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So, I'm one of those dreaded XBOX 360 users who will be invading your guy's world in the near future. Since they are allowing us to take our beta characters with us, I am coming to you as a level 30MNK/19DRG/15WAR/1RNG.

One of the things that many people don't realize is that while most of us are spending our hard earned gil on item to sell on the new servers, we are also spending an aweful lot of time farming and, at least for myself and some of my friends, I'm completing as many gil quests as possible... especially the Selbina Clay ones. Why? Well, because you get the same amount of gil no matter what server you're on... Hydra or Shiva, but on Hydra, 10,000gil buys me an aweful lot more merchandise than it will on Shiva. Therefore, I can turn a 10,000gil quest into 30 or 40 thousand gil relatively easily. A stack of wind crystals sells for under 1000gil on Hydra. I'm also farming beehive chips, silk thread, bat wings, various seeds, etc to bring along with me.

There is a very good chance that Shiva will get a lot of the XBOX 360 migrants because there are only two servers listed on the first page of the world migration list and Shiva is one of them.

Also, woodworkers may like this, but logging areas are not crowded at all on Hydra so a lot of people have been doing nothing but logging to save and sell on the new server. I capitalized on this a bit by going to Carpenter's Landing to buy hatchets for 315gil each and then putting them in my bazaar, I go to Ghelsba and just leave my character sitting there overnight or while I'm at work. Always, I return to find three dozen hatchets sold for 600gil each... a profit of roughly 10,000gil. Not bad for 15 minutes of setup before I got to bed or go to work.

Anyway, enough rambling. I'm looking forward to the migration. Hopefully you guys are welcome of us newcomers... some servers certainly aren't.

Good luck.

Last I heard Serket sat unclaimed for days and days on Hydra. Unless there are some hardcore players that re-made char's and leveled up fast I doubt too many high-end items are around.

However, they could bring a number of O.Kote's and Fuma Kyahan's back...

1. Yes, I am new to FFXI. I have been playing now for about three months. Actual playtime is somewhere around 15 days.

2. I have not played on a computer, but I have heard it compares favorably to the PC version. The Xbox 360 is, after all, a computer that looks like a console. The Xbox 360 has voice chat through Xbox Live. I'd assume PC players use voice over IP for voice chat. I don't think PS2 has access to voice chat but I could be wrong. I have a wireless keyboard that I use in addition to the controller. All in all, I'm very satisfied with the gameplay.

3. /sea all usually turned up between 2,000 and 3,000 players at any given time. Beta discs were limited so there may be a lot more players when the final version comes out.

4. NM camping was relatively easy with some exceptions. The Spook usually had 15 people camping it although I honestly don't know why. The traveler's mantle didn't sell for that much on Hydra. You could farm crawlers all day long with little competition and make a lot more gil than camping the spook. I'm bringing four stacks of silk thread with me to Shiva, along with four stacks of beehive chips and four stacks of honey. Not sure how or what they sell for on Shiva but it should net me enough seed money to get started. Orcish Barricader and Wallbreacher were camped pretty heavily. I tried camping them... got one claim and said, "to hell with this." lol. The only other NM I camped was Leaping Lizzie for the Leaping Boots.

5. Sorry, I didn't get back to this post until today and the beta ended early this morning. In any event, the AH was nearly empty this weekend as people were feverishly trying to obtain loot to bring to the new servers. Oddly enough, there was almost no competition farming crawlers. I had an easy time getting my silk thread.

One last thing... the beta version came fully loaded with CoP and Zilart. The Xbox360 retail version will include both of these expansions as well as Treasures of Aht Urhgan. I have heard that PS2 is missing a lot of the PC features but the Xbox360 version is suppose to contain all of the PC content.

sounds good to me guys. look me up if you have any questions when you gethere. i like seeing new faces around shiva.

Look forward to seeing you and welcoming you on Shiva soon! It's refreshing to hear your enthusiasm. All in all we have a great server; with friendly and helpful people.

Send me a /tell when you arrive!

/cheer!

Yea and dont forget to hide ure panties when sophus is around. Hes got a little problem.

One word of advice. Don't do like i did when i first started playing and /shout all over the place >.> Anyway seriously if you ever need help look me up, just don't ask for cash.

/shout Can I have some cash???
/shout Please, oh please give me some gil...

/shout lol j/k

lol... too bad the Beta is over. I tried to get bounding boots... they're the ones dropped by the Petrifying Pair, right? BCNM30 in Ghelsba? Well, my party wiped twice. That baleful gaze is a b**ch. I'm not planning on going to Shiva rich... just enough merchandise to get some seed money. Thanks for the advice. -- Malidar

bounding boots are rare/ex. rare meaning you can only hold one of that item. ex means exclusive. that means the item cannot be traded or sold. Bounding boots are dropped from a notorious monster called leaping lizzy. the item it dropped used to be called leaping boots and was worth quite a lot. because of gilsellers camping this monster a lot the item was made rare/ex. the empress hairpin is dropped from the valkurm emperor in the dunes. this is also a rare/ex item for the reasons mentioned above. the original item was called the emperor hairpin which sells now for 4-5 million if i remember right.