How fast is fast?

[Daemon]

Hey guys, The purpose of this topic is see how fast a player can reach 99 from the point of view of starting a brand new account regardless of your experience and knowledge, gain access to Adoulin, earn SoA gear from colonization Reives, Enter Delve and Earn a Weapon allowing you to skip the good portion of content quickest way possible. Please Write out how you would do it in a comment.

Reason?

To take a closer look at why we believe how pointless the game has become due to how quick anyone can skip to the end.

Disclaimer: This is not a debate but an insight of how people can do it. Please leave your opinion on what method you would take to accomplish the challenge. Let the Games Begin.

[Chilloa]

You want me to go spend $40 on a new account, and do everything that I'm working on doing on my main account, just to help you prove a point? I used to like your posts Ultimas, they were generally pretty helpful, but in recent days they've become full of rants and nothing really worth reading.

[Daemon]

This is the method I would do it.

Job Thief
Starting from level 1-10 outside of Windurst. Do Gov Pages, earn enough conquest points to buy emperor band. Head to outer Horontoro ruins. Earn fire crystals, Wild onions to sell and earn gil for gear.

From level 10, but stack of prism powder, silent oil, heading to Gusgen Mines, leveling from 10-35. Grabbing all telepoints for DEM, Holla, Mea.
Farm subjob quest items and complete quest.

Walk to Jeuno, save Homepoint, do chocobo quest. Activate Abbysea, grab La Theine Plateu Maw.
Farm items for gil back at windy by using GoV tabs to return to Homepoint.

Change jobs to WHM,
level 1-10 off GoV pages outside windy, head to gusgen mines til 10-35. Stop.

Change jobs to Redmage, Level 1-10 outside windurst using Gov tabs. Head to gusgen mines level from 10-35.

Switch back to WHM grab VW stone, head to abbysea, enter party as keyer. Open boxes by chance until enough Cruor is earned to buy keys. Stay til level limit break quest. Stop. Do level break Quest, Join KI only abbysea groups to earn proper atmas.

Return to Abby as Thief level til limit break, stop.

After breaking each quest. Return and level to 99 on each 3 jobs stop.

Complete Adoulin Quest, buy -Pdt staff, farm dark rings, buy -Pdt cape, 99 AH gear head to Adoulin. Buy spells needed.
Skill up max skill with AH Food.

Playing as WHM, earn Bayld buy Orvail set. Stop.

Enter Plasm farming party with LS friends, Join Delve farm party / Ki party as WHM/RDM.

At this point I wonder how long this would take without earning any AF3 pieces and getting by on AH/Delve gear?

The point is not whether or not people need to gain gear from abbysea but how long would it take a pro to reach 99, enter delve and earn a delve weapon skipping all other content?

Although there may be some flaws, the point was to see if its possible. How much time do you guys think this would take? 1 month?

[Daemon]

You want me to go spend $40 on a new account, and do everything that I'm working on doing on my main account, just to help you prove a point? I used to like your posts Ultimas, they were generally pretty helpful, but in recent days they've become full of rants and nothing really worth reading.

No I'm saying to write down the detail. To see how others would do it. Not actually go out and do it lol.

I did say that in disclaimer.

Yes and sorry lately I have been writing out rants because of how the game has taken its change. But also rants help me to change my point of view by listening to others opinions.

I spent a good amount of time playing FFXI building my character only to be left in a state of disappointment like many others. This is one of the posts explaining why. If you read some of them, you could see that a lot of my posts are meant to show the devs that we need better attention on things that need to be fixed. Not added.

Like several of us we did pay for Adoulin Expansion and we do keep paying to play the game but voicing out our concerns as to find out why we should continue to play is not a crime. My intentions are not for the worse.

If anything, this post could give others insight on how they level to 99 fastest way possible and can join delve ASAP.

[Babekeke]

You'd start on THF...?

All wrong.

Job RDM. Not a bad soloer to start you off in the low levels, using a sword and a nuke or 2. level to ~12 then head to gusgen til 30.

Leech to 50 in abyssea.

Unlock SJ and SCH.

Solo SCH to ~12 then Gusgen til 30.

Do limit break quests with a friend, killing 1 mob after the first one to take you to 51, then do next one.

Leech SCH to 60.

Do next 2 LB quests with a friend, again killing 1 mob between to level up to 60 to do the 2nd.

Leech to 70.

Gear up using gil from any pop items/NPCables you aquired whilst keying.

Kill Maat on SCH.

