Day 1...

Got home and found a tab on my door. FedEx didn't want to leave the package at my doorstep when no one was home. (Note to self: Beat younger brother's head in). Went to find the FedEx station and picked it up, then turned on the computers. All internet connections were dead. Installation of the game took about 45 minutes to complete between waiting on the files to get transfered and switching CDs, as well as finding out that installing Tetra Master was required with some weird PlayOnline program Hopefully tonight when I get home from work and college the Internet will be up and running again.

Day 1's first impressions: FAILURE

Anyone else have stuff to share? :p

- Day 1:
After fianlly getting FF XI from GameStop, I start installing it.
When that's done, log into PlayOnline to start it. Whee, 8,500
files have to be patched! (Walks away for an hour an a half)

After I created my character, I started playing... first thing I
note is the interface. It shows a lot of versatility, yet it's going
to take a lot of getting used to. I'm not bashing it... on the
contrary, after you get used to it it's incredibly efficient,
especially in combat.

The battle system can only be best described in one word... "WOW!".
I even was lucky enough to be in a small party for a short while and
be a part of a skillchain, which killed an equivalent of a "red con" in EQ
in nothing flat.

Overall, I had lots of fun my first day (although I think I died
enough times to account for a full level's worth of experience :p).
Too bad I forgot to take some screenshots. I'll remember to get some today.

-Day 1

Got the last copy at my local game shop and then drove home through traffic.
Installed, updated and registered on playonline. Took about an hour.

Chose a female elvaan monk as my character but was a little disappointed that I didn't have the option to tweak any of her facial features or hairstyle.

Got in game and started fiddling with the controls for a bit and killed some monsters.

I like it so far.

Man, I know what you guys mean now about the patching process being so annoying. I thought I installed the game properly, but then I couldn't access the patcher due to not all the files being available (that's different from Everquest, where as you can download the whole game through each patcher program). I guess it had something to do with me starting the install before work, stopping at the second disk, and trying to continue when I got back home after school, which at that point my computer had frozen and it had to be restarted. So I had to reinstall the game completely, then reinstall it and I rushed right into the patcher program. In the middle of the patch I guess I had stayed idle for too long and it booted me out with an error. You know how in the options you have a settings to kick you offline after a certain set amount of time that you can adjust... But it finally finished (after I went to bed).

Once I find some free time again I'll have to check out the game!

- Day 2

Today I decided to check out the quests available in Windurst.
After searching through all sections of the town, I had found at
least 12 quests that various NPC's wanted me to do. Each of the
quests were very unique, most of them involving finding items off
monster corpses to hand in.

I ended up completing only about 6 of the 12 quests so far, but I
have gotten quite a bit out of it. The total of items I got were:
- 1200 gil (a ton of money considering I was only level 8)
- Windshear Hat (head slot, def 2, sv. wind +1, req. level 4)
- Star Onion Medallion (neck slot, def 1, mind +3, req. level 7)

With all of the gil, I was also able to buy a full set of leather
armor, drastically increasing my defense. Today I'll see what
crystal synthesis is like.

*sniff sniff* I cant play yet because my god damn disk 4 wont work. I havent even played and I am already hating this game.

Day 2 in Bahamut - Ran around some more in the city and noticed alot of "natives" wearing pumpkin heads and some of the NPC's dressed as Skeletons and Flying Ghouls....

Tried to talk to the natives in /say and was ignored....prehaps they spoke Japanese...

Hunted some more goblins and collected/sold my items to merchants and got myself a few pieces of bronze armor and some claws.

Maybe today I'll take a look at the quests availabe in my town.

Day 1:

Pick game up from local game store.. Try to install, locks up.. Try to read Disc 1, PC locks up, try three other PC's, now four locked PC's.. Tried disc 2, fucked as well, 3 seamed to work..

Take it back...

Start install, goes through disc one.. Disc 2, freezes PC, try on other PC's, once again 4 locked PC's... At least disc 2 fucked, didn't try the others..

Local gamestore refuses refund, I go balistic, threaten to throw game throw front window...

Fuckin Japs.. They invent everything in the world, but can't burn a fucking CD!?

/sigh..

Well, I went to the store with my laptop and tried another, it failed right there in the store, thier last copy, they told me, no refund, but I can take in store credit.. Just what I want more fucked up shit!

So, I FINALLY get a hold of tech support, after it just giving a busy signal all night..

