Hey everyone!  I have tried lotro, AoC, WoW and Vanguard and i think its time to return to ffxi!  But i have only a few questions and i hope you guys can bare with me and answer any, it will be greatly appreicated.

1. Is a guy being a mithra strange? lol  The reason why i ask this is because i have always played a HUME in ffxi (a tad bored now).  The Elvaans neck do a weird thing when they run, the Galka aren't for me, and the tarus are very cute, but to little.  I also think that mithra have the coolest animations so i was just wondering what you guys think lol

2.I have a toon on the kujata server and have been on the kujata server since launch.  After playing the trial for a little i realized that Kujata has only 1500 at 11:00pm and Bahamut has 2850.  How is your experience on the Bahamut server and do you think the extra 1000+ people on the server will actually make a difference in my playtime.

3.  I have never gotten any character over level 35 but i am ready and commited to make ffxi my one game.  With that in mind i am interested in being a magic class with some melee.  So i suppose RDM,BLU, do you know of any other class and if so do you think being a Mithra is a good choice.

4.  If i make a new character on my account with my Hume, will he be placed on the Kujata server my default or will i have the options to select the server of my choice?

5.  I heard there is a way to make the graphics on PC a lot better using some function with windows.  I did some research and i found it to be a tad confusing lol im not very "computer smart".  If anyone has an easy tutorial or a how to video it would be greatly appreciated!

and i think thats all i got for now lol  Im sorry if this is confusing but im actually a little excited that i have found an MMO im actually comfortable with.  Anyways everyone i apprecaite you reading it and cant wait to hear what you think :D  Thanks

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Originally posted by Battag
Hey everyone!  I have tried lotro, AoC, WoW and Vanguard and i think its time to return to ffxi!  But i have only a few questions and i hope you guys can bare with me and answer any, it will be greatly appreicated.
1. Is a guy being a mithra strange? lol  The reason why i ask this is because i have always played a HUME in ffxi (a tad bored now).  The Elvaans neck do a weird thing when they run, the Galka aren't for me, and the tarus are very cute, but to little.  I also think that mithra have the coolest animations so i was just wondering what you guys think lol
2.I have a toon on the kujata server and have been on the kujata server since launch.  After playing the trial for a little i realized that Kujata has only 1500 at 11:00pm and Bahamut has 2850.  How is your experience on the Bahamut server and do you think the extra 1000+ people on the server will actually make a difference in my playtime.
3.  I have never gotten any character over level 35 but i am ready and commited to make ffxi my one game.  With that in mind i am interested in being a magic class with some melee.  So i suppose RDM,BLU, do you know of any other class and if so do you think being a Mithra is a good choice.
4.  If i make a new character on my account with my Hume, will he be placed on the Kujata server my default or will i have the options to select the server of my choice?
5.  I heard there is a way to make the graphics on PC a lot better using some function with windows.  I did some research and i found it to be a tad confusing lol im not very "computer smart".  If anyone has an easy tutorial or a how to video it would be greatly appreciated!
and i think thats all i got for now lol  Im sorry if this is confusing but im actually a little excited that i have found an MMO im actually comfortable with.  Anyways everyone i apprecaite you reading it and cant wait to hear what you think :D  Thanks

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A guy playing a Mithra isn't strange at all. I had one as my main through 4 75s. You have to realize that in FFXI, a guy picking a Mithra isn't just for jollies and eye candy.

Mithras have higher DEX than other races, just like Tarus have higher INT. So if you want to play melee classes, mithras are good choices. At higher levels the gear evens things out, but lets say you and your buddy are both Thieves. He's a Galka and you are a Mithra. You both are identical in every way, except you get a bonus to DEX, he gets STR. So you may crit slightly more. Same with White Mage, Galkas at high levels duded out can heal very well, but all your leveling up, youre at a major disadvantage. Same with tanking... Tarus are not as good early as Galkas, etc etc etc... Go ahead and roll a Mithra with pride.

