Same here....all my friends love 14 but it doesn't do it for me. It's a fine game, just not it for me.

Im gunna get back in bow

You got that kraken though?

No time like the present, go for it and enjoy the Vana

Very nice you will enjoy it.

So you go with a private server or retail? I've been playing retail trial on Bahamut, enjoying it a lot so far but I am very curious about that classic era of the game.

@@ProfessorShnacktime check out horizon xi

/sam will pretty much always benefit 2-handers the most unless enmity is a concern, in which case you /drg. Seeing as drg doesn't need to /drg, it's pretty much just /sam all the way unless doing really niche strategies and team lineups. Hasso + STP are just too strong, even with meditate and sekkanoki being kinda unnecessary these days. Most other jobs have too long of CDs - /thf would be nifty for sata single hits, but if you're not on a thf main, those CDs are horrendous. /war provides a bunch of stats that most people already have at such high values they're either capped or hit by so many diminishing returns it's just not worth it. The ones that have the most likeliness of becoming significantly more relevant are /blu, /cor/geo/brd, and then a massive complete overhaul if they make it so sub jobs benefit from merits at subjob level 75. /drg's obviously already become completely meta for enmity management, and /sam, /drk, /dnc and /war all already had their uses outlined previously. Mage-wise, /sch is easily taking over now, until much higher levels where we start getting more useful unique spells and abilities from the others. /whm for healing still, and /rdm for spam casting, as usual. Again, similarly to melee, /blu and /geo/cor/brd are becoming more and more useful, though it'll likely be a while before any of them become a standard. /sch probably benefits the overall most from any sub that isn't called drg. And is arguably even comparable to drg, just in a significantly different way. The post-50 levels were where sch got all of it's amazing utility it was previously missing as a sub, so it's REALLY getting better every threshold level. Then there's also a couple job specific subs, like pup/mnk, that may or may not end up being stupidly good.

Don't worry. You won't have to. FFXIV server queues are 5,000+ and will d/c before you ever get in, if you can connect to the data center at all (I'm looking at you Error: 2002). So much for early access.

@@KhallDrake I’ve been able to play I’m almost 90 on my smn.

@@stephanieking8299 Lucky！ I was able to connect once Sunday morning for a few hours. Otherwise its 2002 or a queue of 5000.

@@KhallDrake I’ve been okay as long as I log in fast enough after 2002 I don’t lose my place and after I finally get it I don’t have any issues :)

If I had to bet... I would believe that they intend to do this. It may be the very reason that they pulled the phone game entirely as well as kept this community alive for so long with little additions. Why sink funding and developer resources on a project this old? The community is solid still. This only means a sharp rise in revenue on a release of such a project, the hype alone would pull a ton of nostalgic players as well as some new. The biggest trouble I see for them is balancing it with FFXIV and determining _when_ to release such a thing. Given that they have remastered almost every single FF of old now... multiple times... it only seems like natural course for this to happen. Hope is alive.

@@XyphonXero Here’s hoping you’re right.

Are you guys serious 🤔 they are remaking the game?

I agree I been playing solo for months and I cant get anyone to even talk. Debating on just giving up on this game entirely. Its to the point where you cant even play healers or support jobs cause everyone is multboxing those jobs, so those jobs arent needed anymore. Games pathetic that you have to have six accounts to get any where in this game cause no one wants to play with others. I said it before and I will say it again FFXI is a game about people playing with themselves.

@@dkjohns777 Sounds like y'all should play together then! I'm a new player too. One more and we could have a 4 man group. :D

