PRAY THEM TO DEATH!!!

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Originally Posted by XavierBlade

More of a troll post, but have fun playing for hours with no save..lawl

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Maybe they're, oh I dunno, having fun with the actual gameplay?

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Originally Posted by Gramul

Maybe they're, oh I dunno, having fun with the actual gameplay?

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No way, that's unimaginable!

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Originally Posted by Punainen

Praying got me three buffs. I was not in a party. It doesnt always do something, but sometimes it does.

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I think lag is playing with your mind ...pray hasnt worked at all in ragnarok

Would /pray motion work the same as /pray? Most people on my server preferred the aggressive approach and I felt a little bad filling up their battle logs with my emotes.

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Originally Posted by Warlock

I think lag is playing with your mind ...pray hasnt worked at all in ragnarok

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Maybe...this whole thing works in stages. While some servers where just starting to have their cities invaded, others where still defending the outer walls. Maybe more enemies need to be defeated before the gods start helping?

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Originally Posted by Warlock

I think lag is playing with your mind ...pray hasnt worked at all in ragnarok

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It has... a sabotender and a morbol died not 15 minutes ago at 90%+ hp just like that. You were there, stop nuking for a minute and pay attention, it's not that you just landed a really good critical... :P

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Originally Posted by Gokulo

No way, that's unimaginable!

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I know, right?

This whole post-save gameplay thing is really doing a great job of identifying why people play the game in the first place, which certainly colors their attitude toward the game and how others play it.

One group only seems to value the reward or payoff. Because the rewards/payoffs of this post-save period of the game aren't permanent, they don't see the point in logging in at all.

The other group sees the events unfolding as enjoyable and are logging in to have fun with it. They don't require rewards to justify logging in and playing.

Funny how those two separate mindsets pervade so many of the discussions/debates on these forums, and color people's views on where the game is or should be going.

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Originally Posted by Preypacer

I know, right?

This whole post-save gameplay thing is really doing a great job of identifying why people play the game in the first place, which certainly colors their attitude toward the game and how others play it.

One group only seems to value the reward or payoff. Because the rewards/payoffs of this post-save period of the game aren't permanent, they don't see the point in logging in at all.

The other group sees the events unfolding as enjoyable and are logging in to have fun with it. They don't require rewards to justify logging in and playing.

Funny how those two separate mindsets pervade so many of the discussions/debates on these forums.

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Hmmm even in-game itself... I find myself at a loss at what to do sometimes... when I see people just bash at every other enemy that appears, even without the possibility of the enemy going down. Sometimes I join them, sometimes I stand at the side and pray instead, not even knowing if that will or will not work. We're at the golem phase now in Masamune and I'm taking a break from fighting...

It's a strange kind of fun for now, but I'm sure the rewards for staying on in Eorzea to brave the impending apocalypse will be something intangible and definitely a memory for us as we move on to 2.0. Then we can brag to the newbies there that we did this and did that to save the world LOL

Oh my gods, this is amazing. :D

Are the system messages new?

It doesn't seem to be working today ; ;

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Originally Posted by JillyBean

Are the system messages new?

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There have been system messages that
1. direct players to cities invaded by monsters
2. congratulate them for getting rid of the mobs afterwards

And this isn't happening on all worlds at the same time...

This morning is the first I've seen them, but I haven't been on much. Thanks.

On Sarga, we got the Grid being attacked. Found them at Conjurer Guild and went back out to shout range to bring people in. Going well!

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Originally Posted by Gramul

Maybe they're, oh I dunno, having fun with the actual gameplay?

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Guess they should have implemented this a long time ago then:)

Way to go, Sargatanas! I'm gonna log in and try this right now!

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Originally Posted by Sartori

Guess they should have implemented this a long time ago then:)

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Says the guy with countless level 50 jobs.

Has anyone tried praying with their deity ring on? Think it makes a difference?

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Originally Posted by CSLionheart

Has anyone tried praying with their deity ring on? Think it makes a difference?

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I see most people wearing their ring now. I don't know if it has an impact or not. I'm inclined to think it functions simply. Like, /pray will work on certain mobs that are unreasonable to kill and won't work on lower level mobs. There's probably just a certain quota of /pray that's required. So, when many people pray the mobs go down in seconds, but if you're doing it alone it's still possible, just takes many /pray.

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Originally Posted by Kio

Would /pray motion work the same as /pray? Most people on my server preferred the aggressive approach and I felt a little bad filling up their battle logs with my emotes.

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I think /pray motion will work exactly the same way. I just went to the stone for my deity and used /pray motion. Exactly the same thing happens there when you use /pray or /pray motion. Target drops and it says "You pray solemnly." in the log. It's like motion is ignored completely.

Spent a good while in a full party and a LS full of people, like 2 dozen, all praying together at a Magitek armor. Didn't do a thing. *sigh* I'm not spending hours of my life logged in just to stand still and spam an emote. >_<

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Originally Posted by StianGold

Hello Everyone! This is how you kill mobs with /pray

1) It need to be 15 peoples or more who pray.
2) All who pray need to have done the quest Living On A Prayer.
3) All Who pray need to have the guardian ring on (you get it in Living On A Prayer).
4) All need to /pray at same time.
5) WARNING: It wont work on all mobs!!!

If it wont work i dont know but at my server: Ridill it worked but not everytime its hard to get peoples to do it. Well we killed 2 that Magitek Garlean things. So it work.

If it wont work i dont know.

Hoppe it work :)
Good Luck!

