How am I meant to level with a friend now?

[LuxLex]

Really WoW players can solo everything?

I wasn't aware that millions of players did Raid content solo...

you can't solo everything in abyssea. Well you can solo anything with a brew, but you run out of cruor pretty fast doing that, and get no procs so it would be pretty pointless.

And, there is ton of content outside of abyssea that is not soloable either. You aren't even allowed to enter nyzul solo for example.

So your point is?

Cause my point is, XI gives me lots to do lowman and solo... things that are rewarding - unlike getting 80 of the 45,000 SP I need to level. That is not rewarding. It is ridiculous.

[Dubont]

you can't solo everything in abyssea. Well you can solo anything with a brew, but you run out of cruor pretty fast doing that, and get no procs so it would be pretty pointless.

And, there is ton of content outside of abyssea that is not soloable either. You aren't even allowed to enter nyzul solo for example.

So your point is?

Cause my point is, XI gives me lots to do lowman and solo... things that are rewarding - unlike getting 80 of the 45,000 SP I need to level. That is not rewarding. It is ridiculous.

Before the level cap raise, there wasn't a whole lot that you could solo and even then, you could only do it with a select few jobs with specific gear, specific stats and specific macros. Again, FFXIV is much much much easier to level in and much faster, if you do it correctly, compared to correctly leveling in FFXI. Remember those leve exploits you mentioned about 14? Yeah, there was an "exploit," as you claim, in XI called summoner burns which is probably what you did to get your levels.

[LuxLex]

Yeah, there was an "exploit," as you claim, in XI called summoner burns which is probably what you did to get your levels.

I never did a summoner burn. I stopped playing XI way back when it sucked and was grindy. I came back when they made it fun. I did clearly state above that I solo/duoed my levels, but, it is cool if you would rather just blindly attack me versus actually reading my posts.

[Warp]

Before the level cap raise, there wasn't a whole lot that you could solo and even then, you could only do it with a select few jobs with specific gear, specific stats and specific macros. Again, FFXIV is much much much easier to level in and much faster, if you do it correctly, compared to correctly leveling in FFXI. Remember those leve exploits you mentioned about 14? Yeah, there was an "exploit," as you claim, in XI called summoner burns which is probably what you did to get your levels.

Campaign, Fields of Valour, and not to mention Level sync making it a joke to find others to play with.

All at 75 cap, and this was in 2007-2008.

[LuxLex]

Before the level cap raise, there wasn't a whole lot that you could solo and even then, you could only do it with a select few jobs with specific gear, specific stats and specific macros.

Guess what, I am talking of the XI of today, not the XI of the past. I don't care what XI used to be like. I care about the XI I play today.

Again, FFXIV is much much much easier to level in and much faster, if you do it correctly, compared to correctly leveling in FFXI.

What is "correctly leveling" - It is easy to get a job from 1-50 in XI in a day - no abyssea required. Can you level a job in XIV from 1-50 in a day? You're wrong. Period.

[SuzakuCMX]

time sinks do not equal difficulty
endlessly grinding is not fun

You are free to disagree, but most paying mmo players are on my side.

But WoW is the most subscribed to MMO ever and it is all grind until you reach end-game content .=.

[Forbin]

lol man some of you are clueless and are really speaking out of your asses on FFXI.. go back to WoW if its such a great game.. I for one LOVE the changes.. as does everyone i'm playing with atm... everyone is talking about how much fun they're having being able to group up, and get SP.. we did leve's then did a behest, then in between we did some mob grinding.. get out make friends and play.. LexLex doesn't even play the freaking game.. he just sits here bitching.

i just went from 15-21 in a single session doing what i said above.. the SP gain is just fine.

[sirbuzzkillington]

with the way its going it won't be around by the end of this year

[Forbin]

with the way its going it won't be around by the end of this year

I'll bet you any amount of money you're wrong.. all the, "this game is going to get shutdown" people are full blown ritard..

this game will be here 10 years from now if SE keeps going in the direction they are.. they'll win back the people who actually play their games that they lost back to FFXI.

[Xquiel]

you guys can't live without getting easy/slow SP?, stop crying, shut up and play -.-