I had made a BLM, RDM, RNG and BST with my Mithra and because its a pretty balanced race overall (like Humes), it was fine in the caster roles. You'll be fine as a RDMing Refresh monkey.

oh well thats good to hear lol didnt want to be the only male mithra.  Do you have any idea about the other stuff?

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Originally posted by Battag
Hey everyone! I have tried lotro, AoC, WoW and Vanguard and i think its time to return to ffxi! But i have only a few questions and i hope you guys can bare with me and answer any, it will be greatly appreicated.
1. Is a guy being a mithra strange? lol The reason why i ask this is because i have always played a HUME in ffxi (a tad bored now). The Elvaans neck do a weird thing when they run, the Galka aren't for me, and the tarus are very cute, but to little. I also think that mithra have the coolest animations so i was just wondering what you guys think lol
2.I have a toon on the kujata server and have been on the kujata server since launch. After playing the trial for a little i realized that Kujata has only 1500 at 11:00pm and Bahamut has 2850. How is your experience on the Bahamut server and do you think the extra 1000+ people on the server will actually make a difference in my playtime.
3. I have never gotten any character over level 35 but i am ready and commited to make ffxi my one game. With that in mind i am interested in being a magic class with some melee. So i suppose RDM,BLU, do you know of any other class and if so do you think being a Mithra is a good choice.
4. If i make a new character on my account with my Hume, will he be placed on the Kujata server my default or will i have the options to select the server of my choice?
5. I heard there is a way to make the graphics on PC a lot better using some function with windows. I did some research and i found it to be a tad confusing lol im not very "computer smart". If anyone has an easy tutorial or a how to video it would be greatly appreciated!
and i think thats all i got for now lol Im sorry if this is confusing but im actually a little excited that i have found an MMO im actually comfortable with. Anyways everyone i apprecaite you reading it and cant wait to hear what you think :D Thanks

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1. I'm not exactly thrilled by guys playing female characters including Mithra's, but whatever floats your boat. Also, Elvaan rock, 'nuff said.

2. I'm on Kujata and have been since launch as well. Can't say I've had many problems with parties. As some of us say on this forum, a bigger server does not equal a better server. Level Synch makes everything cake anyway.

3. RDM can melee early on, but not so much later. BLU would probably be your best choice. But, that job takes a lot of dedication for sure with the spells. DRK can melee and cast spells, might wanna look into that. Again, Elvaan rule.

4. He'll be on the same server you left him on.

5. There are some posts here about upgrading the graphics with regedit and such. The FFXI wiki also helps.

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Originally posted by Battag
oh well thats good to hear lol didnt want to be the only male mithra. Do you have any idea about the other stuff?

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As for magic with some melee, if you go RDM, you won't be doing any melee in actual group, unless you tell your mates you are skilling sword first. They won't have a problem with it as as long as you can keep up the Refresh duties for the group starting at level 41, if I remember right. I'd stick with BLU, its a good class, but you'll need help getting it all done, so find a good guild or see if you can find a high level BLU or trade quests with some other classes. (You help a Ninja now, they help you later).

As for servers.. couldn't say. Game is different than it was for me several years ago.. that one you'll need someone playing to tell you what's what. I used to be on Asura, one of the older higher priced ones.. I don't even want to speculate how things cost there now, lol.

Again, server questions you'll have to ask someone more current in game.. same with the graphics improvements.

But good luck with it^^ Oh, think about Ninja as well. Casting as well as melee and survivability. The ultimate class for soloing around and exploring, was always my RDM/NIN. Damn impossible for mobs to kill it one on one.. and if things went bad.. Chainspell, sleep, lots of tricks to get away. RDM/BLM was chainspell/warp to town hehe. I miss playing RDM, but lots of demands in a group.

Char creation regardless if its male or female doesnt matter. I do play female chars here and there but i dont doubt my manhood because i play a female char im married after all.

As for the server. Dont worry about your old server. I have been playing in it and well i never found a shortage of people to lvl with ect.  The lvl sync helps a ton in any situation.

