I would like to find out what players like to do while they play FFXI outside of Abyssea.
What do you find fun? What is it that you enjoy? Any non-Abyssea related activities.
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I personally enjoy fishing and doing missions. I also love the occasional white mage melee for the fun of it.
I enjoyed SCNM but the rewards have since been obsolete due to Abyssea items.
Low-manning KSNM/BCNM's are interesting, although the rewards are almost never worth it.
ANNM's were interesting, but having to use Allied Notes to do it was annoying if you didn't like campaign to make allied notes. The fact that you couldn't earn AN's from leveling made me mad.
ENM's were fun when they came out, haven't done any in awhile. Would be cool doing it now since you have no level restriction going up there.
I have never done any ISNM's, because I didn't like leveling so i never had Imperial Standing points XD.
I like Walk of Echoes! But i hate when random people come in and destroy your run lotting on coins and loot that are worth a lot. :\ I understand it is an activity that everyone can gather and work together, but that is not what people do. They enter and leech coins for their weapons and steal armor to make gil for themselves. /end rage
I love the idea of synergy and even have it leveled up quite a bit. Just, leveling it is quite annoying.
Crafting is cool when you get skill-ups, level 97 cloth for me. I just don't know, having to put gil in to be able to make something. A lot of the items still are being used now but a lot aren't due to abyssea.
I have done the occasional Chocobo Digging and never found profit in it, although I have read you have to put a lot into it to make anything from it. It's cool digging stuff up and getting random junk though.
Clamming was... a interesting activity to try out once.
Gardening was cool, but it never got me hooked doing it. I know a lot of players have made their millions from it though (I think a lot through an exploit once though). Even without it I know people who made a lot from doing it.
Excavation, Harvesting, Logging, Mining were once cool, but when it was there was a huge bot problem. That ended up making me not do it at that time. It would be cool to do while your leveling a craft though, has a nice theme to it.
I never got into chocobo racing, it never was a huge hit on my server. I ended up getting a baby chocobo and it ended up being green, the color that I wanted /o/
I never have done MMM (Mobling Maze Mongers). I think a few people enjoyed it.
I never liked Dynamis. I guess it was fun at one point but the repetitiveness and following the same path every time just got to me.
I have mixed feelings about VNM's. They're pretty challenging (with a small group or solo) but finding them without cheating is difficult (even when your cheating can be difficult).
I hate ZNM's with a passion. Yea, they're creative and original in some ways but, at least with my group, there was a lot of running around and that got tiresome.
I have never gained EXP to level from Fields of Valor. I hear its a great way to make exp low level (pre 30).
I never have enjoyed leveling, even in Abyssea (yea I know).
I don't like campaign that much probably due to the 5 day wait per rank up. I guess I should of started out early lol.
Besieged was pretty cool from time to time, I never got into it seriously. Was just a cool thing to do from time to time.
I no longer enjoy Nyzul Isle Investigation due to doing it more often than I probably should of. I have Runic Key though.
I find some Assaults cool, but never would repeat them because I'd end up hating them. It was cool getting all of them done to get Captain though. I enjoy captain.
I have mixed feelings about salvage, It was pretty boring for me and the fact that stuff almost never dropped was depressing. Felt great when you did see something drop that your group actually needed.
I enjoy helping random people I've never met with something they need help with. I don't like the people that ended up asking me for help over and over and over and over again though without giving it back. Is that wrong? lol
I did enjoy power leveling a random party in dunes or somewhere when I was bored. I loved seeing people all surprised that I wanted to do it.
Sky was fun when it came out, the only way I still enjoy it is lowman (2-3 friends).
I've done too much sea to enjoy it, although I probably would like duoing it. I love how it looks though, everything is so pretty :)
Pankration was just silly to me.
I've never been a huge NM person, even when I was HNM camping. Only reason I did HNM's was for the gear. Well, I did like doing NM's at one point, but because of people abusing the system and the monopolization of a NM, it ended up not being any fun unless you bot claimed.
Farming was once a cool activity to do. It was boring but the idea of gathering up items to sell and getting rewarded for your hard work was fun. It was something to do while you had nothing to do. But in an effort to combat rmt'ing SE had to lower the NPC prices of many items that players farmed.
I'm sure there are other things out there but I don't remember any of them. If you know something bring it up!
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You don't have to list everything that I did, I just wanted to start it off. So, what do you like to do outside of Abyssea? :)
