The Official Forums II: Out Here Grindin'

[Byrthnoth]

As fondly as I think of the "adventure" of Teleport-Yhoating and taking the 45 minute trip into the Den of Rancor just so I could find out that half my party were minimally conscious mouthbreathers, two of which immediately had to leave despite insisting upon the camp, I don't miss it at all. I think that many of us have fond memories of xping just because it took up so much of our time and forced us to interact with strangers, some of whom became friends. I see no reason to believe the same thing wouldn't have happened in any other "event," if there had been any pre-75 events worth doing for the first...... wait, there still aren't any pre-75 events worth doing.

Experience Points parties served as substitutes for pre-75 content, and SE got away with it because they really do have a pretty badass job/battle system (and they were fortunate that we're all retarded enough to stick with it.) I mean, all I did apart from xp was quest (seriously no point), do low rank missions (lol?), and do the occasional BCNM40 (omg, Erase is worth 50 stacks of mithkabobs). I built alliances just to help me do quests back in the day. Heck, I think I was about a level 50 Black Mage when I made an alliance of 60-75 players to help me farm Shoalweed for the SOB questline.

Yeah, xping could be fun. But more often than not it was a battle against the suicidal and/or afk-y tendencies of one or more party members that took 30 minutes to set up and an hour to get rolling, only to be frozen solid a few hours later when one of the members has to go because *shocker* they can't afford to spend five consecutive hours playing a video game or *double shocker* they get bored killing the same monster over and over for 4 hours.

PS. Gyms of Valor was a dumb idea. Instead of divorcing Skilling up from leveling, it would make much more sense and be less of a burden to the player base if skillup rate was proportional to xp gained such that you skill up your skills to cap at the same rate you level at. Making it a separate event is extra work that doesn't need to be done for the same effect.

[ronin sparthos]

Imop, xping and the xp-culture were standins for content. Now there are a billion things to do once you hit 75+. Literally dozens of endgame event systems that you could do for weeks. We don't need experience point party as an "event" anymore, and it was a shitty boring event when we had it.

Hm, I think its a bit of a stretch to state that there are "tons" of stuff to do @75+.

Sure, if you slacked on missions and didn't do anything but EXP up till the age of Abyssea, yeah... you can now solo through most of what people did years ago in alliances.

Problem is, Abyssea swept out EXP parties (for better or worse) and 80% of pre-Abyssean content. You've reached 90 in record speed and now you're limited to Abyssea for most party-oriented content outside a group of likeminded friends because the world of pre-Abyssea content has nothing but inferior rewards. Sure, you can run Assaults for fun (I have) but at the end of the day you resign yourself to just playing it to help others or for completion's sake.

Sure, it's nice to be 90 and go around collecting stuff you wanted a while ago now everything is so damn easy to obtain but really it writes SE into a tough spot for 91+ content. Voidwatch Ep. 1 is giving me terrible vibes that SE thinks they can just shift the dynamic back to awful drop rates and unrewarding battles after spoiling the fuck out of the base. It don't help the event is pretty much just ANNM with glowy fountains either.

[S N K]

Man, I leveled back in the day when people wanted Smns when they couldn't find a Whm. You guys don't know rough D:

Main healing PLDs in Bibiki Bay on SMN vs Dhamels maybe?

[Nattack]

i miss dhalmels.

although i dont miss goblins in bibiki bay. those things could 1shot my ninja with suicide bomb...

[Milkster]

i miss dhalmels.

although i dont miss goblins in bibiki bay. those things could 1shot my ninja with suicide bomb...

I remember when Dhalmels were the epeen mobs back in the day.

[Fievel]

I remember when Dhalmels were the epeen mobs back in the day.

Fuck yeah berserk

[Cail]

Until you got that winner tank who asked the rdm/brd to dispel it cuz he was taking 50 more damage. Or the rdm who dispelled it cuz "i need to skill my enfeeb!"

[Fievel]

That's why you got a good static PT, duh

[Kazen]

Fuck yeah berserk

Don't forget the RDMs who would dispel the berserk.

[Limlight]

pffft, pond camp in tree. rng burn. That shit was addictive.

ding 70! OMG HE HAS AN O-HAT? THAT BASTARD I HATE HIM!

[TybudX]

Yar his Gyms idea had some things in common with grounds of valor. King basically started cumming all over himself and gushing like a school girl because he thought the dev team included his ideas then it took about 10 pages to explain to him hey you had a good idea but there's no way SE implemented it in two weeks.

Don't forget making an entire thread devoted to wanting affirmation from a SE rep for his work, which I mean, no, he totally wasn't asking for himself or anything. Totally not.

[Yimoa]

" Pulling Aquarius be ready!" "Aww shit we're gonna die!" I remember all those lovely pulls, lol.
Watching the party eat dirt in 20 seconds.

[S N K]

pffft, pond camp in tree. rng burn. That shit was addictive.

ding 70! OMG HE HAS AN O-HAT? THAT BASTARD I HATE HIM!

Hey fucker, You made us also Exp on those shitty Efts in Bibiki Bay also with that whole Dispel all your buffs shit.

[Cesaria]

i miss dhalmels.

although i dont miss goblins in bibiki bay. those things could 1shot my ninja with suicide bomb...

I remember our static NIN swearing his way through bikini bay goblins on vent repeatedly and relentlessly.

Oh and the dhalmels where you'd get one RNG (was always a RNG) sat on 300TP for like 5 mobs waiting for zerk to go off to masturbate over his e-peenis.

[Saithorx]

First job through bibiki, I full timed my ice staff on blm cause it had elemental skill I'm pretty sure it was the only staff I owned other than dark staff.
I was called gimp for only having whm sub not for the staff.

[GoggleHead]

There's too much to screenshot or even quote, but pretty much everything Seriha posts makes me terrified for the future of Red Mage.

[Aksannyi]

First job through bibiki, I full timed my ice staff on blm cause it had elemental skill I'm pretty sure it was the only staff I owned other than dark staff.
I was called gimp for only having whm sub not for the staff.

I did that too, on RDM, for like three levels (which at that point in time took like four months to get lol). I was so fucking broke, that was back when the NQ staves were expensive as shit, hell with HQs. Hey, at least my Paralyze spell would stick. XD

[Aksannyi]

Fucking double

[Colenzo]

soooo in case for some reason youve never seen how awesome his bazaar comment is...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...605_141440.png

all I can see is the guy named Furryexplosion

[Milkster]

I did that too, on RDM, for like three levels (which at that point in time took like four months to get lol). I was so fucking broke, that was back when the NQ staves were expensive as shit, hell with HQs. Hey, at least my Paralyze spell would stick. XD

Back when everyone was a gardener and had to grow their own ores and get staffs crafted. Oh those were the days.