Quote Originally Posted by Cutie_McSnuggles View Post
Please forgive me. I still don't understand how it's that different. You can still get together with a group of people (party). You still kill the same things over and over (FATEs). And you still get EXP out of it.
The mechanics were much different in FFXI. There was no auto-regen on HP or MP; you had to pop a squat and recover slowly. So you would stay in one place and one person would pull mobs to the group, typically one at a time. Roaming exp parties were possible later in the exp grind, but required specific jobs that were in high demand.