Tanks

[Miriel]

End-game is basically about 70% of this game, so you are missing out on quite a bit. I am not saying this is a bad thing, just letting you know. It's great that you'd rather take a nap, but you can't just discredit the majority of the game and the majority of the game's user base just because you don't agree with it, or don't want to experience it.

It's 70% of the game for you. I'm not willfully ignoring a vast chunk (as you consider it) of the game simply because I don't agree with it. I just haven't experienced it. I've never felt pressured to experience it, and I've never felt I was missing out because I wasn't experiencing it. And I never actively avoided it, it's just with so much to do in this game, I never got around to it. As soon as I achieved all I wanted with my white mage, I was immediately smitten with DNC and got that ball rolling. And after DNC, I fell in love with the scholar AF and am pursing that. I play the game based on which things interest me at any given time. And mostly, I'm interested in having fun. Getting fabulous gear is fun for sure. So I may get into end game stuff eventually to get pretty things for Eleni. But I have lots to occupy myself with in the meantime.

I have had a thoroughly enjoyable time in FFXI without ever having to do much end game stufft. I've had a ton of fun doing missions and quests and unlocking jobs and leveling those jobs. Doing random stuff with friends, helping out newbies, collecting christmas trees and other sparkly things for my mog house, doing level 1 death runs to and from Jeuno, skilling up club skill to get hexa strike, doing besieged, etc. This game is huge! Tons to do, people to meet, jobs to level, gear to acquire, storylines to explores, and goofy things to do.

If you're doing end game and having fun, props to you. But I made it very clear from the beginning that I was speaking from personal experience and seeing as how I was talking about things like level 1 summons, it should have been pretty clear that I wasn't talking from an end-game stand point.

I truly wasn't aware that vast majority of the FFXI population are heavily into end game stuff. Just didn't know about it. And I guess since I never knew, it never was an issue. And if it's not an issue, who cares?

This game is not 70% endgame, it's 100% whatever you make it to be.

too true.

Most fun I've ever had in FFXI is when Misfit and I went to Valkurm to PL random parties, both of us being Level 1 WHMs

This sounds amazing.