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ALL OF THE FINAL FANTASY XI INFORMATION YOU CAN HANDLE
NOTE
This is only my opinion and not all of the information may be correct. I don’t import FFXI so I have to rely on what other people say. It may be wrong because they don’t know what they are talking about or just because the US version will be different. The only way to confirm this information is to wait until it comes out in the US and check it out for yourself. This information will also change as the game is updated. And if you have any questions, after reading this more than once, just post a reply with them here.
BASIC JOBS
Warrior- a master of various armed combat
Monk- a master of martial art and unarmed combat
White Mage- a magician which heals wounds
Black Mage- a magician skilled in attacking
Red Mage- uses both white and black magic
Thief- evades and steals from enemies
ADVANCED JOBS
Ranger- a skilled archer
Paladin- a healing knight
Dark Knight- uses power of darkness
Beast Master- can make monsters into pets
Bard- plays songs that cause various status effects
RACES
Hume-(male/female) looks like a human
Elvaan-(male/female) looks like a elf
Mithra-(only female) looks like a cat person
Tarutaru-(male/female) looks small and cute
Galka-(only male) looks big and hairy
STATS
If you want to know the stats for each race, main job, and support job check here. You might want to check here to see if your race and jobs work together, or if changing one of them might be better. Here’s what each stat does.
HP- Hit Points are the amount of health you have.
MP- Magic Points are the amount of magic you can use.
STR- Strength helps determine your melee and ranged attack power.
DEX- Dexterity helps determine your hit rate and your accuracy of your melee attacks.
VIT- Vitality helps determine your defense.
AGI- Agility helps determine your evasion and the accuracy of your ranged attacks.
INT- Intelligence helps determine how much your black magic hits for.
MND- Mind helps determine how much your white magic heals for.
CHR- Charisma helps determine how much items cost and helps with bard and beast master abilities.
SUPPORT JOBS
A support or sub job is the opposite a main job, but unlike a main job, to be able to get a support job you must do a quest. You only need to do one quest to be able to have a support job, but you can’t go on the support job quest until your main job’s level is about 18. All support jobs start at level one, unless you have already leveled that job up. Your support job can only be half of your main jobs level, but you can’t level up a sub job ever. To level up a sub job you have to make it your main job level it up as your main job and then switch it back to your sub job. When you equip a sub job you get all of the qualities, abilities, and magic of that job, except the level one super ability. You will get a percentage of that job’s stats. Here are the approximate percentages of your sub jobs stats that you should get- 50% of its MP, 33% its CHR, and 25% of all its other stats. You should note that these values might be wrong, or they might only be correct if your support job is exactly half the level of your main job. Also remember that you can’t equip items that are meant for your sub job. You can only equip items meant for your main job, this is to prevent twinking.
ADVANED JOBS
An advanced job is the opposite a basic job, but unlike a basic job, to be able to get an advanced job must complete one of at least five quests. Each advanced job has one specific quest that must be done in order to obtain a certain job, but before you can go on an advanced job quest you must have a basic main job level of about 30. To make an advanced job your main job, you have to first level up a basic job, then complete the advanced job quest, and then you can make it your main job, but it will start at level one again. To make an advanced job a sub job you have to complete both an advanced job quest and the support job quest. The advanced job quests start at the following locations: Ranger Quest- Windurst, Paladin Quest- San’Doria, Dark Knight Quest- Bastok, Beast Master Quest- Jueno, and Bard Quest- Jueno.
MOG HOUSE
A mog house is your home and it is very important. Here are some of the things that you can do at your mog house and most of these you can only do at your mog house. Store things that you don’t want to carry on you, change your main and sub jobs, grow plants, receive and sent items to other mog houses, and you can decorate your mog house. Growing plants can give you items and decorating your house can help you store more things there. You get a mog house for free when you make your character. No one else can go into your house and you can get to anyone else’s.
