Final Fantasy XI: Anyone else out there boxing it?

[Bigfish]

Update on my status:

I've managed to get my group to 24, stuffed those damn sheep in Selbina with 100 stacks of million corn per character to max out Sandy and Bastok fame, expanded my inventory to 60, got all my keys for the Kazham airship pass, and just killed the 2-3 dragon last night. I've spent around a million gil outfitting and upgrading characters. Kind of pricey, but a lot of that was on one time upgrades.

I was actually surprised how easy the 2-3 dragon was. I remember the thing being quite the pain back in the day. Was actually a nice confidence boost to walk in, go chop-chop, and watch the thing die. Makes me think I'll have a good deal of hope to box all the missions in the game.

Now I just have to trade in 630 pieces of zinc ore for Tenshodo Fame, 1200 Cornettes for windurst, and I should be done with rep building and can get back to focusing on getting to 30, unlocking some advanced jobs, and building my group.

Its going to be quit the adventure, in so much that my leveling from 18-24 has consisted of random xp from farming quest and mission items for subjobs, airship passes, etc. I'll likely get even further as I climb Delkfutt's for rank 4, but after that, I think I'm relegated to finding some good grinding spots for 20-37.

[Bigfish]

Odd situation. Didn't level for 3 days since my last post, and I still got 4 levels on Sunday. That was nice. Should hit 30 tonight, ideally. Got most of my rep grinding done. Only thing left is more Tenshodo fame for characters 4,5, and 6, but they can wait since they're not going to be subbing ninja any time soon. Found out my ideal target range is to grind things 5-7 levels above my group, so that should help subsequent leveling go faster.

[d0z3rr]

Bigfish, what group did you wind up going with? All melee?

I would love to try boxing this game but I only have two computers :(

[Bigfish]

Right now its at 3 WAR, a MNK, RDM, and BLM. Still leveling subs though. Eventually its going to be PLD, RDM, BLU, SAM, WHM, BLM, to try and capitalize on Skill Chains.

[Zerocool2024]

How is the leveling in that game? I played it back when it first came out, got to 15, and wanted to shoot myself because I needed a group for everything and anything.
And 3/4's of the people spoke Japanese, lol.

So, we had to communicate by Emotes, lol.

I understand that you will be boxing, there for, the group problem is gone, and I guess you keep the constant XP going.

[Bigfish]

Leveling is pretty easy at this point. I'm not earning super-fast xp, but I am leveling at a decent pace. Right now though, with fresh characters the issue isn't so much one of leveling, its a matter of unlocking different aspects of the game, which I have to admit, kind of sucks the big one. Bag space, reputation, and unlocking jobs is all getting expenisve in both time and gil. Nothing quite like staring at a Chocobo for 6 freaking hours waiting for the next hour to pass so you can do the 30 seconds cut scene in a chain of scenes before you go back to waiting another hour so you can do the next one, just so you can ride a mount in some areas.

Granted, that's a bit extreme of an example, but it illustrates the point.

I wouldn't suggest FFXI for anyone trying to get uber cool uber fast. Its going to be a long, painful process for me, and I don't know if I'll ever get to the point I want to. That said, the story in this game rocks, and assuming I ever hit the level cap, I'm going to have several weeks of awesome cutscenes and story lines waiting to be plowed through.

[Ridere]

I used to play FFXI back in the day. Was a relatively successful WHM in one of the first linkshells to down a lot of content on Ifrit.



I have tried to go back to the game in the years past, but the economy and lack of lower level support really has been a hinderence. The idea of boxing it would be real neat, but as far as I'm aware, it's one that would require a dedicated machine per account. Am I wrong in that assumption? FFXI, as far as I remember, was a majorly CPU-intensive application to run, as the port over from the PS2 was horrible.



That being said, I'm still a bit intrigued by the idea. I think I've invested too much time into WoW to quit it for another game now, but a team of 6 tarutarus would be completely awesome.



The money issue would be a bit of a worry for me, though. Could farm seals and then do BCNMs for AH selling. Once you could farm the Prime avatar fights, though... 360k a day. And since you'd level up fast enough, if you were to make a few alts on each account and leveled them up in the simplest way for the purpose of farming those Prime Avatar fights, you could make another 360k for each other set of alts you were to bring through the Prime Avatar fights.



Even if you skipped the more annoying ones to get to, you could still rake in a hefty chunk of change just doing Shiva, Titan and Ramuh each day on a few sets of chars.



I really just want them to come out with their new MMO, already. Swap Tarutarus for moogles, and you still have the awesomeness of a party of little guys running around. I think FFXI may be too far gone for me to ever really get back into the swing of things. I hate their fishing system, too, since it requires so much work.


Fun fun

[Marious]

They where good when I played it a long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away! But yeah some of the stuff sucked. I played a galka BST it was great but only got to like lv 68 I think at the time or was it 62... It was along time ago for me. I was playing it from launch and then when WoW came out dropped it like a hot stone.

[Bigfish]

I have tried to go back to the game in the years past, but the economy and lack of lower level support really has been a hinderence. The idea of boxing it would be real neat, but as far as I'm aware, it's one that would require a dedicated machine per account. Am I wrong in that assumption? FFXI, as far as I remember, was a majorly CPU-intensive application to run, as the port over from the PS2 was horrible.

I had 2 instances running on mid-level machines a few years back, though I never got them very far due to a lack of a good keybroadcaster i was aware of at the time. I would imagine being ok to run a couple, if settings are set low.

The money issue would be a bit of a worry for me, though. Could farm seals and then do BCNMs for AH selling. Once you could farm the Prime avatar fights, though... 360k a day. And since you'd level up fast enough, if you were to make a few alts on each account and leveled them up in the simplest way for the purpose of farming those Prime Avatar fights, you could make another 360k for each other set of alts you were to bring through the Prime Avatar fights.

Money actually isn't TOO bad with a full group. You get all the crystal drops, and with fire, water, and earth crystals going at 1.2k+, you get a nice chunk of change after a while. At the least, its enough to keep you geared at your current level. Avatar fights will defenitely be a nice source of income. The single biggest issue I see with it the monotony of killing the things day after day, not to mention travel times to pick up, get to, and turn in. But that's all contingent on me needing money at that point. Heck, even one Avatar at 60k/day might be worth the trouble, especially if its a quicky like Titan.

I plan to focus more on getting Rare/EX equipment anyway, and honestly have no qualms about using AF to 75. Probably the single greatest liberator is not having to pick up anyone elses slack, which seemed to happen a lot more often than it should have in a game so filled with elitists. Of course, what I actually DO end up doing is not quite set in stone, as I have no idea whether my "Gimp" group is going to tackle things well or not.

[Ridere]

AF to 75 won't be a big issues for most jobs, I think. I imagine you won't be plowing throusth stuff as fast as individual parties do, but the fact you never have to spend a minute LFG would make it way better.



I'd happily grind out exp at like 3k/hour in the privacy of the boyahda tree by myself than have to deal with pugging busy areas trying to find imps. haha.



Hopefully you keep posting your progress, as I want to live vicariously through you, since I don't see myself going back to FFXI