Game Balance and User Frustration

[Murphie]

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Well, I'm done trying to explain things to you. Clearly you were just bad at FFXI. Move on with your life, dude.

[ShadowIX]

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This guy is unbearable.

[Firewind]

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Dont start being a Hypocrit now

A "Too Weak To Be Worthwhile" mob is 34+ levels below you at Lv90 and should not even be able to hit you. Any mob below "Even Match" actually has a penalty to Hit Rate like how you have a penalty to Hit Rate when hitting mobs a higher level than you. Basically, with a Lv90's Evade skill, a Too Weak mob shouldn't even be hitting you unless you're gimped from Leeching.

Easy Prey mobs at Lv90 are between 8 and 34 levels below you. That ranges from "Should not be able to hit you unless your combat skills are gimped from Leeching in Abyssea" to "It has a penalty to hit but Murphy's law says it will hit you. Often. And usually quite hard."

Learn to research before you go insulting players offering advice.

[Balfree]

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can has easymode plz SE? lulul

[Squiggs]

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I dont expect everything to be handed to me the moment i logged in, but if you want a chocobo license its easy, its the run around for getting your own chocobo egg, I.E Jeuno, la theine, jeuno, home city, jeuno. you could always get teleported to an outpost nearby if your lucky enough to have it. then after you get the egg and after you wait the 4 days for it to hatch (irl time) you gotta spend another 4months (irl time) to raise it. as for the Air Ship pass, you gotta do even more running around to get keys that have a low chance of dropping, or the mobs that drop them are very limited and usually farmed. i dont have an issue with the actual combat, its the fact that if you want to get anywhere, unless you have the outpost or the Air Ship pass, your screwed out of 30min of your time just running, and if you have a quest that makes you go back and forth from your nation to that zone? be prepared for a headache and 2+ hours of your time wasted

You've been in the game a week. I was playing for two weeks before I even left Gustaberg. I didn't get my chocobo license until close to the end of my first month. Expecting it after one week is the very definition of "expecting it handed to you." If it takes you an hour to run somewhere, you got lost and eaten by a ram, plain and simple. Buy maps, they help.

I'm not arguing that it's not daunting to start out. But, to complain after a week because you don't "get it", seems like you were expecting something else. A more useful strategy would have been to come on here and ask for advice, rather than simply starting complaining.

[KoLAddict]

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Being someone that's played the game a few random times over the year but never sticking with it for long (before recently), I can safely say that the game was definitely NOT solo-friendly at all a few years ago. I think in about 24 hours of real time over the course of a few weeks, I managed to hit 19. I happened to find someone on these forums for help doing my subjob quest, and he actually was high level so I breezed.

Nowadays, I've got a few other friends that play casually (they play less than I do now), and they each solo'd the subjob quest. With all the warping with the Explorer Moogles in the major cities (and two smaller ones), plus the ability to buy warp scrolls for just a few cp does make travel easier. If you've played WoW before this, it is definitely hard coming to FFXI (I played WoW well before this and still play WoW, so I know how tough it can be, lol), so I understand expectations being set differently, but SE really has made a stride towards easing the experience for people unable to group regularly (or heck, at all for the most part). My biggest beef is the inability to invite someone to a party if they aren't in the same region as you.

[DakAttack]

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Level 90 in a week??? Nowai! I remember when a month could pass and you were still level 20.

[LeonstrifeLEV]

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If you want gear, you either have to look it up because they dont care how easy it is for you to get gear, or spend 3,000Gil+ on it from the AH when the average mob drops 9-30gil, try farming for just a pair of pants

Dood is straight up trolling.

[Squiggs]

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A returning player with the proper resources could probably get 90 in a week. A true new player, however, would take significantly longer unless they stumbled into a good (bad?) situation.

[Murphie]

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A guy in our LS got there in 9 days. But yes, you'd need to have the proper resources and some prior knowledge or a lot of guidance. And be leveling something that required minimal effort.

[Squiggs]

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9 days

/em looks away in shame that it took me 18 months.

[Murphie]

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It took me about a month and a half. It would have been faster, but I was leveling BLU, and also taking the time to do Missions and level my fame and such. That said, I had the benefit of years of experience behind me.

Of course, GoV didn't appear until I was already 60. If that had existed sooner...

[Squiggs]

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I was a brand new player, and I'm fine with how long it took. I got to see every part of Vana'diel while I was at it, and learned the how's and how not's of the game. I've seen a lot of new or returning players come through my shell. They level up real fast and then burn themselves out, quitting shortly thereafter.

[Murphie]

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They're doing it wrong then. Getting to 90 is just a means of accessing content. EXP is easy, and I see little point in making it take longer. But again, I've leveled to the cap many times in the past, so I've done all of that enough to not need to draw it out again.

For a new player I wouldn't recommend racing. One, you'd be hard pressed to, and two, you would be missing out on a lot of exploration and learning in the process.

[Squiggs]

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They're doing it wrong then

Agreed.