Just had a pretty entertaining Pharos run.

[Bombast]

Decent - Of or conforming to acceptable or satisfactory standards
Great - Of ability or quality considerably above normal or average

If you really think those are so vastly different than I don't understand how they could both be a descriptive of quality of an object or otherwise and both be used.

I was unaware that being 'good enough' was the same as being above average.

I must be literate.

[Huntington]

Without lowering this to an argument of semantics, anyone that speaks English wouldn't need to doubt the veracity of the two words being used in a simple fashion unless they wanted to make an argument over it in the first place.

[Alexia89]

This guy.

A few points- no, you are not fairly decent at your class. You are the total nimwit that tried to argue ACN was viable because you get Foresight (rofl) and Protect (whuuuuttttttt?).
You seem absolutely buried in the mindset that you are some ultimate hero that does every role in a dungeon- and that everyone should bow before you for this.

You in no way "saved" this dungeon with your Titan-egi, you trolled it.

Finally- using good grammar and a large vocabulary does not make you any less a noob. Nor does you being the topic creator make you the magical dungeon master of the thread (OMG so much self-entitlement).

By all means though, please continue posting all over the forums. Big fan- these threads give me a good laugh while I'm working.

[Bombast]

Without lowering this to an argument of semantics, anyone that speaks English wouldn't need to doubt the veracity of the two words being used in a simple fashion unless they wanted to make an argument over it in the first place.

No. You need to understand this.

Alexander the Great was not named that because he was decent. The Great Wall of China is not named as such because it was 'adequate.' They were named as such because they were exceptional, above the normal, and far beyond 'decent.'

This isn't semantics. This is either you backpedaling from a mistake, or displaying a fundamental misunderstanding of basic English vocabulary, both as a dictionary example and as it is commonly used in normal speech.

[Huntington]

A) Stoneskin, Blood for Blood, Internal Release, Protect, Convalescence, and Aero are all very helpful to any class. I'll continue to stand by that. On Arcanist, they can certainly improve the damage and it's utility. If you're too dumb to remember my conversations with Ryuko though then you're too ignorant to remember how it went from then on. I was still a Novice Summoner by that point enjoying the game how I wanted to, Protect and Stoneskin are just as useful on Arcanist as they are on Scholar, does that mean it's dumb for them to use it too?


B) The Peanut Gallery is notorious for having opinions rooted in something unrelated, if you still remember anything from that thread then you're already biased and spouting **** unrelated to this thread, keep thinking you know what you're talking about.

C) 10/10 trolling apparently you seem to be one of the people rustled by it.

D) Yet it lends more credence to my words because I look like someone who's actually received an education and didn't fail to enter the country legally while not learning the most prominent native language of that country. I don't even know if the rest of that was supposed to be funny or clever, thumbs down.

[Madoka]

I am a great summoner and I can say with confidence this is a shit thread.

I was wondering why it blew up from like 2 threads to 8 today and I see why. Stop replying to him.

[Huntington]

No. You need to understand this.

Alexander the Great was not named that because he was decent. The Great Wall of China is not named as such because it was 'adequate.' They were named as such because they were exceptional, above the normal, and far beyond 'decent.'

This isn't semantics. This is either you backpedaling from a mistake, or displaying a fundamental misunderstanding of basic English vocabulary, both as a dictionary example and as it is commonly used in normal speech.

A large vocabulary is one of my strong-suits, because a word might not fit it's literal Encyclopedia Britannica usage does not mean I can't easily use both words in a similar context. Exceptional, Fantastic, Superb, Phenomenal. Any of those could be supplemented for "Great". Because Decent might have a different listed description does not mean they aren't still similar in some facets.

"Oh hey did you go see that new movie? I thought it was pretty great."
"Ehh, it was decent I suppose."

So Dude A thinks it was Great, Dude B said it was only decent. Therefore someone doesn't know how to use rudimentary English because two words weren't identical to the point that you can't make a distinction between them. That about right?

