Anyone else miss sneak/invis?

[Pandastirfry]

Go on Paladin if you see some enemies that look impossible to get past, use the 15 min invincible ability and pop a chocobo and run past them. You will find yourself waiting 15 min for cooldown but at least you can get the rest of the nodes you need.

yeah... but more than once I've taken a wrong turn and....blammo!

[lololink]

but if the mob is near the node ...

[Duelle]

Went exploring earlier. What I was trying to get to:

The thing that stopped me right at the door step:

How it stopped me

Barking up the wrong tree. That's a hog, and hogs are true sight/sound. Sneak/Invis would not have saved you.

And no, I don't miss either.

[Breladine]

To be quite honest, I don't really miss it because I don't really need it. I can chocobo past almost anything and outrun it with maybe the exception of something silly-high.. and when I need to get somewhere for a quest on my Botanist that has aggressive mobs my level, I use Stealth to pass by the mobs, so I seem to have been given the tools I need to work with.

I notice some people saying there are a "lot" of things they miss from FFXI, and I'm frankly just the opposite. I like the game now and there's very little I miss from FFXI. People need to learn to move on.. the producers have already gone out of their way in quite a few ways to make FFXIV "FFXI 2.0" which I don't think was their intention to begin with but it certainly is the direction now at 1.23a -- ultimately though I think people really need to learn to be satisfied with the way things are different than FFXI as well.

I'm not saying people shouldn't put forward suggestions to the developers or converse about things they might find useful that aren't implemented, but honestly people need to stop pining away for FFXI.. FFXI still exists (which is another rant for another time.. I think FFXI's days should be done but that's just me). If you prefer FFXI, you can still play FFXI.

[Godsleftsock]

Sneak is in the game; walking.

[alexhatesmil]

Barking up the wrong tree. That's a hog, and hogs are true sight/sound. Sneak/Invis would not have saved you.

And no, I don't miss either.

The hog didn't get her, though. It was the drake. She could definitely have walked past that.

And you can still walk past true sound mobs; you just have to be a lot more careful while doing so. Walking will halve the aggro radius for such mobs.

But to the OP: As said elsewhere in this thread, go paladin if you want to get to get the hardest nodes in the game. I was having a lot of trouble with Snakemolt and Lichenweed, but popping Hallowed Ground and jumping on my chocobo made those nodes a piece of cake.

[Levian]

I wasn't after a node per se. Just sight seeing. No rhyme or reason, just I haven't been here so let's see what's there kinda thing. Guess I was the only one in that got stoked on life upon learning Sneak/Invis and explored everything I could get to?

On that note, when did I mention anything even remotely akin to turning this game into XI? The knee jerk, "NO! FFXI HAD IT! SO WE CAN NEVER HAVE IT AGAIN!!!!1 EVER!!!111! Go back to FFXI!!!III! SHUN THE NONBELIEVER< SHUN HIIIM!!!!11" responses. They make me sick. Did I say this game lacks a sneak/invis centric end game content that requires everyone to have their own? Did I say that we need sneak/invis items, tools, job abilities, and spells because one form just isn't enough? Hell did I even say this game needs anything? Calm your tits, I'm not trying to turn this game into anything.

I've also said this before, and I'll say it only once here: In spite of there being something operating on the FFXI servers that's titled the same, and loosely based on the game I once played, FFXI is in fact NOT still up and running. So even if I wanted to go back to it, I cannot. If I were going to fret this game becoming anything, I'd be more worried about the game becoming the thirtieth WoW clone than borrowing yet another tiny piece of FFXI because nothing will crash ARR harder than FFXIV skinned WoW.

It's a discussion thread, not a suggestion thread. I was exploring. I ran into something that killed the hell out of me, almost 8x over, with a single strike. It was funny, I took screenshots. While I was laying on the ground pondering whether I wanted to go back to the leve grind or go outdoors to remind myself what the sun looks like, the thought occurred to me that just maybe with the right tools I could still be exploring.

[ShinigamiKayla]

FFXI HAD BOOBS IN IT FFXIV CAN'T HAVE BOOBS!!~ check and mate... -flails-

[Punainen]

We have sneak and invis. Sneak is called 'walking', and invis is called 'stealth' (also known as sneak/invis combo). Though some way to go invisible on higher than 50 would be nice. Or we could all just learn to be more patient when traveling some place.

[Godsleftsock]

We have sneak and invis. Sneak is called 'walking', and invis is called 'stealth' (also known as sneak/invis combo). Though some way to go invisible on higher than 50 would be nice. Or we could all just learn to be more patient when traveling some place.

Invisible is walking behind them