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Stop making "Cannons".

A 'Cannon Party' is not a Pld, Drg, Sam, Sam, Blm, and Smn.
A 'Cannon Party' is not a Rdm, Smn, Whm, Blm, War, and War.
etc...

Just... Stop...
Just because you have 3 random melee, or a Bard, or 2 Wars in a party, doesn't mean you have a Cannon.

Cannon =
3 High output DD (War, Mnk, Nin)
1 Healer (Rdm or Whm)
1 Party Enhancer (Brd or Cor)
1 Added Party Enhancer or High output DD.

Examples of a Cannon:

War, War, War, War, Brd, Whm.
Nin, Mnk, Mnk, War, Cor, Rdm.
Nin, War, War, Brd, Brd, Cor.

etc...
 
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So when I joined a cannon with RDM SAM WHM THF MNK that wasn't actually a cannon?

Good thing I "DC"d.
 
Some people like to think DRG, DRK, and SAM are high output DD jobs... lol.
 
You make your standard party, and i'll make mine with the jobs i see fit.

Unless you're taking issue with the people who refuse to level in anything else.
 
I think the issue is 4 random melee labeling themselves "cannon"
 
I don't know about you, but I like WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR WHM.

Some people like to think DRG, DRK, and SAM are high output DD jobs... lol.
I know DRK/SAM's that can outdamage most WAR's :p
 
meeze said:
I think the issue is 4 random melee labeling themselves "cannon"

DING! you earn a rubber tortilla!


Edit: Actually my gripe is more with substandard parties doing only 4k/hr claiming to be a "Cannon".

I'm for mixed Parties, I just hate the people mislabling them.
 
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I hate the parties that get 4k/hr. I can get more exp/hr trioing as RDM THF THF =/
 
I hate the parties that get 4k/hr. I can get more exp/hr soloing on BLU =/

In ToAU areas when XPing anything under 5500/hr isn't worth anyone's time and when you're talking about merits that goes up significantly.
 
Phraust said:
DING! you earn a rubber tortilla!


Edit: Actually my gripe is more with substandard parties doing only 4k/hr claiming to be a "Cannon".

I'm for mixed Parties, I just hate the people mislabling them.
Carry on then.
 
My favorite "cannon" was whm rdm war thf pld, and they invited me as brd, because a brd makes any party a cannon, at least according to the ignorant masses.
 
Just... ignore them? I mean, is it so upsetting when people mislabel themselves that it merits a flameboard topic about it? The easiest way to "correct" them is to show them what a real cannon looks like ie driving out a group of slowpoke scrubs camping at the north camp in Thix. Let them call their 6k/hr pt a cannon, just make your 15k/hr+ real cannon and do your thing, lol.
 
This is like calling 6 whm's a manaburn.
 
how do you make less than 10k an hour in toau area..? unless it's overcrowded or something
 
Phraust said:
Stop making "Cannons".

A 'Cannon Party' is not a Pld, Drg, Sam, Sam, Blm, and Smn.
A 'Cannon Party' is not a Rdm, Smn, Whm, Blm, War, and War.
etc...

Just... Stop...
Just because you have 3 random melee, or a Bard, or 2 Wars in a party, doesn't mean you have a Cannon.

Cannon =
3 High output DD (War, Mnk, Nin)
1 Healer (Rdm or Whm)
1 Party Enhancer (Brd or Cor)
1 Added Party Enhancer or High output DD.

Examples of a Cannon:

War, War, War, War, Brd, Whm.
Nin, Mnk, Mnk, War, Cor, Rdm.
Nin, War, War, Brd, Brd, Cor.

etc...


/raises hand and is guilty

LOL when I read this I was thinking..."Hey I called the pt I had this morning that LOL"

pt was Nin, Drk, Thf, War, Brd, Rdm then changed to Nin, Nin, Drk, Thf, Brd, Rdm.

so what do we call these makeshift pts(which in this one was very good) exp an hour was about judging from previous 10k tnl and my 6k of my 7k buffer on 63. about 8-9k an hour?
 
somethin I hate more than people mislabeling party types, is people that will ONLY party with certain jobs, in certain areas. People seem to forget that other jobs/older area's exist, and refuse to level unless the pt has/is:

NIN, WAR, WHM, BRD and sometimes RDM (which are the cookie jobs in ffxi, now)

People think that any PT other than this isnt a pt at all, and unless youre pt'ing in aht urghan area's, your pt isnt worth the time. Its worse than the jp onry people.
 
Ruffyreborn said:
somethin I hate more than people mislabeling party types, is people that will ONLY party with certain jobs, in certain areas. People seem to forget that other jobs/older area's exist, and refuse to level unless the pt has/is:

NIN, WAR, WHM, BRD and sometimes RDM (which are the cookie jobs in ffxi, now)

People think that any PT other than this isnt a pt at all, and unless youre pt'ing in aht urghan area's, your pt isnt worth the time. Its worse than the jp onry people.

Yeah.. because people would rather go back to the 6k/hr average in the days before ToAU... than building a proper cannon in a ToAU zone and getting 15k/hr+? That makes sense.
 
Shyrra said:
Yeah.. because people would rather go back to the 6k/hr average in the days before ToAU... than building a proper cannon in a ToAU zone and getting 15k/hr+? That makes sense.

see, this is what I mean. Not everyone in game is one of those 4 jobs, lol, but people seem to think they should be. Lets remove all jobs in FFXI except for NIN, WAR, BRD and WHM. That should be PERFECT. No offense meant to you, but the other jobs have to lv some way
 
Ruffyreborn said:
see, this is what I mean. Not everyone in game is one of those 4 jobs, lol, but people seem to think they should be. Lets remove all jobs in FFXI except for NIN, WAR, BRD and WHM. That should be PERFECT

/shrug.

Can't blame someone for wanting to maximize efficiency.
 
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