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Game arrives soon so a few Q's.
rnwes
Member Posts: 8
Well as you can see from the topic title, FFXI should arrive tomorrow morning and if not the day after. It was only £10 from Play.com and i've enjoyed every FF so far so I thought i'd give the MMORPG version of FF a try, after all if I don't enjoy it I have not broke the bank. So anyway, I have a few questions i'd like to ask and would appreciate some answers.
How helpfull is the community? If I have a newbie question that a guide can't answer am I more likely to get some kid shout 'OMG LIKE LOLZ T0t4L N3WB' or receive a civil reply? Is it hard to find a party at low levels? What are traveling times like? Items, will I be stuck slapping low level monsters around with a toothpick and rags for days so I can buy an overpriced newbie armour and weapon set like in Lineage 2 or are prices more reasonable? Farmer Bots, I know they exist in every MMORPG but are they bad? In L2 all I ever saw were bots named randomly like XIIAFOA etc.
Thankyou for reading.
rnwes.
How helpfull is the community? If I have a newbie question that a guide can't answer am I more likely to get some kid shout 'OMG LIKE LOLZ T0t4L N3WB' or receive a civil reply? Is it hard to find a party at low levels? What are traveling times like? Items, will I be stuck slapping low level monsters around with a toothpick and rags for days so I can buy an overpriced newbie armour and weapon set like in Lineage 2 or are prices more reasonable? Farmer Bots, I know they exist in every MMORPG but are they bad? In L2 all I ever saw were bots named randomly like XIIAFOA etc.
Thankyou for reading.
rnwes.
Comments
The community is very helpful and i'm sure if you ask politely you can get all your noobie quested answered without a problem. There is a shout option or you can just find someone who looks experienced and send them a tell. I always answer questions by new players its just a the right thing to do.
As far as prices and the economy goes.... well its tough for a new players but there are many diffrent ways to make money. You will defently have to farm for awhile once you reach lvl 10, good things to farm are bees,crawlers, and beastmen. Start in windust, there are alot of money making mobs there. There are RMT in FFXI, but you really wont' have to worry about them until you get a feel for the game and progress in lvls. By that time you should get an idea if you want to stick with it or not.
FFXI is HUGE, but at the same time its kinda small (You won't understand that untill later in the game, its hard to explain <.<), Traveling times kinda suck, The Zones are big, And there are usually 3-4 Zones between towns. I would suggest going to www.ffxi-atlas.com and having a look so you'll know what i'm talking about. At lvl 20 you can do the chocobo license quest that lets you rent chocobo's from Cities or Crags, Choco's run... I belive 3x faster than you can, and monsters won't attack you while on them. And you can Buy, or do your ranks and get rewarded an Airship pass. The Airships take 5 mins to fly between Any of the 3 nations to Jeuno, then From Jeuno To any of the nations. (Pretty big time saver)
Theres a very wide Variety of equipment, But all jobs have a particular weapon that they excell in, Such as Axe or Great Axe for warriors, Hand 2 hand for mnk, Dagger for thf, Hammers for Whm, Staves for Blm, And Swords for RDM (Those are your 6 Basic jobs btw, Don't really wana go through the other 12). If you buy your Equipment from the NPC's then they are very cheap, But also very expencive from the Auction House Often people will buy items from NPC then put them in the Auction House and sell them 10-20 times the normal going price to People whom don't know, or are too lazy to walk 10 feet to the NPC that sells them. >.> So do research or check the web (Heres a good database website ffxi.somepage.com).
FFXI Doesn't have Farmer bots in the normal sense, we have Notorious Monsters (NM for Short, they're powerful monsters that drop rare items), and the Farmers will Camp out at a NM spawn location. If it pops they'll try to claim and kill, then eventually go sell the items. We, the ffxi communty often call them gilsellers. Aside from Camping most Big selling item NM's they're now moving their way into endgame, but that won't effect you for a very long time (Seriouslly, it takes months to get to 75, most of the time over a year)
No, it's not. As long as you remember that gear is almost always MUCH cheaper from the NPC vendors than from the Auction House, and remember to get Signet from the gate guard so the mobs will drop crystals for you, you'll have little trouble affording your stuff in the early game.
CHris Mattern
Kids, Ignore this guy, Obviously a lots changed since he played it 3 Years ago.
You start with Beginner RSE, A weapon, and if you're a mage your first spell. Stop by the gate guard on yoru way outside and get Signet cast on you (This way monsters you kill will drop crystals) And start your way killing monsters, collecting crystals (Prolly your first sorce of income). Food helps, if you're a melee when you save up pick up some Grilled Hare meat, they cost about 500gil and last 3 hours. Drinks only refresh MP, and you won't need them. If you don't try to take on Even match, Tough, Very Tough, or Incredibley tough mobs when your soloing you shoudln't be dying that often, Unless you get link, aggro, or try to take on somthing with 20 HP.
Maybe its just me, but a lot of people use the "User Manual" As a Tutorial, as for the Ingame translator thats so you can communicate with JP people, But unless you're on at JP primtime which is somwhere aftermidnight and before 9 am you won't see too many. (At least untill you get to Jeuno). A lot of the take this to here quests are for maps or outpost warps, In no way required, but they will help with travel time in the long run. Your basic macro (At least for PC) would be liek CTRL+1 and it would do a command that uses spells or a Job ability so you don't have to go through the menu to find it. Very helpful, Don't really understand this guy's SNES problem, Menu's have all looked the same since NES, with things like "Status, Equipment, Magic, Items, Abilities, etc."
rnwes.
To be honest, that hasn't been my experience at all. An honest question, intelligently phrased, shouted out in town almost always gets you answers.
You don't have to start your journey all over again if you reset your home point at the guard posts as you travel. Once you reach level 20, you get access to chocobos; you can't be attacked while on chocobo-back.
Inflation was never the problem people made it out to be, because it raised incomes as well as expenses. In any case, it's over. The economy is actually deflating recently.
Chris Mattern
I'll make it simple for you, Final Fantasy XI gives you a nice opening scene.. then dumps you in your home city with no goal or purpose. Starting off in FFXI can be a huge pain and it's what drives alot of new players away. The game is all about making your own adventure and choosing your own path (or paths). Your not locked into a single job, you can switch at any moment.
Also, FFXI is a hugely complex game and the learnnig curve can be hard to overcome. However, once you do I can guarantee that your love the game. The jobs are fun, the extra content is fun, and the community is great.
The only thing I dislike about the game is leveling.. there is quite a few people who like to just level their characters. However, leveling in FFXI is really hard.. and I hate doing it. However, about anything else you can think of is great (and levels 1-30 are pretty easy to do.. with 30-50 not being extremely hard either. It's above 50 when things get to become a huge pain).
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/