Quote Originally Posted by Lordkyron View Post
This is what happened to me, and what got me mad that day.
If i could have trust in there , my trust companion could have received death and i would have finish the mob.
Some things like this also happen in abyssea.

It's annoying when there is nothing you can do about it.
also i WANT TO PLAY THE CONTENT. i don't want someone to come and kill it for me , in lol equipment, i want to earn it .
I don't think that is hard to understand.
If i just wanted the win, i could have said
/sh recruiting merc to kill (insert boss here)
On the "I want to play the content" issue, well for Aby thats easy. Level WAR 99, get some 117 free armor from the new helpful sparks/bayld offerings, get some low-delay weapons (all WAR types) and go skill-up your WAR weapons. Then go War/dnc and proc the atmas you want. Or proc the KI for the ZBs you want. Mighty Strikes the ZB. Drink some cruor potions. Easy.

"Playing the content", for me, meant levelling a lot of jobs, because FFXI was never intended to be "I want to solo on the job of my choice, with no alternative jobs." Its the same as people complaining about mobs spamming Death or w/e, these mobs were traditionally killed by changing to a pet job with low recall timer pets like Smn or Pup.

So if you want to farm Aby, understand Aby is a proc based zone, and you need to level a proc job. Consider yourself lucky that your newly levelled capped-skills WAR can go and solo proc Atmas using ilvl gear, most of us in the early Aby had to form alliances, with all the problems involved in that. If a specific mob uses attacks that are player-unfriendly or catastrophic, you switch jobs to your Pup or Bst, and let the pet solo the mob. Aby is totally soloable if you take the time to level a proc job and a pet job, and to skill those jobs up. By the way, levelling jobs and skilling them is totally "I want to play the content" in capslock or otherwise.