EXP Parties as an option please!

[StouterTaru]

Please forgive me. I still don't understand how it's that different. You can still get together with a group of people (party). You still kill the same things over and over (FATEs). And you still get EXP out of it.

The mechanics were much different in FFXI. There was no auto-regen on HP or MP; you had to pop a squat and recover slowly. So you would stay in one place and one person would pull mobs to the group, typically one at a time. Roaming exp parties were possible later in the exp grind, but required specific jobs that were in high demand.

[Catwho]

The mechanics were much different in FFXI. There was no auto-regen on HP or MP; you had to pop a squat and recover slowly. So you would stay in one place and one person would pull mobs to the group, typically one at a time. Roaming exp parties were possible later in the exp grind, but required specific jobs that were in high demand.

They were also very rough on certain jobs. I was a bard puller in FFXI, that super high in demand skill set to grab one monster every 30 seconds, sleep it, sing a song, and go run and grap the next mob, not too fast or not to slow, to keep the exp chain going indefinitely. I broke chain 300 once when I had the bird camp to myself. That is about an hour and a half of perfect timing for sleeps, and no screwups from 6 people.

It was exhausting, but at the time, it was the only way to see more than 10,000 exp in an hour.