Summary: This is last week of Final Fantasy XI on Coldrun Gaming. Moving on to two new games next week, even with FFXI left unfinished.
I'm rapidly coming to the end of the soloable parts of FFXI.
My
gear is as upgraded as it's gonna be. I could grind repeatable endgame
content to improve it, but I have literally zero interest in that. I can
grind more jobs to 99 for more soloing power - like Red Mage and
Beastmaster and Blue Mage - but again, I have literally zero interest in
that. I'm ready to be done.
I wrote this in my very first session, before I logged on for the first time to create Detolilla:
"I
tend to prefer soloing... This will likely preclude me seeing or
finishing a lot of main story things. If there’s a 40 person Bahamut
raid, I’ll never see it. If there’s a raid to take down the Queen of the
Chocobos to finish some main storyline about the chocobo invasion of
[insert random kingdom in FFXI], I probably won’t see it."
That point is nigh.
I'll
likely finish "Rhapsodies of Vana'diel," probably this week. "Abyssea"
and "Seekers of Adoulin," maybe not so much. The remainign parts of each
are group-reliant. My linkshell is great, but there are only two
people. They have lives, they don't play all the time, and I hate
begging them to help me every time they're online. It puts me in a bad
position and it puts them in a bad position.
Final Fantasy XI
doesn't have a group finder tool either, like most MMOs. In World of
Warcraft, I just press a button and 10-30 minutes later I have a group.
In FFXI, I'd have to sit in town and shout for someone to help me. I
hate hate HATE that. I'm socially awkward enough as it is.
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So
while I'm sad that I may not get to see the full story for "Seekers of
Adoulin," that may be the way it goes. I apologize to any of y'all who
were following along with this. Here's the plan:
1) Do what I
can to push through FFXI this week, see where things are at. Do what I
can until I hit that "MUST HAVE GROUP" wall I mentioned.
2)
Soft exit from FFXI. I might log on more, push more on the story as
"bonus sessions" and the like if I feel like it, but it won't be my
primary game. Only as the mood strikes.
3) Next week, start
TWO NEW GAMES! I plan to alternate posts between Final Fantasy FFXIV
and Final Fantasy XII Zodiac Age (comes out on July 11th).
So...
yeah! That's where I'm at. This'll be the last week of full-time Final
Fantasy XI. I got way more into it than I expected, played way more of
it than I expected, got way farther than I expected. Like most MMOs, it
doesn't stop. At some point, you just get off the ride.
Thank you for reading, supporting, thoughts, comments, suggestions, etc. Y'all rock. :)
