Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

When did you get so heavily into BLU anyway Draylo? I always remember you being on Black Mage or White Mage back in 2006~2007 before you hopped over to Levi.

A little bit after it first came out, it started as a pet project and then I really liked it. I was always forced on BLM or WHM though of course lol.

It is fun when the objective is to actually kill the mob. But standing with your *** facing the mob waiting for them to maybe use the TP move you're trying to learn, while maybe having a chance of learning it after the kill.. It grows old. Especially when they keep using final sting and whirl claws over and over and over and over again D:

No bot/hack/etc sites.

Just because it wasn't actually a hyperlink doesn't make it ok. Jaerik made a post not long ago about us taking a harder stance on them.

We just mentioned the name of it. Which can occur for a variety of reasons in game related discussions. Is that a problem? Or was there more detailed information given that I was unaware of?

Don't discuss it here.

It's a huge catch-22 though. You need high/capped blue magic skill to aid your ability to learn spells. Which would be great if I could learn a spell in the first place! /rage

It's a huge catch-22 though.
You need high/capped blue magic skill to aid your ability to learn spells.
Which would be great if I could learn a spell in the first place!

/rage

just start roaming around your neighborhood with a gun and take what you need

overall the learning bluemagic experience is infuriating :( i started from lv1 and got all the spells up to about 36 before i said fuggit and only got the useful ones

Quote it here if you don't mind.
I might have missed that, and if it clarifies something that disallows me to mention the name of a specific crab in FFXI, then that would be good to know.

This site enjoys an active understanding with SquareEnix, if not to the point of a community sponsorship. Over the years, we have tailored our tools and feature sets specifically to the level that we would not reach the point of game imbalance and trigger retribution.

As such, using this site's forums as a method to encourage or transmit information about additional 3rd party utilities that actually do intend to break the game experience in some way is expressly forbidden. It's a slap in the face to both SE, and this site's excruciatingly delicate 4+ year effort to provide useful features to our users while not negatively impacting the core game mechanics.

Cliff, Scragg, and myself have discussed our policy towards 3rd party tools and the delicate balance we have with SquareEnix probably four dozen times -- at great length -- over the many years this site has been in operation.

I've even given several long, frequently-quoted summaries about why our stance is the way it is, especially regarding our differences of opinion about say... Windower, versus something like a claim bot.

User proposals to increase the functionality of the crafting section, or email/text notifications on AH sale, or countless other suggestions have always been clearly and publicly discussed in light of our "do no harm" policy towards the balance of the game. It was also explained in all three versions of the site FAQ since Day 1.

We have had exhaustive threads on the subject to explain how we arrived at the policy we have, and the new rules could not be any more clear-cut in the way they are written.

So the "we didn't know that" line isn't just a poor excuse, it's incredibly galling to even suggest that's somehow our fault.