FFXI is so easy and yet we can still enjoy watching "random" people die to Raptors in VoS during Ada/Aspid windows.

This is why I love ffxi.


Don't forget we are all getting older and rusty day by day, reaction times go down

Happy gaming duh, whereever that is.

Nah, things actually work there. If you can do any of that shit there we don't know about it. GG tho.

Thank you. All this perceived difficulty of "ye olde retail days" all comes down to player being noobs back then. Same shit that made people think classic WoW was hard when it was only a bit more grindy than it is now.

I think we all agree 90% of CoP battlefields missions are in a sad state and could use a rework (only moblins and promathia seem accurate). Even then it wouldn't be much harder for experienced players. Missions that don't include a "battlefield fight" are pretty much accurate if not harder for a reason or another : Pso'Xja Tenzen path invisible mobs (was that fixed?) and Sacrarium Fomors I feel are a bit too high level.

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Yeah, I would be embarrassed if I had to crutch on it. Except that I don't. And I didn't. I've actually done most of the mission content and most of the end-game content on this server. Almost everything on your list. The exception being relic grinding. Never used my PhD to argue that the easy mode on this server is mostly clustered in mid-game and not end-game. It is such an obvious disparity of Nasomi's time investment between end-game and everything else that it is a characteristic "feature" of the Nasomi experience and I am genuinely sorry that you seemed to disengage from the content right at the point when you need to... uh, get good. I'm not trying to keep circling back to that unpleasant response, but holy shit dude. If you're not ready to be empirical, then you will continue to have no real answers once we get you off-script.

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But as other people have pointed out, those were all in the game in retail. People had them... not in the quantity of some End-game Ls's on Nasomi. But people did have access to aegis, ghorn and kraken clubs. Retail progression was held back by competition for claim (or more correctly who had the better bot). That is just how it was.

Entry seems to base his ideas on decades old forum posts from Alakazam. Or he could just ask/listen to the people that actually did this content in retail.

Don't you have screenshots showing you killing KB in jan-2005. Do you know what happens when 9 people get hit by Meteor... for example...



Other than Katnap nobody is dead and most people are over 50%. I am not even the only person who is playing on Nasomi today who is included in this screenshot from 2005.

Retail FFXI was only difficult because of competition between ls's, lack of gear and lack of experience. On Nasomi there is much less competition(it was common for 7-10 LS's to camp kings on siren). Even ignoring Relics; most LS's have epic gear compared to Ls's in retail. And we have had decades to become better players. FFXI on Nasomi can still be punishing of mistakes. So it's similar to how it was in retail but I wouldn't say it's "easier" because of the game or the Nasomi implementation. The game is largely the same; but everything else is different.

Good one.

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