User blog:Wychor/FFXI in 2016

Welcome to my blog where I shall share my experiences about FFXI in 2016.

Who am I and why FFXI? I am a student at the University of Amsterdam, I am in my early twenties and I like playing video games with good story and good gameplay. My genres of preference are RPG and strategy, both real time and turn based. My first encounter with Final Fantasy was with Final Fantasy Legends II which I still haven't finished XD. Later I played FF tactics advance and really enjoyed the gameplay and the "atmosphere" of the game. Now being a student, my finances are limited. I hardly ever drink or go to parties but I am still on a budget. One day I remembered watching a FFXI video and remembered how much the game appealed to me at the time. Given my budget and my "not so advanced" gaming hardware I decided to buy FFXI and started playing.

My early days. I started playing in the summer of 2014, I played for 1 or 2 months but didn't play very often. It is only recently (2016) that I began playing FFXI for real. One of the toughest choices in any RPG is picking your character, customizing its looks and choosing a nation to ally yourself with. My preference was magic, so I chose a Tarutaru and allied myself to Windurst. The beginning of the game was quite puzzling for me, I only got to understand the importance of Records of Eminence (RoE) after I had leveled both white and black mage to 30. About 95% of that leveling was done solo without Trust. I only learned about Trust and its impact when I started following the RoE. Once I got to understand the RoE and Trust the game started to really take off. Both made leveling easier and more fun, the grind became bearable and even quite enjoyable. Right now I am a level 40 Thief with Black Mage as a sub and will probably stay Thief until the first level cap. I know that I am still very noob or nooblike but a noob with enthusiasm is better than a pro with a depression. I really enjoy the crafting system, as well as the harvesting, logging and mining that comes with it. I recently went to Qufim and the tower to farm some Lightning Clusters so I can turn all my Moko Grass into Grass Threads and craft some nice stuff with it. Nearly all my FFXI knowledge comes from experience or from this WIKIA.

My aim. I will aim to put as much of my gathered information about drops and other gameplay information on this wikia. I already did some updates on the Helldiver droprates and will try help wherever I can. Hope I can be of help to you or others on this site. I will try to update my blog after every "major" gaming session. Have a good day and till my next update!