This game is like Final Fantasy XI pre Chains of Promathia

[Fumijj_Gah]

I got my first 75 within 4 weeks. Same Statement you did before.. while it took you 7-8 month, does not mean it was not possible to be faster. And like i've said... just because you "can" be faster, does not mean everyone will/want to go faster.

Impossible. : p
I am talking about the first FFXI american version released in 2004. Kazham keys, sub job, parties, rank and missions for airship, genkai, quests (only the chocobo quest take a full day), unlocking teleports.
In 4 weeks you could just reach Jeuno and equip your character enough to approach Kazham without getting booted. If you survive to goblins in there outside, of course. Then you need another week to understand Kazham map (oh well, there's people still don't know it till 11 years release). FFXI is a shiny masterpiece nothing compared to these MMORPG out there nowdays.

[Azrael]

Thing is, I could see someone skipping rank missions (So no airship), maybe even skipping the gyashl green quest (No chocobo), and we could even argue he had a friend funnel him funds for gear, and AF in that game was hit or miss, so I could see him skipping that until 75. But sheer levelling of your main and subs and LBs man... 4 weeks, no way, not pre-AU. Post AU it's still quick, I guess, and post-WotG I'd say that's about right.

Abyssea I won't mention. 8 hours was all that was needed then. lol

Oh well, that looks like a gilseller scenario, not realistic for an average player, but still possible lol.
If everything went perfect like you said, even assuming you get an invite in party as soon as you login and your party never failed, I will never forget exp in ro'maeve/bibiki bay parties, no way you could make your way to the cap in those groups in 4 weeks.

[Fumijj_Gah]

BB parties were amazing... Especially when you 6k slug shot when dhalmel are in berserk... Ahahah
~tutturututturutututu *bard song

[Noahlimits]

Impossible. : p
I am talking about the first FFXI american version released in 2004. Kazham keys, sub job, parties, rank and missions for airship, genkai, quests (only the chocobo quest take a full day), unlocking teleports.
In 4 weeks you could just reach Jeuno and equip your character enough to approach Kazham without getting booted. If you survive to goblins in there outside, of course. Then you need another week to understand Kazham map (oh well, there's people still don't know it till 11 years release). FFXI is a shiny masterpiece nothing compared to these MMORPG out there nowdays.

Wrong. It took a week, tops, to get to Kazham if you played a lot at release. Everything else you named (subjobs, rank missions for airship, unlocking teleports) did not take as much time as you're saying. Even at the release of the game, the information was out there (even the crappy prima strategy guides and gamefaqs provided enough information).

If you spaced it out and did all the randomness that was in the game.. of course it would take you four weeks or longer to get there. However, to say someone couldn't get past Kazham in 4 weeks is really, really wrong.

[Fumijj_Gah]

Wrong. It took a week, tops, to get to Kazham if you played a lot at release. Everything else you named (subjobs, rank missions for airship, unlocking teleports) did not take as much time as you're saying. Even at the release of the game, the information was out there (even the crappy prima strategy guides and gamefaqs provided enough information).

What? Lol, man, I played hardcore as never before and never done on FFXI 2004 release (first, in USA, I needed to put fake NA information to play it since I am EU): starting saying Kazham is not part of FFXI release in 2002 (JP) and saying it's impossible to get your 75 in 4 weeks when Zilart was out. Old players know it, you could be stuck on genkai even for more than a month.
So please, stop talking things you never done.

[Noahlimits]

What? Lol, man, I played hardcore as never before and never done on FFXI 2004 release (first, in USA, I needed to put fake NA information to play it since I am EU): starting saying Kazham is not part of FFXI release in 2002 (JP) and saying it's impossible to get your 75 in 4 weeks when Zilart was out. Old players know it, you could be stuck on genkai even for more than a month.
So please, stop talking things you never done.

Granted, I stopped playing before they raised the cap past 75, but I played for a good 5 years on and off. And I restarted over and over again (due to eventual inactivity forced me to buy the game again if there was no 'welcome back' campaign going on) getting WHM and PLD to 75 multiple times. So yes, I did get to Kazham multiple times in a week or less. Stop assuming people haven't done things simply because you haven't or couldn't. This was also long before level lync and other ways to artifically increase the speed that you level.

I also never stated getting to 75 in four weeks was possible or not before they made the game stupid; I never tried nor would I want to. I simply stated your 'facts' about kazham was inaccurate.

[Gilthas]

The limiting factor in FFXI that made your first job take a long time to get to 75 was farming enough gil to buy gear. 4 weeks is way too little time to reach 75, but also way too much to get to Kazham, lol.

But yeah, took me almost a year to get my first 75 in FFXI because I cared about my gear.

[Fumijj_Gah]

And this is just the leveling, if we start to talk about relics and end game gear then we are really going far. No one had relics for years, the first names were legendary till now on their own servers. Here the relic weapon is the weaker lv.90 weapon that you can obtain with hours and people can also buy them if they're too weak to do even Titan HM.

[Azrael]

Wrong. It took a week, tops, to get to Kazham if you played a lot at release. Everything else you named (subjobs, rank missions for airship, unlocking teleports) did not take as much time as you're saying. Even at the release of the game, the information was out there (even the crappy prima strategy guides and gamefaqs provided enough information).

Congratulations, i'm happy to see there were so many experienced people in ffxi at release, a game that was far from being user friendly, where you could die alot and loose exp, go back to home point, farm keys to get to kazham, farm items for sub job quests without high level players helping you, make the quest for chocobo (only that take half a day), and find parties istant.
I'm also happy to know that you ran smoothly through valkurm noobs parties, without having problems ever. All that in a week? Really, i feel happy for you.

(for other people, ofc we are talking the first time you did it, not the multiple times, when you already knew everything about the game )

[Fumijj_Gah]

Granted, I stopped playing before they raised the cap past 75, but I played for a good 5 years on and off. And I restarted over and over again (due to eventual inactivity forced me to buy the game again if there was no 'welcome back' campaign going on) getting WHM and PLD to 75 multiple times. So yes, I did get to Kazham multiple times in a week or less. Stop assuming people haven't done things simply because you haven't or couldn't. This was also long before level lync and other ways to artifically increase the speed that you level.

I am talking about the absurd thing of 4 weeks cap, not Kazham, it was just an example. 4 weeks cap was impossible on FFXI after 1st expansion pack.