Stop Player Bashing

[Amerlyn]

I'm not saying this to "Bash" you, and I do not feel that I am being rude or insulting at all. I am simply offering you the opportunity to improve.

I don't see any bash or insult in there. Lol. I think people have a different opinion on what "bashing" is. You gave your opinion on gear, and merely stated you feel u can help her improve. Bashing to me is name calling, demeaning a player, telling them how much they suck, or making them feel like they suck by boasting of how good a player you are. If you insulted him/her, you stated it was not ur intention. Thus there is no "Bashing" in my opinion. Also in my opinion I don't think SE would think so either.

[rog]

Actually, I'm going to correct you on this.

Gear they have available and gear they choose are two different things.

For example, Triumph earrings were like 600k on my server back at lv 75. Merman's earrings were 200k.

Merman's earring was a better earring for TP and WS for mnk.

If you chose triumph, then yes, you'd be a bad monk.


I look at it this way.


Gear + Skill > anything else.

Having skill isn't enough. You can be the most skilled person in the world and let's say use all lv 50 gear and you just won't cut it.

You can have the best gear in the game and no skill, and still be horrible.

If you have good gear and know how to play your job, combine the gear and the skill, that's where you get the best players.



Here is my perspective.

Gear = Potential. The better gear you have, the better higher potential you will have as a player. Your skill level = how much of that potential you are reaching.

Pretty much this. While having good gear is important, it is not quite as important as having gear that makes sense. Using the example CS gave, you'd actually be better off using an nq coral earring, which is dirt cheap, than using a triumph earring. It's fine if you can't manage to hq every single peice of gear you have, but it is not fine to use nonsensical gear sets, such as tping with 0 haste. Anyone can get a proper nq gear set, very, very quickly and easily, without spending much. However it does require you to understand some very simple game mechanics, otherwise you might end up fulltiming 0 haste, and chr gear.

[Nepharite]

Math doesn't lie, you can tell which gear set beats out another gear set easily.

[HFX7686]

This game is basically all math. Math doesn't have opinions. It's either right or wrong.

[Naturebeckles]

People gear their jobs and play them in many different ways, this is true. Unfortunately, just because someone does something one way, for whatever reason, does not necessarily make it better or even viable. I could TP in all STR+ gear on my Monk, but I know I would be doing less damage that way, and thus be worse for it.

FFXI math has been figured out for a very long time. It is not difficult at all to look at two different sets and determine which one will do more damage, create more hate, cure more, or enfeeble more accurately or more potently.

Since I've been keeping up with other threads, a specific example which works out fine is your THF. You say you gear for Dex, Agi, and Chr with 0 Haste, and I am given the impression that you do not change gear between TP and Weaponskills, let alone Job Abilities. In general, I can tell you right now hitting faster would do more damage. Changing gear for weaponskills and job abilities (and thus not wearing CHR while TP'ing) would increase your damage. If you want the differences to be quantified, that is shown in numerical format, you can post exactly what it is you do use and I can compare it to an alternate set.

I'm not saying this to "Bash" you, and I do not feel that I am being rude or insulting at all. I am simply offering you the opportunity to improve.

I don't read you that way at all, so you're fine. I do have haste on my thf. It's just not my emphasis. I wear the Aurore Hat and Gloves (when I don't need my TH gloves), the earring from ZM with the enhancing dual wield effect and the Swift Belt. That's all the haste gear I wear.

[Cream_Soda]

I don't read you that way at all, so you're fine. I do have haste on my thf. It's just not my emphasis. I wear the Aurore Hat and Gloves (when I don't need my TH gloves), the earring from ZM with the enhancing dual wield effect and the Swift Belt. That's all the haste gear I wear.

So you're the one the OP is trying to protect.

[Naturebeckles]

So you're the one the OP is trying to protect.

Obviously.

Tired of hearing yourself talk yet? I bet you make yourself laugh.

[rog]

Obviously.

Tired of hearing yourself talk yet? I bet you make yourself laugh.

The day CS gets tired of hearing himself talk is the day the internet isn't worth bothering with.

[Cream_Soda]

The day CS gets tired of hearing himself talk is the day the internet isn't worth bothering with.

lol, so you've seen my threads in General? I've never seen you post there, lol.

[Nepharite]

Obviously.

Tired of hearing yourself talk yet? I bet you make yourself laugh.

I don't see why people get upset at others who offer advice to improve.
The biebs is right on this one.