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Post by Caller on Aug 27, 2008 16:04:57 GMT -5
That damn Rank 10 fight....froze on us like 4 times and the fight in and of itself was HARD. Which is a good thing, mind you, but damn. Anyway Yha won't be doing what I did since you turned her into a treehugging hippie.
I've always wanted to go back to FFXI, but I left because of the amount of waiting I had to do in order to play, and then the hacking just sealed the deal. But I still have almost a million gil (and I'm sure I can break 3 mil by selling my extra sets) and I know how to farm and make money.
I like XI better because it's more fun to play. I like job roles. I like weapon skills. I like a STORYLINE. The instant XI becomes solo friendly (and it will eventually) I'm gone from WoW and going back.
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Post by dejibo on Aug 27, 2008 19:33:12 GMT -5
Yha hit rank 9 and is half way to 10. just a few CS and a fight. We had an alliance going to do it. easy breezy. Then I may switch her back to windy and work on it, or sandy and get her to at least rank 5. I am going to get rank 10 for her next week. She is doing great, and chose to change to Bastok because of the crush of people wanting to rank up, and I knew Steph left her at rank 7 so, why not?! I do want to do some Dejibo work. She is stuck at 23 red and 16 monk with a 16 white. I would like to get her to 30 and peg away at some things for her. I LOVE that I learned some gardening secrets. easy! plant on sunday. Water on Thursday, harvest on Saturday. easy 50k per mule. I am going to add another mule to the run. you must have 10 pots and use wild grass seeds. Plant on water, feed water on water, and harvest on water. you get topokkeko grass, augogh grass, vomp carrots, or some other grass. it sells for 500k a peice to an NPC. so NO AH involved. if I want to do AH, it ups the tally to 75k per mule with those carrots. in the early days I got some fire crystals, but I dont see them much anymore. its rare to get gausebit grass. So, easy money and no real time involved. I still have the pink pearl. I didnt have the heart to throw it away. so, let me know if you come back. Chakoteh and I use it as a place to hide. we miss all of you. Yhamuna has several pearls on her now. Alma which she never uses, walkingwounded was a break off from alma, and tengu for sky, and this one. I am going to up her gobbie bag this week. I am just having a blast with her!
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Aug 27, 2008 21:42:16 GMT -5
I like XI better because it's more fun to play. I like job roles. I like weapon skills. I like a STORYLINE. The instant XI becomes solo friendly (and it will eventually) I'm gone from WoW and going back. Other than weapon skills WoW has all that already. But, meh, I guess the whole waiting around for hours on end is what turns me off. I LIKE playing in groups but not when I have to waste an entire evening on waiting for that. FFXI = better story, better world. WoW= better everything else....for me atleast.
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Post by Yvondith on Aug 27, 2008 23:51:48 GMT -5
I loved FFXI's storyline, but it was just too damn hard to access. WoW doesn't really say much in game, but I've been reading past history off and on since I started playing... and I gotta say, I like it's story much more.
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Post by dejibo on Aug 28, 2008 6:32:15 GMT -5
with the whole sync thing parties will be much easier. you can just group up with whomever, and your levels will match. you dont have to worry about gear to drop your level for leveled down areas, it will automatically change for you! I LOVE that. I hate going for the tactic pearl with nothing but my undies and a club.
There is a new CS with Luto and Jesimae wants to fight Yhamuna. she was insulted that Luto said Yha was stronger than Jesi, so we are pited to go to battle against each other.... friendly battle is what they say, but I doubt it. yha is a white mage and flies knock her down. Jesi is a fierce attacker and kills with wreckless abandon.
I like WOW, but I like my PS2 style playing. I can lay in bed and use my big ass TV to play. on WOW I had to be up and at the computer. how lazy it that? There was quite a bit of story line to WOW, you just had to search for it. in FFXI it unfolded as part of the quests and missons. They are working on making it easier. Dancer is a good solo job, as well as grouping.
I got yha all access to all areas of the past. all maws and tele crystals are unlocked. she has been doing some campaign. She has become the new beseiged whore, and is the girl who runs out and raises dead LS members in the strangest spots.
it would be awesome to see your shiney faces come back.
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Post by dejibo on Aug 28, 2008 6:34:09 GMT -5
btw when you switch nations now you dont lose your OP warp stuff like in the past. when you switch back to that nation all you OP stuff is still there. That killed me when I switched Des back to Sandy, that she didnt have any OP warp stuff, and lost her bastok stuff.
They are trying to make it easier. tiny bit, by tiny bit.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Aug 28, 2008 9:47:25 GMT -5
So does this mean that people who are higher level still get exp when they lower their level? It would make sence cause you wouldn't want to lower your level and get nothing out of it but at the same time it'd be easy to exploit levelling up a high level job. That's why I'm not a big fan of it. EDIT>> Ok, they answer my question already I just didn't read that far down... XD Could be easy to exploit maybe. Guess I can't say for sure unless I were to actually try it.
