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Best and Worst of FFXI in 2012.
Cerberus.Kylos
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By Cerberus.Kylos 2012-12-30 03:58:01
This year, we have seen many changes to the world of FFXI. Whether it be new battlefields, old battlefields being revamped, or certain things being nerfed in favour of "Balance", the world is being set up for the next stage ... 2013.
Seekers of Adoulin was announced, and I am sure many of you are eagerly anticipating the exploration and hardships of traveling into the new areas. We have not seen completely new areas since Aht Urhgan, and I for one, cannot wait til March so I can explore some of these brand new zones, and probably die to a Heartwing.
In this world, some players love to look back at the previous years. Back when HNMs were all the rage, when getting EXP was a long drawn out process, when you totally got to grips with a job you had leveled because of it. Nowadays, EXP is incredibly easy to get, and many will say the game is too easy. We should look back on 2012 as a year of transition, one where we knew a brand new expansion was coming, and we raced our little hearts out to get powered up for it.
Many players returned in light of this expansion. Personally I have helped many returning players this year, showing them what you need to do to get powered up. They were amazed by the changes, and almost felt like they were cheating because it was so easy.
So lets think for a moment, what parts of 2012 did you really enjoy, and really hate? Let's throw out some categories, but really, it could be anything you want.
- The most enjoyable fight you have had.
- The battlefield you have done the most.
- Content in the game you really hate doing, but you do it anyway.
- The most helpful player(s)(or linkshell) you have done things with.
- Your favourite job.
- The worst job you play for the sake of getting ahead.
- Those old pieces of gear you wish were not collecting dust in Storage or NPC.
- The most useless abilities that you want to use, but wastes your time.
- The greatest accomplishment(s) of your year.
- The nerfs to the game you wish didn't happen.
- Content you want changed because it's unfair and purely luck based.
- The jobs, relics and empyreans you see all the time.
- Them jobs you very rarely see nowadays.
- When you checked someone and thought... Wow, that weapon, wish I had that.
- The most disappointing battle you should have won.
- Your thoughts on special events(Mog Bonanza etc.) SE have produced this year.
I could go on and on. I hope you get the jist. 10 years of FFXI, let's hope for another 10.
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By Leviathan.Kincard 2012-12-30 04:00:13
The world didn't end in 2012, and the quality of XI this year made me wish it did so I'm gonna go ahead and blame XI for that too.
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By Bahamut.Baconwrap 2012-12-30 04:02:04
I enjoyed Neo-Nyzul Isle as an event till I got 15/15.
It was nice to be on vent/skype with friends running around killing soulflayers again!
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By Siren.Kalilla 2012-12-30 04:04:33
Yea... I didn't even really play the game at all this year.
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By Odin.Creaucent 2012-12-30 04:13:03
Hate playing war and nin both I use just for procs when needed, drg blu drk and pld are my favs.
Lets see gear thats gathering dust.... Sarissa, Algol, homam, relic armour, havent been on cor for a while so I guess armageddon is too.
Content I hate doing but do it anyway is dyna though im really unmotivated atm to finish gungnir and ive stopped doing dyna as much.
Battlefield ive done the most is early bird catches the wyrm for my friends Ebody. Funny thing that happened yesterday bought a cheap honey wine to try for a ridill got tea instead ebody dropped and made 3mil off the beard. So made 2mil profit for not doing much haha.
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By Fenrir.Sylow 2012-12-30 04:21:45
I camped Manipulator versus an alliance of JPs.
Manipulator.
Stupid Doll Gizmo -_-;
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By Shiva.Arana 2012-12-30 04:25:42
Speaking of Manipulator I was wondering Sylow can you steal its gizmo warp before killing it come back and steal it again?
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By Fenrir.Sylow 2012-12-30 04:28:59
Nope!
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By Cerberus.Kylos 2012-12-30 04:29:09
My response to my own thread. This year has been a year of catchup for me.
I didn't play much in 2010-2011, so 2012 was mostly me and my father Quilly, doing tons of Abyssea stuff to finish our +2 sets. I got a Redemption (Because I love Scythes, it's not a crime ok?) and an Armageddon, as well as helped Quilly get an Ukonvasara. He also spent a lot of time this year building a Bravura, something he always wanted to have, and he managed to do that over many months.
