Message from actual new player

[Charismatic]

I said effectively solo, and if you think that was effective you obviously never got into a Korroloka Tunnel JP worm leveling group which was better then valkrum exp parties.

It was possible to solo it just was not practical compared to groups once you hit 11-12.

If you DON'T think that was 'effective' solo, you never tried it. I often leveled faster than dunes parties myself. And of course it's not as good as a good party, are you retarded?
Sometimes people don't have time to organize a party or just feel like grinding it out solo for a bit, it was possible to level and do so at a decent rate without having to organize anything, how exactly is that not effective? Because it's not the absolute best? Please.

Effective and most effective are not the same thing, and hell... due to the nature of the game at the time often you would be able to be more effective soloing by virtue of the fact that you didn't have to wait nor did you have to worry about getting bad players who could slow you down far more than anything. Remember those parties back in the day where you came out with negative exp because your party sucked more than a Thread Leech? I sure do.

[Bled]

If you DON'T think that was 'effective' solo, you never tried it. I often leveled faster than dunes parties myself. And of course it's not as good as a good party, are you retarded?
Sometimes people don't have time to organize a party or just feel like grinding it out solo for a bit, it was possible to level and do so at a decent rate without having to organize anything, how exactly is that not effective? Because it's not the absolute best? Please.

Effective and most effective are not the same thing, and hell... due to the nature of the game at the time often you would be able to be more effective soloing by virtue of the fact that you didn't have to wait nor did you have to worry about getting bad players who could slow you down far more than anything. Remember those parties back in the day where you came out with negative exp because your party sucked more than a Thread Leech? I sure do.

For your information there is a difference between possible and effective but you seem to not grasp common logic sorry.

No I never had a hard time getting a party or playing with incompetent players, i had a good LS... try making friends it would pry help you out. I specified I was speaking of the beginning of XI where i never had a problem finding parties English or Japanese. Could you grind off of other mobs yeah was it effective no.. effective leveling was partying and if you were social enough or playing in the beginning you should have had no problems. However you sound like a person who is pretensions and non social.

Ignorant post is ignorant.

[Charismatic]

For your information there is a difference between possible and effective but you seem to not grasp common logic sorry.

No I never had a hard time getting a party or playing with incompetent players, i had a good LS... try making friends it would pry help you out. I specified I was speaking of the beginning of XI where i never had a problem finding parties English or Japanese. Could you grind off of other mobs yeah was it effective no.. effective leveling was partying and if you were social enough or playing in the beginning you should have had no problems. However you sound like a person who is pretensions and non social.

Ignorant post is ignorant.

Yes, your post IS ignorant. Ignorant to how the game worked back in the day, having friends or not having friends had absolutely nothing to do with having the occasional bad dunes party. Why do you think Valkurm Dunes had the negative stigma it had for years, because no one on any server had friends? Ignorance, son. Just stop talking about FFXI, you clearly don't know much about it.

[Bled]

Yes, your post IS ignorant. Ignorant to how the game worked back in the day, having friends or not having friends had absolutely nothing to do with having the occasional bad dunes party. Why do you think Valkurm Dunes had the negative stigma it had for years, because no one on any server had friends? Ignorance, son. Just stop talking about FFXI, you clearly don't know much about it.

lol Valkrum had its negative stigma for being the new players next stop for leveling after soloing to 10, everything after that was a result of new players learning their job roles, avoiding mobs, and leveling spots. If you truly had a hard time in dunes it was because you were not very good at developing friendships with decent players. Was every EXP party golden? no, but i never wiped countless times resulting in losing more exp than i gained from the group. I also never raged at new players that were learning their job and for the most part they would do fine in the group. You can easily see by your posts that you are an unpleasant person, and if you conduct yourself anything like you do in your posts in a party i can see your problem.

You just seem to be a bitter person which probably lead to you having such a difficult time. Of course when the game got older it became increasingly difficult to find parties in Valkrum because the main player base moved out. However originally if you made friends, had a ls, and conducted yourself well you wouldn't have had problems.

"Yes, your post IS ignorant. Ignorant to how the game worked back in the day" i generally don't say this because it causes more harm then good. However if that's how the game worked for you, "you were doing it wrong".