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FFXI Classic - The Joy of Soloing!
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- Опубліковано 6 січ 2019
- FFXI in its Classic form was a harsh unforgiving landscape, encouraging and almost requiring group play. This had an interesting effect on what it meant to play solo, but has this been lost with the more approachable current iteration?
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I was in my 20s and in college when i first got ffxi in 2004 and so I wasn't able to devote as much time to party groups as I would have liked and so I worked a lot solo on my Beastmaster ; i clearly remember the moment I hit 75, it was hard earned and well deserved.
That's literally my same story
Soloing on my Beastmaster was some of the most relaxing times of discovery and danger.
Lvling bst 1-75 was one of my most meaningful experiences in ffxi.
agreed K11
Definitely! I used to love to explore the world as BST, feeling just a Little bit safer haha
Bst 1-75 was the most relaxing and learning experiences Ive ever had in FFXI just you and your pet enduring the harsh zones and mobs!
Mybutteredpopcorn yeah was great for farming dynamics coins ^^
Solo’ng on DRG was the greatest feeling ever. AF2 helm was the bomb !
It all goes back to fear. Fear you will de level fear of being home pointed . That potion or spell wearing off just at the wrong time fear. Fear you can’t make it to the zone or that Gob will spot you and link the rest OMG RUNNNN!!!!!!!!!! It was so fun 🔥👍❤️
I love your videos on FFXI I remember when the game first came out and my dad and I would sit and wait for the updates to finish just to watch him play keep making great videos
Playing BST a fair bit in XI made for a lot of interesting soloing experiences. Leveling the job lead to so much exploring, going to far flung areas of the map to find areas to grind XP that had a decent collection of monsters to charm as pets as well as no other parties there that would inevitably complain about there being a BST nearby. It gave an opportunity to see parts of Vana'diel that I doubt I'd ever have visited otherwise. =)
I idolized Avesta back in the old days. Was always challenging myself to see what I could solo on my RDM. Miser Murphy at lvl 59, Bloodtear Baldurf at lvl 66, Ose, Charby etc etc. Avesta was an absolute beast. In retrospect I wasted a lot of time refusing help so I could spend 2+ hours soloing stuff that could have been knocked out easily with a group. But I had so much fun doing it. Was always great when I could draw a crowd which would dissipate rather quickly when people realized the fight was going to take over an hour.
u mention avesta-were you bahamut?
@@dahabs123 Odin. Had a friend tell me about Avesta and used to watch his old low res videos.
I never understood peoples obsession with Avesta. Gravity, nuke, bind, nuke, sleep, nuke rinse repeat.
@@anthonylasalle7392 It wasn't just that easy. He changed gear so much you almost never saw his character cast a spell. He had the perfect set ups to be capable of landing those sleeps, or slows etc etc. Trust me when I say what he did wasn't easy.
@@JailerSWTOR Bruh really. This was during 75 cap. when all we had for RDM was Wise+1 Mahatma, and Morrigan sets, his fame came from being one of the most earliest people to make XI videos on UA-cam.
BST leveling was an experience. I remember getting deep in the Boyada Tree and really connecting with that zone.
My buddy and I used to duo so much stuff that took most people a party to do when the cap was 75. When they added DNC, we would Nin/dnc and thf/nin duo everything. So long as it didn’t use a ton of magic, we could usually take it. Loved hunting nms and stuff together.
Being a BST main, it was always nice to know that if I couldn't find a party for something I could always give it a shot solo. Soloing was so relaxing to me that I lvled bst on two separate characters, once pre-AoAU and the other Pre-Abyssea.
I remember soloing with my Dragoon, cause nobody wanted one in groups at the time.
I would go half White mage, anytime I needed a heal I'd cast Dia on the mob which would cause my dragon pet use healing breath.
The best was when I'd team up with other DRG/WHM we could fight for hours with no downtime.
Your videos are not only amazing, but also an ode to classic FFXI, the best game ever made. Thank you.
Thanks dude :) appreciate all the support for so many of XIs greatest aspects
The part about soloing that was most interesting to me was sub job selection. You didn’t have to worry about meta judgments when soloing, and I truly believe that is how some of the more interesting job combinations were discovered. Let us never forget the brady games /brd suggestion! Bahahaha
Love the video man! Still need to connect now that Mog got me playing on Odin.
