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• • FFXI Downtime

  • You know in all my years playing ffxi maintenance hasn't been too much of a issue for me. I have to say though since i moved to england it seems like the maintenance is done mostly during EU prime time. Which is kind of a drag. Can't wait to move back to the states.

  • Posted: 7/21/08 7:03 PM
    Final Fantasy XI
• • Like FFXI?

  • That's awesome to hear. One of the things i miss about not playing L2 is when your camping a group of mobs trying to get your lvl and bam somebody starts attacking. You then go on and own them and two of there friends because they thought that because you were a dark elf sorcerer you would be easy to take down if there was 3 people. All the while your blood is pumping wildly and your adrenaline is flowing and your yelling at your clan on vent that you just single handedly took down 3 people with your weak a$$ lvl 50 dark elf sorcerer that you were re-rolling.

  • Posted: 7/20/08 12:03 AM
    Aion
• • Japanese Party Questions For the English Player

  • I have found that the party dynamics for japanese parties listed there happen to be true a lot. There is a reason  why a lot of japanese players tend to just leave when the parties disband and that is the reason right there. It's not that they are being rude it's that it is what they expect from the party. I have been the only english speaking person in an all japanese party many times and it can be a bit difficult sometimes. They use different strategies for certain things and sometimes it works great but sometimes I think it isn't needed. Like early on in the game if you have a pld tank thfs sometime sata a job that is /nin near the end of the fight and when shadows where off the pld covers that person. Where in most english parties you have a first voker then the thf SATAs the tank. Little things like this is why i think a lot of japanese player have "JP onry" in there search comments while many english speaking players have "NA JP anyone" in theres. Mostly because most english speaking characters haven't partied with japanese characters and just want a party no matter what. A Japanese person will tend to wait for a party where they know what to expect even if it means they don't get a party.

  • Posted: 7/19/08 11:51 PM
    Final Fantasy XI
• • New to game, question

  • Well i wouldn't say that i am a "fanboi" but I do love ffxi a lot and have been playing it off and on for years. Many of the things you said were reasons why I quit  before but I kept coming back again and again for some reason. I think what ffxi brings to the table that most MMOs out this day don't have a is very strong player community. Being able to switch linkshells or guilds for people that don't know the game is wonderful and having to group so often also strengthens the community as well. Buying gil isn't really feasible these days either since SE has taken large strides in getting rid of RMT players so it will cost you a fortune or you will get banned for doing it.

    I will however not say that this game doesn't take a lot of time and it can feel grindy a lot but I completely disagree that it becomes worse at 75. The game for me truly began when i first reached 75 but i spent a way less time grinding then i did doing this getting there. Now with all the endgame content there is so much to do it would be your own fault not to find something you enjoy and now it caters to smaller groups with events such as campaign, assault, and salvage needing 6 or less people to do.

    So i wouldn't just throw this game to wayside there is plenty to do and enjoy why do you think over half a million people still play this game. Yeah that's not as many as the 8 million that play WoW but pre-WoW having a player base over 500k was a huge deal. I would say this game is more for the old school MMO player that is used to games like EQ where it takes time to get things done and you won't ever see a character that has the best gear all around. That's one of the things I hate about newer games it seems like a race to max lvl with nothing but boring quests along the way just so you can raid all week long and few months later and BAM your character is fully geared out and now what do you do?

    Most of the community is does have a job over lvl 60 these days but many have multiple jobs to 75 now. How do they do that you ask? They lvl lower lvl jobs like now i am working on my rng its only lvl 40 but that only took me a about two weeks partying a few hours a night while still doing limbus each week.

    So for the new players looking at this game if you love the FF series and you like a challenging MMO i would say give this a shot you might fall in love with it like many people i know. Yes this game is not for everyone but what game out there is? I would say if you are all about PvP and soloing you should just go somewhere else though.

  • Posted: 7/16/08 6:17 PM
    Final Fantasy XI
• • New to game, question

  • Well on top of all that whitemage is arguably the best subjob for beastmaster and it's almost impossible to solo with whitemage. Hope you enjoy yourself. There are jobs that can do both fairly well though, blackmage has been known to solo from as low as lvl 30 all the way to 75 i know a lot of people who soloed from 50-75 as well. The good thing is though you are needed endgame for a lot of stuff unlike the beastmaster. Another job that can solo well and can group well is puppetmaster its kind of like a beastmaster but it has the same pet all the time and it's weaker in some aspects.

    Just so you know there are plenty of people out there now trying new combinations of jobs and soloing jobs that otherwise were thought to not be soloable. Have I done this? No, but there are people that have and still are.

  • Posted: 7/16/08 11:12 AM
    Final Fantasy XI