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Hi,

I just bought the game for my pc (2008 Ed), its in the post. I just wanted to confirm a few things really. Is it really worth me starting this late on into the life of the game? I heard it can take A LOT of your time up and I don't have tons of free time. If you do think it is worth the efort, Where is a good place to start for beginners? I'm in the UK so where do you think it is best that I start?

Thanks.

Hi all. I'm a former player.

I used to live on Seraph. One of the major reasons I left FFXI was the sheer lack of events within European time zones (low social opportunities, always had to stay up late to do endgame, which I just cannot do these days.)

I still like FFXI. That means I've seen the upcoming raft of updates, increasing level cap, job changes, server mergers, and I'm torn. Part of me wants to return, find a different, more timezone friendly server, try a more casual FFXI. But then I think about the graphics and interface, the grind game play and, in all honesty, the cost per month.

My question is: Is FFXI worth it, considering the type of gamer I've become? (early euro, casual, poor) Just looking for opinions from those still within the game and perhaps those in similar situations who may have succeeded where I didn't on Seraph.

- Palm
75 SMN/WHM/DRG

I have a question referring to the "6 - I Used to have a character, can i get it back?" section. I took a 2 year break from the game but i didnt delete my character i just canceled the payment on the account does that still count as deleting my character? or can i just start paying again and i can have everything that i had before?

P.S Ty for the post i had a bunch of questions about whats new about the game and you answered everything. ^_^

I just wanted to say that I read the retuning sticky and thought it was excellent. I played back in 2006 (never got past level 60 because of all of the “side” things to do in the game) I have some specific questions on returning.

1. How is the economy? I left at about the peak of inflation I think. I know it will very by server but can anyone give me an idea of what a stack of fire crystals currently goes for and what darksteel ore currently goes for? This will give me an idea about the economy

2. I will be starting from scratch. I read about all of the experience/leveling changes. I am more of a casual gamer now though although I will still have time to do some 5-6 hour marathon partying sessions. My question is about how many game hours do you estimate it would take to level a starting job to 30 with most of that time spent soloing?

3. Has there been any recent changes/additions to crafting?

4. any servers to possibly avoid? My primary play time would be afternoons and evenings in North America East coast. I know there was a recent merger.

Just trying to figure out if it is personally worth returning for me. Answers to these specific questions would be very helpful in making my decision

ty for this and ty allakhazam. i read up on so many thing before i started playing 5/5/10

and thanks to this site and te wiki and a helpful brother less then 1 month in i have my sub i have blu unlocked also pld almost rank 5 i got aht urgan access. theres like 3 ppl in my ls played for 4+ months and dont have whitegate yet lol

if not for all you guys's info and guides id probably be lvl 16 no sub trying to solo in ghelsba or something

My god i hate WoW. I am ready to come back, for the 3rd time. I have decided to forgive SE/POL's payment system for this game. I miss my MNK/WAR, BLU/NIN and NIN/DNC. Unfortunately I have a feeling my old LS will be dead, but that wont stop me from enjoying my favorite MMO.

EDIT: I've just found out that Hades was put down.. This puts a damper on my enthusiasm.

Edited, Jun 19th 2010 4:28pm by Ashwhipe

Hey a somewhat returning player here. I was wondering. Do the add-ons stay connect through accounts via systems as I have ffxi for both PC and PS3. I was thinking since my pc lacks the wing of goddess expansion and i'm mising the shanntotto add on I could just buy the ultimate pack from steam.



EDIT -Actually nevermind. not sure if i'll get a response right away so ignore this question.-

Edited, Jul 2nd 2010 8:45pm by Phoenixgray

Thank you for the post! It's been two years since I left FFXI and I've really been missing it and thinking of rejoining. I already have my Playone account active, so I know I can get my character back. Your post really helped alot in answering quesions I had.

It is really too bad that, in watching the live feed, one might see a possible player kneeling in such a spot they might know will become broadcast. I remember a time when every second area on the live cam had a 6-person, or lone wolf party fighting outside the caves and towns. No, like Pawkeshup said, this game with never never be like WoW; which is still strong and active and full of nuances and in-game occurances that I've never experienced during my EverCrack days. It could be all my initial excitement over this game has fizzled--yet this might be rekindled upon release of 14. . . IF one can choose "good guys or bad guys" if not, I'm out. (Going to play WoW instead.)

Thank you for that amazing post! I just came back to FFXI after 5 years and its soo different. When I saw scorpion harness as 30k, i almost cried in joy.

The thing i was most surprised about is your statement on how someone can solo from 1-75 using Field Manuals??? Thats not true, is it? Im sure you can get alot more XP then before through that, but solo to 75? With any job?

Sorry for asking a noob question...Ive been out of the game for too long

Hello Everyone,

Let me start off by saying this is a great post. I much like others in this thread have recently been contemplating a return to FF (have been playing the FFXIV beta and my interest has been piqued). I see a lot of questions being asked but not many answers, unfortunately I just have more questions to add.

My wife and I have been playing WoW for the past 5 years, prior to that a friend and I played FFXI for about 6 months. Both of us gave up the game around level 30 as the time it took to find a party to quest or level seemed very unreasonable, although in hind sight im not surprised as we were a MNK and a RDM, not exactly the most needed classes. Although after reading all of the changes listed we are just about ready to give it a shot.

My questions are pretty simple I think however I cant seem to find any specific answers. When you die do you still lose XP and levels? I see it is mentioned that the amount of XP lost was lessened but do you still level down if you die too much? When you level up do you have to manually allocate skill points and thus possibly risk gimping yourself by stacking points in the wrong categories or spreading the points too thin across all categories? If we play in all likelyhood it will for the most part be just the 2 of us as a static team, we have a new baby and do not have the time for many multi hour sessions thus we will be pretty casual, is it possible to level/quest for the majority of the time in a small group like this?

Thank you for your consideration, if their are any other husband/wife teams out there who started recently I would greatly appreciate any input you have on your experience so far. I should add that if in reading this you think this wont be the game for us then by all means let me know. As I said we would likely be playing 2-3 times a week in maybe 2 hour sessions. Would appreciate some honest opinions.

Edited, Sep 10th 2010 3:24pm by Marinoid