SE, Temper Activation Rate

[Urteil]

You're a man?


Well that explains a lot.

[Karbuncle]

You're a man?


Well that explains a lot.

Sexist against your own Sex? Shocking!

Sarcasm aside, never tried to hide it.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Sexist against your own Sex? Shocking!

Sarcasm aside, never tried to hide it.

Is it bad when I see a Mithra I instantly think: male?

[Karbuncle]

Is it bad when I see a Mithra I instantly think: male?

Nah, I do too. Surprisingly, my GF is a mithra though. NO she doesn't have a penis

RL Girlfriend. We live together thats how i know >_>. I think she originally was a hume F though, Then made a new char as the mithra waaaaaaaaay back. Hume F are fhugly anyway, Mithra > all

No idea how this is relevant but idle chitchat is fun :3 Bow down to your master Hume slaves

[SpankWustler]

You're a man?


Well that explains a lot.

I could dig up the context for this post, but I really like it better just hanging here in space. Somebody is a man, and that somehow clarifies things for Urteil.

[Karbuncle]

I could dig up the context for this post, but I really like it better just hanging here in space. Somebody is a man, and that somehow clarifies things for Urteil.

I'm not sure what the context of this post is either. "Well that explains the penis"

Now I'm confused, What about me screamed "Man" to the point it explains a lot that i am a man. Lady Gaga?

[SpankWustler]

I'm not sure what the context of this post is either.

Now I'm confused, What about me screamed "Man" to the point it explains a lot that i am a man.

I was planning to say "The way you forgot to close your robe before posting this morning." but your transparent text has preemptively thwarted my lame joke. You win this round, Krabnuckle.

[saevel]

Ok if you guys haven't figured it out yet most of the people your responding to are just trying to troll you. Add them to your ignore list and go about your business. They'll go away once they realize there's no one listening to them and nothing they can hotlink to on BG.

For RDM melee gear, that is one of my beefs. We get no "uber gear" and everything we do get is moderately easy to obtain. I'm up soon to get my Tiara and after that my "upgrade" options become rather limited. There literally isn't much left other then a Maats cap (CDC WS piece).

We got Awesome weapon's, mediocre WS choices until CDC (Evis is pretty bad a$$). Of course CDC pretty much destroys anything else we have. My highest so far is 5.6K with averages of 3K ~4K on normal mobs and 2.4~3K on NM's, really depends if TA procs or not. Outside Abyssea it really depends what I'm fighting, 2~3K on things like Fafy / Nidhog / Jormy and T4 ZNM's is common. Did the same on that T4 VNM (the Dark Dragon of death). Haven't had a chance to test it on PW, I was purely a support mage during that fight.

VWNM's would depend on which one, I've seen UF's hit for 400 before and Fudo's hit for 100. VWNM's have crazy weird damage resistances / modifiers. Sometimes you hit them really hard, sometimes they laugh in your face.

Getting spike damage out of RDM isn't hard, especially if your there for stun. Most fights these days seem to be endurance contests that focus on quickly dealing spike damage then getting away before the NM kills the DDs.

But honestly, why are people trying to predict new "content" from SE? We don't know what their going to create next, nor do we know what direction their taking things in.

As far as the idiots claiming "Abyssea is Over", well just ignore them. The best gear currently comes from Abyssea, including the best weapon and weapon skill for each job. Abyssea also produces the best XP and easier way to cap merits, should they introduce another type at 99. The only way for Abyssea to "be dead / over" is for SE to create another system that gives better gear for similar effort and more XP then Abyssea. And seeing what the drop rate on VWNM's has been like, somehow I doubt they'll be doing that anytime soon. It's possible that they could release a new expansion for PC/360/PS3 (assuming new client) only and have it contain a different continent with a completely new rewards system. But that's far in the future and none of it is pertinent to the right now. So for the time being, Abyssea is still "End Game", as much as the elitists want to hate it since it means everyone can have the shiny gear not just them.

[SpankWustler]

Ok if you guys haven't figured it out yet most of the people your responding to are just trying to troll you. Add them to your ignore list and go about your business. They'll go away once they realize there's no one listening to them and nothing they can hotlink to on BG.

For RDM melee gear, that is one of my beefs. We get no "uber gear" and everything we do get is moderately easy to obtain. I'm up soon to get my Tiara and after that my "upgrade" options become rather limited. There literally isn't much left other then a Maats cap (CDC WS piece).

