Am I the only one who feels kinda screwed by not having a decent FC?

[rabbitzero]

You're probably very correct since the type of people that would pay for mercs are most likely gil buyers.

In WoW, some of the groups selling runs of raids (and specific items when the dropped) were the actual gold sellers. You could buy runs on the sites, they'd run you, keep everything but the item/s you bought, and speed run it until it dropped. You never even had to do anything in the raid. I never did this for the record, but know for a fact. It was also done a LOT before they fixed the exploit that let you one shot everything. Look up that video that guy has where he runs around Stormwind killing everyone with a GM command. His making it known got it closed, but even without it, they still do it.

[Reiterpallasch]

Uh yea they did. Go to town in FFXI and /yell for merc advertising and see what happens

Looking at live shouts via FFXIAH, there are people selling things right now. There's nothing wrong with selling things for gil. There's an issue when real money becomes involved, however.

In WoW, some of the groups selling runs of raids (and specific items when the dropped) were the actual gold sellers.

These days it's not too commonplace for raiding. Challenge modes for sure, but the gold sellers just aren't good enough to down anything in a real raid outside of maybe a couple normal modes. Bigger, more progressed guilds still do it though, but that's mostly just for heroics. Nobody really gives a crap about normals, since you can usually pug at least some of them.

Bugging mobs in a way that wasn't intended by the designers, is an abuse. Not entering the field of vision of a mob, to pass by unnoticed is an intended game-feature.

Pretty sure that when a person with aggro on a mob dies, it was intended for it to run back to it's starting position, NOT to start hitting someone not on the threat table. These mechanics still function this same exact way after the change, so what exactly wasn't intended?