@Madoka, with all the attitude and cursing and shouting you were doing to the OP in the other large thread in the DPS section, I wouldn't be inclined to believe you on anything except for the fact that your attitude is probably worse than mine.
Example:

Again, a real pet class would not work in this game.
You physically cannot control two avatars at once in any capacity to do end game content. And a "real summoner" would not work either as you'd just be casting one long thing to make a summon show up and nuke an area. That's not fucking fun for an MMO. You'd be a blm with ifrit popping up to shit out the fire 3. XIV's summoner is actually the first time where they tried something besides "X + bahamut access" in any FF title
An SMNs working the way they used do only works with the ATB system anyway, look at bravely default. Summoner is probably the worst class in the game despite being the strongest a summoner has ever been.

Logical points of unique class LBs, or discussing what future pet roles will be is fine. Complaining about SMN and asking for a complete class revamp from the ground up is retarded and would piss off far more players than you realize AND would serve no goddamn purpose. Who gives a shit if we're a WoW warlock with a green turret, we're still a more fun class than nearly every other dps in the game and strong as hell to boot."

Rage much?

(Hit my posting limit for the day, I'm out. Bombast, baby, you know Hunt, since I know have a pet name now I guess, is not even on the same page as "Deficient". Y u do dis 2 me?")

[Bombast]

A large vocabulary is one of my strong-suits, because a word might not fit it's literal Encyclopedia Britannica usage does not mean I can't easily use both words in a similar context. Exceptional, Fantastic, Superb, Phenomenal. Any of those could be supplemented for "Great". Because Decent might have a different listed description does not mean they aren't still similar in some facets.

"Oh hey did you go see that new movie? I thought it was pretty great."
"Ehh, it was decent I suppose."

So Dude A thinks it was Great, Dude B said it was only decent. Therefore someone doesn't know how to use rudimentary English because two words weren't identical to the point that you can't make a distinction between them. That about right?

@Madoka, with all the attitude and cursing and shouting you were doing to the OP in the other large thread in the DPS section, I wouldn't be inclined to believe you on anything except for the fact that your attitude is probably worse than mine.

I'll give you this, Hunt. You are blowing my mind.

As they say elsewhere on the internet, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume your trolling, and not simply deficient.

[Madoka]

@Huntington

Read the rest of the thread. If you were remotely capable at playing SMN you should understand my concern. And my frustration of repeating that same thing 20 times over to the same person.

[Viridiana]

A large vocabulary is one of my strong-suits, because a word might not fit it's literal Encyclopedia Britannica usage does not mean I can't easily use both words in a similar context. Exceptional, Fantastic, Superb, Phenomenal. Any of those could be supplemented for "Great". Because Decent might have a different listed description does not mean they aren't still similar in some facets.

"Oh hey did you go see that new movie? I thought it was pretty great."
"Ehh, it was decent I suppose."

So Dude A thinks it was Great, Dude B said it was only decent. Therefore someone doesn't know how to use rudimentary English because two words weren't identical to the point that you can't make a distinction between them. That about right?

If you're going to claim to look educated in your posts, I have no qualms tearing them apart.

1) "Strong suit" should not be hyphenated.

2) Your first sentence is a run-on sentence.

3) It's is the contraction for it is. What you want here is its.

4) Encyclopedia Britannica, as a title of an encyclopedia, should be italicized.

5) You should avoid starting noun clauses with because. Even if you want to argue that it's grammatically correct, you'll meet a lot of opposition. Of course, opposition to your ideas should be nothing new to you at this point.

6) Your second sentence is a fragment.

7) Each of those words has its own connotations. While each may be somewhat similar to great, to say that they are completely interchangeable is dishonest.

8) The first sentence of your dialogue is missing two commas.

9) The second one is missing another comma.

10) Your first sentence after the dialogue is a run-on. In addition, it's missing a comma.

11) In the same sentence, you capitalize one word you're talking about, but you don't capitalize the other. There's no reason to capitalize either word. Besides which, this sentence shows a lack of consistency.

12) The next sentence is missing a comma.

Well, that's a dozen mistakes over three short paragraphs from someone who claims he looks educated in his posts. I wonder what would happen if I scrutinized all of your posts in this thread.