I'm a first-time player of FFXI. Just started a couple weeks ago. This guide has been invaluable. Thanks for your effort!

Something you missed is the event moogle with the red chest next to it with all the old Adventurer Appreciation loot. Should be one in each starting city. I believe it's 60+ items total including furniture, costumes, weapons, and ciphers: one of which is Kupofried, who boosts exp gain by 20%. Wiki says that 20% will not just be additive, but stack multiplicatively with rings/rhapsodies in white/corsairs roll from Qultada trust. So very worth getting for a new player.

Just downloaded XI today after a short 11 year break, I was thinking of starting a brand new character. thanks for this! I’ll be checking out your other 1hr vids as well!

Have I been playing for 3 years? Yes. Will I still watch the entire hour? You bet your ass I will

Great guide just been getting back into FFXI and this really helped me figure things out, reading guides online had me head scratching. Thank you!

Thanks for the upload. A few tips i didnt know. I recently picked this game back up my self.

Wow!! Great guide!! I'm a returning player, and this guide helped me a ton!! While I did my own research, you pointed out many things that I had also missed. Keep them coming, will be checking out more of you content, after playing some FFXI first!👍

Keep making content please! I just subscribed

Awesome guide looks fairly comprehensive.

Good guide, only thing missing would be mentioning the item Goblin Stew 880, purchasable from Mog Garden for 100k that can be used as a substitute for the 4 required items when expanding gobbiebag inventory at any step. While not always cheaper than the requested items and only available during months with Mog Garden campaign active, it can be a life saver on the more expensive steps or if the AH isn't stocked on smaller servers.

Think i might pick it up and jump back into finishing the main story line. I had just beat COP and was doing ToAU

Thanks for a new guide! Maybe I’m getting back in and this could be helpful. ❤

On the FFXI wiki (BG WIKI) items you can transfer to your mules are also marked as 'Not sendable'. Not all RARE/EX items can be sent to the mule and the game doesn't do a good job of telling you until you go to send the item to a mule. Usually mission armor rewards are not (think Tamas Rings) the annoying thing is more recent missions give you lockstyle cosmetic only armor that is Not sendable and also can't be stored in a slip so it just sits there taking space.

Good video bro!

There is one important detail regarding Mog Wardrobes 3-8 that SE overlooked and/or never addressed but still in big hindsight, that during "Return Home To Vana'diel" campaigns if you're returning for logging in for free in that period, you will not be able to use or move equipment out of the premium mog wardrobes if they were in there as the Wardrobes 3-8 are inactive if you haven't moved them out before your account became inactive at the time. And you also can't do any changes into your SE account during that free login period or that will void your free login.

What is this AJ, a guide?! Good for you!

Gateway computer 😂 nailed it 😅🤣🤣

Wish I knew this stuff before I made…many mistakes 🤣 good stuff man

Really good video! I made a similar video a while back and just like you, I thought mine was also gonna be maybe 20-30 minutes, so maybe I'm long winded as well! Or maybe this game just has a lot of nuance. :P

I played back in 2003 during Zilart. Recently I have had the urge to return 20 years after the fact to see how much of the game I remember is there. I stopped playing when I hit the lvl 70 limit break. I didn't have friends or a link shell to run with, just a WHM/SMN getting drug from group to group trying to make sense of where to go or what to do. Guides and information was so much harder to come by then, and it felt like stumbling around in the dark sometimes. I have no idea what my PlayOnline ID is, and I doubt my account is still around to recover. The biggest shock to me in this video is that you can actually solo with the trust past lvl 10.

Look at you! Making a thoughtful guide for beginners. I never think about making this type of stuff.

I wish they would bring back the ps2 client to the ps5 and give us a combine sub fee for both games I love 11 and 14

Your MOG sack is available right away, just need to find the right moogle to get it. It costs Gil. And upgrades with your gobbie bag. Or when your gobble bag increases you can go talkto the MOG and it will increase without a fee

1st! Love the videos

I’m brand new as of last week!

How’s end game in retail? I love ff11 but fighting with trust instead of people kind of bored me. But I loved ffxi on my ps2 so really thinking of getting back into it on my steam deck

I think my personal main issue is that i have no idea where I am quest/story/expansion-wise

I don't think I can go back, I will never have as much time as before, FFXI requires too many tasks, I still remember COP, ZM, TOAU, RANK10, increase the mercenary level and other tedious tasks, I still think FFXI is the best MMORPG I have ever played. I joined the FFXI community in 2003-2009 and I remember that I was a human woman with blonde hair and a ponytail. and the unfinished Usukane set 3/5.

Man, I haven't played this since 2004, I started playing ffxiv recently, and I think it's easier than ffxi imo anyway. And FFXIV doesn't have the 2 jobs at one time anymore. I thought it'd be like that but I guess it's nice if you get bored of one then play the other. But when ffvii came out, that was the game that got me into rpg's thankfully!!! My friend got it also and we'd call each other to see how far each of us were, before cell phones! The good old days. Kwek :)

how do i play this?

PLS SQUARE ENIX put ffxi on consoles! With crossplay and make it easy to subscribe because on pc it was really confusing to me i will sub and play for years!!! ❤

A decent starting guide but new players need to know MUCH more so they can make informative decisions right away and not find out later they picked the wrong classes to work on. Personally retail is just bad way too slow and cumbersome .Private servers can typically offer a better QOL albeit you will miss out on a lot of what retail offers but you will still get the main idea of the game on private servers. The most populated private server baffles me because the game was never perfect and private servers have a chance to improve the original design flaws. So fo example currency drop rate should be like 200% higher RENKAI should be much better to encourage people to use it and Magic bursts should also be much better. There is however MANY more things that should have been done better so playing on a pure vanilla type old school server baffles me it isn't FUN and that should the main objective >>to have some fun.

HorizonXI; great 75era locked server

Well dang, maybe this is the sign to finally return

Can you still call SE customer service and get your old account back?

love ffxi but nothing for me to do anymore

Catseye Private server is the place to be. Easy DL lots of support and 75 cap with lots of options on play styles. 500+ population. Also FREE lol.

we need XI on PS5!!!!!!

Are you gonna Pause between Every two or three Words?

*Horizon (75 cap) > Retail* .

Oh nice, perfect timing. I just made a new character on bahamut a few weeks ago. Haven't played since just after abbysea release, this is really helpful