Final Fantasy XI Discussion
 

Although I use my PS2 to play this, I'm well aware that the majority are probably PC users, so the thread will go here.

Although I expect the thread to mostly center around information regarding the next expansion, I would like to use it to discuss the previous elements of the games (Zilart, Chains of Promathia, etc) as well. But first onto the latest news.

The third (and probably last) job has been revealed for the upcoming expansion; Puppetmaster.

http://ff11creatersvoice.cocolog-nif.../images/pm.jpg

Kind of looks like a Heartless, doesn't it? It's pretty neat. You can find the unveiling video here, along with the full trailer that occured during the Fan Festival.

http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/7...56/vids_1.html

Beware though; the level of geekery that occures in the room may be too much to bear. I was met with both laughter and embarrasment to hear all these dorks shouting like schoolgirls over all the new details. It was especially hilarious how everyone died down and gasped in shock when Odin appeared near the end.

http://home.comcast.net/~brandon_foy/odincerbtoau.jpg

Not that I completely blame them, as Odin and Cerberus do make for some neat new summons (or NPCs).

Also, one feature that has been widely been requested (me included) is being added as well; city raids.

http://1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3148683

This will be quite fun.

Anyway, I've hit quite a lucky streak in the game lately, as yesterday I managed to finish Divine Might. Anyone playing this game will tell you what an accomplishment that is, as it is the equivalent of fighting 5 Sephiroths at once. And if you're curious about my player info,

Name: Jorginus
Server: Midgardsormr
Job: DRK75/THF37
Missions: Zilart: Last Boss
COP: Complete
Rank: 9
Linkshell: LongBus, NeverGiveIn

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...110174500a.jpg

So, discuss the game, post your player info, give your thoughts on the new additions, etc.

im pretty excited :)

Im only lvl 50 though... and havnt touched RotZ or CoP yet :( My shadowlord battle is coming up though...

SE is planning on rebalancing, and adding quite a bit it sounds, to all the jobs... Thf and Drk could both use the boosts as far as party situations go :)

:cow:
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Name: Avanent
Server: Asura
Job: Thf 50/nin 25; drk 40/war

Rank: 5 - windurst
Linkshell: Ketsuen, Cermony Stands, Windurstian Army

I hope the rest of your party has levels above 50, or the Shadowlord will make short work of you.

And I'm told that BLM and NIN are both going to be nerfed again, which is good considering the whoring of the former and the ignorance surrounding the latter. DRKs are pretty high up in the job food chain, but I would like a few new additions to make us even better. Warp would be a nice spell to have. :)

I haven't heard of a nin nerf. I dont really see why they would need one anyways. SE already fixed that hate deal with Nin tanking. Nins should be left alone.

I'm not very happy with the news of a BLM nerf. It really isn't needed. Especially when things like Manaburns do not get you a great amount of experience. Towards the end of the game melee burns are more powerfull and get you experience much quicker. Is SE going to go and nerf those when people realize and start bitching? >_>

Not to mention BLMs were just fine how they were. They're very frail and would die in any normal party/mission setting. Thier suposse to do high damage with thier spells. That's why they're blackmages. But if any mob comes thier way they will fall and the BLM will be wishing they held back.

But I guess this does confirm one thing, SE *does* listen to us. They just decided to listen to the whiners this time. Seriously, it's the only reason BLM is getting a nerf. When Ranger got fixed all I saw was tons of people saying Blackmage must now be nerfed! Few months later.. what do you know. It happens.

Seeing how FFXI is an MMORPG, wouldn't this thread be better off in the Multiplayer Arena forum with the rest of the MMOs?

So the "Puppetmaster" is like a Beastmaster/Dragoon/Summoner where they have a "pet", eh? What are the details for this new class? :D

I played this a year and a half back in time, got to lvl 15, got bored and never touched it again. For som reason i didn't find it very entertaining.

I've been tempted to join again, but with Vanguard and Oblivion coming up I'm not sure it would be worthwhile in the long run.

Final Fantasy XI
 

Since it was lost and one hasn't been put up yet I'll do it.

Post your character name, server, jobs/levels, all that good stuff for us to see and compare.

Double Post:
I'll start off :
Delayed | Valefor | BLM75 | WHM 37 |

Nin nerf and Blk nerf? Thats not really what I heard...

There going to be giving most jobs a boost... but Nin wont be recieveing one... as for BLK, I ehard they will try an intice blks into more standard parties with certain spells and abilities. They did not plan on Manaburn aprties, but it is creative, and they dont want to punish the fans for it.

Thats what I heard at least.

This thread moved and other thread merged. :boxing:

So SE is going to be adding Chocobo breeding to FFXI. Even a racing track later on. It was said they had no plans for being able to call your raised chocobo but you never know. That could be added sometime down the road.

From what I understand you have to feed and take care of your chocobo. You can breed it with your friends chocobos. There are different colors, not just yellow. Depending on how you take care of them they will be fat, thin, average, ect.. If you do not take care of them they will run away.

It's suppose to be as easy as gardening and it's open to all levels.

I think it's about damn time they added this. So many people have been asking for it. It should have been added awile ago.

I cant wait to make myself a big fat yellow chocobo. :D

With the upcoming expansion makes me want to start playing again :/

Though I doubt my old character still exists, and everytime I go back I just end up doing nothing but fishing :P But stuff from new expansion does look really exciting...and every game I play gets boring fast :(

Just wish I could get my old character back, really. :P

How long ago did you quit? They changed the time a long time ago. Content IDs will be recoverable for up to 8 months now.

Well my character wasnt on my account one of the times I came back was gone (believe I must have been gone a year, which I read is when they purge your ID)

edit: I think last time I quit must have been gone mmm..6 months? :P

No one really seems to play FFXI around here... anyhow, I'm not very excited with the new jobs. I'm not into melees and I kind of just like being a white mage and a black mage :) Nothing fancy, I'm not looking to be some sort of beefy character that can solo big mobs. Although RDM/NIN would be interesting.... if only I wasn't a taru with no melee jobs leveled :p

I resubsribed I didnt get my oldest character back :/ but got the one I had last time.

They said in an inteview (before the fan festival) that the three jobs were supposed to be more magic-related since there are so many melees in the game. Personally I'm looking forward to the new jobs, I'll probably play as BLU, but I dont know might play as COR the luck factor seems very cool, and makes me think of setzer from ff6 :)

Corsair, sounds like it could be lots of fun with the whole "luck" factor, personally, to me it sounds like this could end up being good with a melee subjob (even though SE has stated its a support role), it uses a "Hexagun", so its kind of a toss-up which is more melee-oriented, this or BLU, I cant say yet if PUP is. Since BLU is sort-of like a RDM in the fact it gets all sorts of spells and can melee and cast, but COR also will use hexagun as weapon, so they might end up being somewhat decent DD (yes, I know SE has stated they are a support class). Though I suspect WHM will be good sub for either, same with PUP really. I am wondering ---> is Hexagun a new weapon type, or just a marksmanship weapon that only COR can use? I would rather see a new weapon type tbh. Also, the card move in the trailer looked pretty cool, too. (I'm guessing thats what it was when the Mithra had the golden cards swirling around them, they sorta looked like Triple Triad cards) Hmm, maybe they will tie in the card game that you can pay 1$/month for into Corsair somehow? That would be interesting. (I forget the name of it)

Puppetmaster just doesnt sound fun to me, just looks like another pet class kinda like BST only it comes up with its own pets, let alone, there isnt much out there about PUP, but from what I've seen its either going to be Mime, which I guess COULD be somewhat interesting if its like Gogo from FF6 and you can set abilities from other jobs for your puppet, or something, but unlikely, probably if it is the mime route it will just have an attack pattern similar to what you are fighting which kind of sounds like a ripoff of BST to me. Or it will have diffrent Puppets for diffrent occassions, which sounds alot more interesting, the only one I've seen is the "Tarutaru Puppet", but SE has stated there are more then one puppet available. Perhaps similar to SMN..but diffrent? ie one puppet casts spells, one only does physical attacks? or something. They also said that the original cocept for PUP was a necromancer, but they didnt like the idea of the undead/puppets, becoming weak during the day, so they turned it into puppetmaster...so perhaps you can get new puppets from diffrent monsters? Who knows.

Blue Mage, currently, sounds really interesting to me, for one, there's alot of areas people dont level in anymore (FYI, on my first character i spent most of my time getting ridicilously high fishing, never got to a high job level, was only 30), but I see that nobody levels in La Theine, Tahrongi, Maze of Shakrimi anymore. Which personally I wish they did I dont mind the Dunes as much as some people but I like some of the other areas. Perhaps with BLU we will see pt's in these areas again, so that BLU will be able to get the abilities from the monsters (Dhalmels have that healing spit move, I can definately see that as being useful). And the whole, you can only set a certain amount of spells thing, sounds really cool to me. Just the fact you have to know what you will be fighting and set the appropriate spells, and you could come up with a "set-up" that works really awesome against the monsters you are facing. But then once your group moves on to new monsters you wouldnt be as effective so probably have to re-set.

