To those who played FF11...

[Adeacia]

I never played 11 and from the sounds of things, I'm glad I didn't. The more you talk about the things you like about 11, the more I want to avoid it.

I've already dealt with all that stuff in the many, many other mmos I've played in the past and have no interest in doing it again.

[Stanelis]

As much as I'd love to have nothing bad to say about XI, I very much relate to that comic.

I started XI in 2006, and my first job was a Monk. I was too late for the KRT party craze, and I remember many, many times where I'd be flagged for 2-3 hours without a single invite. I did not like making my own parties as I was never good with finding camps/knowing the right mobs, so wait I did. Took me over a year to get my MNK to 75.

At some point I had started a 2nd character on another account, and I opted for a WHM. Party invites were so damn fast, and I would get blind invites even when I wasn't flagged up.

Well as I said the issue was more that people needed to be in a narrow level range. I remember too waiting 2 hours for a party even though I was playing a job in demand, just because there weren't that many parties in that range out there.

As for MNK it used to be good but was nerfed at some point, and ever since it has been in a bad shape. Even today MNK is one of the very few jobs in FFXI you can't really do anything useful with (even PUP or BST were vastly improved).

[RitsukoSonoda]

*snip*

It also boiled down to people LFG for a role and SC element synergy. Most of the complaints about long wait times to make a party were from ppl playing DPS jobs. While on a tank or healer I would generally get an invite within 5 minutes after putting LFG flag up. I would have to go anon just to stop the /tells asking me to party when I was RDM or BRD because they'd pester me without my flag up.

[Istaru]

It also boiled down to people LFG for a role and SC element synergy. Most of the complaints about long wait times to make a party were from ppl playing DPS jobs. While on a tank or healer I would generally get an invite within 5 minutes after putting LFG flag up. I would have to go anon just to stop the /tells asking me to party when I was RDM or BRD because they'd pester me without my flag up.

This!

I played RDM, WHM and BRD originally. I did not have many issues getting parties. I also got pestered to party too, they got annoying sometimes. It’s no different than every other game. Tanks, healers and support characters will be in short supply while DD characters are a dime a dozen.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

to those who play ffxi please don't bring ffxi ideal in the game let ffxiv stand on it own, this was common remind for us who face 2.0

How is ff14 standing on it's own when it's just copying world of warcraft?

[Zeonx]

I wanted to add that FFXI players are super good.

My cousin played longer the macro thing players had to do back then like timing freeze for burst on weapon skill links for darkness or light to remember all the skills which burst off of and swaps for everything was insane.

That stuff to me is amazing how people did that as a community to work together and use timing and to remember everything like that that was apart of the team work aspect of FFXI

[Mithron]

Variety of end game content and horizontal progression.

[Wilford111]

I never played 11 and from the sounds of things, I'm glad I didn't. The more you talk about the things you like about 11, the more I want to avoid it.

I've already dealt with all that stuff in the many, many other mmos I've played in the past and have no interest in doing it again.

I actually want to play ffxi more from reading this thread. That's just me though.

[Skivvy]

I actually want to play ffxi more from reading this thread. That's just me though.

These threads tend to make me resub whenever they pop up :X If people started posting music links, it would probably be all over for me. lol

[Istaru]

These threads tend to make me resub whenever they pop up :X If people started posting music links, it would probably be all over for me. lol

Here you go!!

https://youtu.be/De2yLOOs4pE

Bonus track:

https://youtu.be/yVYhcXmXSB0