The differences in the chars is really not that bad. Mithras will have higher agi n dex but low vit n str. So a mithra may work more on getting more str  than dex while a elvaan will work on getting dex.

I did start out with a mithra, but since my daughter has been liking mmos of the late i made a char she liked. She wanted a galka since they  look strong XD so now im wandering around as a galka.

Now if you plan to come back with your hume make sure you have your play online id and reg codes ect. I didnt have any info for my old char and well i couldnt revive it.  But no worries even if you start new there is tons of changes.

One big change is RMT is now a rare sight. I even managed to fight nms. I got myself a nice pair of bounding boots and now running around with a wyvern pal (unloked dragoon). Now since rmt is out , money has been normalized. if you played ffxi when it came out you know what im talking about.

Now a few things of lvlsync . you can lvl anywhere you want. if you couldnt afford gear as an example and your stuck with lvl 17 gear but is 24 you can go to the dunes and sync at lvl 13 and lvl up that way . I had the chance to help a lvl 59 redmage hit lvl 60 in the dunes duoing after he helped me get my subjob items.

Prob my favorite aspect of ffxi its like playing the good ole rpgs on a console and made a hybrid feel with mmos.

about the grafics of the game here is a small guide i made for it,.

I wanted to make a comment about the grafics of this game.

For pc users atleast.

This game has aged well and still looks very impressive dispite of its age. However in order to see how good these grafics are it does require you to play around with the reg edit.

From Dominia's Sticky post of links for ffxi you'll find one link for grafic tweaks:

wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Graphics

Now im a bit suprized about the person who wrote this guide to tweak the grafics. One because he does know what hes talking about, but in some parts he is clueless. Ill go over this to help you make this game look droolafying.

First thing and a WARNING since you are playing with your reg files make sure you make a back up before you edit them. that way if you make a mistake you can rectify it.

follow the guide till you open the ffxi reg edit page:

Now another thing before you do this. If you have a low end computer with built in grafics dont bother. Also you need a good monitor and grafics card. a cheap o walmart lcd will not be able to push the resolution far and you will be limited to that. So basicly your resolution will determine how you will Mod these files.

your target files will be

0000

0003

0004

the rest you can just go to the configuration menu and ajust them.

0000 is mip mapping if you want this game to look very fluid set this to 4 keep it on hexadecimal to be accruate on this one.

0003 is your widith resolution to get the best of the game you want this to be double the resolution of your screen. This is also very important for people with wide screens. So if you can only support 1280 you want this to be 2560. to get it right put it to Decimal then type in 2560 if you try to do it hexidecimal it can be hard to figue it out if your monitor can support higher resolutions or is widescreen.

0004 this is your height resolution. You also want this double the resolution your screen supports . so if its 1024 you want it to be 2048. once again type this in decimal not in hexidecimal.

My wide screen and vid card support 1680 by 1050 its wide screen so i doubled both of them to get a very sharp image in game.

Now here is my pick on the poster of that wiki page. The Texture compression. It kinda blows my mind that he knows so much yet fails to see how this affects the grafics of the game. with a higher resolution it is utterly noticable how bad the grafics of the lighting spell effect and sky will look, also the water effects on the rivers ect. This affects more than what he thinks it does. On top of that he claims there is no noticable difference. BULLSHIT there is a HUGE DIFFERENCE. if you compress these files you will get a pixalated look in the sky, water effects. and light, fire and some spell effects even the glow around the summoners pets. it looks downright ugly as hell, especially the sky when it starts to transist to night. you see it all blocky especially if you have a high end grafics card that supports high resolutions and a monitor that supports those said resolutions.KEEP THESE UNCOMPRESSED.

if you cannot figure where this option is in the ffxi config. then simply go back to your reg editing and select

0018 and set it to 2 on hexidecimal.

Now you will see a crisp clean game. because the effects are uncompressed you will see how beautiful the sky is, the lighting, and all that other good stuff.

in short this game sill impresses with a little tweak on the reg files. I hope this helps.

