Final Fantasy XI Then...

[Jei]

God last night wasn't too good for me, Just seemed I was getting battered all the time (even though I did a check on each enemy and it came up with the "decent" challenge on most.

Ended up dying around 5 times just trying to get back in Windhurst from the outpoint (That'l teach my curiosity for venturing out into the wilderness

[Tsingtao]

Level 6 - 10 is notoriously unpleasant first time round without a sub. Try to stick to DC and easy prey and make sure you've got the best gear you can wear from the normal sets. So for RDM full bronze set + a bronze sword and rabit mantle. At 7 you'll chage over to leather and upgrade to a sapara I think.

Food also helps however its not cheap to buy from the AH. A decent one though for all low level when meleeing is meat jerky. You can buy it in windorst waters in one of the taverns. It'll cost you about 130 gil per strip and each strip will last for 30mins when you use it. You'll notice a big difference in your kill speeds as it gives +3 STR +25% attack.

Theres some good information on food at this site ffxi.sompage.com have a read on there and it will give you an idea of food and its useage.

Have you been sortting your inventory and getting signet before heading out to xp?

[Jei]

Have you been sortting your inventory and getting signet before heading out to xp?

Yep always had Signet casted before heading out (And each time after dying but not sure if it's necessary or not)

I've been keeping my inventory pretty much clean, selling the crystal's for Gil and using the Gil to buy a few new skills (like Stone and Potion etc)

Someone on the linkshell said not to worry about the crystals for the meantime as it's better to learn crafting after lvl 15ish

So far so good

[djtickle]

Bad night for me last night also.

After a few rounds on Moto GP 06 Demo with my mates i booted up ff and got a party together. We headed out to the boyahda tree to kill crabs. When we got there we found a camp and killed one crab. Then the party leader noticed x2 deat 65 ish people.

He said give them a raise. Our x2 rdm raised them and we then noticed that one 70thf/nin was fighting a nm crab called Aquariuas. So our leader shouts "alliance"?

I thought this is a bad idea but what the heck. Within 1 min 4 of our party members are dead, including all the mages and there is me and a drg left with the thf and the other 2 members that are cursed.

It finally died when i had 49hp left and the rest of the party got raised. Then 2 members left and it was party over. Sigh....

I gave up for the night at this point. I had to get up at 6:30 am this morning to take maria to work, and couldnt get back to sleep after so booted up FF.

WOW what a difference.

I made my own party. DRK, WHM, RDM, PLD, BLM, BLU, and we rocked.

BLU left and we got a war, and the blm left and we got a rng. But this party just kept on having no downtime and lots of exp. the whm had brd subbed and always had mages ballard on.

So far as i post this i have gone from 53-55 and am almost halfway through 55. Loving it! Sadley i have to leave this in about 30 mins :/ Oh well! Wicked morning thou!

[Jei]

Tonight was better....Finished my first mission (yay for me!) and then met up with this dude outside Windhurst.

Started off helping, showing me a few things, then asked me to follow him so did. Ended up taking me to some glowing flowers telling me about his X-GF how she left him for someone else and got married here!!!

Didn't realise you could get married too.....think he has a soft spot for my furry tail

[Darwock]

er... that's a little disturbing. Wouldn't surprise me if he was thinking you were another 'online' GF in the making. Still at least he tried a little harder than the Galka that sent the tell reading "hey wanna cyber hardcore style?", lmao

[Darwock]

Getting warning signs from my connection, tried to log on 3 times and each time it's lasted 2 minutes before dropping to 0 and booting me off. This is what happened after friday's maintenance and I had to give up.

I'll keep trying.

[djtickle]

Thats weird Darwock? U on NTL? Mines been dodgy of late!

LOL @ Jeimuzu! Thats some weird guy

Ive had a OK day today, steady exp. Died 2 times thou. Just about to hit 56 woot.

Really need to crack on with AF quests again though now and Genkai 3!

The 2 coffers i need are in Montasic Cavern and Castle Oztroja, so if anyone can help out or needs a skill up that would be great this week.

