Attacking Monsters with an Avatar While Being AFK.

[Neisan_Quetz]

You can't farm garudite while afk, their level is not high enough. You only get blood and some geodes. It's horrendously slow even for that, there's only 2 chigoe pops at one spot.

And geodes are on a 5 minute timer if I understand right, in addition to the above. You're not getting alot of geodes, or experience doing this.

[Luvbunny]

Maybe we should nuke this thread into oblivion then, in case SE has some great idea for balance and destroyed the one job it never even bother to tweak adjust or making it better, yeah the most iconic job of FFXI, summoner.

[Nala]

Implemented in FFIII (nes/japanese numbering) along with the first appearance of moogles, there were 3 jobs that could summon them, evoker, summoner and the sage, each had their own version of the summon, in many of the FF games summoning magic has been one of the most if not the most powerful form of magic, the state of SMN on 11 is indeed depressing.

[Camiie]

Yunaphobia: The irrational fear that the SMN job will become an effective and important part of the game.

Perhaps I should amend this to "will become effective at anything."

[Rezeak]

<SE guy1> err guys we have a problem
<SE guy2> ??
<SE guy1>Yea we have 100s of people using programs to cheat in nyzle isle
<SE guy2>Ok, yea we all know that much but we can't detect it....
<SE guy3>WAIT GUYS!!!!!! THERE A FAR MORE SERIOUS ISSUE
<SE guy1> what ?
<SE guy3>PPLE ARE GOING AFK ON SMN WITH AN AVATAR AND FARMING GEODES FOR THERE TRAILS!!!!!
<SE guy2>ooo we can detect that easy cause it's a feature we've built into the the game
<SE guy1>Sounds like serious buisness!! rets ban em!!!

Imo this is dumb stuff banning pple for going afk and using an ingame feature that been there for years is /facepalm

[Shadowsong]

Community Reps: Please respond to this thread. Why is the DEV team punishing us when we have real life emergencies? Do I need to hard-power down my computer because my boss needs me for 20 minutes and I have a pet out?

[Alhanelem]

Community Reps: Please respond to this thread. Why is the DEV team punishing us when we have real life emergencies? Do I need to hard-power down my computer because my boss needs me for 20 minutes and I have a pet out?

You really can't hit your unsummon macro before minimizing/hiding the game?

[Krashport]

You really can't hit your unsummon macro before minimizing/hiding the game?

Not everyone plays the game using macros, also some people do play in full-screen and just turn off their monitor/T.V.. When their going to take a break or go AFK. Having an Avatar out shouldn't be any different from when people AFK at the entrance to the Mog house.

I personally think that's more of a problem then having a Avatar out, makes the cities and areas around it so laggy. But I can see and I do understand why people do it and I'm not against it. It helps to see what /shouts going on cause you can't see them inside a Mog House, and that loading screen takes forever and a day to pop up... Just to zone into the Mog House so, in other words if you gotta go, you gotta go. To jello (yes I said jello,) on waiting for the loading screen.

[Tamoa]

This is just amazing, and not in a good way. On par with the official response to making sneak/invis outside party spells.

[Economizer]

I'm surprised SE hasn't done anything about this years ago if it really bugs them...

Summoners have been AFK soloing Morbolger for years in order to get his vine without camping it.