The February Mini-Update Goes Live! (02/14/2011)

[Not Kuno]

If you can't play without BMN, you are retarded.

I'm starting to think most people can't play without plugins and shit out the ass.

[Darkmagi]

Yeah, I can safely say I would quit ffxi if windower was gone.

[NynJa]

I'm starting to think most people can't play without plugins and shit out the ass.

Only plugins I use out of dire reliance are distance, bmn and spellcast. TParty is more just convenience, but since no one really skillchains anymore, who cares. expwatch doesnt work in abyssea, I dont use abyssea lightcounter, its useless since NM's / eph's give stronger lights, but its not accounted for. Statustimer/yarnball are kinda useless as well if youre spending all your time in abyssea, since using chests/confluxing stops time.

[MaachaQ]

I'm starting to think most people can't play without plugins and shit out the ass.

The only plugin I can't live without is Spellcast ^^; Stupid macro limitations... Of course Yarnball and Recast are quite handy too... but I've never really used BMN, Timestamp, etc; just never saw a need for them.

[ryskar]

To expand on what those guys said:

Playing whm is a pain without BMN, the guys I trio stuff with blink for damn near every action. I'll still manage, it's just more irritating.

I like yarnball too, but that's mostly for haste on whm. When I'm on rdm my buffs last longer anyway so it gives me a very rough estimate of when to recast, not quite as useful.

Spellcast is a godsend. It takes out the irritating part of dusk gear, and makes thief a lot less of a pain to macro. Especially love it for blm af2 legs/twilight cape/artemis and uggy pendants.

Distance is sex incarnate when you're playing a healer. I guess it's nice too for pulling shit but that's not really hard to judge in the first place.

Could I play without those? Yeah. Would I be enjoying myself as much? No. I love being as efficient as possible.

[dannyl]

To expand on what those guys said:

Playing whm is a pain without BMN, the guys I trio stuff with blink for damn near every action. I'll still manage, it's just more irritating.

Try <stpt> and <stal>, solves your problem.

[Eldelphia]

So I zoned both characters into Behemoth's Dominion to do some Field of Valor and it dropped me straight out completely.

Edit: nevermind, I did a check files and it found 3 corrupt ones... repaired and all ok now.

[Darkmagi]

Just tried to skillup parry on abyssea-altep mandys, about 15mins of every single one hitting me and not even a .1. Any mentions of skillup buff being broken on ffxitwitter?

[SephYuyX]

WHM is easy w/o bmn lol.. /ma "cure III" <p2>, etc.
And spellcast sucks.

I guess playing for how ever many years before windower came out helps.
QQ I cant change all my gear and do 5 things with one button press, I R RAGE QUIT NOWZ

[Eldelphia]

Actually screw that, I tried logging in via legit pol and its doing the same thing. Zoning into BD completely borked me.

[Yugl]

I'm starting to think most people can't play without plugins and shit out the ass.

Unless you're Kuno. Then you can't play without plugins the ass.

Mithras: So bad, even a hume can replace them.

[Raen Ryong]

And spellcast sucks.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...if-serious.jpg

[Jaxzer]

Just did a few Draguas, working as intended.

[evilpaul]

unloaded blinkmenot, warped out to tahrongi engaged a mob to see if something would happen and..

http://i53.tinypic.com/2r7oqyc.png

Overclocked VRAM and warmer ambient temps where you're at?

[Julian]

I commend the effort, but it looks like they screwed up more than they fixed.

[ryskar]

WHM is easy w/o bmn lol.. /ma "cure III" <p2>, etc.
And spellcast sucks.

I guess playing for how ever many years before windower came out helps.
QQ I cant change all my gear and do 5 things with one button press, I R RAGE QUIT NOWZ

Or use spellcast and do //cure3 x or something instead of using a bunch of macros for the same spell... and I'm pretty sure a lot of us played before the windower came out, too. That shitty "I'm oldschool and hardcore, I don't need no windower!" attitude is just grating. But yeah, enjoy being a horrifically inefficient whm.

[Rehn]

Currently in r0 limbo on my char. Kept d/cing at whitegate/alzhabi zoneline after I turned in pics for zeni. Anyone else experiencing something similar as well or is it just my end?

[Krazy]

I went from 130ish Ninjutsu skill to 215 in about 1 and a half hours in Kuftal. I don't know how that compares to pre-update, but it seemed pretty fast to me.

[Guitarman]

killing DC dhalmel in bibiki, got a .2 and .4 right off the bat, but then nothing. about .7 skill gain total in 3 mobs. Not a huge sample size but its definitely not a huge improvement. This is with "martial master" active, too.

edit: seems sporatic at best. person skilling with me went 90-140 in 20 min while i'm struggling at 234 skill. but it DOES seem to kick in at times:

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/c...214_171609.jpg

[Fodder]

Shield 295-361 in ~1 hr. 23 lvls of parry on pld in a couple hours. Seems much faster than it used to be to me. Supertanking, but it was never that fast before.

Edit: Randoming turning into a hume male or a mithra in starter gear