^^ And here’s my monk. So handy how you can cast sneak + invis on yourself via a book instead of having to waste an item or have a white mage around.

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      I don’t know what it’s like today, but the game is extremely punishing compared to modern games. More akin to a Soul’s game with lost experience for each death.

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      Very easy! On both catseyexi and retail they have npc trusts that you can solo with and the experience rates are higher so it’s cut down on the grind. I managed to get to level 20 in just a day or two.

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        Sweet! Great to hear that some of the tedium and grind has been cut down without sacrificing the game quality. I always love the idea of super complex old-school MMOs and RPGs, but none of them actually capture me when I actually pick them up and play them. FFXI always looked like it could fix that problem for me simply because I love me some Final Fantasy lol

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    So handy how you can cast sneak + invis on yourself via a book instead of having to waste an item or have a white mage around

    This is not my nostalgia. FFXI is about building comradery by suffering together.

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      Nothing was more difficult as a WHM than trying to get to a new leveling camp with multiple people I needed to keep the spells up on. No other MMO has inspired the shear terror of frantically trying to find s safe spot to refresh as the timers ticked down.

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      See I don’t have nostalgia over XI like most people do, the only other time I ever played it was around 08-09ish on a free trial and I didn’t like it. So the experience for me is almost fresh today.