Mattaru said:
I just qouted the whole thing.
I believe that i am more than fine in a party. I can conserve mp, i hardly get aggrod, i always burst, i work out enfeebs, i am basically never the exp leech. My gear is good not exceptional but none the less it is good. Black tunic, cotton cape, mages sandals, 2 eremites rings, 2 opal earring, black silk neckerchief, yew wand +1, friars rope, black slacks, white mitts. Decent, not great but decent.
Exactly. Decent. Probably a 7, 7.5 out of 10 in my book. Good enough for me not to bitch you out, but not good enough for me to remember you after the party.
If anything you are right, it can always be one step better but it doesnt make someone a bad player if there gear isnt great (one of the best mages ive seen is named Swede and he was elvaan, wore fishing tunica and was acting as a whm in an awesome pt in khazham, you think it wouldnt work but it was one of the best pts ive been in because we racked in exp and it was alot of fun). Just because you happen to have amazing gear (that you worked hard for no doubt) does not mean you can act so diminutively towards mages that dont.
And the 'amazing' pt would have been THAT. MUCH. BETTER had the WHM had more +MP or +MND gear. Anything can 'work.' Canadian leveled WHM to 30 with a 6THF sub and /shout macros. It 'worked.' But he's got a horrid name with people who saw him and I won't help him get any Genkai 1 items. And I have as much right to disdain poorly equipped mages as you do to consider me a perfectionist prick for doing so. We both pay our money, we can play and act how we like towards others, within ToS guidelines o'course.
Farming- I farm for about 2-3 hour blocks. Killing crawlers, and bees and stealing cotton from mandy's while hunting spipi as well. it gets me about 15k each time. Quite frankly, i don't have the time anymore, i have school and work (not for much longer) which eat up all my time. On weekends i do 7 hours of homework a day and go to work. Almost all my time during the week is spent on homework, so if i dont have two energy earrings and dont meet your standard as a good mage then fine, there are worse insults in the world. I'd like to spend more time at my game but when it is a choice between working hard so i can get a scholarship to a 35k a year school versus farm so i can have energy wearrings the choice should be obvious.
It's obvious for me as well - I work and go to university as well. Since my time is limited, I prefer to get the best profit/hr as possible. Farming wasn't it, and it's not for you, either. Hell, go set up a fishbot and make gil that way if time's an issue. Many people are more than willing to risk their account for gil. I'm not saying you should, and I haven't - but it's a method. A very successful method given the # of bots in E and W Saru, Port Windy, and Rabao. I'm also glad you put school first, as life outside XI > Life in it. Just means it may take you longer to be as good as you can be. Which is ok, since you have life outside the game, right?
The gear for mage is easier then getting boots or hairpin yeah, i know, i camped lizzy for 3 weeks for my boots i know.
Waste of 3 weeks if you ask me. Probably could have bought 3 pairs of boots with the time you spent getting them for 'free.'
When i was a mage around twenty i spent alot of time ot get the gear and spells i have because at lower levels its harder to get the gil for that gear and quite frankly it isnt as important. I would have gotten through the dunes and qufim and kazham without having the best gear possible just fine because, well, i did without gimping any party i was in.
Playskill can, admittedly, make up for bad gear. But in my experience, those with good gear know how to play their jobs better than those with poor gear, since if they spent the time to earn the gil, they researched their job as well. Of course there ARE folks who IGE their stuff... but I haven't ran into one yet.
I'm not saying youo are holding me back i have a good idea what i need to do and i tend to do it. The only reason i posted in the first place is your statement doesnt only apply to the lvl 30war/8thf thats tanking (god knows why he got invited in the first place) it applies to anyone's gear that is sub par in your opinion and that people invite them. It seems that i fit into your broad category so obviuosly i should not get an invite because i must be a bad player. The mage in your story probably was craptacular but that doesnt mean that mages that have decent gear just arent trying, or are lazy, or make excuses (bad ones that is, i make excuses like school but its a legitimate one) or are players that dont want to excel and want to leech. Its a game and we decide how we play it, some ways work better than others and making sweeping generalizations about how people play and why they do it is unfair to those of us who cant meet your standard.
I wrote it because I'm tired of seeing - with all things being equal, there is NO reason why a player with sub-par equipment should be chosen over someone who has put countless more hours into making their job absolutely sing. I've also had my share of mages who simply don't feel that they HAVE to wear good gear, since 'pts will bend over backwards for whms' or something of that nature.
Let me put it this way. Theoretically, we are both Taru 30BLM's (or whatever) with similar grasp of the job and party mechanics. Your gear is 5-10 levels behind mine. As such, you have 25 less MP and 4 less INT. How can you justify being chosen for a party before me?
