Ampador Keep Nonsense.

[Kuthos]

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.

[Gugnir]

That's the thing that cracks me up. The "ELITE" player are always yelling and screaming and I'm thinking, "If you're so ELITE...why are you in DUTY FINDER and not with your FC doing this???"

I expect crap when I use DUTY FINDER. There is a reason why we are using DUTY FINDER. It's because we don't have a STATIC group.

I had this dude rage and went on and on for about 10 minutes about how everyone sucked until he rage quit. Almost humorous.

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.)

[CyrilLucifer]

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'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.

[Sove92]

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.

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.

[Hanemakikaze]

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.

Yeah, clearly ilvl70 gear(darklight) is required for a ilvl60(AK) dungeon. Wanderer's Palace(ilvl55) gear is more than enough for that joke of a dungeon.

[neizero]

Died twice on demon wall, and died 3 times on the boss, but I got the hang of it and cleared it once I learned the fights.

Honestly, you can't blame people for not wanting to go through the initial learning curve *again*.

[Sheva]

Yea I was doing story dungeons the last 2.. and people wanted everyone to skip cutscenes when some people wanted to watch, me included. Also during one of the bosses the other healer was still watching a cut scene and the tank pulled the boss, lucky it wasnt one of the harder ones.

Really do wish people would stop being selfish and realize they arent the only ones that matter.

Like you I enjoy watching the cut scenes but while people are watching them the timer for the dungeon is still ticking away. If it wasn't for that I'm fairly sure people would not mind waiting for those that want to see the entire story.

[Tandy]

Honestly, you can't blame people for not wanting to go through the initial learning curve *again*.

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!

[Kiroh]

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.

[Eigi]

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.