KINGDOMS
There are three kingdoms you can choose to start in and make your home. The Federation of Windurst is the one with the best and cheapest magic. The Republic of Bastok has great armor and weapons, but they aren’t that cheap. And The Kingdom of San’Doria has is centrally located, so traveling is easiest from it. There is also Grand Duchy of Jueno which is the center of trade, but you can’t start there. Windurst is the Tarutaru’s and Mithra’s native kingdom, Bastok is the Hume’s and Galka’s native kingdom, and San’Doria is the Elvaan’s native kingdom, Jueno has no native race. I have heard that if your race starts in there native kingdom you get a stat boosting ring. So you should probably start in your native kingdom or the same kingdom as the rest of our clan because if we are not in the same kingdom it could be hard to find each other. Here’s a list of what each ring does to your starting stats.
San’Doria Ring: STR+1, MND+1 (Elvaan)
Bastok Ring: HP+3, VIT+1, DEX+1 (Hume, Galka)
Windurst Ring: MP+3, AGI+1, INT+1 (Tarutaru, Mithra)
MISSIONS AND QUESTS
You might not want to start in your native kingdom, because each kingdom has a different set of missions that you have to do to get to the Shadow Lord, he’s kind of like the final boss but the game has a lot more missions you can do after you beat him. So it’s kind of like each kingdom is its own game. In addition to your job level you also have a mission rank, which is base on what missions you have beat and determines what missions you can do, this is to keep the storyline linear. You start on rank 1 and after you beat the Shadow Lord you become a rank 6. There are at least 8 ranks, but after rank 6 all three kingdoms missions are the same. The main difference between a mission and a quest is simple; a quest is not part of the story. Some quests have requirements such as having a certain mission rank or job level. The other difference between a mission and a quest is the fact that quests give you something and some missions might not. Quests can give you an item, a weapon, an ability (like to equip a sub job), an advanced job, or even more space to carry items.
SERVERS
This is very important, we all must start on the same server or we won’t be able to fight together. There are only two ways of that we start on the same server, because you are assigned to the one with the lease people when you get done making your character. One, a world pass, world passes let you and up to four other people change servers. For this option to work you have to know someone from the server that you want to go to, because you can not buy a world pass your self, you need them to buy it for you (with gil) and then give you the WP code. But WP’s can be very expensive depending on how many people use it and which server you want to go to. The other, option is after you have created a character check to see what server you are on, and if it is not the right one delete that character and make a new one, with the same options, until it say that you are on the correct sever. Here’s a list of the sever names that are in Japan right now: Bahamut, Shiva, Titan, Ramuh, Phoenix, Carbuncle, Fenrir, Sylph, Varfale, Alexander, Leviathan, Odin, Ifrit, Diabolos, Caitsith, Quetyalcoatl, Siren, Unicorn, Gilgamesh, Ragnarok, Pandemonium, and Garuda. I here that Bahamut, Shiva, and Ragnarok are very crowded so if it’s the same with the US version we might not want to use one of those severs.
EQUIPMENT
Every job can equip different weapons and armor but only the armor linked to your primary job. This is a list of the slots available to you: Primary weapon, Shield/Secondary Weapon, Range, Ammo, Head, Neck, Earring, Earring, Body, Hand, Ring, Ring, Back, Waist, Legs, and Feet slots.
SEX, FACE, HAIR, AND BODY SIZE
In addition to what I have already said you will also have to pick a sex, Mithra are only female and Galka are only male the rest are both, face, each race and sex has 8 different faces, hair color, each face has two hair colors, and body size, small, medium, or big. This gives you a total of 366 different characters, but remember some will be used a lot more than others and you will barely be able to tell the difference between some. And if you really care about looking different just remember that each job and level has different armor and each armor looks different. All of these things are only for looks, that’s it.
BATTLE SYSTEM
The battles are in real time but you still use command menus. The battles are not random you can see the monsters on the screen, and you can see other peoples battles and join them if they accept your help. You can form a party with up to six members, or an alliance of three parties, 18 member, alliances are mostly for bosses. After a while, your party will collect a lot of items from defeated monsters. Items are given out either by the leader, the person that started the party, or they are thrown into a pool. In a pool, people can choose what items they want, but if two or more people pick the same item, the game generates a number for the players and the player with the highest number gets that item.