The most disappointing job I have played this year was Thief. Mostly because I had to use it to get ahead in Abyssea, instead of using the job I wanted to play. Half the abilities are useless on the job, but nonetheless, I got my THF to a stage where I could achieve things in Abyssea.
Leveled BST and COR up. They both blew me away for separate reasons. Being a BST makes you feel like god, because it's that overpowered, whereas Corsair blew me away because of how complex it is. The job totally changed for the better once I got Wildfire.
Getting my OAT GS was also another highlight for me. Started to do Voidwatch soon as I got it, and am having much fun doing those clears, and I don't mind the drop system, as it brings people together for a change. I am looking forward to the higher tiers.
Jobs I rarely see are RDM and RNG. I see a lot more PLDs nowadays, which is promising.
Really put off doing Dynamis most of this year, but just recently started doing it more. Should have done more of it when the currency prices were decent. Also I missed out on doing Blinkers, but it was probably a blessing because of how much cruor you need to upgrade atmacite in VW.
Started doing Salvage not long ago. It is pretty fun, a bit random, but all round pretty different compared to what I'm used too, which is refreshing. Was disappointed when I went back to Limbus lately and soloed it, I remember running a full linkshell for that stuff.
Stuff I really need to do for 2013, get Neo Nyzul done, try some Neo Limbus and Salvage, finish my VW clears off, and maybe build a Ragnarok!
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By Shiva.Arana 2012-12-30 04:31:59
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By Cerberus.Kylos 2012-12-30 04:35:43
Also one thing I really continue to hate, is RMT /yells so people can pay them for EXP, although EXP is so easily come by, people still decide to feed the demons with gil, so they can go to sleep and continue leveling a job :(
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By Fenrir.Sylow 2012-12-30 04:38:00
Also one thing I really continue to hate, is RMT /yells so people can pay them for EXP, although EXP is so easily come by, people still decide to feed the demons with gil, so they can go to sleep and continue leveling a job :(
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By Cerberus.Kylos 2012-12-30 04:42:24
Also one thing I really continue to hate, is RMT /yells so people can pay them for EXP, although EXP is so easily come by, people still decide to feed the demons with gil, so they can go to sleep and continue leveling a job :(

A mouths a mouth.
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By Fenrir.Sylow 2012-12-30 04:44:19
Really was it ruining your day that badly that people were getting XP while sleeping :|
Now that it's not safe to join the RMT cleaves and there's one XP party every 2 days, it's virtually impossible to get subjob experience.
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By Cerberus.Kylos 2012-12-30 04:49:00
Really was it ruining your day that badly that people were getting XP while sleeping :|
Now that it's not safe to join the RMT cleaves and there's one XP party every 2 days, it's virtually impossible to get subjob experience.
There's always EXP parties going on on my server. I don't mind if people choose to pay, it doesn't ruin my day, I just hate RMT. Always have since the old days when they used to camp over people, and take NMs using third party tools. I suppose they actually help people now, so it don't grind my gears like it once did, but RMT are still there. They disappeared for a while, til they figured out people would pay for EXP.
Anyway back onto something happy. Getting Beast Bazubands after going 1/5 was another highlight, that thing takes forever to spawn, it was like doing Argus all over again lol.
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By Fenrir.Sylow 2012-12-30 05:03:57
RMT never disappeared.
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By Valefor.Esdain 2012-12-30 05:16:03
Incoming wall of text.
- The most enjoyable fight you have had. WHM tanking Isebind.
- The battlefield you have done the most. 2012? LV99 Cap. Hands-down.
- Content in the game you really hate doing, but you do it anyway. Helping friends proc on abyssea NMs.
- The most helpful player(s)(or linkshell) you have done things with. Farakato
- Your favourite job. BST dominated in 2012.
- The worst job you play for the sake of getting ahead. Going BLM/BRD to things just to get something accomplished.
- Those old pieces of gear you wish were not collecting dust in Storage or NPC. Furia Haubert set.
- The most useless abilities that you want to use, but wastes your time. Charm.
- The greatest accomplishment(s) of your year. All jobs 99 w/ most blue capped skills.
- The nerfs to the game you wish didn't happen. Chocobo Blinker NPC sales price.
- Content you want changed because it's unfair and purely luck based. Voidwatch drops.
- The jobs, relics and empyreans you see all the time. No one wears 5/5 sets anymore. Everyone has ugly mix-and-match things and sometimes feathers pop our of their heads.