I've never met a single non-pug/merc group that required insane gear that wasn't hard required. And no, stuff like "relic weapon or equivalent" (NOT Mythic/empyrean) isn't "insane gear" - A relic is 26M atm on asura and you can farm it in a week with minimal effort if you don't want to spend gil, though farming the gil is easier than farming the currency. You can get full +2 ambu gear over the course of 2 days, which combined with job mastery (2100 JP) easily puts you at acc cap for anything but the most endgame of content. You can farm up a naegling entirely solo minus the pulse weapon, which you can either build pup to easily solo, or build an apoc drk to easily solo, or build a sch to easily solo, or build nin or rdm to semi-easily solo, or find a group willing to farm a pulse weapon for you, or grind the abysmal drop rate from voidwatch or other old content during their adventurer campaigns. A naegling ~anything that can use it~ is hitting for 20-50k per ws pretty easily, which allows you to very very easily solo all but the most endgame of content for significant gear upgrades, and both rdm and nin can use naegling, both of which are amazing solo jobs, really allowing you to gear yourself up to moderate levels. Complaining about any job other than brd or a main tank having "insane gear requirements" either means you put zero effort into your job, expecting to get into a odyssey T20 boss run with base ambuscade gear not even upgraded, which is the equivalent of back in the day expecting to get into a Sky LS as SAM without having a hauby and hagun, or you found what are called "idiots" that ask for REMA jobs for content that doesn't even remotely require it, such as exp parties. Some people will always be toxic and idiotic. But that doesn't even REMOTELY speak for the entire community. Cor is not an afk support job unless you're playing it badly. WHM is not an afk support job unless you're playing it badly. Geo is not an afk support job unless you're playing it badly. BRD is only an afk support job if you're doing out-of-party brd strats or playing it badly. I don't remotely recommend starting with brd though because it's the only job that hard requires multiple ultimate weapons due to being completely and utterly outclassed by a geo or cor otherwise. If you EVER considered COR an afk support job, that honestly says all I need to know to say that "you put zero effort into your job and then expected to get carried through complete endgame content where your 1k acc ass isn't hitting a single thing because you need a minimum of 1400" is probably true. Even back at 75 it wasn't an afk support job. You were either pulling, or dpsing.

It takes literally less than a week to finish 1 city storyline to rank 10, RoZ, CoP, ToAU, WotG and SoA to the points needed for RoV, if not IN THEIR ENTIRETY. If you're turned off by literally 1 week of legitimately good storylines, (FFXI has some of the best stories in the series IMHO), you're definitely looking at the wrong game. Making a single weapon will likely take longer than finishing all storylines combined. And yeah, I'm being serious about this, because I literally went and did it when RoV came out. It took me less than a week to finish every single mission line in the entire game entirely solo.

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Not really, plenty of buffs and will be more over time.

Looks to me like the plan is to make future master level EP requirements huge while boosting the EP gains made from stronger apex mobs. Eventually even long chains of bats won't put a dent into the EP you need. Hey, it worked for *checks notes* every other Final Fantasy game ever made.

Luckily for your marriage that's super unlikely.

Its basically lv130~lv140. while still at lv99. Basically just the first steps of adding more content later on.

get stronger

Took me three years to get my first 75 ha, the struggle was real.

Five minutes in Escha-Zi'Tah for each sub will get them to 53. Make it 20 minutes each to get to 60 and be good for a year or two.

@@the_exegete • Yeah but then I gotta gear them & actually do the work Leveling Up. Imagine that. Thx for advice tho. That’s definitely where I will go.

@@metalgear- Nah, just get a weapon with sparks and get those levels naked. That's still low enough for trusts to carry you entirely.

P sure he does, don't think he covers it on the channel or anything though.

@@ProfessorShnacktime I wish he covers it more. I know he has few videos about FFXIV. I really like his channel and I hope that he start covering XIV more. Endwalker is almost here :).

I just checked private server populations and it seems Eden is still strongest (around 500 online generally). Doesn't get close to the top retail servers (15k on asura, 8k on Bahamut etc).

Master leveling is no different than any other leveling experience, it is what you make it. It can be a ton of fun or as you put it "a mindless boring grind".

No way is ffxi the most toxic player base. Not even by a longshot. Dont mean to down play your bad experience, but it could always be worse. A LOT worse.

Lol, are you drunk? Ffxi has no toxic players.

@@sagepirotess6312 do you play on asura? If not that's why your not seeing the toxic players

@@dragumkirisute1998 I have. Talkative, a little drama, but toxic not really. Go to any non FF mmo and you see toxic.

Everyone in this game has been super nice and helpful to me after I joined a random linkshell. I suggest one of the smaller servers like Bahamut or Odin!

You can't just plop FFXI gameplay into the FFXIV engine. Why would you want to? FFXIV already exists for that. A FFXI that's about dodging orange circles isn't worth bothering with.

@@the_exegete I think he ment the looks of ff14 but same as old-school ff11 the first day it came out. The original ff11 you grind with people run with people slow struggling yet rewarding.