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Seems like there isn't really a good FFXI private server out there. Things like XP/speed bonuses, changed death penalties, free gil, etc. are actually unappealing to me. I would prefer an authentic experience. It seems like Nasomi is the closest thing to that, but it's also a server where magic skill was giving double the benefit and BLM were able to solo Dynamis and other end game content. I want the classic WoW private server experience. Something that feels like it has integrity and authenticity(despite the people running it being horrible disingenuous greedy fucks). And, ya know, a playerbase.
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kaempfer0080 posted:Seems like there isn't really a good FFXI private server out there. Things like XP/speed bonuses, changed death penalties, free gil, etc. are actually unappealing to me. I would prefer an authentic experience. It seems like Nasomi is the closest thing to that, but it's also a server where magic skill was giving double the benefit and BLM were able to solo Dynamis and other end game content. If you want the classic pre toau experience of ffxi, just put your balls in a vice and slowly crank that poo poo shut.
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Supernova is a fairly decent private server but it's effectively got a server-wide linkshell thing going on so if you don't like the people it's a struggle And yeah if there's a universal constant with private servers, the admins always have a hard-on for black mages pretty soft girl fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Mar 17, 2018 |
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kaempfer0080 posted:Seems like there isn't really a good FFXI private server out there. Things like XP/speed bonuses, changed death penalties, free gil, etc. are actually unappealing to me. I would prefer an authentic experience. It seems like Nasomi is the closest thing to that, but it's also a server where magic skill was giving double the benefit and BLM were able to solo Dynamis and other end game content. I played KupoFFXI for a while last year and found it to be really nice. The pop was lacking but there was atleast enough people to level without too much pain. I heard it changed admins recently though so i cant guarantee how it is now.
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frodnonnag posted:If you want the classic pre toau experience of ffxi, just put your balls in a vice and slowly crank that poo poo shut.
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Mar 17, 2018 21:32
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What statues drop infinity cores in Dynamis? Is it just the bosses?
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Mar 21, 2018 00:56
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I've only been playing this since January but it's a really good game
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voltcatfish posted:I've only been playing this since January but it's a really good game Stockholm syndrome dot txt.
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frodnonnag posted:Stockholm syndrome dot txt. I wouldn't say that. I can definitely see a lot of the elements that may have been annoying quite a bit in the past simply due to number of adventurers you'd have to get in a party to do stuff, but I think it's a great experience now when you manage to work out the formulas. Once I hit 99 I started doing Chains of Promathia content and the whole experience has been quite positive in my eyes. It's certainly one of the more interesting MMOs I've ever played and I've played just about all the big name ones I think?
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voltcatfish posted:I wouldn't say that. I can definitely see a lot of the elements that may have been annoying quite a bit in the past simply due to number of adventurers you'd have to get in a party to do stuff, but I think it's a great experience now when you manage to work out the formulas. Once I hit 99 I started doing Chains of Promathia content and the whole experience has been quite positive in my eyes. It's certainly one of the more interesting MMOs I've ever played and I've played just about all the big name ones I think? Cop was one of the better stories... entirely hidden behind level caps.
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look, if you didn't spend three hours with your static in sacrarium trying to get a goddamn key to drop from the motherfucking fomors before giving up and pos-hacking behind that piece of poo poo door, did you even really play ffxi
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World War Mammories posted:look, if you didn't spend three hours with your static in sacrarium trying to get a goddamn key to drop from the motherfucking fomors before giving up and pos-hacking behind that piece of poo poo door, did you even really play ffxi This is exactly why I held off doing most of XI's story content until now With that said gently caress the Altepa Gate, needed to get there for the Savage Blade WSNM and even with the lodestone it's still about a half-hour of running while needing sneak/invis
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Mar 23, 2018 21:06
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frodnonnag posted:Cop was one of the better stories... entirely hidden behind level caps. I just finished up Chains today and yeah, it was some pretty solid storytelling.
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I recently leveled a new account to 99 and then did every expansion storyline mission to record it all and I can tell you 100% that CoP is still pretty terrible even while clipping through all the bullshit locked doors and moving at 300% speed but the aesthetic and story of it all was just as cool as i remembered.
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Mar 26, 2018 00:37
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CoP can be done in less than a day with clipping, fast shoes, hp/sg warp addons and FastCS. WotG sucks still. No matter what.
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LiquidFriend posted:CoP can be done in less than a day with clipping, fast shoes, hp/sg warp addons and FastCS. Lol, wotg is padded with like 3 recaps of past events in the story.
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frodnonnag posted:Lol, wotg is padded with like 3 recaps of past events in the story. WOTG was downright embarrassing. They hyped up going back to the past where this cool lore thats driven so much of the story so far happened and we'd get to experience it live! It sounded awesome. Then they barely cover the war at all, half the story revolves around kids, and they basically don't include any of those cool events at all. And that's not even mentioning the insanely long gaps between content releases that totally killed any kind of momentum.
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keep it down up there! posted:WOTG was downright embarrassing. They hyped up going back to the past where this cool lore thats driven so much of the story so far happened and we'd get to experience it live! It sounded awesome. It's been a while, but didn't it take them like 2-3 years to finish off the WotG story? I feel like they were concurrently releasing Abyssea updates, too.
