Static Groups

Hey Everyone,

I just wanted to ask around how things are with everyone and their coil statics.

Are you still in your original group?
Was there drama?
Have you gone through many different groups?

I've been pretty lucky to have had the same static up until 4 weeks ago. Then after our static broke apart, I didn't feel like filling in the group with reps anymore and just decided to quit the game at that point. (Because there's nothing else to do endgame wise.)

I'm beginning to see more and more people LFM or LFG for statics. I think people have warned awhile back about the potential problems with statics and now we are seeing them...and it's going to cause SE to lose membership. (about 8 of us have decided to leave the game for other MMOs with more possibly leaving.)

I have the same static I started with. Of course there's drama, but we are all pretty close and get over it by the time raid ends. All of us came from another game so it's not like we met on FF14.

My first static was with my FC. The FC went inactive though.

For my second static, only 3 of the original 8 remain. The others we managed to fill in from other FC members and good players we met through Party Finder.

We took a break from raiding when 2.2 hit, but just started getting back into it now. We're currently taking on Turn 6.

same old static when 2.0 started since 6 months ago, there'll always be drama in every group but if the static leader is good people will stick around.

I.can't even find a static lol they all want completely experienced "Must have 6-9 killzzz, or be sub 1% t9" so I'm stuck with PF for learning.. which I typically clear t6 weekly, t7 is hit & miss in pf weekly, even in 'kill' groups

I joined my static in 2.0, when one of their tanks left to join another group within the same FC.

Still in the same static, albeit with some different faces here and there. Since the time I joined, 4 of us are still in the same static.

well, i've been with my static for a while now, we are casual players so, we enjoy the game litlle by little

Homeless.

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Found my static(and FC) all the way back in like the 2nd week after the 2.0 launched. They were looking for a tank for t2 and I happen to be online, still doing coil with 6 out of 7 of those guys now and we're working on T8. So I guess statics do work sometimes?

Been with the same raidleader, but the group members have changed multiple times, now the leader is the last original member of it, I permanently joined it early December.

Had a bit of a problem with mine and left them. Eventually they either stopped playing or transferred to other servers. I just play with friends now and not making any real progress in ex or coil.

i am looking for an static for saterday evenings and day or night sunday's i am willing to move to another server if needed i am currently on hyperion i am a legacy player so unless they allowed us to move to non legacy till i am stuck to legacy server's

I don't know what the trend is in this game, I never saw something like this in 11. But anyways, the trend goes like this:

1. Player A tells the leader "Player B and C aren't up to my standards, you need to kick them or I leave" Leader refuses, and Player A leaves. Again to find a new member...
2. Player Y decides to commit to the new static, before next event day comes, he tells the leader "Sorry I can't make it due to getting a new job/excuses that seem legit" and then you find them the next day... online and doing coil with PF groups... at the times they said they would be at work. Again to find new member...
3. Player F decides to join the static A and is all yay and stuff, being all sociable to them right. Then the next say she's like "Oh sorry, I heard you guys are having problems with this Turn etc etc, I'm going to have to join static B sorry". Said static ditches her in the end, then she comes back to static A asking for a spot and apologizing and leader is like "Nope". At this point I believed in karma. Again to find new member...

In the end, Static A managed to take down those turns that couldn't at first because it obviously takes time (duh?) and is on Turn 8 now. If people hadn't bailed so much static A would've been farther than that, but people are impatient, greedy and selfish. I can understand personal, real life issues, but when you use them to lie about it then that's not nice.

All this based on a true story. :P

I think the way coil is designed brings out the worst in people... it's kinda scary, actually. >_> I don't remember having this kind of stuff in 11, statics there only drama was ninja-lotting or fighting over items, but at least you didn't have to find a new person every 2 days. XD And people actually committed, even if they were kinda jerks. I guess it was because reputation in each server was worth a damn unlike here...

2.0 - I used to run with my static/FC
They started to OoCly stress me, left the FC/Static.
For the next 6+ months, I went from static to static. Cleared t5 in a static, that replaced me a month later once we had the content down because 'sorry, we give preference to FC members (Load of bull and they can go **** themselves.)
Left another static because of a disagreement in armor choices. I didn't care enough about BiS and it was a -huge- disagreement.
Currently with my current static. We're on T9 now.

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Originally Posted by TurboSol

I.can't even find a static lol they all want completely experienced "Must have 6-9 killzzz, or be sub 1% t9" so I'm stuck with PF for learning.. which I typically clear t6 weekly, t7 is hit & miss in pf weekly, even in 'kill' groups

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So you wanna join a clear team on PF even when you have 0 experience or sufficient exp to have a clear?

