What is the most self-sufficient single Job/Subjob combination (all gameplay)?

[Eice]

Hello! I'm coming back to FFXI from a two or three year hiatus. It'll be about 8 hours before the updating is done, so I'm having fun thinking of what to do when I get back in.

I have rdm75,nin40,sch40,whm38,blm37 as my main jobs that I had leveled (I quit before the level cap increased, before abyssea or however you call it).

Still, I'm curious ... what would y'all say is the best single Job/Sub combination to be the most self-sufficient in as many aspects of gameplay as possible? Not just fighting, but also traveling and things of that nature.

/whm49 is the only way to be self-sufficient with all of the teleports (very attractive to me)

/blm is the only way to have warp (unless there is a new way for infinite "go home" ability?)


So, what do y'all think is the best single combination? I'm thinking of keeping my RDM as my main (I solo mostly) and seeing how much I can solo as RDM99/WHM49.

The only thing I would be missing would be a "warp" feature/spell (unless there is a new way to do that which won't run out of "charges" or uses?)

[katz]

Dont know how long you been away but people rarely use teleports to get about these days. Abyssea maws make it possible to get to most places or voidwatch officers.

[Eice]

I started July 25 of 2006. I stopped sometime in 2008, about midway through the year. I was gone long before abyssea. Pardon my ignorance, what's an abyssea maw and how does that make it possible to get to most places?

If maws are the new travel thing to where I can go almost anywhere with them, I'll probably just stay rdm99/nin49 (when I get there).


I was reading a lot of different topics and now I'm wondering ... is FFXI more solo-friendly now than it was before? When I left you could solo -some- things, but you still had to be careful walking around some parts of the world because you could still die fairly easily.


If it's more solo-friendly, that kind of negates my hypothetical haha!

[Elphy]

If maws are the new travel thing to where I can go almost anywhere with them, I'll probably just stay rdm99/nin49 (when I get there).

Take it from a fellow career rdm back before aby made dalamud look like a choco egg, if you main rdm/nin you are in trouble when it comes to getting into any endgame content. Believe me its a rare case that a group, esp a pug, will say "rdm? sure bring it down!"

Plus other jobs solo faster than rdm now, I know I lvled and geared up dnc and its way faster and survives better in most cases. But there is always bst which everyone uses now for solo and if you want to do anything group wise, even sch is more in need so look at other mage classes that may fit your play style, or heavy dd. Regardless its always good to have nin whm blm or blu just for seal/+2/empy item farming

[Arcon]

Take it from a fellow career rdm back before aby made dalamud look like a choco egg, if you main rdm/nin you are in trouble when it comes to getting into any endgame content. Believe me its a rare case that a group, esp a pug, will say "rdm? sure bring it down!"

The era of one main job is over. People can play a career RDM and a career THF and a career WAR all at the same time. If he wants to be RDM, he should be, but for other events, he will need a job that's more useful to the group. That doesn't mean he has to give up on RDM though. He made it clear that he likes the idea of soloing old content, and for that RDM is still decent.

[Afania]

The era of one main job is over. People can play a career RDM and a career THF and a career WAR all at the same time. If he wants to be RDM, he should be, but for other events, he will need a job that's more useful to the group. That doesn't mean he has to give up on RDM though. He made it clear that he likes the idea of soloing old content, and for that RDM is still decent.

I disagree with your POV regarding "able to career RDM THF WAR at the same time" though, at least it's not achieveable by 99.9999% of playerbase with just 1 character. 95% of player I know of doesn't even career 1 job and just gear many jobs to avg level based on event needs, let alone 2. Ppl who career 3 jobs is either very hardcore, or have multiple characters.

[Alpheus]

Abyssea Maws are basically WotG Maws except they lead to the Abyssea Add on areas. Since you unlock direct warps to the maws you also unlock direct warps to the areas they are located in.

Since VW is basically a series of fights rather than entrances to areas, it also offers direct warps to areas in which those fights take place.

[Eice]

Abyssea Maws are basically WotG Maws except they lead to the Abyssea Add on areas. Since you unlock direct warps to the maws you also unlock direct warps to the areas they are located in.

Since VW is basically a series of fights rather than entrances to areas, it also offers direct warps to areas in which those fights take place.

I'm sorry, could you clarify that a little? I bought WotG, but I didn't actually play any of it before I quit. I know there are "maws" or something, but I have no idea what they are for and never entered one.

What do you mean "you unlock direct warps to the maws"? Do you mean you get abilities that work like the teleport and warp spells that allow you to go to those areas whenever you want regardless of job?

Also, what is "VW" and is "direct warps" the same idea?


For instance, if I'm standing in the middle of Valkurm ... could I "direct warp" to one of the maws or something? How many different maws are there/are they close to cities?

I know you can raise a chocobo, so I assume it won't be too hard to use that once you've gotten to a maw?

[Mirage]

No. You can warp from cities to the entrances to various abyssea and voidwatch areas, but not back via the same method.

[Alpheus]

Apologies VW = Voidwatch a endgame event that was added recently-ish.

By direct warps I meant that for VW you pop NMs in zones and SE has added zone warps for ease of access to these zones.