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I don't want that.

Rule #18: Limber Up.

This, very much this. If the shin splints are minor you can run through them, but anything that is causing severe pain should require several days off to recover. Continuing to run on severe shin splints will just make things worse, and as Seriha said, can lead to stress fractures. Although stretching before and after a workout is incredibly important to loosen muscles and keep from pulling or straining something, it has very minimal impact on shin splints. Not sure how this topic got so offbase, but it's probably for the best.

Osgood-Schlatters my freshman year was pretty much all I needed to experience to never want to **** around with leg pain again. Took about 2 months before I could walk without a limp. x.x

My response to your rant:



I never said HNMs or relics were mandatory, I said that a lot of people wasted their youth trying to get them because of the way they were structured, and I don't want to see the same thing happen in XIV. That doesn't mean I don't want challenging content, it doesn't mean I want to beat the game in 1-3 days, and it doesn't mean I want a single player mmo. I am also not speaking for everyone, I am speaking for myself and players like me who aren't looking for the endless grind and timesinks that a game like FFXI made mandatory. I realize how much content ffxi had, it's the reason I played for 6+ years and still think of it as my favorite mmo of all time. But a lot of the systems in that game were nothing but grind and I'll be glad to get away from that in XIV for the most part.

Edited, Aug 7th 2013 4:51pm by BartelX

Campaign Battles were all I did for a really long time. I wasn't forced into a party but I could play a multiplayer event. I met some cool folks along the way. FFXIV:ARR's FATEs remind me of little random campaign battles, which is cool.

First off, for all the haters, naysayers, and skeptics, I am not some hired spammer or troll with the intended will to make this post turn into a scene from the gladiator. Having said that, I highly appreciate everyone on both sides of this argument stating their opinions and alternative thoughts. I didn't expect much success to come from this but I got more than i bargained for. The reason why i haven't been active on this post
and responding is because i'm currently busy with Finals. When I am done i will come back and offer up my counterarguments and thoughts.

-thanks

I motion to lock this thread... anyone else?

I just foresee this turning into a soon to be necropost.

Abyssea • Great content, offered gameplay for solo, group, and alliance to get gear. Not time sinked. I saw people get gear in much less time than HNM or dynamis. Problem was the gear outdated most pre abyssea stuff.

ANNM • Never bothered with it.

Assault •Really cool content for small groups was super fun.

Bastion • Easy, but accessible to casuals.

BCNM • Great instanced content for filling in time between grinding xp and merits. You could make money.

Campaign Battles •I liked this alot. But because the rewards were permanent and not as good as other content. Thius content got the shaft.

Campaign Ops • Easy but accessible to small groups.

Delve • Quit right as this got introduced.

Dynamis • Great alliance content. The time sinks and drop rates were abysmal. Good luck casuals.

ENM • They were ok I guess.

Einherjar • This was fun alliance content too.

Fields of Valor • Good boon to world xp, but abyssea ruined this post 30.

ISNM • Cool and the different currency kept it relevant until abyssea pawned it gear wise. Casual.

Legion • I don't know if I was just stupid or what. But doing this content was very confusing for me lol.

Limbus • This content was the bomb. I think this content was the most fun for me besides expansion CoP.

Salvage • I liked this as well. It was pretty casual if you were a competent player.

ZNM- Enjoyed this but the way tiers and failure was handled screwed casuals.

Quests • Enjoyed this but hated the extreme gating.

Besieged • Best public event imo. Didn't happen often enough and wished it took place in more areas than AL Zhabi/WG.

Campaign Adventuring Fellow • Liked this and wanted it in ARR. With improved story and gambits.

Ballista • Brenner • Didn't care for XI PvP, but I know some did.

Chocobo Raising • I'm glad it was there, but could have been better. It gave a break from the rest of the game. Hopefully ARR does better.

Chocobo Racing • Never did it, only because I wanted to mount and race. Not watch cutscenes.

Reputation • Didn't like the grindy methods for building it. But it helped add some believability to npc/player interactions.

Trial of the Magians- Some people didn't like the weird spawns, etc. But this kind of content was great and could be great for people who want to grind open world mobs as endgame.

The one thing I never liked about FFXI. Is 90% of all the content was some twist on melee vs monsters. I wanted different rides as well. Things like Magitek battles, Airship battles, etc. All of them where players could take control and affect the outcome.

Sorry for the massive wall.