skirmish: increase difficulty lvl.

[Ingolf]

You're full of crap- I know all kinds of people who impose XYZ gear standard in order to join their runs- they don't care what you know about the game or how you handle your character. They assume what you know based on your gear. You can beat Garuda with everyone in AF- it's been done - but people insist that if you don't have the best gear, you must be bad.

I'd be more concerned if they really used the "wrong" gear in that they were putting on the wrong stats for their class (e.g. str/dex/vit on blm)

I've heard it in XI and I've heard it in XIV. Clearly you like to justify bad gear choices with 'skill' and who am I to stop you. I remember your gear in XI, and I can't imagine it's much better in XIV.

[Ingolf]

In response to the parts in bold; do you realize how many people have Garuda's Scream and are not at the stat caps for it? Answer: most of them. It's not a contrived scenario. The fact is, most people don't know the inner workings of stats in this game and simply regurgitate what they've been told on the forums. I've shown you, both logically and mathmatically why some assumptions are incorrect. So, you're going to have to bring more than anger and disdain to prove me wrong.

I don't think someone who made melds like this:



and



Really should be giving advice to new players.

You've changed your statement twice on giantsgall vs scream. And yes, I'm super angry I'm punching my monitor with my ham hands right now.

[Abriael]

I'm all for a raise in general difficulty, if in exchange they got rid of the absolutely unsightly hate reset mechanics, that not only are the most artificial and most awkward way of raising difficulty, turning a fight into a roulette in which luck counts more than ability, but it's also the most unfun MMORPG mechanic ever.

Oh wait... sorry. I didn't notice that the thread had turned into another Molly Millions melds thread.

[Chardrizard]

There's also a difference between knowing how to gear yourself and actually posessing that gear to gear yourself with. Just because your gear isn't great doesn't mean you don't know what you need. It only means you don't have it yet.

Nobody expect people to have Darklights and all those fancy U/U weapons to join a pug, but when a BLM sporting AF hat and AF legs instead of single meld INT of those slots, then coupled that with black pearl rings.. oh god help me, i have seen so many of this and claims they are skilled.

[Ingolf]

I'm all for a raise in general difficulty, if in exchange they got rid of the absolutely unsightly hate reset mechanics, that not only are the most artificial and most awkward way of raising difficulty, turning a fight into a roulette in which luck counts more than ability, but it's also the most unfun MMORPG mechanic ever.

Oh wait... sorry. I didn't notice that the thread had turned into another Molly Millions melds thread.

I think Molly turns every thread into a meld thread.

[Ingolf]

Nobody expect people to have Darklights and all those fancy U/U weapons to join a pug, but when a BLM sporting AF hat and AF legs instead of single meld INT of those slots, then coupled that with black pearl rings.. oh god help me, i have seen so many of this and claims they are skilled.

That's the thing. I'm cool with people who try to be the best, but don't have the gear. I get more irritated with people who try to justify bad gear choices.

[whoopeeragon]

I think Molly turns every thread into a meld thread.

Pardon me, but Molly's attention has been only towards the Giantsgall weapon. You just happened to throw all her melds out here.

[Ingolf]

Pardon me, but Molly's attention has been only towards the Giantsgall weapon. You just happened to throw all her melds out here.

She started going on about her melds with the giantsgall so long ago.

[whoopeeragon]

Her meld*, sorry. I've only seen her talking about melding enmity to the giantsgall axe in main context, nothing else.

[Ingolf]

Either way, the point is appropriate.

Stop acting like you know how stats work, when your entire behavior screams otherwise.