EXP Parties as an option please!

[Catwho]

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.

They were also very rough on certain jobs. I was a bard puller in FFXI, that super high in demand skill set to grab one monster every 30 seconds, sleep it, sing a song, and go run and grap the next mob, not too fast or not to slow, to keep the exp chain going indefinitely. I broke chain 300 once when I had the bird camp to myself. That is about an hour and a half of perfect timing for sleeps, and no screwups from 6 people.

It was exhausting, but at the time, it was the only way to see more than 10,000 exp in an hour.