I have complained about this once of the BLM forums and now I am complaing here. Right now WoE is impossible for GMT players, how are people meant to do get the items that come from these events if no one is there during GMT times? It is either do without or pay a ridiculous amount of gil for the few items that you can buy.
The events are horrible! No one wants to do them. With a 1 hour wait you can't spam the even but at the same time you can't go do anything else. So you spend most of your time doing nothing, when you do get into them the mobs are so horibly hard that you spend most of your time weakend and thus doing nothing.
Skeletons in WoE 11 hit so hard that even with stoneskin if you get hate as a Taru BLM you die in 2-3 hits and it doesn't matter how carefull you are, you can let a mob get to 1/2 HP cast Fire III on it and then get hate and die. At the same time your forced to try and do some kinda damage because if you do not get over 6000 Exp then you wont be getting a scroll.
Monsterous Birds in WoE 09 hit so hard that your dead in 1 hit even with stoneskin up and at maximum spell range. I find it near impossible to get over 6k exp either because I have to limit my self so much that I do not do enough damage or if I do do enough damage I get hate, die and then sit around doing nothing and thus don't get enough experiance due to that. Not to mention their AoE spell that halves HP and MP again even if your at max ranhe from the mob an ability that halves you HP/MP with no warning that goes through stoneskin and can't be resisted is just horibly cheap and trollish.
I spend 90% of my time doing NOTHING in WoE, I just sit their for most of it. I can log in for 4-5 hours and maybe do 40 mins work and sit their bored for the rest of the time. No wonder no one is doing it! I almost always find my self loading up another game whilst I sit waiting for something to happen in FFXI. It is just not fun and to top it off their is no reward at the end of it all.... Oh no wait that is right, LOGS AND ORE LOGS AND ORE LOGS AND ORE!
Please either fix the horrid event that is WoE or remove it! We have been told that increasing spell drops would result in less coins being droped. HERE AN IDEA REMOVE LOGS AND ORE FROM THE DROP TABLE AND REPLACE THEM WITH THE SPELLS AND COINS PEOPLE ARE AFTER!
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You know I think SE belives this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP0kWqJJZa4