ffxi should not be this easy

[Yinnyth]

Leveling to 90 in one day was probably the most realistic thing in my OP, other than full af3+2.

This is true, it is the most realistic part of the OP. That doesn't mean it's realistic at all. Beating Maat first try at level 70 when you're completely new to the game would be miraculous. Especially for someone who had been powerleveled and aby mooched the whole way up. Maybe he was just a thf that got extremely lucky and managed to steal with 0 gear that grants bonuses to steal, I suppose. That would help make up for the fact that his dagger and evasion skills were around level 30. But I fought Maat on thf at level 75 after I had AF2 pants with +5 to steal plus all my AF1 plus various other pieces of steal gear, and I still failed to steal 4 times in a row, then gave up and just meleed him to death.

[rog]

This is true, it is the most realistic part of the OP. That doesn't mean it's realistic at all. Beating Maat first try at level 70 when you're completely new to the game would be miraculous. Especially for someone who had been powerleveled and aby mooched the whole way up. Maybe he was just a thf that got extremely lucky and managed to steal with 0 gear that grants bonuses to steal, I suppose. That would help make up for the fact that his dagger and evasion skills were around level 30. But I fought Maat on thf at level 75 after I had AF2 pants with +5 to steal plus all my AF1 plus various other pieces of steal gear, and I still failed to steal 4 times in a row, then gave up and just meleed him to death.

war is easy, and takes an hour to skill up using retaliation.

[Lukielucas]

Recently a friend of mine started playing ffxi. He just started a new character. It took him less than one day to reach level 90. It took him another day to beat all the missions. The next day he beat shinryu, and got all the good atmas, and abyssites. About one more day later, he had full af3+2. On his fifth day back, he finally finished his empyrean weapon. On his sixth day back, he realized he had beat the game, and had nothing left to do, except watch the credits.

This game should not be that easy. What ever happened to ffxi being "challenging"? What made ffxi so great in the past was that it was challenging. It was not a game where you had everything handed to you on a golden platter. And with each drop, came a sense of accomplishment. But now there is no sense of accomplishment, because it is impossible to overcome any challenges, since after all, no challenges remain in the game.

Please SE, make ffxi challenging again.

Somehow I'm finding it hard to believe this thread and taking it as a pinch of salt.... as it's virtually impossible in my opinion that a new player who just joined the game to get a empyrean weapon in 6 days.....

Only way I could see him doing that is by buying the items he needed for the trials... if you're telling me that he did every NM's for his trial then I'm sorry, I don't believe you and think you're trolling just for the sake of it!

[rog]

Somehow I'm finding it hard to believe this thread and taking it as a pinch of salt.... as it's virtually impossible in my opinion that a new player who just joined the game to get a empyrean weapon in 6 days.....

Only way I could see him doing that is by buying the items he needed for the trials... if you're telling me that he did every NM's for his trial then I'm sorry, I don't believe you and think you're trolling just for the sake of it!

Since you obviously have not bothered reading past the first post, i will let you in on a little secret:

The first post, while technically possible, did not happen. Instead it was meant to illustrate a point.

[Arlan]

the point is its not possible since ppl have lives and dont have all the free time in the world to waste on a video game. sorry

[rog]

the point is its not possible since ppl have lives and dont have all the free time in the world to waste on a video game. sorry

lol?

Having a life does not at all prevent you from doing such things. In fact, it can almost all be done afk, with others doing all the work. Exping, empyreans, and af3 can be done afk, only needing to come back to trade items to the crate, and genkais.

[Arlan]

Umm. Again people have lives, why would they waste time like that over a video game again?

I mean seriously? You have to look for people who are willing to let you in to leach and even if you do that, the people who are doing all the work while your afk also have their own lives so not everyone will put all the time in the world do get your stuff done just so you can progress. Sorry not how it works.

[rog]

Umm. Again people have lives, why would they waste time like that over a video game again?

I mean seriously? You have to look for people who are willing to let you in to leach and even if you do that, the people who are doing all the work while your afk also have their own lives so not everyone will put all the time in the world do get your stuff done just so you can progress. Sorry not how it works.

Because you can only have help from one group of people, ever, and after that no one else can possibly do anything for you. And that group is of course always all online at exactly the same time, and offline at exactly the same time.

[Arlan]

Because you can only have help from one group of people, ever, and after that no one else can possibly do anything for you. And that group is of course always all online at exactly the same time, and offline at exactly the same time.

lol You know, even tho I know your language... I still don't understand what the heck your saying...

[Korpg]

Because you can only have help from one group of people, ever, and after that no one else can possibly do anything for you. And that group is of course always all online at exactly the same time, and offline at exactly the same time.

Lets ask why then.

Why are they letting the afk person have emp weapon upgrades, NM kills, Genki quest items, exp, or pretty much everything if they are not going to contribute to their group?

If it is a new player, they would have absolutely no idea what they are doing.

If it is a returning player, they are just lazy, and still not worth all the effort to get them the items needed for emp weapon. Because players like them are generally "Thanks for your help guys, but go **** yourselves, I'm now leet and you aren't, you ****tards."