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A friend convinced me to re-sub after ten years away. Fast travel? Solo exp? Is this the right game? Oh well time to get seven jobs from 75-99
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frodnonnag posted:that will take you like 2 weeks if you are lazy. Imagine my surprise when I trade a login reward key to a goblin and get Usukane body. I worked my rear end off for Ares body eleven years ago and now it’s a drat lootbox drop haha.
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Holyshoot posted:Classic ffxi was camping HNMs for 3 hours every 2-3 days against other link shells and accusing eachother of claim botting. Then when you nabbed Nidhogg another ls would cure spam your tank and get your whole group spike flailed when it turned to that other person. Ah memories. Low-manning Fafhogg as a RDM/NIN tank was fun as hell.
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Dec 6, 2020 02:34
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I’ve been back on Bahamut for about a month now and have been wondering the same things about bots/rmt. I’m doing tons of content with my one friend (and trusts) but eventually I’m sure I’ll outgrow that and need a decent group/LS to do anything. Or I’ll just quit again 
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Dec 15, 2020 05:00
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Capital Letdown posted:Some friends and I made that climb a couple times a week because we used to spam the ENM up there, the antlion one, for some easy exp in an event and the TP Bonus Great Katana dropped semi-regularly for some decent but not incredible exp and cash flow. I used to do both of those, I would trio Brothers on RDM with my two BLM friends, it was fun and you got the pop item for Ouryu, and then we'd do the Attohwa Chasm one for Hagun. Good times. Enjoying my return to XI, I've been back for about three months and have played on NIN and THF a ton and just gearing up BST now. Abyssea and farming upgrade items loving sucks though.
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Feb 16, 2021 14:11
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CodfishCartographer posted:When a game does everything in its power to force people to communicate, I think that they wind up being friendlier to one another in general. In WoW you could solo huge chunks of the game, especially early on, so people never needed to learn to get along with each other, really. I remember a few FFXI players back in the day that were assholes, and it kind of became known across the server who the assholes were and to not invite them to parties. Along those lines, considering I just came back and know literally one other person on my server, I've had to /yell for help a couple times recently. First was for Synergy (WS gorget/belt) and today was crafting an obscure piece for Oboro JSE weapons. Players have helped me almost immediately and been super nice about it. 
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Feb 18, 2021 02:33
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SerCypher posted:Wooo finally hit 99 and got my charity gear. Congrats! I’m still on the last RoV mission. Everything up until then is a cakewalk and then the final boss is wrecking my face. I got close on MNK with 5 trusts focused on AoE heals and wiped at 2% when it started absorbing damage.
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Feb 27, 2021 03:14
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kirbysuperstar posted:Mayakov has uh, not aged well. That’th prepothterouth!
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Mar 4, 2021 20:47
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RoZ, CoP, and ToAU all have legit good stories. Then came WotG... I think I’m on the mission where you run around Beaucedine playing mini games with 14 different Cait Siths, you know, for reasons.
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Mar 6, 2021 16:01
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Ibblebibble posted:Dinged my first 99, and I've now got a billion things I want to do.  Just in time for the update tomorrow. Hope you did all your monthly RoE stuff!
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Mar 9, 2021 07:02
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The Chairman posted:last year I wrote an arrangement of Bastok's town music, a group asked to record it, and here it is Absolutely fantastic stuff, thanks for this!
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May 5, 2021 14:49
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When I came back it was because some friends on Bahamut roped me back in, but it seems like some of the complaints about Asura are because there are actual EN players doing the content and it's not a ghost town. If I was starting fresh and wanted some semblance of a community I can't think of a reason not to go on Asura.kirbysuperstar posted:you'll likely also want to set up dgVoodoo because the game still uses Direct3D8 and modern GPUs don't like that much. Also thanks for this, I've dealt with random d/c and crashes recently and tried everything with my ISP so I'll give this a shot.
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May 7, 2021 15:26
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WarMECH posted:The boat ride was one of my favorite parts of the game when I first played years ago. There are a couple of interesting things that can happen on that journey at random times. I re-subbed my alt last week and rode the airships to get all the home points/books and that music still holds up. XI OST has some of my favorite game music. Part of the reason 15 minute boat rides were tolerable IMO.
