WARNING - New Players or Players thinking of coming back - Consider this first.

[Juri_Licious]

Absolutely agree...The things i've had to do by myself have been just absolutely ridiculous.

[Soranika]

@Concerned I agree however they took something out that kept people around. I do want to grind levels in a party again, because thats what FFXI was. You know that. Book burns do not show people how to use thier jobs, and I have been killed countless times because a party member did not spend the two weeks afterwards skilling up or know how to use thier jobs, especially our mages.

This would be a great reason to take up mentoring roles. It's not just the new people who are unable to adjust properly but probably some that's been on for weeks and still don't properly know how to play job. I've been a SMN for 3 years but I've never actually visited forums until recently and it gave me a more deeper understanding for the job than what I thought I knew.

[VC_Braska]

Well as an "older" player I actually find it a little offensive how you group all servers and all players together. Not everyone is clique-ish or elitist. There are actually some of us who help others and go above and beyond. As a matter of fact I can tell you today that I PERSONALLY went and escorted someone from Korroloka Tunnel to the Eastern Altepa Telepoint crystal and then to the exp party. I even offered to help the same person fight their avatar fights for their summoner since all they had were elementals and Carbuncle. Was this anyone I met before? Did I have a hidden agenda? no. It was something I felt as a player of the game I should do to help another person who needed assistance. So before you group all of us old players together all willy nilly please think about what you are saying. Yes the dynamics of the game have changed where it is a rarity to find a traditional exp party and some people are carelessly spam leveling jobs is abyssea, is it something EVERYONE is doing, no, it isn't remember it only takes ONE person to make it NOT everyone.

Thanks ^^

Thuggy...I would love to join up with you if you get a chance! Elidonis

[FANCY60]

he is a new player thats hurting even if he critic us well next time we in game we just do more is all no more

Well as an "older" player I actually find it a little offensive how you group all servers and all players together. Not everyone is clique-ish or elitist. There are actually some of us who help others and go above and beyond. As a matter of fact I can tell you today that I PERSONALLY went and escorted someone from Korroloka Tunnel to the Eastern Altepa Telepoint crystal and then to the exp party. I even offered to help the same person fight their avatar fights for their summoner since all they had were elementals and Carbuncle. Was this anyone I met before? Did I have a hidden agenda? no. It was something I felt as a player of the game I should do to help another person who needed assistance. So before you group all of us old players together all willy nilly please think about what you are saying. Yes the dynamics of the game have changed where it is a rarity to find a traditional exp party and some people are carelessly spam leveling jobs is abyssea, is it something EVERYONE is doing, no, it isn't remember it only takes ONE person to make it NOT everyone.

Thanks ^^

[Kuishen]

ITT: Making friends is hard. Game is hard. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh

[Aver]

Do NOT come to Asura. Most of the people there are complete dumbasses. Port Jeuno is a nest full of hungry trolls waiting to pounce upon new players at the slightest need for help.

That's not saying the whole server is bad, but there are faaaaar too many people like this. I guess it's like chat roulette, there are a few nice people waiting if you don't mind wading through all the dicks to find them. XD

That being said I really enjoy helping struggling players. I don't enjoy handing them money, however. I have done that a few times and am 10M poorer than I should be. ^^;

Can not like this enough, but Asura is home, sweet home.

[Shadowsong]

LOLAsuraLOL, good luck with that.

Ya know, out of everyone posting YOU seem the least friendly one. So negative and such, Ive never experienced the hate you spew by other members of the game.
If there is one thing new players should take away from this thread its stay away from Inafking

[Shadowsong]

By the way what missions are not soloable? Go level bst in a week and solo every mission in the game, naked.

[Splif]

There are a lot of great posts in this thread.

Many of the complaints here are valid.

Yes, we all see that FFXI has grown and been updated throughout the years and all of the changes can be really confusing for veteran players returning after multi-year long breaks.

When I get home, I will be setting up a new linkshell on my server for 'Classic Style FFXI' playing.

Hopefully there are enough newer players out there who are nostalgic about the old party-style playing.

I have been grinding non-stop in gugsen mines and I really miss doing Valkrum parties.

Hopefully we can build a linkshell dedicated to party-style levelsync play.

[Valonquar]

Pfft, with FoV you can solo with ease. Start out with MNK, regen from fov & random stuff from chests you will never sit at all. It is a bit of a huge endeavor for a new player to figure everything in the game out. I soloed over half the jobs in the game to 50 when FoV first came out. In a lot of cases it was faster than seeking for a PT.