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i need please info thinking about gettign the game...
punkrock
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heya everyone i was wasntign to know how good this game is. i will be comeing from DAOC. i just need ot kmow is it good for soloign at time. you know when i just want to hutn alone. and is the game fun? just any info would be rocken. thanks ^_^
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Heres all you need to know, courtesy of Corbin.
10 Reasons not to play FFXI
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10. Waiting.
Anything you do you have to wait. If I'm going to do a quest I have to wait 4 hours for a boss monster to spawn. If I attack a prime like Shiva and I die. I have to wait one real life day till I can attack it again. If I want to take an airship I have to wait 11 minutes for it to come. If I want to get some exp I have to wait and form a party then we could have 5 people waiting to party but then we need a 6th person but we can never find one.
9. Pvp
Worst pvp I have ever seen. The pvp is city verse city team style. So lets say 12 Bastok people show up and 18 Sandorians show up. Itll be 12 verses 18. So no matter what you do youll lose. Their is no FFA pvp its all team based. I could be owning some Taru then 3 of his buddies will come up from behind and kill me. Theirs no point in doing pvp. If you win you get a small amount of Gil. Blms own pvp, since everyone is close too each other. Only thing a blm has to do is cast sleepga and enfeeble his enemies then pick them off one by one.
8. Exp and death penalty
Only class that can solo in ff is the beast master. So any other class needs a party to get exp. After level 60 it takes about 3 hours to get a party, for others its 7 or 8 hours. Once you start the party what usually happens is someone has to go or someone gets agro from a monster and dies or your party members suck. Then if you die and usually when you die their isnt a priest with raise 2 around, so when you respawn you lose 3k exp. 3k exp takes about one hour and 30 minutes to get, since most parties suck.
7. Genkai
Genkai is a like a limit break that lets you level higher. Like the level cap with out genkai is level 50. To get 55 you have to do genkai 1 witch is hard for most people. Thats why most people quit ff at level 50. I have met so many people who have quit ff just because of that. Its some stupid square scheme of making you go to high level areas and hunt for some rare rare rare item that takes for ever to get and is almost impossible to do with level 50's. Its completely pointless and stupid its just another thing that makes you play long so they can collect their monthly fees. You have to do this stupid quest every 5 levels after 50.
6. Crafting
God where do I begin. First of all you lose so much money crafting because of the ****d up econ (ill get to that later). Then once you get the items to make the item you want to make. You have to wait till its the day in the game day that coincides with the crystal that makes the item. So if I make an item with a fire crystal on waters day ill probably fail. Failing god do I hate failing, back in the day I thought it was ok, but once you get 100k items to make some big thing and you fail and lose the items you hate it. Leveling up crafting is retarded; you have to buy all the materials then sit there making the same item over and over again. You can be a level 90 crafter and still lose money; in any other game you would be loaded.
5. Magic scrolls
You have to buy magic to be able to use. When your level 20 you barely have any money as a blm and the sad part is most of the scrolls you need are 20k plus. Then when you hit 50 ancient magic is like 100k plus a scroll. That you barely use, but you need em because people always ask you to use em. They should have made it so you learn skills not having to buy them as a mage.
4. AF
The worst idea I have ever seen in a mmorpg, wait actually one of the worst ideas. AF is this armor that makes you look like your job in classic ff job specific armor. Like my blm looks like a traditional blm with it on. Well to get any of it done you need 18 people you need to go to some smacked up area with mobs who are level 70 plus and shit. Sit there for 5 hours killing mobs till it drops the key, and then find the box witch takes another 4 hours. Then you have to fight notorious monsters that usually kill 6 people who are in your alliance. Then the af doesnt even give you good stats thats the worst, like my body af gives me vit plus 1 when Im a god damn blm.
3. Crabs
Crabs crabs crabs crabs. You kill the same monster for the whole entire game practically. I killed crabs in south gustaberg, crabs in vulkurm dunes, crabs in quifim, crabs in kuftal tunnel, and crabs in the boyhoda tree. Constantly crabs at least they could change the color or something but no same model but with a different name.