Anyway, those are my thoughts...:)

well it's been 2 years that I have this game and i'm still just mnk63 XD well I have a whm42 brd46 war37 blm 30 and some other XD and i'm a taru, yes a taru mnk XD cant wait to do asuran fist backflip XD

well to talk about the new expansion, i'm so interrested in the puppetmaster by the look, but I woner what will be is main purpose in a party.

and to talk about Odin, I don,t think there will ever be any Odin avatar, I think he will be more like Bahamut is to Chain of Promathia, but he surely look sweet ^^

http://1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3148972

Pretty neat, I just hope they can create a good balance, so players won't always get owned by the JP guy who spent millions of gil in pimping his Chocobo. I'm more interested in the armored Giants in that other pic. They look fun to fight.

I haven't been on FFXI for at least 2 weeks now. Metal Gear Online has taken up tons of time. The game is so fun it almost makes me forget about FFXI. I still want to get back on though, especially since I still have to beat the last Zilart boss.

*1 year.


I made it to WHM70 and called myself starting another job but I work overtime way too much, had to give it up for awhile.

:/ none of those were really exclusive. I had already seen everything in there :/

Good to share none the less :) But the article let me down with tis claims :/

I've been playing just as long. I'm the same level too.. my Paladin is only 63. ._. Though my other jobs are much lower. Only in their 20s. I take too many breaks from the game.

I'm interested in the new avatars. I know there's terrestial and celestial avatars. We have all the Terrestial avatars, I think.. But we dont have all the Celestial ones. The only four currently in the game that comes to mind is Fenrir, Diablo, Pheonix, and Bahamut. Two of them being impossible to summon right now. (Bahumut and Pheonix)

While we have Garuda, Ifrit, Shiva, Leviathin, Carbuncle, Ramuh, and Titan for terrestial avatars.

This leaves 3 more spots open for new celestial avatars. Two of them will most likely end up being Odin and Alexander. Not only because SE has hinted at it but because they have constelations in the sky. But I do have one problem with Alexander.. because I always thought his power was supose to rival Bahumut. Yet he could become a summon. O.o

It's just too bad Bahumut and Pheonix cant be summoned. Bahumut being way too powerfull and Pheonix kinda.. trapped at the moment.

Kiyoko - Kujata
73BRD/59RDM/38WHM/30BLM
Rank 6/ZM14/CoP (the first rivirn site)

Hmm, I don't play much anymore, I spend a lot of time making many of Kujata's prominent end-game-linkshells mad at me on their respective forums, as well as ffxi's drama headquarters: VN boards.

I'm in the process of leveling up my Red Mage, I've all but abandoned bard, as it is by far one of the most boring and noticably repetitive jobs in this game. When the expansion comes out I think I'll jump on Blue Mage, which sounds fun.

heh, Im only at 25 on bard, but I've noticed how repetative it is as well. However, since im used to DD, the quick invites is a welcome excahngem even with the cost of bland repetative play. Still don't quite have the distance of diff instraments down yet.

Hmm I heard this Japanese guy who spent 2 months BEATING the actual game. And only thing he got from SquareEnix is... hat that the last boss wears.

This game any good for PC? How much do you have to pay per month? If it is more then RO then screw it.

Even if it was 2 months straight without sleep or work, there's no way he could "finish" this game, because it's impossible to finish. Unless he got every job at 75, synthesized every item, got every mission, got every rank in every nation, claimed every NM.....bottom line, it's impossible to finish.

And none of the final bosses (regular, ZM, CoP) even wear a hat. :/

Haha. He must be reffering to Maat's cap. The hat you get when you get every job to 75.

And no one knows if an actual player has done that. I know no one on my server has maat's cap yet.

It's impossible you could get to 75 on all jobs in 2 months. There just.. isn't enough time even if you went 24/7. It takes atleast a month of nonstop leveling whenever you can just to reach the 60s on one job. This does not include leveling of a subjob to match.

I didn't even know such an item existed. Who the hell would want a stupid hat like that anyway?

When I wear an Abyssal Earring, I expect a bit of "ooh's and aah's". A Maat cap? "Too much time on your hands, dude."

SE said in an interview they actually put this quest in because a JP player HAS reached 75 on all jobs, if I recall I read the interview on a HNM LS website. If I recall I read on alla a few weeks later that a few people on other servers got the cap.

Hmm, your welcome to post your levels and such here, of course...but if you want your character levels and such to be listed, I've reposted the FFXI Server Catalogue some time ago. Visit that thread for that :/

As far as the new jobs go, I dont know if I will jump into any or not, we'll have to see, on the one end, I like the sound of some of them, but alot of the players are already forming thoughts on what should be subbed, despite the fact the expansion isnt even released :/

Alot of people seem to think PUP should have /MNK subbed, I understand the description says they will use H2H and there is movie out there of them doing it, but blah I have always liked WHM so I was hoping for /WHM, and I really dont see why people dont seem to think it isnt a good idea for PUP.

Corsair sounds interesting to me as well, since I remember reading somewhere that SE wanted to introduce a combination of old-style classes (that wasnt how it was worded.) So perhaps Corsair = Setzer/Cait Sith/Selphie? Despite this, alot of people sound like they think COR/RNG or COR/BRD will be good subs. Really, I was thinking COR/WHM or maybe COR/RDM would be good I mean its pretty much a Bard with a "diffrent twist", but whatever.

Blue Mage seems to be stuck at /WHM, but honestly, I'm not as interested in BLU as I used to be. I've never liked BLM, so I dont see why I would like BLU.

I'm very interested in some of the new stuff like Assault, however, and the changes for all the diffrent jobs.

Also I think today's announcement about...(I cant remember the name), but the hotel thing, sounds like a poor idea. Now I dont know about the LSes others have been in but not one has ever said "ok we're having a meeting", thus the reason for the hotel thing sounds...silly

As far as the "Besieged" combat goes I'm wondering what the actual importance of it is? Yes, it sounds fun to fight off raids. But, alright, lets say we lose? What happens? I mean its for control of some special item in the city, but really havent heard any word about what happens if we lose, or win for that matter. SE said that conquest will be diffrent in Aht Urhgan, is this how conquest is performed??

FFXI doesn't have a lot of soloable events, so even if you were to zip through all the expansions, you need to have a static that is willing to zip through all of that with you. It takes months for people JUST to complete all the promyvions and we're not even including the time spent leveling your jobs.

FFXI is $13/month for whoever asked.

not every job take 1 month to lv 75, my friend was in a static every day and he got his bard from lv 1-75 in 2 week. It's all depend of how and with who you play. A good static will get you lv fast, otherwise you'll spend a lot of time seeking, which is the main problem in FFXI...


oh and btw i'm not sur blue mage will be good with whm sub... it's a DD job that is melee (well i think so) most of that ability of monster are somewhat close range, so i'm not sur about whm in sub, Corsair it already been said that i's a buffer that use some "luck" so yes maybe /whm or /rdm will be good. There's just puppetmaster that we still don't know how it will play his part in a party :\

Ya they have, you dont loose exp for participating, and if they win, they gain control of the item. In order to get it back, you must raid there homeland area.


2 weeks? well... maybe with a really really good static that played nonstop. Still sounds more than a bit ridiculous to me though. They'd have to be ugprading their items alot, and would have to have alot of money on hand too... This sounds impossible to me.

will he already had a lv 75 before that so yeah he had the money to play his bard non-stop

so yeah the first job take a lotof time to reach lv 75 ...

Oh god, yeah. SE is planning to add a hotel where players can reserve private rooms for up to 1 hour. :edgartpg:

They say it's for linkshell meetings or wedding celebrations. But I'm sure everyone knows what it's REALLY for.

/sh 10K FOR ONE HOUR SEND TELL HOT RED HEADED MITHRA LOVE YOU LONG TIME

Before I started playing, I was told that if you were married, you could SHARE a mog house. That's why I played a guy taru when my husband decided to play a hume female :p No benefits out of that one, PLUS I don't even get cute equipment!

Yes I know they gain control of the item should the beastmen win, but im wondering lets say we win..is it just "okay, that was fun"? Not that it doesnt sound fun to protect against raids, but all SE has said about the device is something like it has been protected within the city (cant remember the name, I keep wanting to call it Aht Urhgan :P), If its lost, and the beastmen take it, what is going to happen (temporarily) in the city? Does certain parts of the city become restricted? Do beastmen start roaming the city? Do the shops have less items similar to conquest? Do the shops stop working altogether? Does the AH no longer work?

Or is it simply, "alright, lets go have some fun and get our item bacK", sort of thing? Which IMO is fun and all but not everyone will find it fun to get the item back/protect it, if there's some other motivation ...

ya, everything temporarily closes, or so i believe they said...

You earn some sort of rank points or something for completeing it... but SE was pretty vague and I believe they stated they weren't quite sure what the reward handouts would be yet...

Hmm are you sure you arent partly confusing that with "Assault"? Because in assault you gain higher mercenary rank by doing more Assault Missions, and opens up now Assault Missions.

Assault also sounded like it was instanced if I remember correctly.

edit: Also saw today that they have posted on the website all the job changes they want to make in the near future:

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/topics/060330_1.html

I'm a little excited about this whole Job Adjustments ^^ I can't wait to see what they will add to the monk, I hope it will add a little more thing to do in battle then just wait for sc XD

oh and PLD that get tp while blocking attack!? finaly! it's been almost a year that everyone thought that it would be great!

and I hope that some of the new magic they will add to blm and rdm will be good and specific for the job, (like new rdm magic only)

Maybe I am... but I thought they said youd be earning some sort of points for besieged too.. .cause they didn't want to award straight exp.

