Do you see Grinding as a bad thing?

[PwerlvlAmy]

JRPGfan said:

PwerlvlAmy said:

Yes I did all of that. Twice. I ran a RDM Taru on my first account. Got him to 75. The Maat fight sucks as a RDM and being a Taru. Currently I have WHM I use just to mess around.

 

I remember the first time going through the Ro'Meave and then getting to enter the Hall Of Gods. Was so damn magical to first get there and hear the song.

 

First enemy in Sky I ever fought was Genbu, then worked my way through Seiryu and Kirin. Lots of good memories.

I never got my Kirin Osode... I had a samurai at 75 that I took with a HNM group to fight the gods.
Farming the shards, and walking together as like 18 guys, and finding the route in the maze to get to Kirin.... man it took setup and prep.

I used to enjoy low-man content as well, I had a DRG/WHM (healing breath) and would enjoy like solo/duo'ing stuff (usually with a friend on a PLD).
Your lucky you did a TaruTaru, was always jealous of their MP pool (but since i prefered melee classes, it wasnt a issue (high hp pool instead)).

 

Did you ever take the Genbu challenge?
As a red mage you could solo him :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agXgumw7yq4

(video of a rdm kiteing Genbu with Gravity spell, and useing Bio + Poison to widdle him down, while keeping distance)

red mages where badasses in this game:

With all the gear/merit skills PLD got they ended up pretty nuts too.

PLD/RDM sub was the closest I got to being able to do this stuff (on tough monsters).

Never did that Genbu challenge. Now I wish I had tried it lol

What was the most fun about the game is going back to it over the years and getting my friends to experience it for the first time. 

Being all super over powered i was able to show them everything and re-experience the story again through their first time and their eyes, so awesome

 

FFXI is one of my fondest games ever.  I even have the boxed PC Beta Version of it. Seems pretty rare and of course got my Vana'diel alarm clock that lights up blue and plays the main city themes of Bastok,San D'oria,Windurst and Jeuno depending on which u set it to