Love your videos. And seeing jou on the server.. dunno if you quit or changed. But.. i love the way you reason on weapons/rings/expansions even. Could you fo a tier list on aeonic? Know you did on most rema.. but now ive made most BIS aeonic.. still dont wanna "waste" effort as the game is where it is. Made almace, even though its... yep.. but made it for me cause i returned after abyssea. Hard to have that "just for me" thought with aeonic tho

Thank you for you vid…it’s good. I would like to raise your awareness of you saying “uhh”. Its like every 4th or 5th word and it is a little off putting.

WHY DOESNT KATANA HAVE RANGE ACC ON IT FOR DAKKEN PROCS?? REEE. What really need is for the weaponskill on the katana to multistep into dark and not have to use things like kamu to parallel the aeonic.

CoP added plenty. ENMs, Limbus, Jailers, Ouryu and Bahamut, and surely some others I can't recall after almost 15 years.

Can someone, anyone, please help me to understand this shit better? In the simplest of terms. Wtf does this meaaaaaann????

Ephramad's Ring is actually a Regal Ring +1 for all jobs, since it has no stipulation to the get the accuracy. No macc, but meh. And I think that's pretty solid as an option by itself. It's much easier to get than Regal Ring for anyone new to the game as well, since it only requires TVR completion, rather than a group that can beat all of Omen. It's quite nice for any mage that is meleeing or any melee that needs to meet accuracy requirements, while simultaneously replacing every AH +1 variant of the +9 stat rings from the AH across three different rings.

I do wish they added an expansion that visits the Mithra's home country (the Matriarchate of Gha Naboh).

I would honestly swap Rhapsodies and ToAU. ToAU was hands down the best expansion. 3 new (at the time) jobs, amazing story, new (at the time) areas to explore, Nyzul Isle and Salvage... what did that expansion not have? I and many other people would of played an official classic 11 server if SE did it. But alas, they missed a golden opportunity for their 20th anniversary lol

I don't think this is being pedantic, but it's hyperbolic growth. Both definitionally because we're dealing with a limit to division by zero, and also you can just see it at a glance because there's infinite growth at some point in a finite interval.

The Crystalline/Moogle/Shantotto add-ons had at least 1 original music in each of the final bosses.

It was really cool hearing a more gameplay-focused perspective from someone who actually played through the expansions! I do have a couple of thoughts about stories though. The story of Zilart took me a while to come around on... I actually had it dead last out of the stories for a while, but there's actually some really cool and unique storytelling in there. To my knowledge, Zilart introduced the Artefact storylines for all the jobs, and I think it was Masato Kato exercising his skill at worldbuilding and his panoramic writing style. Good to hear that his individual mini-expansions had good writing too, I guess that's my impetus for finally finishing them! I also think Adoulin was a nice homage to Hironobu Sakaguchi's spirit of the series. It's very anti-colonisation and environmentalist, and I think the main dropped ball was the Velkk and their visual coding. Some of the Coalitions working against August are meant to be unethical; although I suppose it is annoying that you "have" to work with them to get your Ergons and unlock the Directives epilogue stories. I'm still going, so maybe the epilogue addresses that! Have a like for the algorithm gods.

What is a 'hybrid' weaponskill ?_?

Since FFXI just got a wave of PDL+ in terms of Prime Weapons, Aria song, and Ephramad's Ring, could you do a video giving examples of what reasonable amounts of PDL+ will require from attack/defense ratios? I can manage +63% PDL (With SV songs) on BRD, and +66WSD+. With some mild testing, I am attack capped without SV, but same buffs I am not attack capped.