Still in the same static, though some members have quit or gone mia and we have some new faces in the group. But we share the same principles, have no problems with loot distribution, lots of wtf and laughs during raids. I'd like to think we get along pretty well.. and while we're not uber hardcore and still at t6.. we're getting there, little by little. Wouldn't have it any other way, really.

And uh.. the whole lot of us and some adopted subs moved out of our previous fc to transfer to tonberry. So uh, yea I wouldn't say there wasn't any drama.. but we're still standing strong and still together.

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Are you still in your original group?
Was there drama?
Have you gone through many different groups?

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- No, don't have a static at the moment
- Not really, just people leaving the game
- 4 that I would consider actual statics, 1 that was a single trial run where I bailed on the group as fast as I could, basically because they were completely obnoxious.

Not really actively seeking one at the moment, don't need the stress, and don't particularly want to dedicate the time to coil2.

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Originally Posted by Arriana

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Reached end game, just a lot of ppl afking and RPing loooool
Anyone want to help me and tend to my farm? Jk jk lol
But honestly wtf is this game!
Oh and i'd be careful Arriana,
:) it's against ToS to post things supposedly "advertising" other games on the forms.
Inb4 GMs see it and click the link

Been in the same static / FC since mid September. We've had to replace our fair share of players when we hit T5 back in November because they weren't up to the challenge of putting in time to learn the encounter. Only 3 of our founding members are left but we've made sure not to repeat the same mistakes over again when it comes to recruiting. Our team is very tight knit, and we have loot worked out with each other to make sure no drama ever happens. Tons of laughs are shared during raids and the raid environment is pretty casual but we put in time like hardcore players (7 days a week). Currently working on T9 after a rough start at the beginning of 2.2 (3 weeks of no raiding thanks to losing a bard and scholar).

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Originally Posted by Yumi_umi

Reached end game, just a lot of ppl afking and RPing loooool
Anyone want to help me and tend to my farm? Jk jk lol
But honestly wtf is this game!
Oh and i'd be careful Arriana,
:) it's against ToS to post things supposedly "advertising" other games on the forms.
Inb4 GMs see it and click the link

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But never been in a static but i did run with a t5 clear group that went to tackle t6 the next day with 7/8 of the same ppl. But they all started to crumble as ppl got frustrated.
Next day, most ppl left that group to join pro groups etc. but to only end up not making anymore progress than they already have.
So funny to see a guy yell in an LS "T7 clear group need dps, in PF" @ 6am to only come back later to the game and see the same guy still asking for dps at 7pm.

was in a static for about a month or two we cleared t5 only with echo 10% (LOL) then we were stuck at t6 for four weeks due to some weak links and slow learners. a couple of our members had to go away for a while due to irl things, since i didnt want to pug or stop my progresion i decided this would be the perfect time to move on.
there was other stuff too that irked me. like people not respecting your time. say "i am going to show up at this time" and each time they are always late like 40 minutes or have to be called to log in. i have no more patience for such things.
in my new static we 2 shot t6 and got t7 down in 2 weeks now progresing through t8.
we had to replace a few bad apples and good folks along the way (ppl not showing up/lying and then doing coil/irl things hapening no time to play etc)

pretty happy with my playing experience atm

Hmmm only started with a static in january and it was FC members - that fell appart due to a disagreement and a new one poped up with half of us atleast in there. Then one person got RL issues, another... we replaced what we could, grabbe FC ppl where we could then one of the tanks got RL commitments and then we mostly stopped progression(we're at t5). Atm there's 5 of us around and since we started a new FC(we left the old one end of april) we have been focusing on that and getting people there and making it a place to have fun. So progression is still on our minds but it's second to having fun with everyone in the FC.

So far only really unlucky with EX progression no matter what party I join or DF or anything... seem to hit a fail on it...

My first static crumbled after our raid leader bought gil, so he and his friend decided to leave. After about 3 months break I came back to see that no one is playing anymore. :C
Joined my 2nd one, went through T5-T8 with it, so far it's pretty drama-less. :P

I have been in three different static groups.

My first one was with the second fc I joined, rotated dps until I was put in a group with unreliable people. I eventually left the fc.

Second static was when I rejoined my first fc. Eventually all the players lost interest and it died. :c

My last static is actually kinda funny. I originally joined as a melee dps. I went on vacation for two weeks and I got replaced. They asked for me back to heal instead and I've been there ever since. We're on T8.

My static is made up of 5 rl friends so the other 3 spots are filled by permanent static members and a whole bunch of reserve members who fill in for any missing static members. There is no drama with the static since it was stated before that only thick skinned individuals could join. Most of the static runs t5 drunk and we are still working on it. Lots of laughing cursing and joking on vent during the runs. We run for about 6hrs with breaks here and there.