- Them jobs you very rarely see nowadays. RDM
- When you checked someone and thought... Wow, that weapon, wish I had that. Ark Sword (had I known, I would have done the fu**ing survey), Sagasinger, & Sanus Ensis.
- The most disappointing battle you should have won. LV12 MNK elvaan mule. No subjob. VS Spook when trying San d'Oria mission 1-2. Had it to 2% health. Old fights can still be a bit**.
- Your thoughts on special events(Mog Bonanza etc.) SE have produced this year. I don't feel like SquareEnix developers actually play their own game and I have very little faith they actually have NA player's comments / criticism / ideas translated and delivered to them.
Year in review:
I'm still saddened by the loss of old friends from the 2004~2010 that left. Over half of the game's fun, to me, comes from social interactions with my e-friends, be it getting equipment, helping, events, drunken d00ns exp parties old-school-style, or just chatting about FFXI or life.
Aside from that, the largest surprise to me was when I was finishing my last two jobs to 99. DNC and PUP. Dancer turned out to be completely mind-numbing to me. (Voicing your opinion of my opinion of this statement will meet with about as much effectiveness as you talking to a wall, so don't waste your breath trying to explain it's intricacies or whatever). PUP, on the other hand, was surprisingly fun for me. I had left it at 60 a long time ago (You cannot deny hume F in PUP AF1 looks completely adorable) and while I was taking it the rest of the way up, I was actually having 'fun'. I know. Not a word you hear everyday between the moaning and complaining mixed in with the 'should I come back to the game' threads. I am not looking forward to capping all of it's skills, but in a way... I kind of am.
Speaking of skills, once I hit 99 on everything, I began the task of capping to highest grade job on each weapon. Lots of blue numbers in my list now including a WAR with full blue numbers minus throwing. After that will be the great craft-a-thon where I put everything at 70 and choose one to take to 110 (which I still don't really know where I'm going with that).
I'm always late to the game on new things due to taking multi-month breaks every few months so as not to neglect rl. I was completely late to the game on Voidwatch and /finally/ tried it out a few weeks ago. I'm sure great things can come from it, but didn't find it to my taste. So much down-time while shout groups get filled and then between fights... all for some crafting materials. I completed the ToAU and Bastok line. The only positive that I saw (for me) was the new ways to warp that it unlocked.
Speaking of which, good lawd. Movement around this game has never been so easy. Previously I had every movement option there was. Maat's Cap, stables scarfs, all outposts, each nation [S] retrace staff, etc. With abyssea maw warps, a few voidwatch warps, and now all the geomancy waypoints, it's just SO easy to get around. Tele-taxi gil seems hardly viable anymore (but I do still see shouts every now and then, but now they offer like 10,000).
As far as equipment goes, nothing to write home about. I still don't have a single piece of AF3+2. Abyssea NMs were just not my thing. The hold-a-monster-for-5-minutes-while-we-proc shi* just didn't fly for me. I still have no NNI or Salvage gear; No mythic, empyrean, or relics either. The closest thing I have is a WoE LV90 club I made. That was about the time I gave up on WHM as a main and just got used to using all (15/20) of my jobs. Gearing them all is just too much of a daunting task.
So that's a summary of how 2012 was for me. Piddling around. Still having fun. It's never been about e-peen numbers for me. Well, it used to be about how good of a WHM I could be, but that just quit being fun for me.
As far as what I'd like to see in Final Fantasy XI in 2013:
Quest to change the colors of DRG Wyverns. White (Aern), Black (Dynamis), and Blue (standard) wyvern dat files are all in the game already. A color for each of the 8 elements in this game would be nice. It seems like such a simple change to add. It could be as easy as it is to change the wyvern's name and instead just give an NPC like 10 geodes or clusters or something. I think that would be so neat.
Quest to unlock a new Cardian frame for PUP. I think even Orlando at G-9 in Mhaura has a bunch of Cardians laying around his house. He'd be a great quest starter. All of those cards the Cardian-type family drops could finally be of some use. The ones that say "One of the cards used to control the magical soldiers, the Cardians. Each card is specific to one Cardian registration number." Obviously you couldn't rip a cardian's head off and put a different one on, but a locked body/head of a complete cardian and make it do something cool. Coins are Red Mage type mobs, Swords are Paladins, Batons are Black Mages, and Cups are White Mage mobs. Automatons already can be WHM, PLD, RDM, or BLM style so it's hardly a stretch. Just an idea I'd like to see.
