New or Returning Players Discussion (Or Anything Old FFXI Then Vs. Now)

[Fereydoon]

Why would you want to have ballad1 now?

Empyrean Harp? Can't think of another song you'd sing on a mage, maybe an Etude or something.

[Ace-o-fire]

Can you get weapon skill points in Abyssea?

[Mafai]

beaten

[Thulius]

Can you get weapon skill points in Abyssea?

Yes.

[Boyiee]

You use the term "mage" in ffxi but pick out one of the people using the term "toon"?



indy died on shadowlord fight for 5-2, and then died outside the bc while I was running back. We forgot about the magic damage only phases, lulz, but at least I got my seals for 65limit break.

I remember being told that it'll take me a week to get to 90 including missions/lb's. Quite wrong you were. I need help for pretty much everything, and only having 1-2 people able to help is making it take over a month. Make that 1 person since SATH OWES ME and purposely joins a group as soon as I log on so he can get out of helping ;p lolololol. When I get a hold of you, I'm not letting go for at least a few hours.

To anyone starting from scratch like I had to do. Leveling is a joke now, doing missions SUCKS, limit breaks suck. Getting a hold of kindred seals was annoying since I couldn't solo anything after being leveled through aby. Make sure you play on a sever with a few friends.

[Clash Perez]

You use the term "mage" in ffxi but pick out one of the people using the term "toon"?

Blue Mage, White Mage, Black Mage, Red Mage...

[Valisk]

Getting a hold of kindred seals was annoying since I couldn't solo anything after being leveled through aby.

Any decent Dom Ops party/alliance should let you lot kindreds crests for limit breaks. With the conversion NPC, 3 crests = 1 seal of your choice. You'd just have a little explaining to do as to why you're lotting an extra 27 crests

[Okan]

I've only seen a handful of people care about people lotting seals for limit breaks. Just don't go taking any KIs or lotting anything other than AF3 boots added to the loot pool or you will have people damn near have a heart attack. Personally, I don't care. I'm not making an EXP to farm KIs or pop items.

Aside: If anyone is thinking of coming back or wants to scale down to a smaller crew, my friends and I are looking for a BLU to assist in AF farming. It seems we always get BLU procs when we have the other jobs covered We run 4 players with a DB'd BLM. Jobs: MNK, THF(PLD), BRD(WAR), and WHM(LOL we won't let him be anything else).

Aside's aside: No, we won't make you take only BLU seals either. Can PM me or /tell in game to Qkan.

[Deadgye]

Blue Mage, White Mage, Black Mage, Red Mage...

This. Also, we aren't playing Toon Town.

[DIABEETUS]

Any decent Dom Ops party/alliance should let you lot kindreds crests for limit breaks. With the conversion NPC, 3 crests = 1 seal of your choice. You'd just have a little explaining to do as to why you're lotting an extra 27 crests

... conversion NPC? WHAT DAT

[Boyiee]

This. Also, we aren't playing Toon Town.

Characters have an always will be called toons, and it is not game specific.

[Okan]

... conversion NPC? WHAT DAT

They've added an NPC next to Shami named Shemi I believe who will allow you to convert any 3 in to 1. So you can convert 3x High Kindred's Crests in to 1 Kindred's Seal or 1 Beastman's Seal. Etc.

[Patsu]

How do people make gil nowadays? are crafts still impossibly expensive to level up? or have they changed it?

[Okan]

BCNMs provide a decent source of money. Until recently, not many people did BCs because of Abyssea only drops Kindred's Crests and High Kindred's Crests. This causes spells like Phalanx and Utsusemi: Ni to sell for ridiculous amounts of money. Farming of course. Check your server economy for what moves fast and isn't retarded to farm. As for crafting, I know it's expensive to level still, but I don't think any one is a massive money-maker anymore. Magian trials provides a lot of great armor and weapons (even beating elemental staves). Maybe cooking and alchemy for consumables would be the best, but I'm not a crafter. There are some mildly-easy, but annoying abyssea pop items that people pay high dollar for if you can be bothered to farm and re-sell that.

It's not really all that hard to make money in FFXI now if you put an effort in to it.

[Valisk]

... conversion NPC? WHAT DAT

The one directly next to the NPC that stores your seals in Port Jeuno at H-8. Shami - Stores your seals. Shemo - Converts seals at 3:1 ratio.

[Sagacious Sundi]

Characters have an always will be called toons, and it is not game specific.

Spellcasters have and always will be called mages, and it is not game specific.

Anyway, as a returning completionist, I hear they got rid of the 40 cap from "Return to the Depths," but did they do it for anything else (besides missions)? For example, is it hard to convince people to do the Eco-Warrior quests?

[Patsu]

Why have paladins become so obsolete?

[drwaffles]

Why have paladins become so obsolete?

Because people began to understand how enmity works (years ago).

[Apelila]

More so because inside abyssea MNK, NIN and SAM have the same if not better surviveability , and a walmart PLD can't generate the enimty to tank against thm.

[Mercilessturtle]

PLD was obsolete way before abyssea came around. Abyssea just finally drove the point home to all those big retard shells with leaders that would only ever play pld.