Well, this is a known problem! And the only fix is to download 1.2 GB worth of data off thier website (in other words, downloading the fird two CD's)

So, with thousands of people on thier site, it's gonna take about 1 day and 15 hours to download, and nice DSL speed, from thier congested network!

... Maybe I'll see some of you in game... tomorrow.... maybe...

Ohhh wait, it just jumped to 1 day and 16 hours..

JOY!

I got the game on Friday, had plenty in stock. Patch took about 2 hours and I got started on Pandemonium with the help of one of my friends. I have a hume warrior in basktok who is level 5 right now. Pretty good so far. Just have to learn more.

Mithran Level 5 thief/level 3 monk on the Gilgamesh server. I bought some armor as I leveled my thief and it really worked out well when I decided to train up some monk skills - monk two hand attack is very powerful just by itself.

I got a message - EXP CHAIN #1 - but I don't know what it means.

Reminds me - A LOT - of Dark Ages of Camelot.

Tipa, Deceiver of Crimson Eternity, Erollisi Marr

I haven't been able to play the game very much (only twice for like an hour and a half each round) due to my new girlfriend, so I decided to let my younger brother play on my account since you can change your class at any time... he shouldn't have anything to complain about, right? Well, by the time I got back home last night he had gotten me from level 2 to, I don't know, level 5 or 6? I had like three different techniques when I got back, though.

I keep trying to get my gravis pad to work PROPERLY with FF11, but I don't seem to be getting anywhere. Seems a little hard to use the controller to select targets, and my joystick seems to randomly make my character run, then walk, then run. Not to mention there's a D-Pad that I haven't figured out how to make use of yet. Seems that no matter what direction I click on while in the configuration it always thinks I'm pressing up... Lol, and it rumbles nonstop! Ah well, I'll understand the controller to use for something other than Everquest and emulators some day.

The worlds are a little confusing and I feel like I'm going around in circles, but at least they have innate map functions. Some day I'll go around exploring freely and understand the lands and limits of the world.

Currently I'm a male Hume monk on the Pandemonium server. I'm trying to get to the server where Rubenn is at, but after about 20 deletes and recreations I only ended up on the same server that I started at. Look for Chamzel.

Day 1 - started out.. did a bunch of quests.. followed the very cool storyline as a Galka Red Mage named... suprise suprise.. Gurglespit. Had a blast..

Day 2 - had a ton more fun.. completely different than any other MMORPG I've played

Day 3 - I am hooked.. started leveling thief as my future subjob for when I hit level 18 still had a blast

Day 4 - hit level 18 and realise I need to do a quest to be able to use my theif subjob.. /sigh looks like I have something to do tomorrow :) still having a blast

Tomorrow.. I plan to have more fun.. I am loving this game :)

Ok I got to level 8 on day two then on day 3 my war started sucking so I upgraded his armor to the extremely gay leather they got. Did a bunch of quests for gil and did two missions. Combat was slow so I switched to a redmage and I've been leveling up pretty fast. Way faster than my warrior. Level 6 with redmage now and when I get to 20 I'm planning to sub thief and be a dark knight later on.

Btw name is still Azraelwrath so look me up if your in the Bastok region.

Monk to level 6; full bronze (lv. 1) armor helped a little, but "decent challenge" mobs are really beginning to hurt me, where before I could kill four in a row before having to heal. Definitely a more powerful fighter than the thief was. Grouped with a black mage for awhile, but though the experience was less, I don't think we made any better progress.

The quests are nice; the characters remember you. Some cash quests you can do over and over. A nice quest had me delivering a note to the Chateau, the guard commenting on the drab state of my armor, and the tailor who gave me the note sending me off to the leatherworker's guild to talk to someone about better armor, who gave me a quest to kill sheep.

Those sheep are vicious.

I finished a mission and got a cut scene advancing the plot of the game. I guess the more missions you do, the further you get into the plot.

I haven't tried crafting anything. Too close to level 7 and the need to upgrade all my armor.

Exp chains (I found) are where you kill two or more challenging mobs in a short amount of time. I got 120 points from a monster in a chain.

Oh yea I am on the Fenrir server by the way for those that are wondering :)

Today I got to 19.. still didn't finish my sub job quest.. but should be able to get it done after the patch.. I am loving this game!