Those are the two things I want to see, as well as I'd like to see a lot of my old friends return. I miss 'em.
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By Cerberus.Senkyuutai 2012-12-30 05:17:44
Anyway back onto something happy. Getting Beast Bazubands after going 1/5 was another highlight, that thing takes forever to spawn, it was like doing Argus all over again lol. Wat.
It's a very easy NM, absolutely not in the same league as Argus.
The good:
- Voidwatch when I had to collect gear.
- Dynamis when I could duo/trio with friends.
- Neo Nyzul with friends.
- Legion at first.
The bad:
- Completing relics/empyreans/being able to complete a Mythic and events yet not seeing any point in continue playing due to very poor content/game losing its breath, bad.
- Very bad events added along the year (Legion, Meeble, Neo Limbus and Salvage), no attempt at refreshing the motivation.
- Overnerf of blinkers.
For the first time in 10 years I do not see anything fun I could be doing in the game when I log on. The same way, Adoulin doesn't excite me much due to what they have done with neo Salvage.
Starting to think that the game has lived, it's time to turn the page.
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By Valefor.Sehachan 2012-12-30 05:24:40
- The most enjoyable fight you have had: Legion.
- The battlefield you have done the most: VW, probably Qilin.
- Content in the game you really hate doing, but you do it anyway: Dynamis.
- The most helpful player(s)(or linkshell) you have done things with: Suji, Nerji and Averic.
- Your favourite job: Corsair.
- The worst job you play for the sake of getting ahead: White mage.
- Those old pieces of gear you wish were not collecting dust in Storage or NPC: artifacts, they're cool looking.
- The most useless abilities that you want to use, but wastes your time: Despoil.
- The greatest accomplishment(s) of your year: Almost perfect cor gear...not a big deal <.<
- The nerfs to the game you wish didn't happen: Miser roll.
- Content you want changed because it's unfair and purely luck based: VW.
- The jobs, relics and empyreans you see all the time: Kannagis, kannagis everywhere. But lately Mandau and Ragnarok have become almost as popular.
- Them jobs you very rarely see nowadays: red mage, puppetmaster.
- When you checked someone and thought... Wow, that weapon, wish I had that: Death Penalty.
- The most disappointing battle you should have won: um
- Your thoughts on special events(Mog Bonanza etc.) SE have produced this year: Want more GGG!
By Aeyela 2012-12-30 05:34:59
- The most enjoyable fight you have had: Everything I solo on SMN
- The battlefield you have done the most: Dynamis Bastok
- Content in the game you really hate doing, but you do it anyway: Voidwatch
- The most helpful player(s)(or linkshell) you have done things with: I only have one LS and they're all helpful.
- Your favourite job: SMN, RNG or COR, very tough choice.
- The worst job you play for the sake of getting ahead: THF =(
- Those old pieces of gear you wish were not collecting dust in Storage or NPC: COR AF1, best looking AF in the game ._.
- The most useless abilities that you want to use, but wastes your time: Eagle Eye Shot
- The greatest accomplishment(s) of your year: Finishing Annihilator
- The nerfs to the game you wish didn't happen: Blinkers, I missed the bandwagon and only made about 400k from them.
- Content you want changed because it's unfair and purely luck based: Voidwatch Loot
- The jobs, relics and empyreans you see all the time: Ragnarok (I only started playing again in September)
- Them jobs you very rarely see nowadays: Poor DRG
- When you checked someone and thought... Wow, that weapon, wish I had that: Bertgang 99 / Ochain 99 on the same dude
- The most disappointing battle you should have won: Solo Shinryu, time out on 1 freaking percent...
- Your thoughts on special events(Mog Bonanza etc.) SE have produced this year: Only one I have seen is Starlight and I could care less.
Fun thread! Some interesting replies being posted.
What I'd like to see in XI in 2013: Some variety added to what job is the strongest or most powerful. Seeing everyone on DRK and WAR is boring and the gap between them and other DD's is a little disappointing. I'd also love to see them add diversity to people's gear because we're all clones of one another right now. Maybe a colour dying system? I'd also like a one time race change service.
Oh, and of course: For them to add their promised Recycle Adjustments so I can stop taking out loans just to play my Relic / Favourite job.
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By Cerberus.Kylos 2012-12-30 05:37:16
- The most enjoyable fight you have had: Legion.
