Do you respect or awed by level 50? No?

[juniglee]

I respect anyone who still has common decency to act like a human being. I don't care what gear you have, or how rich you are, respect is earned.

In real life, just because you are the richest person in the world, unless your list of achievements look "respectable" (ie. a philanthropist, humanitarian, donating to charity), you still won't have my respect.

In game, just because you have the best gear, unless your actions are "respectable" (ie. patience with new players in dungeons, don't troll around, don't go off on a tirade when a newbie dies in a dungeon for the first time), you still won't have my respect.

[Warlyx]

Not trying to derail the thread (based on my post above this). But it wasn't as simple as hitting a queue button and doing a dungeon to be able to roll against someone. There's a reason only a handful of LS's were even in something like SEA let alone getting drops 1-2 years after CoP came out. There was a big "elite/elitest" player base in FFXI, trust me.

Airship Battle was hard >< , took my static 2 weeks was well worth it ^^ , only a few (non-jp) at that time had sea access

oh and beating maat as RDM has been 1 of the most hard things i did in FFXI .....so frustrating !!!

[synaesthetic]

The problem with "One to be Feared" wasn't that the battle itself was difficult.

It was finding people to help you with it that was difficult. It took me 3 weeks to wrangle a group of people into helping me, but once I got the group together, we wiped once and then beat it.

[AltaneenXIV]

[troll]Here is your special paper crown of best half-god player in the whole world of Eorzea, happy ?[/troll]

No, seriously, this isn't necessary at all. Every players should respect each other, we don't care about lvl/iLvl.

And I don't know what is this "Maat", but I would like to see something like in The Secret World, a solo fight against a doppelganger of your job.
It's not "super hard" but people have to learn their job in order to succed and it's a good point.

That is what Maat was. He was your job, not too hard, but ya had to come prepared.

[gadenp]

Why do people need respect or to be awed at high level.

I once was impressed by high level gamers, then I started working. There are so many things more worth someone's respect then a person that can grind up some top level gear.

I mean, if you have it, good for you. But you are not getting respect from me for being top level and having some digital loot.

[CUTS3R]

If you want to be special then get every allagan item for your job or achieve BiS.

This should be mandatory for everyone at some point though, so... it will still not make you special, unfortunately.

I have a couple jobs @ 50 yet see myself no better or worse than any other player. We're all players on equal status

This is basically the whole issue with FFXIV. Nobody can stand out.
A bad player should never be considered equal to a average player as much as an average player should never be equal to a good players.
Same goes for people spending like 3 hours a week and people who like me play ALOT. We should not be equals either in any ways.

[Impurrrsive]

respect? oooohohohohoho~~~
the word is too big for petty reason
i will not bow down other than normal courtesy

[KraggyKor]

Every time I see someone selling a Titan HM run I'm reminded why seeing someone with a Relic +1 means nothing about the player behind the toon.

[gadenp]

Every time I see someone selling a Titan HM run I'm reminded why seeing someone with a Relic +1 means nothing about the player behind the toon.

Well it either means the buyer does RMT or ... is extremely good and takes the effort at making tons of money in-game.

[Hitome]

I have been in Turn 5.

Tanking is way more stressful to play as cause they are easier to blame than a DPS.

Are you serious? You have trouble with the other four stages? Ok, then I don't think you know what you are talking about.

You have been in Turn 5 yet have not beaten it. You claim this game is easy. This seems to be a contradiction.

Tanking is not stressful at all once the fight is learned. Learning a fight is stressful for everyone.

I have all three roles leveled. Healing is by far more stressful than the other two combined. DPS is only stressful if you seek to maximize DPS. Tanking is nothing in comparison.

I will say that each turn stresses different roles, though. Turn 1 stresses silence coordination (you have none as BLM), healer coordination and efficiency (you are a BLM: not a healer), and tank communication (you are a BLM: not a tank). Turn 2 stresses different things depending on which path you take. Left: silence communication (you have none as BLM), tank swaps (you are a BLM: not a tank), healer communication/efficiency (you are a BLM: not a healer), and rot rotation (you do 1/5th of the work and have aetherial manipulation to get to people making it a very easy fight for BLMs). Turn 4 stresses AoE damage and healer efficiency.

It isn't surprising that you have no difficulty in turn 1-4 as BLM given the above. Think I'm biased? Think again: my main is BLM.

I have no trouble with the other four turns. You seem to have trouble with Titan Ex, though. I do not find him to be difficult. Are you a person who also uses enrage for turn 2?

You have no tank leveled. You cannot speak for tanks in endgame content. You are assumed to use SMN as well meaning you have no healer leveled. You cannot speak for healers in endgame content.

In other words, what this poster said:

I find the only thing stressful is healing. Tanking is by far the easiest in this game, and DPS is only easy if you don't care about maximizing DPS and dodging.