Topic: Let's Play Final Fantasy XI (Read 34517 times)

Dooly · « **Reply #420 on:** March 18, 2011, 06:46:28 PM »

North American players have always been connecting to servers in Japan to play FFXI and FFXIV?

Norondor · « **Reply #421 on:** March 18, 2011, 06:55:11 PM »

Everyone has, yeah. That's why there's a little bit of lag; it's unavoidable.

Pacobird · « **Reply #422 on:** March 21, 2011, 06:52:48 AM »

Oh, also, for those curious, most of the story content can be soloed at 90, and the level caps on story mission battlefields have all been lifted.

Cobalt · « **Reply #423 on:** March 21, 2011, 03:36:47 PM »

Does it let you alt+tab or run it in windowed mode?

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #424 on:** March 21, 2011, 03:56:16 PM »

Quote from: Cobalt on March 21, 2011, 03:36:47 PM

Does it let you alt+tab or run it in windowed mode?

I'm curious about the alt+tab thing myself, because FFXIV would crash every single time you did that.

Also, P. Birdy and anyone else who is/will soon be playing this: What server(s) are you on? My character is on Ramuh.

Pacobird · « **Reply #425 on:** March 21, 2011, 04:15:45 PM »

I am on ramuh. Relocated to play with the talking ty.rants but they aren't on much.

Starting up on ramuh might be problematic, as it's been slated to be merged with bahamut and new character creation has been frozen on both servers until the merge happens in may.

Ffxi has windowed mode, but it barely mattered because i can't imagine playing without the windower program. Apradar is worth checking out, too.

Pacobird · « **Reply #426 on:** March 22, 2011, 07:36:01 AM »

Servers announced to come back online on march 25

Norondor · « **Reply #427 on:** March 26, 2011, 04:40:52 PM »

I'm back in action on Cerberus; Paco said he may well jump back here once transfers are open from Ramuh again.

New EXP rates make duoing VERY attractive, and warp/reraise scrolls are free now. \(╹Д╹)/

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #428 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:08:44 PM »

Likewise, I started playing on Ramuh again today. I got Dancer from level 1 to level 8 in about fifteen minutes, so I feel a lot less bad about only being able to play at totally random times.

Norondor · « **Reply #429 on:** March 27, 2011, 01:11:29 AM »

also i maintain that level sync is in fact the shit because i got in a valkurm dunes party that took my samurai from 27 to 32.

Pacobird · « **Reply #430 on:** March 28, 2011, 06:28:19 AM »

Yesterday I decided to try to fight an NM that is literally impossible to hit with physical attacks. I got him to 90%!

Then I died like a chump!

Rosen, before you do anything else, you should make the time (provided you have at least one Abyssea expansion activated) to go talk to Joachim in Port Jeuno on a 30+ job. Do his initial quest really quick and you'll start tallying Abyssea stones, meaning you'll have like a hundred in stock by the time you're actually ready to do anything and time will never be an issue.

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #431 on:** March 30, 2011, 11:30:56 AM »

Quote from: P. Birdy on March 28, 2011, 06:28:19 AM

Rosen, before you do anything else, you should make the time (provided you have at least one Abyssea expansion activated) to go talk to Joachim in Port Jeuno on a 30+ job. Do his initial quest really quick and you'll start tallying Abyssea stones, meaning you'll have like a hundred in stock by the time you're actually ready to do anything and time will never be an issue.

Thanks for the tip; I made sure to do that yesterday.

I'm gaining levels quickly enough that I don't feel the need to upgrade my equipment every time I can equip a new set, but whenever I do need to upgrade, it's a big pain to actually find equipment now that the auction houses are barren (at least for low-level stuff). Any advice? Right now I'm level 17 and fighting Tough enemies in the dunes. I love having what amounts to basically unlimited healing with Curing Waltz, but I'm still wearing level 10 armor and I'm spending more time healing than attacking now.

Pacobird · « **Reply #432 on:** March 31, 2011, 09:44:08 AM »

Don't fight things harder than EM; Signet's your armor, and the added XP from harder targets will soon be heavily outstripped by killrate on weaker targets + FoV, if it hasn't already.

There's nothing to be done about the low level armor issue other than shout for a crafter.

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #433 on:** March 31, 2011, 10:06:09 AM »

Ok, thanks. Like you said, I ended up just fighting weaker mobs much quicker and just toughed it out with the weaker armor until level 21, and fortunately I had a few pieces of Beetle armor saved in my Mog House. I used to have a bunch of sets of armor from different levels, but I got rid of it 3+ years ago when I thought I was settling on COR/RNG. Ah, well.

I love these Super Kupowers. Swift Shoes is great for running around when I can't warp or ride a chocobo, and Ease of Exploration makes travel between the starter cities and Selbina painless.

Pacobird · « **Reply #434 on:** March 31, 2011, 10:14:43 AM »

Kupowers are pretty handy, yes. Also, keep in mind you can get weapons and armor from Conquest vendors along the way if you're particularly hard up.

Rico · « **Reply #435 on:** March 31, 2011, 03:18:25 PM »

Well, the cheap copy of Rift I got has failed to hold my interest for even one day, so I may be trying this again. How soon can I expect to actually be able to make a character that can see any of you jerks?

Pacobird · « **Reply #436 on:** March 31, 2011, 03:32:24 PM »

Go to Cerberus. Noro is on Cerberus, where I played until a few months ago. I transfered to Ramuh to play with Rosen's Talking Time friends but they don't really do a whole lot and Cerberus is a much more active server. Further complicating things is that Ramuh, ghost town that it is, is getting merged with Bahamut six weeks from now so nobody can transfer to or make a new character on either server. I'll be heading back to Cerberus once I'm elgible to transfer again in a few weeks. Maybe 3?

Noro is currently 66-67 on Dancer, which is smack dab in the middle of the worst grind in the whole game, so I think I can speak for him in saying he'd be thrilled to level sync with you. Level sync becomes available at level 10, which is literally a half hour of grinding for someone who is familiar with the controls.

Rico · « **Reply #437 on:** March 31, 2011, 05:40:14 PM »

Aye aye, cap'n. Setting sail for burning Saturday and getting farther behind on the domestics.

norn · « **Reply #438 on:** March 31, 2011, 06:32:35 PM »

i need to stop reading this thread.

stop posting, mike.

Norondor · « **Reply #439 on:** March 31, 2011, 06:35:25 PM »

fucking do it norn

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