FFXI Returning Player Info - The Game Has Changed

[Anubis]

Well, it's been a loooong time since we last had activity in this forum (10 years...I actually can't believe it's been that long). But damn it, I think it's about time to change that.

I've been in a real MMO mood lately, and was casting around to find something to play. For whatever reason I ended up thinking about FFXI and the story that I never completed there. Reading around the game, I was pretty surprised at just how much has changed. Most stuff is soloable now, with the help of Trust NPCs that you can recruit through quests, for example. And on a more personal note, Dark Knight is actually popular at endgame now - typical that as soon as I stop playing, no more flagging for party for 7 hours as a DRK... It sounded pretty appealing to me.

I'm still playing FFXIV for now, and likely will be for the next month or so at least, but I intend to pick FFXI back up once I'm done there. In the event that anyone else reads this and fancies a trip back too, some of the more interesting reading I've found can be found below:

Returning to Vana'diel - What Has Changed Guide
Quickstart 1-119 Guide - Completing All Content
FFXI Reddit
Development Team Q&A July 2018 - What's The Future?

This forum will likely get a bit more active again as and when I resub

[LightningP38]

Well, this sounds interesting... I've been showing games from my high school and college years to my kids, and for some reason, FFXI didn't pop in my head ; I should give it a try, my 11 year old son has been enjoying LoZ Breath of the Wild lately, so he might be interested by other Japanese fantasy games...

[Brucedg]

I think my son would love to try it though!

[Anubis]

Bumping this, since Quiz has come back!

There's some good info here which I'm using to re-learn things!

[Anubis]

General update, I have found this which makes life SO MUCH better:

FFXI Remapster Project

Basically an addon for Windower that replaces all the old 500px stretched and useless maps ingame with high def ones containing details the originals left out. QOL + 100%.