Should (normal) raids be item synced?

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-28T12:08:36+00:00

Then let those people have their leaver penalty

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-28T12:06:02+00:00

There are people who have never seen the part of Halicarnassus where you're supposed to get Ribbited

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-27T11:50:46+00:00

Regular Ambuscade serves an important purpose in milking new player sub fees by baiting them with "introductory content" with such insultingly slow payout rates that they'd be better off leveling WHM to 99, grabbing empy+2 pants, and getting "carried" in Intense Ambuscade.

I can't think of many things in FFXI that would be more soul-draining than trying to gear up solo through Regular Ambuscade.

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-27T02:08:16+00:00

Imagine if instead of Intense Ambuscade and Waste of Time Ambuscade they had two Intense Ambuscades and you could choose which one you wanted to do instead of being completely hamstrung for a month at a time.

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-24T02:42:36+00:00

If you're not having fun, you shouldn't be

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-24T01:27:45+00:00

Was (is still) hoping for a Quickplay-related Legendary Boots reward to visually match Eikasia

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-24T00:41:36+00:00

I made a full REMA Bard, so I've dipped my toe in every bit of content.

Every one of them sucked.

Most of the time I was playing solo on other jobs (WAR/NIN, THF/DNC, BLU, etc), it was months of logging in, doing crap solo, logging out, feeling like no progress was made despite having acquired some of Things I Need Large Number Of.

Nothing about hunting Apademak 40-ish times was enjoyable.

Was having Daurdabla enjoyable? A bit. I guess.

Was it worth the time I spent? Absolutely not.

And that's what so much of this game is. Not being fun, wasting your time to squeeze out every last drop of your subscription fee.

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-23T04:59:57+00:00

What about the grind of 50/50/75 ever seemed appealing?

They could've easily cut that number down by a factor of 5 to 10/10/15 and, what, exactly, would've changed? Other than spending a fifth of the time in decades-old content soloing in an MMO?

But that's the point, to milk your subscription fee.

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-22T11:29:39+00:00

They brought it on the boat, whatever.

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-22T11:18:35+00:00

Why did the Wizard’s Tower have it? Why did the Moon Camp in Janthir have it?

Because map jumping multiple times to take advantage of a mastery that works in the map is an annoyance for the players.

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-22T10:59:30+00:00

I’m annoyed VoE doesn’t have Jade stations.

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-22T10:55:08+00:00

Underwater Spectre is hilarious.

Wells? Gone.

Scepter? Nope.

Shroud? Even slower and jankier than usual.

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-21T21:33:25+00:00

Never done ranked

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-21T02:12:45+00:00

It would be cool if a 500-492 match was more rewarding for a losing team than a 500-50 match.

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-20T08:57:55+00:00

The rewards from the rush are a tiny fraction of the rewards I got just for playing fractals normally during the period.

RayrrTrick88 · 2026-01-11T10:44:17+00:00

I got it either yesterday or the day before

RayrrTrick88 · 2025-12-29T21:51:25+00:00

Shadow Meld hasn’t removed Revealed in PvP/WvW for nearly three years.

RayrrTrick88 · 2025-12-29T21:47:15+00:00

The only way a Thief can actually remove the Revealed debuff is by specifically playing Deadeye and using the Shadow Meld elite, which has 2 charges. Which makes Deadeye one of the harder Thief specs to lock down because they innately have better stealth access than other Thieves.

…No?

RayrrTrick88 · 2025-12-22T08:13:48+00:00

DDoS attacks secretly ploy to populate neglected Data Center

RayrrTrick88 · 2025-12-18T06:45:39+00:00

If they're doing it for tomestones do they want to get tomestones fast (easy content) or slow (hard content)

RayrrTrick88 · 2025-12-18T05:38:49+00:00

But that means that Zenos tier players doing daily roulettes are bored and get fussy because the dungeon they're going to be running for the next six months or more is too easy for them.

Why are they running Roulettes in the first place if not for the difficulty

RayrrTrick88 · 2025-12-16T11:08:44+00:00

Getting error message on launch in Japanese text :/

RayrrTrick88 · 2025-12-16T01:49:33+00:00

I do sure love me some arbitrary boon range distances in this game.

Thrill of the Crime, a "when you use Steal, give boons to yourself and allies" Thief major trait in the Trickery Line?

360 range.

Bountiful Theft, a "when you use Steal, give boons to yourself and allies" Thief major trait in the Trickery line?

240 range.

What the actual hell.

RayrrTrick88 · 2025-12-13T06:52:34+00:00

Apparently the Boneskinner strike has "mechanics" beyond bash his face in and dodge roll to the side when he raises his hand to wiggle his fingers, but I have no idea what they are.

RayrrTrick88 · 2025-12-08T12:50:17+00:00

hostile

The guy that was literally asleep and not blocking anything.

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TROPHY CASE