FFXI Expansion Wings of the Goddess

[Thief Silver]

As long as a monk still has it's high value I'm happy .

My other concern is I know this game is pretty fucking heavy on requiring groups once you get past like level 10. So how terrible is it to find groups of people to hang out with and level up with :/

[MechDeus]

It's random. Some days it's terrible finding a group and other times I get one as soon as I log in, but on the bright side every time I've gotten one they've lasted for hours. After 9pm seems to be the best time no matter what day of the week it is, but as you go up in level and get in with a linkshell that seems to get easier.

p.s. I love the auto-translator, as I've ended up in otherwise 100% Japanese groups.

[Thief Silver]

Hah that's cool. Well I'll have it for free so I can at least give it a shot. Probably read up on the classes etc since I played it before there were any expansions.

Are there new races and shit too? or is still just those 4.

[BonusKun]

BonusKun~how is the economy on Fairy. Asura is pretty bad. im lvling sam and i have no idea how im going to finance my armor past lvl30. Not to mention weapons.and i really dont feel liek lvling thief just to beable to farm.


JBNagis

Fairy is pretty solid. There arn't even any real costly pieces of gear anyone outside of a haub whih is close to a mil and a SH is down to around 500k now? Crafting is somewhat profitable now and it's easy to make gil in a lot of places with ENMs and BCNMs being the desired way to rake in the cash.

I was a Fang Farmer in Beaucidine Glaicer when I 1st farmed for my Dark Staff but since then I hadn't had any real money issues since then.

Case in point my THF looking like this in only 2 months after it hit 75.



Gotta love Hecatomb gear.

But overall Fairy really has a solid thing going for it but it was a lot worse before it became what it is now.

Mech,
TNL fo life fuck dat LS and bring y0 azz to Fairy~

As long as a monk still has it's high value I'm happy .

My other concern is I know this game is pretty fucking heavy on requiring groups once you get past like level 10. So how terrible is it to find groups of people to hang out with and level up with :/

Honestly it's not so bad. Getting a PT in Valkrum Dunes really isn't a problem and most people will Powerlevel you anyways thru most of your life in that place. If you do choose to come to Fairy, Send me a /tell and I'll see that your advancement thru the dunes is as painless as possible. MNK tho is something that I personally wouldn't try to live off of just yet.

I'd level it as a sub but MNKs sometimes have a hard time getting PTs later on and a lot of gear to make your MNK really wesome involves a lot of Questing. Items such as Purple Belt which you need to get a pair of Horns from two Notorious Monster Rams one being in La Thiene and the other in Konstach Highlands can be somewhat daunting if you're a low level player.

Brown Belt also is a fun venture seeing as you need 3 items two of which are from 2 Notorious Monsters that pop every two hours which isn't bad but the 3rd item for tha belt is a NM that is a 21-24 hour pop in a deep cavern in La Thiene which is semi-camped.

If you really want to be a hard hitting DD at the start of the game and enjoy quick and easy EXP time, starting with WAR 1st is my advice. Level MNK of course to 20 seeing as it will be a very damn good sub then level WAR as a main to level 30 and then decide where your true path on your main job goes from there.

There is so much advice I can give you but it would fill out a shit ton of space on this thread alone so I'm keeping it short n sweet for now. Feel free to ask my anymore questions tho...

~BonusKun

P.S.

JB,
Farming isn't as bad as all that. You mainly just need to know what makes money and how to do it. I can help a little with your SAM if you eventually show up to Fairy but mainly it's just knowing where to go to make a decent amount of gil in a short time. Eventually you're gonna have to work on CoP somewhat as well seeing as I know you'll want this thing...



When I was staticing with some freinds of mine, He was a level 60 SAM/RNG with this thing and was spamming the fuck out of Sidewinder on Colibris killing them so fucking fast.

[MechDeus]

Are there new races and shit too? or is still just those 4.

Just the four. I'd imagine because they have such a focus on using one character with all the jobs, adding a new playable race would cause all kinds of havok in the player base. The last three jobs that were added (BLU, PUP, and COR) were described by Square as being the leftover pieces that were removed from the other classes during their development, so that makes me wonder about the upcoming jobs in WotG. Granted, they still haven't added relic armor for those classes and they've been around for over a year so I'm wondering about that as well.

For fun work browsing: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org

Mech,
TNL fo life fuck dat LS and bring y0 azz to Fairy~

Getting there, give me a bit.

[Thief Silver]

I'll jump on fairy when I set up as well. Also Bonus, throw in as much info as you'd like here, I don't really want to go to a bunch of different sites and get too sidetracked from work trying to find info atm, so anything you post would at least be worth reading.

[BonusKun]

http://www.killingifrit.com/index.php Decent Site with some information Gamewise.

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/ Good solid info to look for but forums are full of dumbshits who've never really done much in terms of end game.

http://www.bluegartrls.com/forum/ End Game Forum for the Bahamut Server but ended up being spread out for end gamers from every other server. Usually this is the best place for getting the news on End game events and players in almost any part of FFXI.

A few elistist players post there but you'll find it easy enough to navigate.

http://longtear.hp.infoseek.co.jp/altanaview_en.html

A type of model viewing program that let's you look at your character and data for the game to do art or just mess around.

[JBNagis]

OMG. a SH is only 500k on fairy. Your still lookin at 15mil for a SH on Asura. its insane. Hauby's are still in the 3-6mills.
Its gotten better since they started kicking the Gil Sellers. I remember when a stack of Beehive Chips were 15k gil.

i really miss blowing shit up with my Taru Black Mage. Ive grown to love Scing with my Avatars as Summoner but noone wants a summoner to actually summon. all they want is main heal. Its annoying really.

I'm still on Promy-Dem and i cant get anyone in my linkshell to do it. I really dont like doing things like BCNM's and Promy's with people i dont know. That sword is about as smexy as it gets.

How do i switch servers anyway? i thought once on a server your stuck.


JBNagis

[BonusKun]

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/int...ransfer01.html

As far as Promys goes people are doing runs all the time in shouts so it's not uncommon to get one going. If time permits I can help on it as well. I'm currently focusing on BST a this moment in Jugner Forest *Fucking Tigers* but other then that not much atm.

Thief Silver made it online to Fairy last night and I guess he had fun seeing as he lost track of the time and went from level 1 to almost 7 in one sitting. lol

[Werewolf]

BonusKun has some nice gear, must be in a decent end game linkshell I really don't have the time for most of that, though I do some end game stuff with smaller groups as time allows me

Migardsomgergh. If I thought anyone here still played I would've asked first, but reading the group WeSH's stuff got me in the mood to play so I joined their server. Now I'm all entrenched in two linkshells.

If I piss them off and need to hop servers (or they end up boring me) you'll be my first whisper, baby.

Hey I didn't know you we're playing MechDeus, I still play though not as much as I used too

I'm on Midgardsormr as well, I have 2 characters Kelgar and Wolfen though I'm mostly on Wolfen

Send me a /tell or a friend invite sometime if you see me online

I have a WeSH pearl though I haven't been playing much lately since work been keeping me busy, what's your character's name?