How do I level?

[Dymlos]

Re: How do I level?

Yea, once the expansion comes out, I'll play PSU again. Too bad my char is most likely deleted and I have to start from scratch.

[Kailea]

Re: How do I level?

So far as I can tell, death no longer lowers your ranking. NPC or PC. So instead of tossing 10 scape dolls at everything, you're tossing 10 Moons/Moon X's at it. :p And Giresta actually has a use now.
Unless they changed it back in recent months, I haven't played in about two months. But last I was on, death didn't matter. Most people were still responsible, but naturally it bred idiots that think they can just die and expect their team to repeatedly revive them.

oh cool thanks for the info ^.^ I am still waiting for the expansion.

anyway, gilboy needs to learn that you cant throw money at everything ;p Try doing things for yourself.

[Telera]

Re: How do I level?

So far as I can tell, death no longer lowers your ranking. NPC or PC. So instead of tossing 10 scape dolls at everything, you're tossing 10 Moons/Moon X's at it. :p And Giresta actually has a use now.

Unless they changed it back in recent months, I haven't played in about two months. But last I was on, death didn't matter. Most people were still responsible, but naturally it bred idiots that think they can just die and expect their team to repeatedly revive them.

[Kailea]

Re: How do I level?

Hmm, as others have said, this game is definitely not for you. Levelling in XI, aside from the odd solo job or bomb kiting and other such oddities, is just that. Stand in one camp (move if someone intrudes, or run them out) and kill a string of mobs until you level. I don't agree with the assertions here that that make the levelling any harder or easier, simply different.
Questing for exp can be a horrible grind just as boring and dull as camping here. (Don't believe me? Come hang with me and Beo in Angmar a while, I'll show you.) What you have to decide, I suppose, is if you have the patience, will, and time. FFXI is, by and large, probably one of the most time-sink intensive MMOs on the market. Again, unlike others, I find nothing wrong with the mentality or skills of a person who simply doesn't go in for this kind of thing, just as I find nothing wrong with/better skills in a person who does. It's like music, books, other media; it's highly subjective.
I don't think levelling here requires any more cooperation when you are in a group than in other games. In every party in every kind of online game I've ever played, if you don't work cohesively, it usually ends in massive failure, wipe, repair costs, and whatever else your game impliments to punish failure. Not to mention a very strained atmosphere that is no fun to play in.
In Monster Hunter you get the fool who can't read the wyverns and fails the quest. In PSU you've got an idiot who never uses potions and thinks your mage is a walking battery pack, who then, again (until the patch) killed your rating and your reward. Nevermind people who can't seem to grasp elemental charts. As simple as they are on there. In LotR we had the idiot dwarf who seemed to thinking charging headlong ahead of the group into seven elites in Elendil's Tomb was a Good Idea. After two wipes, repeated remonstrations to him and full, explicit instructions that his ass was to stay put until the tank pulled, he did it again. And then left thinking we were being too harsh. I'm sorry, but my repair bill, along with everyone else's (especially the poor Minstrel's) was piling up and we were tired of dealing with someone who could not perform their job nor work as a group. Thankfully we replaced him with a much more competent and team minded person and got through without major issue afterwards. I did feel bad for the Minstrel, though, and myself, along with the tank and my boyfriend split his repair bill. I had partied with him quite a few times before and he's great at his job. I'm surprised he put up with it so long; I wouldn't have.
But, in short, it reminded me acutely of similar situations in FFXI. It doesn't matter how much 'harder' you think your game is than the 'others', if it's got a good deal of party quests in it, you have to learn to play your job or end up on the ignore lists of everyone at the endgame. That failure of a player we had in Elendil's Tomb? I can bet he was on the list of everyone in our party before the end.
All of that said, FFXI is a very different MMO to the others, and if you enjoy the others, you're very likely not going to like it here. After three years, I had had sufficient of this game, and I quit. I have some good memories of the three years, but I don't think I would ever want to play again. But I would hesitate to call the entire game obsolete as you did (too lazy to go quote fishing). It's simply a very different flavor that you either love or hate. But if you're already this baffled and unhappy, save yourself some trouble and go back to wherever you were enjoying yourself. No game is fun (no matter how easy or hard) if you're simply forcing yourself to keep playing out of stubbornness to give up. I found that out firsthand.

wait wait what patch for PSU, what did that change about mission.. I just started playing PSU on the side (had some charaters from day 1) and have not played with others online since I have been back?

(hate to derail but) ;p

[Lionheart]

Re: How do I level?

yes..... if your to lazy to level your characters.... then don't play, go back to WoW or something... or is that game to hard for you? ^.^

BURN!

[Telera]

Re: How do I level?

Hmm, as others have said, this game is definitely not for you. Levelling in XI, aside from the odd solo job or bomb kiting and other such oddities, is just that. Stand in one camp (move if someone intrudes, or run them out) and kill a string of mobs until you level. I don't agree with the assertions here that that make the levelling any harder or easier, simply different.

Questing for exp can be a horrible grind just as boring and dull as camping here. (Don't believe me? Come hang with me and Beo in Angmar a while, I'll show you.) What you have to decide, I suppose, is if you have the patience, will, and time. FFXI is, by and large, probably one of the most time-sink intensive MMOs on the market. Again, unlike others, I find nothing wrong with the mentality or skills of a person who simply doesn't go in for this kind of thing, just as I find nothing wrong with/better skills in a person who does. It's like music, books, other media; it's highly subjective.

I don't think levelling here requires any more cooperation when you are in a group than in other games. In every party in every kind of online game I've ever played, if you don't work cohesively, it usually ends in massive failure, wipe, repair costs, and whatever else your game impliments to punish failure. Not to mention a very strained atmosphere that is no fun to play in.

