Black Mage - the solution for everything?

[Molly_Millions]

I like BLM burns because they are fun in addition to being efficient. If you don't like BLM burns, don't do them, nobody is forcing you to. If you can't get into any parties but BLM burn parties, well, form you own. Again, nobody is stopping you from doing so.

[Tonkra]

I like BLM burns because they are fun in addition to being efficient. If you don't like BLM burns, don't do them, nobody is forcing you to. If you can't get into any parties but BLM burn parties, well, form you own. Again, nobody is stopping you from doing so.

and no one is forcing you to read MY opinion to that!

your opinion is just "ahh hell leave me alone with that, i dont care about other people"

[YuriSan]

your opinion is just "ahh hell leave me alone with that, i dont care about other people"

Really? thats what it was?
Damn i must suck at reading and understanding (lol)

[Molly_Millions]

and no one is forcing you to read MY opinion to that!

your opinion is just "ahh hell leave me alone with that, i dont care about other people"

oh right, I forgot. Because my opinion is different from yours it's not valid. Douche.

You don't have to worry though, I do LS only runs and nothing else anyway.

[Majidah]

I like BLM burns because they are fun in addition to being efficient. If you don't like BLM burns, don't do them, nobody is forcing you to. If you can't get into any parties but BLM burn parties, well, form you own. Again, nobody is stopping you from doing so.

while I think blm burns are good and efficent and awesome they shouldn't be a viable option for EVERY fight they make

[Molly_Millions]

while I think blm burns are good and efficent and awesome they shouldn't be a viable option for EVERY fight they make

I never argued that it should be. My point is this: if you're not the party leader, you have no right to complain. Don't like what the leader is doing? Lead your own group.

[Duelle]

I never argued that they should be. My point is this: if you're not the party leader, you have no right to complain. Don't like what the leader is doing? Lead your own group.

Again, MMO players are a hive. Opposing the hive gets you nowhere. Not to mention (again), playing the job and class you like should never be an uphill battle against other players.

[Molly_Millions]

Again, MMO players are a hive. Opposing the hive gets you nowhere.

Only if you don't form your own groups and strategies.

[Duelle]

Only if you don't form your own groups and strategies.

BS reasoning is BS. For every one person that may by luck be open-minded you have 30 people who whine and want only the "accepted" strategies. Again, it shouldn't be an uphill battle. Making your own group does not negate the uphill battle part of forming a group.

[Preypacer]

I never argued that it should be. My point is this: if you're not the party leader, you have no right to complain. Don't like what the leader is doing? Lead your own group.

That sounds great in theory. The problem is, finding enough people to put in your group who don't expect you to go the "stacking BLMs" route because "it's how you're supposed to do it". Suggesting you're going to do it differently is going to get a lot of {thanks for the offer, but I'll have to pass} responses.

I ran into that issue so many times in XI, and in other MMOs. It has as much to do with breaking people of their often drone-like insistance on "playing the way the guides and walkthroughs say you're supposed to".

So, while I am in agreement with you that people can form their own groups, it's not really a 100% solution to the problem. There has to be a way to get people away from the attitude of "X strategy is THE way to do this content and if you're not doing it that way then you're playing wrong" that permeates a MMO community. I think that's going to have to come from SE by introducing fights with strategies that require more variety in the group and in which stacking of a given class will not be a sound approach. I'd like to think more people would take the initiative to find alternate, and still viable strategies. Unfortunately, many people prefer to just do what everyone else is doing.