NOTE
This is only my opinion and not all of the information may be correct. I don’t import FFXI so I have to rely on what other people say. It may be wrong because they don’t know what they are talking about or just because the US version will be different. The only way to confirm this information is to wait until it comes out in the US and check it out for yourself. This information will also change as the game is updated. And if you have any questions, after reading this more than once, just post a reply with them here.
BASIC JOBS
Warrior- a master of various armed combat
Monk- a master of martial art and unarmed combat
White Mage- a magician which heals wounds
Black Mage- a magician skilled in attacking
Red Mage- uses both white and black magic
Thief- evades and steals from enemies
ADVANCED JOBS
Ranger- a skilled archer
Paladin- a healing knight
Dark Knight- uses power of darkness
Beast Master- can make monsters into pets
Bard- plays songs that cause various status effects
RACES
Hume-(male/female) looks like a human
Elvaan-(male/female) looks like a elf
Mithra-(only female) looks like a cat person
Tarutaru-(male/female) looks small and cute
Galka-(only male) looks big and hairy
STATS
If you want to know the stats for each race, main job, and support job check here. You might want to check here to see if your race and jobs work together, or if changing one of them might be better. Here’s what each stat does.
HP- Hit Points are the amount of health you have.
MP- Magic Points are the amount of magic you can use.
STR- Strength helps determine your melee and ranged attack power.
DEX- Dexterity helps determine your hit rate and your accuracy of your melee attacks.
VIT- Vitality helps determine your defense.
AGI- Agility helps determine your evasion and the accuracy of your ranged attacks.
INT- Intelligence helps determine how much your black magic hits for.
MND- Mind helps determine how much your white magic heals for.
CHR- Charisma helps determine how much items cost and helps with bard and beast master abilities.
SUPPORT JOBS
A support or sub job is the opposite a main job, but unlike a main job, to be able to get a support job you must do a quest. You only need to do one quest to be able to have a support job, but you can’t go on the support job quest until your main job’s level is about 18. All support jobs start at level one, unless you have already leveled that job up. Your support job can only be half of your main jobs level, but you can’t level up a sub job ever. To level up a sub job you have to make it your main job level it up as your main job and then switch it back to your sub job. When you equip a sub job you get all of the qualities, abilities, and magic of that job, except the level one super ability. You will get a percentage of that job’s stats. Here are the approximate percentages of your sub jobs stats that you should get- 50% of its MP, 33% its CHR, and 25% of all its other stats. You should note that these values might be wrong, or they might only be correct if your support job is exactly half the level of your main job. Also remember that you can’t equip items that are meant for your sub job. You can only equip items meant for your main job, this is to prevent twinking.
ADVANED JOBS
An advanced job is the opposite a basic job, but unlike a basic job, to be able to get an advanced job must complete one of at least five quests. Each advanced job has one specific quest that must be done in order to obtain a certain job, but before you can go on an advanced job quest you must have a basic main job level of about 30. To make an advanced job your main job, you have to first level up a basic job, then complete the advanced job quest, and then you can make it your main job, but it will start at level one again. To make an advanced job a sub job you have to complete both an advanced job quest and the support job quest. The advanced job quests start at the following locations: Ranger Quest- Windurst, Paladin Quest- San’Doria, Dark Knight Quest- Bastok, Beast Master Quest- Jueno, and Bard Quest- Jueno.
MOG HOUSE
A mog house is your home and it is very important. Here are some of the things that you can do at your mog house and most of these you can only do at your mog house. Store things that you don’t want to carry on you, change your main and sub jobs, grow plants, receive and sent items to other mog houses, and you can decorate your mog house. Growing plants can give you items and decorating your house can help you store more things there. You get a mog house for free when you make your character. No one else can go into your house and you can get to anyone else’s.
