Quote Originally Posted by Sephrick View Post
You're really stretching to make XI seem like it was anything more than standing in place. In my seven years in game, I never once saw a skill chain and magic burst on any endgame enemy.

The only person who and any sort of talent in XI was Avesta. And that's because he was a trailblazer.

Every single XI endgame event was the same. Tank, heal and zerg. That's it. Some threw a curve ball and the Thief had to sac pull, or an army of Red Mages kept a stun rotation. But none of that took any talent. Only an attention span.

XI endgame was all about throwing bodies at a situation until victory occurred.
I disagree about Avesta being the only trailblazer of note. Just have to name drop Kanican (or Kaeko, rather) for unraveling enmity, soloing Limbus, pioneering pinning, and popularizing blink casting, not to mention his numerous other solo/low man accomplishments.

Also, I was asked to MB a bunch in sky, sea, HNMs etc. I appreciate the fact that you didn't use those strategies, but that doesn't mean that other people didn't make use of them.