How am I supposed to know what the hell to do without a guide at all times?
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final fantasy xi
How am I supposed to know what the hell to do without a guide at all times?
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talk to people
I don’t understand the question
You were supposed to have played the game in 2002
Game was designed to make you interact with players from Day 0 for information. There was no experience like it, so don't feel bad about resorting to a guide when every quest giver gives you esoteric hints on where to go.
Also I like Elvaan ladies
They intentionally made it obtuse so you had to talk to other players and share information. But yeah nowadays everyone just follows the guides on the wikis.
>thinking of buying that su5 weapon
>only like two sold in the past 2 years on my server
This game and my server is fricking dead and I hate it
Transfer servers then? Also what weapon? Maybe consider getting the HQ+1 version to hold you over. They're not that much worse, but something like 60 times cheaper, at least for crocea mors.
wtf is crocea mors
also https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Aram
Crocea mors is the RDM su5 weapon.
Oh. yeah the hq is like 10m for spear, aram is 100m, but it's worth it (I assume) idk
>be on new account because I lost my old one somewhere over the course of ten years
>do some Flower quest for e-girl mithra
>wiki says I need a Lilac
>okay
>go to AH
>one lilac is 10k gil
Still a bunch of Black folk I see.
unless something's changed, I very much doubt the utility of Aram. if you're going to spend that much money on a weapon, see if you can find a merc (or group) and just get Trishula (should be like 50m, but I haven't kept up with merc prices). the reason the Su5 weapons are priced the way they are is because crafting sucks dick and anything other than the su5 weapon result is lost money; and for that particular weapon, no one tends to buy it (let alone craft it) because the other "ultimate" polearms for DRG are superior.
for reference, even broken crafts tend to be preferable to the basic "HQ" results when crafting for the Su5 weapons.
FFXI is sort of bizarre because, for the most part, the game DOES exist in its original state - you can play through all of the original content the same way you would back in 2004. obviously there's a lot of additional QoL features they've added overtime, but you can ignore most of those (not recommended). the biggest obvious difference between the eras is going to be the player base, there's no denying that. but that ship has sailed for the entirety of the internet at this point and isn't just a localized problem for FFXI or any other MMO in general.
>Stop. Just stop now. Find something better to do.
I do resonate with this point, though, as I found myself slipping into the abyss when I was playing on Horizon a couple of months ago. I had kept up with retail over the years and I played back in the mid-2000s, so it wasn't a novel experience, but I had to just cut it all out. MMOs (and FFXI in particular) are consuming to an unhealthy degree as far as I'm concerned.
that's the convenience fee. the sellers are typically targeting people making mules or new characters that already have an absurd amount of money rather than new people specifically. unfortunately, unwitting new players are hit as a side effect. I imagine you can shout for it and get some assistance
I got my friends normie cousins into th8s in tgeir mid to late 20s and it ruined their lives. The brothers wouldn't talk to eacother even tho they lived together and one had a paraplegic girl he met in game move in with him. They stopped working
>the game DOES exist in its original state
It doesn't, the world, story, and music are still there but everything else has changed, it's not just the community but everything down to the smallest gameplay concepts are entirely different. Even something simple like using weaponskills is lightyears apart from classic XI, back then you'd slowly build up tp and manage skillchains, nowadays you gain TP so fast you are essentially mashing your WS button and need addons to properly swap gear based on server tics.
Modern XI retail is an entirely different game plopped down into the world of Vanadiel.
it seems I was reading your original comment different than how you intended, but I was thinking more along the lines of "experiencing the game through the expansions/story content as they released" and not necessarily anything related to the endgame gameplay/content. I agree with your general appraisal none the less. strategies for contemporary encounters (and even their designs, really) are completely different to the classic era so it requires a different mindset to tackle the challenge. instead of attrition (of resources, players), it's optimization (of gear, job synergy).
but I will say that most of the issues you outlined only really appear towards the endgame. meaning, you can't waltz into a level 60-cap encounter (e.g., a BCNM) with modern gear and just trounce all over it - most of the the "game breaking" traits don't tend to get scaled down. as is a big reason why kraken club is still such a high value item even to this day.
Game is great
Maybe try horizon, if you want a semi back in the day experience. People will answer all ur questions
>lets go back the shitty version with no mounts and teleports or RoE quests
Nostalgia is a serious psychopathological condition…
Honestly don’t mind walking everywhere or chocobo, the game is beautiful. That being said, the base movement speed needs to be increased by 20%, because zones like korroloka tunnel are just awful without it
Idk, I played horizon with no experience and had a blast, it consumed my life for 2 months.
But what do I know I'm a 14tard
We are in 2023 and people still want to play this game?
Believe it or not people still play Tetris and Super Mario Bros too.
Those games still exist in their original form
FFXI does not. It's at best a chatroom simulator and everyone who you ever played with left you a long time ago. You're a drug addict still running the treadmill when there's not even a carrot left dangling there anymore. Stop. Just stop now. Find something better to do.
You aren't, the game was made so that you would have to rely on a community that is no basically no longer existent. Either play Horizon, or follow a guide.
You dont want be friends with chinese RMT?
I visited /vg/ after playing horizon and they are the collection of the most inert, butthurt fans ever
Yeah the old style of MMO design doesn't really work nowadays, or at least it's based on a school of thought that isn't really applicable any more. Back when you couldn't easily google any question you had for a multi step walkthrough on gamefaqs or reddit or what have you, you were incentivized to ask people around you for help and built a community that way.
I don't think you can make games like that (or at least online games like MMOs) any more. It feels more like laziness on the part of the devs.
>It feels more like laziness on the part of the devs.
It has nothing to do with the devs. Gamers are ADHD antisocial losers. They don't want to talk to each other. If you give them the option to do a task with team work/communication, or alone, they pick alone most of the time. And ultimately, this is about making money. This is what FFXI was, and then WoW showed up and wiped the floor. So now we have solo player content and yellow arrows on minimaps.
MMOs were never any good so yeah, just stop playing them. Problem solved
I beta tested and played on laubch ps2. I find it weird and sad that people still play it after this long and all the soul was stripped.
Allakhazam has a database on every single detail and a dedicated forum. Who doesn't
Oh no.
That's just it. You aren't. You're supposed to play the game and try to figure them out to the best of your ability. To explore the game.
The very mindset you have is antithetical to enjoying video games. I don't think they're for you, anon.
Not OP but I enjoy plenty of videogames and I still think I struggled with the quests I played in my time with XI when I tried to progress them by myself without using the step by step guides.
Like unlocking DNC in this game is ludicrous, I had to start a whole new expansion and go back in time and navigate through several zones I'd never been through and look in a lake for invisible glowing pebbles. INVISIBLE
You use a guide at all times, that or you make a time machine and go back to 2003-2008 and talk to people.
I just leveled up, hunted nms, farmed, gamed the AH for hours at a time and was basically rping as a thief Black person scumbag. Even got sent to a dungeon once abd told the DM im a thief. I used to trade window steal from casinos and log off
good job, frick those casino running scum
You don't. Everyone who plays this game plays with the wiki open on their second monitor.