Server Balance

[Not Kuno]

I guess I did say 2004, oh well.

I think it's funny how so many servers think they're "behind" in the endgame scene. I'd say most of the servers are about equal, the grass is always greener on the other server cluster, etc.

We are behind. Theres 2 NA relics on Bahamut. Theres like 10 or less dalm, 10 or so ebody and less then that M body, on all NAs. The only people that get kings are FI and Siste. FI just /toss and siste chars constantly get banned. No non-jp Dring.

I think we are behind.

[Toonshady]

Ragnarok has a lot of king bodies floating around. my LS has 3 M bodies, 8 E bodies, 4 W bodies, 6 A bodies, 1 Ridill.
the last D ring to drop was in 12/31/2005 to a JP ls. no NAs have it at all.
we also have an Aegis and Kikoku on 2 active members. the NA and the JP community seems to have a pretty even number of relics.

[Eddie]

Theres 2 NA relics on Bahamut.

That's it?; really? Thought more than that.

[ringthree]

I'm not too up to date on who has what items specifically, however I know that Odin seems fairly marginal on the amount of body abjurations & items such as D Ring. The hardest thing to pick out is who exactly has what items, mainly because a large nature of our LS's push people with those items to play other jobs.

Or, they get those highly covetted items, and never play that job in practicallity.

We have one JP, who I think sold his character, that is a 100 GS, who had full Kaiser before almost any NA had Koenig body. I'm sure he's got D Ring also, and he's got Aegis. But the funny thing about it all, is I haven't seen him play PLD since about late 2004, and that was only at one camp that I saw it.

I know one of our server's most famous people is a little JP Taru who has 3 relics, as well as a full Martial set, and so on.

In general, I think I've seen a small handful of Dalmaticas, perhaps really only 3, one of which was the first JP I mentioned.

E Body, I know of probably about four or five floating around to this day.

I think I see Odin's biggest concern with people who obtain those hard to get items, is that they get them, and then quit. I can name like 5 PLD's with martial body who quit within 6 months of getting them.

Sorry for my info being so ambiguous and PLD oriented. But I'm a PLD. So it's my focus of interest.

You don't get around much, there are at least 3 Dalmaticas in my old Limbus shell.

[Not Kuno]

Theres 2 NA relics on Bahamut.

That's it?; really? Thought more than that.

Xav's Aegis and some random guy has Excal. Are there any others? I can list like 40 thousand JP ones.

[Eddie]

Helpo has Mjollnir off the top of my head..I think. w

[riddaraan]

You don't get around much, there are at least 3 Dalmaticas in my old Limbus shell.

Yeah, I'm pretty much a home body with my LS. And we're always doing stuff where people aren't. So I don't see much.

That's why I want to hear what others have to say (including people from our server!) :D

[Khalil]

How about people from different servers just post how they think the population and item rarity are on their server? ^__________^

Kujata - We've got lots of M.Body people floating around, too many dalmaticas, and not too many e.bodies. Ridills aren't too common, but they're.. 'plentiful'. Two or three NA d.rings, and a couple Maat caps.

Uhh.. population is decent, there are about 5 'main' HNMLS, and a few 'lesser' HNMLS that only show up to certain things (Cerberus, King Behemoth, etc). We're are fairly civil when it comes to getting along, but there will always be the little feuds between a group of people in different linkshells.

JP are caca on our server, at least the ones we camp kings against. There's an LS on Kujata that teams up with JP for almost everything, and a lot of the HNMLS have a few people who speak japanese or chinese.

Edit: Kujata people feel free to correct me or add shiet. ^__^

Kiro pretty much nailed the point for Kujata. With regards to drama and MPK, we're actually a friendly server compared to the stuff we read on BG on a daily basis.

We have maybe 1 camper at every HNM like Cerb, Tiamat, Khim, etc. We don't bring holding PTs to HNMs. We have a fairly large amount of people who have Dring, I think about 20 Drings on the server last I checked. A lot of King bodies, fuckton of Ridills, etc. So, we're a decent server with above-average drops :D

[Alastaire]

Lakshmi's end game scene is pretty good compared to stuff I read about on here. Linkshells may not always like each other, but MPK, stealing, shit like that just doesn't really happen. As for D. Rings, we've had like 7 or 8 drop in the past 6 months, all but one went to NAs (I think). Prior to that I don't think we had any NA D. Rings (except an ex-LS leader who quit the game, so didn't really count).

