Announcing the World Merge (Mar 1, 2011)

[DakAttack]

Re: Announcing the World Merge (Mar 1, 2011)

... I want to know where in the bible it says its bad to be a furry? :/

Also, not all Furries Yiff...

Clearly you're more focused on the persecution of your people than the humorous intent behind the image file.

[Firewind]

Re: Announcing the World Merge

It may be good for the max level pop... but not for the low level pop/newplayers. Its a bit hard to actually find a leveling party for lower levels, and not many people actually want to do the parties.

Pretty much this, I cannot get my WHM past Lv75 because I can't level my subjobs to the right level to get my WHM to Lv99.

But because everyone still playing already has their subjobs levelled nobody wants to help the RDM10 get through the Duns or the SCH40 to go to the Deserts.

Anyone trying to return to the game is fucked.

Any new players...The short summary is "They are fucked", the long answer is "They are utterly fucked"

If anyone from Europe on here is playing Rift let me know, I had a blast with the Beta, it's the most fun with PvE I've had since I quit FFXI, and my pre-order's arriving in Friday

[KingOfZeal]

Re: Announcing the World Merge (Mar 1, 2011)

I could agree with your assessment about that Firewind, but there's two things:

One, a WHM in abyssea doesn't need 'proper subs', whatever those are. I took mine to 90 (from 66) with a SMN sub without any issues. It was even the first time I was primary healer for an alliance, which I picked up pretty fast and well if I do say myself.

Second, with the changes to experience there's no reason soloing isn't possible for pretty much any job. Jobs with purely defensive abilities (IE, WHM) could have a bit more problems, but between FoV and up to 800/kill without bonuses, it's suddenly a halfway decent trade off.

[Malacite]

Re: Announcing the World Merge (Mar 1, 2011)

One, a WHM in abyssea doesn't need 'proper subs', whatever those are. I took mine to 90 (from 66) with a SMN sub without any issues. It was even the first time I was primary healer for an alliance, which I picked up pretty fast and well if I do say myself.

Yes, you do. Try keeping people alive with /SMN over /SCH against any of the nastier NMs or when low-manning. Light Arts still matters, big time.

[Firewind]

Re: Announcing the World Merge (Mar 1, 2011)

To be honest Malacite, it's applicable to any job really except for the overpowered stuff like Samurai or Red Mage. Or if you play a Bard but since the entire FFXI playerbase will bend over to take it from any Bard they run into and the Bards know it, it's never worth the trouble to invite them.

[KingOfZeal]

Re: Announcing the World Merge (Mar 1, 2011)

Well, he's talking about leveling, not about actually DOING anything with his WHM. In an Abyssea XP party you can pretty much go anything sub without much of an issue. You might not perform the best possible, don't get me wrong, but you can still get the job done.

[Taskmage]

Re: Announcing the World Merge

Server merges = more people per server, more people per server = more fun, more fun = tequila shots and hookers! WOOHOO! Count me in!!!

(btw ffxiv is still around for those tired of lfg)

This post needs more mews.

[Malacite]

Re: Announcing the World Merge (Mar 1, 2011)

To be honest Malacite, it's applicable to any job really except for the overpowered stuff like Samurai or Red Mage. Or if you play a Bard but since the entire FFXI playerbase will bend over to take it from any Bard they run into and the Bards know it, it's never worth the trouble to invite them.

SAM is utterly dead inside abyssea without Fudo. And even with it, WAR MNK & NIN still crap all over it if you give them their respective Empyrean WS.

[Satori]

Re: Announcing the World Merge (Mar 1, 2011)

I'm all for larger ammounts of people on the servers. The only problem is it still wont drag people out of abyssea areas so is it really worth it?

[Aksannyi]

Re: Announcing the World Merge (Mar 1, 2011)

I guess this doesn't strike me as a surprise. Just kind of have to laugh at those who insist that the game is thriving. No it's not. It's doing fine, for sure, and still has plenty of dedicated players, but it's far from "thriving" at this point. If FFXIV hadn't been such a big disappointment I'm sure FFXI would be deader than Julius Caesar.

[debinnv]

Re: Announcing the World Merge (Mar 1, 2011)

Hi everyone, I am a new player. Believe it or not this is my first MMORPG and I'm in my 40's (lol) Hey, I worked too many hours before to do this. But now that I am home I thought it would be fun to try and I love the FF series. Are you saying that with this world merger thing ( which I have no clue what that means really) there is really no point in playing this? I'm still on my free trial but I was looking forward to continuing. If any one could let me know ( I realize it's just your personal opinion ) but maybe I should look for a different MMORPG. I am playing solo right now as I figured that would be good to do till I get the hang of what I'm doing. Thanks so much for any info you can give me

Deb

[Takelli]

Re: Announcing the World Merge (Mar 1, 2011)

You can play solo until level 20 easily, then it gets to be harder and slower. If you can get a party in the dunes then great.

As for the world merges, it will just make them more populated and easier to find a party.

[debinnv]

Re: Announcing the World Merge (Mar 1, 2011)

Thanks so much

[ShadowHolyFlyingDragon]

Re: Announcing the World Merge (Mar 1, 2011)

It's funny you should bring this up, as I've seen at least 2 ls'es spring up in the last month for new players on Gilgamesh. In fact, I've been helping in one w/getting people to SKY by completing their Zilart missions.

So, if you look hard enough, you can find help.

And leveling solo is completely viable now... unless your a WHM. -_-; That's still slow as ever. So I created my own Aby party and leveled it to 75 in about 5 hours late in the AM. Woulda gone faster if the people had been around to invite.

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