Abyssea ruined FFXI ?

[Krashport]

What's a channel?

Not sure if you ever played "Aion" their "World" was made into different Channels as to, if your in the game all you had to do is open your channel window or /chan <#> of channel you would like to join and pick one that your friends it on to play with. Vindictus also works this way.

[Kits]

Well thats wonderful news. I know this isnt a blu forum, but would u think using Azure Lore would increase your chance to learn a spell?

[Greatguardian]

Well thats wonderful news. I know this isnt a blu forum, but would u think using Azure Lore would increase your chance to learn a spell?

I honestly couldn't tell you. I can direct the question to a BLU friend of mine when he logs onto skype, if someone else doesn't answer it before me.

Edit: According to the wiki, it does not.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Not sure if you ever played "Aion" their "World" was made into different Channels as to, if your in the game all you had to do is open your channel window or /chan <#> of channel you would like to join and pick one that your friends it on to play with. Vindictus also works this way.

Right, but you said it so matter-of-factly like FFXi had channels, so I had to ask to be sure.

Well thats wonderful news. I know this isnt a blu forum, but would u think using Azure Lore would increase your chance to learn a spell?

It ill be easier to lern spells after the fact, this way you wont have to keep starting and stopping. Also merits will help as a higher skill makes learning esier. I merited blue magic and deleted it later after I got my skill caught up.

[Kits]

I love blue mage.

The concept of the job is just ingenious in my opinion,
now all I have to do is plan, get the right spells, then kill my rdm uncle =p
BLU FTW!

[MrWigglles]

Hi, I just recently came back to FFXI after a few years hiatus. I really didnt have much time to play before the servers shut down.. >>;, i was actually in the middle of the abyssea quest when they shut it down. Now, I've never been to abyssea, but from the start it looked like the new update was awesome, but now that I'm reading about it, you can get from like 30 to 65 in one day? thats insane... thats almost, no fun. I've been looking around and everyone has like 10 level 90 jobs..

So the question i ask, Has abyssea ruined FFXI?

Ruined? No i say.
Do you consider 40 Merits in 90 mins a bad thing? lol

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Ruined? No i say.
Do you consider 40 Merits in 90 mins a bad thing? lol

Oh yeah, if no one told you, you can hold 20 merits now. lol

[Nacht]

I wanted to get Refueling, a haste, but supposedly i need to do all the promathyia missions..? does anybody even do those anymore?? lol

They uncapped the missions and the zones, so doing the (beginning) missions is easy. Also, BLU has a 2nd haste spell.

The problem with Abyssea is that for most people it ruined any sense of real accomplishment. It took the EXP grind and made it completely pointless as you'll cap on merits in no time and have nothing else to do but either reroll another job or simply go after gear.

Going after gear and killing bigass NMs has been the point of most MMORPGs. Look at Diablo2, that game was incredibly successful.

Abyssea is fun.. but its entertainment value wont last...
whatever SE releases for lvl 99 better be damn good.. or they will lose subscriptions in droves.

We can only see where they're headed once they release the next version update.

Well that's where i come in, ill get like 5 levels or so, atleast untill pt ends, then go near a zone or something, grab a T or something, bomb it with magic till im near dead or no mp, and zone. lol.. good idea?

It's not uncommon to gain 20+ levels within a few hours inside abyssea. In general, the exp starts slow, but increases to a pretty fast speed. Of course you can end up with a bad group.

[Kits]

I havent a single thing merited. my highest level i 65 drg followed by 55 blu

[Greatguardian]

Oh yeah, big heads up for when you hit 90:

Most people on this game, this forum, this Earth, do not know what the hell they are talking about.

If you have a question about equipment, magic, or strategies, typically your best bet is to research the spells, effects, and monsters themselves and draw your own conclusions.

www.ffxiclopedia.org is a fairly nice resource for raw information. Take the NM testimonies with a grain of salt, however. More often than not, they grossly exaggerate the difficulty of most fights. When in doubt, try it and see what happens.

www.bluegartrls.com/forum is far and away the single best resource for accurate, tested FFXI information on the internet. However, as it is a highly endgame-oriented community, people can be harsh. I doubt anyone would give you crap over questions like these (as you can type proper English sentences and actually listen to responses), but it's no secret that people can get slammed for things there. If you were to use BG as a resource, I highly, highly recommend limiting questions to the Random Question Thread sticky in FFXI Advanced at first. BG Mods do not take kindly to people making new threads, as the idea is to conserve space on the front page by having simple discussions in the RQT and only making a new thread to discuss new content, or new findings.