I guess it's time

[Azrael]

I have most jobs capped at 99. Blm, whm, rdm, brd, pld, nin, mnk, thf, drg, blu, sam, war, bst, rng. And yeah I was aware of the community. We finished all the endgame content the game had up until the final expansion. Most of us were together since Na pc release. We parsed often.

Again, for the third time thunder 4 is not the best blm spell.

You shouldn't come off so condescendingly, it sounds a lot like those wanna be elitists.

Can you both please stop talking about who is more expert about FFXI? It brings nothing to the topic except polluting it with unrelated off topic stuff.

Regarding the NMs/HNMs I think they tried to do that with the hunts, if they wanted to achieve that they failed miserably because all they do is drop lore and seals and not interesting pieces of equipment or something more rare that makes you scream "WOW see what I just got!" leaving you a sense of satisfaction for the whole day and even more.
Now I'm not saying that they need to copy/paste the NMs system from FFXI but anything that would make us feel rewarded for our hard work or just enough luck sometimes would be nice, not everyone needs to be the same what kept me subbed for years in FFXI was the fact that I wanted to be like that shiny powerful player that had every fabolous piece of gear obtainable in the game and I wanted to work hard to be like him (I'm sure many people understand what I'm saying).
Being everyone a copy/paste of the player next to us gets boring and nobody even inspects you to see what good piece of gear you got on your character(except to see what's the name of the glamour you are wearing), hell actually I don't even remember how the previous tomestone gear was called because it's so volatile that noone really cares at all except to meet the ilvl requirements to join dungeons and raids.