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Ramtantaru

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1: pay attention to the chat box, implement filters if need be. very few things are as annoying as having to constantly tell someone the same thing, a couple examples... while fighting toramas tonight our paladin had to ask over and over for silena.. there wasn't a fight that when by where he wasn't spamming <call> and that he was silenced, also having to constantly tell someone what the skillchain or skillchains are over and over is tedious

2: skillchains... the blm job has many perks.. warpI and II, sleepgaII, ga, nukes, etc etc... but anyone who plays a damage dealing job really loves doing one thing.. taking big chunks of HP out of mobs.. so its a given that a blm is going to want to Magic Burst....

aggrivation #1: everyone participating in skill chain have 150-200+ TP, thank has established hate, person who starts the renkei wont do so... now everyone is at 300 TP and the mob is dead.. our most MP efficient nukes are when we get MB.. sitting on full TP and not using it is the equivelent of blue balls for a blm but not only that it hinders exp chaining... or even worse that that... they people get full TP and the mob is almost dead (whm plenty of MP, tank and everyone fine and in no danger) and then when mob has about 100 HP left they use their weapon skill.. now we have an unhappy blm for a couple reasons.. magic bursting is fun... we can't do it without a renkei, and more importantly it really screws up the exp chain losing out on that added damage ....

aggrivation#2 the people in renkei are doing everything perfectly.. (key phrase is "people that are in renkei") so people in renkei are doing great... so weapon skill 1 is used, then weapon skill 2 is used, (blm starts casting blizzagaII) , skillchain DISTORTION! (blm's spell is about to land) random melee asshole uses weapon skill.. FRAGMENTATION, blizzagaII doesn't burst and lands for normal damage... i don't understand how this can be happening so much at this level ... :x

3: overly sensitive people with thin skins... im a guy .. i like to joke around.. often times i'll say something so far from the truth in jest thinking others will know im kidding (i realize intent is hard to convey in text) and they instead get worked up about it (or worse yet they will get pissed off then say something back with cruel intentions which i will take for a joke and then make another crack at them only further hurting their feelings) for example .. our ranger died pulling in valley of sorrows last night.. those raptors are fast :cry:

well he died right as he got to camp.
i'll admit i wasn't watching HP bars (we had a whm and rdm in the group)
being a blm at this level i rarely ever need to cast cures (im blm/rdm btw)
so i guess i was a little at fault.. i certainly didn't help him not die.. cause i didn't know he was dying :shock: a quick messege typed in the chat box could've saved his life but i could understand his greif.. no one likes to die.. though i never do anything other than laugh about it (even my own)
so i didn't try to rub salt in his wounds and make light of his loss..

well the ranger is clearly pissed and is laying into the whm... so i think i'll lighten the mood in the group.. get people laughing... i tell the whm that she is a "bad bad bad bad bad bad white mage" and that "she should be very ashamed" others in group realize im kidding and laugh... a few minutes later the whm is saying that she has someone here to replace her and she's leaving because no one person was at fault for the death and she didn't feel she should've been made fun of and that she was blacklisting some people in the group.. (she was very polite about all of this and didn't name names.. so i could tell she was genuinely hurt) so she leaves and i send a tell trying to explain things.. but being that i was the one black listed she didn't recieve my tells...

this kinda thing has even happened within my linkshell.. most people realize im not serious... but theres be 3 so far that have gotten really worked up about it.. i realize i am partially at fault.. since text doesn't convey my teasing good natured intent... but i really think quite a few people need to lighten up... this is a video game... lets have fun


pat yourself on the back if you were able to read through this incredibly long rant
 
what was the name of the whm? i'll just send a /tell for ya, or leave a message...

anyways, when someone dies and your the whm, (i only have experience at low levels, however) it usually feels like its your fault anyways, unless someone was being a total shit. I spam cure like nuts and feel horrible when people die... and even worse when they get pissed about it...

so anyways, i guess its cool to joke around, just realize that not everyone will get the joke.
 
I know how you feel about the random guy using a weapon skill in mid skillchain and ruining it...ugh, I've had MANY people do that.

Also it's annoying when people won't make a skillchain, but I guess I fix that by using my WS after someone else does one and use a WS that chains with it...
 
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I ran across a Drk last night that had an inferority complex. Each fight they would say how much damage they did, saying things like "I bet you guys are in love with me.", or some other thing that basically tried to elevate themselves over the sum of the group. I found that to be irritating but something that I could live with. We were making decent exp gains. After a while though this person started talking about leaving the party because we didn't appriciate them. WTF. I just wasn't going to kiss their butt over them doing there job.

I don't know. When you are doing a good chunck of damage like a drk can do certain things should be taken into concideration. One of these things would be the party makeup. We had a Pld, Drk, Mnk(me), 2 Thf, and a Wtm. Now if you don't allow the thieves to consitantly get off their sneak attacks you are hurting the group. The thieves repeatedly asked the Drk to stand behind or a little to the side of the Pld so that if they did get the hate the mob really won't move, allowing them to Sneak Attack easier. The Drk couldn't do it no matter how often they asked so Sneak Attacks were missed more than need be. I know that I was firmly planted behind the Pld every fight to make it easier on the thieves when I stole the hate. The Drk eventually thought that I hate the Drk class because of damage envy. (I don't. They do damage in big noticable chunks with frequent wiffs and I chop away with lower damage but with quicker frequency. It all evens out.) It was just the lack of flexibility in thier play style and the "Look at me! Look at me!" mentality.

Ah I feel better.

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If that guy really wanted to say "Look at me! I deal uber damage!" He should of gone RNG.

You should of slapped him, he is not what makes the party, it's everyone within the party that makes it a party. You might be doing big damage every now and then, but I am not going to kiss your ass just because that is what your job SHOULD be doing.
 
Well the funny thing is that I would have complimented the Drk more if they weren't fishing for compliments. I appricate humble players more than egotists.
 
I was in the same boat with you, Ramtantaru...

I was in a party, and the puller would pull a mob, but then end up training with another VT or IT. I was the whm...and he was very apologetic, kept saying he was sorry and he can be replaced.

And I was feeling smart@$$-like that night, and then he trained for the upteenth time, and then he went out to pull, and I made the comment "starts to pray * (can't remember the person now...been a while) won't train another mob" -and then he got all mad and was saying he's sorry and to replace him and that he should be leaving.

I felt bad, because I was SERIOUSLY teasing...but, I apologized for it, and he stayed and we actually became friends. ^_^ b :D

D@mn the game for not being able to use emotions behind the typed words. :evil:
 
OniTatsujin said:
That's why they need smilies such as these:
:shock: :roll: :twisted: :?

This one just freaks me out: :idea:
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It kinda looks like a... oh, nevermind.


xKronox said:
I don't feel like reading, pleasee paraphrase, lol.
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.... Please tell me this is a reference to something I don't understand, and you didn't just seriously ask for a paraphrasing because you didn't feel like reading.
 
/em picks up runake
/em shakes that crap out of him.

:D

Yes, I am lazy, so what?

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