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Re: Worth of buying?
FFXI's "guilds" are Linkshells (LSes). They don't have as many features as guilds in most MMORPGs. You get items called Linkpearls, and you can equip one at a time (so you can be a "member" of multiple LSes, but only active on one at a time). This lets you communicate with other people with that Linkpearl equipped. Technically, it's basically a little more structured than a chat channel. People put more into them than is in the game, really. You'll have event/mission/quest LSes, chat LSes, "family" LSes, roleplaying LSes, etc. Most of them have forums of some sort to hash out the details of things the in-game system isn't very good at (for example, there's no way to do any LS functions with/to any LS member who isn't currently online with the LS equipped).
Mining involves buying pickaxes, going to somewhere with mining points, finding a mining point, and trading the pickaxe to it. Mining points support random numbers of mining attempts, which may or may not give you an item, and may or may not break your pickaxe (so you carry lots of pickaxes). There's gear available that reduces the number of breaks you get. There's also Harvesting, Excavating, and Logging, which act the same as mining. You'll hear them referred to collectively as HELM sometimes.
Cooking is just another craft. You find a recipe of a level you can handle (up to 15 levels above your current skill, though 1-5 above is best). Recipes are one crystal and up to eight different kinds of ingredients, possibly multiple numbers of each kind of ingredient. Here is a sample cooking item. You have a chance to succeed, fail, or HQ (high quality) any recipe depending on your level. If you fail, you always lose the crystal, and there is a chance you'll lose ingredients as well. Some recipes don't have a HQ result, so HQing them is the same as a regular success.
Unfortunately, the idiots and rude players are not confined to a single server. The mix among servers for any category of human being you could come up with is pretty even across all servers.
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Also, like others have said, don't write off any job until you've tried it. You can't really get a good idea of how a job plays or how boring/non-boring it is until you're actually playing it. White Mage and Red Mage are two of the busiest, must-react-right-now jobs in the game, and Bard is one of the most (if not the most) repetitive.
FFXI's "guilds" are Linkshells (LSes). They don't have as many features as guilds in most MMORPGs. You get items called Linkpearls, and you can equip one at a time (so you can be a "member" of multiple LSes, but only active on one at a time). This lets you communicate with other people with that Linkpearl equipped. Technically, it's basically a little more structured than a chat channel. People put more into them than is in the game, really. You'll have event/mission/quest LSes, chat LSes, "family" LSes, roleplaying LSes, etc. Most of them have forums of some sort to hash out the details of things the in-game system isn't very good at (for example, there's no way to do any LS functions with/to any LS member who isn't currently online with the LS equipped).
Mining involves buying pickaxes, going to somewhere with mining points, finding a mining point, and trading the pickaxe to it. Mining points support random numbers of mining attempts, which may or may not give you an item, and may or may not break your pickaxe (so you carry lots of pickaxes). There's gear available that reduces the number of breaks you get. There's also Harvesting, Excavating, and Logging, which act the same as mining. You'll hear them referred to collectively as HELM sometimes.
Cooking is just another craft. You find a recipe of a level you can handle (up to 15 levels above your current skill, though 1-5 above is best). Recipes are one crystal and up to eight different kinds of ingredients, possibly multiple numbers of each kind of ingredient. Here is a sample cooking item. You have a chance to succeed, fail, or HQ (high quality) any recipe depending on your level. If you fail, you always lose the crystal, and there is a chance you'll lose ingredients as well. Some recipes don't have a HQ result, so HQing them is the same as a regular success.
Unfortunately, the idiots and rude players are not confined to a single server. The mix among servers for any category of human being you could come up with is pretty even across all servers.
Double Post Edited:
Also, like others have said, don't write off any job until you've tried it. You can't really get a good idea of how a job plays or how boring/non-boring it is until you're actually playing it. White Mage and Red Mage are two of the busiest, must-react-right-now jobs in the game, and Bard is one of the most (if not the most) repetitive.
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It should arrive in 2-4 workdays and it did cist only 12.8€ + shipping (3€) so it´s about 19$ 
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