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.