I've considered in buying and playing Final Fantasy XI but when I was about to buy it my TV broke so the money I had to buy I spent in my new TV.

I've seen that someone posted that the period to recover your account is no longer 3 or 6 months, but 8.
Can anyone point a link to updated informations about FFXI ? Especially thing that involve money, like the monthly fee, the date of the next update, etc.

Thanks

Next update will be late april due to the release of the expansion.

Ive heard recovery date for characters was actually a year if you didn't cancel your POL account(not the ffxi pay account, but the free POL account).

if you cancel your content ID (not your account, just the content. This is what you pay to be able to create a character and play) you have now one year before all your character data is erase (and lost forever)

the monthly fee is 12,95$ for the first character, and any additional character will cost 1$. So if you have 3 character, it will cost you 12,95$ + 2$ = 14,95$.

the next expension will be out April 18 and will cost 29.99$ (49.99$ for the xbox360 version but this is not just the expansion, it contain FFXI and all 3 expansion)

here is the official website for the next expansion: http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/ahturhgan/index.html

I was thining about buying the game with the two expansions, but since I've waited this long perhaps I should wait untill April 18th and buy the box with all three expansions.

Normally I don't have much patience with online games, but this game seems a lot interesting, not to mentions the huge options you have to build your character, so I want to give it a try.

You who have been playing it for a while, is it worth it ?

Uhh.. if you don't have patience, this is not the game for you. FFXI is really hard to get into, and it takes a lot of time to do anything. I actually get really frustrated with it and if I didn't have my husband basically giving me unlimited amounts of money and leveling for me, I would have quit a long time ago ;)

There is plenty of things to do in terms of you won't get bored, but it's all very time consuming and it's not easy to do things on your own. If you find yourself a nice group of friends then you can accomplish a lot more.

I've just ordered the game. I hope I won't regret it, I'm positive I won't.

Anyway, I had a free Playonlie account but I lost it (don't remember the login). Anyone know the link to register it ? I tried to find it some time ago when I wanted to check something at the Walkthrought for FFX at Playonlie site but I couldn't login or find a place to register again ...

lol the old (really really old) playonline site is not the playonline account you will need >.> it's totally new, it for the Playonline Viewer (that you will get with the game) you need a playonline account (wich is free but you need a registration code to activate it, no worries you will all have that witht the game)

the playonline viewer is a program that you have to pass by to lauch the game...

I just beat the last boss for Zilart tonight. Got the killing blow too. :D

The price was heavy though.



:(

Thanks for the info.
By the way, are there much differences between FFXI servers ? Or the reason to choose a server is just to play with a friend of yours ?

I heard there a few considerable differences but I can't imagine what could differ so much from one server to another.

you "can't" choose your server in FFXI you just end up on one...the only difference between them, is the number of player (some have more than the others) and the price of item at the auction house (some server have sky high price and other are normal)

but if you already have some friend on a specific server, you can sk them to buy a world pass. They will give you a code and when you'll create your character, there will be a palce to input this code so you can go on that specific server ^^

or if you want to be lucky you can create a character, check on which server you end up, and delete/re-create until you're on the server you want >.> but this is totally random so it can take forever and by doing that there are some server that you will never end up on it mainly because there's a lot of player in it and SE want to balance the server so they block the acces. the only way to end up on those server is by the world pass.

Are there going to be a lot of Xbox360 players that plan to join after the release? Right now on Garuda we're getting some Xbox players that couldn't wait and bought the PC game. They're complaining that the prices are too high :p

If your referring to the ones just coming over from the beta server, there would be probably about 5000 max, spread around FFXI's 16 or so servers, its not bad at all.

I dont see why they dont keep the beta server up and running, its all "isolated". But I guess some things are hard to find there. Whatever, though.

I just got my old character back, yay! :)

I kind of hope the 360 version will draw in lots of new players. Yes, there's always the downside of more idiot players and rising AH prices, but it also means you'll find more people to help you with things.

For example, I'm currently on Bastok 9-1. Anyone in Midgard still need this? I might try to arrange a PT this Friday.

everything is roughly the same in price in relation to each other as their beta server, so the inflation is fairly irellavent. The only difference is now, vendor items are cheap as shit, as they don't inflate. Since I'm playing BRD right now, and i buy most my scrolls form vendors, its actually good for me :P

BRD is probably the cheapest job to play, which is kind of nice.

I don't think FFXI draws too many new people anymore, I am kind of glad that there will be some new players around, that means I can help out with lower level stuff and feel like I know something ;)

in one week all you have to do is stay the hell away from valkurn dunes and i'll probably wait 1 or 2 month because trying the new job >.>

Too many people complain about the prices. Things have gone up in price but so has everything else. Except for the high value stuff the normal equip and goods are still the same, just with more zeros.

They just see high numbers and dont realize that they're also making more. So instead of making 10k and buying a 5k piece of armor, they're making 20k and buying a 10k piece of armor.

New players actually have the capability to make more. I know when I started back when it came to North America it wasn't exactly easy to make cash. The new players have no idea how many crafters are waiting for them to dump all the crafting supplies into the AH as they level up. Too short sighted I guess.

Back then when I started, 2,000G was considered rich, and water and earth were DIRT cheap. 100g and 200g respectively. Now that are x10 that amount.

I still remember the astral ring at 100k >.> now they are 1m >.<

During the inflation and when I was a WHM(quit at 70), everyone decided Erase was the only sure and quick way to get cash. 500,000, 600,000, 700,000(what I bought it for), 800,000, 900,000, topping 1.2 mil. All this did though was prove to me how lazy a lot of players are. During this period anyone could have made that much just farming rabbit hides(7,000). Wont work now though since everything has sinked to normal levels.

lol during the inflation I was farming tree cutting like crazy, hey one stack of cutting was 500k! but now it's 100k it take a little more time XD

I bought it for 600k, not sure what it is now... but I feel bad for all the WHM who bought Raise III (which doesn't even benefit the player at all) for 2-3 million when now it's like 5k.

That's a lie. You get Maat's cap by beating Maat with every job. So you only have to get them to Level 66.

2 people on Ragnarok have a Maat's cap.

I've been wondering. If you play Final Fantasy XI Online for hours on end, does it use alot of bandwith? How much MB will you have downloaded? A rough estimate? Is it alot or not?

Quoting this because it is true, also there's one in Kujata, some japanese girl charactor.

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I want to point out that your first point is true. I feel bad for all those poor whms :(

But you fail to understand that RAISE III gets 90% of your EXP lost from dying back. This only effects people at high levels, when it really counts.

Doesnt really seem to take up that much bandwith for me...

Its a huge game though... not sure how much MB is downloaded, but the game use up several gig.

I think it uses 56k like bandwidth. But I'm not really sure.

I do know this game will end up downloading alot when it comes time for updates. Which will eat up alot of bandwidth.

Ya, there are some people who play on 56k, they report updates as a pain in the ass, but seem to play the game ok.

I think you missed my point, I meant that it doesn't benefit the WHM (the person who BUYS the spell), you can't raise III yourself unless you hit 75 and get reraise III and that's a totally different spell. I just don't understand why people would spend 3 million on a spell for everyone else's benefit. And it only affects people over lvl 50.

Has anyone purchased the expansion pack? I've had mine since yesterday, and spent both last night and tonight with my group exploring the new area. I've also unlocked 2 of the 3 jobs, and gave Puppetmaster a spin. The customization of the puppet has won me over, though Blue Mage has quite a bit of enticing spells.

I was last year a 56k user and I was amaze at how well FFXI play on a 56k. You almost never get lag, only maybe in jeuno but it's normal >.> and the zoning is a little more longer but really not that much. But yeah the big problem was the update >.> just the first one (you know when you just install the game and you have to update it) at that time without even CoP (it wasn,t realease the first time I played FFXI) it took me 27h to download the update and this is non-stop because you can't resume your download >.> so yeah my phone was "busy" for a whole day >.< and I couldn't do anything with my comp because at that time I didn't have a computer strong enough to be able to play another game ith the POL in background XD so yeah update are hell on 56k but IG it's perfect.(god i'm glad to be on cable now XD)

for the expension, yes I have it and I love he new area ^^ the music is so good! we tried to do some job quest, but we died on the way because of 2 imp >.< and I was with a monk lv75 full merit with his af² and a blm 75 too, so those area are really dangerous XD well it was late, so we called it a day, I may tried again today ^^

I have finals over the next 3 weeks. Im avoiding it all at all costs. I dont need extra distraction >.>

I'll pick it up when schools out for me :P

Probably because reputations stick, and a lot of people care about their reputation.

and people will invite someone who has spells that help them.


the new jobs are a lot of fun. (Cor 13 at the time of this post)

I seirously doubt people will not invite you to a party because you don't have Raise III. Erase, yes.

They won't invite if they know you don't have Raise III. As I said, reputations stick.

I am not a fan of the hysteria on FFXI that surrounds new things being introduced. I tend to not play it during times like these.

I've never seen anyone actually not invite a player because they don't have Raise III. Are they planning on wiping out? At those levels, the chances of dying are slim, so unless your party sucks and needs a WHM with Raise III, I'm not sure if anyone would want to be a part of that. Especially back when it was a couple of million, people would understand a whm being broke and not being able to afford it.

