Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

I made my spharai atma, did like 3 books for animus, and said *** it. system is way too much grinding for me.

You beat me. I did 2 books and gave up.

31 alexandrite into Novus and ***. have barely had any time to play lately either so it's just like .-.


p.s. hard part isn't the alex, it's making money for the materia. a det/crit weapon costs around 10m on balmung

My brother is already on the second book for his sword, and he's already finished his shield.

The difficulty of a battle really comes down to what is the realistic minimum required to defeat something. You could clear CT and ST with a single group if it wasn't for the body count checks. That is the only reason those become so easy, that the content is designed for 3 groups and it basically punishes you if you can't fill in the spots to activate a protection barrier.

Now for something like Titan you really only need a Tank, a Healer, and a DPS or two. The rest can just jump off and get carried. Titan will not punish you if you lack bodies, it just takes longer to defeat and you'll probably want one of your DPS as a bard to recover MP to last the fight.

So difficulty really comes down to what is the minimum requirement, and how much excess we're required to bring along that really only end up making the fight more difficult. You really don't need 8 people running around on a small platform, but with inexperienced players who panic and get others killed, a fight suddenly becomes a lot more stressful.

The fight itself isn't what is stressful, but dealing with players who lack the experience that's appropriate for the content.

Raising the DPS check requires either more powerful DPS who can survive through the phase, or more bodies. More bodies creates clutter, which creates unorganized chaos, which creates panic which gets people killed. Having more players together in a small area blinds you from what you should be focusing on, which is part of difficulty too.

Let's take Leviathan for example. You need to kill the 4 water spheres quickly so you can recover your barrier to live through the storm. This phase is highly dependent on your DPS killing quickly, but not being stupid about it because your healers need to be able to heal through the phase as well, which will wipe many many groups.

Then there is artificial difficulty, aka Turn 7. This isn't difficulty, it's a massive shortcoming of the battle mechanics of the fight. They had to introduce the target % simply because the fight relied so heavily on phases changing based on the HP%. That is just stupid mechanics, nothing more. Without that flaw in the mechanics, the fight is simply not getting your team petrified. It's a simple fight, you just have to pay attention and do your job.

So basically, a Hard Mode fight really isn't difficult when it comes down to the requirement to clear it and the mechanics involved. The difficulty comes into play when you try to run with inexperienced players who die or get others killed for their own mistakes.

I'm seeing party finder groups saying they want people Item level 95+ for Coil of Bahamut, Turn 1 (Note: this is NOT coil 2) when I was clearing it in level 70 gear.


Edit: Then again, I did all my relics to level 80 when Titan HM was the cream of the content crop.

This is entirely correct and why I wont do harder content with randoms most times. The majority of the fights in the game are not difficult by mechanics, they're difficult by the fact that people can't put enough concentration into a single thing for long enough to avoid standing in red lines.

Then there's people that rely on echo. Don't get me wrong, it's a great tool for the people who CAN get through things like titan phases but maybe just lack the overall dps for phases, but some people seem to forget echo doesn't keep you from getting knocked off.

People are dumb

...and probably just want to farm more effectively or something, idk.

Most of those PFs on my server, are people hoping higher geared players will carry them through content.

And to be fair, Titan is a brutal, brutal fight if your internet connection has hickups, or if your computer might be in need of an upgrade, or you play on PS3. Response time is significantly different going from PS3 to PC. It is a huge, huge difference.

I never had a problem with Titan on PS3, other than initially learning the timing of his attacks. And people screaming at me to not get knocked off a ledge, when they in turn, get knocked off a ledge, and get bitchy when you scream at them, for doing exactly what they were screaming at you not to do.

People are *** stupid on Goblin.

Time to comatose, hope I can get a st drop in the morning before work, rather I hope I don't sleep in until 2pm again and wake up an hour before I have to work...

I broke my laptop :(

With all these great changes coming to FFXI super late in it's timeline, I think now would be an appropriate time to address the issue where equipped gear encumbers your inventory space. Why in Altana's name would the very things I'm wearing simultaneously be in my gobbiebag? Makes no *** sense and it's annoying. Not because we're low on space, but just for the sake of consistency and logic.

I guess I just figured it would be smarter to make the equipment screen be it's own holder of equipped gear, and just make it jump between that and your inventory/wardrobe. Rather than being omnipresent within your inventory options.

god damnit drac stop horsing around.

They deserved it for not sharing food

Day 198. Still no sign of Idi's Gloves.


Tempers are rising. Gil is steadily increasing.


Getting Desperate to receive those gloves to make Sigyn's Bazubands.

ok, so it's really only day 18

After a week with no home wifi, I found I misunderstood that the amount I needed to pay wasn't $400-$500 but $194. So that's finally back on.

Titties.

Watching Modern Marvels, I kinda want to try Absinthe.

my cousin smuggled some home from germany once.

it'll knock you on your ***.

tastes pretty good.

I didn't get any hallucinations or w/e, but I did see a girl pass out mid-sentence & fall over in the driveway, & I was, later that evening, attacked by a turkey, deer, or possibly myself.

A new threat has emerged! Manturkdeer!

I'm super cereal!

I never like anything that is green..can I have a blue drink instead?