Whats the point of a double xp weekend if it doesnt affect abyssea or gov?

[Umichi]

Define your interpretation of broken. Because personally I would classify a system where a party of 5 has to wait 3 hours for a RDM or BRD to log on as broken. Or never getting an invite because your job was viewed as inferior to other jobs (remember lolDRG and lolDRK before bird parties?)

Say what you want about abyssea, but it did more than just lower the time required to get a job to max level. It also did away with the chains of only 6 people per party, and only certain jobs can be used in said party to be efficient. It encouraged diversity in party formation with no penalty whatsoever. The more the merrier.

Hell I can go into altepa and carry an alliance of 17 leeches on my BLU, by myself, and make awesome xp per hour. Whereas in the old system, that 1 gimp DD just killed your xp per hour by not killing fast enough, and putting more stress on the healers since the mob lives longer to deal more damage. Or by not having a RDM and using WHM instead, be prepared to sit around for 5 minutes every 2 fights because the WHM needs to chomp a cookie and rest.

Abyssea xp is probably one of the most drastic but necessary changes to the xp format that FFXI has needed since day 1. I miss seeing different parts of the world too (like Lab of Onzozo, Moon, Valley of Sorrows, etc.), but when you've taken 3 jobs to 75, you've already seen all there is to see and just want to be done with it by then.

if thats your term for broken then the system now is far more broken than it ever was... no one even put's their flag up (rarely) for an xp pty because people after level 30 are so sparse or they are out doing FoV in other places.

[Demon6324236]

if thats your term for broken then the system now is far more broken than it ever was... no one even put's their flag up (rarely) for an xp pty because people after level 30 are so sparse or they are out doing FoV in other places.

People no longer need to put their flag up, if you go to the party location, and join. Gusgen, Crawlers, La Thein Worms, all of these are just that, a party of 18 people where at any time you can go there and wait for an invite, you will be invited quickly unless it is full, if so, simply wait, there are 18 people, high chance someone will have to leave not to long after you get there.

See, before that was never the case, before you had your flag up for hours because you could not get a party, now, you get parties without even having to put up your flag for more than 5 minutes, that is an upgrade, not broken.

[Rustic]

I think she meant most groups charge you to leech. I remember people asking like 30k an hour or some shit.

I walked into Abyssea-La Theine on my first traverser stone.

I got sent two invites 15 minutes in before I'd even crossed the ward. No money asked for. (Mind you, I didn't do it- I was on THF and level capped at 50 at the time).

It's that easy.

[nyheen]

People no longer need to put their flag up, if you go to the party location, and join. Gusgen, Crawlers, La Thein Worms, all of these are just that, a party of 18 people where at any time you can go there and wait for an invite, you will be invited quickly unless it is full, if so, simply wait, there are 18 people, high chance someone will have to leave not to long after you get there.

See, before that was never the case, before you had your flag up for hours because you could not get a party, now, you get parties without even having to put up your flag for more than 5 minutes, that is an upgrade, not broken.

but guess what?. around the past it was lot more people looking for pt low/mid lvl. that was able to start up any kinda type of pts set up. if someone just wanna sit and be lazy waiting 8 hours for an invite then it the person fault. if you wanna do a mission,CoP, etc do you sit hours and hours for the person /sh or you do the /sh?. same goes for looking for a job. i go shouting, calling people etc not sit in the basement wishing i get lucky someone call me for a job interview that i never even put a job application for

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

if you wanna do a mission,CoP, etc do you sit hours and hours for the person /sh or you do the /sh?.

Depends on whether I personally want to deal with the responsibility (and stress) of finding the exactly correct combination of jobs that those missions "required." I may have gotten through CoP "the wrong way," but my personal anecdotes are more about shear force of will and my imposing that will upon others*; consistent wins for the playerbase at large meant following Prescribed Party Build #B-43-IV (RNG and at least two SMNs required).

EXP builds were more forgiving than CoP (e. g. you could substitute a RDM for a BRD in a pinch), but still required specific abilities from specific jobs in order to get any traction; the specific jobs were often popular to invite but not popular to play.

* And not even I particularly enjoyed being that bossy.

not sit in the basement wishing i get lucky someone call me for a job interview that i never even put a job application for

Nice metaphor, except what we're talking about here is sending out job applications versus starting your own fucking business.

[sc4500]

all I know we got team and alliance set up at lv 1's and going run kill everything to jueno hope get to 30 buy time get there. fun times on it way lol

[luso1988]

wow.... quick too complain are we .. your end game content is already Way Over Powered stop griping

[Alhanelem]

if thats your term for broken then the system now is far more broken than it ever was... no one even put's their flag up (rarely) for an xp pty because people after level 30 are so sparse or they are out doing FoV in other places.

Actually, that means the system is less broken- because those people that could never get a party before are able to level up now. I'd rather have a non-traditional experience if it means I can actually level up and play the game.

My character is a Galka and I wanted to play summoner when i first started playing, after seeing someone run around with Titan in the dunes. I was ridiculed constantly both for wanting to play the job at all and because I wanted to play a mage job as a Galka. Shit like that doesn't happen anymore. I can join merit groups in any job I want and nobody cares. For me, things are way better now than they were before.

[luso1988]

Less Challenging means Less Caring , whats he is trying too say is , he likes that they ruins FFXI by making
A: rich players even more rich
B: Ignoring the Crafting System inorder too produce addons too sell for Money too help Rebuild FF14
C: Ruined the Start Game content by Puting Manuals on every map , and Not limiting how many uses per day ..
D: you want money? go to aby , o wait it says lvl 30 min , but the real minimum is 75 , o crap almost forgot it cost more real $

by effectivly pumping money into the game but only for those who purchase the content too be able to go get it .
they ruined it for anyone who dont have the addon

O wow grats your lvl 30 , yeah don't bother buying anything but a new weapon ...
O hay that ones too exspensive by this one 5K instead it has less attack and isnt as useful but hay .. your only gonna use it for an hour anyway . on to the next set ....

in essence... i spend more of my time TRYING TO BUY STUFF FOR MY LVL THAT ISNT WORTHLESS PIECES OF CRAP
then i do Leveling my Chars...

wow.. great game now.,.

[Mirage]

Yeah that is kind of dumb. I've mentioned it for SE before but they seem to not care.