Gear Venders

[Megatron]

the problem most people have is they dont like to wait. they want everything yestersday. as clearly as the people posting above me prove. with 6 jobs over 75 they still claim to be out of luck. i hoping they are simply using that as a example becasue anyone with a single job that high can farm anything they need.

but seing as how many of you just cant quite figure out how to farm let me give you a few examples depinding on a few things. now lets say you have a job over 60. you can easilly farm gooboos and garden. to much work not enough profit? well you can quest teleport scrolls and ah them. you can quest the retrace scroll and sale them. you can quest warp, warp II, balled II, sleepga II, utsumi: ichi. farm a few nms for blm nukes. 10k is 10 freaking thousand gil more hten you had. it adds up fast

now lets say you dont have a 60 job lets say your a fresh out of the box wet behind the ears newbie. and you have zero lsmates or friends. this is the time in your gaming life that is most important. you learn the simple things in the game. how to use maps, markers, create macros, learn how to travel the world. learning how the games physics work, and how the crafting system fuction. thers more to ffxi then reading a wiki and pressing the buttons. now your not in this game to make it rich those days are over. your goal of crafting is simple. to not being naked, weaponless and hungry. you save everything thats not nailed down and you stockpile it . you level every job you have to 15 hording every drop untill your inventory wont hold a single thing.

now you write it all down and find out what you can do with it. if its for a quest if its a synth mat. then you take the time out of your exping to do those things. sure you arnt 90 today but youll get ther soon enough. but a level 90 person who is lost in jueno is a waste. so your taking the time to devolope and understand the basics. so you can be the best later and not simply taking up space and thinking your uber when you cant find your mog house without a map.

sounds harsh but every moment you spend doing somehting other than exping . makes you better at ffxi. it in no way hurts you. each skill up in a magic or craft only helps you and your friends. exp will always be there. dont complain. dont get mad or frustrated, simplly go farm the mats and craft. and craft and craft. puting all the profits you make into buying the gear you need. then storing it for the next job. use it on every job that can equip it. then once you dont need it anymore sale it. use that gil tword more gear. then go back farm mats craft. repeate.

a year down the road. you have a few million gil in your pocket. you know were everythign is, you can craft any basic items or things you need. you know were to farm mats if you need gil. and you have a lot of quests you can do for emergency gil. you can now focus on getitng all the harder items you want and the ability to buy the things needed to do so.

taking the time to do it right benifits you and helps eveyoen around you. think im blowing smoke? ask anyone who has bene playing a long time they know and they belive ive said. its waht they did to get were they are. every short cut you take today. is a gap you have to fill later.

[Kanjitai]

you make a very good point in what your saying. what I tried to say in my last post that crafting isn't viable even if you have the gil and means to do it. I'm not going to level a craft to x level to make 1 item. as for farming and gardening that's good to raise the gil but doesn't address the difficulty of finding low to mid level gear these days.

[Olor]

You were perfectly clear the first time. That guy just lacks reading comprehension. I theorize it's linked to being tarutaru. I also agree that if SE is planning on attracting new players to FFXI they need to have gear available and obtainable for them. It's pretty hard to find most AH gear for low levels now (there's another thread about this btw).

Yeah, I would kill for some decent, affordable gear from npcs. I mean it is really hard to make gils for me (just rerolled) and almost nothing is available on the AH and what is available is overpriced.

[Olor]

. now lets say you have a job over 60. you can easilly farm gooboos and garden. to much work not enough profit?

You can only get 1 item from gardening until you've had a char for 3 months. Can't fish for 1 month. SE killed a lot of the best ways of making money for new players and it sucks big-time.

Yeah you can farm crap for hours and hours but I play video games to have fun, not to have a second job - to add insult to injury anyone with Abyssea access can get more gil from doing dom ops AND get exp than I can get in hours of farming

[Megatron]

Yeah you can farm crap for hours and hours but I play video games to have fun, not to have a second job - to add insult to injury anyone with Abyssea access can get more gil from doing dom ops AND get exp than I can get in hours of farming

if farming was fast and easy. ah prices would be 100 times more they they are now. the reason SE did what they did is becasue of that. over the years Gilsaling compnaies as well as players would get free accounts and or create a mule have that mule do a quest send the item to a friend delete and repeate. or people would make bots that would simply fish. and run to town and sale then back to fishing. during the hight of the gilsaling days a simple scorpion harness was 20 million gil.
look at that same item today. many aspects of how we make gil have been changed due to peopel exploting and bots creating these price gouging.

farming is supposed to take time. as for peopel in abyssea can make more then you doing dom opps then you can farm. thats good for them. but your not them. youll get to do the same as well in time . just not today. another example of you wantit now now now now!.

we all want to have fun but if we all got everything "now" you would of quit long ago casue you would have everything.

[Olor]

farming is supposed to take time. as for peopel in abyssea can make more then you doing dom opps then you can farm. thats good for them. but your not them. youll get to do the same as well in time . just not today. another example of you wantit now now now now!.

No, I want the game to not be set up so that it is the hardest when you start and easier and easier as you go - that is the opposite of good design - especially if you want to keep new players.

I want to be able to get decent gears for my level while I grind myself up solo and in small groups(cause I have little choice). It is ridiculous that I am supposed to slowly grind money and levels while people with some cruor can pop some chests, get more cruor and practically insta-levels.

If you never want new players to come to the game (thus shortening it's life-span) you should keep arguing that basic gears should be hard to attain for new players so that soloing to 75+ is even harder than it has to be. It is easy for you to sit there with your level 90s talking about how new players should just work harder - but you try rerolling with no gears - no money and no level 90 jobs and buying spells that cost 20-40K when all you have is a level 25 rdm.

Easy to talk about how noobs should work harder while you leech gil and levels in Abysssea.