{What's the battle plan?}
Tonight I will take out WHM/RDM+MNK/WAR and just start the long hard road to 37.
I also need to buy a Purple Belt as well as some +MP gear. Maybe with MNK tanking so long I'll actually manage to cap Guard skill.
Restarting on another server has really driven home the nature of FFXI... how there isn't an item you need that can easily be gotten when you need it (I speak here of Purple Belt specifically, but also applies almost universally). Can a Lv7 THF take out Leaping Lizzy? Nope. Jaggedy Eared Jack? Nope.
You need a group of friends or a linkshell to accomplish these things, and what first time player has five people that will help him fight these NMs... and then pass on the multi-million gil item? (Well, Bounding Boots are Rare/Ex, but you get my point.)
Luckily, having farmed rams myself in another incarnation, I know the Purple Belt won't be very hard to attain. Ram farmers tend to shout out "Do you need the horn?" and invite the needy MNKs to lot on the desired item.
AND COME ON!!! What first time level 20 guy would know where to find Gausebit Greens, much less get to and kill the flies that drop it? AND DO IT FOUR TIMES!!!
... bleh. I'm having second thoughts about the duration of my journey here.
I also need to buy a Purple Belt as well as some +MP gear. Maybe with MNK tanking so long I'll actually manage to cap Guard skill.
Restarting on another server has really driven home the nature of FFXI... how there isn't an item you need that can easily be gotten when you need it (I speak here of Purple Belt specifically, but also applies almost universally). Can a Lv7 THF take out Leaping Lizzy? Nope. Jaggedy Eared Jack? Nope.
You need a group of friends or a linkshell to accomplish these things, and what first time player has five people that will help him fight these NMs... and then pass on the multi-million gil item? (Well, Bounding Boots are Rare/Ex, but you get my point.)
Luckily, having farmed rams myself in another incarnation, I know the Purple Belt won't be very hard to attain. Ram farmers tend to shout out "Do you need the horn?" and invite the needy MNKs to lot on the desired item.
AND COME ON!!! What first time level 20 guy would know where to find Gausebit Greens, much less get to and kill the flies that drop it? AND DO IT FOUR TIMES!!!
... bleh. I'm having second thoughts about the duration of my journey here.
posted by Dandruffshampoo at 3:16 PM
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