Endgame Progression, Elitism and You

[Zanther]

I'm just curious on how killing mobs as fast as you can, skipping some by running around them, and skipping all cut scenes is considered an exploit....

Are the mobs bugged or something? Are people taking advantage of a bug that's causing unintended things to happen?

[Vanidin]

I'm just curious on how killing mobs as fast as you can, skipping some by running around them, and skipping all cut scenes is considered an exploit....

Are the mobs bugged or something? Are people taking advantage of a bug that's causing unintended things to happen?

The mobs aren't bugged, it's not an exploit. If anything it's bad dungeon design by SE that you can simply skip by things. There are no glitched npc's involved or anything of that nature. It's simply avoiding things that the game doesn't require you to fight by running around them.


Concerning OP:

I don't think this is elitism at all, he asked how his FC mate is geared. For all he knows the guy hasn't even finished his af quests and is using a lvl 30 white weapon. Heck I've ran into people in ifrit and garuda wearing crafting jewelery, 40ish white weapons, tanks without completed af that were wearing lvl 40ish crafted armor, I even saw a white mage that was using a lvl 20 aetherial weapon. Granted I've had plenty of runs with normally geared people as well... but I can completely understand him wanting to make sure his FC mate had at least finished af and had a relatively recent weapon and jewelery.

[texhnolyze]

a well written endgame guide
we already have an endgame guide on another thread though

I'm just curious on how killing mobs as fast as you can, skipping some by running around them, and skipping all cut scenes is considered an exploit....

Are the mobs bugged or something? Are people taking advantage of a bug that's causing unintended things to happen?

yes, the mobs are bugged, imo
if you can run through them from behind without them noticing, what other words can describe it?
the field of view of the mobs are broken, only about 90° in front of them
it's silly that they can't detect us running & jumping behind them

[Kenka]

yes, the mobs are bugged, imo
if you can run through them from behind without them noticing, what other words can describe it?
the field of view of the mobs are broken, only about 90° in front of them
it's silly that they can't detect us running & jumping behind them

Whenever I'm running CM I can't help but laugh at the two imperials near the coffer. WORST. GUARDS. EVER.

They should add something of a small "sound aggro" radius so you can walk behind a mob, but not run...

[KimimiAvesta]

Whenever I'm running CM I can't help but laugh at the two imperials near the coffer. WORST. GUARDS. EVER.

They should add something of a small "sound aggro" radius so you can walk behind a mob, but not run...

We need some comics made about the "security" in the Castrum XD

[XyleHarkyn]

We need some comics made about the "security" in the Castrum XD

Shh. It might get ninja nerfed. :P

[Zanther]

a well written endgame guide
we already have an endgame guide on another thread though



yes, the mobs are bugged, imo
if you can run through them from behind without them noticing, what other words can describe it?
the field of view of the mobs are broken, only about 90° in front of them
it's silly that they can't detect us running & jumping behind them

Except the fact that....I dont know......every single mob in the game being designed like that. You call bugged, I call poor design. There are no rules being broken if mobs are poorly designed this way, as there is no bug in the game code that you are taking advantage of. Do you report everyone who runs behind mobs out in the world as they're questiong? Did you report every ninja in FFXI for tanking? Want to bitch about something? Bitch about SE fixing the way all mobs in the game behave.

[texhnolyze]

Except the fact that....I dont know......every single mob in the game being designed like that. You call bugged, I call poor design. There are no rules being broken if mobs are poorly designed this way, as there is no bug in the game code that you are taking advantage of. Do you report everyone who runs behind mobs out in the world as they're questiong? Did you report every ninja in FFXI for tanking? Want to bitch about something? Bitch about SE fixing the way all mobs in the game behave.

of course not
even i do that too, who doesn't?
if the tank/leader want to skip them, i'll just follow them

i didin't know if all the mobs act like that
i just realized it in the level 50 dungeons, specially in castrum