Return to FFXI

[Zumi]

I would try the FFXI forums for finding people to play with. Anyway you can't finish the story of the newest expansion yet because all the missions aren't out yet. It's still in its early phases.

What FFXI is doing now is they pretty much are going back and redoing all their old fights for the 99+ cap. You do old bcnms retuned for 99+ to upgrade your old AF1 into 109 gear then you do 99 ark angle fights to get 119 AF1 gear. Along with delve and skermish and wildkeeper reives for some other side grades. Also much of the new content drops items to upgrade your relic/mythic/emperian weapon to ilvl 119.

New ffxi is a lot bigger grind to get your gear to ilvl 119, its a lot more work considering a lot of these fights require you to have 20 of the new seals and to 119 stuff you need 20 merits per fight and everyone has to have this. Thus makes it harder to gear up more then 1 job however people who like grinding can do it gear up a lot of jobs since there are no lockouts in FFXI its just a big grind. If you have many jobs you want to gear in FFXI you will never run out of stuff to do. In comparison abyssea was a lot easier to get top tier gear then it is now. Personally I think abyssea was the right amount of grind for gear. The current gear grind in Seekers is much longer.