Thief's Knife is now Uber Common Drop

Kougaaiji said:
imo people like you who never put it to a test and would go an bash it deserve to hear this. Dont bash the knife or those who dedicated their time to this just because you refused to put forth the effort. Damage isnt the only part of our role in ffxi, you are a "career thf" you should know this.
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People like you that put this knife on a pedestal, make me filthy stinking rich in my time.

Thanks.
 
Kougaaiji said:
611790]mo people like you who never put it to a test and would go an bash it deserve to hear this. Dont bash the knife or those who dedicated their time to this just because you refused to put forth the effort. Damage isnt the only part of our role in ffxi, you are a "career thf" you should know this.
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The knife is nothing more then a placebo btw, I've been in many fights with and without th 1/2/3/4, been in some with 2x TH4 where we made sure the thf got the killing blow as long as being in fight from 100%->0%, been in dynamis with multiple thfs with af2 gloves/knife or both, etc...

I've seen no correlation, imo it's nothing more than a placebo, or its effects aren't worth more than what the knife used to cost. (maybe now it's reasonable)
 
The only place I've ever seen real effects of a knife is in farming common drops (like silk off crawlers or whatever) and In dynamis, where its alot easier to view percentages
 
Sneakypants said:
Orry? I beg to differ. THFs like you are weak sauce, my friend.
A) Camping that knife the old way was always a waste of time.
B) I'm only bashing certain people because they can't handle the truth and come here running their mouths.
C) The role of THF you are talking about is most largely taken care of by the job trait Treasure Hunter, and not a MARGINAL increase from a gimp knife that you have to sacrifice much of your life to get....JUST TO BE A WHORE.

I've enjoyed playing skillfully, not whoring myself out to shells that believe THF Knife is the end all be all just so I can get in good with them to get more gear.

Like I said before, THF Knife now takes an appropriate amount of time to obtain, given the effect it has for the individual and groups.

Psst. It's gimp.
lol
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the knife was a piece that set your desire to play apart from the rest.
now that desire and skill and dedication isnt able to be seen because anyone can obtain these pieces.. this goes for all hnm/nm drops that go gimped.

every mmo imo should have pieces that are tougher to reach than others. ones that are so tough to get that they earn you respect and put you above the pack regardless of the effects they bring to you and others.

you could argue thf knife is gimp all day long, fact of the matter is though that you never gave it a shot yourself. you judged its potential ignorantly, and these people who stand behind you only agree that this is a good thing because it is in their favor to do so. Now they and their friends can have pieces they could have never camped and obtained sucessfully.

i agree with dowzer tho, it wasnt all hard work.. i only camped when i felt like it over a span of 2 yrs, and i had a few great times down there. Probly most importantly though was that I learned to react faster and camp better. So it wasnt a complete waste but frustrating none the less.

I honestly believe anyone who put in all the time I put in would agree, this update was for the dogs. SE is simply trying to keep ppl from quiting and eliminating everything elite about this game.

Simply sick.
 
Kougaaiji said:
every mmo imo should have pieces that are tougher to reach than others. ones that are so tough to get that they earn you respect and put you above the pack regardless of the effects they bring to you and others.
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I disagree. Your reward should justify the work you put in to it, and rarity alone isn't a justification. If all MMO's had you bowing and scraping for items that barely have an effect on a stat or bonus, they'd be utter failures.

Thief's Knife is a novelty item. What you had to do to get it was way too much for what you got, even considering all you had to do was attempt claim for a few seconds every 12 or 15 minutes. You may see yourself as "Elite" for camping it prepatch, but we see you as an idiot for it.
 
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Yeah, even if you can't completely escape it(lag, bad timing, what have you,) one person getting slammed > 3-6.
 
So someone like enrollox deserves to be elite because he strolled up, killed the NM once and got the drop?

Where as someone like Sandborn (was that him?) went 0/100 and isn't as elite because he didn't get the drop?

Your logic fails.

So does your precious knife.
 
Kougaaiji, get off your pedestal. you consider your self elite? how far up your own arse can you be? we have relic weapons for such recognition of hardwork and effort.
 
Svina said:
Only nub tanks let the team eat a bomb <3
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you hit that unlock run far far in the opposite direction, you see the bomb come your way... your filled with relief... then you get poked in the back... you just agro'd another bandit >.<
 
Intensity said:
you hit that unlock run far far in the opposite direction, you see the bomb come your way... your filled with relief... then you get poked in the back... you just agro'd another bandit >.<
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Only nubs aggro another mob when bomb dodging. <3
 
Kougaaiji said:
every mmo imo should have pieces that are tougher to reach than others. ones that are so tough to get that they earn you respect and put you above the pack regardless of the effects they bring to you and others.
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did you have to stop admiring yourself in the mirror to type that?
 
Intensity said:
you hit that unlock run far far in the opposite direction, you see the bomb come your way... your filled with relief... then you get poked in the back... you just agro'd another bandit >.<
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That's why you rotate the camera as soon as you start moving.
 
Kougaaiji said:
the knife was a piece that set your desire to play apart from the rest.
now that desire and skill and dedication isnt able to be seen because anyone can obtain these pieces.. this goes for all hnm/nm drops that go gimped.

every mmo imo should have pieces that are tougher to reach than others. ones that are so tough to get that they earn you respect and put you above the pack regardless of the effects they bring to you and others.

you could argue thf knife is gimp all day long, fact of the matter is though that you never gave it a shot yourself. you judged its potential ignorantly, and these people who stand behind you only agree that this is a good thing because it is in their favor to do so. Now they and their friends can have pieces they could have never camped and obtained sucessfully.

i agree with dowzer tho, it wasnt all hard work.. i only camped when i felt like it over a span of 2 yrs, and i had a few great times down there. Probly most importantly though was that I learned to react faster and camp better. So it wasnt a complete waste but frustrating none the less.

I honestly believe anyone who put in all the time I put in would agree, this update was for the dogs. SE is simply trying to keep ppl from quiting and eliminating everything elite about this game.

Simply sick.
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To the bolded - You mean, perpetuate THF being TH ho onry while gimping your actual "play".

To the rest - What part of, "It's a waste of time" didn't you get?
Sorry you spent time there.
It was always transparent to me that it wasn't worth even the average effort needed, gambling lots of your time, for a chance at something SO SO SO not worth it.

I won't try to stop the idea that people think it's worth anything though. If anything, the community has access to tons more THF Knives now. Let people dream, right? And there will be so many knives in every shell, based on people's misunderstanding, I still don't need to bother with it. w/e lol


The other part, about SE still having to run a business...
Speaks for itself.
 
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Good idea. I'm going to go make an MMO where you can buy items that have no real game use, but are extremely rare since you pay us $10,000 to get it. You get your e-respect, we get your money, it's win win!
 
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