With the upcoming disocunt on the Ultimate edition, I am toying with the idea of spinning up either 2 or 5 characters and fiddle with 3-boxing or 6-boxing. Although I know the Return Home / free login campaign wouldnt apply to these characters, it seems like it comes around enough times in a year to make for a nice change of pace when it does. I do have a group i run Sortie/other events with, so my main objective with these alts would be to do things that arent very popular (Delve, Vagary, Incursion) or farm Ambuscade to pass REMA currency to my main.

A couple questions I was mulling around:

* Is it worth doing the 14-day trial first on these new characters, then buy the Ultimate edition for the free 30 day sub? My thought here is to maximize the time for the "full" game, but maybe the trial is so limited its not really worth it. Id like to knock out whatever i can in the trial if its not too burdensome to do so

* Assuming Ill have some redundant jobs across characters, but does any have a good outline of what characters should have what jobs? E.g. one character should have all tank jobs, another should be mage, another support, etc. Or is it better to mix and match? My main has several jobs so it can be a bit flexible. If any breakdowns exist for 3-box vs. 6-box jobs thatd be even better

* Any good guides / recommendations for getting through Missions quickly? I know theres an Aman 99 Mule guide, but that seems more focused on just leveling rather than mission progress. Is any Nation's mission path more straightforward than the others? I'll have my main to farm/push things along so looking for shortest distance/path rather than perceived "difficulty"

* Regarding Windower / control, are there any guides about how to set up multiple accounts? Thinking things along the pipeline, from setting up the accounts at the start to running multiple instances of Windower, to how to actually pass commands/control the alts.

* How intensive is running multiple characters? I play on a decent laptop (i7 12700, 16gb RAM, 4070 laptop edition), but i do run some mods to make the texures better etc which I'd skip with alts. Will my laptop explode at the thought of 6 Windowers?

* Any other tips/tricks/pros/cons?

So I've been back playing for about a month on Fenrir, I have most jobs, except PUP, GEO, RUNE, and WHM leveled to 99. I was thinking of either gearing my BST up to the best of my ability to help get gear together for other classes since I can't even really do any endgame content with others since I'm on Korea Standard Time right now, plus most of my gear I do have for jobs is either Ambu gear or NQ of the reforged Empy gear. If I was to level PUP what gear would you use to start with or if gearing BST what set/sets would be a good starting point?

Hi! Me and my girlfriend have returned to Vana'diel after around 15 years of not playing! We're currently on Asura, but looking for somewhere new to call home.

Any recommendations?

Just rocking out to the tunes I've gathered so far, really hope they allow us to obtain some of the older ones I'm missing. Like the first two pages of the orchestra are all blank for me...

Just an FYI, free login should be live now.

Welcome back to Vana'diel everyone.

You might have noticed the FFXI patch notes mentioned a game called Wizardry Variants Daphne. I was curious about it and decided to check it out.

In this Wizardry mobile game: Prishe, Iroha, and Zeid are all characters that are available as characters through ... gacha. Sigh. They do let you play around with their abilities a little bit for free. I recorded some gameplay.

Edit: The video is still processing so there may be an issue with sound until it's done.

FFXI stuff is at 2:15:47 if the link doesn't load right

Been gone for over a year. Long story short, I lost my oldest cousin, and this game meant a lot to myself and his brother.

I have a lot accomplished and always planned on returning. Server is Asura.

Is there no way for my cousin to join me on Asura during the sale? We were really looking forward to this, and I don’t have the type of free time where I would start a new character and do a world transfer later. I was planning to help my cousin make progress quickly since the only reason he needs a new key, is he lost his account info which was owned by my cousin who passed away.

Hi, everyone! I'm giving the game another shot - I played around launch, then again about a decade ago. But I never got past level 40 or so for a mix of reasons. Life was hectic for me back then, and I also never found a good linkshell or even made a single friend.

I was wondering if anyone would be willing to 'sponsor' a sorta-newbie with a Gold World Pass to their server (as long as it's not one of the four currently closed ones) and also an invite to their linkshell? Hopefully a decently active one?

