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My biggest pet peeve is the pseudo elitist attitude that has shown up in force since people started beating Ifrit X.

It is insane the comments about extreme learning parties (after the third wipe, you tend to have people rage quiting... Just so people realize, that means 10 minutes into actually doing the fight... People spend up to 2 hours setting up these parties).

Or Coil is another favorite. Must know this, one fail and you are out, No losers, and the such.

It's just demeaning to the people saying it. And the sad part is I don't even think they realize, not only the attitude they promote, but the personality that they project.

While there is a really friendly community in this game, there is also a pervasive "I need to prove I am better than you" attitude about anything end-game related, and I have actually quit all things end-game related until people simmer a bit...

I guess that's not really a little annoyance:).

To be fair, it can be pretty hard to get hate on everything right off the bat at lower levels. At the lower levels there aren't a lot of enmity generating tools other than spamming flash/overpower and if someone pulls something too fast you might never get hate back.

Other annoyances:

1. When tanking, I hate when I've determined (through experience) how quickly the party is capable of moving with maximized efficiency... but then DPS insist on pulling more mobs, most often leading to messed up hate/ unneeded deaths/ slowed progress.

2. Rage quitters... or even people who give up after a couple failed attempts at something... especially when notes such as "learning party" are included in the PF notes.

I'm torn about undercutting. I don't like it, but I often end up doing it. The times I've tried selling an expensive item without undercutting, I usually log in a day later to find that a) my item hasn't sold and b) I've lost out on thousands of gil by not undercutting in the first place.

I took Fluid Aura off my cross bar like 6 months ago. I honestly can't remember the last time I used it.

In general, I don't mind undercutting, as long as it's done smartly. Unfortunately, FFXIV is one of these "don't hate the player, hate the game" situations. The market forces sellers to undercut if they ever hope to sell their stuff. On top of that, the MB system makes it far too easy to undercut.

This is a very good point and it got me to thinking. MRD/WAR gets great cross class abilities from us paladins and we don't get squat in return. Even taking the cross class abilities we get from WHM in to account, how many abilities (outside of Foresight) do we get that we're ever going to use in a party? You're never going to use any of the WHM spells as long as a healer is around. Fracture and Bloodbath are ok, I guess, but they're not going to make a huge difference in battle IMO. I know the WHM spells fit in with what we all see as the traditional paladin, but as it is it just doesn't serve any purpose in this game.

Possible solutions?
1) Why not give us Esuna from WHM? I'd use that all of the time!
2) What if we had Arcanist abilities instead of Conjurer? Physick and Resurrection instead of Cure and Raise, plus Eye for an Eye would be awesome. Resurrection means the OT can help with raises too, giving them something else to do.
3) Lancer abilities instead of MRD... no foresight, but I could find a lot of use for abilities like Keen Flurry, Feint, Leg Sweep, Invigorate, or Life Surge.
4) MY FAVORITE (and probably the most practical) - give us a trait that increases the potency of our cures, a lot. Right now they are pathetic, and no paladin is ever going to spend their attribute points or gear slots to make them stronger. WARs can do more DPS than us which gives them an advantage over us, but if we could cure ourselves well enough to save the healers some work, they could focus on doing some damage abilities of their own and it would even out (and probably be fun for them). It would also help the job "feel" more like a paladin is supposed to. I'd love something like this.

Don't get me wrong, I think PLD is very viable (it's my main) but that's based almost completely on it's own class and job abilities, which are great. We definitely get the short end of the stick when it comes to cross class abilities and there does seem to be a preference towards Warriors since they got their big buff in 2.1. I would definitely be in favor of having some new options in that regard.

Edited, May 2nd 2014 7:55pm by Raylo

The group of people with Behemoth mounts and Minions that camp on top of the bells from time to time, no biggie on the PC... but it never fails I'm on PS3 when this happens and forget how to target anything that's not an enemy.

Sometimes I like to spam cure on myself or spam cure on the other tank during fights to help mitigate some damage. This I find is useful during fights like Titan where you may eat a bunch of hits and Mountain Buster is coming - sometimes it makes a huge difference. I honestly don't care that we don't get that many abilities from other classes. We are already over powered and awesome. :P

It probably had very little to do with the content of your post. It's not what you say, it's how you say stuff.

Players who are new to a dungeon or a fight and will not speak up when asked "Who's new?" I'm willing to explain everything but when these ppl make it a point not to speak up and wipe to ifrit easy cause you dont know to kill nail or other important details,..fustrating. Then we find out who after they get clear acheivement or a extra long CS.

Edited, May 3rd 2014 7:27am by Poopintuna

You forgot the first rule of karma... don't talk about karma.

I've learned that speaking up about it just makes them rate you down more.

And don't worry, it took me a while to discover the price history button on retainers too... and when I did it was pure joy.

Having just recently started the tedious process of melding my crafting gear, I have to say that repeated meldings can become really annoying really quickly when you have to wait for the failure animation to complete before starting again. And if you're melding something that isn't equipped, you have to re-select it each time. The layers of menus to go through repeatedly when melding gets old.