Final Fantasy XI

Is that it's impossible to lvl solo. I mean, I LOVE grouping with people, but some times it's hard to find a group all the time and sometimes I just want to grind out mobs by myself. This is impossible to do in the game. I really wish they would rethink this and somehow make soloing viable. I think you would see a lot more people playing this game.

Originally posted by Retrad

Is that it's impossible to lvl solo.

One of the reasons I was always attracted to FFxi it really weeds out the immaturity. If you can't group, you won't level. It seemed when I played in the past that if you were good your name got around and you could constantly get a group as apposed to these new genre mmo's where even the worst case scenarios make it to the top and pollute the population.

Edit: Though my big problem right now is the fact that its 8 hours to patch. Jeez that is insane.

Soloing does not equate immaturity.

Believe me I know how to group with people for endless of hours, my first MMO was EQ.

The same rules applied in EQ.

You would go to the zone of your choice and spam LFG. Their are times you'd get a group right off the bat, but then there were times you'd have to wait 30min+ to get a group. In the time it took me to wait for a spot to drop I would single pull mobs.

You can't do that in FFXI. I remember waiting 1hr+ for a group, just sitting in the zone spamming but all the groups were full. I was basically sitting there with my hand up my ass unable to even get mediocre xp from single pulls.

The immature players still play the game. Look at all the people who buy up gil. OH NOES IT IS SO HARD TO GET GILS! So? If it was meant to be easy it would be.

I think I rather have a couple of asshats who don't know how to get along with people and for that are reduced to a slow lvl grind in solo play then have a bunch of tards who ruin the economy by buying gil.

Yeah it does kind of suck, sometimes i dont feel like grouping with people. I never really had any problems as pld getting parties until 75. Merit pts want dds and tanks aren't really needed that's why i usually campaign but I don't need too many more merits for my pld these days been doing too much campaign i guess.

it wouldent be a ff game without groups/party

Originally posted by Retrad

I think I rather have a couple of asshats who don't know how to get along with people and for that are reduced to a slow lvl grind in solo play then have a bunch of tards who ruin the economy by buying gil.

Hell, people even try and sell the currency of facebook mini-games now. Where there is a pocket book there is someone trying take the money from it.

I agree, a reason why i quit was it is to hard to find a group at least on my server. Though, I would NOT want them to make this game solo friendly it would ruin it. They just need server merges or need more people to start playing the game again.

Originally posted by namelessbob

 

Originally posted by Retrad

I think I rather have a couple of asshats who don't know how to get along with people and for that are reduced to a slow lvl grind in solo play then have a bunch of tards who ruin the economy by buying gil.

Immaturity to you is buying gold? Well thats a bit of a far stretch as a lot of people who are very immature are far to young to have cash of their own to purchase it. None the less you will find people buying currency in any game you go out and find.

 

Hell, people even try and sell the currency of facebook mini-games now. Where there is a pocket book there is someone trying take the money from it.

Mommy or daddy's credit card.

Originally posted by Retrad

Is that it's impossible to lvl solo. I mean, I LOVE grouping with people, but some times it's hard to find a group all the time and sometimes I just want to grind out mobs by myself. This is impossible to do in the game. I really wish they would rethink this and somehow make soloing viable. I think you would see a lot more people playing this game.

Not impossible, just not as fast (depending on some parties you get, it is...) as a normal party. That's what Campaign is good for. Besieged is good for the skillups. Going through dunes, you could actually solo past it without ever being in a party. Just need to consider the options, it's never impossible.

FFXI = Japanese game.  The Japanese pride teamwork > individualism.  Thus, FFXI = a team based game.  You can realistically reach Lv20 solo on pretty much any class with enough time/effort but after that you WILL have to find a group.  You WILL have to know wtf to do.  You WILL have to play well or face the ridicule of others.

That's life in FFXI...  You learn or you gtfo.

That being said, if solo play is what you want  you always have the option of leveling a BST.  Personally, I leveled a BST from 1-75 with out ever entering a party.  And, I did it in less time than I leveled my other 2 75s (Bard and RDM).

However, the knowledge, wealth, and expertise that I learned while grouping in those other 2 jobs allowed me to excel solo on my BST.

That being said, I miss the team-effort that FFXI provided.  I just don't feel the same friendship in WoW that I felt in FFXI. I don't mean guild wise... I mean server wise.  I PUGing 20-75 in FFXI help you to make both friends and allies... you knew who sucked and who didn't.  Wow didn't

Originally posted by Black_Elvis

FFXI = Japanese game.  The Japanese pride teamwork > individualism.  Thus, FFXI = a team based game.  You can realistically reach Lv20 solo on pretty much any class with enough time/effort but after that you WILL have to find a group.  You WILL have to know wtf to do.  You WILL have to play well or face the ridicule of others.

That's life in FFXI...  You learn or you gtfo.

That being said, if solo play is what you want  you always have the option of leveling a BST.  Personally, I leveled a BST from 1-75 with out ever entering a party.  And, I did it in less time than I leveled my other 2 75s (Bard and RDM).

However, the knowledge, wealth, and expertise that I learned while grouping in those other 2 jobs allowed me to excel solo on my BST.

That being said, I miss the team-effort that FFXI provided.  I just don't feel the same friendship in WoW that I felt in FFXI. I don't mean guild wise... I mean server wise.  I PUGing 20-75 in FFXI help you to make both friends and allies... you knew who sucked and who didn't.  Wow didn't

also the ff series has aways been based on playing with a party