Something about the incoming PvP that really disturbs me. The names. Fresh meat.

[VahnValbosce]

Did you miss the part where the mods posted in this thread and confirmed that Fresh Meat is being deliberately put in even at release? Please read the thread before posting.

Fresh Meat is a huge problem and they need to fix it. Imagine when they roll out Grand Company frontlines. 32+ players. Fresh Meat all over the place, can you imagine?

How is it a problem?

Instead of saying "Attack Noroi"
You say "Attack the Miq'ote Lancer" (your icon looks like miqote... nvm you have cat ears)

How is it a problem?

I remember doing WoW Arena, and we NEVER called anyone by their name. We always said "Kill the priest!, or Kill the druid!" I NEVER EVER remember calling ppl by their name. Even when there was 2 priests, we'd always say "Kill the human priest, or the blood elf priest" etc.

On a side note: What viable comp ran with 2 of the same class? None, never. It was always Mage, Rogue, Priest. OR Druid, Hunter, Shaman OR DK, Warrior, Pally. No viable comp uses 2 of the same class.

[ashikenshin]

How is it a problem?

Instead of saying "Attack Noroi"
You say "Attack the Miq'ote Lancer" (your icon looks like miqote, so idk, cant seel if you have a tail or not)

How is it a problem?

I remember doing WoW Arena, and we NEVER called anyone by their name. We always said "Kill the priest!, or Kill the druid!" I NEVER EVER remember calling ppl by their name. Even when there was 2 priests, we'd always say "Kill the human priest, or the blood elf priest" etc.

yup, the only time I used the names in wow arena was to see if I should AFK that fight. If the same 3 guys that had been beating us senseless appeared I just told my brothers to go grab some coffee.

[Noroi_Kisaragi]

You say "Attack the Miq'ote Lancer" (your icon looks like miqote... nvm you have cat ears)

Why can't the game call us Miqo'te Lancer? Why are we called Fresh Meat? If they have to rename us at least make the name descriptive as to what we're actually fighting. Perhaps the implementation of titles would also alleive this.

[VahnValbosce]

Perhaps the implementation of titles would also alleive this.

See a few posts above to realize that the idea of "Fresh Meat" is to get rid of the trash talking mentality in PvP. Honestly trash talking has no basis on skill, it's simply an ego puff.

Also, if you can't tell what class they are just by looking at their character, it's not a good sign. The person has a big spear, probably a lancer or dragoon. (Most likely going to see more Classes in PvP since you get 10 abilities from cross skills instead of 5, that's just my theory)

"Fresh Meat" will only ruin the community because it removes trash talking and harassing, which people enjoy for some reason. But I highly doubt the JP community does, since PvP in FFXI is pretty much dead and never took off in the first place. Trash talking really has nothing to do with how skillful you are. Try focusing on being the best, instead of focusing on who to call a "noob" and harass all the time.