Pandemonium server, though I'll most likely delete and recreate Chamzel again come Friday when my brother gets his paycheck and buys his own FF11 stuff. I need to open up and try figuring out how to find groups in that game. I think a general flaw in the game is that when you use the /shout or /ooc functions you don't see "Chamzel shouts out" or "Chamzel says out of character", you just see the normal text in a different tint of color that's barely noticable. I tried shouting out last night "Where can I find the mog house?" and got no answer. I'm sure I did in another area of the zone, but who ever did must have thought I was right next to them.

Yeah, I've done that a few times myself, not noticing the slightly different color scheme of the message.

You might think about getting your brother a worldpass for whatever server you are on. I only know where the lady who sells worldpasses is at in Bastok (Port Bastok I-6, bottom right corner of grid in tent). The amount it sells for depends on the popularity of the server For instance, on Shiva opening day I got a worldpass for two friends of mine so they could be on the same server and it cost 1096 gil. When I had finally collected all the money, I went back to buy it and the price had risen to 1132.

The pass is bound to your character when you buy it (so if you delete, bye bye worldpass... found this out the hard way) and works for 5 characters for up to one week real time. Everytime you delete and recreate, it randomly places you on a different server also, but there's no guarantee it'll go through all the servers before starting over. When trying to get back to Shiva after my stupidity, I landed on the Phoenix server 3 times in 8 character recreates.

When at the name your character screen(for your brother), after putting your name in, type the name of the server you bought the worldpass in exactly. Example, If you stay on Pandemonium, make sure the "P" is capped (:)) then press enter, then enter the worldpass number on the next line.

If you knew all this, well... maybe it'll help someone else out in the future :D

Worldpasses for Pandemonium were 996gil from what I heard. Btw you get a map and the mog house is in the residential area of every section in town.

Oooh! Is it marked on the map in the resedential area as a... mog? All of these weird symbols in the town maps are confusing to me. I guess I should have ordered the FF11 "strategy guide" along with the game.

Maybe Rubenn has it - he's been known to buy every online RPG strategy guide he gets.

The Mog house isn't one house, its your personal apartment with a MOG in it. When you head into the residential area marked on your map, you enter your apartment, which has a mog in it, who is your personal servant, hence the term "mog house."

IMHO its not hard to understand the map. I don't think the strategy guide will help you, but "FFXI for dummies" will:D

Today I was in a real exp group for the first time - me (Mithran monk), Elvaan warrior, Hume red mage, and Tarutaru black mage. Not a lot of healing, but white mages are so rare. All of us level 8, though all but one of us were level 9 by the time we finished.

My first time out of the newbie fields! And my first real time in a group - loot distribution got me confused. I knew everyone was rolling on stuff and it was automatically being assigned to them if they won - but I didn't know how to roll. Back to the manual, found out how, and ended the night with a bunch of earth crystals, some fire and wind crystals, and some other random loot.

We eventually wiped to a crab deep in the Plateau, so when we respawned, we decided to go to a Tomb in East Ronfaur and finish some missions. There was easy stuff at the top, but the red mage kept urging us further in. Then he dived into an incredibly tough goblin hunter who proceeded to eat the warrior. turn next to the red mage, and chase the black mage from the dungeon, gathering up friends who for some reason didn't aggro me, even though I did my share of damage before it became clear we were wiping.

With everyone gone from the dungeon, except for me at the bottom of it, I tried fighting back up. A goblin added as I was killing his friend, but I'd been saving my TP for an unlucky chance and destroyed the first with a 300% Combo and took out the second very soon after, for an experience chain worth about 200 points altogether. I was level 9 before I finished fighting out.

The warrior left, so the three of us remaining went back to the plateau to ding the two mages. Went great until that same red mage decided to hit a tough steppe rabbit. We almost won, too. Almost. It's plain that having your TP up is more than just important - it's required.

Respawned at Sand'in D'Oreo, put my crystals up for auction, and logged out. Still can't afford much level 7 armor. Conquest points will get me a new weapon for free at level 10, and I managed to save enough for some level 8 boots at the tannery. All my bids for level 8-10 monk gear in the auction house were laughed at.

I'll be heading back to that dungeon, though. I still didn't get the proof the mission girl wanted that the tomb was overrun. Supposedly it's a bat wing, and I have one from there, but it's not the right KIND of bat wing. Grr.

-Day ?

I got a little bored of the same areas outside of Bastok and decided to do some exploring. I'm glad I did. The change of scenery helped out alot and the xp soloing from mobs got me to level 10.

I plan to head back into town and spend some of my conquest points and maybe head to the elvaan city and see what the vedors have in stock. It's a long run but it gives me a chance to /check the mobs on the way for future hunting.

