Recently I got the chance to play ARR beta. I had my doubts, with FFXIV being a world-renouned shitpile of a MMO, but I was pleasantly surprised. It felt like FFXI, without the badly ported PC feel ( Read more... )

I haven't had much time to play FFXI lately. Nevertheless, I still bought Wings of the Goddess on its release date - and then spent the next 48 hours trying to register the expansion. Square-Enix sure does hate PC users

The only thing to do in WoTG, aside from the missions, is Campaign. And Jugner Forest, for some reason, attracts a lot of Campaign ( Read more... )

GODLIKE:

SOBORO SAM
SAM
DRK
DRG
WAR

Tolerable:

MNK
NIN

Party slot filler:

SMN
BLM

Subhuman:

BST
THF
RNG
PUP

The reason?

I capped all practical merits. With my merits capped, there's no reason for me to seek for merit parties any longer. Combine this with the growing trend of my linkshell to allow newcomers to lot and general weariness of doing X activity for the Nth time and suddenly FFXI just doesn't seem that fun anymore.

I haven't quit.

So you've decided to sub /WHM. Congratulations. Even though your worth is about equal to a PUP in EXP parties, you've made a good choice of a support job.

NOW FUCKING USE IT

The idea behind subbing "WHM" is the concept of "backup curing". I know "backup curing"  is a strange and foreign concept to NA players, so listen carefully! You might learn ( Read more... )

I'm a frequent poster on the elitist HQ+1 assbag site BlueGartr. Some time ago, lordwafik  created a thread where the idea was to take a motivational poster and to apply a FFXI concept to it.
( This is a collection of all my motivational posters I posted on the BG forums. )

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I made the mistake of using my EXP ring in a shitty party.

I hoped against hope that a JP party that had a WAR/BLU/BLU frontline fighting Eruca would work. I figured that by having two BLUs spamming Head Butt, this would allow the WAR to recast Ichi without being a giant fucking MP sponge. Not surprisingly, the WAR got assraped by the eruca after ( Read more... )

Besieged is one of the greatest additions ever made. The basic idea behind Besieged is that the Imperial Army is short on men due to the war in the Far East, so you're supposed to fill in as a mercenary. You can be certain that whatever the Imperial Army is fighting for in the Far East is fucking awesome, because there is no way in hell otherwise ( Read more... )

Back in 2004, Kirin was a challenge. There was no hope for a PLD/WAR tank of surviving his aptly-named Deadly Hold - or worse yet, Stonega IV. So, he was kited while Rangers (lol) and Black Mages nuked away merrily. And the Osode was the best armor in the game - it had ALL STATS +10 for fuck's sake.

Flash forward to 2007. After a particularly ( Read more... )