No, it's not worth it unless you have someone willing to completely powerlevel you. The community is actually pretty good for the English-speaking people.

IF you got bros to play with it's good.

But it is a PAIN IN THE ASS to cancel your account. They make you go through a real run around.

I enjoyed it for a couple years. If you need a time sink, its the perfect game.

>>53140999
not really. Just cancel your content ID(s).

>>53140930
>>53140999
This. If you don't have some friends, then you will be miserable. Finding a party can take fucking forever, and you need a party to progress past like, level 10 (or 15, if you're a Monk and want to dedicate the time).

>>53140999

I'd just be getting it myself, don't know anyone else who plays. I've played a lot of newer MMOs like Warhammer, and the community is so terrible and whiny that it's better just to solo through most of the main content - which defeats the purpose of a MMO in the first place

>>53141321
>implying you can solo in final fantasy xi past 10.

>>53141371
>implying you can't solo past 10.
A large number of classes can actually solo way past 10 brah.

>>53141371
You can now with Fields of Valor and shit

>>53141371

Which is why I was hoping it was different and had a good community, since it's boring just soloing through the game. Being in a good party is where most of the fun is

>>53141557
What the fuck is fields of valor? I haven't played in years.

>>53140930
This. I played the game for 3 years. 75 DRK/SAM/WAR/NIN. It's not worth it. At all. Ever. I quit after 2 years and then a year later picked it up again and it wasn't any better.
Pros that I've experienced (Pandemonium):
-Good Community
-Cool Environments
-Great storytelling
-Lots of Armor/Weapons/etc
-Auction House is very well created
-Holiday Events are numerous
-Player housing, if you're a fan of that
-Lots to synthesize
-Mithra

(field too long)

>>53141648

Cons:
-Money is hard to get if you don't know what you're doing, especially early on
-Mining is a giant waste of time (The minerals you get depend on the type of moon phase, what the fuck?)
-Certain Job combinations are absolutely useless, and will not get you into a party, no matter how much you want to try them.
-Groups are most often incredibly difficult to get, despite being 100% necessary after level 9.
-As said before, there's no such thing as soloing after level 9
-The game is fucking HARD. You'll either need some friendly volunteers to power level you on certain missions/quests or have a strong, dependable party. You won't be able to do things by yourself, no matter how menial and easy they seem.
-After midnight, Japanese players get on. I don't know if they ever divided the servers, or some shit, but when I played, it was impossible to get a group that understood you after dark.
-Every class has individual traits like "Absorption" and whatnot that get leveled up as you use abilities belonging to that trait/etc. Don't bother trying to level up all of these traits, you'll use some spells more than others and it just becomes a task to try to become well-rounded.
-NMs are sparse, as they should be. However, bots or other players are always camping them. Even if they're not, NMs are incredibly hard to find.
-Early in the game, travel is incredibly difficult. Runs take a quarter hour just to do things. Expect to pay money if you don't want to wait.

Those are some of the things I can list of my head. the AA in that game is terrible, as are many of the controls. The Macro system is fantastic, though.

>>53141588
It's basically a "quest" from a book that tells you to kill X amount of Y mobs. It's can be picked up daily and gives XP and "tabs" or points that you can buy food and spell buffs (such as regen, refresh, revive, etc.) with.

>>53141690
Traveling early on can be dangerous, too. I seem to recall some close calls traveling from San d'Oria to the dunes (I don't recall the exact name -- the early teens leveling area).

>>53141648
>>53141690

Thanks for the info. It seems as though the cons far outweigh the good.

Ah well, I can just sit here and hope Square invites me to the XIV open beta then

>>53141884

That's one of the runs I was specifically talking about, yes. I was an Elvaan. The run from San D'Oria through the Ronfaures through La Theine Plateau into Valkurm Dunes was not only long and tedious, but posed serious health threats. Goblins especially. Orcs pose a huge problem once you get deeper into La Theine.

>>53141981
Which wouldn't be so bad if the penalties for death weren't fucking absurd (in my opinion, anyway, I never played MMORPGs all that much, so losing EXP for dying was new to me).

>>53141906
Welcome to my world. I went back to XI and quit after getting around level 25. The amount of attunments needed as well as the expensive gear you need that you have no way of farming for are just retarded. It's very hard to start fresh and solo now.

>>53141906

If there's anything else I can say about it, if you knew five other people who each had their own job combination and had a lot of free time, and the six of you could party up together, the game would be MUCH more enjoyable. It's just the fact that the game is so depending on multiple-person parties, and that's so hard when:
1) Parties are so rare to come by
2) Most people aren't willing to wait/be patient/or suffer through dying a lot.

That said, bringing 5 friends that are willing to go balls-to-the-wall and die as well as spend time waiting and shit like that, that will probably give you the best experience you can have with the game. Once you have a setup like that, the game offers plenty of things to do, content wise and whatnot.

>>53141648
>Good Community
That was true but not anymore.