- The battlefield you have done the most: VW, probably Qilin.
- Content in the game you really hate doing, but you do it anyway: Dynamis.
- The most helpful player(s)(or linkshell) you have done things with: Suji, Nerji and Averic.
- Your favourite job: Corsair.
- The worst job you play for the sake of getting ahead: White mage.
- Those old pieces of gear you wish were not collecting dust in Storage or NPC: artifacts, they're cool looking.
- The most useless abilities that you want to use, but wastes your time: Despoil.
- The greatest accomplishment(s) of your year: Almost perfect cor gear...not a big deal <.<
- The nerfs to the game you wish didn't happen: Miser roll.
- Content you want changed because it's unfair and purely luck based: VW.
- The jobs, relics and empyreans you see all the time: Kannagis, kannagis everywhere. But lately Mandau and Ragnarok have become almost as popular.
- Them jobs you very rarely see nowadays: red mage, puppetmaster.
- When you checked someone and thought... Wow, that weapon, wish I had that: Death Penalty.
- The most disappointing battle you should have won: um
- Your thoughts on special events(Mog Bonanza etc.) SE have produced this year: Want more GGG!
Great response fellow Corsair. What I would give for a level 99 Death Penalty and something which makes me look like Vincent :)
Edit: And in response to Aeyela, I feel bad not having a Ragnarok myself after seeing how many there are. Also me and you have the same feeling about THF, gone are the days where we needed a THF puller to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. Also saw a DRG last night with full afv2+2 augmented, and he just really stood out in the crowd lol.
In response to Esdain. I felt exactly the same way as you about Abyssea in the beginning, but after a while you just get used to it and some of it becomes fun, while also feeling like too much of a grind. Feels great to get all your afv3+2 sets as well. Nice to see someone who is really enjoying PUP. You should try soloing NMs in Abyssea, I saw some great videos of someone doing that sometime this year.
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By Aeyela 2012-12-30 06:02:21
Edit: And in response to Aeyela, I feel bad not having a Ragnarok myself after seeing how many there are. Also me and you have the same feeling about THF, gone are the days where we needed a THF puller to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. Also saw a DRG last night with full afv2+2 augmented, and he just really stood out in the crowd lol.
I levelled Thief just to speed up the farming of Dynamis for my relic and at first I enjoyed it. A month later and after being pigeon holed on Thief in linkshell Abyssea farming (for some reason) I grew to dislike it very much. Might also be to do with the fact that every single city Dynamis I did I was on Thief. I generally hate repetition. By the way I hate repetition.
I originally went DNC/THF and I much prefer it, but Thief is a lot more useful when you're fighting NMs that drop 100s every few minutes.
But the days of being begged for TH are long gone, or pulling for that matter. Kind of makes Thief a bit boring and repetitious.
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By Valefor.Esdain 2012-12-30 06:03:10
This is a great topic for a thread. I'm enjoying reading everyone else's too. Can't wait for more people to post! Finally a thread where I don't just skim over many posts.
Nice to see someone who is really enjoying PUP. You should try soloing NMs in Abyssea, I saw some great videos of someone doing that sometime this year.
I think PUP is going to be something that I'm going to have both a lot of fun on, but it's going to be a pain to pimp out. There is going to be all the skilling up, which doesn't bother me that much; set regen atmas. Fall asleep in front of a Bluffalo until dead. Repeat for melee until capped. For magic, just cancel protect/shell over and over, dismiss when out of MP. Recall and repeat.
Where it's going to be a bit** is developing my skill soloing with it. When I took it to 60, that was the days of exp parties. Pretty mindless. When I zerged it from 60~99, I just played it like MNK and had my RDM auto cast spells and hoped for skill ups from 'em. Also mindless.
Also... the attachments. Oh lord those won't be fun trying to get a complete set of. I know you don't /need/ all of them, but if things are worth doing, they're worth doing right.
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By Cerberus.Kylos 2012-12-30 06:14:05
Edit: And in response to Aeyela, I feel bad not having a Ragnarok myself after seeing how many there are. Also me and you have the same feeling about THF, gone are the days where we needed a THF puller to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. Also saw a DRG last night with full afv2+2 augmented, and he just really stood out in the crowd lol.
