Honestly the last update to FF11 changed the game drastically. In 10 hours my linkshell got 600k exp in Abyssea which is incredible!
Also the level you can enter Abyssea is 30. You need an alliance of 75-80's to kill quickly and get time extentions, boxes and chests appear with the time extensions, currency, additional exp, and the good treasure drops. After your first run or two of Abyssea you can purchase keys to open the boxes with the currency you get. Our group designates 1-2 low level people to join the alliance, buy keys and open the boxes for us so we can continue killing quickly without having to stop everything we're doing and open them up. When they're not opening boxes they're allowed to skill up. We had one guy get from 63-78 in just a few hours. Also a lot (if not all) of the missions are now uncapped so that definitely makes things easier. The new gear is purchased with Abyssea currency and you get enough from about three hours of exp-ing to get the entire set. From what I understand all the NM's for new weapons are popped. Cooks, carpenters, and people who make other consumables are making a killing with very little effort. The servers are a lot more full now since people are returning to the game so there are a lot of old faces popping up.
It almost seems like everyone is quitting the game just as it's getting good!
There are still a lot of adventures in FF11... but sadly the game will be ending soon. I'll be there even after FF14 comes out, but I get why a lot of people have quit. I don't blame them for it either since everyone plays for their own reasons. I'm not sure that people are so much anti-FF11 as pro FF14.
*Ninja edited for grammer ><
Also the level you can enter Abyssea is 30. You need an alliance of 75-80's to kill quickly and get time extentions, boxes and chests appear with the time extensions, currency, additional exp, and the good treasure drops. After your first run or two of Abyssea you can purchase keys to open the boxes with the currency you get. Our group designates 1-2 low level people to join the alliance, buy keys and open the boxes for us so we can continue killing quickly without having to stop everything we're doing and open them up. When they're not opening boxes they're allowed to skill up. We had one guy get from 63-78 in just a few hours. Also a lot (if not all) of the missions are now uncapped so that definitely makes things easier. The new gear is purchased with Abyssea currency and you get enough from about three hours of exp-ing to get the entire set. From what I understand all the NM's for new weapons are popped. Cooks, carpenters, and people who make other consumables are making a killing with very little effort. The servers are a lot more full now since people are returning to the game so there are a lot of old faces popping up.
It almost seems like everyone is quitting the game just as it's getting good!
There are still a lot of adventures in FF11... but sadly the game will be ending soon. I'll be there even after FF14 comes out, but I get why a lot of people have quit. I don't blame them for it either since everyone plays for their own reasons. I'm not sure that people are so much anti-FF11 as pro FF14.
*Ninja edited for grammer ><
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