SSubZero Scholar wrote:
I cry for you, but my tears are of laughter. FYI: You cleared Sea in considerably less time than it took me, and that doesn't include when you quit to play WoW. Unlike BLM's, Monks (and other jobs) can't just pop in and grab a static. I had to level SIX jobs to 40+ just to clear the Mammets and Diabolos due to the insane job favoritism, mostly jobs I don't enjoy playing. The way you felt about 4-2 is how many people feel about EVERY CoP mission. "Throw mages at it = teh win!"
Please don't visit the sins of others onto me. As for you having to level six jobs to 40+ just to clear the Mammets and Diabolos... get over it. No one forced you to do that. You simply chose the easy way out rather than sticking with the job(s) you enjoyed playing. The leader of my social LS, Stellazella, is on CoP 4-3 and the only jobs she's ever taken through CoP so far has been DRG and RDM (for CoP 4-2). The leader of HighCouncil took SAM all the way through CoP.
So your talking to a brick wall here. I know better and I feel no pity for you doing what you did because that was your choice to do what you did. I might have felt a little sorry for you if you weren't hell-bent on blaming everyone else for your actions.
Grow up and take responsibility for your actions.
As for the whole "you got Sea in less time than it took me even with my break in WoW", that shows your bitterness about the whole thing. You hate that a BLM got sea in 14 months and it took you longer than that to accomplish the same thing. I wasn't aware getting Sea was some kind of a race. Maybe I got lucky. Or maybe I was more dedicated. Maybe if you had stuck with the job(s) you enjoyed you would have gotten Sea earlier...
SSubZero Scholar wrote:
I'm not anti-BLM. I am anti-manaburn. I don't feel it is fair to other jobs. There are people I know who stop playing jobs they like in favor of "jobs that will get me invites" and "jobs that will get my missions done" and that's just wrong.
And that is their choice... who are you to say what is right or wrong for other people?
BTW... what's your take on Rampage parties?
SSubZero Scholar wrote:
Face it, you're a BLM and you have a silver spoon. You have absolutely no reason to have trouble accomplishing anything in this game. If you want missions done, you will get them done. If you want items, you'll get them. So posting long-winded stories about your trials and tribulations is like Bill Gates telling the gripping tale of when he couldn't get his Porsche imported into the United States
Yea.... the 8 CCB Polymer Pumps I purchased at 300k a pop (totaling 2.4 mil) is a silver spoon stuffed in my mouth. At least 5 reraise hairpins at 100k a pop (totalling 500k) is a silver spoon in my mouth. The 4 Vile Elixer +1's at 250k a pop (totalling 1 mil) is a silver spoon in my mouth. And 8 Pro Ether's at 100k a pop (totalling 800k) is a silver spoon in my mouth.
I'm sorry, but I don't call spending a total of 4.7 mil going from Chapter 4 to the end of Chapter 8 to be having a silver spoon stuffed in my mouth. And you know, I would have
loved to manaburn my way through CoP. It would have been a lot easier (not to mention cheaper in gil and xp)... but I didn't. I stuck it out with the melee's and never once thought of leaving them.
Once again, your visiting the sins of others onto me and I don't like it one bit.
SSubZero Scholar wrote:
CoP is a total package. You can't say how great monks are in later missions while at the same time saying it's "foolish" to use them in earlier missions. I'M SURE YOU'RE GREAT LATER ON BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU'LL GET THERE SINCE I'M MANABURNING MY WAY OK SEE YA LATER MONK BYE! This isn't even a CoP thing. I was stuck on ZM14 for well over a year because "lol monk yeah whatever sorry can't talk my BLM group is manaburning divine might see ya!" Over a year.
Cry me a river please. My brother Tygerstrike was on ZM14 for a year as well... and he's a BLM. Why? Because everyone was trying to do Divine Might the non-manaburn way and he finally beat it with a non-manaburn alliance. I myself just recently beat Divine Might and I had to do it with a manaburn party because every other attempt was filled with melee's that didn't know their job from their @sshole. But you don't see me bashing all melee's because of my experiences. No... I moved on and beat DM the only way I hadn't tried (as it was 13 BLM's beat DM with 1 minute to spare so even then there were problems).
Your entitled to your opinions... but don't expect me to go along with them just because you want to throw a pity party because the BLM's on your server treated you badly.
Oh and since you seem to like misreading my words... let me spell out something for you...
oberonqa Scholar wrote:
The party consisted of 4 Black Mages, 1 Red Mage, and 1 Ninja. I can’t tell you how easy that fight was and how foolish I felt for not having ever considered the manaburn route. I have no doubt CoP 4-2 can be beaten with other party setups, but it is my honest opinion that the best way to beat CoP 4-2 is with Black Mages.
See that.... it was an opinion based on my own experiences doing CoP 4-2. Before I finally beat 4-2 I took every other job in the game into it and failed each and every time because of the AoE. The manaburn route was the last resort... not the first.
Edited, Sun Mar 5 17:01:08 2006 by oberonqa