Thank you for making this

Sold delves a week in was soooooo glorious mythic wasn’t really possibly to ilvl before that

Mmm... I feel like a lot of the Zilart rating is nostalgia. Zilart was super important for the game at the time, but I can't see rating its content or endgame above some of the other expansions. I'm not a fan of the Three Kings HNMs system and Sky had its flaws too - for instance Ullikummi was heavily botted for a long time until SE patched its spawn method years later (during ToAU era), and that gated arguably the two most important Sky bosses in Byakko and Kirin. I think ToAU in particular had a much broader and more diverse set of endgame activities between Assault, ZNMs, Salvage, Einherjar, and Nyzul Isle. (I also think CoP's music is way better than Zilart's, but that's personal preference.) I agree with Abyssea's rating largely. Even as someone who enjoyed Abyssea, I think it sucked that it invalidated most of the game before it - not just the endgame, but also the levelling experience post-30. I will say that literally all of the music you'd hear in Abyssea was new, though it definitely got pretty old after a while given how much of it you'd hear in endgame at the time. (The zones had an okay new ambient theme, the battle theme was IMO one of the best in the game, and the final boss had a pretty good new theme for their battle.) It did have an overarching story that was a little bit interesting in premise, but barebones; obviously not the focus of the content. Overall, aside from maybe swapping ToAU and Zilart, I think I otherwise agree with the tier list.

just fulltime the entire set

Adoulin was the best

SOA the problem was everything was too hard to kill then they gimped everything thats why it got so easy and thats why they made apex and locus to XP from before that lv99 everything was IT in the expansion. another problem with adoulin was how long it take to get imprimatur's and they have not shorten it.

i would love to know if pets add to or work with the nuke wall

Damn PUP gear is a joke, even this far along in XI history.

Great video... Followed it step-by-step and got my first solo VD clear on the first attempt! I swapped Chirich +1 for Shadow Ring, the annul procs are noticeable.

100% agreed on how uninspired Abyssea was. I think that was when SE kind of checked out on high end production of the game tbh

Love the commentary! Subbed! ❤

Would of been cool if you had to get all of the available REMA to make this, and it combined the best parts from each one.

I'm a returning player? When are they going to add the WS?

The fact that he didn't even talk about the damage stat on any of these weapons is a big fail. Most of them the base damage towers over other remas.

Mini expansions still have BiS COR roll gear :/

I appreciate your videos on this game. Thanks. Subscribed.

wow ffxi is still on? i haven't played it since white gate era, i was the best whm, but they didn't want whm in those white gate dungeon i forgot name, u get ki, and go to nyzul and other places where u enter one, 3 players if i recall

thank you

CoP not S-tier? If you played it when it dropped it was one of the hardest and most rewarding game experiences a person could have. Since being nerfed, it’s not as good, but in its time CoP easily matched or exceeded most other XI scenarios.

So you believe other REMAs may get an upgrade?

"a new house in the city of Adoulin." Just re-subbed. What is this?

I feel kinda ignorant here but what is white damage?

I guess I got lucky on the cloak and got it from trove. I didn't realize the drop rate was that bad.

Why do you hate Warrior?

Not giving Adoulin an S+ for music 😐 I bet you kick puppies as a hobby.

I see you really like the 1st two expansions. There’s a place not that far from here that has both as current cap ^_~

Abyssea was meant to be one last party where it makes you OP and gives you easy to obtain super weapons so people could feel like they "won" FFXI before they quit and switched to FFXIV. Notice how the Empyrean stages were relatively easy right up until they decided to rebuild FFXIV and realized that FFXI would need to last for at least a few more years. The last two stages were released after that and that was when they got ridiculous.

Overrated RotZ i think.

Lion looked like her model belongs in a different game. She just didn't really match the art style of FFXI. COP was hard but it created very tight bonds between the members of your COP static that lasted for years even long after the group split and people went their separate ways in the game.

"But, y'know...Japan." LOL

What expansion did they added trust?

Adoulin's music is S tier. It really made the feel of the expansion feel like an old city that is in the midst of a revitalization. And the big bad's base music is otherworldly.

Imagine teasing prime weapons for 3 years only to severely spike the difficulty for the final stage and encourage people to hold off on progression, reducing testing and information.

One of the biggest issues with CoP was the level cap zones for sure. It really limited the zones to just the storyline and they could of added endgame content to the promy zones.

WoTG better be dead last. Edit: C No, god, please NO!