Paladin AF2 = best AF2

>>2007857
>posts AF1

This is not a popular general.

This belongs to /v/

Loved the game, Promathia was the best plotline, even if removing the level cap made bosses too easy.

I wish I could have finished going through the other expansions though. The guys I was doing WoTG with switched to XIV of all things and I ended up not renewing my sub. Been dry 9 months or so now.

92 BLU/RDM or /THF, Fenricorn server. Never got my Abyssea armor fully upgraded either. Oh well.

>>2008106

I am hoping to recapture FFXI feels in Guild Wars 2.

shout out to Ragnarok Server, Aku Advanced/The Calm and Zenmetsu - Omg

What a coincidence, I was just thinking about this game. I had quit a couple months back because of friends leaving, but I've got the itch again.

Been playing since US launch, but I was always too casual to really do much before SE started lifting level caps. Pic related, my second time ever in Lufaise.

>>2008097

AF2 is the feet part of AF quests, Relic armor is Relic armor. But yeah you're right I think he posted Relic, not AF. It'd take a PLD to tell you since their shit all looks identical.

>>2012663

We were reminiscing about FFXI the other day in the GW2 thread. As much as I am looking forward to GW2 as a game, I'm still convinced it'll be an MMORPG I can call home like I did for FFXI. The PvE environment had newbs clinging onto anyone that even remotely knew what they were doing, GW2's PvE enviroment is happy happy casual funtimes that girlgamers can complete and feel good about.

>>2014615

not convinced* naturally.

>>2014615
Because dungeon runs that press beta people couldn't complete isn't proof enough that the game will have some difficult aspects. There are some things in GW2 that seem stupidly simple, but saying the whole game is going to be like that is a bit of a stretch.

>rdm/nin

>>2014772
>Because dungeon runs that press beta people couldn't complete isn't proof enough that the game will have some difficult aspects.

Well said, they didn't have any fucking idea what GW2 was even, judging by how they played it, and it doesn't speak at all, to GW2's easymodo PvE, just because some dullards died.

Explorable and maybe some big events might be tough, but everything in the open world scales to be manageable by whoever encounters them, even solo.

GW2 will not have the same harsh world environment, no. But it does have it's own charms

>>2015172

>rdm/nin holding Cerb whilst your whole alliance can only watch

problem?

>>2015257
>The essence of rdm/nin
>So OP no one gave a shit that day forward

>>2015172

RDM/NIN could solo ANYTHING... i took down King Behemoth, bro... by myself, bro..

>>2007857
>>2008097

Yeah, it's AF1. This is AF2.

>>2029158
Man, I remember spending years in Dynamis and I never even got the legs/body armor of that set. Oh well, at least I was one of the first people to have full COR relic.

I think I'm glad that I quit playing before jobs like Corsair and Dancer were introduced...

We always get nostalgic over FFXI, I myself still think it was a fantastic game, but I'm positive that if I could go back to playing pre-Abyssea FFXI tomorrow I'd instantly remember why I quit.

>>2037534

I think you mean post-Abysea. Trust me, if it's was 7AM right now and you were up and online because you had to show face in Dragon's Aery to watch another shell claim Nidhogg, you'd remember how fucking glorious it is.

>>2029158

But really though, AF2 is the second AF quest and subsequent reward, the AF feet. Relic armor drops in Dynamis.

I heard a while back that FFXIV went free-to-play, is that true? And is FFXI free-to-play now?

I remember I bought it on the 360 not knowing at all that it was an MMO and I needed a credit card. Seeing all this nice stuff makes me want to try it on PC

>>2038273
I believe FFXIV is free to play but will become subscription after a certain update.

FFXI is still subscription, even though after Abyssea it reeks of a F2P game.

>>2007792

No and no. FF14 was always nosubs until recently,

Two words

Blue Mage.

I loved how they actually gave the class a story, hell, I loved all of Al Zahbi, the story really picked up for me in those new areas, but Blue Mage was the first class to actually click with me. The challenge in grinding spells, the power that accompanies obtaining them... It's a lot more satisfying to me than any other class where my level rises and I just get new abilities the old fashioned way.

my biggest mistake was picking an elvaan since i eventually went blm. always depressing in manaburns with similarly equipped tarus...

