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jokes posted:Vanilla would be an okay place to stop, narratively speaking. Mechanically getting 75 was/is a motherfucker, and you’d never see the same “what now” poo poo that WoW classic players have today. Plus the Dark Lord is actually still a pretty difficult boss, even if you’re not going in blind. It is also difficult to say what is "vanilla." FFXI wasn't released outside of Japan till the first expansion came out. The level cap was initially 50, but it was up to level 65 by the release of Zilart. People originally fought the Shadow Lord at level 50 when it was a real hell of a fight. I think of classic FFXI as being everything up to CoP, ToAU was a transition period where the game was getting a bit kinder and a little bit less of a grindfest (until Mythics anyways), and then WoTG and Abyssea bring us to the modern era of FFXI. Classic FFXI is a poo poo game from any modern perspective I think, but I still feel the siren's call of CoP once in a while. That was a good time to play (probably because I was in high school). (https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/The_History_of_Final_Fantasy_XI if anyone wants to see how FFXI has changed throughout the years, especially in the era before the Western release.)
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blatman posted:did they ever talk about a switch port They can't even move the PC client out of D3D8, there's no chance of it being ported to another system.
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I think most people identify CoP as Vanilla that I know and that’s deifnitely “Vanilla” to me.
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Systematic System posted:It is also difficult to say what is "vanilla." FFXI wasn't released outside of Japan till the first expansion came out. The level cap was initially 50, but it was up to level 65 by the release of Zilart. People originally fought the Shadow Lord at level 50 when it was a real hell of a fight. I think of classic FFXI as being everything up to CoP, ToAU was a transition period where the game was getting a bit kinder and a little bit less of a grindfest (until Mythics anyways), and then WoTG and Abyssea bring us to the modern era of FFXI. Yeah like I played the modern version in like 2018 and I let my AI teammates kill the shadow lord while I was looking at my phone. I just think it would be fun in a grindy old school mmo way to do the fight with 5 other players as intended
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Verbose posted:Yeah like I played the modern version in like 2018 and I let my AI teammates kill the shadow lord while I was looking at my phone. I just think it would be fun in a grindy old school mmo way to do the fight with 5 other players as intended Theres some private servers set to old era stuff but they all have their fair share of issues. You won't ever really get that same experience back but if an approximation is good enough eden is a pretty decent ffxi server set to aht urghan.
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SE has kind of been trying to implement the best parts of vanilla in the modern version, honestly. If you want to exp party, you can farm capacity points. If you want to do big hard boss fights, many of the classic ones like Divine Might, Ultima + Omega, etc all have fairly challenging i119 versions and most have endgame-relevant drops. poo poo, Dynamis divergence is basically old-school dynamis. There were some updated versions of old endgame events as well (salvage, limbus, etc) but they aren't really relevant or a challenge anymore - but it wouldn't surprise me if SE makes ilvl versions of those events as well - particularly salvage, einherjar, and nyzul I could easily see getting new versions, since the old ones are still relevant for making mythics. Rather than needing to release a classic version that will die out in a few months when people realize they don't want to spend 3 hours grinding every night to make up for the one death that happened the other day, SE has chosen to recreate the best parts in the current game.
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CodfishCartographer posted:but it wouldn't surprise me if SE makes ilvl versions of those events as well - particularly salvage, einherjar, and nyzul I could easily see getting new versions, since the old ones are still relevant for making mythics. The very concept of "Item Level Nyzul" shakes me to my loving core.
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Dear FFXI thread, I quit back in like 2006 and I'm only here to ask if XI mobile is real, and if so, will it be single player plus the trust NPCs I've heard about, cause dear god would I ever play that.