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Stian Gold


ps) Here is all monsters we have killed with /pray:

Golums, Imperials, Magitek. It are more mobs you can kill with /pray i just dont remember name to all mobs :(

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test and post

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Originally Posted by Sartori

Guess they should have implemented this a long time ago then:)

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You know, I always get a kick out of reading remarks like this; those that imply that somehow FFXIV hasn't been fun at all. Then I go and check out the history of the character on the account, to find that - as in your case - your first achievement was back on 9/25/2010, and you have almost all classes/jobs to 50 - including DoL and DoH classes. On top of whatever other milestones you've achieved along the way.

If you were someone who barely played at all in all that time, didn't get very far and had made only moderate progress, I could maybe say "Okay, they maybe were trying to enjoy it and were struggling along". But when you've done as much as you have, and stuck with the game as long as you have, it just seems very disingenuous to come out with such a cynical sounding statement as what you just said there.

Certainly you enjoyed the gameplay enough to have kept with it all this time. Unless you're a genuine masochist. Are you just trying to sound clever and cynical? Relentlessly negative? Is your cup always half empty?

I'm not just pointing you out, it's a lot of people on here I notice doing this. I knew someone back in XI who played for about 6 years without a break - and complained about how horrible and un-fun the game was every single day of it. I used to question him all the time too about how he could possibly continue playing a game so much and for so long that he seemed to hate with a passion. He never really had an answer.

I just don't understand that.

I think we've made some kind of breakthrough on Balmung

We had Magiteks up for about 3 hours..some ppl from our LS went out to pray at the stones and some of us stayed in Uldah. A few seconds after said ppl said they prayed to the stones the mobs would drop to 0%. This has happened about 4 times so far.

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

I think we've made some kind of breakthrough on Balmung

We had Magiteks up for about 3 hours..some ppl from our LS went out to pray at the stones and some of us stayed in Uldah. A few seconds after said ppl said they prayed to the stones the mobs would drop to 0%. This has happened about 4 times so far.

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this was while i was doing living on a prayer to get my ring

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Originally Posted by XavierBlade

have fun

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EXACTLY what we are doing, my good chum.

Anyone have a video of this working? I still don't believe it's true.

Balmung is stuck trying to kill a 73 Buffalo.

We think praying only works on ?? NMs.

Still might need to go out and about.

So far having no luck of it on Excalibur... I even went to my own stone to pray.

I think you pray to the stones in the order of Living on a Prayer. I also agree that praying to the stones only affects "??" NMs. Some other theories people have is certain monsters are only affected by a certain deity. Sorry I only have proof through word of mouth, but other servers should test this out too, it only took one person to wipe out a couple of those NMs by using pray.

I still think the mobs either 1) Glitch and die or 2) are on some sort of time and die randomly. I've seen three Number 128's die and no body was praying. I've seen people spam pray endlessly and eventually something dies...and they figure "must be because I prayed".

Meh, not sure but I think pray doesn't work.

Ugh. So either you sit there doing /pray nonstop generally with no positive result, or you hit them and they instakill you. This is not encouraging me to play the game at all. Whatever happened to the fun of getting 20 people together to kill a mob or two? This is what should be happening right now. :(

Just a suggestion, but maybe Piety has an effect on the /prayer success?

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Originally Posted by Hayden

I still think the mobs either 1) Glitch and die or 2) are on some sort of time and die randomly. I've seen three Number 128's die and no body was praying. I've seen people spam pray endlessly and eventually something dies...and they figure "must be because I prayed".

Meh, not sure but I think pray doesn't work.

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It works, seems like its random though. We prayed a magitek to death and my party got a tricorn drop. No one in my party touched the mob physically, we did nothing but pray and it died.

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Originally Posted by Loony_BoB

Ugh. So either you sit there doing /pray nonstop generally with no positive result, or you hit them and they instakill you. This is not encouraging me to play the game at all. Whatever happened to the fun of getting 20 people together to kill a mob or two? This is what should be happening right now. :(

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The Twelve only intervene periodically. Just because they will kill some mobs for you, doesn't mean its time to give up fighting altogether. They won't fight the WHOLE battle for you. Try some prayers for a bit, and if the thing doesn't die, pull out your weapons and draw some blood.

Atm its working on ragnarok 100% of the time syncing /pray the more with rings the better

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Originally Posted by Loony_BoB

Ugh. So either you sit there doing /pray nonstop generally with no positive result, or you hit them and they instakill you. This is not encouraging me to play the game at all. Whatever happened to the fun of getting 20 people together to kill a mob or two? This is what should be happening right now. :(

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its either impossible or its effortless :confused:

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Originally Posted by Warlock

Atm its working on ragnarok 100% of the time syncing /pray the more with rings the better

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Then there's this claim.

I just don't know.

How many people do you have /countdown /praying?

We had about 20 on Balmung just now but to no avail.

They're still whacking away on that 73 Buffalo.

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Originally Posted by Rhomagus

Then there's this claim.

I just don't know.

How many people do you have /countdown /praying?

We had about 20 on Balmung just now but to no avail.

They're still whacking away on that 73 Buffalo.

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I never said the Twelve will kill EVERY mob for you. They killed MANY when I initially discovered it, but since then, prayer has only picked off a few or given buffs. You are clearly not meant to stop fighting altogether.

Sure seems to work on Hyperion. o.o

When are you getting these buffs, and are you visiting the stones first? We're still trying to figure it out here on excaibur