You mean some of the people who also responded negatively to Shiyo because lame one-liners are lame, or the two "trolls" who briefly had a disagreement about a half-dozen posts before this one? Sorry to spoil things for you, but there's no conspiracy afoot. While I will admit to sifting through your garbage, that's just because you tossed half a sandwich yesterday and I'm kind of hungry.

It is puzzling that Red Mage vanished from a lot of the new light melee sets yet still gets spells to increase it's melee output. Similar to how Red Mage gets tons of mage gear but almost no new enfeebling, enhancing, or healing magic. I assume these phenomena are due to a weird conception of balance that non-SE minds can't wrap themselves around. Check out their feelings on Aura Steal if you really want to twist your mind into a pretzel.

As far as the idiots claiming "Abyssea is Over", well just ignore them. The best gear currently comes from Abyssea, including the best weapon and weapon skill for each job. Abyssea also produces the best XP and easier way to cap merits, should they introduce another type at 99. The only way for Abyssea to "be dead / over" is for SE to create another system that gives better gear for similar effort and more XP then Abyssea. And seeing what the drop rate on VWNM's has been like, somehow I doubt they'll be doing that anytime soon. It's possible that they could release a new expansion for PC/360/PS3 (assuming new client) only and have it contain a different continent with a completely new rewards system. But that's far in the future and none of it is pertinent to the right now. So for the time being, Abyssea is still "End Game", as much as the elitists want to hate it since it means everyone can have the shiny gear not just them.

Your extraordinarily unpleasant tone aside, this is true enough. Abyssea will remain extremely relevant for quite some time and will be forever relevant to some extent. Dynamis is ancient, and many people were still happy about the changes that make it easier to duo/trio for coins.

[Septimus]

Ok if you guys haven't figured it out yet most of the people your responding to are just trying to troll you. Add them to your ignore list and go about your business. They'll go away once they realize there's no one listening to them and nothing they can hotlink to on BG.

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As far as the idiots claiming "Abyssea is Over", well just ignore them. The best gear currently comes from Abyssea, including the best weapon and weapon skill for each job. Abyssea also produces the best XP and easier way to cap merits, should they introduce another type at 99. The only way for Abyssea to "be dead / over" is for SE to create another system that gives better gear for similar effort and more XP then Abyssea. And seeing what the drop rate on VWNM's has been like, somehow I doubt they'll be doing that anytime soon. It's possible that they could release a new expansion for PC/360/PS3 (assuming new client) only and have it contain a different continent with a completely new rewards system. But that's far in the future and none of it is pertinent to the right now. So for the time being, Abyssea is still "End Game", as much as the elitists want to hate it since it means everyone can have the shiny gear not just them.

And this is what is wrong with the internet. So many people are unable to discern between people who disagree with them and people who are trolling them. Just because someone has a differing opinion than yours does not mean that he/she is a troll, he/she may just have a differing opinion.

Abyssea is over. There are not going to be new Abyssea zones and it is highly unlikely that there will be new NMs and gear added to it for the foreseeable future. They will probably make some more adjustments to it, but new gear is going to come from someplace else. Does that mean that Abyssea is going away? No. It has great gear, lots of XP, and is the most fun added to FFXI in pretty much ever. But Sky and Land Kings didn't go away when Dynamis was added, Dynamis didn't go away when Limbus was added, Limbus didn't go away when Jailers were added, Jailers didn't go away when Salvage was added, Salvage didn't go away when Einherjar was added, Einherjar didn't go away when ZNM was added, ZNM didn't go away when Stronghold Invasion was added, Stronghold Invasion didn't go away when VNM was added.

Over doesn't mean forgotten, Dynamis has been practically unchanged since I started doing it way back before CoP, but it got a complete overhaul making it into a much more fun event. Maybe sometime down the line Abyssea will get a facelift, not that it really needs it, but for now the focus of the game has shifted elsewhere. People have to get past the mindset that Abyssea is the end-all-be-all of end-game and that how we play in Abyssea is how the rest of the game works. It is highly unlikely that those "best weapon and weapon skill for each job" (most BSTs are going to disagree with you there) are going to get their upgrades from Abyssea anymore. Why? Because Square has new content that they want to make us do and keeping us doing old content, even if it is fun and rewarding, is not going to make us do new content.

So once more I do my Cassandra routine, Abyssea is over (although it is not going to go away any time soon), Voidwatch is the face of the future. Ignore it at your own peril.