Def! And ya I loved finding unique job combos for sure
My best/hardest solo was Ungur. 75NIN/37WHM. Before trusts and DNC. Full evasion gear. It was pretty difficult. Got a a lot of boomerangs for LS mates. Was a challenge so made it fun.
What was annoying soloing:
BST soloing a camp for 5+ hours.
Random group or LS static exp group, comes from Jeuno/Whitegate/Adoulin.
Party: Hey could you leave?
BST: I've been hear for 5 hours, how about you guys camp 4 ft to the left?
Party: Fuck you, will camp on top of you, and our BRD will sleep hold the mobs.
I remember back in the days of Lv. 75 cap I soloed the Promathia Mission 6-2 fight against the three Spheroid NMs in Misareaux Coast as a DRK 65. I had trained up my Adventuring Fellow to about Lv. 55 in healer role specifically to attempt soloing tasks when I couldn't find help. The NMs being arcana, I was able to solo all three at the same time with slight help from my Adventuring Fellow. What really elevated this from a simple fight to an achievement for me was being able to assist and carry other players who were Lv. 75 and not able to solo the fight themselves while still being DRK 65.
Hello! I took forever to almost fully solo (through mobs and quests, etc.) THF from 72-74 or so. Also, this was the time when you could summon that one NPC to party with you. I can't remember the name! It was once per day. This was around 2005-2006 ish.
Oh ya! The friendship fellow! Haha they were cool but tough to utilize
Hey, just out of curiosity, while mentioning the differences in jobs, did you ever discuss the topic of .... well.... in FF14, now that the cross role system has been removed, you can practically just level 1 job and you'll be good. MAYBE a different one for a different role, or a few similar jobs from the same role, if you want to be flexible, BUT there is no requirement. FF11 motivated you to level all sort of jobs!
-Want teleportation? White Mage has the spells! Level it!
-Want to warp back to your home point? Level Black Mage!
-You don't want to spend so much on Silent Oils and Prism powders? Better level WHM or RDM to get Invisible and Sneak
-You want a better droprate.... You got to level Thief!
As much as FF11 was about playing in a party, there was a lot of situations where you were on your own, and wanted to be able to do stuff by yourself, which often required the leveling of different jobs. Nowadays jobs, while having specific roles and tasks, those most show up in dungeon runs or raids. While there might be some soloing to be done with some quests, it is always possible to do it with any job. You are never forced to level a specific job to perform a specific task. That overall is a positive thing, but I admit that I do sometimes miss that feeling of sucking at something, and then getting the message that if I get this job, things will instantly get easier and better for me. It's great to not have to think about stuff, but that positive emotion had it's upsides.
Probably the craziest challenge I did was duoing the Rutter Sabatons NM with a buddy. Him on NIN/DNC me on THF/NIN.
I used to solo all the time on nin. When I got dnc to 37 I felt immensely powerful. I had a lot of fun soloing mob pets on blm/nin. THAT was an awesome challange. You practiced insane pulling skills and stealth. Being spotted by the BST mob was almost certain death and could roll you back half an hour of work.
My favourite time so was leveling up pup when it was still me and lolpup... then when I finally got it to 75 went around trying different auto set ups sub job set ups soloing everything I could... ftw years after I quite the game (sadly) found out another (and one of the few from my server) pup who I use to bounce ideas and info off of had a UA-cam channel of him showing off what pups could do lol... keep up these videos man... and nyheen if you some how see this hello from Jackjeckel and jackstraw
My god.. this brings me back... I miss FFXI so much, and I’ll be returning tonight after work, I think I still have my account, chars on asura... basically all jobs leveled to 90... can’t remember which ones I didn’t have. But do they still use playonline? I had a tag with that which has disappeared over the years - I want my account back if it’s stil there 😔
After a few friends quit and left me their accounts I used to use one of them to "duo" NMs all the time. Got my sirocco kukri dual boxing my thief and my friend's red mage...that was absolutely insane.
Later though my favorite solo job was actually paladin with a scholar sub; combined with an activated primate staff+1 that combo was an MP battery: auto-refresh combined with Spirit Taker, sublimation, light arts cures and dark arts aspir/drains...
Yep. Former BST main here. Would do it again. Very relaxing.
A couple of things that I found ironic when I partied on my RDM and THF was that I always had to keep my THF highly equipped or else people complained, but didn't have to care so much about RDM gear. If anyone complained then they basically would lose their healer... so no one complained. To be fair, I always subbed WHM when partying (or whatever else could be useful depending on the mission). I wasn't a jerk about it.
