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Rynoto posted:The level 30 promyvions were incredibly fun and not really that hard. After they were nerfed it wasn't so bad, but originally they took an alliance to get through and were pretty brutal. It was a major roadblock for the first month or so and really turned a lot of players off. Def a shame, COP is by far the best expansion. It's story rivals mainline FF games. nyttyn posted:And if anyone else is starting this game to try it and sees this, don't pick bastok. There's a part early on, the 1-3 mission, where it asks you to get items with a really low drop rate that cost a lot on the AH and are being camped by bots. Just went through it, super frustrating. That's pretty lame. But also Bastok is the worst city anyways, don't pick it. There is a reason we all called it Lastok.
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The feeling of accomplishment from actually getting through one of those level-capped fights was certainly something. Especially because you knew you typically only had one shot at it, and if you died you had to trudge all the way back through the dungeon or have a friend outside that could raise everyone.keep it down up there! posted:Bastok is the best city anyways, do pick it. There is a reason we all called it Bestok. Fixed 
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Feb 10, 2020 17:19
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I remember CoP being nerve wracking ages after it came out. True sight Hippogryphs, everything in the Promy aggroing to blinking. The only thing that rivaled that was forgetting the location of Chigoes in ToAU zones.
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Feb 10, 2020 17:30
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Bastok has the best music, and is therefore the best city.
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Bastok always felt the most home-y. It wasn’t horribly spread out like Windy and wasn’t all king obsessed as Sandy. Now getting around WotG areas can gently caress right off (at least pre-Adoulin). Certain random areas closed off so you have to go a way long way around your rear end in a top hat to get to your elbow... What I find hilarious right now is the AH economy. There are a handful of things I have noticed. Things cost very specific tiers now with little variance in between. Probably the man variance is items over 2 mil. 1000 10k 30k 100k 500k 2mil 100mil
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Feb 10, 2020 20:57
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While playing through again recently, I remembered Sandy always seemed the most popular. Funny how the most popular nation is also the one where the natives are really really racist and obsessed with their king and national lineage.
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Feb 10, 2020 21:39
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Sandy has the nicest starting area. I have fond memories of killing rabbits and getting aggroed by orcs.
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Feb 10, 2020 22:27
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keep it down up there! posted:After they were nerfed it wasn't so bad, but originally they took an alliance to get through and were pretty brutal. It was a major roadblock for the first month or so and really turned a lot of players off. I still have this image from CoP launch, when the old VEWS linkshell went in as one huge blob. As I recall, none of the parties that made it to the top of the tower actually beat the boss that night.  
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Feb 10, 2020 22:54
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People talking about classic / progression servers, have you tried any of the various private servers? I've played on several and have landed on one recently which I quite enjoy. You can really find one for any level of commitment.
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CyberLord XP posted:People talking about classic / progression servers, have you tried any of the various private servers? I've played on several and have landed on one recently which I quite enjoy. You can really find one for any level of commitment. I played a lot of Nasomi and if I were to win the lottery / become bedridden by a horrific injury I'd probably keep playing
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Nasomi is a loving slog, and didn’t really scratch the XI itch. I mean dunes parties camp in weird spots and go after weirder enemies because crabs and flies are way too loving hard. Like this is XI at launch with no buffs what-so-ever. I got War to 37 (I think) and immediately said “nope” and never looked back. Coming back to XI after quitting just before Seekers came out has been much more satisfying as a lot of needed easy buttons have been hit (leveling, skill ups, availability of cheap low end gear). Hell I took a 49Thf to 99 casually solo only in like 2 days with trusts. Getting 3200 exp on a worm in Zeruhn was amazingly satisfying. Was considering getting the rest of my jobs to 99 for the poo poo of it and RoV stuff but Jesus that’s just too much. Focusing on Cor has been tough. Logging in with like 1.5mil was never so depressing. I’ve gotten a few hand outs and some help but holy poo poo everything is overly expensive. And of course I chose to take on Cor which is drat expensive to begin with...
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I played on Eden up to 52 and I enjoyed it a lot. The custom content on nasomi kept me from ever playing there seriously.
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keep it down up there! posted:After they were nerfed it wasn't so bad, but originally they took an alliance to get through and were pretty brutal. It was a major roadblock for the first month or so and really turned a lot of players off. The population would have stayed higher for much longer if they did everything different with CoP. Outside of the rings and Limbus, it was pretty awful to be honest.
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Siren is good. Lots of summoners are saying her Hysteric Assault will replace Ramuh's Volt Strike as the main AF/AC dps attack.
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One of the main strategies for a few of the CoP fights was "fight boss, run into a corner and die and hope auto-raise works, finish off boss before their HP regenerates". You would still lose exp of course. 
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Necrosaro posted:Siren is good. Lots of summoners are saying her Hysteric Assault will replace Ramuh's Volt Strike as the main AF/AC dps attack. Not just that, her af ability also applies a massive buff to her.
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CyberLord XP posted:People talking about classic / progression servers, have you tried any of the various private servers? I've played on several and have landed on one recently which I quite enjoy. You can really find one for any level of commitment. I played to lv 40 on multiple classes on a hardcore server (you die on a job you go back to lv1) it was an interesting concept until the server owner started breaking the rules to keep players from giving up and leaving.