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Originally posted by maxnrosy
Char creation regardless if its male or female doesnt matter. I do play female chars here and there but i dont doubt my manhood because i play a female char im married after all.

 

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Hmm... just curious max, but have they changed base stats on races?

Mithras had more DEX than anyone else.

Galkas had more STR.

Tarus had more INT.

Humes had a balance.

Are you saying that's changed now?

Again, when I played if someone was Galka White Mage was no problem at endgame usually, but if you were trying to level up, your mana pool was considerably shorter than say, a Taru White Mage. Early on, that meant the difference between a wipe and one or two extra heals for your tank in a cave. Or a Taru tanking had less HPs due to lower STR, so he went down way faster than a Galka. Early on, this made soloing at times with certain jobs way tougher.. A Taru BLM had an easier time soloing than a Galka BLM. But there was some impact on grouping as well, and you'd see some people not want to pick a Galka WHM if they had a choice of him, or a Taru who both were LFG. Sure, when you'd take any healer you could find because you were 15 mins from Jueno, a Galka WHM was just fine. But overall given a blind choice, everyone to a man picked the Taru.

A Mithra BST had far less Charisma than any other race, so if it went Beastmaster, that translated into more resists and mob hate due to failed Charms. I was a Mithra 75 BST and early on, it sucked do to Mithra's low CHR stats. At higher levels with gear I believe things weren't much worse than other races, but since I only played Mithra I can't say for sure. There was an actual reasoning back in the day to pick one race over another.

This is changed now? If so, the game sure has gone weird. Next you'll be telling me they finally found that male Mithra that was mentioned in the lore once, and he's now playable, lol.

Dang lots of questions ! I think those guys all answered them pretty good so I will say welcome back and now is the time to really enjoy FFXI. So many changes have been made to make it easier for players to get started and there is more to come next month.

I've got this game and never realy got into it :| is it just me or the controls in general and ease of starting are incredibly hard? Bear in mind I havent tried playing in about 18months. hmm i could well interested in starting up properly and sitting down and forcing my self to learn..

Originally posted by maxnrosy

I did start out with a mithra, but since my daughter has been liking mmos of the late i made a char she liked. She wanted a galka since they  look strong XD so now im wandering around as a galka.

That is so very cute!! My daughter always wants to make cute females prefferably in as much pink as possible you should have seen her Ryzom character; pink overload. XD In fact she named her Pinki.

Originally posted by fusionx212

I've got this game and never realy got into it :| is it just me or the controls in general and ease of starting are incredibly hard? Bear in mind I havent tried playing in about 18months. hmm i could well interested in starting up properly and sitting down and forcing my self to learn..

I found the controls very hard on a keyboard, I was very slow with it, got a gamepad and haven't looked back since. The UI is made for a gamepad and that's what I'd recommend anyone to get for FFXI. It's hard to start as a newbie but there is lots and lots of info on the web to help you and there's new tutorial NPC's in game as well. I'm not sure where they are though. ><

yeh i got put off because of the lack of starting advice in the beginning stages i just gave up as don't have a lot of time to muck about learning the ins and outs of every game I love the ff lore and the games i may well install later and give it another whirl do sqaure enix do buddy keys i'd be interested if anyone's got some spare?

did you try to play it on console, i have played 5 years now and i cant stand the controls on the PC, i finally even got controller for PC when i do my extra accts on there

yeh pc  for me as i thought mmorpg's are generally better played on pc. i've got a controller i might use instead.

Originally posted by fusionx212

yeh pc  for me as i thought mmorpg's are generally better played on pc. i've got a controller i might use instead.

Use the controller.  The game just doesn't work well with the keyboard.

Fusion....you can grab a 14 day trial, dont remember seeing it on FFXI site, but FilePlanet.com has it on the front page

diffently try the free download, we have had a number of ls members start that way and you can do a lot in 2 weeks, plus you see how the game works, it is the best thing Square did in awhile

well dam guys!  i must say that was amazing help!  I really appreciate how in depth your responses were

Originally posted by popinjay

 

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Originally posted by maxnrosy
Char creation regardless if its male or female doesnt matter. I do play female chars here and there but i dont doubt my manhood because i play a female char im married after all.