I guess I'm not understanding some of the quests or missions people tell you to go on :o

Anyone have a list of the servers? I think I'm on Lamshi?(sp?)

Rubenn - Go to IGN.com. They've opened up FF Vault! (Just like EQ Vault). On their menu on the left side they have a list of servers as well as stuff on the different classes and races.

Completed King Ranperre's Tomb mission, and am on Saving the Children. Imagine my shock and surprise when the door to the hut holding the children turned out to be a battlefield! Me, a lone level 10 monk, against a chief orc and two archers. I did good, I think, I took down the chief and one of the archers and it was a near thing on the third. If Hundred Fists had been up, I would have won. Regain the 240 experience I lost, wait for boost and hundred fists to reset, try again.

Auction house is great, I sold all my crap and had enough money to buy a nice set of level 8 silk monk gear, that can be reused when I become a ninja. I got my level 10 royal archer's cestus with conquest points and it does hit harder. Not bad, for free.

Still able to solo, with downtime, and it is still easier to level than grouping. My one group didn't seem to kill things faster, tough things were still 50/50, even con stuff was doable, but the decent risk and easy stuff I could and do kill myself.

Had a courier mission to deliver supplies to an outpost way on the other side of the Vonume Dunes, where every monster was "incredibly tough". Made it through the Plateau through there, killing anything I could, and the experience and loot I got more than made up for the death I took coming back through the dunes while I was going through a tunnel. Odd, the sand bats didn't LOOK hostile.

I had to grin when I saw the Brutal Sheep in the dunes. Wild Sheep, Mad Sheep, now Brutal Sheep... this place has a severe sheep problem.

You don't twink another character, in FFXI... you twink yourself in other jobs. Drives the prices of low level gear up beyond reason. On the other hand, your old crap sells well.

Level 10 with redmage. Leather armor looks really gay. It is S&M bondage gear. I'm gonna upgrade to scale when I have the time this weekend. So far I'm planning to go redmage and warrior to 30 and see where I go from there. I heard that melee classes have a hard time getting parties since there are so much of them. So right now I'm thinking of heading paladin for tanking/groups or beast tamer for soloing since sometimes my time is limited. I probably might go both. Who knows. But anyway, I will be glad to get out of that S&M bondage gear. Crazy Japanese...

A red mage from Bastok was finishing a quest at the Ghelpan outpost, and he invited me to return with him to Bastok. So we set out into some higher level zones, getting directions from people with my pidgin Japanese, and we get to Jueno. Nobody in Jueno spoke English, and neither my friend nor I had a map or any idea where to buy one. We were standing in a foreign city, hoping someone spoke enough English to help us on our way! I did get some some tells in Jueno, asking what a level 11 was doing there, and saying we and my friend were way too young! It would be the same as a level 11 EQ player setting their bind point in Skyshrine (assuming they weren't KOS there)...

Eventually we found a tarutaru bard who was an English student, and HE had a white mage friend who did not speak English, but could port us to the general area of Bastok. But you need to get the key stone from the place to which you're porting, so I couldn't port there. I had to go back to Holla Crag and run there, escorted by the bard, who sang and charmed his way through all these high level zones... it was fun...

We met the white mage again at the DEM stone, so now I can port straight there, and ran to Bastok... it was a lot of fun... and makes me want to study Japanese again, and get a keyboard that can handle kana...

I sat there, in a city I had never been to, with two new friends who could speak my language only a little better than I could speak theirs. Not just EQ's scrambling letters to mean an unknown language, a real language. The race I chose, Mithra, is hardly known in the Elvaan city of Sandoria and not known scarcely at all in the Hume city of Bastok. (Tarutaru are everywhere...)

I don't remember feeling this alien in a MMORPG. The wider FFXI world speaks Japanese. In the give an take of the three warring empires, I am an agent from an enemy nation. Everything I kill (until my Sandorian signet wears off, anyway) will count against Bastok. And I can't do the Bastok quests that require fame unless I renounce my Sandorian citizenship and join the Bastok empire.

While passing through a Windhurst-controlled forest, a conquest update for the zone came, and announced that Sandorians were sending an expeditionary force to take control of the zone (you can sign up for these forces when you're 25, bring some friends). The Tarutaru-run outpost we stopped at midway might well be run by Elvaan tomorrow.

