final fantasy 11

[darkblade]

hi


did anyone ever playing final fantasy 11? i was wondering how the battle system works is it like ragnarok are like wow?




thanks alot

[Unicase]

I've played FF XI Online once and it had some hardcore graphics. Although the game play is quite similar to WoW/Silkroad and you can also type commands to activate various skills. Which is quite handy when you're a fast and accurate typer.

[Cyborg19]

Its like WoW ,
you have to accept quests ,collect gold to gain more powerfull weapons ,you even can choose a "job" ,just like in wow.
but i would play wow instead of ff11.Well to be truth i would play no mmporg ,cause it sucks and steals to many time

[firzenex]

Originally Posted by darkblade

hi
did anyone ever playing final fantasy 11? i was wondering how the battle system works is it like ragnarok are like wow?

thanks alot

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alright, well I played it for a while, and if you're a huge fan of the series you're pretty much guaranteed to like it. As for the battle system, anytime you encounter a monster (which is quite often when roaming) there'll be a screen swipe and you'll battle the monster TRADITIONAL style, with you taking a turn to attack than the monster(s). This can be enhanced with a party, but the battle system remains the same.

As for the actual doing stuff rather than fighting...its pretty standard among RPG's, but FF-XI will be alittle more tedious. Since the monster encounters will be at random and the whole screen swipe and battle system doesn't make everything quick. You still go out and do your standard bring me X amount of this and kill X amount of these things. or FIND THIS or RETURN THAT and the ever so favourite TALK TO HIM/HER.

As an MMORPG final fantasy-xi falls short of what a true RPG should be IMO, but with 3 expansion packs the world speaks differently, there is however a large community online, not as vast as like lets say EVERQUESTS or WOW's but big enough to meet new friends and to enjoy it without annoying children or hackers.

Overrall, I would play it again, if it didn't have a monthly fee or if they fix the battle system to match that of FF-XII. Even than, I'm still at bay with the whole concept of an FF MMORPG, because to me FF should be an rpg, not an mmorpg.

[Bloodcrave]

i stopped playing few years back, but my bro still plays it, in fact he's gonna get the new expansion that's coming out in a week or so
if u really wanna start, might as well wait until the expansion comes out because by then everyone will be trying the new jobs so it'll be easier for you to party

u can't solo until endgame though, as far as i remember only beastmaster can do that, every other job in the game u MUST party 1 way or another to progress

i gotta warn you though, it takes a hell of a long time until u can get to end game, and harder still to get all the really good stuff

[kyo121]

end game pretty much ever class can solo however it would required the best of best items available to do so which is a pain cause chances are you'll never get them. i liked it for the time i played it got my red mage to 75 but gave up after a few months of being unable to get any of the items needed to be decent soloer. and sadest thing is...after 6 months of not playing your chars get wipe.....which is the main reason why i haven't started playing it again.

[Bloodcrave]

if i remember correctly every year ff11 has the return to vanadiel event which lets people who gave up the game to return so i THINK (i might be wrong here) they don't delete your chars just because u stopped playing

[Denamic]

FFXI is like WoW, only more restrictive, harsher, slower and feels more like work.

[Infinity Overlord]

Exactly,its like wow,but harder and its not easy playing it.

[JTD]

I had fun playing FFXI.
The job system is a bit more unforgiving than WoW.
With WoW most trees in each class is viable one way or another in the game.
For FFXI if you're say War/Whm you're pretty much a gimped paladin.
Some jobs are expected/forced to sub a particular job.
Such as Nin/War and Pld/War.
So be warned as if you choose a main job, expect to know what to sub.

If you're a fan of the Final Fantasy series, you'll like this game.
To me, it seems the FFXI community is a bit more mature than say WoW's community.

Battle System is very interesting.
You get Weapon Skills for the different weapons.
When you combine certain weapon skills it produces a skillchain.
The skillchain provides more damage and allows a magic to be casted at the end to enhance the damage of that magic.
Each monster has a weakness (most of the time) and you need to figure out which skillchain to use to further expose that weakness.
This makes party a bit more interesting.
Timing is crucial to everyone, where as WoW is a bit more forgiving.

Oh yea, expect to take time off of leveling to farm and earn money.
This game has way more elitism than WoW.
You are expected to have the best gear when its available.
Some people will not group with you later on if they see you had bad gear before.
Some of the best gear will come in the early levels, and you'll use that till endgame.
Which is why it will cost so much.

Unlike WoW where you can reach max level in a month or two, expect to take a LONG time to reach max level. Say about half a year to a year.

There is a bunch of other stuff that I would like to tell/warn you but I think that is enough for now.

GL with the game if you decide to play. The community in FFXI is generally really nice and very helpful. More so than WoW.