I kind of like the server I'm on. Even though there are jerks that play, petty things like not having a spell won't mean that your reputation is screwed. Unless you were MPKing people or cheating others, lack of good gear, spells, or not knowing how to play your job right doesn't really affect your chances of getting an invite. People end up helping each other out instead of blisting them or trying to ruin each other's reputation.

FFXI isn't a bandwith hog kind of game. Not like Softnyx's Rakion: Chaos Force. But, it is a very system demanding game. In order to enjoy various areas and set-level places (where you will basically have 150+ other players all hanging out in the same place.) You can "lag" like a donkey. It's graphics intensive if you choose to have the higher resolution settings from the configuration menu. (The one accessible outside of PoL.) And if you choose lower res settings, you'll get more blockier-like displays in-game. But it will definately run smoother.

Much alike with WoW, you want to enjoy the graphics so that every monster, equipment, player, and place look like how they should? You need to have a system with specs that are "up" there.

What's the highest people have got new jobs so far on all your respective servers?

We have PUP and COR to about 58/59 I think, but I'm not sure about BLU.

On a side note, WoW Chat is kicking our asses here, something must be done. :P

I think most FFXI players go to Killing Ifrit and Allakhazam to bitch and moan about things :p And it's not as fun when no one here is on the same server either.

i know, and wow is so mainstream...

Ive been too busy with school to play since the exp came out... anyone play in a pt with the new jobs? What are your impressions so far?

FFXi was spost to hold me over til wow... So i'd of been one of them... til it deviated completely from the conceptual work they showed us, and thus greatly disapointed me :(.

The new jobs are fun . my corsair is 22 now. My gripe is the recast on PHantom roll (should be 10 sec shorter IMHO) and the lack of a gun until 15. Otherwise the buffs are interesting. I'm enjoying it.

i'm on remora
same name as username here.

Hey, just an off the subject question that I can't seem to find for the life of me. Are you able to transfer characters from one server over to another?

If you played the xbox beta, they had a transfer to an existing server... on rare occasion they allow server migration from one server to a less populate one(There was one about a year ago).

Generally speaking, no, once you create a character they are stuck on that server. Before you make a character though, you can recieve a world pass to start on a specific server.

I've (almost) just bought this game, and I think it's hard as nails. I've been killed twice by Ding Bats or what they are called, and one time by a fat bat of some sort. However, I think I've heard that that's normal. I just wish I was a bit tougher... Oh well...

check the mob, by ether targeting it and clicking on check or by targeting the mob and ctrl+c at low lv(1-12) you can kill all the mob that said:

too weak:don't give exp but very easy to kill
easy prey: give little xp but are easy to kill
decent challenge:give better xp(for this lv) still somewhat easy (depend of the mob)
event match: the mob is the same lv as you, now it can become tricky because certain job can kill them very easily and other will get owned
Tough: give good xp but will be hard to kill, some job can kill them others don't. at lv 1-5 you can probably kill a tough without to much trouble but after that they get harder.
very tough:you can't easily solo that, some job combination can do it but at lower lv don't touch them.
incredible tough: those are only killed in a party,so in solo don't touch them

at low lv aim mainly for the easy prey and decent chalenge, you'll get enough xp and you can kill them faster so you get xp faster too.

those little information are really only good for low lv because after lv 15+ even an easy prey can rip you apart >.>

What server are you on kilroy?

Sometimes they do migration schemes if a server becomes too big, etc.

Corsair's 36 now. It's much more fun now that i can do real dmg and buff. I'm excited for Quick Draw in a few levels.

On remora

Kujata.

Yeah, I've figured that I could check them, but some times even the merest Ding Bat ripped me a new one. And then I could watch people examine my corpse before whizzing by (No one wanted to revive me, so I had to return to my home point..). Anyway, some has been very friendly, like casting cure and protect on me while battling foes.

well the spell raise is lv 25 so if you don't have a whm lv25 passing by don't expect a raise XD and lv 1-4 you dont lose xp and even after tht at low lv you do one kill and you just gain what you had lost

Hey Kilroy I'm on Kujata too, what's your char's name?

This new expansion is great. The best part is probobly the new EXP areas. Everything in the new areas respawn so fast that you literally can xp chain forever, granted that there areant 50 other pts next to you (which happens). This is probobly any burn party's dream come true.

Also I'm 5/5 on the tier one assaults and 2/5 on tier two. The tier 2 ones are pretty easy so far which is kind of funny.

Might as well remove my stats seeings how I havent played for a year (I dont know why I havent updated sooner). After I get a decent internet connection and some stability IRL I will venture back to Vana'diel (Fenrir server) (I have a few people saying they will power level me and shit so I suppose thats all good.)

I'm called Iacen. Currently I'm hanging around in and around Bastok. It'd be cool if you'd come by or something:edgarrock:

One thing I'm wondering about, why are everything so expensive? I mean, about 900 gil for a frikking potion? I consider byself rich when I've collected 300:/

And is there a sure fire way to get a fishing rod? Perhaps I could get more money by selling fishies, but first I should get a rod.
(God, I sound like a newb... Which I am;_; )

buy stuff from npcs when you can, and sell everything on the AH :) The games been around for quite some time, and inflation just rises... so~

Potions in FFXI are pretty lame imo. Early on, you can make plenty of income by just selling crystals on the AH.

Medicines of all sorts are generally useless in general situations, so don't waste you're money. The ONE big thing you gotta do ASAP is just xp ONE job to 75 as fast as possible, as well as you're subjob. By the time you cap you'll pretty much get the game and the economy, and perhaps figure out how to make money.

ENMs and BCNM40 "Under Observation" as well as KS30 "Desert Swarm" are quite lucrative. That or level up a craft.

Anyway I'll hit you up kilroy.

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Also if it hasnt been mentioned yet, these are some VERY good sites you should use.

http://ffxi.somepage.com
http://ffxi.killvoid.com
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/
http://mysterytour.web.infoseek.co.jp/ffxi/us/

Killvoid and Alla can be laggy sometimes, those two are mainly a good recource for actual human feedback, as they work by forums. Somepage and Mysterytour are good kind of encyclopedias for the game. There are otehr sites out there for more specific stuff, but this is pretty much all the info you'll need.

I forgot to mention that once you hit around lvl 65-70ish you can join an HMNLS (Huge-Notorious-Monster-Linkshell), or in other words a huge guild that does cool stuff. There are varying degrees of these as well, some for noobs and some for vetrens. Anyway yeah, just xp dont worry too much bout money yet.

Allakhazam isn't a good place for human interaction right now. After being bought out by Zam.com a large portion of the member base got angry and the forums still have not recovered from the bitching.

Something about the company also owning IGE and the company's CEO created IGE. So people think Allah sold out to the gil/gold/adena/whatever sellers.

I dont know the real truth, nor do I really care. All I know is that the forums have been full of alot of arguing, flaming, spam, and general bullshit. More than the usual amount.

Oh yeah, this is probably my bias speaking but I would be cautious about joining a HNMLS. It's very competitive and time consuming. Much more time consuming than what FFXI normally demands. Alot of guilds basicly want you to put the HNMLS above everything else. It's also a big magnet for drama and can ruin friendships.

On Titan I've had many good LSes fall apart because either alot of members went for endgame and ditched everyone or it fell apart trying to change into a HNMLS. Half of the people I knew completely changed and became stuck up asses who ignore you unless they need something. A mithra and elvaan comes to mind here but I'll keep thier names to myself. >_>

I've yet to find a good Endgame LS and have been heavily alienated from the scene because of what it does to some people. So I'm heavily biased. I'm sure there are some good ones. But I haven't found them yet. :P

Final Fantasy XI Windowed Mode?
 

Wasn't sure where to post this but figured this was a good place to start since this is a general question. Was wondering if there was a way to play this game in a windowed mode? My resolution for the game is 1600 x 1200.

Post merged from separate stand alone thread.

FFXI doesn't have a windowed mode and SE doesn't want there to be one.

There is 3rd party software to force XI into a windowed mode but it is against the TOS. If anyone were to find out you could be banned.

Doesn't stop alot of people from using it though. It's really annoying having fullscreen forced on you.

You can get the windower here. > http://ffxi.archbell.com/

A warning. The windower tends to break with a large update to FFXI and now it seems the creator is moving on to other things. So if it breaks again it may not be fixed. The current version is kinna unstable itself now. But it still does what you need it to, window the game.

Another good place is ffxionline.com. The midgar thread doesn't have much interaction though, but there's still plenty of other fun sections.

Eep! That lone post simply toppled my world;_; ENMs? BCNM40 and KS30? Good grief, I have no idea what that means and I feel I somehow should:confused:

Anyway, I'm a warrior, level 7 I guess, and after briefly trying Red Mage, I reverted to warrior again very quickly. When is it possible to pick a subjob? I'd love being able to spice my warrior with some nifty Cure-magic, or perhaps a little black magic. That'd really help when I'm being pummeled by an obseenly strong Walking Sprout...

I'll explain quickly: a BCNM is done by trading those beastman seals toa guy in Port Jeuno. Depending on the number traded, he'll give you an orb, which you can trade to a Burning Circle in one of many places to fight Notorius MOnsters (BC NM). For winning the battle you receive items.

