How Is The Game?

The game has changed quite a bit now. And you do need a good social LS and the ability to make a few friends and being social to other player in the game. If you can do that then there are literally gazilion things for you to do from old content to new content.

A lot of people said Abyssea is too easy and can be soloed etc... which is true if you have been there from the start and get everything you wanted. As returning player, you may be in a bit of a struggle in the beginning, but if you can make a few friends, then Abyssea would be very fun playground for you. Voidwatch would be the struggle you will face if you want to do it since it requires 12-18 people and the popularity has died down a lot (until SE fix R/M/E - and quadruple the damage, then you will see VW shouts daily every hour). Legion is pretty much a rare thing, so is Neo Einherjar, Neo Limbus etc... Dynamis you can solo daily. Neo Nyzul you just need a group of friends. If you can make 5 friends and static the game is pure joy and extremely addictive.

Seekers of Adoulin content was way too rough at launch but it is getting better and better with every update. It will probably gets better later. So far it is more targeted to players who have completed the Abusea, Neo Dyna, Neo Nyzul, Legion... But there are plenty of content for casuals and newbie as well. This expansion is literally handing out the best gears to you at this point, WoW style. You have to do a bit of work - but it is totally doable if you put some time gearing up your character. Support jobs and healers (plus paladin) is highly sought after.

If you like FFXI before then you will love it again, but if you just want to sit AFK doing nothing but having an e-peen shout contest, and expecting gears to be delivered to your moogle box, then don't come back lol. It is social game, if you can't make friends, then it is going to be a rough experience.

Got to agree with Lubunny1 here, and we disagree on alot!

Finding good players, who aren't D bags is your biggest challenge, I know when I returned I had some major assistance from Dilios, Mariketa, Tenini and Chait (just a few of my favourite people in game)

If I could only give you one piece of advice, it would be to spam Adoulin reives and Rank your fame up asap. You can go to WKR with enough bayld and if you have WHm and COR you could easily get in those shouts requiring 100+ people to gring a NM like PW for 6~9 hours.

We'll as the topic states I haven't played in probably idk 2 to 3 years and I kind of been wanting to play again but i don't know if I should.

Why don't you keep enjoying some MVC2MAHVEL?

All these people saying the game is "the best game ever" clearly are new school bandwagon players. Prolly some Oatixur MNKs thinkin they the ***. The amount of change this game has taken since I've been playing in 2003 2004 is dumb stupid. No challenges at all, no skill needed. COMPLETELY different from the old days...

All these people saying the game is "the best game ever" clearly are new school bandwagon players. Prolly some Oatixur MNKs thinkin they the ***. The amount of change this game has taken since I've been playing in 2003 2004 is dumb stupid. No challenges at all, no skill needed. COMPLETELY different from the old days...

Wait what?! I HEARD MAHVEL! WHEN'S MAHVEL?!?! WHEN'S MAHVEL?!?!

All these people saying the game is "the best game ever" clearly are new school bandwagon players. Prolly some Oatixur MNKs thinkin they the ***. The amount of change this game has taken since I've been playing in 2003 2004 is dumb stupid. No challenges at all, no skill needed. COMPLETELY different from the old days...

It's the "best game ATM" for Draylo , which i think is sarcasm of blind negation. Most people agree that ffxi is not worth to come back

At the people saying no the game sucks etc, why you still posting in a dead games forum?

If anything, now is the time to come back/start anew. Shits much easier now, can get up to speed pretty fast...

When mog bonanza first started, rank 3 prize was a xarc relic armor piece.

this month SE gave you 40 of those same items of your choice just for logging in. (100 points each, 4000 points given for the month of logins)

It's the "best game ATM" for Draylo , which i think is sarcasm of blind negation. Most people agree that ffxi is not worth to come back

Again, been in since NA release.

FFXI isn't what it was but nothing else out there interests me currently save FFXIV ARR.

No, not a FF fangirl, the only FFs I have played are XI and XIV. Only other MMO that captured me was WAR. Then it lost me and over 1m others as well.

My interest in FFXI waxes and wanes along with my time in game, but I have never ever stopped my subscription.

All these people saying the game is "the best game ever" clearly are new school bandwagon players. Prolly some Oatixur MNKs thinkin they the ***. The amount of change this game has taken since I've been playing in 2003 2004 is dumb stupid. No challenges at all, no skill needed. COMPLETELY different from the old days...

OK then mister, try to beat those fracture bosses... and come back share us your strategy. Would love to hear if you can actually do that. There has not been any NA/EU LS in Bahamut that can beat Tojil, which is the easiest of the 3 Nakuals Fracture, a few gotten it very close to 30-20% HP. Only Japan LS beat it. The game has been made easier to level, but that does not mean you should not think, ZOMG ilevel 106 - everything is easy peasy, spam WS 100TP, yay I am invincible lol. A lot of people just reach level 99 but never bother to learn the jobs. If you look at FFXI AH forum, on each jobs section there are tons of guide written by members. There are a lot to learn just by reading it, and then you still have to do it in practice. Don't get your rose tinted colored glasses of the good old days muddling the fact that there are still some challenges in the game.