Hey guys! I used to play XI when I was a teen. I decided I wanted to come back so I just purchased the game, I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to provide me with a gold pass for Asura?

Thank you!

Why is that? Should I buy it? It’s 500k on Asura

I'm stumped, I can't seem to get this even close, even using the Olde Rarab Tail. I started new two weeks ago after being gone since CoP era. I've figured out most of what I've missed but this one has me in a 3 time losing streak.

I'm 95WAR/MNK, in AF and sparks gear, near capped in axe/gaxe. I used Valaineral to tank because he's OP, then using king of hearts/cid/qultada the first time, then valaineral dropped fast so I changed qultada to kupipi for extra heals and got further, but not close enough.

Kupipi blows all her MP quickly, often overhealing Val, but can't change that. I wait on using the rarab tail late in the battle the 2nd time, then right away the third time hoping to beat him down and get fully buffed before the beat down.

Please advise.

Edit: I had no idea I could bring more than one tail with me. I took the advice to grab multiple tails and just DPS burn him. Worked like a charm, brought 4, used 3.

Thank you everyone!

Hi all! Haven’t tried XI yet, but I’ve been interested for a couple of months now, and have decided to pull the trigger.

As a XIV (and MMO player in general), I know that group content is the heart and soul of these games.

Being that the game is so old, I found myself wondering if there’s any room for a newbie like me to learn the content that’s undoubtedly two decades old.

What’s the endgame like, and is there incentive for veterans to run this content with me? Thanks in advance.

Hello, returning player from initial launch. Hopefully this is an appropriate spot to ask an abyssea question.

Alfard - Grauberg ( I'll be specific )

Requires a KI ( Ven.Hydra Fang ) to pop it. I managed to get the KI to drop and can see it in my Abyssea KI. When examining the ??? at I-8 i was usually promted to trade 3 items for Ningishzida. After reviewing some youtube vids i saw once you have the KI in your posession the dialogue should change to offer you a trade of your Ven. Hydra fang to spawn Alfard. This doesnt happen for me? Still asks for the 3 items for Ningishzida.

Zone out / wait a day situation? any help would be appreciated - cheers

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Anyone doing them? I'm on Asura

Why would anyone or anything like to be slapped, yelled at, or raged at?

I have been wanting to come back to this game for a while (last played back around ‘05), and am thinking of getting a low end laptop just for FFXI.

I found a local offer for a cheap Dell Latitude 5280, and am wondering if it’s advisable to use a laptop like that for this game. It has an Intel HD graphics 620 gpu, which I believe is integrated.

From what I’ve read so far on this topic, I understand it’s probably better to have a dedicated gpu to run the game. But I’d prefer not to shell out more than a few hundred dollars for this, and I’m not sure where to find a better alternative, in terms of low end laptops.

For context my current laptop is a quite old MacBook Pro, not used for gaming. So I’m not very familiar with PCs, but happy to learn. Any advice on programs to use to make for a smoother experience is also very welcome.

Thanks for any advice!

Many people opt to visit their hometowns to see family and friends during the holidays, so how about returning to Vana'diel—your second or perhaps even third—home for a while?

That's right, we're once again holding the Return Home to Vana'diel and Discount Campaign over the New Year's holiday. These campaigns will be held during the following dates:

• Return Home to Vana'diel Campaign: Saturday, December 20, 2024 – Monday, January 6, 2025
• Discount Campaign: Until Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Source: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/62304?_ga=2.249081028.2143751224.1732649825-575033281.1729519696

Hello, hope someone can help me.. I'm having the weird issue where my game randomly acts as if i have fastcs active when I 100% do not have it active. I've even deleted the fastcs folder and i'm still getting this issue. When I log onto a character it goes away after everything is fully loaded in, but when i go to switch characters it kicks back in and the next character i try to log into 9/10 times it times out and it goes back to the login screen and starts all over again. I end up having to restart the whole client and praying it doesnt do it again.

