Final Fantasy XI - Gameplay Tips for New Players 

good stuff. one more tip i'd like to add is the Artisan Moogle. every Earth day they give out a free warp scroll, which is handy if you getting around alot and the warp ring isn't ready yet. they also offer something called Mog Sack for a small fee, which is a 1 time purchase for an additional inventory bag. the size of this bag will mirror the size of your inventory, but if im not wrong you will need to talk to the moogle to increase the size if you recently upgraded the gobbiebag also not sure if its obvious but people have lots of storage slots in the form of /bank (mog house) /case (mog case) and /wardrobe1 & 2 (mog wardrobe)

When an OG player comes across a FFXI video in 2023 and instant nostalgia. Have to agree, one of the best FF games.

God I love this game so much. I literally just finished installing and getting it set up (which was as rough as I remember it). It's amazing to see this game still going.

THIS WAS SO HELPFUL I was struggling so much on this game just barely knowing at all what i was doing, it's the first mmo I've been attempting to get into, super helpful!!

Besides sparks, you can use unity accolates to buy prize powder and sell these to an npc like the shield. If you sell for capped sparks and accolates, you can get 2 mil ish gil pr week by doing the daily and other records of emminence. So gil will be less of an issue.

Nice video to open RU-vid up to. All these FFXI videos giving me the itch to play it now. I should play it and try to compare it to my first mmo love Everquest. Nice to see you again BTW!

Omg this is so helpful there isn't a updated guide for this stuff just started yesterday too thanks

Phenomenal vid, I've played sporadically since U.S. release a couple decades ago. I was thinking about getting back into again, and this vid really pumped me up for it!

This video was insanely helpful, thank you.

Hey, veteran player here, hope you don’t mind me adding a few things extra. In my opinion one of the best home points to set is HP#2 in Eastern Adoulin (H-10). This Home Point is right next to a survival guide, waypoint, auction house (and delivery services), Gobbie mystery box and your Mog house (and by extension, your Mog garden). The only thing it doesn’t really have close by is a vendor for selling junk in your inventory. As for exp rings, you should still keep your Empress Band once you get the Echad ring as you can use this once the first one wears off. I’d also suggest using Login Points on Caliber rings if you have nothing else to spend them on. You can send them to your delivery box to get around the rare restriction and stack them up. Last thing is, while this isn’t necessarily for new players as you won’t have a lot of Gil, unlock the ‘Bank’ in your Mog garden to store excess Gil. If you play the game for long enough you’ll accumulate millions and it’s nice to store it somewhere outside your main inventory in case you have any ‘accidents’ bidding on the auction house!

Good video. The main difficulty for new players is to know how to make the most of their time. Going into more details about Records of Eminence might help to give insight into what is best to activate for sparks/xp. Also worth mentioning instant reraise and instant warp scrolls from the conquest point guards, they are extremely useful in the early game.

This is an excellkently scripted video. Each topic flows smoothly into the other. Very well done, and thank you - I have a friend who will be trying FF11 very soon, and it is very much appreciated

Thanks for the tips. 😁

Something major I notice everyone misses is that the game has an instruction manual. It is astounding how many problems/questions some people had that could be solved by using it back when the manual was physical. Menu button, menu button, Help desk-> Adventuring primer will bring up the manual for you.

Great Video for everyone.

I think in coming back they really have made the game a lot easier in the 1 to 99 process at least, the only thing I upgraded was my weapon, I got to 99 worrying the original armor, trust are amazing, and as I am not a big social player, it was great for myself.

AH, I miss the days before the sparks were capped. We used to look foward to "GAIN EXP" to where we would meet in Escha-Zitah. I would bring my Beastmaster and help AOE mobs. Cap the sparks and cash out. Rinse and repeat. That became my primary source of gil. Once they capped sparks, I had to start grinding Omen for Crystals and Leviathan Fights for Beitetsu. That's how I currently make gil.

Love the content on 11 the old stallion. 11 and 14 are the best in the series.

Back in 2004, when I started, I threw away Beastman Seals. You should save these and other seals.

Most important tip for starting player is to not try to play this game with mouse. Its the keyboard (or pad) only game. You move with WASD and control camera with arrow keys. For veteran player like me its something so natural, that I wouldn't think about it even, but I noticed few post from starting players where they were saying, that they have huge problem with control system and after few questions it was clear they trying to use mouse.

Nice piece of work here, buddy. I must say the Chocobo traversal looks so much smoother than in XVI. I really didn’t like the mounted mechanics in there, so clunky.

Approved.

under currency would add start abyssea ASAP just enough to trigger stones building if doing the 3 DLC content later and start doing Adoulin fame supply runs builds bayld

Supernova is one of the best private servers. Faster exp, movement speed, exp. There’s still a grind, but it’s not going to take you years to beat the game

Just installed it myself not played since released no expansion played back in my day.. so... HERE WE GO 🎉

FFXI is the best Final Fantasy, agreed.

Sorry for the lame question but is it retail or Horizon server?

Death warp is my warp ring lol

Did they ever get rid of the reputation requirement for Gobbiebags, or am I going to have to sit through another 3 hours of BRAW WIRK, LASSIE?

The big problem is the devs took too long to stop all the RMT in the early years that added billions of gil to the game that ruined the economy.Currency is never any good for a newer player because you might make more than we did 15+ years ago but your also paying 20+ more the original costs. Leveling is not difficult at all with book burns meaning you do the same book page multiple times because it increases xp the more times you do it.There is actually a problem with leveling too fast and that is your weapon skills and magic skills will fall behind your levels meaning you will miss a lot more. The Sparks system is definitely a must because you can get free gear until at least level 50 then free weapons beyond that.IMO something not talked about it to get Dancer as soon as you can which is level 30'ish because with Dancer you have free access to Sneak/Invis which is invaluable. The best trust 1-50 is actually the ranger I forget her name she destroys enemies with early use of Sidewinder a level 55 weapon skill.Yes your first Trust should be Velaineral she is the best early tank. You also want to use your gil you get by trading Sparks Archeron shields to attain the quests for expanding your backpack sizes via an npc in lower Jueno as mentioned by the video. I strongly reccommend trying your best to keep your skills up because so many people just power level then wait and skillup later which is extremely boring.

game should be back as it was in 2002-2008 and no more than lvl75 CAP with Zilart , Promathia , Aht Urghan and maybe wing of the goddess . after that the game is BROKEN !!!!!

Square Enix plz put FFXI back on PS5

There is a major flaw that won't help anyone that is newish to the game.The game branches out in so many directions with so little information without having to spend hours in google searches.So people will hit a wall and then the same old every time >>WHAT DO I DO NOW? The guides you can find after hours searching are sort of useful to a point but they really never cater to YOU and how you want to play or helping you make the decisions that makes you most happy they are just generalized paths. So then it gets more complicated because WHAT GEAR do I need or should I get there is tons of it.Then how do i get it more hours spent searching/reading. IMO they botched up the intrigued of the game when they went past 75 it got too big and became more of a WOW 2.0 spending all your time farming dungeons INSTANCE dungeons. IDK what they should have done post 75 but I felt the pace was fine so that any new jobs added would have some longevity but they botched that up with Abyssea and instant max level players in one day. So once the old team left the NEW direction which I also did not like in FFXIV was imo bad design decisions it began to feel more like Blizzard/Wow all about item level gear scores.

Wait.wait.wait...You can still play FfXI? How? What? Huh?

OK, now tell me how to make money on 75-era private servers. :)