Why was FFXI so great?

[Jokerz]

1 person to pull mobs, 1 person set to assist and 1 person calling the desired form of death (physical/magical/etc) for exp bonus/time bonus and gear chests. You still needed to maintain the party with healers and buffers ofcourse. Exp parties + dynamis = abyssea, thats how it always seemed to me anyway. Abyssea was one of the only times i managed to be a melee rdm without much complaint though.

There was that much to it? With abby buffs people pretty much did whatever the hell they wanted to do>.>;