[Gryffes]

Heya, thinking of playing FFXI again.

I left around mid way through promathia, and wondered what the endgame is like now.

Limbus had just been introduced when I left, so was wondering if people do the wait3 hour for hnm pop windows thing or if there is more dynamic stuff to do these days?

Also, heya to any old Aurora members who are still around.

[octoberasian]

Hi Gryffes

I remember you somewhat. I know I've had friends back in Aurora.

Well let's see...

The current top HNM/Endgame LSes are FoReal, Discoid, Lunarians, Archdominus, NineInchNinjas and Prophets. Then there are others such as AlteredFates, DesireLS, weekday (assumingly that's a JP/EU HNM LS), Benediction (JP HNM), CUKATA (no HNMs though), GGShock (JP), YggdrassilGarden (JP), Versatility (Sky/Sea/Salvage/Limbus/Dynamis/NA/EU), and several others.

Endgame-wise you now have:
- Salvage -- Instanced fights where you start off stark naked
- Einherjar -- Where you get to fight Odin in the final chamber
- SCNM (Sealed container NM) fights in WotG area similar to BCNMs

Other events outside endgame activity:
- Nyzul Isle assaults
- Assaults
- Campaign

New HNMs:
- Sandworm HNM/BC fights
- Dark Ixion

And, since CoP new stuff were added:

- the stupidly hard and ridiculous requirements for Nyzul Isle Mythic Weapons
- Samurai got tres-uber and too many bandwagon SAMs now thanks to Sekkanoki (mini 2 hour)
- Dancer and Scholar jobs - Love DNC, fun job ^^
- New /dance emotes - fun yet annoying if spammed
- Adjustments to PUP, though very little
- Oh, yes! new jobs after CoP introduced in ToAU: Corsair, Puppetmaster, and Blue Mage
- Relic armors for the ToAU drop in Dynamis now
- Two handed weapons update; along with STR/DEX adjustments for one-handed and two-handed weapons
- New weapon skills thanks to the Mythic Weapons

Let me see... what else?

... people are still the same, server is as quiet as normal... moreso nowadays

... players tend to be either very helpful or not helpful at all, which is most of the time now

... still greedy pricks including crafters on the servers

... RMT price fixers, but not so much that I've noticed lately

... A lot of gear between midway CoP to now went R/Ex like Ochiudo's Kote, etc.

... Ullikummi is now forced pop, and Despot has been changed

... HNMs are still NOT instanced, so botters still exist (assumingly in three of the HNM LSes I listed above)

... New armors and weapons of course

... Square-Enix still blind and stubborn to a lot of other issues in the game such as space issues; HNMs not being instanced; unwillingness to update graphics engine like EQ and EVE Online has done to their MMOs and soon WoW; Special Task Force still doing its job but in some areas needs improvements; and their stupid "lol PS2 limitations" answer to every issue that exists in this game from lag to other performance issues. Oh, PS2 users still freeze/disconnect in Garden of Ruhmet/Palace of Huxzoi for some strange friggin' reason.

I think that's about it.

But, I can tell you this that if you still have friends, good ones at that, that's never harassed you, ignored you, or personally attacked you in the four years you've played this game, and still with you regardless of the ups and downs in this game, the game is still fun in some ways even if it's not a lot.

It's the only thing still holding me in this game.

[dendugger]

lol just as i left it. i might come back and start over as beastmaster or mnk galka. i miss the game alot