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Re: Dual boxing nonsubjobbed classes
None of my posts, aside from the last one, have been intended as heated or irritable. That last post was certainly heated. My previous ones were not.
As for other posts on the subject, this is my first thread where I have asked about the partying in game. My other threads have asked about cooking guide (making juices for mages) and want to do to get started with funds etc, and what to do as an RDM.
I was talking with one of the folks who has helped me out, and they said the same thing, in regards to treating ffxi like every other MMO. I don't think she or ya'll understood what I meant by dual boxing. My whole intent in thinking about it was simply to get this one character to 18 so I could get the subjob quest done and out of the way and finally actually be able to start fleshing out my character and actually experience the game. She started playing about 8 months ago, and would have quit had she not been pl'ed to the mid 20's on several jobs. I personally am not down for the "PL" side of things as I want to learn my job and how to do it productively. I'll end up having to join a PL group at some point I'm sure as it seems, at this level, the majority of PT's are made as such. A linkshell member who was leveling his thief last night was in a PT that had 3 PL's assisting. I was originally omw to join them when they dropped me to bring in someone with a Summon PL. What that means, I don't know. All I knew was I had wasted time I could have spent grinding out part of a level.
What else more can I do as a newb keeping their flag up? I mean for 13 hours the other day it was up while I grinded exp or leveled my fishing and cooking. I'm proactive in sending tells to other people with their flags up but a) they don't respond b) don't speak english and quit after the first tell or c) don't want to group unless I have a PL even though they don't have one themselves. I could put together a group, but that fact that I don't know what classes/subclasses are good for grouping has put me off from that. I sent a tell to 3 folks this morning, each one responded they were just soloing. I get that a lot of folks solo to 20 then start grouping, and I could do that too, except I don't have the subjob to assist in doing so, like basically everyone else does. When I logged in this morning, there were several new people int he LS that were in my level range - I tried to get them together to do a group and each one of them refused unless a higher LS member had a PL to bring. Evidently they'd gotten a PL and got 3-4 levels and have refused to work for the rest. This is the reason I don't want to join PL groups because it only fosters that type of attitude with new players.
From what I'm gathering, both on these forums and in game from the folks who have added me as a friend, I'm just getting the absolute crap luck of everything. A few of them are thinking about leveling some subjobs if they don't do NM's tonight, so maybe I can get lucky and run some groups with them.
What seems to add to the difficulty, for me, is the lack of a congregation spot for server postings. Most forums I have visited are null n void with server talk, making meeting and planning things with others even harder. I certainly understand the key to getting parties is having and making friends, but like I've said this has been hard simply due to the lack of responses from others in game. I'm just going to keep chalking it up to crappy luck until the trial runs out, and hopefully by then something will have changed.
Originally posted by Balfree
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As for other posts on the subject, this is my first thread where I have asked about the partying in game. My other threads have asked about cooking guide (making juices for mages) and want to do to get started with funds etc, and what to do as an RDM.
I was talking with one of the folks who has helped me out, and they said the same thing, in regards to treating ffxi like every other MMO. I don't think she or ya'll understood what I meant by dual boxing. My whole intent in thinking about it was simply to get this one character to 18 so I could get the subjob quest done and out of the way and finally actually be able to start fleshing out my character and actually experience the game. She started playing about 8 months ago, and would have quit had she not been pl'ed to the mid 20's on several jobs. I personally am not down for the "PL" side of things as I want to learn my job and how to do it productively. I'll end up having to join a PL group at some point I'm sure as it seems, at this level, the majority of PT's are made as such. A linkshell member who was leveling his thief last night was in a PT that had 3 PL's assisting. I was originally omw to join them when they dropped me to bring in someone with a Summon PL. What that means, I don't know. All I knew was I had wasted time I could have spent grinding out part of a level.
What else more can I do as a newb keeping their flag up? I mean for 13 hours the other day it was up while I grinded exp or leveled my fishing and cooking. I'm proactive in sending tells to other people with their flags up but a) they don't respond b) don't speak english and quit after the first tell or c) don't want to group unless I have a PL even though they don't have one themselves. I could put together a group, but that fact that I don't know what classes/subclasses are good for grouping has put me off from that. I sent a tell to 3 folks this morning, each one responded they were just soloing. I get that a lot of folks solo to 20 then start grouping, and I could do that too, except I don't have the subjob to assist in doing so, like basically everyone else does. When I logged in this morning, there were several new people int he LS that were in my level range - I tried to get them together to do a group and each one of them refused unless a higher LS member had a PL to bring. Evidently they'd gotten a PL and got 3-4 levels and have refused to work for the rest. This is the reason I don't want to join PL groups because it only fosters that type of attitude with new players.
From what I'm gathering, both on these forums and in game from the folks who have added me as a friend, I'm just getting the absolute crap luck of everything. A few of them are thinking about leveling some subjobs if they don't do NM's tonight, so maybe I can get lucky and run some groups with them.
What seems to add to the difficulty, for me, is the lack of a congregation spot for server postings. Most forums I have visited are null n void with server talk, making meeting and planning things with others even harder. I certainly understand the key to getting parties is having and making friends, but like I've said this has been hard simply due to the lack of responses from others in game. I'm just going to keep chalking it up to crappy luck until the trial runs out, and hopefully by then something will have changed.
LS member was in the area and had it killed and lootable soon as I zoned in to Valkurm. RDM is now sub to a whm main or until I figure out where I'm going from here. Today was probably the best I've had over the whole week in regards to this sort of thing.
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