I've tried disabling the automatic time update thing on my PC as i read somewhere that it might be causing the problem and it does not help anything. But the problem does not happen when logging onto the "vanilla" game. It's driving me batty.. Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be going wrong? TIA if anyone can help!

The error when i try to log into a character:

https://preview.redd.it/0x76pqj86n4e1.png?width=767&format=png&auto=webp&s=c0d23bd01bc8d875222ac056f8c6d547ff9ce5d0

Why would anyone or anything like to be slapped, yelled at, or raged at?

Edit: I meant to say excited to see people* playing 🤦‍♂️

Hey everyone, I just got a subscription to the game which I initially started playing when I was 13 back in 2003 and quit playing in 2005 due to my Playstation 2 breaking, and after the new raid series in FXIV triggering my nostalgia for the game really badly I decided to resub!

I'm on Bahamut and I don't remember almost anything so if anyone is around and feels like going through some early game I'm sure I'll appreciate the help if it's still as difficult as I remember 😅😁

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Newest stuff for pre-order is merchandise announced for their live reading in March. Pre-orders end early Jan though. Can also find some older merch too. Ships worldwide!

Greetings all!

Reddit has been revamping and rolling out a lot of new features in recent years and we're catching up on enabling what may be useful here.

We've now enabled image uploading within comments on this subreddit. Ideally it could be used for uploading FFXI screenshots, images to assist players with in-game content, game resources, etc.

You should be able to find this button on the mobile apps and the latest versions of the desktop version.

(For clarity, uploading images when posting has been enabled for a while)

so I realize this may seem impossible or like flat out lie, but i was able to get this whole set over the course of a week, in about 112 VE fights. i say about because i didn’t count the actual fights but the “waves” of 6-7 fights i would do before farming more merits. i did just about 16 rounds of fights.

i’m gonna put some of what i did here so that it might help someone who tries in the future:

i just used my THF/RUN with TH8, not mastered but 500+ job points to be able to wear turms gear. that’s important because i was having a hard time before i was able to wear that. the magic evasion and high regen is crucial to this fight imo. as well as a repulse cape. god i hate that shit lol.

i just did savage blade on her with naegling. my gear isn’t amazing, just ambuscade sets +2 and upgraded cape. i basically put everything into making savage blade better for this fight. mainly used meghanda set, prosilio belt, republican platinum medal, shijo with STR augment for savage blade. i did get a sroda and epaminondas ring but i dont think this is necessary.

my trust were valaineral>amchuchu>apururu>korumoru>king of hearts

no one really died but if one of the converters died it was usually just one of them and not both. i had like 5 wipes in the beginning but i realized it was usually because apururu would stand in one of the gyves like an idiot. if i saw it happen i’d reposition after that.

i did not do the tp on gyves > ws on lilith method. i play in steam deck and the controls already suck even after much customization, so for me it was easier to just set up trick and sneak and tp in turms gear in between.

i would call out my trust in the order above, do lux, vallation, swordplay, conspirator, go in with TH gear, bully, sneak/feint and then switch to sword. i would sometimes i was able to get TH9 or even 10 with luck. i dont think it actually made a huge difference on the drops over TH8 but might as well do it. because i had so much magic evasion from gear i just ate red curry buns and not popo con queso.

i realize my luck on this seems to be extreme and uncommon. i’m honestly kinda shocked and was prepared to be doing this for the next month lol. i just wanted to give some hope to those who may have been putting it off or want to try a different method than they already have.

i wish the best of luck to anyone who goes for it in the future!

Have some higher lol chars not super geared but looking for social active shell that helps each other and wanting to get into Ambuscade and stuff nothing crazy at first but definitely some end game eventually. THANKS!

Hi all, at my wits end here after about a week of fiddling, so I hope someone with better PC knowledge can help me out. I had to get a new PC (desktop) recently. Reinstalled FFXI and all the usual. I have used dgvoodoo in the past since I had a laptop, and even on my last desktop. Always worked great. However this time, I started to get some weird framerate issues when dualboxing. Looked like frame rate drop, even though the framerate seemed to be at a steady 57-58fps. Not an issue when running a single instance. Tried every config imaginable, but still had the issue with 2 instances.

