Views On Astral Burning?

*Grins.*

Doesn't mean they won't nerf it next update... But... This would mean there's a VERY slim chance of getting banned for it.

Btw... What do you guys put in the Help Desk thing to ask a GM something...? I always feel weird calling a GM for anything b/c the Help Desk options are so limiting! >.<!

I just say i need to ask a few questions and they come right over.
and no they will not ban people for that, i asked that as well and the gm says it is not hurting the game in anyway. If you don't believe me you can call a GM they will say the same thing.
I asked all the questions I had to for burn parties as that I am a smn... Although i prefer to solo myself maybe one day I would like to use this burn party. So far I have not.

nerfing a 2 hour of smn is stupid, it would change alot of the bcnm's etc. they can do, especially if it were for Promies too and we all know how it sux in promy. They probably will nerf the amount of mobs you round up by having them depop either faster if they are not engaged on after a few and then that would be cooler for limiting the aggro links for everyone.

It wont be bannable because it doesnt violate anything. If it is a bot that just sits thr every 2 hours then ya ok thats an issue, but who the heck gonna sit thr 2 hours for their 2 hour, then wait for a pt etc.

Yeah, I haven't either and tbh, I hadn't thought of it until I saw this. XD
I avoid all xp'ing at all costs... So really, there's no way I would have ever thought of it. lol

Edit: So, Kelvin, you wanna leech off my Astral Burn tonight?

If a GM says not, doesn't mean SE would never consider take action against this.

You're actually supposed to "PLAY" smn, not to gather mobs and AF them.

I mean it is something that, Ok this AF party asked me to go with them. I don't wanna turn them down cuz it is kind of hard to get parties on smn. So i asked a GM b4 that would ever happen.
You never know what can get you banned these days so you always have to cover your back.
Also if you want to b*tch to someone about things you find to be a glitch just use the GM and stop using threads lol. If you don't know about something just ask a GM they will be happy to let you know whats good. lol

and Yes if they work for the SE then they should know alittle something about what is going on. if they say YES we know... then SE knows. LOL.

And doing all that in 2-3 days and getting 801,350 exp(lvl 1-75)sounds a little far-fetched you pretty much just proved my point. Besieged is not up all the time. Doing all that takes alot of time and having people willing to do it "non stop". Like I said though, if it possible in that short of time, well then gogo. I pretty much agree with kelvin its a cheap way to get lvls. Level sync was made to PLAY with people at lower levels. But if thats how you have fun, good luck. I'd do it btw, to maybe get some quick merits. 801,350 exp is a bit to much...

Nice try on the hit Kindle, learn to read before trying to flame-bait. Smart one

Yeah, but as you wouldn't know...
A Summoner very rarely gets invites to xp at any level.
If a whm is seeking while you are, you're screwed.
If a rdm is seeking, you're screwed.
If a sch is seeking, you're screwed.
If a DD is seeking and the pt has a healer, you're screwed.

Smn can fill most slots in a pt... But any job that specializes in that area will pwn the smn and be invited first by the pt.

Edit: And btw... 802k xp is ~27-54 AF sessions if you're getting 15-30k per AF.

Good info, Rebekah. Why did they edit out their name when the GM said it though? O.oa *Points to the top of the screen.* Unless that's something else up there... >.>

Yeah, saw that too. Nice conversation though.

lol hehe I just don't like showing off my friends names. but poor her she will get over it lol

Gonna re-post it after you edit out the name on the top? >.>

idk lol tbh i don't want the person to see i messed up. LOL!

<.< >.>
*Grins.* Good thing I saved the pic.

O.O They can try! RAWR!!

dmn your a mnk too... i think they wont stand a chance... last time i checked they played Rng! >.>

Name is still on the bottom right. 2 strikes...

Maybe if they Barrage > Shadowbind > Eagle Eye Shot > WS or something....

Edit: lol.. Yep. I hadn't noticed it there.

hmm i fixed what i had to do, she was not a happy camper when I let her know.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j95/Takayumi/fix-1.png

Really couldn't be bothered reading all of Kelvinclein's rubbish, here's a summary for anyone else who gave up halfway through:



Hope this helps.

lol

*giggles*

About sums up half of this thread or most reasons anyone is against SMNburn

Basically.

Anyways, we called a GM beforehand to make sure we weren't going to get ninja-LM17'd anywhere in the near future for doing this, and the GM did state that this was NOT against the rules. Screenshot of said statement has been saved of course, in case SE does decide to lay a round of bannings down, we have evidence that a GM said it was ok.

Other than that, I think we've only really had a GM contact us about the whole thing once, and that was last week. Someone complained about "lag/high latency" in the area of which our horde was at. He told us we either had to kill the group or move it to a corner or a different part of Korroloka.

lol.. oh so if SE decided to ban some of the ppl who abused of this trick, you think showing them a ss of a GM saying it's not against the rules will prevent you from getting banned?

I think this has at least to be fixed, It doesn't make sense to be skipping levels like this. I could suggest to nerf smn 2 Hr when it comes to hit more than 10+ mobs.

Like i said in almost every post i made in this thread, who actually asks "Views" about astral burning, this are my views.. Leveling up a job without playing it is wrong to what FFXI always been.

This is my opinion and always was. If i want to Merit and get 40k/h this is no trick guys i do that but i do that by playing in a merit party. If i want to level a new job i do it but i do it the way it has to be done, so by playing the job without skipping levels.

It's usually due to ppl abusing of stupid tricks like this that SE makes idiot restrinction over the game. Like when ppl were engaging/disengaging/enaging again mobs to lower delay of weapons, and they had to place that stupid delay to it. (just to make you guys figure)

There's one way I can see them totally nerfing this whole situation down to not being able to do it anymore. Period. That would be making the SMN 2hr a single-target or a max target of a certain number, like 6 or so. That would either make AB slow as all hell, or take it out of the question completely.

Like as AF ever meant anything to the game, never been a game breaking 2hr anyway, it's just sad if they nerf it due to ppl abusing it on level sync.

Incoming 320420420 unworthy maat's cap.

Yes ppl are abusing this Greatly!

I know people that have got 3 75s off this in basically 5 days.

I guess from my point of view;

To the people who do abuse it, as in use it every day to get the previously stated "3 75's in 5 days." Go play some private server if you can't even withstand FFXI leveling, seriously.

Myself, I've only done a weekend of it, just to catch up on a subjob, and get myself up and going on blm soloing. I probably won't be doing too much more of it besides on SMN if my help is needed, if so then so be it. I probably won't be touching that job anyways.

Who cares how many 75's someone gets via this method? Who cares if they get a maats cap out of it? It doesn't negatively impact my character or yours at all.

Let them enjoy their e-peen, and when they try to bring those weak jobs that they have no ability to play into a regular party the world at large will see them for the frauds they are...

Honestly, I think most of us here would have no problem booting/ replacing anyone who did not play their job correctly in an exp pt, PUG event, etc. People who don't know what they're doing are pretty easy to spot.

Crying about Astral Burning breaking the game, since people can level jobs easier, is about as absurd as taking the view point that Campaign Battle and Level Sync are evil and break the game as well. There are ways in both to spam exp quickly, maybe not on the same scale but the loopholes are there.

Really how people get their job leveled should be of no concern to anyone until that person shows they have no idea of what they're doing. Until you give someone that chance to succeed or fail under their own strength none of us have any business telling other people how they should level their jobs.