But yeah, BST was my passion and the community of other BSTs that I ran into were always competent and careful fellows that loved to explore and I always knew I could trust to not accidentally walk into trouble, or if they did, they could handle it. I really liked that about people that leveled the job. Another irony was that partying with other BSTs was always great, but rarely something we deliberately tried to do. I think the idea you can log out whenever you feel like without consequence or responsibility was pretty appealing.
Jeez, just hearing myself say that reminds me of what I liked about the game. If I keep watching more of these videos I might even rejoin...
On another note, I never leveled SMN, but I'd bet a SMN party would be pretty awesome when I think about it.
I was a BST main and loved the job so much. I really only had 1 or 2 days a week I could play for more than an hour so solo BST (then later BLM, BLU, and SAM) fit me very well. I could just log on, immediately get some exp, then go about my day.
I did team up with other BST from time to time, and it was nice that when one of us had to leave the other could just keep on trucking. I eventually found a full time duo partner in Cape Terrigan, where we finished the trip to 75 together, then duoed on alts 1-75. It was definitely the best time I ever had on FFXI.
I joined Eden about 2 weeks ago and was thinking of quitting due to time constraints (they really, really stay true to pre-99 leveling, like really), but I think I will stick it out until I can unlock BST and do the journey one more time.
Solo as summoner fun and scary times.
Sam was nice to solo especially with all that evasion on your set you have
Yeh, I miss that kind of soloing as well. Especially when hunting for spells as BLU, trying to learn spells from tougher enemies, hoping you'll even survive the encounter. Or Duoing it.
When BLU solo though... It usually just BURN AND LIVE! OR SLIP UP AND DIE!
When hearing about how a THF/NIN soloed Behemoth, it was amazing. Or a summoner soloing as impressive as well. Then there was RDM.. I didn't get much rise when hearing RDM soloing.. It was almost a given lol.
Wat server u on had all jobs but run and geo at 99 gonna be commin back soon wanna fin my thf/dnc relic and star farming for smn mythic an fin twash think it was 95when. I left
I loved levelling PUP just because It made me explore Vana'diel way more than just Garlaige and Wajaom
Red mage was first thing that came to my mind as well. I liked being 75 RDM. Felt safe going through zones. Blink Stoneskin Phalanx, Sneak and Invis just to go through Easy prey zones like Boyada Tree and Kuftal Tunnel. I could solo Aquarius, which is not hard by any means but it was hard for me and I was able to do it. :P
Aquarius was an accomplishment! He could hit hard and had a ton of hp, love those memories ^^
Took me 7 years to solo RDM from 0 to 84, no trusts. 14 years now I have 9 jobs at level 99-SU2. My Corsair, current project, is up to SU3. I've never Ambuscade, rather solo.
Hi! New player here! I started the last week playing on Nasomi, and I love it but...you know, that amount of time investment is nearly impossible to deal with nowadays so I'm on a crossroads and I have to decide what do. Stay in nasomi, deal with the time investment, try to figure it out how everything works in 2020...or go through the retail version. So here is my question: if you where a new player, what do you think is the better choice? It is possible to soloing the content in retail? Ty, love your videos!
You can solo a ton of retail. Plenty of people on to help too. If you do come back try looking up Nooruu.
I loved low manning things made for alliances. It felt like walking on the edge of a building. One mess up could screw up the whole operation. Duoing limbus on my thief to tank for a ninja, and of course beast master.
Yes! Low man limbus runs were amazing, this kind of stuff was so cool
The original soloing 'Gods' were Beastmasrters, the only job capable of asoloing 1 to 75 (BST/WHM) until SE destroyed the 'BST zoo' mechanic which made the job far more risky than it had been with pets turning on the BST once Charm had worn off.
RIP BSTs 2007.
DRG/RDM, SAM/DNC, PLD/RDM, and PUP were my go-to soloing jobs way back when.
