How do I level?

[Mhurron]

Re: How do I level?

http://www.vgcats.com/ffxi/

[ItazuraNhomango]

Re: How do I level?

Um. OP didn't say anything about not wanting to party with others; he mostly just has issues with quests not giving much experience points.

And, Shadowneko, there's no reason to insult WoW players like that. We've all run into immature, unpleasant people in FFXI at some point, I would think.

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To OP:

Anyway, I would encourage you try things out for a bit longer--get to Lv.18, unlock the Support Job ability, and get to Lv.30. If you still hate the experience which you call "grinding", then feel free to quit.

[Dymlos]

Re: How do I level?

Ah good 'ol XI, everything you learn from other MMOs, it greets you by pimpslapping you in the face, then throws you outside your starter zone and it tells you 'Start learning boy, no you don't get a tutorial, this is man's country! Tutorial's are for little sissy babies who need their mommies! Now, are you a sissy baby or a man?"

[Fugwarr]

Re: How do I level?

Get your signet, grind levels, gain crystal and conquest points because of the signet, sell the crystals on AH, and use the money from those and the conquest points to purchase gear. It's not hard, though I went until around level 8 before I got any gear, with the exception of a hat (which isn't useful to melee types) at level 6 from a quest in southern Windurst Waters to show off a hat in the area to all the NPC's.

The draw of this game for me, while I am not a fan of the grinding, is that I want to see how the storyline pans out, I love the idea of mixing different job combo's and being able to switch out at any time I may be bored of my main job for a change, and not have to switch characters, unlike in WoW. Nothing is easy in FFXI, and it seems they've taken every precaution they could to make things difficult for you.

The one thing this game could do without however is the deleveling. I don't mind losing exp, I just shouldn't lose levels. I remember a few times when I used to play years ago, I would get to a level and ready to fight something new, and then we'd wipe, or I'd die on the first pull, delevel, and I'd be kicked from the group and have to go back to the other area and level all over again so I can come back and find another group to try again.

[Celeal]

Re: How do I level?

I understand all that. But I'm just talking about LEVELING right now, as in getting items to boost my charcter, money to buy needed stuff, and XP to level, all of which seem to be missing RIGHT NOW (that's why I'm asking, I don't know if it changes later or not).
I may be doing something wrong, or not understand something, that's why I'm here.

But grinding mobs to level, again, does not sound right. In every other MMO to level you just do quests, at least that's how it is in GW and WoW. Brainlessly killing mobs just to level is not how it's meant to be. If they had higher rate drops of stuff you could use, higher rate than in WoW or GW, or even had other purpose other than giving you XP, I'd understand. But it doesn't seem they do, and partying with people to JUST kill those mobs, deff doesn't sound right or fun

Grouping/party for experience in FFXI is NOT brainlessly pack six people togather and brainlessly grind on mobs. Each group is unique with different people, job, skill, and fighting different mobs, etc. Indeed, trying to gain experience point effectively in this game is an art itself.

[Mhurron]

Re: How do I level?

Grouping/party for experience in FFXI is NOT brainlessly pack six people togather and brainlessly grind on mobs.

To be fair, for most jobs, ya it is.

[Celeal]

Re: How do I level?

To be fair, for most jobs, ya it is.

From your point of view, it is true: Beacuse you have experience/knowledge of this game. But for the OP who is at new to this game, it is different.

[WishMaster3K]

Re: How do I level?

With that type of mentality, the OP better not do any Melee jobs.
Once you get to the 40s and experience your first true afternoon LFP..
Ahh. I should stop right there.

[Srxjo]

Re: How do I level?

http://www.vgcats.com/ffxi/

how often do they update that site with more?

[Dymlos]

Re: How do I level?

They update that part once per month. I think it's a deal VG cats made with SE for their monthly XI newsletter. If I'm wrong someone please correct me. I still prefer this comic for humor sakes. ^_^. If I can't show the url, it's the one with 'Ternaldo's Guide to Super Fun Partying in Final Fantasy XI!'

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=96

[Srxjo]

Re: How do I level?

thank you ^^

[WishMaster3K]

Re: How do I level?

MY TOES ARE COLD

Ahh... Valkurm.

[Shadowneko]

Re: How do I level?

And, Shadowneko, there's no reason to insult WoW players like that. We've all run into immature, unpleasant people in FFXI at some point, I would think.

I'm not insulting the players...just WoW itself! That game seems to be a horrible waste of space from everything I keep reading about it(bad commiunity,superfast lvls,no content, ETC.). I admit I never wanted to try it myself for the simple reason that I have no real interest in the Warcraft universe and it doesn't seem like a fun place to play for me. The only MMO I've ever liked was and is FFXI....

It just seems like a bad beginner's game to me.....like Final Fantasy Mystic Quest....

[Richie]

Re: How do I level?

There seem to be a lot of people in this thread who haven't played WoW so I'll give you all an idea of the quest system it has.

You approach the NPC with the ! over his head, he has a quest for you!

He begins to speak.... *Skip dialog* too long didn't read...
A quest progress tracker appears at the right of you screen reading. "Dire wolves 0/20" Cool, so after I kill 20 dire wolves for the quest (totally not grinding) I return to the NPC who now has a '?' over his head! He starts to say something... w/e scroll down to pick my reward. 3 options: Plate leather cloth, being a mage what should I pick? Oh that's right I can only wear the cloth. Well I accept my robe and In addition to that the NPC gives me X amount of xp which makes sense because 2 seconds of dialog skipping should get you more xp than just killing 20 wolves on your own.

I'm not saying WoW is bad... It has it's place in the MMO world. It does have a tendancy to spoon feed everything to it's players which can make them very lazy players. FFXI is on the other end of this spectrum, it often kicks it's players in the balls for no reason, but there is plenty of great content for both casual and hard core players (unlike WOW: 40man 5hour raids or just stop playing loser) and the challange makes up for it.

[LyonheartLakshmi]

Re: How do I level?

So leveling in FFXI is just killing mob after mob, like in all the other FF games? Imagine that.