Whats with the zerg / speed run mentality?

[misterrpg]

It was significantly worse.

No because the game forced you to take your time so everyone did. You didn't play XI, that much is very apparent.

Games like WoW and XIV advocate people like this. Elitists, a plague.

[Rawry]

No because the game forced you to take your time so everyone did. You didn't play XI, that much is very apparent.

Games like WoW and XIV advocate people like this. Elitists, a plague.

There were no "speed runs" in wow... :/

[Dreamer]

There were no "speed runs" in wow... :/

That's because post-WotLK, pretty much everything is a speed run.

On topic though...it was their own fault. If you plan to do a speed run, you should be advertising them as such.

[Teroril]

There were no "speed runs" in wow... :/

You never did HC runs with me in BC, then. <_<

[foobarbaz]

There were no "speed runs" in wow... :/

there were speedruns in early vanilla when scholomance and that one other dungeon were the only endgame content. scholomance took like 2 hours to do and you could speed run it in about 40.

[Grundy]

No because the game forced you to take your time so everyone did. You didn't play XI, that much is very apparent.

Games like WoW and XIV advocate people like this. Elitists, a plague.

Circa 2008
Me: Hi! New <Warrior> looking for party <Please invite me?>
Reply: Can you /NIN?
Me: No
Reply: Go level NIN n00b

[Machazareel]

Circa 2008
Me: Hi! New <Warrior> looking for party <Please invite me?>
Reply: Can you /NIN?
Me: No
Reply: Go level NIN n00b

That was mostly just bads not understanding how good a great axe war actually was, especially before Rampage is available. They saw Maneater/Ridill wars tearing things up and figured that was the only way to go the whole levelling process.

[Grundy]

That was mostly just bads not understanding how good a great axe war actually was, especially before Rampage is available. They saw Maneater/Ridill wars tearing things up and figured that was the only way to go the whole levelling process.

OK, how about this.

<White Mage> Merit Party <Please invite me?>
No, sorry, Red Mage only <Refresh> <Yes, please>

XI was so elitist it was incredible. Anyone that leveled DRK to 75 deserves a medal, it's why I loved playing BST so much.

[Machazareel]

OK, how about this.

<White Mage> Merit Party <Please invite me?>
No, sorry, Red Mage only <Refresh> <Yes, please>

XI was so elitist it was incredible. Anyone that leveled DRK to 75 deserves a medal, it's why I loved playing BST so much.

Ok, yeah. I'll have to concede that one, haha.

EDIT: Though a WHM did work fine with the right setup. It just required slightly smarter playing. Your point still stands, though.

[IvoryFox]

No because the game forced you to take your time so everyone did. You didn't play XI, that much is very apparent.

Games like WoW and XIV advocate people like this. Elitists, a plague.

Err... Umm...

In FFXI, XP/hour was a huge thing whether meriting or leveling. If groups didn't meet a certain number they usually let the weakest link know about it - after an hour of bitching about it in linkshell chat. Nice try though. Claim wars weren't exactly as community building or "take your time" as you think, either. And I only played up until Aht Urgahn. From what I understand the speed mentality in XI only got worse when FoV and Abyssea hit. The one time I did go back I couldn't get a single person to take a little time to help me get my level 50 limit item (after it took only 2 nights of FoV parties to get level 50). I don't like the "Go go go!" mentality either, but c'mon man, take off the blinders. It existed/exists in our beloved FFXI just as badly.

Edit: Not to mention what Grundy mentions above. Not the "right" job/job combination? Not in the right gear? Not eating the right food? Not invited.