So I finally quit FFXI...Follow

...and they go and announce a new expansion with new jobs and new areas. I'm gonna be playing this gd game forever.

GRAH

NEW JOBS?!!??!?!?

You're all coming back, admit it. I for one welcome our new Geomancer overlords.

Geomancer and Rune Fencer...

sonofa-

So what is Rune Fencer? A buff-based melee? I did like to play melee BRD; maybe this is the class for me.
Geomancer is the job everyone wanted instead of SCH.

Of course, if I did come back, everyone and their moms are going to be playing the new classes, so meh.

still needs /war?

Ahaha I reactivated FFXI. I have one 90 (BLM) and a couple 85's. I think I stopped playing just after the cap raise to 90. None of my gear is relevant, and there are no lowbie EXP parties for me to get back in the swing of things. I thought I'd get my SAM sub to 49 (it's 43) so I went to the AH for a couple pieces of gear and there's basically nothing there. I can't even find gear to go solo with. They have Fields of Valor and made EP mobs give good EXP, but there's like no economy for lower level gear. Plus, most of my gear is worthless now. Only my M.Kris still sells for any decent amount.

Basically, my experience is as follows:

It kind of makes me a little sad to see all the level 75 gear that took forever to get just hanging out in my Mog House furniture. Guess I should get a mannequin or two.
Also, Kirby's character has some gear that was signed by a friend, which sucks. :(

Edited, Jun 27th 2012 11:24am by Spoonless

Move to Asura and I can hook you up. There are still lowbie parties doing GoV in Gusgen/Crawler's Nest, but you might have to go during a peak time (evenings or weekends). I can't help you with gear, that is admittedly an issue. But if you were on my server I could send you some stuff I keep on my mule.

I actually didn't have a credit card I could use, but you can buy Crysta through PayPal and pay for your account via Crysta. Was happy about that.

You can buy 1295 Crysta (or whatever amount you want to type in) if you want.

Edited, Jun 28th 2012 9:36pm by Spoonless

Man, people just don't understand when I say "I don't want to do X event; I don't even have any macros set up yet". I can't play just picking **** from menus. I don't like playing without gearswaps. I just want a week to rebuild my spellcast XMLs and some in-game macros. That's all I ask. I know you're excited that I'm back and want to show me all the cool, fun **** in the game, but dying because I'm trying to figure out why March wont fire off (apparently all I put in my macro was an /echo line, no /ma line) or not landing Lullaby because I don't have any gearswaps in place is just frustrating.

It's not like I have in-game macros and some basic gearswaps but none of the more advanced SC stuff. I have nothing but the default macros. I can run around saying I'm being chased by a mob. That's it.

There's also the trouble of having your basic macros saved to the server, and your computer's on the fritz, but friends want you to "just play on XBox, you have it updated, right?". But since I use SpellCast, all of my saved macros are just:

Bind

/ma Bind <t>

With no gearswaps at all in the macro itself. Not that I couldn't just change all of the macros to do some swapping, but by the time I was done fixing ~20 pallets worth of macros to do that, my computer would be back up and running, and my gear will be different the next time I need to use XBox. If I'm not playing on PC, I'm playing for chatroom aspects, and don't rely on me to come be awesome at your event!