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blatman posted:did they ever talk about a switch port I just got a GPD Win 2, other than the trash network card it runs this game way better than the original, I can even do the daily Domain Invasion. DACK FAYDEN posted:Dear FFXI thread, I quit back in like 2006 and I'm only here to ask if XI mobile is real, and if so, will it be single player plus the trust NPCs I've heard about, cause dear god would I ever play that. Just some screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/woGuUv5 Kazy fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Jul 7, 2020 |
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Jul 7, 2020 02:22
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It keeps showing up as a future release in financial reports and stuff, so I'm sure it'll actually exist eventually
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I believe it's been said it'll be a different game than FFXI proper, I believe, but no idea if it'll be single player or what.
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CodfishCartographer posted:I believe it's been said it'll be a different game than FFXI proper, I believe, but no idea if it'll be single player or what.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I can dream. Game looks gorgeous, and I'd love to pay full price for a non-MMO XI. But maybe that's just the nostalgia talking. Honestly, current-day FFXI is non-MMO XI. You can play through every storyline solo fairly easily with any job, then just stop before doing any endgame poo poo that requires multiple people. The content will be very easy at max level, but it's fairly simple to difficulty-adjust by doing it at a low level, then if it's too hard solo just go spend a few minutes to grind out 5-10 levels and return. You can even ignore all the new fast travel options for the oldschool run-everywhere feel!
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I haven’t played this in years, I got blu to 99 and got some 117 gear then stopped. What kind of activities are there to do at cap that are solo friendly? The huge gear gate on group activities kind of overwhelmed me once I got to cap.
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Ort posted:I haven’t played this in years, I got blu to 99 and got some 117 gear then stopped. What kind of activities are there to do at cap that are solo friendly? The huge gear gate on group activities kind of overwhelmed me once I got to cap. Depends on your job. Jobs that are very good at soloing such as Red Mage, Ninja, Dancer, Beastmaster, Summoner, etc can solo quite a lot of endgame-relevant content with trusts. You obviously can't get the best-of-the-best gear solo, and doing things solo will be much slower than with a party, but it's possible. As for "what kind" of activities are available - all storylines, a large variety of NM fights in Escha Zones and UNM fights, Ambuscade (a monthly-changing instanced boss fight), Omen (a series of challenge rooms where you're given randomized tasks, such as "do a magic burst of X damage" or "perform Y physical weapon skills"), and of course good ol' fashioned grinding for exp! CodfishCartographer fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Jul 7, 2020 |
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I remember reading about some update in the last year that made one part of gearing up more solo friendly, was that a change to omen?
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Ort posted:I remember reading about some update in the last year that made one part of gearing up more solo friendly, was that a change to omen? Omen bosses are still extremely difficult to solo, but if you instead choose not to fight the bosses, the waves of enemies are fairly easy to farm solo for very good gil, and will get you cards for upgrading artifact armor (the usefulness of which varies from job to job)
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CodfishCartographer posted:Honestly, current-day FFXI is non-MMO XI. You can play through every storyline solo fairly easily with any job, then just stop before doing any endgame poo poo that requires multiple people. The content will be very easy at max level, but it's fairly simple to difficulty-adjust by doing it at a low level, then if it's too hard solo just go spend a few minutes to grind out 5-10 levels and return. You can even ignore all the new fast travel options for the oldschool run-everywhere feel! I would love to dust off my old account, and get some trust NPCs, and take BLM haha just kidding I would switch to BLU, gently caress my 14-year-old BLM75 from what I know about the new meta. A mobile port would presumably give you the fast travel options out of the gate and streamline item grinds a little, but the main attraction is not paying monthly honestly. I'd get sucked into the time sink either way. DACK FAYDEN fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Jul 7, 2020 |
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Ort posted:I haven’t played this in years, I got blu to 99 and got some 117 gear then stopped. What kind of activities are there to do at cap that are solo friendly? The huge gear gate on group activities kind of overwhelmed me once I got to cap. Take a look at Ambuscade because that is what I would be doing right now if I wasn't busy with City of Heroes for the next few months. I went through a lot of trouble taking the time to make reforged stuff and it seemed like the Ambuscade equipment was both better and easier to get quickly. Last time I was playing I had finally gotten around to working on the ambuscade sword because eventually it enhances Savage Blade which is the Weapon Skill I love most. But it takes a lot more effort to upgrade it compared to the gear you wear so I would save it for last. When I first reached 99 though I went through and finished all the main story missions and that was fun. Except Wings of the Goddess which I did parts of here and there and never finished because it's a giant pain in the rear end and if I'm going to do something I hate for long periods of time it's going to be for REMA weapons. Since you're a Blue Mage you might want to look up any spells you could learn as you go along. I found that traveling to a place for mission story reasons feels a little more satisfying if you get to pick up some new blue magic while you're there. Beating Shinryu felt like the highlight of my Blue Mage's career thanks to learning Mighty Guard from him when otherwise I would have forgotten about that fight long ago.