ENM are Empty Notorius Monsters. To fight these you need to start teh Chains of Promathia Missions. You can obtain a key item from NPCs for each of the many arenas and fight the NM inside.

Winning an ENM results in items and experience. You can only do a Specific Battlefield's ENM once every 5 days.
Losing an ENM results in NO penalty.

BCNMs can be done as many times as you want, you just need a new orb each time. If you die you lose exp.

KSNM are Kindred Seal Notorius Monstesr. They work the same as BCNM, except you trade kindred seals.

At level 18 you can do a quest in Selbina or Mhaura to unlock your Subjob. Depending on which quest you do you will have to collect a few items for the NPC. Most people do Selbina's because you usually get two of the items as you level in Valkurm Dunes.

For the Selbina one you just visit the old elvaan, Isacio, and get the quest from him. He will want you to go and fetch a Magicked Skull, a Crab Apron, and a Damselfy Worm. Usually you will find the Crab Apron and Damselfly Worm as you level with others in Valkurm Dunes. The Magicked Skull will be a bit tricky. You dont always get that item as you level because alot of people do not fight Ghouls. You may have to find someone to help you hunt that down.

Kilroy
Subbing mage-jobs while a Melee-based job can be very beneficial for solo-ing... but it is almost always a no-no as far as partying goes. If you want to solo with a mage sub with your warrior, I'd suggest either whm or rdm. Don't sub blk, your magic will be too low to do any decent damage, and since black magic costs more mp, you won't have enough mp to cast much of anything.

As a warrior, in attempt to joni parties, the best subs for a new player would either be Monk or Theif... and generally Monk is preferred as it offers more Vit (defense) and more HP. Both great as people will want you to tank on occasion.

What weapon are you using? If you havn't yet, I'd highly suggest investing in a Great Axe. They are a warriors best weapon. At first your damage will be a bit weak, but once your skil lrises in it, you'll do more damage with A great Axe than any other, and your accuracy will slightly improve as well. In the low levels, with a Great Axe, a warrior can easily one-shot alot of easy preys :).

Its funny how people felt that alla sold out when EVERY ffxi recource sight has IGE and other gil-selling companies advertisments all over the place. Allah is usually where I go to check what the latent effect of an item is or as a last-resort for other misc. info.

Yea, I usually go to Alla to read the user comments.

i just got the game... starting the update... 3hours! wow.. lol, and im on dsl

FFXI is one of the most amazing games I have ever played. I played for more than a year, and hit the following acheivements:

Summoner 75
Black Mage 75
Bard 71
Red Mage 66
(All other jobs at least lvl 30 and WHM43, NIN37, THF37)
Unlocked Sky and Sea
Cleared CoP, Zilart and all available ToAU missions
Rank 10 Windurst
Obtained every Avatar - Shiva, Leviathan, Ifrit, Ramuh, Garuda, Titan, Fenrir and Diabolos (and of course the one you get for unlocking SMN, Carbuncle)
Got my Yinyang Robe
Got the first ever Yigit Turban in all of FFXI
Saw a Thief Knife drop for a friend
Killed all 4 CoP Wyrms (Tiamat, Jorgy, Vrtra and Nidhogg)
Got an Empress Hairpin (Its not much but damn rare)
Got my Opo Opo Crown
and many other things besides!

I really did kick ass in that game, made tonnes of friends, and a few enemies, but my little Taru was very strong and did very well. I kinda miss it though ; ;

But anyways, if anyone has anything FFXI related to ask about, im all ears, PM me or post here, and I will try to get a good response for you.

Oh and advice for anyone starting out in the world of FFXI, lvl WHM, then BLM or RDM first. Having WHM at 37 is insanely important as most people use it for a sub at 75 for soloing/exploring to save on oils and powders. Leveling WHM is awfully boring but if ya get it out the way at the start, your all set.

Oh and start a craft as early as possible. I got cooking to 33 and Woodworking to 61, but gave up on both, cause I discovered the secret to gettin Megalobugard to drop 100% of the time ^^

The controls.. so far suck, either that or im just to use to wow's :P

It's meant to be played with a controller, but I got used to dual-arrowkey setup, using purely keyboard to control the game. The number pad is really handy for controlling your character if you're keyboarding it up. Everything's there: menu on -, target on 0, enter on Enter (lawl), resting, etc.

there is another keboard key setup wich is pretty much like WoW (or any other mmorpg) that use the wasd key, you have to swicth it in the config menu in game...

That's the compact mode and it is not as quite alike to WoW's setup. You have to use WASD and IJKL. One is for Camera and one is for Movement. It's much better to use the fullsize mode.

And in my opinion, the controls are far better than WoW's. No mouse needed, all keyboard and your right thumb eventually becomes the DJ for your camera views. That's if you're using Full Size mode.

First of all, note that I'm totally new to this and haven't got the slightest clue what it's all about - besides it being a Final Fantasy MMORPG.

I just picked up the game (including Rise of the Zilart and Chains of Promathia expansions). Apparently, it comes with a 30 day free subscription and a bunch of registration codes for PlayOnline, Tetra Master, the game itself and the expansions.

Seeing how I will probably never use a credit card to pay for fees, I need to find alternative ways to subscribe to the game if I happen to like the experience.

So obviously, I've got a few questions on my mind:

1. Is there anything basic I absolutely need to take care of prior to installing, setting up my account, etc.?

2. Which server should I choose?

3. Can I use the registration codes from another box to extend my own subscription without having to pay via credit card?

4. What are the expansions for and what do they contain? Are they required for me to install right away or are they optional?

Obviously, the most important question is the payment. For various reasons, I can't use a credit card for this, so I thought of just buying another set along with the registration codes to extend my subscription. It would be nice to know how the registration process works exactly and wether player characters are bound to registration codes or not.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Do you have some sort of debit or ATM card? You need some kind of account info that you can input online.

I would suggest choosing garuda but that's just me ;) There's a site I'm part of (in my sig) and everyone is very welcoming and helpful.

I'm not sure how you would get registration codes from another box... you'd have to buy another game. You'd buy another game for $50 instead of getting a debit card? Once you create an account under 30 free days, if you get another one, you need to start all over because it's an individual account, not just a 30 free day trial.

The expansion contain things like advance jobs etc. If you want to play FFXI, then you should at least install the first two. The newest one which wasn't included, Treasures of Aht Urghan, you can't really do much unless you're level 50 and above so that one can wait. Although Zilart you definitely need if you want any sort of advance job and Chains of Promathia gives you access to new items and new areas. You can always install later if you're impatient. But it does take awhile to install everything.

You can try checking www.ffxi-garuda.com if you have more questions, the people there are probably a lot more helpful than I could be ;)

Can someone please tell me how big the first update of FFXI is? My computer is currently downloading 7376 files for FFXI...I seriously can't go over my bandwidth limit this month. So how big is it in gigabytes..? (or even better, megabytes, if it's small enough xD)

ok first you MUST have a credit card or a game time card to be able to get your free 30days... they will just not charge you for one month and if you don't want to continue playing just cancel your content ID and you will not be bill but you still need a credit for the registration process

2- you "can't" choose your server, when you create your character you end up on a server, they do this to prevent a server to have too much people on it, so those server (the one that have a lot of people on it) you have a very little chance to end up on it. The only way to "choose" your server is if you have a friend that is on a specific sever and he buy you a World Pass that you will imput on your character creation process and you will be able to got on that specific server.

3- no you can't because the registration code register to you playonline ID, so only one registration code is authorized, you can sill do this by creating a new playonline account but you will have to start a new character from 0 ...

4- just install all, this can even save you some time for the big update and some area in the game can only be acess with some expension.

finaly you can't play this game if you don't have a credit card OR a game time card BUT final fantasy XI time card doesn't exist anymore or are really hard to find, so I guess before opening the box I suggess you to go exchange it, this game will be totally useless because even withou a credit card you can't even get the free 30days and like it said, it's just a 30days free, not really a trial...

so the only choice for are:

-get a crdit card and pay the 12.95$ to play this game(there's an additional fee of 1$ for every additional character you make. ex: you have 1character: it's only 12.95$, you have 2: it's 13.95$, you have 4: it's 16.95$ etc...)

-return the game and forget most MMORPG >.>

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it's big, but i can,t really say a number, I have all the expension and my playonline folder go over 7.5gb and there's probably 5-6gb that come from the disk so in all probably at least a gb (this is just my guess I may be totally off with those number XD maybe someone else have the exact number)

just a little exemple, I'm on cable and the big update take like 2h, so I'm pretty sure it's at least 1gb if it's not 2gb with all the expension...

Oh well, that should be fine, then. Thanks for the help.

Returned to this game, this time with 360. Quitted about a year ago, I was arrogant/stupid enough to try soloing my way through the game, got eventually frustrated and quit. But this time it's different, I'm gonna try to make friends in there. I reside in Unicorn, my character is hume RDM named Miklotov. So if someone is in there too, give me a shout, I'd love too see GFF people in there. :D

unless you play bst, it's really hard to solo well. you can duo/trio, but soloing is pretty much a bst thing. Summoners can do it as well, but they need to fight stuff that self-destructs.

Im on asura, if you end up on it, look me up.

All the servers are roughly equivalent.

No.

