heh, that is cool that i got a lot of posts on this one. I thrw away like 40 beastman seals b4 i figured out they were awesome, lvled my 1st chars WAR to 30 with a lvl 8 MNK sub lol, also it took me a while b4 i knew you could push CNTRL+"R" to respond to people lol, looking back i have made some good RL friends from meeting them outside FFXI also and have had a LOT of fun playing FFXI, i am like Lionx, i have been playing since beta, and have 2 lvl 75 chars on 2 different servers, for anyone that may ask, this game is WELL WORTH THE PRICE!!!! It will be hard when you first start, but when you gee the flow of the game and get the hang of things it gets a lot better, the game is pretty fun from lvl 1-70, but when you break 70 and can do all the things in sky and dynamis and such, you will have a ball. Mobs that take 64 people to kill are fun, i dont care what you say lol