3 Major JP LS, one of which only uses mage jobs for everything (RDM, BLM, WHM, BRD, SMN). Handful of NA LS, don't know how many exactly. Yeahhh, that's about it I guess.

[Not Kuno]

Helpo has Mjollnir off the top of my head..I think. w

POIDH

[Michaera]

I think we have a number of NA stage 4s at least, on Bahamut. I can think of a Gae Assail and Caliburn off the top of my head.. (or did Godslayer finish it?) Idk though, I have to say I agree with Kuno. Either we're behind or we're so far ahead that all our relics/ebodies/d rings have already quit/sold their chars to rival LSes and got banned.

[Eddie]

We'll were one of the first servers they put up. Still see the JP PT ONRY in comments. Alas.

[Ehran]

I think we have a number of NA stage 4s at least, on Bahamut. I can think of a Gae Assail and Caliburn off the top of my head.. (or did Godslayer finish it?) Idk though, I have to say I agree with Kuno. Either we're behind or we're so far ahead that all our relics/ebodies/d rings have already quit/sold their chars to rival LSes and got banned.

Close, but not quite. With a bit of luck we'll have the Animated Longsword fight out of the way by the end of May.

Also, Godslayer is Canadian, and I don't think that should count as part of North America.

[rezn0r]

Fairy is the Addams Family of FFXI if you are talking about drama/personalities/what is that damp spot on your pants/etc. As for drops, compared to some other posts on here we seem to have a decent amount for most items except maybe D.Rings (although maybe it's just that rare everywhere). We have a decent amount of finished relics too, probably average or a little below average compared to what I see posted on places like this. I'm not on enough to really see everything & I certainly don't keep track of what everyone gets but I've played with more than enough Ridills & Dalmies to know there's a good amount compared to what some of you other guys are saying. I've only seen 2 Maat's Caps in person, but that doesn't really mean shit either. I'm sure Ryko or Therin or someone else will correct 3/4 of this anyway, I just wanted to call us the Addams Family.

[Kilik]

For the longest time on Ifrits JP dominated kings. Up until about 3-4 days ago, the same group of JP that has been killing kings since they were introduced. Dunno what finally caused them to break yet.

Kings are camped by roughly 6 total NA LS, and (including the shell that appears to have broke a couple days ago) 4 JP LS. My LS has 3 Mbody, 4 Ebody, 2 Dalm, 4 Ridill. Only 1 NA LS has more of those items (i think, never actually counted). Only recently have NA been able to start being dominant, but theres too many endgame LS's lol, it sucks.

2 NA Drings, one quit and recently came back, other still plays.

Only 3 NA relics, rest are JP.

[Tyche]

Carby has, i think, 5 NA relics. 3 shields, sword, and a staff. Zero D. Rings, a fuck ton of shadow mantles, and a handful of shadow rings. As far abjurations, they are all spread out. Our LS has quite a few of just about everything, unless you count only having 2 m.bodies which arent used that often. We quit camping kings (regularly, now maybe once a month), so im sure one of the other 5-10 NA LSs that camps kings have a vast assortment of gear now too. Gaiters, however, aren't very common among NAs outside of our LS, You could probably count the number of NA gaiters outside of our LS on a hand or two. We have like 20-something. As far as sea goes, it's very very slow on carbuncle. We do it regularly, and have killed 7 or 8 that i can recall, i lost count, JoLs. Another NA/JP (mostly NA now) LS has done maybe 4-5. Other than that, i don't know any LSs that do sea on a regular basis, NA or JP or RMT. On the NA side, a truck load of LSs have killed jormungand, I think three have killed tiamat (excluding a NA BST pickup kill), and two have killed Vrtra. I think 4 have also done Bahamut 2. That's about all i can come up with off the top of my head.

[Cookamungas]

Helpo is european, so not NA? lol not jp either so i dunno

[Eddie]

Shush Cook =)

...dont say it.

[Luke]

I know the gear sucks, but there still isn't 1 NA PLD on carbuncle to get full koenig. No NA D.rings. No NA Maat's caps yet but there's quite a few people close I think; I'm guessing there's about ~10 JP ones. Maybe 20 or so NA's with Ridills. Way more JP's with relics than NA... Carbuncle count on wiki is off by a lot.

Ah and Tyche.. I think that Gottfred guy or w/e runs a JP sea LS.. he's there a lot and has seacoms selling earrings sometimes. Sea is actually pretty busy in JP time, but not necessarily by the "main" JP LS's so that's probably why you don't notice it much.

[Eddie]

Maybe we're all so busy helping the new guys getting AF and LB because we're one big happy family!