Some great pics, I always wished I could mess around as a high level Pld , just endure gaha
Hey, now THF was great at soloing. Evasion with /NIN and drain bolts (whatever they were called) and acid bolts for faster damage and Hide=SA when it's up. A lot of Jobs had unique ways to solo. DRG/BLU was simply amazing at keeping itself alive. PLD/RDM I could solo IT mobs without any issues at 75, even managed to down Chary at one point on PLD/RDM. RDM was the ultimate soloer though. I've also seen crazy WHM/NIN soloing with dual clubs.
haha maybe a bad example, I loved soloing as my THF for sure. More was just trying to make the point that different jobs had different strengths in soloing specifically
I was always a solo person by choice no matter what I was leveling. Even when I gave in to accepting party invites I just felt it was all 'GO GO GO!' It took me a long time to gain friends and finally do things together but did end up leading a Linkshell doing all but Sky, Sea, Dynamis etc. The joys of setting up a O-Hat run for afew members of the LS or doing all RoTZ missions in 1 day.... I better stop before I get upset lol.
i remember soloing shiva or was it gaurda as whm/nin back lvl cap 75 days. done it a few times to help people in my ls
Ya used to be a pretty cool accomplishment! I remember I was ecstatic after my first avatar high level solo
love your videos
soloing as Ranger in bibiki bay lol fighting uragnites for the shells was great dough before ToA, but man could that RnG get me sometimes lol
one quality of life implementation SE should ad is: often id have reraise item on me but forget to use... these scroll item should pop up message if k.o. asking if want to raise up.
I recently started playing on Eden FFXi private server. Level 22 WAR noob with no SJ yet.
I just started yesterday im lvl 5 war still with lvl one gear and die allot lol
nostalgic classic private servers are fun, you won't see any bots spamming entire zones.
Judas Romana when lvling a low level always remember evasion over defense, it helps alot!
I can't wait for pantheon, but I think All party based games should have something that helps you solo, FFXI is a hard example cause BST/Certain Subjobs were amazing,but in EQ my shadow knight/Necro duo was amazing @ "solo" or two Necro or Elements summoning pets and leaving game on all night camping npc spawns was pretty fun two lol
I want to get back into xi because of your videos!
Check it out! It’s still a ton of fun, even if different
i tried it but i was dissapointed due to it not being how i remembered it i played it before the tp nerf and was able to chain pentas because i had me and a buddy leveling the same character so we passed all the english speakers and only playing with the japanese players
The sense of satisfaction in this game has been lost given the direction of the game's flow. Nothing feels special anymore. Anyone can do everything with ease. There's no sense of pride and accomplishment with what once was special. I miss the old days.
I liked to haul caterpillar silk from wendy to the other continent to sell in stacks for like 300% profit (infinite profit if farmed ofc but 300 if BOUGHT) as a RDM/ THF I'd just do that quick thing and invis the whole way and be there in no time xD point is I didn't play to beat the game, I played to earn money and have fun. Sorry for the troll but your vid reminded me of this, multiple ways to play a game... I'm not sure you can even do this any more.
Still possible on eden private server which replicated the retail Era servers without any mods. Avesta lives on
Honestly, my best memories were with my PUP. I had so many opportunities to party, but I'd rather spend some time with my Automaton, tweaking it so I could get the best results on soloing efficiently. Had a blast. Today with Trust, I don't think it's a bad addition to the game, it's a great opportunity for me to try jobs that I'd never tried because they couldn't solo as fast as my PUP (like BRD and COR for example).
100%, loved PUP for that reason :) and ya Trusts definitely have expanded the game for me for sure
i like how they added a upgrade to the trust to make them stronger, but...only with real players in the party. the trust were meant to be a inflate-a-party for soloing, now reduced to a spot filler, with a lv buff. only thing good about doing it was having access to sinister reign trusts. now if the dang leafkin boy wasn't bound to the golden shovel, i could have them all.
Soloing tyrannik tunok and bune on rdm/nin made me feel top tier
I solo my Dark Knight to 40 when /dnc was a option and it was supper hard.
Same. Loved tryna solo DD/dnc before trusts
duo Promathia @ 75 sounds harsh ... but forgot that it had a second form? oh man I was surprised that it didn't have a third form, as is usual in FF big bosses. still laughing here xD
People used to say lol DRG and there was even a parody of i walk alone with a dragoon called i play solo which was hilarious. But i completely solod drg cos it was my solo job and tbh I loved it :D
ua-cam.com/video/Tw-pCn9nupw/v-deo.html
Loved Drg/BLU *^
I loved soloing on my drg and still miss it terribly. Ff 14 drg is just not the same. Honestly, I don't think soloing is dead...there's just no incentive to do it anymore. For example: BLU was recently added to 14, but it only has the masked carnivale and once you do that there's no drive to play it much.
