Hate reset and you, why the devs are lazy

[Juilan]

After reading these posts my point still stands on some of the monster's use of hate reset. look at Teugghia who only has one TP move... which erases hate on the current target. in my opinion, that is an over use of their new gimmick the hate reset on, say Sobek, I don't get nearly as pissed off about he uses it when he uses petra gaze (or w/e), I noticed on Sedna and the Pug before hand, they tend to do hate reset on a spell cast... which can be avoided with the correct set up. I can count off numbers of monsters that reset hate, but at least they dont have a 100% chance of doing so.

Tiamat Vrtra and Jormmie can do a hate reset move, but they didn't spam it... Then again that content wasn't, at the time, "low man stuff". Sure it'd kill a few mages, and it was annoying, but I expected that because they were seen as "hard monsters". In contrast, the abyssea monsters that piss me off are insidiously easy expect they can use a move and kill an entire four man group when they do it. making it a gimmick and an arbitrary difficulty boost.

I digress though, if they didn't put it on nearly every monster and gave it to them under certain conditions I'd be fine with it. The laziness in my eyes comes from the over use.

And yes, when it's on at or about, if not more, than 50% of the newly introduced NMs, its a gimmick...

I hope that if they keep this dead horse going they at least give everyone job an enmity douse move or could they come straight out and admit thats what they gave us for VIT lowering crit dmg and agi increasing subtle blow... which is a horrible trade off

SE's continued failure to fix the Enmity system has resulted in hate resets becoming commonplace. It's so easy for melee (and even PLDs) to hold hate over decent WHMs that the only way to restore any kind of challenge to the hate system is to introduce common resets. The system needs a substantial re-work, and the FFXI crew lacks the manpower to do it.

]^ this is my only beef with the reset. The fact they're doing it on so many mobs just because they don't seem to understand how to fix the enmity cap is silly. Having it on a mob is fine, but when almost every mob has it for a "band-aid" solution, then there's a problem.

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