Five years away and now into the Present of Today

[Asgardjr]

Hmm not to mention level cap change, new methods of storing artifact/relic armor along with the newer tier of af3 aka empyrean gear which comes from abyssea.

one of the biggest challenges you might face off the bat is skilling up after leveling as fast as you do, beyond adding new ways to gain exp they also doubled exp on regular mobs outside of abyssea, with grounds of valor (GoV) you get additional bonus exp.

new spells and abilities along with new gear obviously for the level cap increase.

basically 11 is a far cry different from the game it was 5 years ago. i think in most cases a good way, in certain other aspects (like relevancy of the job RDM or enmity system) game still needs some major overhauling and luck be with us you may yet see some of those changes in the near future!~

Yeah the Enmity has always been a issue; 5yrs back playing with mnk or even thf; always disliked how somehow i got dink parties with terrible tanks; always had the hate but boy does this game teach patients glad i went through some of that frustration made school and work in the time away easier could think back on situations from this game lol/.
If one was to hold there breathe on that fix we all be in a coma by now. just gotta flex even thou it don't make much sense in some situations

[Asgardjr]

Meyi sums everything up greatly and I've known him ingame for sometime. I think the game is worth giving a try and there's nothing to stop you from ending your subscription after a month or two if it proves not to be worth it.

Not a brand new player; just a old rusty vet thats outdated. Just going to need to buff and grind into there's a shine again So no worries here; had a fairly worst expectation then what i'm hearing since 06-07 was what seemed like a terrible patching with various changes like O.Kotes no longer a NM was in a beastcoin thingy NM (not that its relevant now in terms of whats ingame) Mobs despawned instead of walking back to there area i'm old dislike zone campers pushing there luck begging for rez cause they made a mistake in a area to slightly to high for the risk.
I loved the HNM's thou I read they removed it which is a bummer but oh well.
Crafting Fishing Mining all wonderful past times for me. No qualms on market/needing to farm rather farm them here and there inbetween parties and such
But thx for the concern of whether i will stay more than a month or not

[Meyi]

I am for sure moving off carbuncle > bismarck. I have a friend that talked me into coming back since he's new to the game. And has a good set of folks playing with your welcome to add me/ Thou I do not have a ETA as with a brief moment of time wasted playing Crystal Saga that also uses that crap UltimatePay; I'm waiting on the PayPal xfer for funds to buy crysta to then do xfer. ANd boy o boy luck me got a bank that declines UK/Asia transactions but heh. ClicknBuy(UK-based)
After that Will have 3 character on Bismark lv74MNK(poorly equiped atm as raist pointed out; and he is absolutely right) and a lv idk whm for mostly lower tele's/mule and mule(one i have no idea why i have but do and logged in he was so empty i think i xfered junk from him to another mule/main lol)
So won't be entirely that bad as there all still alive ... thou i just have my doubt with the xfering characters and keeping lvls and items... and aware that will possibly have to rename characters but happens)

Synergy sounds great; thou i'm sure going to miss the old fashion mind game facing a certain direction and crafting on certain in game days lol myth or fact doesn't matter was still amusing at least to myself
Abyssea - looks really neat thou thats with one of the expansions i;m guessing huh that will be sometime before i get all of em from Nov 07 to Present Don't have the expansions yet Will by Halloween if not sooner

Dynamis hmm yeah been around for a long long time can't say i did very many of them.
And all the rest sounds great will definately try this time to get around to doing alot more.
Thank you for some of the hot links totally forgot about that site; only one i remembered with ffxi.somepage.com

You're welcome. Glad to hear you're coming to Bismarck! Look me up and friend me, I'll be happy to help you when I can.

As for crafting and synergy, old crafting still exists, but synergy is an addition to crafting. It's becoming more and more common in decent synths. And I believe SE came out and said the direction thing was a bunch of silliness.

[Arcon]

- Dynamis has been greatly changed. You now must purchase an Hourglass Key Item for 100k (and can buy maps from the same goblin) from the old goblins that gave the original hourglass.

Minor correction, it's 50k. The rest was spot on.

[Meyi]

Minor correction, it's 50k. The rest was spot on.

Ah, okay! Thanks for the correction.

[wish12oz]

Would of been nice if you took some English classes while you weren't playing FFXI. The OP is almost unreadable and I don't understand half of it.

[RagingAvatar]

Meyi, you're on Bismarck? Add me! My name in POL is RagingAvatar and my character is Dhylan.
You too Asgardjr!

[Asgardjr]

Would of been nice if you took some English classes while you weren't playing FFXI. The OP is almost unreadable and I don't understand half of it.

English, is my native language. Thou to type properly all the time is a feat i'd rather not do. It's not that I can't or won't just prefer not to as I loose my train of thought with typing. I grew up in the age of handwriting that was mandatory in Cursive. Something lost in this new generation that can't read it. Not even thirty yet, and feel like a old-timer looking down disappointed with what is happening. Typing was something that I barely saw in my school senior year. And have always typed just hate trying to keep up with my thoughts to my slow fingers. Luckily I don't look at keyboard well typing like so many i know, that bring laptops to school for there essays and research. But heh such is life. ^^

[Asgardjr]

Finally did the transfer to Bismarck. After much discussion; and 7 tickets put in with ultimatepay. They finally whitelisted my information so i could update it. SE needs to just be the dedicated source for all there transactions. Oh well only needed them once. All that matters now is gaming in my spare time.... and ) improving my wonderfully grammatically incorrect grammar before someone's mind explodes from all my run on sentences.
Feaude - Bismarck world search

[Komori]

When my AC gets fixed and I can sit in my room again. I'll be online to try and help you as well if I can. (: My character name is Komori obviously.