The test server is more fun than the real game.

[Inafking]

It also gets boring rather quickly.

What's borring is trying to skill up for days and not getting any. What's borring is trying to put together a group of under geared people to try and get something decent. What's borring is having to grind for money. People have been ignoring the fact that I asked for a happy medium. There has to be some kind of compromise to get past the grinding crap and get on with the real game.

[Atomic_Skull]

What's borring is trying to skill up for days and not getting any. What's borring is trying to put together a group of under geared people to try and get something decent. What's borring is having to grind for money. People have been ignoring the fact that I asked for a happy medium. There has to be some kind of compromise to get past the grinding crap and get on with the real game.

B.F. Skinner disagrees with you.

[Scribble]

What's borring is trying to skill up for days and not getting any. What's borring is trying to put together a group of under geared people to try and get something decent. What's borring is having to grind for money. People have been ignoring the fact that I asked for a happy medium. There has to be some kind of compromise to get past the grinding crap and get on with the real game.

Nearly everything you are talking about was 10 times harder before the slew of updates made them more accessible. If anything, SE should implement a test server circa 2004 to show people how much easier it is now to get things done and make money. Your river of tears would run dry.

[Atomic_Skull]

Nearly everything you are talking about was 10 times harder before the slew of updates made them more accessible. If anything, SE should implement a test server circa 2004 to show people how much easier it is now to get things done and make money. Your river of tears would run dry.

Basically he is asking "why don't they just start us all off at max level with all jobs"

[Tamoa]

What's borring is trying to skill up for days and not getting any. What's borring is trying to put together a group of under geared people to try and get something decent. What's borring is having to grind for money. People have been ignoring the fact that I asked for a happy medium. There has to be some kind of compromise to get past the grinding crap and get on with the real game.

However did you manage NOT to quit the game well before abyssea was released? Seeing as everything you mention here as boring (1 r, not 2), is waaaaayyyyy easier now that it's ever been?

You know what I used to do to make gil? I mined. I farmed boyahda moss and tree cuttings in Zi'Tah - for hours and hours and hours, competing against rmts. I used those tree cuttings and had several gardening mules, growing elemental ores (or trying to, at least). I kept every single drop from everything I did - crystals, wild onions, rabbit hides, colibri feathers, you name it - and sent to jeuno mule to sell at the AH, or npc'ed it.

If you are trying to skill up for days and not succeeding, you are doing it wrong. Plain and simple.

What's borring is trying to put together a group of under geared people to try and get something decent.

Don't you have any friends at all that you can do stuff with? Be it seal nms or +2 item nms?

There has to be some kind of compromise to get past the grinding crap and get on with the real game.

There is much much much less grinding crap in FFXI now. I don't understand how you do not recognize this.


Meh, why am I responding to someone who put me on their ignore list? It just irks me that someone who's been playing for 7 years is complaining about the game being too hard. No, it actually AMAZES me that someone who's been playing for that long, is complaining about the game being too hard.

[noodles355]

What's borring is trying to skill up for days and not getting any.

Suck less. Skilling up is easy. Or did I imagine skilling up Gaxe from 120 to 300ish as a WAR90 in two evenings?

The more you post, the more you sound like an absolutely terrible player.

[Mirage]

Suck less. Skilling up is easy. Or did I imagine skilling up Gaxe from 120 to 300ish as a WAR90 in two evenings?

The more you post, the more you sound like an absolutely terrible player.

To be fair, he was mostly complaining about healing magic skillups, while saying weapon skillups were a lot faster. Healing and enhancing really is terribly slow.

[Vortex]

What's borring is trying to skill up for days and not getting any. What's borring is trying to put together a group of under geared people to try and get something decent. What's borring is having to grind for money. People have been ignoring the fact that I asked for a happy medium. There has to be some kind of compromise to get past the grinding crap and get on with the real game.

Perhaps you should try other games, like super mario or something on the wii, clearly this game is to difficult for you. it's ok it dosn't work for everyone.

[Kari]

What's borring is trying to skill up for days and not getting any. What's borring is trying to put together a group of under geared people to try and get something decent. What's borring is having to grind for money. People have been ignoring the fact that I asked for a happy medium. There has to be some kind of compromise to get past the grinding crap and get on with the real game.

Holy. Crap.
You are bad.
There is not a single MMO in the WORLD that is going to satisfy you.
You might want to try more single-player games.
You seem to enjoy the test server, which is basically playing alone and having things handed to you, with no gratification of earning anything.

And for both the OP and some of the replies...
MMOs are all about grinding.
And [lolrosina], grinding is doing the same thing over and over to progress.
Trying to randomly come up with an excuse to say how leveling =/= grinding is pointless.

If this game is too hard for you, quit playing.
If you don't like grinding, quit playing MMOs.