Honest question: If every player/class/job is equal,who is unique? (Gameplay topic)

[Dwill]

Honestly? Not even a little bit. That piece of gear would take years to obtain. 6 mo to level your first job was pretty typical. Most people wouldn't have full Homam (for example) until years after when they started. Or Byakko's Haidate until they have been farming sky for months. The piece of gear was something you were proud of, something you built your gearset around. When next coil comes around, HA will have been BIS for what? 6 months? And you will be able to get gear better than it from whatever new tomes they release. One of these systems sounds rewarding to me, the other is like a cat chasing a mouse on a string.

We were giving Haidate left and right in our LS because we farmed Sky so much(to which you could also buy trigger making the farming an irrelevant issue). All of the main core of the LS had their jailers' necklace so they were given to alt.
You could buy the Osode which was BiS for Weapon Skills. For Samurai, a lot of the BiS for auto-attacks had to be be bought (Hagun, Haubergeon +1, Grip, O.Kote, Kyahan, Forager Mantle) and one of the BiS ring was the CoP ring could be obtained in not too long, same deal with Zilart earrings.

It didn't take that long to gear if you were in a decent LS and a similar system in this game will more than likely yield similar results.

Is that all you remember from XI. You don't remember organising skill chains and magic bursts? Setting up SATAs, BRD maintaining 4 or 5 song rotations? Samurais and Blue Magics Self-SC'ing? The list can go on and on. It sounds like you're pretty jaded about XI.

Distortion or Light were the only two really used in endgame. Main strategy in endgame for forever was throw as many Samurais as you can for melees at boss with them being in 6-hit setup to chain WS left and right while buffing them to oblivion with Bards. If you were a two-handed users and you were not a samurai, you would have to/sam for Hasso which lefts you with zero "uniqueness" in term of subjob.

>_> Just going to say, I was pup forever. I still got invited to stuff without a problem lol That's what was great about XI and older mmos, if you knew people, you got stuff done. None of this "solo 90% of the game" crap we have now in mmos. Even better is that if you were good at your job, people knew it (since no cross server instance stuff), which increased your chances of being invited even more

Also >_> For anyone who brings up the argument on "waiting hours" for a party. Usually you can solve that by just making your own. Just saying lol

Yeah, making your own party with people dropping from it once they discovered you were a pup or it would take forever because you'd go anon while recruiting so people wouldn't see that you were a PUP. I knew quite a few people to which that happened during ToAU. And if you were good at your job, you were good at the most optimal one which is what people wanted. People in FFXI were mostly elitists in endgame and no one would let you PUP anything relevant so yeah, good job, you could merit as PUP but do nothing else worthwhile.