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Sigh, it was way easier to recover my account than anticipated. How do I get onto the right server with whatever transfer-player benefits matter? This Gold World Pass thing? e: also what's the best way to get a key these days? 'cause I only have XI/RotZ/CoP/ToAU e2: oh and is it still faster to download all the files via a torrent rather than use the official SE launcher to update a fresh install, or is that not the case now that PlayOnline is dead (rest in piss) e3: and what's the goon LS? no further questions I promise DACK FAYDEN fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Jul 9, 2020 |
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Sigh, it was way easier to recover my account than anticipated. How do I get onto the right server with whatever transfer-player benefits matter? This Gold World Pass thing? if you're bringing a character from one server to another you pay for a transfer in your SE account. if it's a new character get a gold world pass.
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frodnonnag posted:if you're bringing a character from one server to another you pay for a transfer in your SE account. if it's a new character get a gold world pass. e:  
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Jul 9, 2020 02:45
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Getting to 75 by yourself will probably take about 2-3 days. Getting to 75 with a goon to powerlevel you and to cheese you through the level cap quests would take you maybe a day, 2 if you all are feeling lazy.
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But I have all kinds of teleport options available now! (plus it's my lil taru from 2007 how could I not) What's the goon LS?
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I don't know if there is a goon LS anymore, but I am playing again and I am bored. So if you need help with anything message "Muris". I am a master White Mage and master Summoner so I can get all the things done.
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Most goons just chat in the discord and encourage one another to bot and buy gil. https://discord.gg/YjHAEU
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Botting has never been easier.
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New story content? https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/57098 I'm figuring it will be you do a side quest with Iroha where you look at plants so I don't get my expectations high.
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The new story is 3 quests so far. It involves a newly reincarnated Galka child named Raebrimm which is super close to the Shadowlord, Roagrimm. So My guess based on that, and Resurgence being in the story name, is this will be a new Shadowlord type deal.
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No because classic ffxi was bad
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Kazy posted:No because classic ffxi was bad Oh word?
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Ive got a little static of 6 people on eden, in game name is tanners
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I'm pretty new to Eden. Just hit 18 on my Red Mage. If anyone wants to help with that subjob quest...
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Carmant posted:I'm pretty new to Eden. Just hit 18 on my Red Mage. If anyone wants to help with that subjob quest... Depending how impatient you are and if people are helpful, I would recommend just going to 30 so you can do the quest yourself. Also my friends, our time is almost here for a single player edition of the game. The private server code has trusts somewhat working. Now they just need to fix bugs, jobs, storylines and few more things. With some RoV implemented and trusts I hit lv 30 in a day from scratch.
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Private servers for xi are peak terrible. Don't drag people into that void.
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Decided to pick up FFXI since it's the one FF game I haven't played and I just like the grind of older MMOs. Does anyone have a link to an active discord or anything to join?
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ScolopaxMinor posted:Decided to pick up FFXI since it's the one FF game I haven't played and I just like the grind of older MMOs. Does anyone have a link to an active discord or anything to join? https://discord.gg/RJzZfy here's one for you
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