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Merit Party Screening WTF? & Schooling a Sam :D

Tazo, Fenrir, Maiev, FFXI

Tazo’s Procrastinating

So yesterday, Tazo had some free time after teaching naughty high-school kids.. and I was (7/10 merit buffer) not completely maxed out, so we decided to merit. She phoned me and I was like okay, I’ll get on. Tazo then added a line “get on fast, cuz this guy [1] wants to check your gear before he invites you”

I’m like “WTF?”

Apparently the dude in Tazo’s party say “our” server fails since everyone uses Amemet Mantle +1! Oh wow, when did Amemet Mantle +1 being associated with “n00b”, so okay… I went to a LS member, borrowed an Amemet Mantle +1, strip naked with a GKT (without grips), Life Belt and an Amemet Mantle +1.

He checked me. Next thing, he invited me cuz… “I was previously in O??? HNMLS =_=, he can’t be bad”, although I don’t really appreicate me still being associated with my previous LS, especially how none of my whole Samurai equipment was obtained in my previous LS! Regardless… I don’t think a linkshell in FFXI really determines a player skill anyway. Some of the greatest player I know in FFXI don’t even have a linkshell, and some of the most horrible players are in HNMLS.

/begin rant

Tazo, Fenrir, Maiev, FFXI

The 2 DD that requested /check before invites!

In WoW, a good guild does mean good players though. One fuckup from -anybody- and the whole Raid suffers. Blizzard don’t allow shitty players to slip by, hence shitty players will never be in good guild (or removed from a good guild), and will almost -never- end up with good gears.

I personally had experience in both MMO’s endgame and… I have to say I’ve personally seen shitty players slip by in FFXI, but in WoW, I don’t see it being possible at all.
/end rant

Anyway, I equip myself just as I engage my 1st Colibri, constantly swap gear so they can’t really check =P, and of course turned on my Parser. These peeps is just too overrated IMO. I didn’t had time to fix FFXIP so it only picked up Melee damage. But hay… a Togi mnk was only 0.5% ahead of me =P. That’s excluding a Samurai’s expertise: Weapon Skill master. Those Jins [2] and Asuran Fists [3] wern’t very good vs a B-weapon Penta Thrust [4] (here’s an image with all 3 WS [5]). Compared to my average weapon skill damage? They were IMO, so overrated. (Those 2 DD were in the same LS too)

So when did FFXI had so many of these people? Check before getting an invite on Exp parties? Okay, gear check before pearling.. I can understand. But just for a damn exp party? I personally don’t go to this extent. I remember in the past, I LFP on RDM and… I sometimes get invited to Paladin party (Since RDM can refresh a PLD better than a BRD). For sure Paladin is horrible exp guarantee (well most of the time), but hay, I stick around with no complaints, for at least an hour. Gear check before an exp party is a little bit too much. If you do check, at least own my parser…

It was a good laugh, and I constantly were laughing on Vent at these people’s weapon skill. Its so horrible. Jin for 5xx on Colibri, gtfo. Not to mention our party had 2 bards, and they wanted Accuracy songs =P (Acc are for the weak :D, I’d much prefer Minuet/March)

Broken parse results [6] (melee dmg only).

Well you can tell he might be a server transfer, since he says “our” server fails, sounded like his previous server owned a lot. Well maybe when the 3 months timer is up, they should transfer back to their own server.

So yea… some people are little bit overrated. Its just a merit party man.. less QQ and more pew pew.

Polearm Samurai Talk

Vs Colibri.

I have to say, haven’t regret meriting Polearm with 8 merits. There’s plenty of advantages over say… Dragoon when it comes to WS. Being able to wear Hauby is definately a plus, STR and accuracy all-in-one. The access to Hasso (which + accuracy), and meditate is a big plus over Drg.

Weapon wise. The best Polearm is probably Engesuto [7] (well +1 if you can xD, I can’t find it T_T) vs Dragoon’s Mezraq [8]. Although its got impairs Evasion, which only benefits when it procs. But with no food, having +accuracy would be quite beneficial, at least for personal DPS.

DPS wise, 10.56 vs 11.34. Its ~ 10% more damage but if you pop Hasso, you can gain those dmg back :D Drg job trait have Acc bonus, but so does Hasso. You’d probably end up having the same DPS.

Another advantage is… (what I do), we have defensive abilities (Seigan + 3rd Eye) while having Berserk on. This is a great attack boost while not putting a burden on your healers. Drg on the other hand ‘~” can only rely on their Jumps to release hate, which consists of a pretty long cooldown.

Maiev FFXI of Fenrir, Samurai Exping Colibri [9]

Maiev schooling other Samurai :/

Well afterall, these are Colibri and takes extra damage from Polearm anyway and I’m simply abusing it, but with the lack of DRG walking around, having a Polearm Samurai isn’t really a bad idea!

Some screenies of Polearm WS after the 2h update. (Our bard don’t have Minuet merited btw)

Oh I forgot to say, I had another Samurai in my party >.> seriously outparsed… and I felt so bad when he type “Thanks for Schooling me” just as he disbanded :( it was my 1st party after 2hand polearm update, so I was really excited when I reach a new high everytime… but he felt like I was schooling him :/

Some people might see me just talking sarcastically but… I tend to end sentences with smilies like xD, XD, :) just to… make it sound more happy and less serious… but I guess he took it as “rofl at you” >.>

If you’re interested with my Polearm setup, you can see it here [15].

Anyway /end Samurai Talk. One tip: Accuracy is the king to everything, both in WoW [16] and FFXI [17]. (I havta say, the way I beat people’s parser in WoW is also about Accuracy. People stack Attack Power (Attack in FFXI) and always always forget about Hit Rating (Accuracy in FFXI)… :/ I rather go over the Accuracy Cap, then be under it and miss.

Btw, I found a USB Toaster, you gotta go see the video [18] lol!
Another one… man climbs many tall buildings with bare hands… watch it on YouTube [19]. Wow!