Quote Originally Posted by 'genocyde',index.php?page=Thread&postID=198376#pos t198376
I gave some thought about boxing FFXI, is it pretty boxing friendly? I ran a holy trinity style 5 box in WoW, would a mixed team in FF be harder or easier do you think? Got any tips for someone looking into that game??
I would say the game is VERY boxing friendly, especially for melee classes. /follow functions in FFXI such that when you tell your extras to /assist, they switch targets to the mob, run up to it, and follow it until it is dead, at which point, they will run back to their previous follow target. Only down side is you have to have your main actually engaged to the target before you can use /assist.

Of course, that's for melee. You could just as easily go with a tank, a healer, and 4 mages and blow things to kingdom come.

Outside of that, there is the mildly steep learning curve and the fact that the low level economy is more or less dead. If you can get past that though, its like instancing 100% of the time. (the killing elites for xp and loot, not the no-one-else-is-there bit)

UI is kind of klunky, but a bit of bind and macro working with windower should fix most of that.