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Ok, so I took a break from PLD which is like 2k from 63, and I'm having a blast with Ranger, so much so that I don't know when I'll make it back to Paladin....

Untill last night ><... (start rant)

Ranger has been ub3r fun and I've almost never looked back. Last night I get in a PT in CN, and it's very, very, very slow. Thf can't do damage, Paladin vokes when I Barrage > WS to turn mob for SATA Viper Bite... List goes on.

Well the Paladin had to leave (lost power and was running on his UPS)... so we get a 37nin. I was happy (not that I don't like Paladin's, I mean come on mines 62 lol I gotta like them somewhat). So the Ninja gets there and were still goin slow, mainly cause the thf just can not do damage for some reason. The highest SATA + Viper ever did was 226 O.O I don't know why or how.

Well we move on to the nest beetles, fun little bastards. Well it wasn't to noticable when fighting crawlers that the nin was taking a decent amount of damage, (I shrugged it off as she was still getting used to Utsusemi: Ni >< WRONG). She did not even have Utsusemi: Ni, cause "It's Expensive." Her plan is to level to 40 then do bcnm's untill she gets the drop.

Now me being a Ranger, and a well equiped ranger at that asked her what she thought was expensive, and her reply was 150k. O.O my reply was "Thats it?".... Now at this point I wanted to /slap /disband /n00b her ***. I almost said why don't you /check me and then stfu and go farm. 150 wouldn't even get my main weapon, barely woulda bought me 2 pieces of Noct +1 when it first came out.

Here I guess is what I'm ranting about...

WHY LEVEL WHEN YOUR UNDER EQUIPED!!!!!

Soon after my PT disbanded I got another random invite, and I accepted it, BRD from previous PT was in this PT, which was ok, he was good about prelude and minuet. So I'm just waiting for it, cause I know it's coming... and BAM >< Ninja is invited. So without word or warning I just disband, (I know it's mean).

So about 5 min later I /t the PT leader that had invited me, and I explained the situation and I appologized for disbanding w/o notice, he accepted my appology and all is good. While I wasted 7-8 stacks of arrows, and almost a full stack of meat kabobs, not to mention lots of shihei, the Ninja couldn't do her job because it was expensive.

I am really relieved that White Mages dont use that excuse for "needed" spells like RII, Erase (but thats more of a luxury).

Well, thats it, rate me, flame me, I don't really care LOL... I wasted 4 hrs in a PT that got me 3500 exp (I realize now I should have left, but the White Mage was my friend and I couldn't leave him to deal with it). (End Rant)

Absorb-DEX is not a necessity, but a luxury. I'm level 54 and still don't have it. This is my situation right now:

I sold my Sniper's Ring about 3 weeks ago to fund Goldsmithing because I thought I was retiring DRK. Then I changed my mind and wanted him back, so now I have to farm for my sniper's ring back. That adds a ton to what I already have to farm, but I'm not leveling until I have all of this stuff.

560k - Sniper's Ring
350k - Absorb-DEX
400k-500k - level 55 gear

So yeah, I have about 350k on me right now, but I'll be buying my Sniper's Ring first, then level 55 gear, then Absorb-DEX last. Absorb-AGI is better IMO anyway.

Hey man i feel fo ya,

I wrote a post on the 7th that said basically what you talked about,

PLZ PEOPLE, if your equippment sucks, take some time off and do some farmin or BCNM's to make some gil so the rest of the party doesn't suffer. After all this is an mmorpg... its not going anywhere, dont be in such a rush for everything.

rate me down please, i want to see how low i can go!!

hehe Warf you shoulda took my invite ya know... I watched his party while i waited for mine and he's not kidding about how bad it was.

On the up-to-date gear note i agree with him 100% that if you are not up to date yu shouldnt be leveling. I don't level any job less than prepared and I don't really think its fair when others do. Not having uber armor is excusable obviously, but not haveing Ninja's #1 most important ability ready to use the second you turn 37 is not excusable at all. A 36 NIN without Utsusemi Ni scroll ready has absolutely no business leveling. They need to be farming.