However, you do NOT need a credit card. The other option is to go to a bank, and buy a prepaid credit card. You load money onto it like a gift card, but it works anywhere a credit card does, including on FFXI.

Technically, they are optional. Zilart is pretty much required due to some of its areas considered as the "only" place to level at that time. Each expansion adds new areas, quests, enemies, items, and missions. Zilart and Aht Urgahn also added 3 new jobs each. It appears, that late game, Aht Urgahn is quickly becoming required as well.

Well, I joined my first Valkurm Dunes party yesterday... and it didn't suck! It also wasn't together very long, maybe an hour and a half, but we got stuff done and I enjoyed it (although if the SMN hadn't been helping out with the healing I probably would have had some issues). I'm happy I didn't embarrass myself, since I was the only subless newbie in the group.

The unfortunate side of this is that I know it can only get worse from here. :p

Ugh...I'm really stuck. I'm such a n00b at MMORPGs. Well I'm in Bastok and I just completed my first mission (where you need to deliver something to someone in the Zeruhn Mines). Now I'm on my second; I won't go explaining it in-depth because hopefully you all know what I'm talking about when I say the mission where Cid gives you a blue...acidic something-or-other. Where exactly do I need to go in this mission?

A link to a decent FAQ would be great, as well, I can't seem to find any good ones at GameFAQS.

I was clueless on this one too... wish I could remember where I found how to do it.

You're heading into the Dangruf Wadi, which is off the western end of South Gustaberg (just keep walking past the swampy area and you'll zone). Once you're in there, you'll come across these jets of water that will push you up onto ledges - one of them will turn your acidity tester red, and then you'll be done. The tricky part is that it's a specific jet that triggers it, you don't have a map for the area, and it's not the safest place in the world (hi Goblins, how are you today).

Basically, when you get there, just stick to the right wall. Keep making right turns until you come to a clearing; there'll be a jet in that clearing, and that's where you want to stand. After it shoots you up, check your key items, and your acidity tester will have changed. Then you just go back to Cid and you're set.

Allakhazam is the place I use, every quest and mission I've searched for is in there. It has other stuff as well which might be useful.

Allakhazam is a good complete resource, between that and FFXI somepage, you should have all the details you need for awhile.

I also like the FFXIclopedia, although being a wiki, it needs work in places. I've been using it to find beginner crafting recipes.

That stuff Cid gives you, you have to ride one of those geysers in Dangruf Wadi. Dangruf is a zone off of South Gustaberg, which is outside of Bastok Markets and Bastok Mines. In South Gustaberg, you travel all the way north east. You'll find the zone there.

Now, a few problems that may arise upon trying to complete this mission:

-You may need to level up some in order to: A.) Solo those goblins, or B.) Be able to damage them even with a group.

-The zone Dangruf Wadi is like a maze. Many turns and narrow paths that can easily get confused with. "Did I come from there?" Get a map. To get this area's map, get one bone chip. You can buy this from the Auction House or kill some undead skeletons during night time (20:00-3:00 game time). Go to the northern bridge area of Bastok Markets. There you'll find an old man jigging around to some tune (whatever he's listening to or so happy about). TRADE him the bone chip and he'll hand you a map.

Finding the geysers in Dangruf isn't hard. But lots of people get confused as to how they work. It's rather more simple than it seems. You stand on the spout on the ground and wait. The geyser will eventually shoot water out elevating you to the next level of that area. Level as in height, not difficulty or whatever. (Although, the monsters get stronger nonetheless as you progress further into a dungeon. No matter what zone it is.)

Be sure to also remember that goblins are haters. They will pick on you if you're too low of a level, or come with no protection (Prisim Powders, Tonko: Ichi, Invisible spell.) So, keep in mind they can detect you by sight and all you need to do is run behind them.

Also keep in mind that many aggressive monsters detect by different senses: Blood, sight, sound. Blood sense is when you have below "white" numbered HP. Where your HP is in the yellow, ornage, or red colored state. This let's the undead monsters know you are weak and dying.

Hope that helps.

I just quit FFXI myself. I managed to get to level 70 summoner and it just wasn't fun anymore considering Summoners in FFXI are nothing like summoners in all the other final fantasy games. Anyway, I hope you all still have fun with it.

I left a month or two after the expansion and I took a puppetmaster to 40. Unless they update it soon, I really feel sorry for all the people that are leveling puppetmaster right now. As of now, you only get 3 new frames and past about 30...you don't get anything new at all from 30-75.

You don't like SMN? They're one of the most desired jobs once you hit 75. I am thinking of leveling it someday but lack of money right now.

Right now I am hating Chains of Promathia. Our static has been doing great up until 6-4 the airship battle. We only suffered a loss to Ouryu but we've been wiping on the airship. Granted it's the hardest mission in the game, the fact that we blow almost 500k-a mil at least each fight is getting ridiculous. The amount of time and prep work and then to wipe.... sigh. We're on our 5th try, we keep doing better each time but something always goes wrong. I hate CoP :p

So Square immediately shoots down the notion of an FFXI sequel as soon as it's mentioned. However, it's worth posting this anyway for the simple fact that Square Enix denies absolutely everything until it's made official. That being said, there will most likely be a new MMORPG for the PS3 that isn't necessarily a sequel to FFXI.

But regardless, I do hope for at least a port of FFXI for PS3, not just for the graphical upgrade, but also so I can transfer my existing stats and items from the PS2 version. I've worked hard on acquiring many items in this game, and it'll take a couple more years to obtain the insanely rare stuff (Ragnarok, holy crap). I don't want it to all be in vain if I have to start from scratch with the next game. FFXI has more than enough content to last a person's entire lifetime. And that thought makes it pretty frightening to continue playing.:edgartpg:

Leaked out? How has it been leaked out when SE announced themselves that they were working on another MMO for the 360 and Vista at the last Fan festival? The only difference here is that there's the word PS3 in there.

They never said it was a FFXI sequel either. They said the team that worked on FFXI is doing it but that's all. I don't know where the media gets this stuff. They also seem to be pretty slow.

Also, if they were to make a port to the PS3 you wouldn't have to worry about transfering anything. It's the same game just like it was on the 360. You just simply log in like 360 players did. Everyone is on the same servers and worlds, remember? The 360 is prettier but it's still the same game.

EDIT: I forgot to add, don't forget they're also working on a semi MMO called Fantasy Earth.. or something like that. Which was also mistaken as a FFXI sequel by so many websites and people.

I could have easily started a new thread, since this one is nearly a year old, but I'm really not in the mood right now.

Basically, I'll start playing it again soon, so I was wondering, how many of you guys still play it?

I play it off and on...lately I've been playing PSU but I've considered quitting it(and have).

I played it for a few months and then quit when finals season started to loom. I was a female Elvaan and I believe a... 39 Paladin/19 Warrior. Puppetmaster/Blue Mage was my backup. I'll probably pick it back up when the Wings of the Goddess expansion comes out.

Go to Titan Server!

I'm still playing it daily, I'm a Taru monk75 on gilgamesh

Hey, I was on Gilgamesh. I bought the special boxset that came out not too long ago with all the expansions and stuff. I played the game for about 6days and stopped unfortunately =( . I came into FFXI from playing WoW, so I guess I couldn't take the difference.

Vana'diel Collection 2007. That's what got me started, but I happened to like the game a lot. I plan to get back into it soon enough.

I'm not surprised that you can't take the switch from WoW to FFXI. FFXI is so much harder to get into when you compare it to WoW. I personally loved the game the minute I first played it, so i'll be looking forward to it again.

Titan huh?

Yup, unless you know people on another server. Titan, I'm pretty sure, has the highest density of Puppetmasters. This matters because it and Corsair have an abysmally low amount of dedicated users, and it's good if you can find them in larger numbers in the event that you attempt to use those jobs. All other jobs are represented well.

As a Paladin I can help you out by powerleveling you in the lower-level areas (39 isn't good enough once you get into Qufim or Kazham), and as a Puppetmaster I can teach you the tricks of the trade (Automaton attachments are complex at first).

puppetmaster is the new lol job they are not very good... and in party they are even worse...
I would suggest you to take this job for your first job...

Uh... He couldn't take Puppetmaster as his first job even if he wanted to, simple because it's an advanced job. He has to have one job at level 30 and then complete a quest.

And it's of my own personal opinion that Puppetmaster is hugely underrated. Here's what I've said about its shortcomings and it being underrated in the past:

They're also adding new skills for the Aht Urhgan jobs, and the Puppetmaster gains even more control over the hate it and the Automaton generate. In the right hands, it's deadly.

I know all that I just mean by first job the one that he'll take first to 75...

they are still good soloer, not as good as bst though...

Heh...I had to read the thread a couple of times, because I was confused why you two were constantly talking about Puppetmasters. If it's me you are talking about, I'm not really interested in puppetmaster at the minute.

I will go Titan I think, but I haven't quite decided on a class yet, I think i'll do the same thing I did before and just start as a WAR, get that to 30. Or perhaps a WHM. I played both of those before so i know what to expect at least. Back then WHM was pretty desirable class, but I would have to guess that right now theres just too many of them.