Need to read up about Genkai3 but it sounds like abit of a monster of a quick scan, so sadley prob gonna need to ask for help with that also!

[Darwock]

yeah NTL here, seems to have calmed down but if it strikes again mid-mission I won't be happy.

limit break 3 can be done solo with the exception of the yagudo crest, and that's only cos it takes 2 people to open one of the doors. There's usually folk around there anyway who could do that for you.

[djtickle]

Ahh cool, is it a sneak and invis jobbie?

[Jei]

I'm glad you guys agree, I'l be honest it got me a bit worried especially when he was using custom Emotes (I didn't know u could!)

He helped me for a while, then took me there and I was like WTF....then he was going ON AND ON about how he gave his last GF up....I know people get into the role playing aspect but was a tad wierd. When I did my "I've gotta go" line he told me he's always on so he'l see me next time i'm around :S

Although the dragon he had with him was pretty damn cool

[Darwock]

downside of being a mithra mate, every nutter is going to assume you're female and try to chat you up.

[Jei]

downside of being a mithra mate, every nutter is going to assume you're female and try to chat you up.

Maybe it's time I do what every female does then, suck up all the guys money

[Aionic]

Tonight was better....Finished my first mission (yay for me!) and then met up with this dude outside Windhurst.

Started off helping, showing me a few things, then asked me to follow him so did. Ended up taking me to some glowing flowers telling me about his X-GF how she left him for someone else and got married here!!!

Didn't realise you could get married too.....think he has a soft spot for my furry tail

Yup, he will now stalk you {Run away!}. Good luck.

You can get married on FFXI, fairly cheap actually when you compare to rl (50,000 gil, I think) =D. The downside is that uber players are expected to buy their cyber kitty a wedding dress... VERY expensive, believe me. ;__;

*too lazy to read thread*

Since you seem fairly new, I'll tell you what you a few very easy ways to make small money:

Gideous (Windy)
Gid is very close to Windy. The main good point about it at lower levels is the fact that there are loads of bees that spawn near the entrance, making it a very good place to farm chips. The only bad point is that you will probably die there if you below around level 8-10ish, not to mention the fact that most who farm against you will use a ranged attack and probably have THF sub for more drops.

North Gustaberg (Bastok)
This is the ideal place to farm bees. Loads more (lower level) bees than you'll find at Gideous, plus there's a very easy bee NM that happens to spawn while you farm.

It might be a good idea to restart at Bastok. You'll be able to lose your stalker and start at the best place all in one go.

Also, jobs you should think about leveling early on...

WAR is probably the best job to start with. You will use it for multiple jobs as a sub-job. All you have to do in a party early as WAR at the dunns is try and keep the enemy hitting you by prvoking every 30 seconds...easy, right? =)

The game starts to open up more when you hit 18. You can do the sub-job quest, which enables you to use a sub-job for stat boosts and more abilities. I'd recommend to try and get your THF to level 15 as soon as you unlock sub-jobs, obviously using WAR as the sub-job for THF. You will probably find it hard to get invites, ignore that, it's worth your time to level up THF early on.

With your WAR18 and THF15, you have freedom. You can farm for some good lower level gear, you can level most melee jobs up to 37 since your WAR has hit 18, you can do what you want. The only other thing I'd recommend is that you should get your RNG to level 40 asap (you can unlock RNG at level 30). The big money is made from BCNMs, RNG are needed in the easiest BCNM 40.

[Tobal]

Dynamis was another dud for me, no Sam relic drops, so that?s another month of dynamis to go. ENM75, in boneyard vs antlion we ran out of time but did quite well, problem was we couldn?t find the dammed boss for 3 mins of searching after it ran away. ENM50, went quite bad? Meric blew himself up with his 2hr somehow and it went down hill from there.

Ouyru, we came, we saw, we kicked its ass!! Plan was to have wedge and I, alternate mistmelts with zero kiting and then zerg it at 50%hp. Sadly it didn?t quite go to plan when tsing got one shotted by very strong breath attack close to the 50% margin, we had use sleep the dragon until tsing was ready to fight again. Once up we all 2hr?d and won the fight. 4-3 on Wednesday lads.