Final Fantasy XI | Cheerful Ghost

So I’ve been a bit absent from the Cheerful Ghost community

So I’ve been a bit absent from the Cheerful Ghost community for a little while, and it’s largely because I decided to pick up FFXI again. Now that I’m about two weeks into my return to the game I wanted to post some thoughts on how the game has changed since I quit in 2009.

Leveling:

Leveling in FFXI use to be a long process. After soloing yourself to about level 10, you needed a full group (six people) in a balanced party of 1 tank, 1 healer, 1 support, and 3 damage dealers and a good camp to farm higher level monsters (higher levels gave more XP). If you had a good party you could expect to gain a couple levels per night of solid leveling. Holy crap has that changed!... Read All

jdodson Admin wrote on 07/17/2012 at 12:38am

Sounds like they really have spent time cleaning up the games steep difficulty. I wonder if their answer to WoW's quick level ramp was a quicker one? Oh well, plenty of room for both game experiences!

What class/race are you?

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 07/17/2012 at 05:27pm

I'm a male Hume (human) from the city of Bastok. My highest job right now is Warrior, but I have yet to unlock most of the advanced jobs. I was a Samurai last time I played, and I kind of miss it, so I might start leveling that when I can unlock it. I was also considering Paladin, but we'll see. One of the things I like about FFXI over other MMO's is that I can level every job on one character if I want to.

jdodson Admin wrote on 07/18/2012 at 12:08am

Thats a cool thing to be able to do. Swhat I dug about Fallout and Oblivion, you can do whatever you want you don't decide classes, you just sort of put time into those abilities.

Dungeon Siege was similar.

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 07/18/2012 at 07:20pm

The leveling in FFXI is a little different. It's not that you're every job all at once and you just pick and choose your skills like in Fallout, each class (called "jobs" in FFXI) has its own separate level. For example, at the moment when I'm a warrior I'm level 32, once I switch my job to Monk I'm level 15. You only gain XP for whatever job you currently are. You also get to pick a subjob, which grants you stat bonuses and gives you (mostly) all the job abilities/spells of your subjob up to half your current jobs level. So when I'm a 32 Warrior I can set monk as my subjob and get bonuses to my HP, Str, etc. and I have all the monk abilities up to monk 15 (it would be 16, but I haven't leveled monk that high :) )

jdodson Admin wrote on 07/18/2012 at 11:21pm

Interesting system. Cool because you can pick whatever you want.

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So my wife and I use to play FFXI from 2004 to around 2009. We've decided we are going to relive the glory days (so to speak) and pick FFXI back up at least until Summer is over and have some fun going through all the low level stuff on a new character. I know at least one other CheerfulGhoster out there had FFXI too, so I wanted to extend an invite to anyone who wants to join us on the Cerberus server. My character name is Taion and my wife is Ktara and we're currently based in the city of Bastok (but we have the means to bring you to us if you want to start somewhere else for any reason.)

If anyone has never played FFXI before but wants to join us, let me know and... Read All

jdodson Admin wrote on 07/07/2012 at 09:53pm

Whats the monthly on FFXI?

jdodson Admin wrote on 07/07/2012 at 10:00pm

http://www.playonline.com/ff11eu/envi/charge.html

$12 a month? If I am reading that right for the character fee and monthly.

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 07/07/2012 at 10:35pm

Yes. The $20's to buy the game comes with your first month though

jdodson Admin wrote on 07/07/2012 at 10:56pm

Oh cool. Hmmmmmm. Tempting!

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 01/24/2014 at 07:34am

You're talking writing about XI, but the game listed is IX. LOL I played XI for a while and found out that that's not really much for solo gamers. I'm glad for the friend I found, that helped me through some of the game. I remember starting out in Windy, where my friends were supposedly on one server. I finally made it to Bastok, where they actually started out. I actually won the Wings of the Goddess DLC from the FF Wiki, but have not yet played it.

That said, as I've asked Travis, do you have any thoughts on playing the new FF MMORPG (I think it's XV)?

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 01/24/2014 at 06:13pm

Oops! Yeah this was suppose to be listed under FFXI. :P

Bastok represent! That was my starting city and my favorite of the 3 starting towns (we had Cid!). What server did you play on? I was on Cerberus under the name Taion.

I've looked into the new FF MMO, and while it looks cool I highly doubt I'd be able to play it enough to justify the monthly subscription. I would love it if they'd offer a free to play weekend or something though so I could give it a try.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 01/24/2014 at 07:49pm

I believe I was on Bahamut.

jdodson Admin wrote on 01/24/2014 at 07:51pm

WhiteboySlim: You can change it by editing the post. I've been adding titles to all these nekro'd posts myself :D

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 01/24/2014 at 07:52pm

Done!

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