>>2030028
I guarantee the person who made this didn't play pre-roz, since it was JP only

>>2030028
I can't speak for COR but DNC was an amazing job. They became among the greatest jobs to level because not only were they fun as a main job but they carried over some of their main perks as a simple subjob.
They could heal using TP, they eventually became able to dual-wield like ninjas, they had stackable debuffs and they were able to activate sneak/invis without ANY use of resources with a cooldown which was shorter than the effect lasts. They still did decent damage while gathering TP was their main priority. Amazing amount of things crammed into a subjob.
Fantastic subjob for soloing, getting through sneakable quests and and a good number of party circumstances.

My story went from the 360 beta in 2005 until 2011. Paladin was my main focus. Got up to 75 or 76. I felt abyssea ruined it. To me it looked like a desperate cash-in because the FFXI team probably thought they'd lose a fair chunk of playerbase to FFXIV. The main selling point of the desperate cash-in being that it gave so much better rewards that it made doing anything else that you used to know and love seem like a waste of time. Even with the doubled EXP.

>>2038368
FFXIV has been P2P since Jan 6th, and its still shitty.

>>2039513
Blue Mage was totally the best, I loved the style, and customization and how you had to go on so many honest to god adventures just to get all your spells.

Unfortunately there were so many half-assed, DD only BLUs that gave the job a bad reputation in endgame shells.

I HAD TANKING GEAR AND MERITS DAMMIT LET ME TANK.

>>2039513
Probably my number 1 reason for not playing 14 is that there is no equivalent to Blue Mage.

Collecting spells was just an amazing adventure in and of itself, I could look through my entire spell list and remember the circumstances of getting that spell entirely.

Uhh, I actually really like everything added except SCH. Is it just because I am a buttmad bitter ex-career RDM? Maybe that's part of it. They were becoming META AS FUCK when I quit, and became even more so afterwards. Also of course there is a lot of controversy surrounding Ninja and evasion tank meta, however I won't say I wish it never happened because Warrior was never viable and PLD/WAR was just not quite enough, before everything was explored by players and patched properly by devs (tee hee).

ToAU gave us COR, BLU, PUP. This was strange because these are all "weird" Jobs, they don't fit into the obvious (Holy Trinity-esque) meta that actually really became defined in ToAU. Arguably COR comes out best because of the amazing pocket roles in has in HNM, all BLUs would argue they have a wide variety of pocket roles, so fuck everyone else - sorry guys where is your top tier refresh? lolpup aside, pup worked. fuck, in certain situations, pup were op. but then so is bst but no one cares about bst either. there you go pups, i just grouped you with the legendary bst, you can feel good now.

>>2042772
Oh, cry me a river Mr. entitled Red Mage. I got so sick of whining RDM on the forums. Yes, SCH is filling the role that you guys were originally supposed to fill, but you're still the best soloists and most in-demand job in the entire game, suck it up.

ToAU jobs are my three favorite jobs in the game by far. I love how they required so much extra effort and had weird applications outside the usual cookie-cutter strategies. However they all required a metric fuckton of money to gear properly and were far too easy to half-ass, so people kind of got a bad impression from them.

PUP was so weird, I honestly feel like Square completely forgot about that job, they just did their own little experiments and learned how to break the system to perform miracles.

Really tempted to renew my sub for a month just to see my old character again. Maybe see if some old friends are still playing.

>>2043056

aw man you really tore into me there. it gets lonely being this fabulous.

and yeah, COR was the only class that made me want another 75 that was not RDM. A whilst I was in the swing of leveling past 37 I did NIN and BLM. Thank god BLM cost next to nothing because I had nothing. Maybe they should have removed ninja tools and given them MP or something, I don't know. Some early ele nin stuff was interesting but nobody bothered with it since ninja became tank and not some weird captain planet DD, and it already cost the earth.

>>2043689
Oh my god COR was probably one of the most expensive and inventory-intensive jobs in the game.

You had to carry around expensive bullets and stacks of elemental cards with you everywhere.

>>2044094

Inventory Management

"I need that drop for soloing lol" / #swag#swag#swag Tier
>RDM

"I'm making an water resist set" Tier
>PLD

"No, guys, seriously, I am actually full up can someone start collecting the currency please?" / The Downsides of TH Tier
>THF
>COR
>NIN

I knew this one guy for about 3 years with some very legimate DD gear, MNK, WAR, etc. Then suddenly he pulls this absolutely fucking insane PLD set from storage his discontinued, it was gobsmacking. talking pretty much everything but the aegis DR gear. no idea why he just had that laying around.

aspies play beastmaster.

>>2045052
>aspies play dragoon

ftfy

>aspies play endgame

fixeded.