What about RDM, are they overpopulated too? Either way, I think i'll go human in bastok. <3 Bastok. I made a elvaan before, but it was either my imagination, or they missed too often. =(

there's not really too many of these it's just that whm are now more useful at low and mid lv. with the new area of the expansion Aht Urgan, rdm are more use as healer because they are more useful with refresh and convert and all debuff magic. Especially for merit party where you want to kill as fast as possible without any downtime (that's where refresh and convert come into play)

they are still needed though it most endgame event.

as for rdm like at said there are a bunch of them but they are always in big demand. and believe me as soon as you get refresh, you'll be sometime submerge with /tell asking you to party...

and yes Elvaan tends to miss a lot at low lv since I think they have the worse dex (it's even worse if you do job like sam or drk in elvaan XD) but there's a lot of equipment to correct that, in the end you don't really notice it anymore.

Yeah, I was talking about it as a hypothetical situation. Should you have become interested in the job, I could've taught you about it (its' pretty complex).

Ha, fat chance. WHM is and always will be the big job that everyone needs. Choose WAR only if you plan on doing NIN or PLD, and only do it when you have the patience.

Do WHM or RDM. Desireable at any level (RDM for Refresh later on, but also good as back-up healers before then).

RDM is always around at later levels, and for good reason-- Refresh is a Godsend. So, there's a lot, but rarely are they left hanging when looking for a party.

As for Humes and Bastok... bleh. I'm a female Elvaan in San d'Oria and I really liked it.

Been reading a bit more about RDM they do seem pretty cool to play with. Shitloads of Enfeebling spells, some nuking, some healing and support, and on early levels a bit of melee. Seems pretty fun to play with.

I like the idea of just starting with one of the base classes and going for that right from the start, instead of instantly jumping on a advanced job the first chance you get.

I think i'll go for RDM or WHM, and probably level a different melee based class for some farming later on. Probably something like WAR/THF or WAR/NIN.

If you go RDM, be prepared to hardly get any party invites until 41, at which point you'll have to hide your stats to avoid a constant barrage of them.

I'm sure I can manage somehow, I've heard that from a number of sources, but I strongly recall even low level groups usually had a RDM. I'll see how it goes and adjust to that.

I've been also reading a bit about crafting and gather skills like mining, they sound easy enough when you eventually get into it, but a lot of them need some serious cash to get started, what level do you suggest to get one up? I was thinking mining and smithing/goldsmithing.

If you switch to WAR, don't sub THF. Just not worth it unless you're using it to farm (after leveling THF main for a while), and you'll never get invites beyond Valkurm. Also, if you do go with RDM, save yourself the grief others will give and don't nuke unless you're killing time or trying to skill up on your own. Then again, you're talking to a guy who used /WAR when using RDM.

Sounds like you want a job that can sort of do it all. Have you thought about BLU, then? It can do physical and magic damage, it can heal itself (and others to a very, very limited degree), and almost every spell comes with various status effects tacked on. It's a really fun job, but requires a ton of patience.

I have been reading a bit about BLU, and it seems like a cool class, and looks like a lot are interested in it, it's a lot more popular then the other 2 latest job classes according to a statistic I saw.

I think I can get used to any class really. I played a Warrior and White Mage to 30, and really enjoyed that. Only drawback I had with WHM is that you usually don't hear the battle music, because most of the time you don't draw your weapon, I mean honestly, what's the point? =D

RDM seems win though at the moment, I'll probably go for that. Only thing I haven't decided yet is RDM subjob. WHM and BLM both sound good. Both add good stats to RDM, and both add some nice passive job traits. Any suggestions on what's better for a RDM overall?

I'd say /BLM is better overall, but later you'll definitely want to also have /WHM, and endame you'll need /DRK.

I have to disagree with Xardion and say I prefer /WHM. /BLM is probably slightly more useful, but both are preferred over other subs and you won't lose out on invites regardless of which you choose.

Guess it all comes down on what you prefer. More MDN and support and healing spells, or more INT and nuking spells, along with some nifty spells like aspir. Personally, I doubt I'd go BLM for the offensive spells. I'm sure it works early on but at 75 you'll have access to 37 spells at best, I don't see that working anymore.

thanks for the info.

interesting to see al the activity in this all the sudden... i still play.

concerning rdm, id say half lvl whm only spells are much more helpful than half level blm only spells... /blm id say is more for the +elemental spell trait

I had to quit this game, I'm not going back to it. I've had enough of dealing with noob parties and the stress from RDM was already overbearing. 4 years and I had met a lot of cool people, time to move on.

Im gonna try this MMO.. Im done with WOW, i did that benchmark thingy.. only got a 4500 score.. but it lookd ok on the tv... just had alot of the gnome things on screen lol

im sure itll take three hours to update the game though :(

can you play with a gamepad? I have a PS2 usb udapter for my tv.

yes you can play with a gamepad but I always find the keyboard better for the macro(it simple to hit ctrl+5 then to scroll to your macro 5 or in the game list)

and those weren't gnome but Tarutaru, it's one of the 5 races you can choose.

and 4500 on the benchmark is enough, you will probably run the game at max without any problem (the games still lag in some city no matter what though)

I think im only around 2700 on benchmark, and ive been running fine since the game came out :)

ffxi is a bit different from wow. The difficulty really turns some people off, although really, it isnt that hard. Wow's just incredibly easy. Alot of people just like the grind and getting new and better weapons, but if your into storylines and cutscenes, you'll find FFXI missions and quests an enjoyable change from wow :)

if you come to asura, give me a hollar :)

the only thing you can really compare FFXI with wow is just that they are MMORPG everything else is different, especially the gameplay and the way they are meant to be played.

WoW is mostly a solo play till you it an high lv and start doing some end game things (please feel free to correct me I never got past lv 30 in WoW)

and FFXI is meant to be played in team and that as soon as lv 15 (maybe even lv 10). This is exactly why I prefer FFXI to most of the MMORPG but this is also why some people don't like it. Beside doing a beastman you will be able to progress in this game in solo.

but yes I have to say the seeking time is the problem of this game, but I never really liked to play solo in a MMORPG and that's why WoW bore me. The story of FFXI is the other big thing that I prefer FFXI, I never seen another mmorpg that manage to introduce properly a story and not a bad one too!

anyway everyone has they preference, both game are good but for very different reasons.

I think I already posted all that in an earlier post in this topic XD

does beastman get a pet?

Also, My Disc has Rise of Zilart.. and Chains of Promathia.. how do xpacs work, do i need to purchase more content IDS for them? Or can i just use the chars i have in them?

beastman charm other monster so that it fight for him or it use some jug, those are item that summon a monster for a limited time(but I heard that those pet are not that good)

I never played beastman so I can't say much more...

and what do you mean by xpacs? the only expansion you're missing is Treasure of Aht Urhgan and you will probably don't need it till lv 55-60 and even more.

the content IDs work for 1 character. So if you want a second character you need to buy another content ID. The first content ID will cost you 12.95$ and any additional content id will cost you 1$ each (and yes this is per month)

so if you have 3 characters you should be charge 14.95$ a month.

I think it's Beastmaster, not Beastman. Beastmen is a family of monsters in the game (Orcs, Quadav, Yagudo, Goblins).

I played with a BST back when I was still around, and trust me, don't underestimate the job or the jugs. Jugs allow you call on monsters in areas where charming isn't possible or convenient (such as areas with only Beastmen or a high-level area where charming won't work or only for a few seconds). BSTs are the masters of soloing for a good reason.

Also, I went to Al Zahbi as soon as I reached level 30. With help, you can easily do a naked run to get BLU and the rest of the jobs. COR can be a real pain if your help can't take on the mobs, though. Still, I got all three in the end.

oh yeah beatsmaster XD I thought that beastman was odd too XD

and yes sure if you want to do those jobs you can go there at lv 30 but you can't really do much there at that lv since all the surrounding area are high level.

lol.. i can finally play almost.. it had to patch for 8hours ;/

so i guess ill try a beastmaster.. is a warrior good? i got 3 content ids, for 3 chars

lol yes the first big update is pretty painful XD

all starting job are good, oh wait except thief, well they are good later on but really don't start your first job in this game as a thief.

but like I said to most newcomer to FFXI if you bought this game to solo, you should already return it and go play another MMORPG...

I still don't know why SE did create bst in the first place. Sure it could be fun when you can,t get any party or just for fun but you are like missing the whole game and really all mission are team base and I don't see often a bst in them XD

what I would suggest is not making bst your only job, it's more a job that you level up beside your main one...

well that's what it think, you do what you want XD

Warrior is a generic melee job. Good with almost every weapon, best with Axes and Great Axes. Depending on what job you're going to become, pick a weapon that'll help in the long run. For example, going with an axe and shield is good if you want to go into PLD or RDM or something, since you'll get Shield mastery. If you want to be a DRK or something, you can probably get away with using a Great Sword until you reach 30 (which is all you'll need to get to, anyway). Anything beyond those three weapons is not that good and will probably deter people forming parties. And trust me, you don't want to wait any longer than you will as a WAR. Back in the day, I had to wait an hour or two for any invites in Yuhtunga. Can get boring and repetitive.

Monk is a pure damage dealer, unlike WAR which generally functions as a tank or backup tank. Update your weapon often, and don't ever pull hate. High HP only gets you so far.

Thief is... Thief. Most people level it for farming (killing for item drops) since it has a skill that increases drop rates, but it can be deadly in its own right with Viper Bite. Takes a while to get there though, so probably not a good starting class.

