No, a FC is basically where a WAR, with the aid of a WHM, RDM, or SCH, gathers up a hoard of mobs in Abyssea and kills them all using the weapon skill Fell Cleave. This method is often used with an Alliance, having 2 or 3 people do all of the work while the other 15 are either afk or watching. Thanks to how Abyssea's experience system works people from level 30 all the way to 99 can come in, afk, and even if they do not originally they will start gaining experience after a while, eventually gaining roughly 600 experience. In return for this service, which often lasts many hours, people pay hundreds of thousands of gil, most old shouts used to be 100k for a hour, or a discount for paying a large amount of hours, for instance I used to run 10 hour FCs which were 100k/hour and 850k/10 hours.

For years now its been allowed and accepted by most of the player base, SE has given us warnings one or two times about RMTs doing them, and potential bans if you are caught involved with RMTs, but that is all. This most recent one however was brought into question, as the comment was more vague, and there have been various reports about responses from GMs on the subject. So far as it has been told to players, doing FCs are fair and legal within the game, but without clarification, who is willing to test it?



Sorry tired and this post much longer than intended to send, Zag got it.