Quote Originally Posted by MicahZerrshia View Post
And I disagree about the brutal uphill battle currently in xi, exp/gil are incredibly easy to get, even in book burns you can go 1-99 in a couple days and skill cap in a single day easily, an empy, even dualboxing takes a couple weeks tops if you play daily and you can get top gear in a couple days if the rng doesnt screw you. Even ppl I helped break the first limit break a few weeks ago are running around in gear that would have taken us years to get pre-aby and touting a maats cap and empy weapon. Hell they even nerfed CoP to the point a whm or brd can solo nearly the whole thing and you can do things like open the gates in garlaige by just clicking a ??? near the entrance once. Even the limit breaks up to the 95-99 ones are easily solod since all you have to do is click on ??? anymore. As for farming gil/gear/everything else in the game all you need in xi is bst and ur good to go.
Ummm... this is all baloney. FFXI is still takes a lot of time and a lot of effort to advance in. You still need help with a lot of things. People who complain that abyssea "ruined" FFXI are just people who can't admit to themselves that THINGS CHANGE.