My Bandwagon Mnk Thread

lol and his mnk sucks

2. Or they don't have 400k to get a brown belt at the moment and decided to not do the dumb thing, ie leave the slot open? Did that concept ever make room in anyones brain?

Oh well then the next question is when are the results going to published and where would i be able to get my hands on his work.

Do the *** quest.

Using anything worse than brown belt is unacceptable.
You should feel bad.

did OP play the RL card before anyone even replied? Wow.

Played it on another previous thread didn't he? At least I thought so, so I'm sort of nonplussed about seeing what seems like a duplicate thread with a new name. lol

Who came up with the term the rl card lol? Someone seriously told someone at some point "don't tell me you have things more important irl to do than play a video game with me"? Lol?

If only it was more like a "quest", that makes it sound so much easier. 21-24 hour repop for a casual gamer is hard. You don't play for one day and you're starting from scratch nearly.

If only you realized that you could camp those nms now, rather than defend yourself, you would'nt have to defend yourself like this.

I skimmed this thread, and even reread it carefully, and I'm still not entirely sure what you're trying to defend, Marrs.

The purpose of the Bandwagon thread is to point out people who leveled Monk to 90 because it's the new popular job; people who never cared enough about the job to do research about it to play the job correctly. Samurai was the last bandwagon job, and you can't tell me you cringed every time you had a soboro wielding 4/5 Hachiman/Wyvern Helm Samurai ruining your experience party.

First, I'll address common sense. The definitive haste cap for gear/magic/abilities has been discovered years ago. Sure, calculus is involved to determine just how much each 1% haste is having on your total damage done, but the fact that this kind of knowledge has been common for years does not. You can ask anybody and they'll tell you that TPing in more haste is good. Brown Belt's 8% to Twilight's 7% should not even need to be questioned. Further, there is absolutely no chance that a person who has gone through all the pre-requisites to access the Twilight God BCNM do not know this. Therefore, someone who chooses to use a Twilight Belt over a Brown Belt knows that they're making a poor decision.

Secondly, you try to argue that someone who is new to the game and happens to choose Monk as their first level capped job might be too poor to gear correctly. As of right now, FFXI is Abyssea. Low/mid level range is virtually non-existant. Therefore, we can assume that any new player to FFXI is there because of a referral from a friend, or at the very least, makes "a" friend with someone who can get said player into an abyssea experience party. As mentioned earlier, cruor will be plentiful immediately, meaning the new player can purchase aurore/teal/perle gear to NPC. In fact, if you compare the full Aurore set stats with what was standard for Monks as TP gear at 75, you'll find it's not that far behind. Nobody else has mentioned, either, the current price for new spells that come from gold pyxis in the Heroes abyssea areas, such as Blizzard V and Firaga. Selling one or two of those means an entire new wardrobe for a new Monk, Brown Belt included.

Third, and I believe this has been addressed, is that you assume that because someone isn't in top of the line, white-box gear, they're automatically gimp. This is not the case. Sure, a new player won't have access to sea or sky right away, but AF3+1 items are very easily acquired and far superior to what was previously available. Most NMs can be duo'd by a Monk and a healer, but acquiring them can also be from a linkshell group, or even through one of the many shout groups you see forming daily. Once you have a solid foundation, you can work on upgrading and tweaking gear. The kinds of people you see in these bandwagon/confused threads are people that slap together questionable or worthless gear from some of their other level capped jobs to make what they consider passable. This kind of attitude is really a slap in the face to people who take the job seriously. When Samurai was the bandwagon job, the popular view of Dragoon was simply "loldrg". If you ever teamed up with a good Dragoon, you'd have seen that Dragoon was a very solid damage dealer, but the fact that most Dragoons used 4/5 AF and Scorpion Harness and never food is why they had gained such a reputation.

Lastly, the real life card. Describing clearly fanciful real life endeavors or possessions basically tells us the truth is the complete opposite, simply because you tried to use that as a point in your argument. In this case, bragging about "lots of sex". It's like going to your high school reunion and telling all your former classmates that you have a six figure annual income when you're really just a garbage collector or a custodian. Further, every single person in every single online role playing game has a real life. You can't argue that someone who takes the time to research how to correctly gear a particular job has no life. In fact, research can be as simple as asking a veteran linkshell member or friend for gear advice. The FFXIAH community is also an excellent resource as long as you aren't picking needless quarrels. The best part of all is that you'll get your answer quickly without needing to use any math! So you'll not only be playing correctly, but you'll still be spending as much time outside of game as if you continued "doinitrong".

(No tl;dr as points were mostly emphasis on what's been covered.)

I replied to this and then I accidentally deleted it. Ill' do a summed up version rq. 1. The fact that you think that should be common sense is kinda ridiculous to me. 2. You sure do make a lot of assumptions (friend, friend for aby) for a person you don't know just so you can make fun of their gear. Don't you feel silly? And a couple scrolls doesn't add up to a brown belt + wardrode. Maybe four. I've only ever gotten one, and ive taken 3 jobs to 90 as of now. 3. Yes. It takes time, and you can get to a satisfactory point (even in the eyes of people that would call them gimp.) But your forgetting one very important thing, that threads basis was snapshot pics. You don't just wake up know what gear is good, and therefore have it. You have to go out and get it, all the while your taking a snapshot of em at that point. 4. But I never said I have lots of sex...? I said sex occupies a lot of my time. And it does. I think about it every 3 seconds or so. I do actively go out to bars and such, in the interest of it. I mention dates as being an active reason as to why I can't play in reference to sex. You guys should be happy I put that sex part there anyway, it's given you a huge part in ammo for arguing. Without it some of these posters would have had nothing to say, or had to have written something more to the actual point.

No one should be short on gil. Go sell crour gear, you will have 400k in no time. Its not hard.

He thinks about sex alot, but never gets any. Maybe cuz you play this game to much.

Sex on the Brain

The idea that men think about sex every seven seconds, like the claim that we only use 10 percent of our brains, is often repeated but rarely sourced. The number doesn't bear up against scrutiny. According to the Kinsey Report (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male), 54 percent of men think about sex every day or several times a day, 43 percent a few times a week or a few times a month, and 4 percent less than once a month. Even though the Kinsey Report relies on men to self-report on how often they think about sex, it's still eye opening to find that just under half of men aren't even thinking about sex once a day. Clearly, the seven-second rule may be a tad hyperbolic.

Good idea. Although I find the part 'in no time' a bit off. Seven slots at a time on AH. Unless you plan to take a day and just stand at the ah for hours on end.

Good idea. Although I find the part 'in no time' a bit off. Seven slots at a time on AH. Unless you plan to take a day and just stand at the ah for hours on end.

Sell it to an _NPC_.

screw brew, ive hardly used it at all since i got the abyssite. Get the gil if you need to improve your mnk. Over all improvement > lolbrew