In Monster Hunter you get the fool who can't read the wyverns and fails the quest. In PSU you've got an idiot who never uses potions and thinks your mage is a walking battery pack, who then, again (until the patch) killed your rating and your reward. Nevermind people who can't seem to grasp elemental charts. As simple as they are on there. In LotR we had the idiot dwarf who seemed to thinking charging headlong ahead of the group into seven elites in Elendil's Tomb was a Good Idea. After two wipes, repeated remonstrations to him and full, explicit instructions that his ass was to stay put until the tank pulled, he did it again. And then left thinking we were being too harsh. I'm sorry, but my repair bill, along with everyone else's (especially the poor Minstrel's) was piling up and we were tired of dealing with someone who could not perform their job nor work as a group. Thankfully we replaced him with a much more competent and team minded person and got through without major issue afterwards. I did feel bad for the Minstrel, though, and myself, along with the tank and my boyfriend split his repair bill. I had partied with him quite a few times before and he's great at his job. I'm surprised he put up with it so long; I wouldn't have.

But, in short, it reminded me acutely of similar situations in FFXI. It doesn't matter how much 'harder' you think your game is than the 'others', if it's got a good deal of party quests in it, you have to learn to play your job or end up on the ignore lists of everyone at the endgame. That failure of a player we had in Elendil's Tomb? I can bet he was on the list of everyone in our party before the end.

All of that said, FFXI is a very different MMO to the others, and if you enjoy the others, you're very likely not going to like it here. After three years, I had had sufficient of this game, and I quit. I have some good memories of the three years, but I don't think I would ever want to play again. But I would hesitate to call the entire game obsolete as you did (too lazy to go quote fishing). It's simply a very different flavor that you either love or hate. But if you're already this baffled and unhappy, save yourself some trouble and go back to wherever you were enjoying yourself. No game is fun (no matter how easy or hard) if you're simply forcing yourself to keep playing out of stubbornness to give up. I found that out firsthand.

[Kailea]

Re: How do I level?

yes..... if your to lazy to level your characters.... then don't play, go back to WoW or something... or is that game to hard for you? ^.^

[ItazuraNhomango]

Re: How do I level?

I use "alt" as short for "alternate character". Is it not in common usage?

Anyhow, I reported him as well.

[Feenicks]

Re: How do I level?

I'll tell you the best way to level, order a powerleveling service! I know some will hate me, but they are helpful especially in trying to get your Alts updated. I've tried a few services and [removed] is my favorite. Some of the others don't seem to want to ever talk to you.

Alts? What the hell is an Alt and are they in FFXI?

Sounds like an ad to me. *reported*

[WovenDarkness]

Re: How do I level?

That sort of suggestion is against the rules of the game, and also this forum. If you're not interested in playing FFXI, then don't play.

*WINNER*

I'll tell you the best way to level, order a powerleveling service! I know some will hate me, but they are helpful especially in trying to get your Alts updated. I've tried a few services and Mogs is my favorite. Some of the others don't seem to want to ever talk to you.

Well...I don't hate you...but I wouldn't want to do any events in the game with you either. When I hit up a party or a quest/mission, it's easy to see who the players are that don't know what they are doing....I feel like(as ALL of my online friends do...)that I'm dragging you along...and odds are you'll most likely do something to endanger the party/quest/mission, etc. ...continued failure is a great way to earn a very bad reputation, and will subsequently, not get you invited to all of those things that your power leveling your character for.

...but hey, those are just my 2 cents.

...one more thing, which server are you on and what is your character name? I'd like to avoid you if at all possible. :smile: ....though I might sneak/invis up and come and watch you get your party killed off.....repeatedly.

Best of luck.


~WD

[Murphie]

Re: How do I level?

That sort of suggestion is against the rules of the game, and also this forum. If you're not interested in playing FFXI, then don't play.

edit: Actually, based on his profile, he should probably just be banned.

[gilboy]

Re: How do I level?

[Moderator's Edit]
I'm actually an RMT and I like to hug big fluffy bunnies and give them nuzzles.

[gilboy]

Re: How do I level?

I'll be grinding till pigs fly...

[smurv]

Re: How do I level?

So I'm out in West Suburbia (or however you spell it), trying to do the quests (such as getting drops from the rabbit, or getting to the outpost), but I get my ass handed to me in 5 seconds from any mob other than the bumblebee and the mushroom looking white guys.

Sorry i can't help it... LOL Suburbia, XD "West Sarutabaruta" is the correct term mate lol.

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This is the Official BORING way you level, you join a BORING group, go camp an area, stare at the Game Screen til the 1000000000th mob you kill at that point you fall asleep..... SE made the leveling system obselete compared to WoW.

Oh my lord go kill yourself. It's called an MMORPG that means you can do whatever you want within the realms of Vana'diel or whatever game your playing. Including solo.

WOW is way to easy for me, i need something to challenge me, their gayest choice in graphics was a mistake but to top it off... Nothing is wrong with either games, your the only one making it worse. At an FFXI forum who talks trash on our game and then brags about how WOW this and that... WOW is gay, they give you full quest descriptions, easy leveling, gay graphics for It's childish players.

You've been baby fed way to long, you forgot what a real MMO is like.

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Obselete = obsolete:
1. no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression.
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thousands of players wake up each morning and log into FFXI and fight....

Also swap out "obselete" with abandoned and see how smart you sound.

[Katashi Takishiro]

Re: How do I level?

Even if you do have the spare money to blow, damn, that's sad.

So very true! I hate RMT's, and the players that support them! Go back to WoW where u belong and leave us alone!