Lost and FFXI
Jan. 18th, 2006 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserLost: Jack. *rolls eyes* Sawyer/Kate. *gag* A thrill-a-minute ep! What's happened to this series? Why are all (most) of the characters suddenly so unlikeable? Charlie? I'd be happy if he got eaten by a polar bear. Jack? He shouldn't exist, as the writers first intended. Kate? The Others should feed her to a shark.
I only watched the whole thing with half an eye, and when I did give it my full attention I couldn't see for all the eye-rolling I was doing.
Shooting off in the distance, an island full of Others, dinosaurs, swarms of black stuff, etc. And Jack yells? Um, hello? How about being a little more sneaky? Like, say, not yelling? Not giving away your exact position? And the whole Jack/Locke drama -- I think I could go back to liking Locke as much as I used to if he would just put a bullet in Jack's head.
Bara: Jack asked her: "How long would it take to train an army?" And... ha ha ha. Yeah, you knock yourself out, Jack. That'll go /real/ well. *more eye rolling*
FFXI: Got a party invite pretty fast today (yay!), arrived at Crawler's Nest (yay!) and the party decided to go to GC (gods help me, boo!). Three of the party members were the same as last night's party and the party had a four level range. I nearly left, but didn't. "Hey, there's another RDM, so my job will be easy! And look, she's meleeing so I guess I can, too!"
Recall last night's RDM? The one who did nothing but cast stoneskin, phalanx, and refresh on himself? This one was actually worse. All she did was melee. The BLM didn't get one single refresh, she didn't cast one single spell of any kind (other on herself, to cure when she got hit by an AOE). Why the hell, why the bloody hell, would you level RDM if all you want to do is melee? Be a WAR, dammit! Be a ... um, some other job that only melees! RDM is NOT for you!
But eventually she left and I was the only RDM. Woo woo woo! Even with a big refresh list and a NIN tank ({Hello!} {Haste} {Do you need it?}), I was so much happier. Even when I was the main healer and sole RDM I was happy! Then near the end of the fight we got a second RDM and it was as sucky as the first one.
Dudes, we're nearly level 50! Why the hell do you not know your job? I had to ask her to do the BLM's refresh (the only RDM-task I gave her!)... and even with that, the BLM was still drinking yag drinks. I did every other thing a RDM does, she just had to do one refresh, but she couldn't handle that.
That's three out of three RDMs who were less than useless. Three out of three who did literally nothing. No refreshes, no dispel, no curing, NOTHING. How the hell did these people get to level 50? And what kind of RDMs will they go on to be?
I know I'm far, far, far from an expert RDM, but dammit, I hate how they're making the job look! I can keep my damned refresh cycle going while keeping an add slept and main curing! (I did that tonight!) And these people can't do anything?
*holds head*
Edit: Oh, I forgot! Sylf made me new armor, which looks much better than what I had been wearing! Wish I could get different pants, but hume RSE pants rock for mages. :(
I only watched the whole thing with half an eye, and when I did give it my full attention I couldn't see for all the eye-rolling I was doing.
Shooting off in the distance, an island full of Others, dinosaurs, swarms of black stuff, etc. And Jack yells? Um, hello? How about being a little more sneaky? Like, say, not yelling? Not giving away your exact position? And the whole Jack/Locke drama -- I think I could go back to liking Locke as much as I used to if he would just put a bullet in Jack's head.
Bara: Jack asked her: "How long would it take to train an army?" And... ha ha ha. Yeah, you knock yourself out, Jack. That'll go /real/ well. *more eye rolling*
FFXI: Got a party invite pretty fast today (yay!), arrived at Crawler's Nest (yay!) and the party decided to go to GC (gods help me, boo!). Three of the party members were the same as last night's party and the party had a four level range. I nearly left, but didn't. "Hey, there's another RDM, so my job will be easy! And look, she's meleeing so I guess I can, too!"
Recall last night's RDM? The one who did nothing but cast stoneskin, phalanx, and refresh on himself? This one was actually worse. All she did was melee. The BLM didn't get one single refresh, she didn't cast one single spell of any kind (other on herself, to cure when she got hit by an AOE). Why the hell, why the bloody hell, would you level RDM if all you want to do is melee? Be a WAR, dammit! Be a ... um, some other job that only melees! RDM is NOT for you!
But eventually she left and I was the only RDM. Woo woo woo! Even with a big refresh list and a NIN tank ({Hello!} {Haste} {Do you need it?}), I was so much happier. Even when I was the main healer and sole RDM I was happy! Then near the end of the fight we got a second RDM and it was as sucky as the first one.
Dudes, we're nearly level 50! Why the hell do you not know your job? I had to ask her to do the BLM's refresh (the only RDM-task I gave her!)... and even with that, the BLM was still drinking yag drinks. I did every other thing a RDM does, she just had to do one refresh, but she couldn't handle that.
That's three out of three RDMs who were less than useless. Three out of three who did literally nothing. No refreshes, no dispel, no curing, NOTHING. How the hell did these people get to level 50? And what kind of RDMs will they go on to be?
I know I'm far, far, far from an expert RDM, but dammit, I hate how they're making the job look! I can keep my damned refresh cycle going while keeping an add slept and main curing! (I did that tonight!) And these people can't do anything?
*holds head*
Edit: Oh, I forgot! Sylf made me new armor, which looks much better than what I had been wearing! Wish I could get different pants, but hume RSE pants rock for mages. :(