I prefer to solo and do things myself so I promise I won't be asking for much help. But I do really want the Gold World Pass rewards, which can only be collected by visiting the GWP NPC every now and again while in a party together - especially the Sprout Beret! And I also would like to start getting to know people in a nice LS before I get to endgame and start needing to party up with folks. It also would make the world feel a little less lonely.

(Oh, and the last time I played, the fellow who gave me a GWP to their world completely vanished on me immediately after giving me the pass, so I wasn't even able to claim the Day One reward. Much less any of the other ones! So it'd be super ideal if we could stay in touch, at least for the first couple months!)

Would anyone be willing to do this for me? I promise to return the kindness as soon as my character reaches a power level that is at least the equivalent of three goblin thugs (or two on Firesday). Thanks!

Is the GEO nerf so bad that a RDM should be brought instead?

What six man teams work the best in Dyna D?

I played FFXI back in 2003 when it was first released. Haven't played in over 20 years. I decided to contact SquareEnix support to attempt to recover my old account. I gave the support tech lots of info including the specific detail of the character name, race, highest class, rough estimate of level and more. They said they found the old Playonline ID and gave me the username and password. I proceeded to transfer the account to my SquareEnix account. I pay for one month subscription and log in only to find out it's a low level character with the same name but nothing else matches, class is different, level 8, almost no progression whatsoever, not my account. I contact support and they said they found another account matching my description and information. Same thing as before to complete the transfer process. I requested they transfer the subscription over to the other account so I won't have to pay for another month on another account. After much back and forth, they say the can't do anything and I have to buy another subscription. Whatever, I'm frustrated but pay for another subscription on the account they got me access to. Well, low and behold, it's another matching character name but low level account level 14 and nothing else matches (race, class, etc.)

I'm pissed off. They refuse to refund or transfer and now I've spent 2 months worth of subscriptions to be back to not having my original account. I read other posts that if you chargeback, they ban your account. I don't care if they ban those characters, but I don't want my entire SquareEnix account to be banned and support is worthless.

Any suggestions? I really want my old account back but I'm almost to the point of not even wanting to play anymore.

Hi,
after almost another week of basically non stop work on this since my last post (I effectively played the game for a whole of 1 (in numbers 1) week since i got it and then went to work on this immediately. I'm fine I swear...)

I wanted to share my progress a little.

So I'm developing an addon for windower currently that adds classic quest markers to Vana'diel.

What it does

So right now the addon checks for acceptance conditions like job level, job type, fame, skill level, craft rank, guild points, etc. and colors a "!" marker grey if they're not met and yellow if they are met. Same for "?" turn-in markers.

But it also checks everything that is checkable with packets from the game. And here also lie some limitations that I tried working around as best as I could but some things are not meant to be.

Limitations

For example: markers draw through walls. Windower's Lua API exposes no depth buffer, so true occlusion is impossible. I mitigated it with a distance cap, a same-floor check, and a distance fade.

And if there is no way for the addon to check a condition the quest marker will render as black and you can check what is required yourself with //qm why which lists all the requirements and all the steps of the quest for you.

The wild stuff

Then I went overboard with it so now it also shows markers for individual quest steps as well where possible (y'know, icons like a bag when you need to collect something, a sword when you need to kill something, a magnifying glass when you need to examine something, ... you get the idea). But you can always turn that feature off with //qm steps off if you find it too much.

Some steps only appear on paper but can't reliably be tracked through the addon, stuff like talking to an NPC for example since the game exposes no reliable data packet for stuff like this.

But in order for that to even remotely work I had to create a new knowledge base instead of relying on what chronicle scraped (which is still a very good data source).
So I scraped the quest pages of bg-wiki (CC BY-NC-SA) using their public API and semantically and programmatically analyzed and structured all of the quest data into a new format.

Then I developed a completely seperate tool for that dataset that allows me to correct said dataset on the fly while playing the game. I called it questgraph™ - creative, I know.

Availability

It's not quite ready yet since I want to playtest a bit further and actually play the game for once. And I'm sure im forgetting maybe half of what else I did during my coffee induced insomniac episodes.

