ffxi for life

I seem to remember your exit post blazer... claiming you'd done it all and finished everything the game held for you. I won't even BEGIN to claim that I've done it all... this game is way larger than that. Also doing it on a friend's account is not the same as doing it with a group of friends you 'grew up' with. It's different doing it as your character, a character you can be proud of, a character that garners respect from much of your server and from the others that play your job.

This game is not about trying everything out once on someone else's character... this is a social game and actually participating with your friends and finding a part of the community you fit into is a much larger part of this game.

Thank god there are people that can stick it through the low levels these days. I believe if I were just starting the game with things as they are now I'd probably only last half way to getting a subjob.

This game is not nice to anyone who is not level 75, Rank 10, rich as crap, etc... It is difficult to make it through those low levels these days. The prices are crazy (though by comparison so are the prices of things lowbie can farm so it balances out a bit I guess). The biggest problem now with leveling a low job is that people are the most elite of the elite. When you go level in the dunes there is a good chance that half the people you encounter will have a level 75 job and will think poorly of you.

This is too sad I think. We all started somewhere and I wish people weren't like this. I make a point of inviting people with no subjobs and low Rank because they obviously need encouragment against crap like that. Sure I'll go to the dunes wearing up to 2M in gear depending on the job. Everything I wear will be HQ or HQ2 ( I like little white and blue boxes) and I will do my best but for christsakes I don't think everyone should. I can make obscene amounts of money in short amounts of time if I feel like it. People just starting the game can't and shouldn't be expected to.

I started out as a crappy noob.. hell I wore the level 11 doublet all the ay to 36 with my WHM /shame. But now look at me. I made some good friend and I learned to be a good player. I hold a decent amount of respect on my server as a player and as a bard as a result. So if you get frustrated with elitists just remember, one day they might actually be begging for your help (has happened to me many times).

/rant off
/rambling off