FFXI dying or in a dry spell?

[Zagen]

Maybe your server is truly dead but I highly doubt it.

Lvling is done mostly solo as book burns are few, even the FC pts have come to virtually a stop.

RMTs either get banned or have finally realized gil buying just isn't worth it anymore to most players. "Lead your own". Start shouting for a worms party, even if you don't have keys get 2 keyers and fill the rest with DD/mages. It's not hard to get EXP unless you're lazy.

VW /sh have become few and far between (took me 2 months to get the 3 cities and Im still stuck on Jeuno 1 for progression, the other paths I have no hope for).

Again "lead your own" to get clears, can't find a full 18 people? Don't worry up to Jeuno is doable by a party, might have to kill time to use /fume to reset staggers if they don't happen to be what you need but having a WAR and BLM in your group covers a lot of procs reducing the odds of falling short on 100% white !! for KIs you'd need/want. Once you get to Jeuno if you can't entice enough people to join still then don't worry there's displacers to help out.

Again only a problem if you're lazy or happen to have a terrible play time where everyone who speaks your language is asleep and/or at work.

Havent heard 1 /sh for meeble burrows yet or any other form of endgame.

You don't have at least 2 friends? If your answer is "no I don't" then why play a MMO? If you still insist on playing a MMO without friends and are unwilling to make some then I point you back to "lead your own"

Nearly impossible to get ppl for CoP, ToAU, WotG missions and so on. Even empy item and seal pts are nearly impossible to fill.

Again where are you friends? Still don't have 'em? Hop on Beastmaster and make friends with Faithful Falcorr. Feed it and medicate it as needed and your new best friend will help you accomplish all of these.

I have tried setting up pts for all the above and after at least an hr I give up.

This is your problem, There was one person shouting for days to get the final limit break done. I wondered what happened to them as the shouts disappeared one day and you know what, they were on a 99 job...

A friend of mine actually has been working on an empy for awhile since he needs glavoid, he said the easiest/fastest way he found to get it done is to gold box farm the KI and then just brew them til you get 50 drops.

Absurd.

WAR + RDM (WHM if you're worried about curing potential for some reason) all you need to gold box farm, also all you need to kill Glavoid. No brew, and yes it is absurd how ridiculously easy it is to get any emp weapon done especially now that we're at 99 cap.