And the one thing Ive learned from wow, horde usually tends to help out random strangers in quests then alliance, or if you have trouble with gankers horde usually respond sooner.
Alliance are dicks. I know more kids play alliance than horde, and I find it hilarious that the supposed "good guys" are really the ones who gank more, start more fights, attack more towns, and are generally far more rude than Horde. BGs are no exceptions -- you'll rarely see an orc or troll laughing at a downed opponent, but you'll see EVERY gnome under the sun dancing on corpses and laughing and spitting, which is cool, as it just makes me lust after alliance blood even more.
As great as you guys say WoW is you just seem like FFXI rejects/quitters just here to promote a game you feel good about playing. If WoW's so great stick to WoW forums... maybe?
I can "seem" like whatever I want to you. Your opinion of me means nothing to me, so ask me to "go to the WoW" forums as much as you want -- I'm not going. I'm talking to a friend
here. Most of my friends are
here. All of my posts are
here. If you don't like it, put me on ignore, but for heaven's sake, save your fingertips and stop posting for us to head off to the WoW forums. WoW doesn't need to have its PVP system improved -- blizzard is already doing that without me saying anything -- so why would I need to be over there? FFXI is the one with the near-dead PVP. I don't see anything that blizzard has made dangling from life support.
Get over yourself -- when SE introduces new PVP content, or at the very least, and update to ballista, then you'll hear dozens of threads about it. You make it seem like the PVP forms are just BURSTING with dozens of viable threads, every day! No, this place is a shell of its former self, because ballista is a withered husk of what it once was. You should be glad that anyone is talking about anything PVP related in here.
Continue with your "go back to WoW" crusade if you like, but realize that it is utterly futile.
actually if you go back it started off with gelwain and me just mentioning crap about the game towards each other for the most part. Then someone interjects their opinion about a game they have either little to no experience playing, because we attacked the only mmorpg most of them have even played before. Im sorry Ive played different mmorpg and know how to tell what I enjoy. And since you obviously just read the part about wow, you dont realize we still play ff11, at least I think he's quiting soon he said in a post.
Pretty much. You were free not to post a reply here if you didn't like what was being said, haha. Two old rivals -- two of the best players ever to grace the scene -- talking about old PVP times -- isn't that what a PVP forum is about? Where are your brand new posts? Where are your revolutionary contributions to the PVP scene? It seems all you can do is try to defend FFXI when neither of us care about trying to attack it -- we just want changes to it obviously more than you do, because we enjoyed Ballista for what it was, and what it could easily become with a little work.
Also no, I didn't just read the part about WoW, I feel that reject/quitter summed the two of you WoWkids up. You have to grind to get to the level cap for ballista, you have to raid to get some of the better gear to play in ballista, and you have to deal with morons nearly the entire time. Complain about it all ya want but that's what MMOs are, a huge time sink filled with idiots. Most people that say "Oh I only like this about " is because they fail at everything else about it. Some are good at it but they just dislike it but I'm detecting a massive amount of fail from you '_'.
Hilarious. So this is your big contribution when you finally stop talking about us talking about WoW? This is what you think PVP is all about? Apparently you've never heard about premades, or Ballista Royale, or even team-based devestation on the PVP battlefield. PVP isn't always about who can pwn the most n00bs -- the best matches are between skilled opponents, regardless of the game, or location. The fact that you have to resort to personal attacks, attempting to tag us as some rookies, is hilarious, especially considering what they say about assumptions.
Well I'm sorry if you think that me mentioning that SE cares little about their own PvP
And isn't that what all of us really care about? Don't think Tema and myself are some anti-FFXI trolls. Its just that with FFXI, bashing something is flawed, along with sending e-mails, letters, quests, and messages to GMs (all of which I've done on various occations, save for the latter) is the best way to get them to do something about it. When everyone cried about RMT, they started fixing it. When everyone cried about the account thefts, they started fixing it. When everyone cried about server congestion for updates, they worked on it. When everyone cried for cheaper limbus, they adjusted it. When everyone cried for a resolution to the DDoS attacks, they went to battle against the attackers. When people cried for a greater equality between weapons, they responded with the (modified) 2-handed adjustment, and raising the base damage on daggers.
Why do you think that a revamped, re-dedicated focus to a dying PVP would be any different? SE does not listen if you do not cry out. If you're absolutely 100% content with the way ballista is right now, then where are the masses and masses of constantly updated threads on the forums? Where are the massive linkshells of PVP crews, and where are all of the epic videos of these amazing tournaments that people are hosting? Saying this is a PVE game means nothing if they've actually included PVP. One update per expansion could be enough to keep it revitalized -- you seriously wouldn't even want to fight for that much?
theres a reason uncap is by far the least popular cap, and thats because it doesnt take much real skill. I may not have raided in ff11, because thats not what I came here for, came for ballista, and in the lower caps, me with my I think it was 3 or 4 merits, do just fine against people with max merits. Now Im not saying I never raided, just not a lot in this game.
I've HNMed and all that mumbo-jumbo in this game, with maxed merits, some HQ gear, blah blah, so I'm different from Tema. You can't get much better than my drg out there in ballista, but even still, the uncapped scene is so unbalanced due to actual job differences that gear isn't really the defining factor. A blu and rdm will just about rape anything, and a well-geared pld and mnk dominates the next cap. Then you have the jobs like smn, that fail in each and every cap, because of imbalance. Skill is far more important than gear, because theres a few JP on Hades that used to never twink out their gear, but had amazing skill and still cleaned house. Building the gear around your skilled way of playing yielded the best results, because it was always fun to watch that gilbuying NA idiot stroll into a 60 cap in all blues and get his shit tossed around like a rag doll, and watch him run off with his tail between his legs.
The sad part is that that skill is really only a knowledge of what to use, when, and what to avoid. Timing was just about everything in ballista, especially with hilarious features like lag-induced tp loss from weapon skills, and the JP players have a distinct lag advantage in certain locations. The fact that people couldn't grasp the basic features of ballista was amusing, and yet frustrating to us veterans, who had to deal with their blunders in our matches.
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