Castrum easier than AK and gears you for AK. There is progression there, until you're mostly in DL items with an ifrit weapon, don't bother with AK.
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Castrum easier than AK and gears you for AK. There is progression there, until you're mostly in DL items with an ifrit weapon, don't bother with AK.
I just pretend I don't speak English when bored and using the duty finder. Its just easier to look at a battle log, watch a movie in the other monitor or listen to music.
Personally, I wouldn't have put up with grief. Maybe tag like 10 mobs instead and hit leave on the duty finder so they get the snap aggro~! (Like if they were all jerks. Otherwise, just leaving is fine.)
I'd say people should be farming Wanderer's Palace before AK, too. Which again correlates with the whole "they really need to move the GC quest from AK to WP."
It's funny, though. The Palace is more intense for your healers (need lots of curing power and constant curing to keep the tank capped off) and tanks (need to gear for HP), where your DDs have an easier time there. It's the opposite in AK, where the DD requirements are stricter in that you have timed battles.
The whole problem with this is that it's nothing but a stupid grindfest for tomes and needs no skill whatsoever. I'm not a shitty player but I just don't have the patience to keep running the same shit over and over again because SE gave no better alternative. I would rather see a challenge for the gear than a stupid grindfest.
Ran Ifrit 33 (adding all the failed runs with idiot parties makes this 40-50) times without seeing the Cudgel at all, and then some bad players get it on first try. -.- And 33 isn't even an extreme example of how many times some people have had to run it.
For a game that has been out less than one month? You can be damn sure I will blame ANYONE for not understanding new people need to go through endgame instances. Its totally INSANE that people are so self centered that they think everyone should know everything in less than the freaking free month!
AK is really not all this difficult, you just have to know what you're doing. The problem isn't people who are new to the dungeons, they can always learn and get better. The problem is people (new or not) who refuse to listen.
I seem to remember a "Live from Producer" episode that talks about player ethics and they've even talked about exactly what OP did. Well the message looks like it was well received /sarcasm.