FFXI Classic Thread

[Kaisha]

I mean, like Nynja said, just depop the NM/HNM after so much time.

May as well just nerf Enspells at that point and have the TP-feed check for damage from Additionals also.

How dare people promote a thing they enjoy

Honestly curious if SE would ever take action with how much attention/advertising I see about places for it relative to prior ones. That said, Ninja did an XI stream on a pServer awhile back and they didn't bat an eye to that either.

[Draylo]

They wont do anything until they start accepting donations or any kind of money exchange. If they don't, then they will ignore it like usual. Most of these die down anyway, this one was just overhyped and had a bunch of ad push behind it. I can't imagine its coincidence that all these ex youtubers for XI and random ones popping up twitch streaming. They aren't reinventing the wheel, its the same crap with some adjustments, they even have a lot of bugs on it from what I've seen. What sets it apart from the ones before it? Probably someone spending quite a bit to advertise it.

[Fondue]

i would like to try retail again if it wasnt over $50/month for 3 accounts lel

[Fondue]

Who's paying for the advertisement and what are they getting out of it? Does the client have a Bitcoin miner?

[Draylo]

No idea, how else do you explain it? Theres almost no difference between this one currently and all the others. So why are the loser youtubers coming out the woodwork to stream and play this? Apparently that minecraft streamer lit a spark under them or they have advertising so their server is #1. Most of these people have complexes and want to be back in dragons aery. See Gredival and Kipler or whatever their names are.

I would pay mega money to get XI an expansion, I wish they would crowd source something. Most of these people are just jaded players, its so annoying to see them all crap on retail because they were bored. The content drip from XI is too slow and so they are hardcore and burn thru most of it and quit. The thing that gets me the most is that they are literally playing this to EXP on low lvl dinky mobs we've killed for over a decade, literally. So whats the difference between that and retail where you can kill those some dinky mobs (they literally copy and pasted the mobs we used to xp on and added "Locus" and "Apex) but have way cooler abilities and spells and fun? It just boggles my mind. They then claim its "community" based. So apparently being forced to level with idiots is somehow appealing? I wonder if SE policed retail more and you couldn't bot, would they be content farming master levels for ages? Its all so dumb.

You say its the price, but i've seen multiple people now claim it has nothing to do with being free that people are playing on those p servers.

[Rhyis.]

The amount of new "Streamers" and youtubers makes me think this is some weird effort to promote this server. Or they are all trying to copy that Ninja guy since he mentioned he wanted to play on it. Complete pass. Hell, if all you care about is XP you can just do that on retail, we have a new XP grind that is worse than 1-75 on that server.

They wont do anything until they start accepting donations or any kind of money exchange. If they don't, then they will ignore it like usual. Most of these die down anyway, this one was just overhyped and had a bunch of ad push behind it. I can't imagine its coincidence that all these ex youtubers for XI and random ones popping up twitch streaming. They aren't reinventing the wheel, its the same crap with some adjustments, they even have a lot of bugs on it from what I've seen. What sets it apart from the ones before it? Probably someone spending quite a bit to advertise it.

No idea, how else do you explain it? Theres almost no difference between this one currently and all the others. So why are the loser youtubers coming out the woodwork to stream and play this? Apparently that minecraft streamer lit a spark under them or they have advertising so their server is #1. Most of these people have complexes and want to be back in dragons aery. See Gredival and Kipler or whatever their names are.

I would pay mega money to get XI an expansion, I wish they would crowd source something. Most of these people are just jaded players, its so annoying to see them all crap on retail because they were bored. The content drip from XI is too slow and so they are hardcore and burn thru most of it and quit. The thing that gets me the most is that they are literally playing this to EXP on low lvl dinky mobs we've killed for over a decade, literally. So whats the difference between that and retail where you can kill those some dinky mobs (they literally copy and pasted the mobs we used to xp on and added "Locus" and "Apex) but have way cooler abilities and spells and fun? It just boggles my mind. They then claim its "community" based. So apparently being forced to level with idiots is somehow appealing? I wonder if SE policed retail more and you couldn't bot, would they be content farming master levels for ages? Its all so dumb.

