Any FFXI players still around and Discussion

[Ventrue]

Yeah and in some cases, even if you delete them you can get them back if it hasnt been too long. I know of at least two people on Sylph who did that heh :O Must contact SE and it's a huge hassle though >.<

[Serene Prophet]

Imagine if the customer service worked like the translation chat in the game...when I played it..it wasn't that easy to get across any decent speech...haha.

Course it may have gotten better, but its funny to think of.  Anywho, I was never able to get into it, cause I was to impatient, and since I played on the PC, the controls just didnt feel very intuitive, which was a big downer for me, ive heard from you guys the controllers work much better, but Im kinda done with MMORPGs now, I pretty much just play BF 2142 for my online gaming fix.

Anyways, good luck to all who still play.

[Shiguma]

On my (now 37!) THF in Crawler's Nest last night, we were cursed with a 35 BLM who would do the same routine on every mob:

1.  Crawler arrives at camp.
2.  BLM casts Bind.
3.  BLM casts Sleep.
4.  BLM spams Firaga and other -ga spells for the rest of the battle.

He got himself killed no less than 4 times and then bitched at the NIN tank... IN GERMAN.  The party consisted of me, 3 JPs, 1 NA, and then this BLM who I had assumed was an NA as well.  He was using simple English words like "Thanks" and "I'm ready" and "Pull OK," but apparently we were wrong, because the onslaught of umlauts was more than a little surprising, haha.

n00btastic.  I'm glad to see some things never change in this game. :P

[Losfer]

onslaught of umlauts

That sounds like the name for a really kick ass German Thrash Metal band!

[Shiguma]

Looks like one of the new classes has been revealed...



...but its name has not.  Just a couple images.  Looks like "Dancer" to me, though, and if it is... I hope it's more than a "female Bard," especially since we already have Bards and Corsairs.

[Hathen]

I always figured that if they added Dancer, it would end up being another hybrid class: Kind of like Corsair, except with focus on melee combat instead of using guns.

I'm surprised that they are bringing even more classes at all. Though most would probably agree that's one of the most interesting features of the game.

[Raze]

Gogo galka balarina.

[TurnBasedDude]

My Taru shall be lord of the dance. :P

I'm still betting Time Mage will be added to the installment. I'd lvl that job. :p

Dancer is a neat job idea. It might be supportive like bard, but perhaps they're debuffers or whatever they do to make the enemy more vulnerable and distracted while others kick ass. We'll see. I don't know much about the job in other FF games.

If the dancer is meant for distraction...

*Levit uses seductive moves* :P

[Shiguma]

The future of Final Fantasy XI.

[Ramza]

I'm praying that Dancer operates in the same way as Mog's dance in FFVI. It was basically geomancy. I wanted a geomancer job, maybe this will be it?

*prays*

[TurnBasedDude]

Been looking other forums for kicks, and somoene linked this article.

A bit more info on Dancer

It seems like daggers may be their main weapon. It would be fun if SE  adds whips too. I'm guessing the charm is a way to get distracted and vulnurable, hence, a debuff. It would be kind of stupid to have some similar powers to BST imo.

Edit: To no ones surprise, SE officially calls it dancer. Some more info and pics on the expansion site. I really like the AF, but it makes me wonder how it would fare with guys, more specifically, the galka. :P

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/altana/index.html

[Ramza]

Official site's got some great stuff. I recommend everyone check out the hi-res trailer: it's looking great.

[Hathen]

Spoiler, after thinking about it for a while.

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I hope Atomos isn't the last boss.

But according to their track record for the last 2 expansions, that's probably what they're going to do.

Dancer using daggers kind of pisses me off. Why can't they just add a few new weapons instead of dancing around the issue giving the new jobs old weapons with crappy skill ratings?

Whips and cloths from previous FFs is kind of a long shot since it's pretty damn obvious they do their best to avoid any flexible weapons, probably because they're too lazy to animate them. But come on, a bit more effort? Please?

[Shiguma]

Unlocked BLU, COR, and PUP in the last 24 hours, mainly out of principle.  I know, "Welcome to 2006, Shig!" :P  If I like it, I might take COR from 1 --> 75.  It looks fun, but I don't know how practical it would be in Sky/Sea/HNM situations.

[Losfer]

I totally want to play a Mithra Corsair.  :(