So I decided to run the dx pass through, see how it worked without dgvoodoo. Single instance was fine, but it then crashed as soon as I opened a 2nd windower instance. I found a post on here or FFXIAH or somewhere with a similar issue, said they reinstalled Windows and it worked fine. So I did that today, still crashing when I open the 2nd instance, before POL is even launched.

I have borderless window enabled in both windower and FFXI config. Tried sandbox add on to see if it helped (it didn’t). PC is a Ryzen 7000something, 4070, 64mb ram. I feel like I’ve tried everything. Searched for hours on the web, enlisted ChatGPT. Nothing has worked. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

I am currently stuck on my choices. I currently am looking into turning a Rostam patch C, but for DD purposes, do you go Path A or B? I'd prefer not to have 3 Rostam. I've been reading that Path A is good enough for both melee and ranged. I have a naegling so I wouldn't think I'd need Path B

Hey all,

I’m looking for a friendly LS to join

Thanks :)

Future note to self if not helpful to anyone having this issue.

To get access to Silver Sea Remnants, since absolutely nowhere on the Wikipedia has this information, you need to go to ---> Aht Urhgan Whitegate ---> Home Point #2 ---> Zasshal at Aht Urhgan Whitegate - (K-9) ---> Purchase Remnants Permit for a fee of 500 Assault Points --->  Northeast Teleporter in the Nyzul Isle area of the Alzadaal Undersea Ruins ---> Gilded Gateway at (H-8).

There. Nobody, including me, should get the "Nothing happens..." anymore when clicking on that door.

Picked it up for $4.99 and I have been playing again. I had to grab this when I saw it because this is my favorite videogame.

Did they fix the issue with the +2 and +3 taking too much dmg from mobs like fomor that have player abilities/weaponskills?

Go back into playing the game about 3 months ago. I have 3 different accounts I play with that are pretty decked out gear wise. Got a Bard with the relic, empy, and mythic. Another character with DRK/PLD/RDM relic, empy, and mythic gear as well.

So here's the problem. I am sucking bad performance wise and really do not know where to start on building myself back to where I need to be. Despite being a 5 song Bard I can only manage 4 songs on a group of people, and have great difficulty putting songs on people due to the fact they keep moving (Odysee/sortie events for example where they kinda need to move fast). It seems that these are the only events I am seeing to join (I assume those events are end game).

Definitely need to bring your "A game" to these events and I know I'm not bringing the "A game".

Problem with PLD in these events is the need to bring /BLU for AOE enmity. I looked up the guides, got the spells, but when I use them it does not seem to work as good as it does for other people with the same job with less quality gear that I have.

DRK is probably the only job I can bring my "A game" to at the moment. Which is ok, but its not in demand like BRD/PLD.

Do I just need to give myself more time to get better? Or do I need to come to the conclusion that I'm no longer good at the game and call it quits?

On Asura BTW.

Apparently, this was an option for the recent survey and perhaps (Imo), the most intriguing. XI has had collabs before, with Dragon Quest and XIV. Dragon Quest was the most extensive for XI, having actual mobs from those titles playable in monstrosity.

My question is, what is your dream XI collab? Trust, Mons, gear, and maybe even summons could be fair game, or benefit from a collab.

Dragon Ball would be neat since they already have a Fusion SC........ Akira Toriyama (the creator of Dragon Ball) did some designs for Dragon Quest titles.

However, what does Bandai gain from an XI collab? Nothing.........So, I think collabs are more likely to occur in house within SE or an MMO within the same class.

What do you think? Or, what XI collab would you like to see? They opened the door for it, so I am asking lol......

I haven't played in a pretty long time i used to be on Hades way back when and it put me on Asura at some point lvl 41 war with some monk anyhow... when i log in i see these bags what are they!!?!?!?!

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