I levelled Thief just to speed up the farming of Dynamis for my relic and at first I enjoyed it. A month later and after being pigeon holed on Thief in linkshell Abyssea farming (for some reason) I grew to dislike it very much. Might also be to do with the fact that every single city Dynamis I did I was on Thief. I generally hate repetition. By the way I hate repetition.
I originally went DNC/THF and I much prefer it, but Thief is a lot more useful when you're fighting NMs that drop 100s every few minutes.
But the days of being begged for TH are long gone, or pulling for that matter. Kind of makes Thief a bit boring and repetitious.
Sadly I feel the same way. I bring Thief along mostly because of how good it can be in Abyssea, rather then its TH. Also I never use THF in Dynamis anymore, it's all about BST now.
Esdain i am sure you will get the hang of it eventually, keep pulling those strings. I am also looking forward to more positive responses.
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By Leviathan.Comeatmebro 2012-12-30 06:16:32
- The most enjoyable fight you have had. : PW or Odin2(2 players)
- The battlefield you have done the most. : Pil
- Content in the game you really hate doing, but you do it anyway. : ADL
- The most helpful player(s)(or linkshell) you have done things with. : Spaa
- Your favourite job. : MNK
- The worst job you play for the sake of getting ahead. : NIN
- Those old pieces of gear you wish were not collecting dust in Storage or NPC. : aegis, excalibur, ochain, adamas, sanus
- The most useless abilities that you want to use, but wastes your time. : aura steal
- The greatest accomplishment(s) of your year. : breaking 10 bil gil earned
- The nerfs to the game you wish didn't happen. : I honestly feel like every nerf of 2012 has been more than fair. Cruor nerf was regrettable, but I'm fully aware that I was probably the main cause of it anyway. The economy seems better without it.
- Content you want changed because it's unfair and purely luck based. : Voidwatch drop system is just abysmal. I threw out over 20 pairs of Dilaram's on my mages before my buddy got them for all of his Rag characters. I can understand the reasoning behind it(so dickbag LS leaders couldn't *** everything), but it's incredibly irritating to have to throw out things your friends want.
- The jobs, relics and empyreans you see all the time. : ragnarok everywhere
- Them jobs you very rarely see nowadays. : pld bst blu pup rng
- When you checked someone and thought... Wow, that weapon, wish I had that. : n/a
- The most disappointing battle you should have won. : Died to durinn helping my buddy get MM, left all my characters in aoe without shell and got cackled and shrieked. Wasn't really expecting it to do 3k, and none of my characters' hp were capped either. Embarassing.
- Your thoughts on special events(Mog Bonanza etc.) SE have produced this year. : don't need welfare, a way to obtain ark ***that doesn't purely require luck would be cool, moreso if it was fight based content like one of those bcs(heroin's holdfast, etc)
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By Aeyela 2012-12-30 06:18:05
Esdain i am sure you will get the hang of it eventually, keep pulling those strings. I am also looking forward to more positive responses.
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By Aeyela 2012-12-30 06:23:31
Leviathan.Comeatmebro said: »Voidwatch drop system is just abysmal. I threw out over 20 pairs of Dilaram's on my mages before my buddy got them for all of his Rag characters. I can understand the reasoning behind it(so dickbag LS leaders couldn't *** everything), but it's incredibly irritating to have to throw out things your friends want.
I find it funny how the Voidwatch-esque loot system works so horribly in 11 but wonderfully in 14. The only difference in 14 is the items you didn't want could be exchanged for points at a guild (sort of like guild points) or converted into items that could sell for millions. I guess the drop rate was a little improved too but it still puzzles me how they get the exact same system so wrong and so right in two different games.
Agree totally though, Voidwatch's loot system is awful. At the very least we should be able to refuse rare/ex drops in exchange for something useful, maybe a flat gil rate or some heavy metal plates or something. I can understand their reluctance to let us share them though.
Lakshmi.Aelius
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Server: Lakshmi
Game: FFXI
By Lakshmi.Aelius 2012-12-30 06:28:31
- The most enjoyable fight you have had.
Limit Break 10 before the nerf and without tail. Quite the challenge.
- The battlefield you have done the most.
Probably Royal Jelly.
- Content in the game you really hate doing, but you do it anyway.
Crafting.
- The most helpful player(s)(or linkshell) you have done things with.
Fabulous
- Your favourite job.
Toss up between Dragoon and Dancer
- The worst job you play for the sake of getting ahead.
