old ffxi player hereFollow

wait for 2.0

I absolutely love it. I am an old FFXI player as well. Started my journey on Kujata and since the server merge its not the same :( XIV is different, mainly gameplay at this point but such an experience why not give it a go. It wont hurt to give it a shot. You either end up hating it or loving it. It may be more based on solo play right now but down the road who knows. It has a lot of potential and every update i feel will make it better. XI was the same way when it was released. Just have to have the patience i think to be able to adapt to what changes in game. 2.0 has a lot of hype going for it. Guess we'll see. Happy adventuring :)

Might as well wait now it's so close to RRB. I'm an old FFXI player and I have seen FFXI style party play in FFXIV and I've seen solo play (first job in FFXI was a BST so I'm a loner by nature). There is party play to be had, in fact apart from crafting almost everything I do is party based whether in a duo or 16+ people taking on the Garlean H1. I have to say thats it's what you make of it that matters. I got into a couple of great linkshells from the start and for some people having to find that puts them off. It is different to FFXI so don't expect the same but RRB looks so good that if they get this wrong I probably will rethink my subscription but from what I have seen so far it looks very very good. So looking forward to it.

They did away with Character levels a while ago, so it's like switching in 11 now. You start back at 1. The major difference is that abilities are not (or at least none I have found) level locked. once you unlock an ability in one class, you can use it (if it is a cross class skill) on any other class.

To be honest, the best thing to do is to level up con until you get cure, then switch to which ever class you want. If you are really diehard at leveling, you can try getting to protect and stoneskin (not that bad), and that way you can have those abilities all the way through. Protect and stoneskin especially soloing can be worth their weight in MP. As well, leveling Pug up to second wind Gla has Rampart and Sentinel, and the list does kinda go on and on (my preference has always been around the def abilities, though things like Leg sweep are nice).

You could go the old school route of getting all the abilities that make life easier (by complicating your life and leveling up every class), or you can focus on only the abilities that are focused around the job you want to play. Both ways work quite well, and as of now, there really is no longer a *right* and *wrong* way to level with the exception of, if you want to play as a job (and you really need to at end game), you will need to level up your appropriate sub classes (there is one required and one optional sub class for each job).

Oh, and to further clarify (since I think I kinda went way off topic in that), you will always be the level of your current class (even if you are on a job). Your abilities for your class are limited to the level of your current class, and to the level of whatever class you are taking skills from (e.g. a level 1 Mrd who leveled whm to 50 has access to raise... But, a level 50 Mrd with a level 1 whm doesn't).

Edited, Sep 13th 2012 9:58am by rfolkker

I am currently Level 37 and have done it all completely solo. It is actually quite hard to even find a party for quests and missions (at least on Ragnarok).

Basically the job thing is like FFXI but instead of running to your mog house to "change jobs" you just change your weapon. By doing so you change to that job (and whatever level you have brought it to). It's actually one of the coolest features of the game though since you can level any job and use all the skills from each one. My gladiator has conjurer damage spells and HP regen skills from pugilist class.

if it's anything like when I was last on, it is something that spans servers. RMT have been farming gil on every server since forever. I worry that if the game does get half decent the combination of older players with massive amounts of gil and RMT with massive amounts of gil will mean the economy is borked from the get go.