You say its the price, but i've seen multiple people now claim it has nothing to do with being free that people are playing on those p servers.

[Ksandra]

We need a umadness poll. Draylo vs. Gred over all things ffxi private and retail.

[Starby]

I'm glad people are having fun with horizon. From afar it seems like a pretty buggy launch but 4500 players at a time will find bugs

Their ideas for custom don't suit me but almost all my peeps from Eden rolled a char so I'll probably join the bandwagon at some point.

Just can't imagine going back to CoP when eden has ToAU missions done, isnms, and just added znms up to tier 4

[Zealot]

One thing I will say I do miss from XI is that for the major fights what mattered was your skill, speed, and ability to react, whereas in XIV all the major fights come down to memorizing where to stand and when.

[Demosthenes]

Their "fix" to rdm includes changes such as a 50mp refresh and 13min convert cool down. Odd changes considering they said they didn't want it to be a healing competitor to whm, but then give it less freedom to spend time doing anything other than backline support and healing lol. It's not actually an era server, it's "a bunch of things we liked when this game first came out in NA, with the stuff that annoyed us changed so other people are annoyed instead" which is fine! Just don't try to feign otherwise lol.

They also changed some spell enmity and tp gain for the better I'd say, but also their inability to ever discuss the changes they already implemented, while also coming up for bonk reasons for why they want to do what they're doing all adds up to something you can straight up miss if you value your free time. At 1x speeds this game is too slow to put up with stuff like that

They also have this weird fascination with HNMs, and that's why rdm must be nerfed. Idk, whatever, not my problem lol

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I feel like RDM should be fully equivalent to brd (and brd should be a bit lower). They should both be a massive boon, but should not fully replace one whm unless you're running two of them.

[Demosthenes]

We need a umadness poll. Draylo vs. Gred over all things ffxi private and retail.

I don't pay attention to draylo, but it's hard to miss gred being insufferable over here.

[Fondue]

wow the first thing I see logging in is people shouting for teleports for 500gil

[Salodin]

I feel like RDM should be fully equivalent to brd (and brd should be a bit lower). They should both be a massive boon, but should not fully replace one whm unless you're running two of them.

They simply lowered it's mp pool substantially, with their contributions to HNM weighing heavily in the decision. But idk what else they want, the job should never compete with BLM in elemental damage, and the only time it competes with whm is in places where healing isn't an issue, which isn't really rdm's fault lol.

It would help if they explained what the changes were and why, like SE does and has gotten better at over the years, but they are adamant in being more closed lip about changes than 2005 SE was just odd. So very odd.

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[Rhyis.]

its a free private server. they can say and do as much or as little as they feel like. they don't owe you fuck all lol

[NynJa]

You could say they're getting what they paid for.

[Fondue]

are you telling me they do it for free?

[NynJa]

That part i dont get
They cant sell anything, because SE would be all over their ass for using their content for profit.

They installed a miner and everyones pc is mining crypto for them lmaooo

[Fondue]

do you play on retail nynja?

[Ksandra]

It’s funny cause like a bunch of irl friends played ffxi back in the day. And we’re are all playing this one and having a blast. It’s interesting because the same group also did FFXIV together, but this just hits different.

[Draylo]

yea and they are all gonna quit and you know it. So enjoy it while it lasts but making it like its gonna be a huge thing is silly, this has been done before. I dont understand why people think this is so new and exciting lol. What was stopping you from doing it on other private servers before this or retail and capping yourself at lv75 or just getting together on a different game? Not much, just shows their ad campaign worked because somehow the magic number you see from /sea all is making you feel warm inside.

I don't pay attention to draylo, but it's hard to miss gred being insufferable over here.

and who exactly are you? Nothing I've said has been a troll or bait or anything, in fact most of my arguments are quite logical. People just use too much emotion and make it seem like I'm the face of retail XI and of course because they are jaded they like to personally attack me lol.