Idiocy

[SpankWustler]

This thread has the most appropriate title ever.

So far...

Someone has made up the word "Brezerker". I assume this is a savage fighter who freshens the air as he rages on.

Someone implied that jug pets which can cost as little as 1,000 gil each are as expensive and extravagant as snorting Oberon's Bullets off the small of a Mithra's back.

A contingent is complaining about only having Cure IV, without any understanding of the reason only having Cure IV can be a problem.

A bunch of other stuff I can't even interpret because I don't speak whatever language it's written in. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's misinformed, though.

[Olor]

Someone implied that jug pets which can cost as little as 1,000 gil each are as expensive and extravagant as snorting Oberon's Bullets off the small of a Mithra's back.

Oh yeah, so what, you're one of those buttersheep bsts that uses nothing but sheep for everything?

Guess what, the only way a bst ever has a chance of getting invites to anything worthwhile is if they are packing dipper and ghetto treasure hunter. At 10K-14K EACH, that is pretty damn pricey.

[Tiberius]

Absorb-Attri (DRK Lv. 91)
Steals an enemy's beneficial status effects.

Wonder what the recast timer on this will be? Probably less than 5 minutes...which will prove that the dev spokesman was full of chocobo crap when he said that Aurasteal on a separate timer would be overpowered.

[SpankWustler]

Oh yeah, so what, you're one of those buttersheep bsts that uses nothing but sheep for everything?

Guess what, the only way a bst ever has a chance of getting invites to anything worthwhile is if they are packing dipper and ghetto treasure hunter. At 10K-14K EACH, that is pretty damn pricey.

I wasn't as interested in laying out an argument as being flippant, given the general "content" of this topic. Basically, I just wanted to point out that every jug doesn't cost 100k a stack. Beyond that, the monsters produced by those jugs are actually better for pure damage than Dipper Yuly.

[Olor]

I wasn't as interested in laying out an argument as being flippant, given the general "content" of this topic. Basically, I just wanted to point out that every jug doesn't cost 100k a stack. Beyond that, the monsters produced by those jugs are actually better for pure damage than Dipper Yuly.

Yes, but no one invites a bst to anything worthwhile for pure damage. If they want pure damage they will invite a WAR who not only does more damage than BST but can PROC ... so, I don't see what your arguement is.

I promise -the only invites I've ever gotten to parties doing anything worthwhile as a bst is as ghetto treasure hunter when no THF was to be found. No one invites you on a seal run for damage. No one invites you to a big nm for damage. It is procs, heals, TH or go home.

[Korpg]

Yes, but no one invites a bst to anything worthwhile for pure damage. If they want pure damage they will invite a WAR who not only does more damage than BST but can PROC ... so, I don't see what your arguement is.

I promise -the only invites I've ever gotten to parties doing anything worthwhile as a bst is as ghetto treasure hunter when no THF was to be found. No one invites you on a seal run for damage. No one invites you to a big nm for damage. It is procs, heals, TH or go home.

Not really, you just stand there while waiting for the proc(s), then after the proc(s) you zerg it down.

If anything, you are just a placeholder for pop items.

[SpankWustler]

I promise -the only invites I've ever gotten to parties doing anything worthwhile as a bst is as ghetto treasure hunter when no THF was to be found. No one invites you on a seal run for damage. No one invites you to a big nm for damage. It is procs, heals, TH or go home.

While true enough, this doesn't sound like it relates to the new Beast Master job ability so much as FFXI and Abyssea in general.

Would you care to meet the 5,000 other people who play melee jobs and have complained about similar issues?

The solution boils down to "Do things in a circle of friends that doesn't mind one or two folks being on a job just to smack things." Not "Pretend you're surgically grafted to a ladybug." Pick-up groups have always been awful in every conceivable way, and FFXI should not be designed around them.

[Quetzacoatl]

I stopped reading OP the first moment he said 2HRs are most often used in Abyssea.

No Cure V for Rdm?

Anyone who says this, or even asks for this for RDM, I have to say this to you:

You're all f%#@ing delusional for thinking this will fix RDM.

[Olor]

I stopped reading OP the first moment he said 2HRs are most often used in Abyssea.



Anyone who says this, or even asks for this for RDM, I have to say this to you:

You're all f%#@ing delusional for thinking this will fix RDM.

I guess giving addle to whm was the best way to fix RDM, amirite?

[Quetzacoatl]

I guess giving addle to whm was the best way to fix RDM, amirite?

Addle doesn't do much except making magic-casting mobs easier, but procing weakness on Abyssea NMs harder. Either way, You're always going to have a RDM and a WHM wherever it's necessary, so I don't mind it as much as other people seem to.

Sure, it's going to step on RDM's exclusivity a little bit, but I'm hopeful with the way SE adjusts Enfeebling, it may not be a gamechanger as people may think.