Quote Originally Posted by Zanfire View Post
really, have you played FFXI at all since the change? that rarely happened, unless the item was so great it was a must have, and even then it quickly went away because they realized how little bussiness they made.

and if you want to go that way, they even used instanced stuff to sell, they would do the same thing (buy an item and they get it for you) so should we s just say no instanced versions either, cause they can exploit that too.

might as well take out all the NMs and any monsters that drop decently priced items because rmt can camp over it and exploit it. might as well instance the whole game because of RMT, better that way right?
I played FFXI up until the Square Enix account management fiasco in July. I'm biding my time until I see a favorable payment option.

Now to address this, since I don't believe you read anything leading up to my post:

What changes are you referring to? The claiming system overhaul back in like '09? The move away from world spawned monsters because of Abyssea? The 2h adjustment? Changing Kings to force spawns? Or the fact that 90% of things you can obtain by soloing a mob in Abyssea are several magnitudes better than anything a world spawn NM could drop? Even Armada Hauberk is outclassed by other gear for the 3 jobs that can equip it. And lolRidill is now lolRidill.

Defending Ring, Hermes Sandals and W.leg abjuration are arguably the only notable NM drops left outside of Abyssea, and one of those is from a pop mob.

So, as you can probably surmise, as a person that's being doing endgame since 2005, I was probably referring to an earlier period in the game when RMT and botshells monopolized R/E gear. I'm not sure what you meant by "rarely" and "must have". So.. Tiamat + 3 kings, and over the course of the entire year throughout 2009 when bots finally reached a point that they could shut out most fair competition? I'm not sure where this rareness was when my friend was 2/3 on Black Belt and was asked to pay 5m for Egg, only to have that botshell withdraw their offer because someone else wanted to pay more.

Also if you'd read anything at all before this page you'd know that I'm for keeping HNM and the addition of new open world mobs. I like camping. Sadly it will eventually be exploited to the point where the content isn't accessible, but that won't happen immediately.

Your observations are keen and you make valid points sir. Please keep up the good work.