You can't port to a place until you have been to a place (like Velious was, until they nerfed it). No chocobo until 20, no airship rides until 30. I'd love to see Nexus spires at 20 and PoK books at 30 in EQ! When we found a Bastok native among us this afternoon, we were astounded, because we knew the only way to get from place to place was by walking through zones of extremely vicious creatures...

This is a game with depth, in the way EQ is and DAoC and SW:G were not (when I played them). I honestly have no idea what high level players do. That's lost behind a language barrier, the spoilers are all in Japanese. I caught glimpses of it, before I was delivered back to the English-speaking newbie zones.

I asked my Japanese guides if they thought English speakers and Japanese speakers could play together. I'm not sure I understood their answer; I'm not sure they understood my question! But as long as everyone's having fun, it will turn out okay.

Me with friend in my Moogle house in Sand Oreo, in monkey pajamas:

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Heh yea.. this is the first MMORPG I have played since EQ where I was truly amazed and felt truly "new"

My third day I managed to hook up with some really good american players (one of whom had never played an MMORPG before in his life..) and we have managed to get ourselved to levels 23-25 and have been hunting alot in the Jueno area the past couple days.. I am pretty sure we are the only americans there and I really wish I could read/speak japanese :) lucky for us, one of our groupmates is bilingual and Melakie (my roomate and one of those groupmates) happens to be taking japanese in college right now.. so we can communicate a bit :)

I am finishing up my chocobo quest right now (the quests in this game actually reward you well.. imagine that :) ) and tomorrow we are going to get our first airship pass (you don't need to be 30 to get a couple of them ;) ) and then going to kill a dragon in the name of Bastok :)

Didn't they include a thing in FF11 that could translate english to japanese and the other way around, though?

Only certain phrases.

Crystals and crafting stuff very hard to find in the Sandorian fields are common, it turns out, in the Bastok area. I had to return to Sand Oreo this morning to collect the proceeds from my auctions and finish a mission. A friend sent a dozen beehive bits - worth about 20 gil in Bastok each and about 350 each in Sandoria - to my mailbox, and I put them up for auction while I was there. He collected them from the newbie fields, and we are splitting the proceeds 50/50.

For such an out of the way place, Sand Oreo has some strong crafters, and I may try to bring some finished goods back with me when I return to Bastok. Another friend and I plan on journeying to Windhurst in the near future - he is a tarutaru, and it would be the first time for both of us, visiting our homeland. He (a black mage) wants to get a spell trade going.

/wave Mazal if you're reading this!

Anyone know what to do at high levels? are there raids and raid-level mobs? Or do you just endlessly create sub-jobs until you have level 70 everything?

They have triggered raid encounters. You hand in a lot of beastmen seals and in return get an orb of various types, which can itself be turned in to trigger a battlefield with a high level encounter. The event can only be triggered at set durations. I imagine the treasure pool is shared among all members of the alliance. The battlefields themselves can be treacherous to get to.

There are low level raid encounters as well. Higher level people can join in, but their level is reduced while they are in the battlefield (and they have to wear low level armor and use low level weapons, and all their skills are low level, too).

The level 60+ people I have talked to do indeed have a lot of various jobs under their belts.

Level 13 now, and I can still solo fine (have only grouped for experience three times). It's easier and quicker to kill ten 15 point creatures than three 50 point creatures, so actually...... I am still doing most of my leveling in the newbie fields.

The macro capability in the game is nice. My macros display in Japanese to Japanese people, and English to English speakers, through very careful use of words and the auto-translation feature.

I don't know.. but tonight our group advanced the storyline to get our 3rd rank (pretty much your fame.. you can only do certain quests if your rank is high enough..) to do it we had to travel to all 3 of the major cities.. and it culminated with a fight against a huge black dragon!

It was awesome.. made me feel like I was playing an non-online RPG.. there was a really nice cut scene with a ton of storyline.. and it ended with us sitting in a battlefield area with the dragon.. it beat the hell out of us.. but we managed to kill it without a single death (pretty impressive for a group with no white mages.. :) ) it did de-level us a bit.. I noticed the icon but it was only a few levels.. 25 must have been too high for that encounter.. so it just adjusts you accordingly :)

If leveling was faster, I'd probably consider staying in this game longer. Plus there are lots of jobs out there, and its gonna take at least a year to reach 70. I wish soloing was better too.

