1.23a Patch Notes!!!

[EmSix]

No it didn't FFXI still has like 2000-2500 people on a server at peak times. Most people who didn't quit weren't butthurt over their 75 gear being obsoleted found Abyssea to be really fun and gave you so much to do. I still play FFXI because of Abyssea.

You're wrong, but let's not get into that here.

[Zumi]

You're wrong, but let's not get into that here.

Almost everyone I talked to on my LS in FFXI say the game is better now then pre 75 where everything was so hard to organize groups for and had crap drop rates. Abyssea let you gear up in a decent amount of time.

[Delsus]

Almost everyone I talked to on my LS in FFXI say the game is better now then pre 75 where everything was so hard to organize groups for and had crap drop rates. Abyssea let you gear up in a decent amount of time.

I know, all jobs lvl 99 in 2 weeks (less actually) all geared in no time, Abyssea is just easy mode, give me a good old Dynamis where one wrong move would wipe a linkshell, or (in the case of windy) one wrong move meant the rest of the run was almost impossible any day over "Lets duo this with a WAR and WHM" and the awesome "You can't proc GTFO and level something useful" yeah loads better when my SCH and DRG struggled to get into fights just cos they couldn't proc as well as other jobs, and oh yeah "we only want as many jobs as we need so there's less competition." so much better.

[Reiterpallasch]

I know, all jobs lvl 99 in 2 weeks (less actually) all geared in no time

Maybe if you're starting from the last lvl cap and only have a few lvls to go, sure.

If you're new however: It takes 1,894,800 exp to go from 30 to 99, so across 20 jobs that's 37,896,000 exp. Assuming you're in an average party getting 100k/hr, that's 378 hours of nonstop exping 24/7. So just over 2 weeks if you never ever log out and are always exping. That's not taking into account that you still need to grind to 30, adding additional time required.

[dragorian]

Almost everyone I talked to on my LS in FFXI say the game is better now then pre 75 where everything was so hard to organize groups for and had crap drop rates. Abyssea let you gear up in a decent amount of time.

i agree with you what if they included legion in realm reboron where you fough hnm after hnm like lets say ifrit then garuda then moogle the the gc end boss and then then the new hard bosses ect
either way they will make it so no endgamer will cry

[Gentaro]

You're wrong, but let's not get into that here.

Well any 75 content basically got erased. The 99 cap broke ffxi its neck.

[Reiterpallasch]

You're wrong, but let's not get into that here.

Wrong about what? I don't think they're wrong about anything at all. Why on earth would anyone be upset that they now have access to new gear to work towards that is superior to their old gear? That's how these games work after all, isn't it?

[Renala]

Wrong about what? I don't think they're wrong about anything at all. Why on earth would anyone be upset that they now have access to new gear to work towards that is superior to their old gear? That's how these games work after all, isn't it?

75 was the cap for many years. Seeing the years worth of work get replace so easily is depressing. It's like Vannilla WoW to BC, your gear was good still if you did endgame, but eventually your purples get replaced by blues, if not GREENS. BC to LK was the worst, though. Unless you had t6 gear, or sunwell gear, the first greens were immediate upgrades.

Thats why the whole "Gearing up to be better is what this is about right?" mindset is wrong. People have worked harded for the 75 year. When it became useless.. people were bothered.