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The Official FFXI forums are a trainwreck.

I try to remind myself that the dev teams read BG, and that it should be painfully obvious to anyone reading threads that the loud are not the will of the people, and certainly not intelligent. I spent fifteen minutes there just now and have been subjected to the following:

*Defender should make warrior negate 25% of attacks/damage
*Warrior can DA on every swing of a weaponskill
*Abyssea leech cap should be raised to 70, at least, and everyone who thinks otherwise is terrified of this opinion
*Gearswapping doesn't make anyone better than anyone else, and skill can compete with gear
*Dynamis is a perfect concept and should never be changed
*Reraise wears off when you level sync and people don't know why
*Math is an opinion, and saying that using haste to TP in so I do more damage is only an opinion, and you are an elitest and going on my ignore list

Seriously, the place is fucked. Everyone who makes a topic is an idiot. Everyone who suggests something is an idiot. Civil conversation gets sidetracked by attention whores who I PRAY are trolls. Someone claiming to have done CoP "The hard way" yet having only played since 2007...

It's like getting a super-concentrated series of posts from Alla, blending them, then straining the juice to make a cocktail with. It's horrific. If I could be assed to log in (or post, for that matter) I'd change my sig to something along the following:

I probably hate you if you sign your posts, don't use gearswaps or think an opinion is a reason to perform inadequately.

I want to cast my lot in and fight the power. BG's got a bit of a semi-mobilized force to try and like, spread information to the public and damage control the idiots from making others think it's okay to be a lazy slacker TPing in CHA gear because it mods Dancing Edge, but I don't think another voice to argue with would do the forums any good. There's a violent seed there, wherein if you propose someone changes their method of playing to what is mathematically a superior one, you are now being an elitist, and prepare to get ganged up on and attacked and made to sound like an asshole. How dare you suggest to these people that they change for you! Not everyone is here to have 1337 damage, you know,and for your information I do just as much damage as you without swapping gear v^.^;; Besides, blinking makes it so my healers can't cast on me and I DIE because I'm swapping gear, and you're advocating these people KILL THEMSELVES because you are scared our opinions are CORRECT.

Amusingly, opinions cannot be correct as that would make them facts.

I hate these people. I'm worried that enough of them are going to concentrate enough retard in one spot and it's going to take out a server or something. Maybe SE will decide we don't need gearswaps at all and just remove the /equip command! Can't have all this fighting on the forums, it makes us look bad.

I hate them. Makes me glad I don't have to work with anyone outside of the shell for the most part, though I kind of want to get back into pick-ups or something just to crush 15 other people's damage. Fuck, I'll do it on paladin.