

That's been erased thanks to L30 Abyssea entry, and with the Chocobo Shirt, 1-30 will become even more simple to bypass since you'll basically find it impossible to miss on an attack. Period.

Also, we've managed to eliminate any challenging play or need for gear between 30-99 simply because of Abyssea- players can level so quickly as to bypass content entirely. The only logjams are level caps. Yeah, endgame is the only game- because we've castrated everything else.

You call it "Amish". I call it "eviscerating the base of the game for endless cycles of farming HNM's".