Some advice?

[Mahlerion]

I'm thinking of starting this game. If I do, does anybody have some advice as to:

1. What class to play. I prefer a caster, of course ;-) but will play whatever we need
2. Which world/server to play on, and which town(?) to start in

any other pertinent info or advice would be welcomed.

Thanks,

Mahl

PS Horizons has lots of potential , but I don't think it's gonna be something I want to spend hours each day on, so I doubt I will even start it once it goes live. It seems, at the moment, to be just another level treadmill.

[Bralan]

Hey Mahl,

Lakshmi server. Come to irc to hopefully get a worldpass to make it easy. Start in Bastok.

Wizard of FFXI is the Blackmage. We have 1. Play a Taru Taru for race for best results with that job.

We need White Mages the most. WHM = Cleric. If you wanna do some debuffing, light healing, some melee then go Red Mage. Red mage is essentially the shaman class.

B

[Sudo]

Here are your mage choices Mahl.

Black Mage - Like an EQ wizard and EQ enchanter in one. But like EQ, you'll feel underpowered until about lvl 20 because you don't have a full array of spells.

Red Mage - Like an EQ wizard and EQ shaman in one. Some of the black mages nukes, but you get them a few levels later, some heals, buffs, and ok melee for soloing.

White Mage - If EQ clerics wore cloth and EQ enchanter in one. Heals, Buffs, Debuffs, etc.

For both the black & white mage, I recommend you play a TaruTaru for race. The mana pool bonus is too huge to ignore. For Red Mage, Hume (better melee) or TaruTaru (better caster).

Whatever you pick, make your starting city Bastok.

And before you make your char, stop into IRC to get the worldpass code from the topic. You'll need this to get on our server during the character creation process.

- Sudo

[Slayne]

How are we short on WHM? Seems every time I turn around when someone new starts it's as a WHM :D

[Mahlerion]

How is leveling and exp with the White Mage?

[Cattie]

solo it's pretty bad, and you'll be solo pretty much until level 11.

After that you'll get a group anywhere you turn.

[Slayne]

Your be able to solo to 11 pretty easily if you watch the mobs you fight. Least I did. After that if you want to solo, your restricted to yard trash at 5-15 pts a kill, if your lucky.

After that, ya should be ok to find a group.

[Mahlerion]

I hope this doesn't disappoint anybody, but I think Black Mage is the class for me. Face it, I'll always be a boomer at heart.