KINGDOMS
There are three kingdoms you can choose to start in and make your home. The Federation of Windurst is the one with the best and cheapest magic. The Republic of Bastok has great armor and weapons, but they aren’t that cheap. And The Kingdom of San’Doria has is centrally located, so traveling is easiest from it. There is also Grand Duchy of Jueno which is the center of trade, but you can’t start there. Windurst is the Tarutaru’s and Mithra’s native kingdom, Bastok is the Hume’s and Galka’s native kingdom, and San’Doria is the Elvaan’s native kingdom, Jueno has no native race. I have heard that if your race starts in there native kingdom you get a stat boosting ring. So you should probably start in your native kingdom or the same kingdom as the rest of our clan because if we are not in the same kingdom it could be hard to find each other. Here’s a list of what each ring does to your starting stats.
San’Doria Ring: STR+1, MND+1 (Elvaan)
Bastok Ring: HP+3, VIT+1, DEX+1 (Hume, Galka)
Windurst Ring: MP+3, AGI+1, INT+1 (Tarutaru, Mithra)
MISSIONS AND QUESTS
You might not want to start in your native kingdom, because each kingdom has a different set of missions that you have to do to get to the Shadow Lord, he’s kind of like the final boss but the game has a lot more missions you can do after you beat him. So it’s kind of like each kingdom is its own game. In addition to your job level you also have a mission rank, which is base on what missions you have beat and determines what missions you can do, this is to keep the storyline linear. You start on rank 1 and after you beat the Shadow Lord you become a rank 6. There are at least 8 ranks, but after rank 6 all three kingdoms missions are the same. The main difference between a mission and a quest is simple; a quest is not part of the story. Some quests have requirements such as having a certain mission rank or job level. The other difference between a mission and a quest is the fact that quests give you something and some missions might not. Quests can give you an item, a weapon, an ability (like to equip a sub job), an advanced job, or even more space to carry items.
SERVERS
This is very important, we all must start on the same server or we won’t be able to fight together. There are only two ways of that we start on the same server, because you are assigned to the one with the lease people when you get done making your character. One, a world pass, world passes let you and up to four other people change servers. For this option to work you have to know someone from the server that you want to go to, because you can not buy a world pass your self, you need them to buy it for you (with gil) and then give you the WP code. But WP’s can be very expensive depending on how many people use it and which server you want to go to. The other, option is after you have created a character check to see what server you are on, and if it is not the right one delete that character and make a new one, with the same options, until it say that you are on the correct sever. Here’s a list of the sever names that are in Japan right now: Bahamut, Shiva, Titan, Ramuh, Phoenix, Carbuncle, Fenrir, Sylph, Varfale, Alexander, Leviathan, Odin, Ifrit, Diabolos, Caitsith, Quetyalcoatl, Siren, Unicorn, Gilgamesh, Ragnarok, Pandemonium, and Garuda. I here that Bahamut, Shiva, and Ragnarok are very crowded so if it’s the same with the US version we might not want to use one of those severs.
EQUIPMENT
Every job can equip different weapons and armor but only the armor linked to your primary job. This is a list of the slots available to you: Primary weapon, Shield/Secondary Weapon, Range, Ammo, Head, Neck, Earring, Earring, Body, Hand, Ring, Ring, Back, Waist, Legs, and Feet slots.
SEX, FACE, HAIR, AND BODY SIZE
In addition to what I have already said you will also have to pick a sex, Mithra are only female and Galka are only male the rest are both, face, each race and sex has 8 different faces, hair color, each face has two hair colors, and body size, small, medium, or big. This gives you a total of 366 different characters, but remember some will be used a lot more than others and you will barely be able to tell the difference between some. And if you really care about looking different just remember that each job and level has different armor and each armor looks different. All of these things are only for looks, that’s it.
BATTLE SYSTEM
The battles are in real time but you still use command menus. The battles are not random you can see the monsters on the screen, and you can see other peoples battles and join them if they accept your help. You can form a party with up to six members, or an alliance of three parties, 18 member, alliances are mostly for bosses. After a while, your party will collect a lot of items from defeated monsters. Items are given out either by the leader, the person that started the party, or they are thrown into a pool. In a pool, people can choose what items they want, but if two or more people pick the same item, the game generates a number for the players and the player with the highest number gets that item.
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