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[wish12oz]

Tell me how am I a casual again?

I define casual as people who don't run out and try to gear themselves the best way possible.
http://www.ffxiah.com/player/Phoenix/Demonjustin
Looking at your FFXI AH profile, I see an 85 Almace, and BLU AF3+1 head/hands/feet. I consider you casual because I find this gear to be bad and I would not wear it. I would get the Almace to 90 and +2 the other stuff, then look at the gear as being 'average.' A hardcore player would have their 1 empyrean at 99, or have 2-3 90s at least IMO. They would also have full AF3+2 for any job they played since abyssea has been out for a long time. Leveling lots of stuff does not make you hardcore IMO.

But seriously, like I said in the other thread, 21+ hour repop NMs do NOT give hardcore players stuff to do or items other people cannot get. It gives those things to bots, and only to bots. You can stand in 1 spot waiting for a mob all day, but when it pops if you do not have the means to claim it, it doesn't matter how much you play. A grinding system like obtaining a relic by farming dynamis everyday would work to give hardcore players stuff casuals couldnt get (as long as you couldnt buy currency) So would a system like neo nyzul where you have to be able to clear X number of floors to even have a chance at getting the gear, and then you have to spam the event every possible chance in order to get the stuff. These are the types of systems I support. Being required to bot camp a 21+ hour repop mob for a drop is retarded and a step backward at this point in time.

[Demon6324236]

I define casual as people who don't run out and try to gear themselves the best way possible.

My RDM is about the only job I care enough about gearing to its fullest. If you saw how much RDM gear I actually have and use in all you might understand why its the only job I do that with, it takes to much room, lately I have been gearing up my DRK as well and that 1 extra job has already started to make it hard for me to have room for things.

Looking at your FFXI AH profile, I see an 85 Almace, and BLU AF3+1 head/hands/feet.

Almace is 85 & 25/75 Horns, I normally get them when someone in my ls needs seals from DK, I go WAR with their seal party, kill DK a few times, get a brew, and knock em out. Unlike many people I do not have a ls for much, mine is mainly a social ls, I made it back when I had little time to play and now don't really want to leave it, alot of good friends there I probably wouldn't talk to much if I was gone.

I would get the Almace to 90 and +2 the other stuff, then look at the gear as being 'average.'

I use BLU as a proc job in VW since its very easy to get parties with, probably not worth the bother of +2ing to me. Almace is on its way to being 90 whenever I feel like picking up the pace and doing it.

A hardcore player would have their 1 empyrean at 99, or have 2-3 90s at least IMO.

I see 1500 plates as stupid and would rather fund my Excalibur a little more seeing as I am about 75% done with it. Other emps would be nice, again, social ls so I don't get alot of help on those, and unlike other people I am not particularly fond of dualboxing. Leveling has nothing to do with anything else, I could make a new character today and get every job unlocked on the new character as well as every job to 99 in a month or less I'm sure.



As for your 2nd part, I like things like Relics in general, as I said before, someone with little time can make 1, someone who plays the game all day everyday can make 1, just 1 person makes it faster than the other. This means both player groups can access the content, obtain the same rewards in the end, the "Hardcore" person keeps their edge, and all is good for everyone.

[Camiie]

I define casual as people who don't run out and try to gear themselves the best way possible.
http://www.ffxiah.com/player/Phoenix/Demonjustin
Looking at your FFXI AH profile, I see an 85 Almace, and BLU AF3+1 head/hands/feet. I consider you casual because I find this gear to be bad and I would not wear it. I would get the Almace to 90 and +2 the other stuff, then look at the gear as being 'average.' A hardcore player would have their 1 empyrean at 99, or have 2-3 90s at least IMO. They would also have full AF3+2 for any job they played since abyssea has been out for a long time. Leveling lots of stuff does not make you hardcore IMO.

Have you considered that what you're seeing is a work in progress? Maybe he's not done yet.

Oh but wait, every job and every gearset is always a work in progress. Even yours. As long as SE continues to produce new gear you won't always be fully equipped in BiS gear yourself. If you're a piece or two or three behind someone else does that make you casual? Does it make you casual compared to the person who's got the newest BiS before you?

He may be casual. He may not be. He may be on a newly leveled job in the process of gearing up. Was there a time on any of your jobs where you may have been using +1 gear and an 85 relic/mythic/empyrean or did you somehow skip straight to AF3+2 and level 90+ weapons?