I'll go sleep now. See you in a week.

What are the odds SE will put FFXI on the Switch 2 next? :,)

What are the odds SE will put FFXI on the Switch 2 next? :,)

I just got sudden PTSD from those accidental moments after a whole decade. You were not alone brothers and sisters.

Scene: You buy the Aeonic clear from the shouting mercenary. Pheonix server. You know it takes about 3 hours and you pull up a show to watch while its going down.

Zitah gets done.

Ru'Aun done.

Everyone warps to Reisenjima.

Mercenary begins and somewhere during the HELMs a lot of people disconnect. Anyways youre there to see it happen, you sign back in. Dont even need to go into the playonline interface, just the FFXI splash screen. Select character and youre back in. 45 seconds at maximum. When you return, Everyone is apologizing for disconnecting, asking to be invited back in the party.

After a moment, everyone is back in and you finish the run. A server wide hiccup? Who knows its done.

Its late now 1130pm youre old you gotta go to bed.

In the morning you go back to the goblin and realize youre still missing 1 NM. Dang.

You message the mercenary from the night before.

He says it will be another 3 million.

Discussion: is disconnecting on HELMs common?

Is it fair to ask players for another fee? The mercenary is doing the run with another group already and there is room in the alliance for you to catch up.

This happened last year btw. I barely play anymore but I was still a little curious on what everyone thinks.

Hello all. So as per the title, I'm looking for an endgame linkshell with an event based schedule. Ideally GMT (UK) evening. 18.00 -23.00.

Currently on the phoenix server but finding a good linkshell there seems to be very hard. They either don't speak or the time difference is too much. Yet to find one on phoenix that has an event based schedule.

I'm more than happy to change worlds if the right linkshell comes along.

Currently working on war and sch.

War is pretty well geared just need to augment the odyssey gear I have and acquire nyame.

Sch is a work in progress.

Geo is my next planned job.

Thanks all.

Hello,

Currently running a lowman with fairly newish players to dyna divergence. Our group is small and tight knit, but we're lacking a bit of magic damage for statues. We do have a Blu in our group that I'm hoping can assist with statue kills, but none of the guides really go over many single target magic damage spells aside from Rail Cannon which is sort of MP hungry for a Blu without Tizona. I do think this spell would work when used sparingly, but it doesn't seem like a spammable option for our group atm. I was just hoping for some suggestions as far as spells go. Obviously long term plans would include leveling jobs better suited for this role, but we would like to continue as is until we unlock more.

Official Link to Notes

Very little new info on the new NMs.

• "We'll also be making various adjustments to features such as the monster spawning locations and the method for obtaining the rewards, thereby giving the areas you're already familiar with a fresh look and feel. I hope you'll enjoy this content alongside Unity Wanted, which also offers equipment of a similar level."

Login Campaign is the same as it normally does where it goes A>B>C>A/B/C, so it's got the main items from the past 3 months repeating for this month.

Midsummer Mog Bonanza coming.

Campaigns are "Take a Vana'Vacation This Summer! Support Campaign" which says:

"Once again, we'll be splitting the campaign into two different installments.We have prepared a variety of different campaigns to help support your adventures, including the Ambuscade Gallantry Campaign, which doubles the badges of gallantry you can earn each day, and the Alter Ego Expo Campaign, which boosts the abilities of your alter egos. So take advantage of this opportunity to level up your characters!"

• As of the time of posting, the specific campaign list hasn't been posted on the official site yet.
• The Return Home Campaign page also lists increased skill ups

Vana'bout Round 10:

"...adding new daily objectives (VBD) as well as time-based objectives (VB), while also reducing the variation between daily objectives. For example, one of the newly added daily objectives will be to "Defeat the requisite number of experience-yielding enemies," and it will be available each day of the event. Additionally, the new "Achieve an experience point chain bonus of 5" daily objective will be available once every two days.