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Post by Yvondith on Aug 31, 2008 22:51:09 GMT -5
Caller showed me this link earlier, thought I would post it here for all to read. Very interesting, shows how the JP really feel about NA in the game. www.jpbutton.com/?p=551
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Aug 31, 2008 23:51:06 GMT -5
A very interesting read. I can definatly see why some Japanese folks would be annoyed with us. Especially since SE just kinda dropped us on top of them without the Japanese community knowing that servers would be shared by both regions.
Someone mentioned that SE's ambition on making a game for both cultures was a greedy one that served their own desires more than the players. I never thought of that at all but when I read it I definatly agree with it. Also, about having Regional servers NA/JP/Mixed would have been a good idea I think. Back when I first started I loved the idea of playing with the Japanese but after I actually got into the game and saw all the "JP ONRY" comments and how difficult party communication was between both nationalities, I think I would have desired to be part of an NA server myself. Nothing personal agains't them at all but it would have just been easier.
Another thing worth noting about the auto translate feature is that, for us NAs, the auto translate feature was rarly ever used for translating words to talk to JP players but was more used for people who were too lazy to type things like "Sanctuary of Zi'Tah" in full themselves. Not to mention the jokes that were used with it like the infamous "Master" "bait"
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Post by dejibo on Sept 1, 2008 7:20:17 GMT -5
Throne room!
seriously who says congrats any more? most type Con and hit tab. tada the word is spelled out for you. I do use it as a cheat, and almost never play with JP players. Its HARD to communicate when in a JP party. All the text flying by, and you have to really serach for relevant things being said. You also just know they are making fun of your skills, and you are clueless to know it.
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Post by Yvondith on Sept 1, 2008 8:46:34 GMT -5
I also used it as a cheat, because my spelling isn't very good. I partied in a lot of Japanese parties. I know the language barrier was there, but they didn't do the whole revolver style party thing, and I knew that with those parties, I would at least get SOMEWHERE. The language barrier did make some things difficult though. The thing that surprised me was how they felt about NA using the roman character versions of common Japanese phrases. I usually though "yer a retard" when I saw people doing that, but they seemed to love it. Glad they don't care for the use of w in place of lol, because it means something different to them. I can see the adaman hauberk joke. But the Earring joke? WTF? We never saw that in game. Maybe it's new, or it never hit the Bismarck server.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Sept 1, 2008 9:50:38 GMT -5
Yeah I thought that was kind of a strange question too. Although I have to admit for me, if I had earings or rings in a certain place for a long ass time then one day I were to switch jobs then switch back and I'd see the ear/rings in a differant slot I'd be like "wtf? that don't look right" and I'd change it back. Maybe for me its just an OCD thing, I don't know.
As for the Adaman Hauberk, I always thought it was purple myself. Maybe its just cause I remember the Blue Gartr video of them taking on, Nihdogg, I think it was? At the end a Galka got the abjuration needed for that Hauberk and the person making the video was making fun of him saying "now he looks like a very angry purple dinosaur" followed shortly after by clips from Barney and Friends.
But I guess I'd actually need to see a picture again to make a decision on what color it is. Its been a while since I played FF let alone even seen the Hauberk.
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Post by dejibo on Sept 2, 2008 7:47:30 GMT -5
I didnt know that most if not all JP players know pretty fluent english.
As in ANY crowd, this was the interview with ONE of them. I bet not all feel that way. Like trying to pin down US with an interview. Lets get leomarc and interview him and see how the rest of us look. Or Unagi or Bahumut and you get a different interview altogether.
Yha is standing at rank 9.5 just one fight in her way, and that will be done. I got yha a nobles tunic (refresh) yesterday, and it looks good on her.
Dej made 25 red. She got a summ ruby, which the drop rate changed. its now 2.5% drop. its AWFUL! You know how lucky Dejibo is, so for her not to get a drop is bad. She know invis/sneak and sleep now. that is enormously helpful. Get to rank 30 and I will unlock some subs. Her NPC is staying out longer now, and that helps. She is rank 5 and has lots of toys. Airship pass, her own chocobo, NPC, good gear, mog locker, Beseiged , high fame. so, she is ready to jet set into an advanced job as soon as I unlock one after 30. 5 more levels!
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Post by Yvondith on Sept 2, 2008 9:53:05 GMT -5
Wow, congrats on the noble's tunic. I was sadly, never able to afford one. I recently made a character in WoW that seems to have adopted Dejibo's uncanny luck, she gets bags like no one's business, and rare drops are a breeze. Normally I don't believe in luck, but eh... hers is pretty much impossible to ignore.
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Post by dejibo on Sept 2, 2008 14:17:41 GMT -5
Best thing I ever learned how to do is garden. I am hauling in the cash, and not working for it. I show up on Sunday and plant. on wednesday to water, and saturday to harvest. I make 50 to sell to NPC i make 75k or more per mule to AH it. I have 4 mules running gardens right now. As long as I do all on watersday. I am hauling in the cash.
It was great to finally reach a milestone with Dejibo. RedMage 25 to get invis, and sleep! yea!
Yha has been well cared for and she is loving life. She got a new pair of crow pants, and scorpian plus one harness. she is doing the happy dance as red.
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