But thats just my opinion i suppose. (I said something similar in the SMN forum recently and they thought i was being unfair. There was even a SMN who said they got to 65 with only Carbuncle. Thats so unfair to the party. They brought nothing more than their WHM sub basically and a little cartoon rat.)

Anyway I'm sorry your party was so bad Warf. (I rememer being a lvl 37NIN in your Party and I had Utsusemi Ni lol - looong time ago)

(I Refused to level for over a month when i was 56NIN because i didnt want to turn 57 without a Scorpion Harness. I felt my place was farming - not levelling. So you can see this is a subject i agree with)

Edited, Fri Oct 8 14:52:15 2004 by NOiSEA

sigh.

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apologize that you don't feel good about the pt, then disband. hence forth, don't pt with them unless you feel the pt is capable.

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that's what i do at least, and i guess it's worked, sorta. just that i'm a little too nice to people sometimes, so i stick with really bad parties in newbie areas like valkrum dunes just to try and help them out--playing style, not their gear.

i dunno, maybe it's just me believing in investing some time (to those willing to learn) in assisting some of the newbies along in newbie areas, in some vain hope that they'll shine later.

examples of some patient episodes:

1) nin/war who didn't know how to tank at all in valkrum dunes. found out that he was a 41 lvl thf main, but raising nin as tank. being the pld, we had our little conversations in /tell, with me telling him about mob placement and voking, and arranging sub-vokes for contingencies. he told me about being a thf. (man, it was invigorating to realize that SA should be used before a pull to maximize SA usage.) a mutual trade off. :)

2) 30 pld/war who didn't know the least bit about SATA and tanking in yhoatar. found out through /tells that he was the father of the kid who played that character. the father plays other online games, but the son's trying to 'entice' the father to play ffxi. so i helped him with mob placement, SC, hate-control (through self-healing). explained SATA (or what i knew of it... was only a war at that time). took the better half of 2 hours with some very angry members who just took off and left. but i think the father started really shining toward the end.

3) 10 blm, no sub, newbie. killing dahmels in tahrongi canyon. spammed nukes like no tomorrow. lol, had to tell him to keep an eye on his nuking (like waiting till i at least voked once before he starts his tirade) and encouraging him to use enfeebs first. about 30 mins into it, he was happily nuking/enfeebing away, hate-free. well, almost.

note: i used to be more of an authoritarion in the pt, especially since i'm almost always the one forming pts. i've since learnt to keep my mouth shut and watch what people do first before presuming to advise them. also, i've stopped advising people on jobs i know nothing about *shakes fists at drks, mnks, rdm* unless it's something obvious, like not being able to MB or SC, or using 2-hr in the middle of a battle for no apparent reason.

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hehe, got ya, didn't i? ;)

/comfort Enthuz
You are WAY too patient man. That night we were in CN and those idiots trained Horn Flies to us and you just shrugged and said oh well. Maybe it's because I was 68 tnl that I was so mad. LoL.

And yeah, whatever you want to know about Monk and DRK let me know. LoL. I'm far from knowing everything but with both at 45 I think I have a little knowledge. ;-)

/comfort Warf

yea, no offense to nins, but sometimes i think nin's think they are the best tank in the world, just cos they can utsusemi. recently, with the nerf (which didn't really do too much to affect it), and the number of times i've seen them fail to cast it because of a mob hitting them (more so for the inexperienced nins), i find it somewhat strange that some (probably a small number) nins still think they are the best tank in the world.

for those who fall in this category, i'd like to make a personal request that they at least keep their minds open to some suggestions. it's tough to help when any player decides that they know what's best and stop listening. ><

I had a pty a few nights ago, died 3x. Once with raise 1. It was a jp party, 2 thfs, nin, brd, and rdm. Both thfs were sata off me. I could barely breathe without drawning aggro. Net exp of 1.5k over 4 hours. Only reason i didnt leave was because for each of those deaths but the last i deleveled.

Dont ya love dropping so much gil for so little return?

But yeah, i feel your pain Warf.