Topic: Let's Play Final Fantasy XI (Read 34504 times)

Pacobird · « **Reply #200 on:** March 02, 2009, 10:32:31 AM »

Quote from: Niku on March 02, 2009, 10:00:16 AM

you have ten minutes to tell me how to make my controls and resolution not all the way retarded before i delete the playonline folder.

You are playing a console game, so you're not going to be using your mouse. You move with the number pad; go to the config option on the second page of the status menus for a rundown of the controls. I'll explain more when I get home; it's way different from any other CGame I've played (due to no mouse) but it gets really intuitive really quickly. A decent rundown of the basic controls is here.

As for resolution, http://wiki.windower.net/windower/latest . You can change resolution/windowed mode through the General FFXI Config program accessible through the POL folder in your start menu, BUT Windower adds a bunch of other addons and shit that make the game better.

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It actually pains me to agree with Lyrai, but for real guys.

What shocks me is that Squenix actually had the rocks to ban that many paying customers.

Only the truly retarded are saying SE was somehow wrong to punish dupers. It's the inconsistency of the bannings (repeat offenders getting a warning, others who did it once as a guest on a friend's run and may or may not have known what the fuck was happening and getting no loot regardless eating permas) that had people irked. At any rate, it's not like the super hardcore who ate it aren't already levelling new characters.

Niku · « **Reply #201 on:** March 03, 2009, 02:04:24 AM »

okay, having it running in windowed full resolution with non hideous textures and a ps2 controller plugged in is helping some. At least, it is easier to hit rabbits in the face with a tiny dagger.

Norondor · « **Reply #202 on:** March 03, 2009, 03:43:54 AM »

FUCK those rabbits

Pacobird · « **Reply #203 on:** March 03, 2009, 04:27:54 AM »

Notably, FFXI does not have the syncronized progression of WoW and its copiers. The story and quests progress separately from leveling, so punching rabbits feels pretty damn pointless admittedly. Partying is pretty fun though. Also, it sounds like you've picked THF; I recommend playing something else. Having leveled one to the mid-60s, it lacks any real way to deal damage outside of a party until 60, and even then, it seriously lags behind other damage dealing jobs. I love the job but it is a pretty bad choice for a primary job. All 19 others are probably a better choice for your first.

Speak to a gate guard to start the first mission for your nation. The missions are the various storylines for the main game and its expansions.

Norondor · « **Reply #204 on:** March 03, 2009, 05:31:27 AM »

Actually I think he went RDM, which is a little better; i have a scroll of Blind i can pass along later.

You'll also want to talk to the NPC near the crystal at the exit to West Ronfaure in Southern San d'Oria -- she'll give you a little newbie quest chain that will get you, among other things, some good levelling food and a bonus EXP ring. When you get outside, hug the wall and look for a book mysteriously hovering in space, and talk to it -- you can get hourly quests from it that grant free exp and gil, and you can also get it to cast long-duration buffs on you (regen, protect, even reraise!) after a few of these.

This is all just until we get to about 10, at which point we can hit La Theine Plateau and start moving on to bigger and better things, eventually getting dual-classing at 18.

Pacobird · « **Reply #205 on:** March 03, 2009, 05:36:24 AM »

Oh, uh....RDM is the best class in the game. Carry on.

Doom, when you're ten, go to one of the guards that gives you signet and tell him you want to spend conquest points. You can buy the Royal Archer's Cesti, which are great fist weapons for your level. Notably, once everyone's 10, we can start level-syncing.

I am going to level marksmanship a bit, which I have been seriously putting off, so that when we party together I can use acid bolts to speed things up. And don't worry much about cash. I'm going to send you guys some when I get home from lunch.

Norondor · « **Reply #206 on:** March 03, 2009, 05:39:07 AM »

Also, if you're in San d'Oria, there are a few quests you'll want to do to help you out early on -- there's Growing Flowers, which'll take a few hundred gil to buy an item from the AH before you can get started but lets you teleport around town; The Brugaire Consortium, which gets you a starter shield, helpful if your class can use one; The Pickpocket which gets you a good warrior axe (which will also sell on the AH if you don't need it); and the combination of The Merchant's Bidding and A Taste for Meat, which both give you free money for killing rabbits, which you're already doing.

