When is it enough? Your ultimate FFXI goal.

[Yygdrasil]

Simply put, after what achievement will you be able to say to yourself "Fuck yeah, I finally did it. I can quit the game and be happy about it/cope with it if they shut the servers off"

Everyone's got that 1 goal in mind. Some people want to complete all missions, some people want to get a Mythic weapon for their favorite job and some people want omgfullcompletionofallquests.

Whats your stopping point? What are you working towards as YOUR ultimate goal? Or in the cases of people who have already stopped playing, what made you finally decide "I'm done"?

Mine is 3-fold:

- First I want to cap every skill for the 5 jobs I use. This includes all skills for applicable SJs.
- Second I want all 5 of my main jobs equipped with the gear that I have already got listed out as my "I don't need anything else if I have _____".
- Lastly, I want a Nirvana. SMN has always been my favorite job in the game and I wouldn't feel right if I quit without obtaining the best weapon I can possibly get for that job. The Mythic Weapon: Nirvana is the end all-beat all of SMN weapons. Wielding it for a few weeks and being able to relish in the sheer awesomeness of it would allow me the strength of will to say "Yeah, I did everything I set out to do. If they turn the servers off today, I wouldn't feel like there was something I never got to do."

[Yellow Mage]

Re: When is it enough? Your ultimate FFXI goal.

Respect.

Also, perhaps more tangibly, 99 Excalibur and Red Mage. All else is hypothetical; I unfortunately can't know where I'm going until I get there, due to the nature of the game.

[Squiggs]

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I'm not sure I ever had an ultimate goal for this game. I always kinda figured that I would just stop having fun one day and then that would be that. Now it makes me kinda want to set an ultimate goal. You're making think Yyg, and I don't like it.

[Armando]

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Some time before the servers shut down I'd like to come back to the game and do the missions I missed out on (Bastok and San d'Oria storylines, and everything after ToAU). If the EXP rates are really as jacked up as people say they are now, I wouldn't mind starting a new character just to power level him and marathon all the missions. I'd like to record the whole thing so I can always re-experience it without my account, or show it to friends, which has always been kind of impossible in FFXI.

[Romyro]

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It might be a little sad to say but…I think I’m at the point where if the servers were to shut down, I’d be satisfied with what I accomplished in my ffxi career.

Don’t get me wrong, I still have a shit load of unfinished business in this game, but getting Guttler (and getting it up to par) was one of my biggest accomplishments. Even though I had to get it through the dumbed-down dynamis…

If I must make a new goal, it will be to keep Guttler up-to-date as well as getting Farsha completely up to date…even if it means buying 1500 plates at 100k a pop for a mew minor DMG points.

…the level 99 stages are going to be the death of me, I just know it.

[Taskmage]

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I always kinda figured that I would just stop having fun one day and then that would be that. Now it makes me kinda want to set an ultimate goal.

If you want to stop having fun, setting an all-consuming ultimate goal would be a good way to start. That's how it always works for me, anyway. I lay out a plan I know will take months to complete, and every time I log in I feel like I've got a mountain of work waiting for me. Play when it's fun, stop when it isn't, stay focused on short range goals and don't commit too heavily to them. That would be my advice. When you do finally quit or the servers shut down, the only meaningful measure of achievement will be how well you enjoyed your time.

[Ketaru]

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One more full blown expansion with real mission to finish and I think I'll be ready to call a quits. How about some far east exploration?

[cidbahamut]

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It's not so much a goal as it is a sign that I've nothing left to do in the game and can now declare that "I've beaten FFXI".

Build a Murgleis.

This would of course have to be after building a Ryunohige, because holy shit Ryunohige is sexy and turns Dragoon into a monster.

[Takelli]

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When you do finally quit or the servers shut down, the only meaningful measure of achievement will be how well you enjoyed your time.

QFT Just enjoy your tim in the game (While not making others miserable as well.), and that is the most meaningful goal you could ever set for a game. Don't have to set out to get these trophies, and ultimate weapons, and so on.

Do what you think is fun, go solo to max level, try to make it to max with out a SJ, (Which I would still like to see, I would attempt a solo to max level with out a SJ, just for fun lol.)

[Squiggs]

Re: When is it enough? Your ultimate FFXI goal.

If you want to stop having fun, setting an all-consuming ultimate goal would be a good way to start.

The more I think about it, the better this sounds. I'm not going to set an ultimate goal. Any time I get working on a small goal (be it seals, or farming to buy something, or just levelling a new job), after I finish there is always that short time frame of "What do I do now?". If I were to accomplish some ultimate goal, I would imagine the "What do I do now?" would be multiplied to the nth degree.

[Romyro]

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i enjoy having an ultiamte goal actually. i like working on it here and there and eventually finishing and telling myself "well clearly it was ultimate enough!!"

so i make a new ultimatier goal.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: When is it enough? Your ultimate FFXI goal.

Kannagi is my current ultimate goal. It will be followed by Armageddon. Lastly it will be nirvana. Once I get nirvana im not sure what the hell ill do.

[Taskmage]

Re: When is it enough? Your ultimate FFXI goal.

Damn, you fixed the typo before I could quote it.

[cidbahamut]

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Kannagi is my current ultimate goal. It will be followed by Armageddon. Lastly it will be nirvana. Once I get nirvana im not sure what the hell ill do.

Achieve enlightenment, obviously.

[Romyro]

Re: When is it enough? Your ultimate FFXI goal.

I won’t lie…I have been ‘researching’ Aymur.

but who knows if it will ever go beyond that.