Final Fantasy XI

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Originally posted by Mastermartz
Well this sure as hell made me want the game!! I understand that its slow n' all but theres so much to do from what it sounds like! Leveling isnt the only thing to do and theres alot of endgame content. This game makes the other MMO's ive been playing look horrible (CoV,CoH,EQ1,WoW, GW). I think im getting it tomorrow! heh Hey on another note what race/class combination for starters is good and not common.

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To start with, let me give you this link, which eventually answers your question.

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/guide/development/census/06/index.html

Basically, the six starting jobs are more commonly found then the rest, and Elvaan women are rare.  A note about class combinations for a bit; Final Fantasy allows you to pick a Subjob, which you level independantly and grow to become half your main job's level.  Subjobs enhance the abilities, spells, and traits of your main jobs.  They won't "round out" your character, or fill in your weaknesses.  No one job is great at everything, but all jobs can be great at something.  For better or for worse, some jobs afford more flexibility in subjobs then others.  Useful subjobs have been discussed for years at the Job boards at http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/ so start your research there.

As per which of the jobs are easier to play, I'd wager that Monk, Black Mage, and Thief are easier then White Mage, Red Mage, and Warrior.  Hope this helps. 

Just thought id also mention that no matter what job you take, at the start of the game in your newbie days, you are going to take an ass kicking and get killed but dont give up just keep going until you get the hang of it all.

I also recommend fighting mobs that are easy, that way you can kill alot of them all one after another and get like 50 exp for each, you will probably kill about 6 of them and then need to rest to regen hp so each time you will make 300exp. If you go for harder mobs or even mobs you might get say 75/100exp per kill, but you will have to rest to rgen hp after every single kill.

Goodluck and have fun.

Garrik

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Originally posted by bob_sandwich
no and no, grind lvl bs, you can't put "played FFXI" on your resume, and it aint worth the time for this grind fest.  Graphics are bad and everyone looks the same too-- but this is one man's opinion...

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Originally posted by Rinic

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Originally posted by bob_sandwich
no and no, grind lvl bs, you can't put "played FFXI" on your resume, and it aint worth the time for this grind fest.  Graphics are bad and everyone looks the same too-- but this is one man's opinion...

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Grinding is more fun than "Go kill 50 orcs and come back and talk to me and I'll give you this pretty button that gives you HP+689748704."


The graphics aren't "bad" you obviously diddnt configure your game right, not to mention it came out what, 4 almost 5 years ago?

And people look the same because the game is run on PS2 and PS2's dont have the same power computers have for processing, so it made it easier on the consoles. Have you ever played Lineage or Lineage 2? Two of the most popular MMO's in the world? EVERYONE looks the same in those too.

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I'll just say what I liked and didn't like about this game.

Graphics Average (can't complain), implementing an additional job to support your main one was kool, the story (Ok~ I guess but not that good imao), trasportation was nice (Choco still takes sometime), the immense environment (love Vanadiel) and anything else I really didn't like it that much.

Grind, grind, grind, grind, and then wait, wait, wait, wait.  Who said you can solo this game.  During the begining yes but that doesn't last too long, after that you can't solo shit.  You better have a good linkshell or a permanent pt, bc having a pt is no. 1 priority.  Quests are also a bitch later on (your gonna need help often).  Then it's time for some more grinding.  Level caps to AF armor quests, a long and painful process.  No pvp (your not a pvp person then cool), what? Ballista? Are F-ing kidding me...  Oh yea crafting, yea~ is something to do but you ain't gonna make shit til the higher levels (thats another leveling up you'll have to do but at least you can do it on your own), and don't even expect to make alot a gils from it either, you're gonna be farming too (but the economy? I don't wanna even go there)

There are more to be said but I don't wanna get into every lil detail ( I don't have the patience like other peoples here).  Overall I thought it was a waste of time, had some fun too, but overall.  Some people think its a good game but it's not for me, not my style.  So thanks for reading and I'm not disrespecting anybody's opinion or saying it's a bad game by saying all this, I'm just saying it wasn't my type of game.

Lv. 50 Thf 25 Nin

I cancelled today when my months free trial came to end. I'm not going to pay for this waiting and monotous grinfest this game is.

I managed to get to BLM30/WHM15 and BSM10 in this included free month and thats with normal parties mostly, didnt have PowerLevelers helping me out.

Camped couple NotariousMonsters for drops, did fame/missions for Drain/Aspis -spells, soloed Kazham -keys etc.

But when it comes cancellation of account... I asked myself: Did i have fun? Do i want to pay more for this? And the answer was easy: No.

Graphics were outdated and ugly, everyone at same levels looked the same. People came to parties and left without saying anything. I even was in party grinding in Kazham for 2 hours where noone spoke anything, they just pulled mob after mob.

Then there were people that just joined parties and leeched exp and they didnt do anything to help kill mobs.

And mobs... You kill same mobs all over again, only the name changes by areas and levels.

Now when writing this, i actually wonder how i managed to play this for full month but thats why they dont have free trials in this game