Ambuscade, enough

[Diavolo]

Theyre not the main complaint, no. But they're ABSOLUTELY making the problem worse.

The biggest issue is Ambuscade's appeal, it attracts practically everyone, from the most casual to the most hardcore, and funneling entire servers into one fight every month is poor design, no other way to look at it. Instead of updating older content such as Voidwatch in meaningful ways, effectively dividing the player base across more of the world, we have players repeating Ambuscade countless times each month not only for the exclusive gear, but also for REM upgrade items.

[Domille]

[Aysha]

Is it hard to get groups for Ambuscade?

I've been wanting to get into Ambuscade, but I don't have an endgame linkshell, and I'm nowhere near geared good enough. Every time I see Ambuscade group shouts, they want VD (Very Difficult) and usually Volume One.

I'm a newbie who thinks they should stick with Volume Two (and I've never done Ambuscade before, so that's all I got open to me)..... but very few people shout for Volume Two and they ask for VD the few times I do see V2 shouts.

I want something a bit easier, but I bet nobody is interested in the easier difficulty, and would people take my i-118 wimpy butt into VD? Last time I checked, people are pretty picky about gear and job; I have a 99 WAR with Skirmish gear, but a family member has a THF with Reforged AF+1. Would they take her? Probably not, I'm guessing.

That's why people solo.

Unless, of course, I'm wrong and people will take lesser geared people, but we've both had bad experiences with people being picky, especially with her THF.

[Domille]

Ambuscade volume 1 is *almost* always done with an exact setup (whoever finds it works first ruins it for everyone).

Volume 2 you can take basically literally anything. You should not be in anything less than full 119 even if you started yesterday. Maybe 2 days, to be reasonable.

Any 119 DD with some sushi and uses macros, is good enough for vol2. Anything less than taking 6 people for Vol2 VD is a complete waste of your and literally everyone on your servers time.

Unfortunately, humans as a whole are a pain in the ass. and want BLU ONRY. with RMEA. for blindfolded piss-easy content.

[Aysha]

Unfortunately, humans as a whole are a pain in the ass. and want BLU ONRY. with RMEA. for blindfolded piss-easy content.

This is precisely the point I was trying to make: The community makes its own bed and then must lay in it.

If the community wants fewer people soloing, then maybe they should stop being so picky. It just drives people to avoid groups and to solo whenever/whatever possible and since Very Easy can sometimes be solo'd, people will just solo that instead of joining VD groups that are going "BLU ONRY!".

Want to see fewer soloers? Stop being so picky.

EDIT: BTW, we are full 119 (a couple of my jobs are 118, I think but we both do have enough stuff that we're 119) and we've been so for several months, but have been avoiding Ambuscade and other areas because 1). It's so difficult to find out what we can actually handle with just the two of us, and 2). How picky people are, especially with her being a THF, and 3). Finding forums that are actually populated by people of our server (Slyph) is next to impossible. Can't really find any sort of inlet to talking to other people on our server like one used to be able to do, etc.

[Domille]

It's just that... yanno, 2k Hallmarks would take absolutely forever on 50 per run lol.

Anything less than taking 6 people for Vol2 VD is a complete waste of your and literally everyone on your servers time.

Anything less than going on VD with 6 is a waste of your time... so seriously, don't do it...

[Aysha]

Anything less than going on VD with 6 is a waste of your time... so seriously, don't do it...

You're assuming we can find a group willing to take a THF, lol.

And again, wait times are <10 seconds on Sylph, so we're not wasting anybody's time lol.

Now if we were on a higher population server, that'd be different..

[Domille]

It's a community problem, that's the problem. The soloers I'm seeing don't even try to ask to join.

I'm more than happy to take *almost* anyone if I run the group. You have to competent... which isn't hard. Can you hit control 1 and control 2, sometimes alt 1? cause that is the entirety of FFXI skill.

with sushi and 119? Good enough.

Talk to Jeanpaul, he's a good guy and VERY helpful slyph player. http://www.ffxiah.com/player/Sylph/Jeanpaul

[Aysha]

Talk to Jeanpaul, he's a good guy and VERY helpful slyph player. http://www.ffxiah.com/player/Sylph/Jeanpaul

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look that guy up.

See, we're like... nobodies... and neither of us are really good at being social. And we've returned after years of being away and we don't know anybody, lol. We wouldn't know who to ask, etc. Between my family member being older with slower reaction times, and me having a variable work schedule, an Endgame LS is out of the question.

I wouldn't mind, however, having at least some decent armor that we can have fun in-game which is why I wanted to try Ambuscade to see what pieces we can squeak out. Even if it is incredibly slow progress, lol.

But thanks for the helpful information, will definitely look into it.

[Ketaru]

It's a community problem, that's the problem. The soloers I'm seeing don't even try to ask to join.

I'm more than happy to take *almost* anyone if I run the group. You have to competent... which isn't hard. Can you hit control 1 and control 2, sometimes alt 1? cause that is the entirety of FFXI skill.

with sushi and 119? Good enough.

Talk to Jeanpaul, he's a good guy and VERY helpful slyph player. http://www.ffxiah.com/player/Sylph/Jeanpaul

Then the problem is really that the Gallantry is not enough of an incentive to get people to group. Looks like they're some Empyrean reforging items so:

Building Emps-looking for group
Not Building Emps- not looking for group.

I guess whatever is being soldfor Gallantry is not enough for people to give up the freedom to come and go as they please.