Correct me if I'm wrong but If a player is the one RECEIVING the invite and not ASKING for it, and you say there are 5 other people who's time is invested, wouldn't that make it the sole responsibilty of the party leader to make sure he/she is getting a party member who is level'd/geared properly? If you invite a player who is gimp by either SJ or lack of gear, that IMO is solely on you. They aren't imposing their will upon you, you are just simply asking for it lol. - Less QQ more pew pew!!!

as the coolest qiqirn around, every other qiqirns told me to answer to this. i say necroloot is completely right, while the other points might be valid, not allowing /nin on blm is just too shortsighted.

I am a Qiqirn.

Mr. Retail strikes again!

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I can't wait till these people get to endgame here.

I don't see how that was any different than during era retail. Another BLM was always 100x more efficient than a SAM could ever be in many of the pre-toau HNM fights. SAM wasn't a slouch either in some of the fights like Fafnir on retail. The main issue with melee in FFXI was always level correction, the system severely limits melee on level 90+ mobs. You're already taking a 4 accuracy penalty for every 1 level a monster has over you. Big HNM have high defense, auto-tp regen, nasty AoE damage to the point where 2-3 melee is a severe difference in how much they're going to TP. There was a reason every zerg fight consisted of rdm/drk's to chainspell stun lock the mob down. Post ToAU, this was radically different as more melee friendly HNM's appeared on the scene.

The mob TP issue is largely defined on Nasomi as one of the most critical balance problems that plagues the server. I've did the same testing as found in the "MOB TP FEED" thread and mobs blow their tp very fast. Combine this with tp regen that many HNM already have and you will continue to see the server as a manaburning fest.

Yes, but even then, melee were typically feeding skillchains for magic bursts on things that weren't being melee burned. You didn't really see SAMS start raping Fafnir till post 2hand update and overwhelm merits. We typically brought melee to most things we fought for skillchain purposes even before ToAU came out. In Salvage, ridill wars, and decked monks could pwn all of the chariot bosses. THF merit ability, "Feint" opened up a lot more melee burning tactics we saw unfolding all throughout ToAU.

The issue is that Nasomi isn't retail. I think some fights here are easier and some fights are much harder than retail. The issue is going to keep coming back to mobs blowing TP much faster. Every one that has tested it has seen how quick mobs are blowing tp. Also, I've noticed some TP moves certain HNM do here are much stronger than retail which will keep things a blm and blu burning fest. Even the dynamis monsters are several levels higher on Nasomi than retail for w/e reason. Nasomi is just Bizzaro retail, I guess that is the best way to describe it.

The mob tp spam reduces the number of xp camps significantly. Normal xp parties cannot xp on goblins, raptors, spiders, etc because of the spam, but also because the tp moves are too potent. An EP Goblin bomb toss should not 100 to 0 a lvl 75 character... These reasons are why you have very specific camps for every level range, i.e. bats in KRT that don't use Jet Stream.

The two things that this server needs is to get mob tp working more in line with retail and to reset TOAU mob levels. The server pop would take off if nasomi did both of these things, but for whatever his reasons are, it doesn't look like we will ever get the retail version of TOAU.