FFXI fixed!

[Arcon]

I said this in a previous post, and I'll say it again: There is a HUGE difference between hard content where you need to be an exceptional player to succeed, and purposefully gimping yourself to make content 'artificially' harder for you.

Very much this. I hate people who keep bringing up that argument. I'd actually like to see something like the OP suggests. Better rewards for harder difficulty.

[saevel]

Another troll another day.

#1 Click Ragmar
#2 Add to Ignore List
#3 ???
#4 Profit!

[Ragmar]

Another troll another day.

#1 Click Ragmar
#2 Add to Ignore List
#3 ???
#4 Profit!

Coming from someone who promotes RDM melee I don't mind a bit. I wouldn't want you to hurt yourself and all.

[Trisscar]

Coming from someone who promotes RDM melee I don't mind a bit. I wouldn't want you to hurt yourself and all.

Okay, let's turn this troll thread into something actually productive... What is wrong about melee Red Mage? How is it any more wrong than melee White Mage?

[Ragmar]

Okay, let's turn this troll thread into something actually productive... What is wrong about melee Red Mage? How is it any more wrong than melee White Mage?

I mean really if you have to ask ...

[Trisscar]

I mean really if you have to ask ...

Yeah, I do have to ask. I don't have Red Mage leveled to 99 and I know practically nothing about it. So educate me.

[Arcon]

Okay, let's turn this troll thread into something actually productive... What is wrong about melee Red Mage? How is it any more wrong than melee White Mage?

They're both right, unless they wanna melee during a tough fight an alliance. Then they're both wrong. As long as they don't fuck up other peoples' plans, people can do whatever they want.

[Trisscar]

Okay, let me put it in a way I'm sure you'll probably understand.

I'm all up for a tough challenge, maybe one that can eat my face off and end my day early. But if I'm going to be doing content that requires me to essentially be at the tender mercy of something that is terrible to behold I expect there to be some reward at the end for my effort, and it better be something one can reliably find to be there waiting for them.

However the reality is that this is a game made by Squaresuck. They have a tendency to not reward you for your effort, don't matter how far you have to go, how hard you have to fight, how much pain you go through, even if evil stars align and victory becomes yours.

So no. If the drops are going to be like that, if the rewards aren't significantly better than what's already available, give me something that isn't so rough.

[Ragmar]

Fine I'll entertain you. RDM lacks DD gear even though it can hit a 25-26% haste build (great for stun recast though). The plain and simple fact is the best RDM or WHM melee would lose a parse to a Perle WAR SAM or DRK in any parse all other things similar. So if you give a spot to a RDM (even an excal or almace) with all the best gear available for a melee build you would have still been better off bringing that 5/5 resolution WAR in perle and a swift belt. I've seen the best geared Melee RDMs try on NMs like Bot Rex or Ig Alima and they couldnt break 5% in the parse. It'd be like bringing a WAR/WHM with refresh atma's to abyssea as a main healer. Sure with the right atma/gear you might keep someone alive spamming cure 4's but its obviously not a good idea. RDM melee might not make you lose a fight but its certainly not going to help you win either. WHM has even less practical EG usage but this should be really obvious.

[Trisscar]

Fine I'll entertain you. RDM lacks DD gear even though it can hit a 25-26% haste build (great for stun recast though). The plain and simple fact is the best RDM or WHM melee would lose a parse to a Perle WAR SAM or DRK in any parse all other things similar. So if you give a spot to a RDM (even an excal or almace) with all the best gear available for a melee build you would have still been better off bringing that 5/5 resolution WAR in perle and a swift belt. I've seen the best geared Melee RDMs try on NMs like Bot Rex or Ig Alima and they couldnt break 5% in the parse. It'd be like bringing a WAR/WHM with refresh atma's to abyssea as a main healer. Sure with the right atma/gear you might keep someone alive spamming cure 4's but its obviously not a good idea. RDM melee might not make you lose a fight but its certainly not going to help you win either. WHM has even less practical EG usage but this should be really obvious.

No one is talking about taking a melee White/Red Mage to Voidwatch fights, though.

They're both right, unless they wanna melee during a tough fight an alliance. Then they're both wrong. As long as they don't fuck up other peoples' plans, people can do whatever they want.

I hear that.