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I've had an account in FFXI for about three years, and I still haven't hit max level on any one job - a goal that can be accomplished much sooner, I assure you. To be fair, I've always prioritized real life, work, school, available finances, quality time with a significant other, going out for coffee, basically whatever over playing this particular game. Probably the biggest holdback was a period without funds followed by a period of exhaustion, combined and followed with sporadic hardware failures* and I'd say that was the space of about 8 months straight.
Even so, 3 years to hit level 50.
Anyhow, I'd totally forgotten that at level 50, you start taking quests to level up in 5-level increments, which is a major pain. I had all my equipment laid out and ready to go when I hit the exp that was supposed to take me over the limit. Without any fanfare or announcement I just stopped progressing, hitting a brick wall 1 exp. short of 8 elemental staves and newfound respectability as an adventurer.
What a drag. It's lucky that FFXI is so exhaustively documented. I would love to experience the confusion of mysteriously stopping at level 50, everywhere Than turns for help to spout the same catch phrases except for one old man hidden in a garden in the back of a palace nobody has any reason to go to. On a logistical level, it boggles my mind that one old dude who enjoys punching people is responsible for everyone leveling past 50. Or maybe it's just me, canonically, and the universe just likes screwing with this particular would-be Red Mage.
That said, I enjoy this game and I actually enjoy it more, lately. I feel like I'm progressing faster, at the expense of not being able to really keep up fully on equipment. As fast as I bring in gil, I spend it, and I haven't had luck with crafting in kind of a while. I need to level alchemy so that I can make bullets. I initially started, long ago, to make bullets for Violet's gun Ranger character and continued long after her transition to White Mage. Never really moved over into crafts that were mage-friendly or produced large quantities of consumables, but it may be time to look in that direction.
*which mysteriously just stopped one day.
Even so, 3 years to hit level 50.
Anyhow, I'd totally forgotten that at level 50, you start taking quests to level up in 5-level increments, which is a major pain. I had all my equipment laid out and ready to go when I hit the exp that was supposed to take me over the limit. Without any fanfare or announcement I just stopped progressing, hitting a brick wall 1 exp. short of 8 elemental staves and newfound respectability as an adventurer.
What a drag. It's lucky that FFXI is so exhaustively documented. I would love to experience the confusion of mysteriously stopping at level 50, everywhere Than turns for help to spout the same catch phrases except for one old man hidden in a garden in the back of a palace nobody has any reason to go to. On a logistical level, it boggles my mind that one old dude who enjoys punching people is responsible for everyone leveling past 50. Or maybe it's just me, canonically, and the universe just likes screwing with this particular would-be Red Mage.
That said, I enjoy this game and I actually enjoy it more, lately. I feel like I'm progressing faster, at the expense of not being able to really keep up fully on equipment. As fast as I bring in gil, I spend it, and I haven't had luck with crafting in kind of a while. I need to level alchemy so that I can make bullets. I initially started, long ago, to make bullets for Violet's gun Ranger character and continued long after her transition to White Mage. Never really moved over into crafts that were mage-friendly or produced large quantities of consumables, but it may be time to look in that direction.
*which mysteriously just stopped one day.
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