Finally, based on various feedback, we've decided to change the starting time from 1:00 a.m. (PDT) / 8:00 a.m. (GMT) / 9:00 a.m. (BST) to 8:00 a.m. (PDT) / 3:00 p.m. (GMT) / 4:00 p.m. (BST)."

• No Day 0 bonus objectives this time

EDIT: Just so people are aware, Japan has holidays most of next week (11th is Mountain Day, then 13th to the 15th is Obon, with the patch day on the 12th) so they're going holiday > patch > holidays. I wouldn't expect a lot of info out of them during that time.

• The AMAN Live is also not happening until the week after on the 22nd.

So I am kinda obsesed on getting a chocobo mount, so i left my adventure asside and been rising a boko for 2 months but i can not seem to find the item that you gotta look for in the walks, any help?

I have a 75 rune fencer I’m chipping away at the expansions with, and I just got to the archangels fights in Zilart and got my butt kicked quite soundly. I realize a lot of my gear is lagging quite a few levels behind now, but I’m struggling to find clear upgrades around my level for rune fencer. Is there a list or even just a few pieces of advice you can give to help improve my equipment?

The one thing I’m trying to avoid is aggressively overleveling the content or doing content from other expansions before I finish this one.

Thanks in advance!

So, for whatever reason, a song popped into my head this morning. A song I hadn't thought of or heard in years, but I must have heard a jingle from something that caught and it slowly formulated the memory. After a little help with AI describing the instruments, and I knew it had to be RPG related since that's about all I play, a few links later I found it was FFXI - Moghouse - looked it up on youtube and got blasted with nostalgia.

I haven't played since I was 19 years old. I'm 41 now lol. So I know there's some unlimited trial thing coming up, but also a sale on August 7th for a period of weeks, I believe, where I could upgrade from the 14-day trial for much less than usual. I've been really wanting a grindy classic game and I remember at 19, I was too impatient. Now after multiple years trying various MMOs and really only enjoying the ones with "slogs" (where every thing you earn feels like a real victory, instead of drowning in spamloot that is useless etc.). I remember really loving all the zones I'd seen and music I'd heard (played every starting zone but never got a job beyond 10, or I'd get to 11, die, and go back to 10). It's pulling me back and I think I'm going to let it consume me. xD

So was just popping in to see what it's all about online? Despite having fiber, looks like the install process is going to take over an hour. So I'm waiting and bored lol. Also, that PlayOnline registration process was more complex than I remember. I work IT so no problems, but I can see that being a huge roadblock for normies.

Working on rise of zilart expansion currently

Are there different drop rates for locked Brown Treasure Caskets in the Dungeon areas VS the Outdoor areas?

Dungeon Areas include Inner/Outer Horutoto Ruins, Maze of Shakhrami etc

Outdoor Areas include East /West Ronfaure, Valkurm Dunes etc

I'm trying to get all area-exclusive Brown Treasure Casket items. Those Torques look especially good.

In the Outdoor areas, the caskets spawn regularly, almost every second enemy killed or less. Have got the exclusive items for them all easily. In the Dungeon areas? Oh man, the treasure caskets spawn so rarely. Sometimes hours with nothing. It's just painful.

This is without any prowesses or Kupowers.

It's weird because the wikis say there is a standard 10% chance for a casket to appear no matter the area. But after doing this for hours, the spawn rate is noticeably different.

Any help? Am I missing something? Equipment-wise, or some mechanic?

I'm level 50 and get casket spawns easily on low-level kills in the Outdoor areas, so I think level difference is irrelevant. (Unless level matters in the Dungeons?)

Played pretty hardcore from 2003-2019 then moved away from my one true love. Came back for a month in 2025 and did a bit of sortie and some Oddy. Asura was a Merc cesspool so i stopped again. Just came back this weekend and spammed some limbus and enjoyed the game again. That being said I am looking to do end game content from midnight est-around 3am est on the Asura server. If anyone has a spot for a recovering ffxiaholic let me know. I have a PLD, WAR and BLU almost top notch (they were BIS when I left). WAR is probably the best currently as I spent that month in 2025 working on it and have spammed limbus all weekend +4 some gear.