ffxi should not be this easy

[Yinnyth]

Did the OP's story actually happen? No. Going from level 1-90 in one day is definately possible for any player who already has several 90s, exp rings, friends to help them, etc. But a brand new player with 1 ingame friend would not be able to figure out the controls, general gameplay mechanics, which areas to level in, level from 1-30, get SJ, level SJ to 30, level SJ to 45 by mooching exp in aby, level main job to 50, do LB1, level main job to 55, do LB2, level main job to 60, do LB3, etc. in "less than one day". As if the idea of that happening was not ridiculous enough, some linkshell full of people helped him grind out an empy on his 5th day (which can take 5 days alone just camping the previous trial NMs depending on which NMs you get) in ONE DAY, only to have this complete newb they put so much time and effort into quit the game. Yeah, that story did not happen.

Does the poster raise a good point? Yes and no. Yes because there are several parts of the game which are now just way easier than they should be, but the opposite is also true. Have you tried to kill the neoboss in Dynamis San d'Oria? He certainly ain't no pushover, but the problem is WHY would you kill him when there's no serious reward for doing so. The prime things in the game which make a character powerful can be found in abyssea and abyssea is too easy.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that ever since Abyssea came out, the entire game of FFXI became nothing but abyssea. Since abyssea is too easy, ffxi is too easy. Exp will never be the same thanks to it, but equipment will hopefully someday surpass the equipment you find in abyssea and will hopefully be difficult to obtain.

[rog]

Did the OP's story actually happen? No. Going from level 1-90 in one day is definately possible for any player who already has several 90s, exp rings, friends to help them, etc. But a brand new player with 1 ingame friend would not be able to figure out the controls, general gameplay mechanics, which areas to level in, level from 1-30, get SJ, level SJ to 30, level SJ to 45 by mooching exp in aby, level main job to 50, do LB1, level main job to 55, do LB2, level main job to 60, do LB3, etc. in "less than one day".

With one friend? It most certainly is possible, seeing as they do not need to do half of that (hey, go to x zone, kill y mobs, while i spam cures on you with my 90 rdm). Sub jobs are not required to reach level 90. Also, that is not how you do genkais. You do g1, get level 51, then go g2, get 60, do g3, get 61, do g4, get 70, then maat,+g6, etc. Unless you like resetting chains i guess.

Leveling to 90 in one day was probably the most realistic thing in my OP, other than full af3+2.

[Yinnyth]

Leveling to 90 in one day was probably the most realistic thing in my OP, other than full af3+2.

This is true, it is the most realistic part of the OP. That doesn't mean it's realistic at all. Beating Maat first try at level 70 when you're completely new to the game would be miraculous. Especially for someone who had been powerleveled and aby mooched the whole way up. Maybe he was just a thf that got extremely lucky and managed to steal with 0 gear that grants bonuses to steal, I suppose. That would help make up for the fact that his dagger and evasion skills were around level 30. But I fought Maat on thf at level 75 after I had AF2 pants with +5 to steal plus all my AF1 plus various other pieces of steal gear, and I still failed to steal 4 times in a row, then gave up and just meleed him to death.

[rog]

This is true, it is the most realistic part of the OP. That doesn't mean it's realistic at all. Beating Maat first try at level 70 when you're completely new to the game would be miraculous. Especially for someone who had been powerleveled and aby mooched the whole way up. Maybe he was just a thf that got extremely lucky and managed to steal with 0 gear that grants bonuses to steal, I suppose. That would help make up for the fact that his dagger and evasion skills were around level 30. But I fought Maat on thf at level 75 after I had AF2 pants with +5 to steal plus all my AF1 plus various other pieces of steal gear, and I still failed to steal 4 times in a row, then gave up and just meleed him to death.

war is easy, and takes an hour to skill up using retaliation.