2. Shitty point less jobs that can be replaced by other jobs and race specific stats.
Ok first of all here are the crappy jobs in ff11 Dragoon, summoner and ninja. Why? You ask heres why. Ninja is a poor mans paladin, ninja cant hold agro and if he gets hit 2 or 3 times hes ****d. Ok he has his powders but once they run out hes screwed. If I cast stone 1 I get agro with a ninja, agro is when the monster comes to you and attacks you. Dragoon he does shitty damage and is out classed by all damage dealers. Summoner is just a whm basically, you get him in your party for heals. His summons are worthless. Are you kidding me jwbxx summoners did so much damage in all the other ff's. Nope sorry my blm can out damage a summoner any day. I have seen all the summons die to crabs and other crappy shit. Race specific stats omg so pointless. See in any other game if I sucked at hp but had tons of int it would affect me. Because I could own in damage but once I get hit Im ****d. Not in ff11 since everything so party related the party makes up for your weakness. So their is no point in being a Hume since every other race can do your job better. Like Im a blm Hume but a Taru blm has 200 more mp and like 20 more int. He has shit hp, but since you never solo in ff the party can protect him. So thats how Humes ability to be good in everything and not suck in anything is negated.
1. Auction house system omg worst idea.
This is how the ah system works. You put something up for sale a bidding price, if someone matches it or exceed it you get the Gil for the item. Sounds good right? Nope. Some dick see's that I put up 5 dark steel swords for 35k each, but since he has no patience he decides to sell his for 34k. Next guy sees that and sells his for 33k, and lower and lower the price goes. So then that hurts the crafters. It ends up that the materials are worth more then the final product. Thats why the ah system sucks.
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About soloing u might be dissapointed since it almost not existent. Some ppl r researching the possibility of some soloing occuring for lvls 1-20. But generally the game is fun cause there are lots of things to do. If u find urself a good linkshell too it would enhance the experience even more. If u want I can give u a pass for my server,Ramuh.
yes a good linkshell makes this game better they can be hard to find at times. And if you want to solo really there is only one job that can effectively all the others are mainly party based. This game revolves around having a pt for almost everything. Sure you can farm on your own but only against mobs way below your lvl that prolly wont give you xp. And if you do start playing i suggest picking a craft asap. You can do any craft and switch to any craft at any time same as with the jobs. Money is not always an easy thing to get and you will need a lot of it if you want to have decent gear and use food to enhance your skills while in a pt. Some of the things ramadin posted are true but ive played lots of mmos and every time i try a new one i come back to this because the challenge and fun you get out it is amazing.
Dont go thinking this is in any way like DAoC, ive played that a lil and the PvE is way better in this game but a power lvler is not at all like on DAoC. If you pt with people that are not near your lvl you will lose xp and be wasting your time. Also there is no RvR there is ballista and that is in no way like RvR. I have to say one of the main things i dont like about this game is the lack of PvP but its not a PvP game its a PvE game and i will continue to play it for as long as it is still going havent found a game yet that i woud switch to.
also some of the things ramadin said are a lil true. I completely disagree with him about af, crafting, pointles jobs, exp penalty, and auction house. There is no pointless job in ffxi all jobs are needed its just not all jobs are needed if you have a job that can fill there slot. Without an xp penalty then death would be completely meaningless i like this much then to lose items. The auction house is one of the greatest things ever invented in an MMO no more shouting and asking people to buy your stuff. You just put it up for sale come back the next day and your gil is in your mog house. AF is soo baddass you dont even know how pumped i was when i got my af yes it is hard and yes it looks the same but the thing is you will always look the same as people the same job as you. Most people try to use the best equip possible at all times and if so then they look the same. Whether your a pld at lvl 60 in af or a pld at lvl 29 eisen gear you will look similiar to people that are the same job as you. But does looking the same as people make the game less fun? No it doesnt. I really hope you try this game but i will say 2 things to finish. This game is not for everyone and this game only gets better and better and better the further you go on.
PS. I want to know what job and lvl you reached in ffxi ramadin you have been posting ffxi sucks posts since the game launched over 3 yrs ago. (you'd think you wouldve found something better to do by now)