Right now I'm pretty much thinking of dropping out and buying a new game.

hmm.. game has been out 2 weeks and I made 30th level RDM, 16th level DRK, 9th level WHM, 7th level THF, 5th level WAR.. done the DRK and NIN quests.. done the Khazam airship pass quest.. done 30 or so quests and 7 of the missions for my town.. and still managed to level pretty quick.. I was actually thinking just the opposite.. thinking it's a bit too easy to level :)

I think thats because I haven't done any grouping yet. Maybe After I finish some quests on the Konstat highlands I'm going back to Palborough mines and try to find a group. Its worth a second try I guess.

First impressions:

Game is like EQ. You must party or sometimes ally to survive. Very few true solo classes (beastmaster is only one I've seen).

Xp is easy to come by if you can get groups.

Jobs with odd subjobs are frowned upon and you'll never get into random groups.

The japanese pretty much monopolize every good xp spot.

Most of them ignore anyone that only speaks english, unless they speak some.

A lot of choice in the game.

A lot of spells, weapons, abilities.

Renki are awesome, same with spell bursts.

Grouping can be challenging or extremely easy if you have the right mix.

Xp penalty is complete ass. (10% of xp needed for next level, wtf?)

Combat system is cool, except for some aspects such as trying to switch targets while in melee.

The fact you need to quest/mission to unlock everything is extremely stupid and annoying. I don't want to quest/mission to get a chocobo license, air ship pass, unlock jobs, get a sub job, go beyond level 55, etc..

While it's possible to get exp solo, grouping is almost mandatory. Even when you're getting just 30 points a kill, you're making progress. Got up to 120 points on a kill doing ghouls in Gusgen Mines the other day, with exp chains, in an eight person alliance, everyone 17-19.

Went back to the Dunes to finish our subjob quests and was doing decent exp on Damselflies (nasty nasty nasty nasty bugs), got 18 there, then had to run to Sand Oreo to get my quest items from the bank, warped back to Selbina (1500 conquest points from the gate guard but saving the run was WORTH IT), ran back to Sand Oreo to get my subjob............ so much running in the game.....

Anyway you get exp by grouping, OR by soloing "easy" mobs in bunches of five or six between rests.

I love FFXI. I got rid of my EQ account and have played FF since I got the CDs. This game blows EQ away, and I love how people are more interested in maintaining the atmosphere, than shouting and oocing about being "l33t". We'll see if EQ2 can compete, but who knows?

-Avataru 14 whm Asura

Oh, I've seen a little shout fests in Final Fantasy, but just a little tiny decimal percentage compared to what we see every day in Everquest. I think that some day soon I'm going to have to pick between Everquest and Final Fantasy, argh!! If I stick with Everquest I'll have better chances at grouping with Rubenn! But if I stick with Final Fantasy I might get to group with my younger brother, who is trailing way ahead of me! Nooooo!!

Haven't seen any l33ts yet in Final Fantasy, I don't think. I talk in third person, though, and in every other group I'm in I see "Is there something wrong with you, Chamzel? Why do you talk in third person?" to which I respond "Chamzel want know what wrong with you." I brought this up with my linkshell and they were like "Roleplaying isn't very alive in Final Fantasy." I think about this... and I come up with... What if I'm not really english in real life? Would that not justify my third personish simple talk? I see lots of Japanese folk try to talk in english. Some are good, some aren't. Blah. But I am American and I speak clear english... when I want to. I'm playing a game, though, and my objective is to look and sound like a hyper cute and not at all well educated big guy. I would feel kind of stupid chatting the way I do as a Hume, Elvaan, or Mithra.

I'm hanging around Windhurst getting my weaving skill up so I have some decent equipment later on, and I'm also working my white mage up. I was sitting around resting the other day and a Tarutaru runs up in front of me and starts wiggling around with his /panic command. I watched him in confusion, like "Is this guy trying to impress me?", and I stood up and did a /psych (Galka slap their faces several times and shake their heads with a "...gets psyched." message)

Having a level 11 white mage in stock with my level 19 monk is of great help when I subjob the white mage under my monk. I'm stuck with just 26 MP, though! But the ability to cast Dia and Paralyze before a fight with an even con or lower really puts me at an advantage as long as the monster doesn't resist the spell, or breaks early.

I'd have to say that the only thing I don't like about FF11 now is the fact that you can't run, turn, and type at the same time like in Everquest. I'll be running along Valkrum, turn Auto Run on and start chatting... and then I start running right for some goblins, and I'm like "I'm on my44446666622277help!487464874627"

I find it funny how in Final Fantasy 11 the ignore functions are called Blacklisting! When I found that out I said that sounded a tad bit... negative.

Anyway, playing on!!