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Mea

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Today was quite possibly the worst day I have ever had in regards to FFXI. First off I have been in Middle Delkfutt's Tower since Sunday night killing gigas and camping Ogygos because I want his bracelets. I log on this morning when I wake up and stand in one room, without leaving, with nobody else in the zone, for 4 hours. And Ogygos does not show up. Damn, well it is time for me to go to work now so whatever I guess. Fast forward 4 and a half hours and I am home from work. I log on, in the same room I have been for days. I log in and see a little taru BLM standing there. I ask in /say if they are camping the NM. He doesn't understand becaue he is japanese, or at least claims to be. So I talk in auto translate and ask {Notorious Monster} {Item}? And he respond by nodding at me. So we kill about two more sets of pops and another person shows up. This is someone I camped against a day or two ago, and we are just chatting away in say while waiting for repops. Eventually Ogygos decides to show up. The person who showed up last tosses a stun and claims, linking with the regular gigas who popped in the room also. So I throw a quick elegy onto the link at the same moment Rubystar uses Sleepga, putting them both to sleep. So I toss a couple Threnodys onto the link and it turns red, I procede to go over and start meleeing it. Well Rubystar kills Ogygos and gets the drop. Good for him/her, clean claim, nice person while camping, etc. But I can't help but say this pisses me off. I have been there since Sunday and gone 0/7 on this bastard and I watch someone else get what I covet. Whatever, I warp back to Whitegate, defeated.

So now I am in whitegate and I decide, just buy the damn bracelets they are only 140k. I run to the AH and only one is up at the moment. I look at AH history. Everything is 140k or less. So I bid 140k. Unable to buy. Awsome, I needed more vinegar in my eyes, thanks. So I send a /tell to Rubystar asking if they were camping to sell or to use. Answer is they are going to use. Ok, whatever. I ended up buying the damn bracelets for 150k.

So now I decide to party my DRK for a little while. I put my flag up and warptaru myself to Jeuno. About 10 minutes later I get a /tell asking if I need a party. I say yeah. They say come to Crawler's Nest. So I head out. I get to the nest and run to camp and /wave to the person I am replaceing. After the fight is done this person disbands and uses a warp scroll. I stand in Crawler's nest and wait for an invite for close to 5 minutes before it finally comes. Leader might have been AFK or something I don't know, I don't care. I ask if I am pulling because I seem like the logical choice to do so in this party set up. They say yes. So I scamper off into the depths of the nest looking for a crawler to shoot my Holy Bolt at. I find one, and shoot at him (missing of course lolDRKmarksmanship). Much to my chagrin, he brings along two of his closest personal friends. I tell my party, "take the red one and let me die", which they do. Oh well my fault. The fight finishes up after my antagonists despawn, and the WHM begins to kneel. I glace at her MP pool, she has over 300MP around 60% of her total. Someone apologizes for me getting killed, I sayno worries it happens. And wait.....and wait.....When the WHM finally gets full MP she stands up and casts protectra. Then shellra.....And I ask for a raise, she then appears to have some kind of stroke of brilliance and runs to where I am and starts casting raise.

So I am back up and weakness gone. I pull again. Upon my return to camp I proceed to get hit 8 times on 7 attacks from a crawler before the PLD vokes. And I checked to see if everyone was ready before I pulled, the PLD was first to respond. So I cast drain and get a Cure 2 or two. Two hits with my scythe later I have hate again. PLD does nothing, and it's been at least 30 seconds by this point. Finally the crawler dies, and I proceed with the party. During the course of this party the PLD vokes once per fight, never uses Shield Bash, never uses flash (I think they have it at that level), never uses cover (again I think they have it), insists that casting Cure on the mob will increase her hate, and between fights regularly stands up mid healing MP to cast cure on people outside the party.

Eventually it was all over and I logged. But God damn. I'm fairly certin that today was proof that we live in a Godless universe. And if we don't he hates me.
 
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Reply to the NM camping, I feel your pain. Camped Biast for about two weeks straight, popped him twice myself, missed 2 pops while I was afk (for a short time actually.) The two times I did pop, I had him stolen away from me while I was kiting and/or getting members together. Now Biast, being a slow butt, likes to de-aggro after you run for like, 20-30 seconds so its very easy to steal claim. Oh well, gave up on camping this bastard.

As for the party, Ive ad a couple like that... Not in a while though. I am very sorry about that.
 
That sucks.

Now on to the 1-upmanship
That's nothing, this one time....I'm gonna copy paste to save some time from when I told this story a few days ago in regards to being asked the question "What's the most pain you've ever felt?" on some dumb survey thing:

"Well this one time back in the day, I had been doin pre-reqs and shit for like a week so I could unlock the Utsu quest and the rest of the nin scroll quests in Norg right, and finally I got all those damn necklaces and zinc ores and found some people to walk me through it and I finally had my utsu and tonko scrolls. At the time they were only 350k and 50k but if I sold em both I'd have just enough to buy my Ochiudos Kotes. So after putting em in my bazaar and warping home I'm back in Sandy gettin ready to go to jeuno to sell em on the AH, and as I'm walking through town someone checks me and buys my utsu scroll right there, so I'm giddy at first but then...I look and I don't have the 350k that I put it up for - turns out I put utsu up for 50k and tonko for 350k, I had switched them by accident. In consequence I had to farm for an extra fucking month to buy my O.Kotes cause I didn't have enough gil and they kept goin up in price...I'll never forget that day, it was just horrible."

