Gimptastic

[layoneil]

Had a brd at 62 today with a singing staff thing, jester's cape.. and thats all for brd related stuff except instruments. mp rings/earrings, full crow gear, etc.

whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

(tho to be fair we did 16k in 2 hours, and i was 57 and they were 62. i was whm, so don't scream)

BRD gear is totally craptastic before Errant, not having elemental staves though is just bad.

[Obev]

Had a brd at 62 today with a singing staff thing, jester's cape.. and thats all for brd related stuff except instruments. mp rings/earrings, full crow gear, etc.

whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

(tho to be fair we did 16k in 2 hours, and i was 57 and they were 62. i was whm, so don't scream)

BRD gear is totally craptastic before Errant, not having elemental staves though is just bad.

The "singing staff thing" is about the cheapest way to get better Minuets. I used one for buffs 40-75, then once I got enough skill gear/merits to cap Minuet without it, I muled it. Should really sell it to pick up another HQ staff for RDM...

[Rocl]

My face is best.

We have the same face. Except you picked the short model...who does that!

And when I pt on BRD I only sing Gavotte and Hymnus and pull with Virelai.

EDIT: Oh and sub BLM for warp.

I'm medium. >_> I want to be the short model now though

[Mifaco]

Of course, you could just seek in JP primetime and forgo almost all the above rules.

I call bullshit on that last line at least before lv 75. I've been leveling my brd in jp primetime alot and almost each and every single last one of the JP was gimp in some way shape or form or unwilling to kick any of the really bad gimps from thier parties.

I'd do pickup NA pts before pickup JP parties because I don't recall the last time I saw Jp's on my server that weren't either totally gimp gear wise, or had no fucking clue what they were doing tactics wise...or both. The whole JP's are so good nonsense should have died like...3 years ago when most people that didn't spend all their time in game trying to shrimp a JP figured out that the game isn't so hard.

I don't seek JP because I want to learn Japanese or anything like that.

I seek JP because NA PARTIES SUCK

[Terrance]

Japanese players outnumber NA by quite a bit on my server, but they're mostly casual. They don't do dynamis as much as NA, they don't camp kings anymore. Someone broke the seal and all the "JPN players are leet" magic floated away.

[recuperi]

lol @ /whm sub in the colibri camp.

I didn't even touch that place until I made sure I had nin sub leveled.

Meh, chain 99 when I went brd/whm there. Not even 75 yet. >_>

nice, not thrilling, but nice (1 Yin point if you can tell me what movie that's from)

I've gotten over 200 chain there. And I can tell I was able to get that high because the nin sub saved me from unnecessary actions.

very late but history of the world part 1

[Thistle]

Except you picked the short model...who does that!

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[Lordender]

people who still think jp>na seriously need to get out of the 2004 time warp.

[Priran]

I could argue my reasons for my guidelines, but I'm not going to. Safe to say, nearly everyone who's quoted my post has missed the point.

[Ddz]

I haven't played for a while but I'm pretty sure as a career bard I never cast madrigal on my xp party members....the people I partied with knew how to equip accuracy gear. lol this thread is Zzz

edit: nvm only for those THF mamools

[divisortheory]

I could argue my reasons for my guidelines, but I'm not going to. Safe to say, nearly everyone who's quoted my post has missed the point.

For the record, I agreed with most of those guidelines lol.

And the comment about the thieves was more like, "An overwhelming majority of thieves suck total ass. So if you accept an invite from a THF you have a good chance they'll suck ass. If the THF has a mandau, it's still possible they'll suck ass, but not nearly as high of a chance."

Also, madrigal/minuet is the way to go for non merit parties.

[Luke]

I've exp'd a lot in this game and to me it seems that JP pickup parties are usually >>> NA pickup parties. That being said, there's people that suck on both sides, but seems like most NA's, especially mages, are lazy and just do the bare minimum in a party. JP's tend to care more for a party they're making, ie making a non-retarded setup, making sure everyone is close to eachother lvl-wise, checking camps BEFORE going to them to see if they're open.. etc. NA's tend to rush parties with the saying "exp is exp" as their logic.