 

 

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Hmm... just curious max, but have they changed base stats on races?

Mithras had more DEX than anyone else.

Galkas had more STR.

Tarus had more INT.

Humes had a balance.

Are you saying that's changed now?

 

Again, when I played if someone was Galka White Mage was no problem at endgame usually, but if you were trying to level up, your mana pool was considerably shorter than say, a Taru White Mage. Early on, that meant the difference between a wipe and one or two extra heals for your tank in a cave. Or a Taru tanking had less HPs due to lower STR, so he went down way faster than a Galka. Early on, this made soloing at times with certain jobs way tougher.. A Taru BLM had an easier time soloing than a Galka BLM. But there was some impact on grouping as well, and you'd see some people not want to pick a Galka WHM if they had a choice of him, or a Taru who both were LFG. Sure, when you'd take any healer you could find because you were 15 mins from Jueno, a Galka WHM was just fine. But overall given a blind choice, everyone to a man picked the Taru.

A Mithra BST had far less Charisma than any other race, so if it went Beastmaster, that translated into more resists and mob hate due to failed Charms. I was a Mithra 75 BST and early on, it sucked do to Mithra's low CHR stats. At higher levels with gear I believe things weren't much worse than other races, but since I only played Mithra I can't say for sure. There was an actual reasoning back in the day to pick one race over another.

This is changed now? If so, the game sure has gone weird. Next you'll be telling me they finally found that male Mithra that was mentioned in the lore once, and he's now playable, lol.

Yikes theres alot here to talk about.

let me clarify the races for ya.

Galka have the highest hp 2nd in str and highest vit. Thye have the same dex as humes. Both galka and mithra at lvl 75 will have 8 less charm than the other 3 races. not much of a difference. Galka has the lowest MP of all the races.

Elvaan have the highest str and mind. they are 2nd in hp and vit. but their agi and dex is very bad. Thye have the 2nd lowest in MP.

Humes are avarage at all they dont excell but they dont have any weaknesses either.

Mithra are pretty similar to humes but have the 2nd lowest str and mind. they make up with being the best in agi and dex department and their mana and hp is the same as humes.

Tarus have the highes MP pool and Int they also have the 2nd best dex. their agi is on par with humes and galka but their str is the lowest as well as vit and hp.

As you can see each class will have their ups and downs. However there is gear to put in the mix.  Mithras can focus more on getting str as their dex is very high, this does allow them to even compete with elvaans in terms of str if they gear correctly. Later in lvls you want to focus more on attack and accuracy if your meele as these items give more than just getting dex or str. As mithra you can focus more getting attack while ELvann might work on getting more acc than attack.

Galka as mages may seem to suffer due to a small mana pool but they can focus on getting gear with +MP . There are equipment that converts HP to MP which galka has tons.

While a galka whm may have less MP than a Taru WHM  they act differently. If you are in a fix and the whm is taking a beating. Tarus low vit and hp can get them killed pretty quick. while a galka's High vit which lowers dmg and high hp can help them survive till someone picks up the aggro. Now it really doesnt matter who you have. a Taru warrior can function very well as much as the rest . The group just needs to take in consideration what they have in their party and fight mobs that they can handle effectively.

Its normally the whole groups fault for dying on somthing that was to much for them to handle.  Due to gear No one really cares anymore which race you decided to take  which is a good thing.

Ok the Kujata server I have both a mithra and galka.  I use my galka more since i do spend time with my daughter as she will soon be my successor to MMORPGs if anyone happens to play on that server I go by the name of Kannak. Currently i am lvling up my white mage .

Oh i forgot to mention the books of valor. you can get refresh from these books making the elvaan and galka casters much more reliable as you recuperate mp over time even in battle.