Have your tisses ready ex-subscribers:

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GweaBt6wPc
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTDCzDgKSMY

And for all those memories of the eye-burning dunes where this song repeated it's first minute every minute as you made your way through lizards, goblins, clippers, damselflies ghouls and pugils. With the occasional bogy coming to ruin your day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj2mqLWx-vM

Damn, I really miss this game. I haven't played for a long ass time since pretty much all
of my online friends stopped playing.

>>2007990
hay gaiz wats goin on lol

>>2052101
I have memories that when the horns come in on battle music #2 was when the healing was supposed to start.

>>2052101

My favorite will always be the Rolanberry Fields music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-t88V_4-ZY&feature=related

I heard it every time I zoned out of Jeuno. great music.

And also, Gustaberg. Really simple music, but it reminds me of when I was just starting out as a freshman in HS in 2004. Playing my first MMORPG with two friends, trying to level up and gear up. The game was so new and exciting then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx3-k7XbsxM

Ah shit niggas, we've got nostalgia fags in this thread that know nothing about FFXI.

If anyone actually played the game they would know the game is bad right from the start.

Forced grouping so there was no way you could do everything without a huge ass 17 man group.
Having to level X job to do Y event is retarded.
Slow ass combat that has a .05 just like TOR!
16 jobs that were more or less redundant and severed no purpose other than for voidwatch to proc shit.
Leveling was fucking slow like you had to devote the entire day just to get a level which turns off alot of casual players.
FFXI is on consoles so the game already became more shit.

FFXI players are masochist.

>>2014615
I know how you feel man. But I sure fucking hope it's somewhere close to that feel of ffxi

>Yuhtunga Jungle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AKPDBlJaN0

Felt like you were in fucking Africa. Your entire party about to be buttraped and killed by some wild goblin in armor. So you all zone back into Kazham as fast as you can. But one member always gets shafted and dies.

>Kazham
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bqiKQ77QJ0

Ahh... we're fuckin safe, finally. *sigh of relief*

>>2053104
wow, its like i was really there.

>>2053625

I detect your sarcasm. I'm pretty good at it, actually.

>>2007792
>be a level 8 THF
>guy comes up to me while I'm murdering shit
>Hey, you want some leaping boots?
>fuck yes
>a few months later, level 75
>leaping boots are like candy to me now
>walk up to a newb thf
>Hey, you want some leaping boots?
>thanks but i want to get them on my own


>mfw

Never really could get into the game sadly, but if there was ever an MMORPG I would play again, it would be FF11 oddly enough.

If it ever became F2P (I'm sure most of you probably hate the idea of this happening), then I would play in a heartbeat.

>play PUP shortly after ToAU release
>always reading up on tips and hints and talking to higher level PUPs, build extensive evasion and DD sets
>parsing damage always trying for best DD capabilities out of pet part set ups
>farm aqueducts for JSE and collect other rare pieces
>buy/obtain nearly every part early on

>that feel when pups with gimp subs and who don't even have ranger puppet get invited over you
>that feel when 99% of the people playing the game have no idea how your class works
>that feel when the majority of the people playing your class don't even know how it works

Was still the most fucking fun job I got to 75, ended up forming a PUP duo with some chick and leveled all the way up from about 45 together. Always made me feel like the fucking master when I pulled some amazing solo off and people would be like 'wow ur a pup howd u do that'

I was the first player to get 6+ jobs to 75. In the entire game. Did it in 2006.

Name was Minidragon. I was a kickass taru.

Can a bst solo abyssea from the start? Like level in alliance to lvl cap and then get their own atmas and eventually farm seals on their own? I mean, how much effort would that be?

With just nursery nazuna?

Such a great game. So many great memories. My FFXI run lasted about 3 solid years and then off an on for another 5 or so. Kinda sad but it was one of the better periods of my life. Made some great freinds and shared some epic experiences. This was all back when the game was more difficult though. I recently got into it again (last year) after the ultimate collection got released on steam. It's largely the same game, plus there's a ton of great new content, but it's lacking the magic that it had back when the game was new and more group oriented. It's still group oriented but back in the day the groups would be 12-18 people strong to (attempt to) accomplish regular missions.

Was really hoping the SE was going to revive all that with FFXIV... but we all know what happened there.

>>2055932

Post some proof if you really are minidragon. I'm very, very skeptical.

>>2056318

You know me? Were you on Bismarck? LS?

DRK99
BLU90+
PLD90+
NIN90+

The rest are for subs or misc adventuring.

I need a good reason to play again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0s2i2bucTc

the melancholy, it's overwhelming.