Abyssea ruined FFXI ?

[vordox]

I find it has ruined the game a lot, it has eliminated the strategy of the game. You no longer need a straight tank so no longer need a pld or nin to tank. You get buffs from the npc that eliminates the need for cor or brd, basically it has became a place to go for fast group mob xp w/o the benefit of skill ups or reward of time with people learning the game. It all goes by so fast that you fill merits and cap xp to fast. I had 14 jobs at 75 before the introduction of level synch, I soloed blu blm smn and bst. I have capped merits on all but cor pup dnc and sch because I am slowly leveling them by grinding them. Abyssea is great to solo in I can spend hours in there and get many TE just by soloing. It does have it's merits but as a whole it has ruined the strategy and a place for many of the jobs that were made for the game. I just feel to many new people came in to the game who used to play WoW and then bitched because they found it was not a cookie cutter quick level up game.

[Khajit]

You never needed a pld to tank in the first place. People just didn't know any better.