You know us FFXI players are quick to complain when SE does something wrong or just doesn't address the issues we have. You can go to any message board and it won't take you a minute to find someone complaining about job x still not receiving an update, the latest expansion failing to deliver, ground kings being botted, or any of a numerous amount of recurring problems we have. However, right now I'd like to talk about one thing SE seems to have gotten almost perfect, even if it did come years late.
Fields of Valor. Yup I love this and anyone who has used it for any amount of time I'm sure will agree. When it first came out I'll admit I didn't think much of it. It was something mostly for lower levels and I really only used in when farming despot up in sky to get a little bonus xp. But one day I was bored and decided to level up a new job.
WOW. Not sure what else to say because leveling low level jobs is night and day different from how it used to be. They absolutely fly by now and its not just because you get a little bonus xp once an hour. The 1 per tic refresh and regen are just phenomenal. 1-20 I pretty much just used regen and laid waste to EP and dc mobs. The added xp you now get from ep to dc is also a huge boon but the regen meant zero downtime. That's something that generally didn't start to happen until around the 40's when you could have RDM and BRD's for refresh to keep the mages going.
Levels 10 -20 now are probably the most dramatic difference. Used to be you would want to pull your hair out waiting for hours on end to get a party invite and take you away from some god awful and slow solo xp. You'd get a party and, well, it was the dunes it sucked 9 out of 10 times. Now you can solo it in a matter of a few hours. If the low levels had been this way all along, FFXI would probably have been a much bigger success than it is with many more players sticking around.
Found a suggested path to take for those wanting to do FOV to level their jobs up solo.
15-20 Crag zone
20-30 Dunes
30-39 Qufim
39-44 East Altepa Spiders at Korrolka zoneline
44-49 Yuhtunga Jungle Outpost 10x Monkeys
49-53 West Altepa Spiders+Ants at Rabao zoneline
53-63 East Altepa Outpost Gobs+Manticore
63-66 West Altepa Beetles+Cactaur at Rev. Rock
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