FFXI dying or in a dry spell?

[Nawesemo]

It's easy for me to say because I have done it on extra characters... Guess what I do have gil but at the time all of that gil was for me not my mule so that doesn't apply.

Here's the secret since you can't figure it out.

1. Start the game, pick your race, and pick your job (the first one you pick doesn't matter as the items they give you are trival at best)

2. Switch to MNK, why? Because it's easy to pound on monsters and you don't actually ever need a weapon for 1-30, don't get me wrong weapons and armor help but not much at this point.

3. Level up to 10-14. Make sure to use Fields of Valor or Grounds of Valor pages as you'll get bonus EXP from completing them and once a game day you'll get gil and tabs. I recommend Grounds of Valor personally as it scales up the EXP/Gil/Tabs.

4. Make your way to Gusgen Mines (Page 1 from the book btw). If there aren't people actually there leveling (odd but happens) then head back outside to highlands and grind away until 16-18 range then go back inside as you can solo the skeletons now, and beat up skeletons until 26. You could move further down to hit 30 but it becomes sketchy on safety at that point. Once you're 26 you can shift over to several different locations, check the FoV/GoV links to see what works out.

5. Now that you're level 30 you'll notice a few things: You're gimp but that's ok at this point pimp doesn't matter. You have no sub job (find the quests (hint: search "sub job quest") on the site I linked for FoV/GoV and you'll be on your way. Here's the cool thing now that you're level 30 MNK you can go do all of the advanced job quests that you want, with the exception of SCH (sort of) read up on the jobs from that site (gamerescape) and you're good to go.

6. Let's say your goal is making gil fast then your 2 jobs to unlock and focus on are Dancer and Beastmaster. Repeat steps 1-4 on both of those jobs.

7. Now that you have Dancer and Beastmaster at 30 you can leech them in Abyssea. It'll take you a few hours to hit 50 level cap. If you got Dancer to 50 and don't plan to level it to 99 at some point you can forget about that job as it is ready for a sub job and can focus on Beastmaster.

8. Again refer to gamerescape or any good resource you prefer for your information. With info in hand so to speak complete the limit break quests and return to leeching in Abyssea. Note: thanks to a lot of changes SE has made excluding the final limit break quest you can now solo all of them.

9. Congratulations you now have a level BST95/DNC47 which is more than enough to start farming Dynamis. Here's the catch you need to do missions to gain access to Dynamis as all you've done up to this point is level up jobs. Again refer to whatever source for info you want. Also you'll have to skill up axe which is fairly easy to do especially on BST since you can make your pets do all the tanking allowing you not to worry about keeping your HP up.

10. Congratulations you've gotten access to Dynamis and can begin making 1mil+ gil 2hours out of every day.

So ya it's easy for me to talk not because I have an established character or friends but because the game is seriously that easy to play if you aren't lazy and spend time researching instead of crying.

/clap (also, don't expect people to be interested in your stuff, if your not interested in theirs..... AND. When we were unsure we were afraid and timid it took a lil inititive, bravery even to take that first step and start shouting, gathering , orginizing..... Its not something everyone does well, but just like sex the more you do it the better at it you get...... Be bold, and not being a pecker head allways helps.)

[svengalis]

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.

If he can gold box farm he can just buy the pop items and farm the other 2 NM. That's what I did anyway. I duo box farm glavoid pops and then brewed them all down myself. Much faster then FC. I have seen ninjas solo all 4 ki.

[Collavoce]

Note: thanks to a lot of changes SE has made excluding the final limit break quest you can now solo all of them.

Without wanting to derail the thread. I have started levelling an alt since I had switched to FFXIV and was bored of my hume when I came back. I'm making my way through low levels on all jobs (to have some money put aside and boost skills) but I have been worried about finding people for the Genkai quests, since they weren't soloable last time I did them and I've been completely unable to find a social shell on Siren.

Does anyone have information on the changes that were made to G1-3?

[Demon6324236]

1 is now getting the items from 3 ???s in the area rather than killing mobs. 2 doesn't require the NMs to be killed for you to run behind them and get the KI from the ???s so you can solo it, you just might have to die to do it. 3 has always been soloable if you have sneak/invis & are careful around the TSight/Sound.

[Mirage]

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Seems like I don't know shit!

[Zagen]

Without wanting to derail the thread. I have started levelling an alt since I had switched to FFXIV and was bored of my hume when I came back. I'm making my way through low levels on all jobs (to have some money put aside and boost skills) but I have been worried about finding people for the Genkai quests, since they weren't soloable last time I did them and I've been completely unable to find a social shell on Siren.

Does anyone have information on the changes that were made to G1-3?

Link to changes for Limit 1 and 3
Changes to Limit 2 and 5

[Collavoce]

Thanks for the replies! Probably going to be good for me since I focused on THF first to make cash. Perfect Dodge + Flee FTW!

[hiko]

It's easy for me to say because I have done it on extra characters... Guess what I do have gil but at the time all of that gil was for me not my mule so that doesn't apply.


7. Now that you have Dancer and Beastmaster at 30 you can leech them in Abyssea. It'll take you a few hours to hit 50 level cap. If you got Dancer to 50 and don't plan to level it to 99 at some point you can forget about that job as it is ready for a sub job and can focus on Beastmaster.

how do you leech aby if you are a new player?
note since you seem to have forgotten it:
-new player doesnt have cruor so they can't key coffer
-new player might not have the 2-300k needed to get in a cleave /sh (wasn't the case for your mule unless you are stupid enough to farm with a lvl30 char instead of just sending it from your main wh can farm hundreds time faster)

nobody asked how to create a fast money maker.

[Zagen]

how do you leech aby if you are a new player?
note since you seem to have forgotten it:
-new player doesnt have cruor so they can't key coffer
-new player might not have the 2-300k needed to get in a cleave /sh (wasn't the case for your mule unless you are stupid enough to farm with a lvl30 char instead of just sending it from your main wh can farm hundreds time faster)

nobody asked how to create a fast money maker.

I said it before, but I'll say it again:

"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.

Seriously if you're gonna try and call people out at least bother to read the whole thread it's only 3 pages long.

Edit: As it wasn't clear. The same steps can be taken to level any job to endgame level at which point it gives a player options when trying to lead events.

And having a money maker allows you to buy displacers among other things, as well as offer it for people helping out with things like final limit break. In my story about a person who shouted for weeks the one thing s/he never did was offer gil. A shout like "Limit Break 10 Help me out 200k you can have this" would probably have gotten the job done sooner.

[Mayoyama]

I made a 2nd character about a month ago and it cost me over 500k in spells JUST FROM NPC (not including most of the lv50+ ones that are farming/ah only).

Its not until you do start a new character that you really realise how unappealing this game can feel for a new character. You start in a city which if you're lucky has 10 ppl who arent afk (and out of those 10, 9 are likely to just ignore you). You slog it out in gov/book burns (if you even know what they are when you start). Then have to leave that capped out xp per page (or capped xp/lights if in aby) every 5 levels from 50-95. Only reason I got as far as I did in short time is from being able to dualbox it all with a decently geared main (by no means pimp lol)

This doesnt even factor in the number of game mechanics you will likely not even know of, or the fact you start with 0 fame, 0 gil, 0 gear, 0 cruor, 0 CP/AN/ISP, no atma/abyssites and cant even start acruing VW stones til 75.

Let's just say if anything ever happened to my characters and i had to choose between starting again or just giving up... I'd easily take the latter