Considering coming back

[Chiasmus]

I'm considering coming back to FFXI but I'm not sure if it's really worth it. My background with the game so far is only to about level 20 or so. I did see that there was a recent update that increase XP, is it a very noticeable increase? I remember getting 100xp on an Even Match mob at low level, what's it like now?

Also, do I need to purchase all 3 of the Abyssea expansions? From what I can find in the PlayOnline viewer I can only purchase Heroes.

Are the servers still fairly active (particularly at low levels)? I can imagine they're still relatively active, considering how inactive FFXIV servers are. In the same idea, what's the most friendly server for somebody starting a new character?

I also don't have too much time to play, usually only 2-3 hours a day, except for weekends. Will this affect me negatively? I know I used to not be able to get much done in that time.

[viion]

Just to give you brief: Everything Doubled

I had EXP Ring on and killed a gobby in Valkurm PT last night level 15 and we got 780 EXP for them everytime lol EXP ring soon wore out tho and went down to 450. We'd get abotu 200 on Clippers but they were very fast to kill and 400 on gobs. When I was soloing I could get 150-200 on EM's which I killed in about 10-15 seconds So chain killing was easy. That EM will give you 200 EXP now.

I dont know about abyssea, I've not bought it but I assume if you get third you get the other 2. I dont know how it works but you dont need abyssea for sometime. You cant go in until 30 anyway and as a new player even at 30 you wont get in to do much as you'll have no cruor, and you cant do things in there until 70+ so I'd just ignore it for now tbh.

The servers are pretty active, I was surprised really, I went to valkurm dunes yesterday as level 13 and got 2 PT invites, tho one died as people seem to keep leaving for other pt's (cuse of lv sync) but I stayed in 1 and a new player helped me out and PL'd me and I got to 18 in a about 2hrs. This was a full pt of 6, ranging from 15 > 30, synced down to me. there were also others doing things. I'm still quite shocked people are still camping old NM's, even things like the Monsta Signa NM in giddues is still camped lol. I'm on Lakshmi and there are usually 1.3-1.5k people online, when servers went back online it hit 2.1k. But like 80% are level 90 lol

Your time to play wont affect you negatively no, You can still get a lot done, it might be a little difficult sometimes but its possible, with level sync making level ranges mean nothing and double EXP making old EXP camps more viable, then the stupidly insane skill up rates. Takes like 3 mobs for me to cap skills now lol Everything goes by a lot quicker.

Then you can do Dynamis once a day at 65+ which is 3 hrs maximum, Abyssea I think is also 3hrs maximum i dont know. But you'll need people for these.