SE, Temper Activation Rate

[Crimson_Slasher]

I got a zeal tiara myself, from a pickup group actually, someone tried to brew panty, failed, killed, popped in pool, and lead went "ALL FREELOT" and i lotted a 943 in a 16 man alliance. All in all, a good day.

[Doombringer]

i got mine with my ls, first dibs actually.

for all the lolmeleerdm that flies around, most normal players understand quid pro quo. if you helped the ls, and earned X item, they'll help you get it. regardless of what job you're gonna use it on.

they helped me with almace to.. granted it was like the sixth emp we did, and i had a hand in all the previous 5.. but that's just paying your dues. doesn't matter what job you are.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

i got mine with my ls, first dibs actually.

for all the lolmeleerdm that flies around, most normal players understand quid pro quo. if you helped the ls, and earned X item, they'll help you get it. regardless of what job you're gonna use it on.

they helped me with almace to.. granted it was like the sixth emp we did, and i had a hand in all the previous 5.. but that's just paying your dues. doesn't matter what job you are.

You've got a decent linkshell then, that's rare.

[saevel]

i got mine with my ls, first dibs actually.

for all the lolmeleerdm that flies around, most normal players understand quid pro quo. if you helped the ls, and earned X item, they'll help you get it. regardless of what job you're gonna use it on.

they helped me with almace to.. granted it was like the sixth emp we did, and i had a hand in all the previous 5.. but that's just paying your dues. doesn't matter what job you are.

Same here, shell did my Almace and most of my AF+2 for RDM / BLU with WAR / DRK / PLD / SAM on free lot. We got just about everyone an Emp now. That was our goal so that we start new content with everyone maxed out.

[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.

[Karbuncle]

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.

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.

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.

I shall repost this whenever someone calls someone a troll.

[SpankWustler]

i got mine with my ls, first dibs actually.

for all the lolmeleerdm that flies around, most normal players understand quid pro quo. if you helped the ls, and earned X item, they'll help you get it. regardless of what job you're gonna use it on.

they helped me with almace to.. granted it was like the sixth emp we did, and i had a hand in all the previous 5.. but that's just paying your dues. doesn't matter what job you are.

It's good to hear about a positive experience for once. For all the rhetoric that so many people spout on here, I'd like to think this is the case with most groups nowadays. One of the advantages of FFXI being an older game is that things are far more chilled out now, so mentality seems to have shifted towards getting your bros and bro-ettes stuff they'll enjoy even if that stuff isn't going to make the group more efficient.

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.

I imagine you waking up with this vision late one night, soaked by a cold sweat. You shot out of bed, called your closest friend, and said in a sad monoton, "I see a Riftworn Pyxis. It contains two Ebony Logs and one Gold Ore. A Galka is standing beside it. He is staring at the contents. He is crying."

If the Japanese .dats from the test server are any indication, you're 200% right. Some of the upcoming equipment is amazing, and I'd bet both left and right moobs that most of it comes from VoidWatch.

[Shiyo]

Gear from voidwatch might as well not exist at all. It basically doesn't exist in my mind, I pretend anything from voidwatch that I can't buy off the AH isn't actually in the game, it's too rare/random to get, horrible design.

[Karbuncle]

Wonder how you survived in salvage if you think Voidwatch drop rates are bad ... o.o

[Shiyo]

Finished usu boots(only usu piece I wanted) in less than a week. Voidwatch drops are completely random and as rare as salvage drops, watching people who have bard at level1 get the harp off the harpy or other retarded things is just ........

Words cannot describe how badly designed the loot system is.