White Mage is something you already know about. You'll never want of invites ever because of how crucial it is for parties, but you have to be able to do your job well. Also hard to level to 10, which is when you'll first begin to get into parties. Requires a mastery of macros, so not for beginners.

Black Mage is the nuker. Godly damage dealer, but sort of meh in the beginning. Still, it's a heavy hitter that can draw hate from the tank if they're not careful. Takes some getting used to, so probably not the best job to start with. BLMs have been a rarity lately.

Red Mage is my favorite starting job. It fights, it cures and it nukes, but isn't great at any of them. Some people get it to function as a melee job with RDM/WAR, but it's not common or recommended. You'll be a backup or even main healer in the beginning, but later on your main job is to buff, debuff and Refresh. Fun, but you need to be able to adapt to what your party needs you to do.

You only need one char to lvl up all jobs, but two extra chars are good for mule purposes. lving multiple chars with different jobs can be odd when it comes to end game or when you make friends, it's just easier to lvl up one char as your main.

Doing non repeatable quests for high selling items seems to be the only reason to lvl up another char.

im already stuck... lol, i cant figure out how to leave the castle. ;/

also, can you not map the zoom fuction to the gamepad? everything else works but zooming.

lastly, its pretty laggy in the city.. worse then the benchmark thingy.. I hope it is just in towns.

the castle I suppose you're in Sand'oria. you have to talk to the guard close to the door to get out of the castle.

And if you are lagging in Sand'oria than it will just get worst in Jeuno and even more in Aht Urhgan Whitgate XD

but yeah the city if where it's more laggy, mainly because it's there that there's more people, but you shouldn't have any problem outside.

oh and i suggest to turn down the shadow to normal, because the High feature will just make you lag a lot, even on an high end computer. FFXI was a ps2 game first :\ some the optimization on PC is not that great.

lower your resolution and other things within the config menu that'll speed you up.

well im playing it from my pc to TV.. i cant go higher than 800x600.. cant read the text.

wheres that shadow option?

It's all there. Definitely turn shadows off and all that.

I dont see shadows in the config menu.

also, is there a way to increase fonts? I think I have a network problem.. cuz the benchmark thing didnt stutter as much as playing online ;0 I reran it too, got a 3950

There are multiple option menus. Check them all, it has to be in there.

wait, is there options in game too? im only using the config util out of game

in the 2nd menu. Just hit the menu button twice and you'll see Config in the middle of it all. In that sub menu are many options that you might be interested in, not just resolution and graphics.

Yes, when your playing the game, there is a seperate config menu with options not available otherwise.

Just bumping this up. Anyone here still playing it?

I'm on Ramuh and I have a lvl 47 DRG, 34 mnk, 31 rdm, 23 whm, 22 war. and lvl 4 thief lol.

I,m playing this at least once a week since I have a static party to do CoP missions.

I'm on Gilgamesh server, taru Monk lv75, brd 56, whm 42, sam 40 and some other job lower than that.

Named Sech if there's anyone on that server ;)

I just got the Summoner job today, so i'm pretty stoked about it. My goal is to get Diabolos [since i'm a FFVIII/Diablos fan] hehe.

I jussstttt started playing this game the other week. On Asura server with a level 15 Monk (Hume female). I've been holding off on it because I'm so digitally antisocial but my b/f begged me to play. I like it a lot but I've just been soloing so far. I need to start looking for parties. I did join a Linkshell...that's about the most interaction I've done with people. Pretty sad but when I next get on I'm going to start looking for parties in Valkurm Dunes.

you'll probably not going to get diabolos avatar before you get one job to lv75 since there's no lv 20 fight for this avatar et diabolos is if i,m not mistaken the hardest to get. the fight is pretty hard, but a mana burn party can take it a lot easier than the others...

I play this on and off. I can't seem to get into it as much as I used to, not sure why. I picked up the WotG expansion and got the Scholar job, and had fun with it [though it's only level 10].

I'm on Phoenix, 62 [I think?] blm, 41 rdm, 25 or so smn. And a few others below 20. I love playing summoner, and the avatar fights are a blast. I held the time record [on our server] for most of the 20-cap fights before the big Aht Urhgan update.

Heh... Old player here. I recently returned for the fifth time or so. 75 THF, 70 BLM, 48 WAR, 47 RNG, 41 NIN, plus a slew of stuff lower. Nexia on Hades if you're around there.

As for Diabolos, he can be soloed... Not -that- tough. But yes, you'll need to be 70+ to get him.

oh, it's probably after that CoP "nerf" where most if not all missions and some other things where made easier. I remember the first time they release diabolos, only a mana burn party could make it.

Huh. Neat. So I had my very first party/alliance experience yesterday. My Linkshell was gathering with other pals to do the Bastok Eco-Warrior quest. They let me come along despite being lv. 16 because they were confident I would be fine with all of them around (3 parties of 6 in the alliance).

Was a decent bunch of people:

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We got there, let a few sweepers clear the area, and everyone got the Level Restriction and we went in carefully like we planned. Then some impatient mage who had school in the morning touched the ???, after everyone screamed early on not to, before we could even situate ourselves. So naturally this happened:

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I had the honor of getting Raised early on only to end up coming face-to-face with a Bogy. So yeah...face planted for another love session with the wooden flooring.

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So we gathered up again and decided to try one more time. We made a very careful plan of action. Everyone was totally clear on what to do. We were ready this time.

Except, ya know..

DEATH PILE.

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In total I died 4 times because of being Raised as a respawn happened, but I didn't delevel so I'm very happy. And even though we died, I gotta admit that was a pretty awesome experience, and everyone in the alliance was really nice. I would totally do it again, lol.

There's a difference between the CoP mission and the actual prime avatar fight. You fight him in 3-5, and it's a 40 cap. All you really need to beat him there is a stunner (DRK or BLU). The avatar fight is what I'm talking about, that's a seperate uncapped fight, I doubt he got nerfed there... Though haven't tried yet, myself.

And to this day I've yet to do an Eco-Warrior, never got enough people interested in it. Sorry to hear yours didn't go so well =x

You know, it's experiences like this that keep bringing me back to the game. Pulling missions in large groups like this, even if you DO fail, is great fun. I've also never done an Eco-Warrior quest, but I've done others. My linkshell once did a 6-person run through of all the avatar fights one day [Fenrir and Diabolos excluded, sadly], and we all had a blast.

I still play this, I play on siren instead of fairy now, some people around here apparently know i play from a post in my journal. <_<;;

Nowadays, Im a 75BLM, 72SMN (some day I need to top that off), most of my other jobs are 37 (with the exception of DRG, BST, DNC, SCH, and PUP, well, and BLU is 47) I'm working on leveling THF to 75 next with some of my friends who are leveling DNC, might level BRD with them though and THF on my own though, not quite sure yet...yes, I have alot of free time.

I didnt really like Wotg, most of my LS are "dancing around" though, so I'm PLing everyone.

And I had an alliance in like, my first month? For mhaura subjob items <.< And as far as COP goes im on the CS missions after sacrarium, dont remember the numbers.

As far as why I play, im a depressing person, and I play to drown my problems in, not the best reason, but...:/

Well seeing as I got the Samurai job not too long, i'm learning this job is THE shit. It hits real hard, but its only flaw is it's defense from what I saw. Since i'm lvl 12, ive been soloing it and I noticed it gets dmged easily. Ah well though, I still think its a great job, especially since I got the Rare EX sword, Katayama.


Also, I did the CoP missions Prommy-Mea and Holla just yesterday, and now I have to do Dem. Hopefully i'll get that done and find out what that emo goth boy is up to lmao.

Stop the fucking presses.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/2...thraat5xp0.png

Why did no one tell me SE finally added a god damn male mithra NPC? Ofcourse it had to be in the expansion that comes out after I stopped playing.

Shit, I remember wanting to see one so much back when COP came out. Hoped with others when ToAU came out.. Then it gets added NOW? Oh well.

Still looks like a chick :V

I think it looks more like squall..wait, yeah he looks like a girl too. :(

NEEDS MORE BUCKLES.

I'm absolutely positive there have been a male or two Mithra in Windurst since the beginning.

I haven't played in years, but I distinctly remember not believing it when I played and then being convinced otherwise.

EDIT: Obligatory Nomura's got his hands in everything now. :(

EDIT 2: Or maybe it was Mithras only mentioning males. Not so certain now.

there's is no Male Mithras in FFXI. If I'm not mistaken, they only mention them, but there's no actual npc male mithra...

There is now in the newest expansion. Just that one above.. But before that there were none you could see. They were just mentioned rarely in-game. There's also like, half a sentence that mentions them in the manual. That's it.

I may not play anymore but at least I finally got to see one, even if it was through the model viewer. >_>

i just got Vanadiel collection 2008 2 months ago, i totally love the game, i stopped playing blue dragon and silent hill origins(which i bought along) just to play this game.
im a lvl 15 thief/20 warrior, Yankele on Phoenix server, hope to play with some of you guys.

I just re-joined after a ~2 year break. I must be losing my mind to get back into this game.

I cannot believe how much FFXI has changed since I last played. I use to mainly play a paladin and I come back to find out they DD now to hold hate post 50. I had to double take when I found that out. I had to turtle it up back in my day.

depends on your server, on asura paladins typically dont dd for hate.