Why don't you have a Brenner topic yet?

[Eternus]

Yeah might want to make a set of macros for ballista if you actually like it. I think ballista sucks ass though lol. They would have to modify FFXI a shitload to make pvp worthwhile.

[Coco]

Why can't they just make pure PvP? Why can't they just make a free-for-all place you can lock yourself into with 10 other people and just beat the snot out of each other? BATTLEGROUNDS FTW!!! Screw SE and all their stupid freaking screwed up basketball...

Diorama doesn't let you do that?

I wouldn't know. I got out while I still had hope.

[Zigrah]

Isn't F7 the equivelent of F8 for people?

The swap macro thing is annoying but do you seriously use all 10 sets of your macros? Even so you can back them up and swap them in one quick motion through windows that is a hell of a lot faster then doing them through the game... and you dont have to log to do it, I have used it a lot to duplicate and alter my macros for COP/capped bcnm's while not screwing up level 75 macros.


This looks fun to me I'm sorry... regardless of what it is, it's another form of conflict that a lot of people have been waiting ages for. Ballista is fun, it's actually hilarious of those 3000 people you ask maybe 750 will have their license and have actually tried it. The random scheduling and stuff like that makes it as unpopular as it is... people have other plans so only 40 showing up is to be expected. The only thing I hate about ballista is where it really goes to show how brutally overpowered some jobs can be like blm/rdm.

[Coco]

The swap macro thing is annoying but do you seriously use all 10 sets of your macros?

I did on my summoner XD

[Byrd]

To the poster who changes equip and gets stunned... I bazaar all my staves and instruments for max gil in ballista (well except the ones I use in ballista). That way I do not change equip with all my macros.

which is a smart thing to do with gear that isn't EX. unfortunately alot of gear is EX, so his point still stands.

I tried that too, and the EX thing still screwed me up. That was my first tactic and it still took me 20 minutes to break down and fix my macros, removing Rare/Ex stuff. Af2, AF1, Zenith gear, MC Bracelets, etc. Seems to me I'm missing something....

Do I use all of my macros? No, but there aren't a whole lot of sets which don't have something. I could make a set of macros for Ballista, but that brings me to a larger question: Why the hell should I have to?

What's the problem with allowing people to swap equipment in Ballista when they can in any other situation? Why isn't that at least an option you can remove in Diorama Ghelsba?

[Ella]

To the poster who changes equip and gets stunned... I bazaar all my staves and instruments for max gil in ballista (well except the ones I use in ballista). That way I do not change equip with all my macros.

which is a smart thing to do with gear that isn't EX. unfortunately alot of gear is EX, so his point still stands.

I tried that too, and the EX thing still screwed me up. That was my first tactic and it still took me 20 minutes to break down and fix my macros, removing Rare/Ex stuff. Af2, AF1, Zenith gear, MC Bracelets, etc. Seems to me I'm missing something....

Do I use all of my macros? No, but there aren't a whole lot of sets which don't have something. I could make a set of macros for Ballista, but that brings me to a larger question: Why the hell should I have to?

What's the problem with allowing people to swap equipment in Ballista when they can in any other situation? Why isn't that at least an option you can remove in Diorama Ghelsba?

Changing equip breaks target lock, you could spam equip swap macros and "blink" across a zone if you will, being pretty untargettable.

[Remus]

Finally, a reason to use to Purgonorgo Isle.

Actually you go to Jeuno to get to this Ballista.

[jerkbox]

Kinda off-topic but what controller do you controller-users use on your PC? I'm interested in getting one for FFXI.

[Lordwafik]

In ballista it's still possible to use your macros and not get penalized.

Obviously your non rare/ex go to bazaar, but for example, you have Sorceror's Tonban macro'd in for Thunder IV, and the macro looks something like this :


/equip Main "Jupitor Staff"
/equip legs "Sorcerer's Tonban"
/ma "Thunder IV" <t>

you do


/equip Main "Jupitor Staff"
//equip legs "Sorcerer's Tonban"
/ma "Thunder IV" <t>


putting an extra / infront of your macro, will ignore that, but still go through all the lines in the macro, it's more of a "skip me" function.

[Koga]

Sorta like when you make notes in any programming language.
Any // denotes a comment and will be skipped when executed. :wink:

[Byrd]

Changing equip breaks target lock, you could spam equip swap macros and "blink" across a zone if you will, being pretty untargettable.

Well, damn. That answers my question, and is a pretty damn good reason. Now maybe I'll have to rethink my entire position and find a new excuse. :wink:

putting an extra / infront of your macro, will ignore that, but still go through all the lines in the macro, it's more of a "skip me" function.

I found myself just deleting the last quotation mark off the item in my macro. But that's probably an easier way to do it, and easier to find to replace. Thanks.[/quote]

[Razz]

Kinda off-topic but what controller do you controller-users use on your PC? I'm interested in getting one for FFXI.

kinda? lol

get a ps2 to pc usb adaptor, costs like 10 dollars or something, then get a dualshock2 if you don't have one already.

[Firiien]

brenner is my last name 0.0

[RustyMetal]

Why don't you have a Brenner topic yet?

Because its going to be laggy-ape shit just like current ballista.

[Lordwafik]

Why don't you have a Brenner topic yet?

Because its going to be laggy-ape shit just like current ballista.

You get lag in ballista? lol.

Even when we had matches with 15'ish ppl on each side my PC was running fine.

[RustyMetal]

Why don't you have a Brenner topic yet?

Because its going to be laggy-ape shit just like current ballista.

You get lag in ballista? lol.

Even when we had matches with 15'ish ppl on each side my PC was running fine.

I don't play FFXI anymore, they may have fixed it. But, I don't mean PC/Hardware lag. Rather more then server lag. Cast sleepga and watch people run around for another 4 seconds, THEN get sleeped. Silence someone 50% into their cast but they still get the spell off. WTF is that shit? That was the #1 reason I hated dident play ballista.

Edit > offtopic > manaburn.adsoft.org, love the site design. It's hot.

[Lordwafik]

ah im pretty sure that's fixed, I was just 1 on 1'ing a friend now, paral/silence etc all landed fine :D

But Ballista was glitchy when it first came out.

[Xavier]

Why don't you have a Brenner topic yet?

Because its going to be laggy-ape shit just like current ballista.

You get lag in ballista? lol.

Even when we had matches with 15'ish ppl on each side my PC was running fine.

fk you and your state of the art (not 2 years old) computer

[RustyMetal]

Why don't you have a Brenner topic yet?

Because its going to be laggy-ape shit just like current ballista.

You get lag in ballista? lol.

Even when we had matches with 15'ish ppl on each side my PC was running fine.

fk you and your state of the art (not 2 years old) computer

I have a stat of the art computer, and the menu lag sucked ass. 30fps on game, 2fps on menus

[Hiryo]

It's going to be good to focus on some defense for a change. Though people in Ballista should be defending their mages when they need it, this Brenner looks like it calls for defending whoever has the"flame" or w/e the its supposed to be lol.

FFXI Flux wrote:

3000 people online, 20 are in ballista. What does sub 1% participation tell you about it's popularity?

Do you know the player limit in ballista..?

Byrd wrote:

What's the problem with allowing people to swap equipment in Ballista when they can in any other situation?

DRK macros in Soul Eater and Last Resort Equip. Surprise! You've been oneshotted. Now i'll switch to all the useless DEF gear SE made so i wont die either
BLM macros in enfeebling gear. Suprise! No one will ever resist sleep again. And i can swap back to nuke anyone for max damage for any spell