check my sig out... 2 years in this game and still going steady. No 75 jobs yet but close enough.. focusing a lot on Dynamis (alternate world) and Chains of Promathia missions ( darn good storyline ). Oh ya, I bought almost all the MMOs out there in the market and hell, I just wanna play FFXI in the end.

This game is so good it's screwing my life pretty bad too... my grades...
If you are just starting to look into this game, I suggest you start of with popular jobs like Red Mage Black Mage or White Mage. When you get advance jobs, go for jobs that's extremely popular like Bard Paladin or the extremely popular but really pricy jobs Ninja & Ranger. If you are thinking about being a melee such as Dark Knight Samurai or Dragoon, don't! You'll just complain about the waiting time for a party.

p/s: my only problem with FFXI is the abudance of chinese gil sellers. ><

This post has been edited by masamura: May 30 2005, 04:36 AM

FFXI is fun. You just need to play the popular jobs (non-melee) and you'll not LFG for 10 hours. Preferably, you should play Bard, Red Mage, Blackmage, Paladin or Ninja if you want to minimize your time on lfg.

As for roleplay, this game is the best. Missions and storylines are WAYYYYYYYYYYY better than WoW or any other MMOs. There's only one problem, you can never solo these missions. You'll need a whole team of balanced players (i.e. whitemage, red / brd, blm, paladin / nin, and 2 extra players).

I've completed Promathia, Zilart and my nation Mission and I can assure you that it's worth the time if you are looking forward to the storyline. As for soloability, there's almost none.

If you feel like being uber and look really good and stuff, prepare to invest another 1 year or so to get the "God" armors or your Dynamis AF armor. As for the "God" weapons, it's unlikely that you'll be able to get it since it'll cost you roughly about 100-150 million gils.

Also, making money in this game is a major pain in the butt at lower levels (70 and below). Unless you are lucky to get into HNM(Hyper Notorious Monster) Linkshell, there's almost no way to make 1 million gil a day. Best I can make is about 100k/hr with my fishing skill at lvl 100.

If you are going to craft to make money, be prepared to spend more than you can make. Crafting besides fishing at FFXI is a money loss unless you make a High Quality item. Sometimes, the items to craft can also be broken thus rendering you having 100% loss. This applies to crafters who are looking forward to make armors like Scorpion Harness(bonecraft) or Haubergeon(smithing with goldsmith sub). You'll roughly lose 1.5mil gil (depending on your server) for losing such items.

When it comes to how "uber" your stuffs is, be prepared to face gil buying competitors (especially the Americans). Most of the time, you'll lose to them because they buy their gil at such cheap price.

Oh, also, if you are serious about partying, you might want to group up with Japanese for exping. Though it's going to be *really* hard for you because Japanese party with Japanese onry (you can get lucky sometimes) Americans, well.. 80% of them are idiots 10% AFK every 10 minutes 5% leave you without notice 5% are good players.

Unless you are prepared to spend 3 years of your time (like me) doing nothing but play FFXI, there's going to be very little chance of you doing anything much in FFXI legitemately. Of course, you can always buy gil at http://www.ige.com and twink your way up to 75 in less than 3 months.

Zilart Mission 8 NPC is one of the easiest to defeat in ZMs. He just constantly erase your hate way.. That's all. The hard one in ZM would be the Ark Angel... *shudder*

The hardest to fight imho, would be Promathia and Tenzen for storyline.

As for the REALLY hard to fight NPC, it's Kirin so far. Takes about 1 hour - 2 hours to fight him... with the Ranger nerf, it doesn't help much either too.

Sorry, no pictures.. I've also uninstalled and unsubscribed to my account. Took my life, education and everything away.

This post has been edited by masamura: Aug 23 2005, 12:45 PM

umm.. anyone playing this game can login using streamyx?

Wah I also cannot login from 21/11/05.. I'm on Quezt.
I can however login through Jaring dialup

Day 4 - Still can't get online... wtf is wrong with stimx? I've to use Jaring to get to Dynamis and God runs...

Day 5 - Woohoo! I can login now. I'm not sure who's fault really anyway.. Jaring could login no problem. TMNet can't but after SE's world maintainance, TMNet was able to login again.. hmm

Christmas? As usual, special NPCs with special items, Christmas deco in major towns and special song in Jeuno.

Yeah if you got no time, I discourage you from this damm game.. lol. However, if you do, it's better than WoW a billion times.

http://www.noorhidayatnoordin.com for screenshots that I like to update now and then

ebay.com & ige.com

I doubt lelong.com.my or ebay.com.my would benefit you..

but what job? lvl? gil? armor? server?

Is that a hecatomb armor I see? and it's funny to see one of the hardest dragons alive not being claimed... lol.

This post has been edited by masamura: Apr 3 2006, 03:43 AM

why would u want the jpn copy? to type in jp? if so, just use windower + ime plugin. If you are looking for the Jpn copy to read the storyline in JP, then u just need the JP POL CD.. u can have NA FFXI + RoZ + CoP also doesn't matter. It'll show in JP still.

Treasure of Aht Uhgan... pls...

Update: Got it. Playing it atm.. apparently Al Zahbi is the new Jeuno. Since you can warp from Al Zahbi to Jeuno. Big area too.. bigger than Ironforge and more confusing than Stormwind. High level content though.

This post has been edited by masamura: Apr 21 2006, 04:57 PM

www.cdromshop.com using DHL ... ^^v

Assault is fun too but you gotta go get all your staging points before you can do all the rest. Mission 2 would only give you 1 staging points. You get very little exp, like 30-50 (no cap Assault) per kill but you also get rewards like BCNM when you win. In order to get the new set armors, you got to have 20 000 Assault points for 1 type of armor. Different Assault area, different type of armor.

Haven't played besieged yet, but the update will ensure beastmen raise faster so.. I assume next week Al-Zahbi is going to get attacked.

I've also unlocked all the jobs.. Puppetmaster is definately for soloist, but I doubt it's useful end-game. Blue mage is cool... they can tank too! But it's a pain because if you're the type that's a haijin and level really fast, you'll be super gimp! Corsair is the new bard! They even have refresh!!!

Other than that, all the new areas are EP-IT to 75. Good area for level 50-75 to level up too. Scary mobs though.. Chigoes basically can rip a ninja apart so fast.

Yeah, 21USD.. but I ordered 2 copies of the game since my gf is also playing FFXI.. so basically, it's only RM160 for a copy which is okay price.

Anyway, sorry can't join you all in Lakshimi. I've been a resident of Quezty since 2003 and have multiple 75 jobs there already.

For motivational purposes only. ^^ This if for the new guys who's going to start FFXI.. If you are persistant enough, you may get to the point you'll do so much and see so much. This is one of the hardest fight in Chains of Promathia. Basically, you have to kill Omega & Ultima to see this cutscene.

http://ffxi.archbell.com

Windower for alt-tab out of the game & screenshot
FFAssist for Minimap, Utsusemi counter and JA counter

Jeez.. Galkas are always huge to me.. I'm an Elvaan and I still think you're huge.

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us

My new back piece:



Limbus:



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This post has been edited by masamura: Jun 2 2006, 09:53 AM