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I don't know what WotG release was like at the time, but I just ran through the story quickly over the past couple of days and I'd say I enjoyed it. Though I enjoyed the Windurst "side story" more than the "main story", which definitely felt padded with a lot of running around clicking on things. At least it's not nearly as much hassle now with campaign teleports, survival manuals, and home points everywhere. The Windurst story at least did focus on the war itself and events that were talked about in the original Windurst missions.
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keep it down up there! posted:WOTG was downright embarrassing. They hyped up going back to the past where this cool lore thats driven so much of the story so far happened and we'd get to experience it live! It sounded awesome. It's good to know that that garbage expansion never paid off, everyone I knew stopped playing when they announced the level cap raise to 80 and I always kind of wondered if WotG ever picked up I'm still annoyed 8 years later that the release content of an expansion about vanadiel world war 1 focused almost exclusively on an unhelpful cat and a dancing half elf
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DizzyBum posted:It's been a while, but didn't it take them like 2-3 years to finish off the WotG story? I feel like they were concurrently releasing Abyssea updates, too. "Hey cool, the past. Okay lets go back to killing Colibri's non-stop after we unlock Dancer."
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Mar 29, 2018 01:51
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That, that's not fair. Scholar is ok. gently caress wotg
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WOTG is fine now that it's complete. It's story isn't terrible, though its certainly one of the weaker expansions, it's just not what was sold and was so drawn out at the time you stopped caring. I recommend people go through it now that it's done and faster.
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What was coolwith those 'past zones' is that they were hi level mirrors to the zones on launch and that gave them a sense of danger and excitement again; provided you actually went in them. Because they were the same places though they weren't as interesting and because there was barely any content and it was already behind a pretty significant difficulty gate it was largely empty and therefore unfun. They tried to capture the magic of the games world on launch but you can't capture lighting in a bottle. I did a lot of those "protect this tree fort" things though as they were casual, I was at winding down with my time online and in ffxi
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Cuchulain posted:That, that's not fair.
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The worst story was A Crystalline Prophecy hands down. Doesn't even fit into the rest of the story and then the characters at the end forget it ever happened.
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keep it down up there! posted:WOTG is fine now that it's complete. It's story isn't terrible, though its certainly one of the weaker expansions, it's just not what was sold and was so drawn out at the time you stopped caring. WotG 2018: 30 hours of labor for a loving earring.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:WotG 2018: 30 hours of labor for a loving earring. It says a lot that cop earrings are still an absolute gear must have 75-99 119 and wotg earrings are not
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taels posted:It says a lot that cop earrings are still an absolute gear must have 75-99 119 and wotg earrings are not They're good but "absolute must have" seems excessive considering I (and I imagine quite a lot of people these days) leveled 75-99 just fine without them Not sure whether you're referring to the level 30 rings or the Apocalypse Nigh earrings but both apply to the above
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taels posted:It says a lot that cop earrings are still an absolute gear must have 75-99 119 and wotg earrings are not What? The WotG earring with 250 tp bonus is still really good for a lot of weaponskills
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The post-WotG quests give you the Cait Sith and Atomos avatars. Are those useful for stuff? I don't really know enough about the game yet.
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Kazy posted:The worst story was A Crystalline Prophecy hands down. Doesn't even fit into the rest of the story and then the characters at the end forget it ever happened. Acp is a throwback to the game's opening cinema and resolution to aldo and his sister. Except gently caress you reset button. Abysseas story is kinda worse. "Abyssea-you failed killing promathia." Wotg had plenty of stories in the cities, it hit all major plot points of the war and the like, my only complaint is short of lilith, there was no memorable bcnm fights. Lilith also wasnt brought back as a hard mode fight. There's also the issue of endgame that came out during wotg. It was all excruciatingly poo poo. Sandworm, ixion, legion, the preliminary augment systems, monstrosity, all utter poo poo. Magil Zeal posted:The post-WotG quests give you the Cait Sith and Atomos avatars. Are those useful for stuff? I don't really know enough about the game yet. As the asura servers resident poo poo smn, yes. Both are essential.
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This Nasomi private server is pretty dope. Everything runs well and there are a lot of players around. It also has a system that scales levels up/down according to server population to make sure there are people to group with.
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Frog Act posted:This Nasomi private server is pretty dope. Everything runs well and there are a lot of players around. It also has a system that scales levels up/down according to server population to make sure there are people to group with. Alternatively there are usually around 2000 people on asura at any time.
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frodnonnag posted:Alternatively there are usually around 2000 people on asura at any time. That costs money though right? Having said that, wow, I just did a little googling and it sounds like you can go from 0-99 in like two weeks. I opened a ticket with Square to see if they still had my old accoutn from 2003 - they seem to have retained it (last logged in like 2007) but I forgot my secret question so I'm waiting on them to get back to me.
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frodnonnag posted:Acp is a throwback to the game's opening cinema and resolution to aldo and his sister. Except gently caress you reset button. But none of the lore shown actually fits in. Like the "Seed Crystal" thing. It makes no sense. Abyssea story was great. 
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ToaU was the best story. Fight me.
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