I think I'm in my 3rd group since raiding the original Coil. I've been in the same group since raiding 2nd Coil though. There really hasn't been much drama in the groups I've been in, it's mostly come down to real life circumstances or disinterest in the game leading to people quitting and either having to find replacements or the group disbanding altogether. In my current group we've had to replace two people since 2nd Coil started, but people have remained committed otherwise.

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Originally Posted by ReiszRie

So you wanna join a clear team on PF even when you have 0 experience or sufficient exp to have a clear?

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no, actually, I want to join a static group. I don't care if they even have t6 down or not. I personally, have gotten 6 and 7 down through PF. starting off on progression groups, then when I personally 'get' the mechanics, I find a kill group. what I'm saying is, t6 is easy enough in PF, just getting the weekly clear of t7 is hit and miss, even in so-called 'kill' groups. I guess I should have been more clear. I.don't join 'kill' groups not knowing anything about a particular turn. ill join progression groups for that.

My original static had 4 people quit the game. Now with my second static which is about 50% of my friend's second static with her alt. So yeah, people quitting and reconciling our resources.

I created my first static as a mean for my FC to have a group running evening EST. We progressed to turn 4 but never could beat turn 5 cause of lack of time/interest/skill so I went ahead and beat turn 5. Then I made a second Coil static with random players I met during a Party Finder for turn 6, had to replace 2 healers and 1 tank but after that, it was stable. Now we're on turn 9.
Of course I still go back to help my FC with previous coil but I feel it will be a while before they start downing turn 6+ because these new turns might be a bit too hardcore for some.

First static was a great bunch of people. Ran with them from early Oct. 2013 until Feb. 2014. We didn't really start hard on T5 until Jan. and were having some issues, mostly with the raid leaders connection and dive bombs. He (tank) his wife (healer) and their RL friend (tank) all decided to quit due to the frustration and lack of content. The rest of us split. Some quit shortly afterwards, and it ended up being me and one of the BRDs as the only people who still play.

I bounced around in a couple semi statics for about a month and settled on my most recent one finally. Everyone is a pretty good player, but they don't take "being on time" as seriously as the old static. This drives me nuts, but I'm willing to tolerate it because they are good players and generally good people.

We're currently on T9

p.s. to be fair, I've had to change our raid times for work reasons here and there as well, and they've been accommodating for me, but not without some fun poking.

The static I was in slowly fell apart... People just not logging in, leaving etc. Some of the people in my static I had been playing with for a while so it kind of sucked when they didn't log in again and when we all went our different ways. When that collapsed, I kinda jumped around pugs, thought I found a static then something came up which was kind of the last straw for me. I got to see up to T8, which is enough for me. It kind of sucked about my static since we had grown pretty close and I enjoyed raiding with them. I just didn't have that same feeling when I went with pugs and stuff, which is a shame. I've kinda abandoned my original main though, got seriously caught up in leveling SCH on a different server, considering transferring my SMN main over to that server and saying goodbye to the old one. Start brand new. Currently gearing up my SCH, with plans to just casually run Coil. Guess I'm just burned out.

First static I had was with my first FC. We got to T5 pretty quickly and then they just disbanded. A lot of people got tired of the game, went to ESO, our warrior was drama queen, etc.
2nd static I entered with one of the static members from my first static, it was a poor mistake on my behalf getting mixed up with that group. Bad people >_<
Now I'm in a new static with a group of people and a leader that I've been friends with for 11 years and so far that been a lot more of a joy

I'm in a static with my FC. First and only static I've ever been in. We formed in January or February, I don't really remember. Most of us are still there, and we're a pretty tight group. 6 of us were solid from the start - all but the tanks. So we lost one tank because he got a new job and couldn't commit to the raid schedule (he hasn't even logged into the game since). We found a new tank in the FC. Things were starting to look good, but then our other original tank left (financial reason - had to unsub). We got another person from the FC to join us (he was a member of a different static outside the FC, but it fell apart at just the right time for us). Then our other tank, the one to replace the first tank, decided to change servers. He was gone. Tired of all the tank problems, our FC leader and static Bard decided to change to Paladin to fill the empty tank spot. So we got another bard. Sure enough, that bard wasn't a good fit with our team (great guy, still part of our FC, but he had gotten farther than we have and wanted a group that was already running 2nd Coil). So now we have a new bard who is awesome and I think we're going to be together for a long time. At least long enough to finally kill Twintania.

Still have the same static that's been stuck on Twin for 2-3 months. Leader goes on about getting practice which never seems to help. Half of it beat Twin when the other half wasn't on, and that half is getting frustrated and wanting to move on to coil 2 already. Most of it is on during the weekends, which I'm never on. Coil night is looking like less of an exception to that rule.

At this point, have either been considering a switch in free company, or just blame MMOs and go back to single player games.