I know it was my own damn fault for making the stupid mistake...but damn, that sucked.
 
Mea said:
Eventually it was all over and I logged. But God damn. I'm fairly certin that today was proof that we live in a Godless universe. And if we don't he hates me.

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Provide the PLDs name so I can chew him the fuck out. Sentinel is 35 I think Cover is 30. Post levels that you were because I am goin to tear a n00b paladin a new one for disgracing the job.
 
I totally agree with Romper. What the hell kind of paladin doesn't use their tools? That's insulting. I don't know what level this was, but at 37, you get flash, which should have been casted before/after provoke. Speaking of which, which is better? Before or after? I've been casting it 15 seconds after provoke, but I read it should be flash, then provoke.
 
Zephayra said:
I totally agree with Romper. What the hell kind of paladin doesn't use their tools? That's insulting. I don't know what level this was, but at 37, you get flash, which should have been casted before/after provoke. Speaking of which, which is better? Before or after? I've been casting it 15 seconds after provoke, but I read it should be flash, then provoke.

Go provoke> flash at the start don't wait. In my experiences flash doesn't set the hate like voke but flash adds to vokes hate.
 
romperstomper said:
Provide the PLDs name so I can chew him the fuck out. Sentinel is 35 I think Cover is 30. Post levels that you were because I am goin to tear a n00b paladin a new one for disgracing the job.
Tsk tsk Sentinel is 30 and Cover 35, naughty PLD. :)

Sounds like you had a bad day there Mea my condolences, just remember it can only go up from there.
 
I usually flash first, because it has a longer range, so I flash as soon as its in range, then as soon as i can provoke , I do that.
Then I repeat both as soon as recasts are up.

Zephayra said:
I totally agree with Romper. What the hell kind of paladin doesn't use their tools? That's insulting. I don't know what level this was, but at 37, you get flash, which should have been casted before/after provoke. Speaking of which, which is better? Before or after? I've been casting it 15 seconds after provoke, but I read it should be flash, then provoke.
 
I was 37 when the party started. I was 36 after I died. I was 37 after I got raised. I was 37 when the party ended an hour and a half later. The PLD was, I beleive, 38-39 so they should have been able to do everything you guys are describeing. My PLD is only level 10 so I didn't know when you got most of the abilities. The PLD's name was Craventigress.
 
Sounds like a gilseller PT to me.
 
Lol, was there a ninja named gunnerx in your pt also? He told me about it.
 
There was no NIN named Gunnerx while I was in the party. But like I said, I was a replacement for someone else. I have no idea how long the party was going before I arrived. So it is possible your friend was in it and just left before I was invited.
 
At 37 if you don't know how to play your given job, you need to rethink your job choice. Mobs at that level start getting more difficult and require more teamwork to take down. If you don't know how to play your job well, your just a dead weight for any party that has the misfortune of inviting you.

That being said, I feel for ya, Mea. My pld friends would be appalled by this.
 
Craventigress is a VERY odd person...i was in this pt in the citadel. And we only had 5 members, and a PL...but we were doing very well. All of the sudden craven joins and im like "why'd you invite a 6th, we were doing great as 5" (also mentioned that i had nothing against her, just didnt understand why he invited a 6th). And she just goes "thanks ice, ill be leaving". I said in /say that i didnt want her to leave...but i guess she didnt care. All of the sudden im getting /tells from her like "YOU DO NOT DISRESPECT ME AND GET AWAY WITH IT". Then i believe she threatened to call a GM on me, but at that point i had been ignoring her.

I know what i said wasn't nice, i spoke before i thought >.< But blowing up like that? She is very new, and i can see her not using any PLD abilities lol. So im sorry for what happened =(
 
Jeska said:
Tsk tsk Sentinel is 30 and Cover 35, naughty PLD. :)

Sounds like you had a bad day there Mea my condolences, just remember it can only go up from there.

My bad Jes it has been a year since I was in the 30s with PLD :-P. I knew in nest were both availible in CN.
 
Mea said:
I have been there since Sunday and gone 0/7 on this bastard and I watch someone else get what I covet.... So now I am in whitegate and I decide, just buy the damn bracelets they are only 140k.

I really don't want to sound mean but this is kind of totally your fault... Why the hell would you waste 5 days to camp an item you can buy on the AH for 140k. Even if you were piss broke you could of farmed for 2 hours and just made the money to buy them. At some point you have to ask yourself how valuable is my time? You really did all that to yourself for nothing...
 
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Tomasello said:
I really don't want to sound mean but this is kind of totally your fault... Why the hell would you waste 5 days to camp an item you can buy on the AH for 140k. Even if you were piss broke you could of farmed for 2 hours and just made the money to buy them. At some point you have to ask yourself how valuable is my time? You really did all that to yourself for nothing...

QFT. That's what I thought when I read the post, I just didn't wanna be the first to say it, but it's true >.>;
 
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