Also, i am presently Norondor, level 10 mnk and level 5 whm.

Norondor · « **Reply #207 on:** March 03, 2009, 05:48:06 AM »

Oh, and there's no way i can say this enough: until you're REALLY REALLY SURE about the level ranges of everything in the area you're levelling in, be careful to check everything before you attack it. Two rabbits with the same name can be a couple levels apart and this can make a big difference.

Also, "Even Match" doesn't mean what it sounds like. It means "there's a 50-50 shot of you dying if you are at full HP going into the fight" generally.

Also also, assume that beastmen are one rank higher than it appears when checking them. Undead are two or three; never fight them.

Norondor · « **Reply #208 on:** March 03, 2009, 05:57:33 AM »

Why doesn't Salted Hare stack ¯\°_o/¯

Pacobird · « **Reply #209 on:** March 03, 2009, 06:01:52 AM »

wiki.ffxiclopedia.org is the best database out there on this game right now; you can find everything you need on there.

Niku, I need your character's name prz.

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #210 on:** March 03, 2009, 06:09:21 AM »

STOP MAKING ME WANT TO PLAY THIS AGAIN GOD FUCK YOUR EYES

Pacobird · « **Reply #211 on:** March 03, 2009, 06:13:28 AM »

I kept trolling about it because 8 people were like MAN I KIND OF LIKE FFXI BUT I DONT WANT TO PLAY IT UNLESS EVERYBODY ELSE DOES

Which is totally reasonable. But we're doing Chains of Promathia and it will be glorious.

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #212 on:** March 03, 2009, 06:46:01 AM »

Pacobird · « **Reply #213 on:** March 03, 2009, 06:51:15 AM »

Noro finished his installation around 11 PM last night and had MNK at 10 before he went to bed.

I think you will find your experience in Vana'diel much less frustrating this time around~

Superface · « **Reply #214 on:** March 03, 2009, 07:37:31 AM »

Quote from: Mr. Pacobird's Second Grade Class on March 03, 2009, 06:51:15 AM

Noro finished his installation around 11 PM last night and had MNK at 10 before he went to bed.

HOLY SHIT I'm getting back in on this. I soloed a hume monk to 12 the last time I played a few years ago... took me about 3 real-world months at 12 hours a week. For real.

Pacobird · « **Reply #215 on:** March 03, 2009, 08:19:57 AM »

Yeah I soloed a THF to 60 in about that time

You should look at the new exp charts for comparison, if you remember the old numbers for Easy prey off the top of your head:

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Experience_Points Scroll down a bit; big changes were to base experience.

EDIT: sent money to the bank of Noro; you can only send money to one person at a time as an anti-gilfarmer measure. Once he takes it out of his delivery box, I'll send some to kasari.

Niku · « **Reply #216 on:** March 03, 2009, 10:01:42 AM »

Quote from: Mr. Pacobird's Second Grade Class on March 03, 2009, 06:01:52 AM

Niku, I need your character's name prz.

same as in WoW. Level 4 RDM at the moment.

Pacobird · « **Reply #217 on:** March 03, 2009, 10:03:51 AM »

Quote from: Niku on March 03, 2009, 10:01:42 AM

Quote from: Mr. Pacobird's Second Grade Class on March 03, 2009, 06:01:52 AM
Niku, I need your character's name prz.

same as in WoW. Level 4 RDM at the moment.

k.

I recommend grabbing a bronze sword off the AH if you haven't already (daggers are ass) and browsing the selection at the magic shop in port sandoria, which will be marked on your map.

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #218 on:** March 03, 2009, 10:58:41 AM »

Like I predicted, I caved in and resubscribed a couple of months ago, but as soon as winter break ended I had absolutely no time to commit to the game. ...Or any game that isn't portable, for that matter. And now that my wedding is months away, I shouldn't be spending the $13 per month.

McDohl · « **Reply #219 on:** March 03, 2009, 11:47:56 AM »

When's the wedding? You should webcam it to us. :D

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