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Jun 29, 2021 23:56
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CodfishCartographer posted:I don't think anyone who played back in the day would ever forget their first time crossing the ocean, or making the trek up to Jeuno. For me the most vivid example of that was beating the last 30-cap Promy and appearing in Lufaise Meadows for the first time. Those fights were a loving pain at release and it felt like a real accomplishment, then to be rewarded with a new land to explore (and dope loving music to boot) was just the best.
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Jun 30, 2021 15:59
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kirbysuperstar posted:I think RNG got Hover Shot after that and it supposedly changed how they played quite a bit? Isn’t RNG just another SB spam job still? lol
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Aug 8, 2021 18:46
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FrostyPox posted:Decided to start over. Didn't delete my original character but bought a second character slot, FrostyPox on Bahamut if anyone is on Bahamut Bregor (and Bregolas) on Bahamut  let me know if I can help with something
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Aug 13, 2021 01:34
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Ort posted:Please stop making me miss this game and all of its mechanics that make it unique vs the new bad MMOs. Re-sub already 
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Aug 31, 2021 22:36
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Capital Letdown posted:I loved all the weird items in ffxi. Bless this weird Frankenstein’s Monster of an MMO I tanked RDM/NIN which was kinda weird. Then there was NIN/BRD Mazurka tanking because for some reason they made the movement speed song generate a ridiculous amount of enmity. There were any number of niche combinations of DD setups because the 75 cap limited you to a degree. For instance WAR/NIN Jugg/Ridill or Jugg/Joy was en vogue until the introduction of Hasso and then two-handers could /SAM and be competitive. I remember the RNG nerf and the MNK nerf and all the things they did to try and balance the game. And it worked to a large extent and it kept the game hard. A lot of iLvl content now is bulldozed by SMN spam or Savage Blade spam but I do think there is a lot of challenge out there, which is why I’ve been back for almost a year Holy poo poo I’ve been back for almost a year 
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Sep 4, 2021 14:57
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When I came back to the game, I was still 75 and running around getting Survival Guides and went blindly through Ranguemont Pass. All of a sudden I had a half dozen evil eyes on me and got owned pretty quick. Now that’s nostalgia for vanilla XI right there.
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Sep 8, 2021 22:50
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Ort posted:I always figured they made it bad on purpose to help emphasize you’re waaaay out in relatively uncharted territory. Yeah it’s the classic FFXI move, thematically consistent but in practice a real kick in the dick.
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Sep 9, 2021 22:37
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Quick add on question: what’s the best way y’all keep track of party buffs? I’ve been using Timers plug in and it’s bad, and the more I’m playing COR or RDM I’m paranoid I’m missing something.
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Sep 22, 2021 13:35
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Dho Gates is gonna be fuckin LIT
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Nov 10, 2021 14:47
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CodfishCartographer posted:FFXI: a nice touch that should never be repeated in a game again New thread title please
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Dec 21, 2021 00:26
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Final Fantasy XI: please make sure you are killing the correct leeches
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Jan 20, 2022 07:31
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The correct answer is Zeid
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Feb 13, 2022 22:26
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HKR posted:I'm also current on Bahamut after swearing off Asura. Monday morning /sea all shows 1392 people. Saw around 1700 on tuesday last week. Server seems active without having the extreme toxicness Asura seems to have attracted. Bahamut4Life  Yeah I've been back for about 18 months now and play with the same 2-5 people, depending on who's currently subbed and who's off playing another game at any given time. Bahamut is not busy but not a ghost town, the AH is usually fine (although I had to wait a while for some random crafted stuff like Su3) and there are enough PUGs for ambu/odyssey/dynamis RP farming that you can get stuff done. Very much the speed I'm looking for these days.
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May 26, 2022 19:55
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Took about 40 shanks on my main when I re-subbed, then of course my alt got it in five or six 
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Jun 11, 2022 01:38
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https://twitter.com/mondomascots/status/1652368001461809152?s=46&t=qe_Y8YJnNikGLo_JUDPyAQ probably olde but I found it amusing
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Bahamut owns. Felt active without being the cluster that is Asura. That said I don’t think anyone I used to play with, either from 2009 or when I re-subbed three years ago, is still active. If you get really stuck on something I could put out the batsignal on my old Discord.
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If THF is your main just level WAR or MNK as a sub, it doesn’t matter at all for leveling with trusts.
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