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Yeah, especially because if you were a Taru you're that much more likely to be one-shot by some boss AOE attack. Took a look into the private server code, looks like public code to reproduce all the missions doesn't exist yet, or private server owners may have coded it for their own servers and never added that to the public repository?
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ghostinmyshell posted:I played to lv 40 on multiple classes on a hardcore server (you die on a job you go back to lv1) ryan_reynolds_but_why.gif
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I can't imagine playing vanilla FFXI and saying "no, no, I need it to be more annoying and lovely" and gleefully going onto a hardcore FFXI server.
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World War Mammories posted:ryan_reynolds_but_why.gif I dunno it felt like a survival game at that point where you are scraping by having to do your own crafting and pretty much everything and I leveled tons of alts in retail so it was a casual thing I did 2-3 hrs a day for fun. Got my ffxi fix out of my system for the year. It was a better experience than paying $15 logging into retail into a dead goon shell and realizing everyone I know is gone 
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ghostinmyshell posted:I dunno it felt like a survival game at that point where you are scraping by having to do your own crafting and pretty much everything and I leveled tons of alts in retail so it was a casual thing I did 2-3 hrs a day for fun. Got my ffxi fix out of my system for the year. It was a better experience than paying $15 logging into retail into a dead goon shell and realizing everyone I know is gone When i hear 'for fun' the absolute last thing i expect is a permadeath 75 era xi private server.
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idk i kinda like it but i’m also nuts what’s the state of private servers like Eden right now?
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Eden was shut down for about two weeks due to a C&D scare but it just came back up a day or two ago. I'm not really interested in playing again, though.
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Private servers are all terrible, mainly because they are run by terrible people who don't know what they are doing or play favourites with their pals and make end game unfair. You are better off just playing retail. The 75cap nostalgia isn't as fun as it seems. keep it down up there! fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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There are plenty out there that wax poetic over playing content at 75 and swear the 99 increase ruined the game. I’ve heard of shells dedicated to playing some content at 75 only (may have been in here actually), but that private server poo poo is horrid.
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Private servers rehash the worst era of FFXI.
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On a whim I decided to try to reclaim my old FFXI account to get the collection for $10 and god, just like last time I made an attempt to do this, it's just so unbelievably difficult. Somehow the SE support portal is broken and it keeps telling me a required field is empty even though I've entered the relevant info in it, no matter how many times/different things I type in the box it won't let me submit it's genuinely enraging ed: anyone know how to get around this?  no matter what I type it tells me the field is empty. i tried the phone, email, and chat submission and none would let me reach someone without that field, which seems to be broken. 
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Feb 27, 2020 14:38
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Since the seekers is $10 on steam I might just say gently caress it and start a new account, but before I do that, does anyone have a world pass to a semi-populated server?
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Frog Act posted:On a whim I decided to try to reclaim my old FFXI account to get the collection for $10 and god, just like last time I made an attempt to do this, it's just so unbelievably difficult. Somehow the SE support portal is broken and it keeps telling me a required field is empty even though I've entered the relevant info in it, no matter how many times/different things I type in the box it won't let me submit Isn't the POL ID something in the format of ABCD1234. Can you create a Square Enix Account (if you don't have one already)?
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WarMECH posted:Isn't the POL ID something in the format of ABCD1234. Can you create a Square Enix Account (if you don't have one already)? Hmm, I honestly can't remember, my POL ID was (I thought, at least) the same general name I used online when I first made it at PS2 launch in 2002, and it seems to fit but doesn't work for submitting a support ticket. I do have a SE account already from when I played FFXIV at launch, so I was hoping to link my super old account to it...I've heard support can usually take care of that in a jiffy, but since I can't get through the form to submit to them, I'm a bit stuck. I'll re try it using the format you just mentioned and see if that allows me to submit. ed: dope that worked, I just tried the first four letters of my old account name and 1234 and it at least let me submit the ticket Frog Act fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Feb 27, 2020 |
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Speaking of private servers I had a lot of fun playing on the nightbrood server. It goes up to wotg Era, but maintains a bunch of qol improvements like xp gain, hp warps, stocked ah, and a bunch of other stuff. It's kind of like classic ffxi with just enough cheat codes to keep it challenging without being frustrating.
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Ok, so if I haven't played this horrible game in a decade what do I need to buy? The last expansion I bought was WotG, so does buying the normal Aldouin expansion give me Abyssea or do I need to buy the Ultimate Starter Edition? Honestly is it worth recovering my account with a single 75 and Zilart/CoP story completion or would starting from scratch with 30 free days be more efficient money-wise? Can I just buy off Steam and apply the key(s) to my old account? Is there anything else I should know (besides Don't Do It)? And yes, I know how the game has changed and all the things mentioned in the OP.
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Francis posted:Ok, so if I haven't played this horrible game in a decade what do I need to buy? The last expansion I bought was WotG, so does buying the normal Aldouin expansion give me Abyssea or do I need to buy the Ultimate Starter Edition? Ultimate seekers edition will get you everything.
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They couldn’t retrieve my old account with my birthdate, email, name, address, and POL ID, none of which have changed since 2002, so I’m gonna buy it and start fresh via steam Someone hook me up with a world pass plz
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World pass code: Edit:redeemed Necrosaro fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Feb 28, 2020 |
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