The biggest issue imo that 14 has towards soloing is the lack of diversity in the jobs (and again, no incentive to solo anything). Yes, each job has different abilities but they all generally accomplish the same goals. You can't customize the playstyle like you could in xi. They've made it so streamlined and accessible to everyone there's minimal difficulty in learning anything. The subjob system made xi what it was; getting access to different skills/traits/abilities just by changing a sub class was great!
Also: I'm still annoyed they took support classes out and redid them as dps.
No mention of BST?
BST was obviously the king :) probably should have touched on that a bit, because it’s definitely lost some of that Charm (ha) with everyone being able to do it
FFXI always seemed cool to me because of the soloing, it kind of reminds me of a more combat focused OSRS.
soloing is / was good for skillups especially parry. almost no one had max or high parry because pt xp was too fast it would fall too far behind
FFXI always a party together not solo and be alone. But everyone got his own taste of the game
Idk. Solo opportunities with self imposed restrictions still exist. Doing VD avatar fights without trust is doable but difficult. Not even mentioning pet jobs solos. Soloing VD odin using the same enspell strat ppl did once upon a time. The opportunities are definitely out there.
shout out to the DRG/mage soloists
Idk, but I feel like you got some major nostalgia glasses on here. Soloing in old school FFXI was certainly possible and could be fun and relaxing for sure, but it was often largely ineffective and unproductive. For most casual players, many jobs were basically barred from soloing due to how they functioned, which really wasn't cool. These days, trusts add a whole new element to soloing that wasn't there before while also allowing literally any job to be able to solo stuff. However, just because something like Haste is universally available now to everyone through trusts doesn't mean jobs don't have their own specialties within soloing with their trusts. A job like Brd in particular now can really excel from having trusts as they can buff up their trusts with specific songs. Meanwhile Rdm can Haste/Refresh their trusts, Thfs can utilize SA/TA through their trusts, etc. Each job has unique tactics they can utilize with their trusts, which I find pretty neat. Trusts basically allow all jobs to utilize their STRENGTHS and be allowed to "solo" content; no one is gated out.
I would also say trusts don't really trivialize soloing either, as players are just aiming higher when seeking solo challenges, and some are doing pretty incredible things solo with their trusts. A couple Rdms recently have soloed Warder of Courage! Ultimately, trusts allow for so much more solo potential in my eyes, and if you truly want to just hit stuff without Trusts ala pre-Trust era, there's nothing stopping you.
Real player corsairs are a different league. Qultada as a trust is passable most for his corsair;s roll. That said, the trust system is mostly to fill healer/tank/support jobs only.
I'll say it I missed spending 2+ hours kiting stuff on rdm while people cheered for me to wipe.
my solo jobs were:
SMN
BLM
SCH
BLU
NIN
I honestly miss the days when I would play this and duo with my best friend at the time ... good times indeed..
btw not saying these are the best solo jobs, just sharing my time inside ffxi
cheers
Soloing was my main way of lvling due to being very anti-social xD or not wanting to put up with drama
Haha I was there with ya a lot, needed to just take a break now and then
@@Huntin4GamesChannel Drama in Ffxi's linkshells turned me away from alot of the end game stuff at 75 cap.
Soloing misses you to man. It misses you too.
Should I call soloing? Are they... available now?
Look up Sam solos sobek. Best solo ever. This was 6 or 7 years ago
Not sure I'd call it fun, but interesting to be sure. It was different to tackle mobs on your own, but then you see how little EXP you get, and you just want to quit!
No one forces you to use trust on retail you could use no trust if your a machoist
i solod all my jobs to 99 except for redmage.
i solod my joyeuse rdm/blu
i solod gods at 75
the solo play didn't stop it became the normal.
just like reds with a sword in their hand :O
avesta was my master-i am REDMAGE!
Hahaha Avesta was godly, so much fun ^^
Joy? You mean terror? Right? Losing 10% of next level exp was horrifying. I never got past level 55 because I couldn't get anyone to come to crawlers nest with me
Haha I probably went backwards as much as forwards, definitely
Essentially why I stopped caring about MMO's. I was in that time that I (we) call the sweet-spot, (but let's face it, the "next generation" will call THIER online gaming experiences, the "sweet-spot", and so on).
I stopped FFXI before Trusts were introduced, so if I ever went back, I'd have a bit of work cut out for me... but I won't as there are more vital aspects of the game, missing, personally for me. But indeed... for nostalgia sake, I view FFXI videos... reluctantly, sometimes "new" ones, to see what's up with the game.