Level to 71 then do LB75 and join an abyssea party.

skip reive gear.

Join a boss shout on SCH, and hope you arrive at the NM before anyone realises how gimp you are.

Hope the rest of the alliance makes up for your shortfalls and you still get the win.

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Might require a little bit of farming or questing for important scrolls/gear, but even so, if I had a week off work, I could do it in that week, I'm pretty certain.

Reason for choosing SCH? No skilling required, and SCH can be pretty useful in most delve NM fights, if for regen alone. and there's always Embrava too, even if you do only get lower skills with arts when uncapped.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

We've had several n00bs in the LS lately. People keep trying to get them to go level jobs, but I convinced one guy the way to do it was abyssea. I helped him get into a pt at 50, he was 90 within 5 hours. Keep in mind he had to keep leaving to do limits. If you have someone to back you, you can go from 1-99 in a day, fresh. 2-3 days is more realistic though, less exhasting and would include empyrean gear. Farming bayld should be a lot easier now with the low man update.

Someone could do this alone with effort in a week.


Edit: BTW, rdm would be a terrible idea and thf is almost just as bad. War would be the easiest.

[Daemon]

You'd start on THF...?

All wrong.

Job RDM. Not a bad soloer to start you off in the low levels, using a sword and a nuke or 2. level to ~12 then head to gusgen til 30.

Leech to 50 in abyssea.

Unlock SJ and SCH.

Solo SCH to ~12 then Gusgen til 30.

Do limit break quests with a friend, killing 1 mob after the first one to take you to 51, then do next one.

Leech SCH to 60.

Do next 2 LB quests with a friend, again killing 1 mob between to level up to 60 to do the 2nd.

Leech to 70.

Gear up using gil from any pop items/NPCables you aquired whilst keying.

Kill Maat on SCH.

Level to 71 then do LB75 and join an abyssea party.

skip reive gear.

Join a boss shout on SCH, and hope you arrive at the NM before anyone realises how gimp you are.

Hope the rest of the alliance makes up for your shortfalls and you still get the win.

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Might require a little bit of farming or questing for important scrolls/gear, but even so, if I had a week off work, I could do it in that week, I'm pretty certain.

Reason for choosing SCH? No skilling required, and SCH can be pretty useful in most delve NM fights, if for regen alone. and there's always Embrava too, even if you do only get lower skills with arts when uncapped.

Well, I started off Thief for Treasure hunter so I could farm wild onions, make the gil needed to buy equipment, items to help get around the game independently. Yeah but also SCH quest vs buying spells for BLM, WHM, Sch.. Takes time compared to using starter jobs.

Not to forget how useful TH is when farming subjob quest items solo at 35.

Flee helps you move around the game faster also when mog tablet swift shoes is up.

But hey just wanted to see how fast others can do it

[Daemon]

We've had several n00bs in the LS lately. People keep trying to get them to go level jobs, but I convinced one guy the way to do it was abyssea. I helped him get into a pt at 50, he was 90 within 5 hours. Keep in mind he had to keep leaving to do limits. If you have someone to back you, you can go from 1-99 in a day, fresh. 2-3 days is more realistic though, less exhasting and would include empyrean gear. Farming bayld should be a lot easier now with the low man update.

Someone could do this alone with effort in a week.


Edit: BTW, rdm would be a terrible idea and thf is almost just as bad. War would be the easiest.

Hmmm I had in mind RDM for fastcast/convert/phalanx/ refresh to sub with WHM to help in survival for Adoulin.

Phalanx compliments -PDT and Stoneskin.

Thief is for Treasure Hunter, useful for earning gil, farm quest items and helps you get around the game independently if you have no gil or help from others. Not to forget Flee

[Daemon]

skip reive gear.

Hmmm...So there are people out there who can skip it..

That's Epic.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Hmmm I had in mind RDM for fastcast/convert/phalanx/ refresh to sub with WHM to help in survival for Adoulin.

Phalanx compliments -PDT and Stoneskin.

Thief is for Treasure Hunter, useful for earning gil, farm quest items and helps you get around the game independently if you have no gil or help from others.

You dont' need money, everything is rare/ex now.
Do war because you can kill faster in your solo to eitehr 10 for burn or 30 for aby.
Whm though dose get you an easier in for any event, ut like you said, you will have to spend money on it. There's no way aroudn that on whm.

skip reive gear.

I've never done skirmish.
Bayld farmed kariyeh body/legs/feet, crafting rings x3, turd body.
Already tossed kariyeh body/legs.