Reason to Use Old Areas

[Alhanelem]

It would also allow newer players to experience the world outside Abyssea.

All they have to do to "experience" it is to go there. And with the new EXP rates, even if you're soloing it's not that bad anymore. I'm sorry, I just don't see a problem here.

[Olor]

All they have to do to "experience" it is to go there. And with the new EXP rates, even if you're soloing it's not that bad anymore. I'm sorry, I just don't see a problem here.

If the exp is so great why are you against raising the Aby cap to 65?

[Juri_Licious]

If the exp is so great why are you against raising the Aby cap to 65?

I'm gonna make this my sig, brilliant.

[Mrbeansman]

News Flash new players have had it hard since this games inception. The key to success for new players is the same today as it was 8 years ago: find friends be sociable and get help doing shit.

[Zephrose]

News Flash new players have had it hard since this games inception. The key to success for new players is the same today as it was 8 years ago: find friends be sociable and get help doing shit.

Good point! And if you don't like playing with other, the new XP adjustment allows for more solo leveling now too.

Not to be blunt, but if you don't like playing with others, maybe MMOs aren't for you.

[Olor]

Good point! And if you don't like playing with other, the new XP adjustment allows for more solo leveling now too.

Not to be blunt, but if you don't like playing with others, maybe MMOs aren't for you.

I love playing with others! Except that it is kind of hard to play with others when the outside world is mostly empty... which is why it is a good idea to make leveling outside Abyssea more attractive.

[Mirage]

Well the thing is, the rest of the world is miles away from being as beneficial as abyssea. Really, people who like abyssea doesn't have anything to fear from whatever happens in the rest of the world. The only thing that changes is that people who like the rest of the world doesn't feel like what they're doing is inefficient compared to other alternatives (abyssea).

In fact, you guys in abyssea would benefit from it too. There would be fewer people to "compete with" over being the chest-guy, letting you leech in there more easily and more often.

Pro-abyssealeech people won't have anything to fear until vanadiel gives you 100k exp/hour and lv50 NMs drop gear that dangerously close to AF3 in quality. This isn't going to happen anytime soon (if ever), even if we who like vanadiel gets our way.

If you just think about it, there is no real conflict of interests here.

Abyssealovers will still get their awesome exp, their AF3 drops, their cruor and all the other stuff that's good about abyssea.

Vanadiellovers (with buffs to old areas) get better exp, better items, and more in return for their time invested, but still, none of the things they get would push abyssea off its throne.

Everybody wins.

[Mrbeansman]

To be fair even if exp was greater outside of abyssea then in people would probably still chose to exp inside abyssea. None of the battle points outside of abyssea are anything near as useful as cruor.

[Olor]

To be fair even if exp was greater outside of abyssea then in people would probably still chose to exp inside abyssea. None of the battle points outside of abyssea are anything near as useful as cruor.

Yeah agreed - which is why I think the OP is asking for more useful things to be added outside Abyssea.

[Karbuncle]

I got a quick question. I keep seeing the term "Re-rolled'

Is that some horrible WoW/D&D Term or something of the like from some old MMO/Game that makes absolutely no sense to use in FFXI as when creating a new character absolutely nothing is rolled, and I'm just not Power-Nerd enough to know about it?

My lack of MMO experience pre-FFXI really seems to show, I feel like that guy who went to a star Trek Convention cause i like the series, Surrounded by Cosplayers who could probably recite the Klingon War song in Klingon.