Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[fusional]

Try me. The only thing I didn't get to do was Salvage. Name anything and I'll tell you how pathetically easy it was.

I was in Empire in Ramuh, and we were the premier LS on the server for a long time.

i was from ramuh, too. remember SG? best japanese (and overall) LS on the server from launch until well after TOAU? i ran with them (and later helped run TMNT- NA/EU LS that dominated for a brief time, until key players got their relics and quit the game) i remember darkhearts. i remember afterlife. i remember CAE.

definitely don't remember empire.

you guys must have come along waaaay after ground kings and sky content were trivialized. and this important to note, because back then, before TP burn- there were skillchains and magic bursting with an army of BLM.

i took part in the server first Ouryu kill and server fist Bahamut V.2 kill. was this content pathetically easy to you because you came along to do it 2-3 years later? i definitely don't remember seeing your LS hanging out in riverne with the rest of us. or camping KB/nidhogg (lol who ever camped aspi unless there was no chance of the other two king pops?). or camping tiamat or jormy or cerberus etc.

calling something pathetically easy *long* after strats are forged and people learn faster/easier ways to kill stuff doesn't make you a hardass, and doesn't change the fact that it was too hard for most people (including your LS) for quite a while.

but, yeah. the whole "never seen any skillchains on endgame mobs" thing alone tells me a lot.

carry on, then.

[Sephrick]

i was from ramuh, too. remember SG? best japanese (and overall) LS on the server from launch until well after TOAU? i ran with them (and later helped run TMNT- NA/EU LS that dominated for a brief time, until key players got their relics and quit the game) i remember darkhearts. i remember afterlife. i remember CAE.

definitely don't remember empire.

That's funny, because I also remember Darkhearts and Control Alt Elite.

Can't say I ever heard of SG or TMNT.

calling something pathetically easy *long* after strats are forged and people learn faster/easier ways to kill stuff doesn't make you a hardass, and doesn't change the fact that it was too hard for most people (including your LS) for quite a while.

If the challenge of something ends when the gimmick is figured out, it was never challenging to begin with, just cheap. Games that require actual skill call on you to use that skill at all times, even after that tricky boss's pattern is solved.

[fusional]

That's funny, because I also remember Darkhearts and Control Alt Elite.

Can't say I ever heard of SG or TMNT.

of course you don't, because you came late to the game. ask any of the *actual* premiere endgame NA LS's about their rivalry with Silent Guardians. go on.

If the challenge of something ends when the gimmick is figured out, it was never challenging to begin with, just cheap. Games that require actual skill call on you to use that skill at all times, even after that tricky boss's pattern is solved.

actually, i'd say more that the challenge ends when you begin using a gimmick to beat content (war/nin rampage spam for a while, then after that- just throw SAMs at it). again, though- i'd expect you to see the difference if you'd been around before the gimmick kills.

but keep talking about that content you never experienced like an old pro, old boy.

You're opinion of "very easily" is quite obviously very skewed. It was "very easy" for you because...

spot the irony.

kudos to empire, though, for being the best LS on the server long after everyone else worth a crap quit the game. you inherited trivialized content and sit here trying to puff out your chest about how ezmode it was.

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