Ninja
- Those old pieces of gear you wish were not collecting dust in Storage or NPC.
Seer's +1 gear.
- The most useless abilities that you want to use, but wastes your time.
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- The greatest accomplishment(s) of your year.
Getting every job over lvl49
- The nerfs to the game you wish didn't happen.
PD
- Content you want changed because it's unfair and purely luck based.
Whitegate missions. I hate waiting until Jap-midnight to continue.
- The jobs, relics and empyreans you see all the time.
Twashtar, Ukko, kannagi. thf, war, nin, blm
- Them jobs you very rarely see nowadays.
rdm, pup
- When you checked someone and thought... Wow, that weapon, wish I had that.
Is this a question or a statement?
- The most disappointing battle you should have won.
Eccentric Eve. I died just 5 seconds before it was killed, allowing everyone else to get the atma while I remained dead.
- Your thoughts on special events(Mog Bonanza etc.) SE have produced this year.
I better win.
Phoenix.Averic
Server: Phoenix
Game: FFXI
Posts: 14
By Phoenix.Averic 2012-12-30 06:34:07
- The most enjoyable fight you have had. - Legion fights
- The battlefield you have done the most. - Probably Ein or Limbus this year
- Content in the game you really hate doing, but you do it anyway. - Abyssea
- The most helpful player(s)(or linkshell) you have done things with. - Seha, Nixles, Icemn (though he sucks) and Gaia for helping me finish my Almace.
- Your favourite job. - BLU
- The worst job you play for the sake of getting ahead. - BLM
- Those old pieces of gear you wish were not collecting dust in Storage or NPC. - Shadow set!
- The most useless abilities that you want to use, but wastes your time. - Gates of Hades!
- The greatest accomplishment(s) of your year. - Almace 99
- The nerfs to the game you wish didn't happen. - PD!
- Content you want changed because it's unfair and purely luck based. - Voidwatch for sure!
- The jobs, relics and empyreans you see all the time. - Ragna DRKs everywhere!
- Them jobs you very rarely see nowadays. - There is no RDM!
- When you checked someone and thought... Wow, that weapon, wish I had that. - Tizona ; ;
- The most disappointing battle you should have won. - Arch Ultima, bit of a pushover.
- Your thoughts on special events(Mog Bonanza etc.) SE have produced this year. - Thank you for the 60 cinders!!!
This year, we have seen many changes to the world of FFXI. Whether it be new battlefields, old battlefields being revamped, or certain things being nerfed in favour of "Balance", the world is being set up for the next stage ... 2013.
Seekers of Adoulin was announced, and I am sure many of you are eagerly anticipating the exploration and hardships of traveling into the new areas. We have not seen completely new areas since Aht Urhgan, and I for one, cannot wait til March so I can explore some of these brand new zones, and probably die to a Heartwing.
In this world, some players love to look back at the previous years. Back when HNMs were all the rage, when getting EXP was a long drawn out process, when you totally got to grips with a job you had leveled because of it. Nowadays, EXP is incredibly easy to get, and many will say the game is too easy. We should look back on 2012 as a year of transition, one where we knew a brand new expansion was coming, and we raced our little hearts out to get powered up for it.
Many players returned in light of this expansion. Personally I have helped many returning players this year, showing them what you need to do to get powered up. They were amazed by the changes, and almost felt like they were cheating because it was so easy.
So lets think for a moment, what parts of 2012 did you really enjoy, and really hate? Let's throw out some categories, but really, it could be anything you want.
- The most enjoyable fight you have had.
- The battlefield you have done the most.
- Content in the game you really hate doing, but you do it anyway.
- The most helpful player(s)(or linkshell) you have done things with.
- Your favourite job.
- The worst job you play for the sake of getting ahead.
- Those old pieces of gear you wish were not collecting dust in Storage or NPC.
- The most useless abilities that you want to use, but wastes your time.
- The greatest accomplishment(s) of your year.
- The nerfs to the game you wish didn't happen.
- Content you want changed because it's unfair and purely luck based.
- The jobs, relics and empyreans you see all the time.
- Them jobs you very rarely see nowadays.
- When you checked someone and thought... Wow, that weapon, wish I had that.
- The most disappointing battle you should have won.
- Your thoughts on special events(Mog Bonanza etc.) SE have produced this year.
I could go on and on. I hope you get the jist. 10 years of FFXI, let's hope for another 10.

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