I see all these "solo guides" for obtaining legendaries, mythics, etc. and it feels like FFXI has become a "bottle ship"... well no, it (and other MMO's) always were bottle ships; You invest a crap-ton of time assembling it and you can appreciate it, as well feel accomplished, when you're done, but at one time, the pieces for assembling it were _hard to come by;_ SPECIAL, yet today, they are all included in the package and it has become more of a case of _"lolol, y u no mythic?"_ from a time where it was like _"holy crap! how long did THAT take you?!?!"._
People who know _'bottle ships'_ will nod and say _"Well, that's nice"_ and forget all about it the next day.
I could log back on today, then spend the next couple of weeks/months, doing the one same thing... alone... to obtain something I once dreamed of having, only to realize it no longer held that same value, nor ever will.
I completely agree with the video. I used to be a meeeean PLD/RDM, doing what I could to specialize in that combination. Just being able to solo something difficult was so rewarding.... of course, then you'd see people soloing much harder stuff on broken NIN/DNC _(lol u hit me for 500?! I heal myself for 9999 per second 'n erase all debuff instantly! lolutsusemi, lolutsusemi!)_ or pretty much anything /NIN, but hey, it was rewarding never the less.
I never want to go back (nor those pre-abyssea servers), because I know I will never get the FFXI that resides in my heart, back.
try out the public server eden
rdm soloing some sky gods
Drk, soloed vw ou9d tower, cricket. No trust, just thirst for blood.
Sch soloed uptala, fun days. Solo had fun times, saddened me to see all trust and ui scripts run in ffxi. Feels like a autoplay mobile.
I never liked forced grouping because I only like playing MMOs with friends I already have rather than bothering random people in the game. And my friends don't always have time. So I'm definitely a person who's happy about newer MMOs allowing you to solo non-dungeon content from the get-go and older MMOs like FFXI and WoW being updated to allow for that.
That's kind da what's ruining the mmo scene there are single player games like drksouls elder scrolls. You can solo there the "I want to play this massive multiplayer game alone" mentality crushed the social aspect of mmos
@@stevebob2941 Maybe I don't want to play Dark Souls or Elder Scrolls, but I want to play FFXI and not be blocked from progressing because I can't find anyone to play with? Different games have different stories, it's not just about the gameplay.
@@Valvadrix maybe I want to play ffxi where you have to group up to accomplish goals. Difference is that it was originally that way and it was changed to suit people like you and now the genre is a dumpster fire
@@stevebob2941 At least it's a dumpster fire that's accessible to more people and less intimidating to newcomers and people with less time. That's always the goal of game developers. Nobody has taken away your ability to group up, they just added a possibility for people to play alone.
@@Valvadrix if there is no reason to group up then groups won't happen. People take the path of least resistance. If I cut off your legs it doesnt mean you can't go anywhere but chances are you will go to many less places
Yeah soloing was fun,no one would quit your party (meaning you would spend 20 minutes or more replacing him or her) dont you agree?
10 minutes? :PppPppP
10 mins... if you were incredibly lucky. Mostly its hours or until the party disbands
@@dougt5196 yeah i know.
I actually feel differently about the 'solo' aspect of FF14. It's actually..weird. Where as you're kind of always alone, you are forced to play with others to accomplish most things: dungeons, raids, palace of the dead, even fates. There's no true viable way to solo level a job in FF14 and I personally miss that. Blue Mage is gonna change that, but that's only one class.
You can level a job solo in ff14 you can't do GROUP content alone
If you think BLU in 14 is going to be the answer to soloing, you are going to be heartbroken. The same thing was said about RDM in 14, turns out to be a button mashing job. They will showcase BLU to hype the game up, that one job is not going to change the way the game is; boring.
The best way to level in FF14 is either deep dungeon or regular dungeons. Sure you and do battle leves and fates but it'll take an awfully long time and even with fates its better to have more than just you. It's not the same as goblin pets and stuff.
where as I do main rdm now it really is just hit these three buttons until you can hit these three other buttons.
First?....First! This was on accident lol
You were first
Hahah
I hate Soloing , it what killed mmos and turn them into what they are today, single player games with multiplayer elements. The fact that XI went that route breaks my heart. (and yes I do play 14 no need to point it out , not like I have much of a choice these days).
2nd
LMAO "I just solo'd something in 14".. .... oooookkkaaaay, I'm not impressed.
Avesta was a FFXI solo God
There is no joy to solo'ing
Trusts destroyed the game