I was playing a WAR/MNK, and to tank effectively (in my mind at least) I had to have at least the best conventional gear that I could get my hands on. My full set of chain at lvl 24 was something like 50-60K gil IIRC. Me and a RL friend killed beetles for three nights straight in Juegner until I bagged it and paid 28K for a Neckchopper. Granted none of this stuff was bind on pickup or bind on use a’la WoW, and you could resell it or hand it down to alts or linkshell mates. But it just seemed that I was always farming for the next thing, and it was ‘farm two-three weeks, level in one weekend.’ Being the only WAR in my linkshell didn’t help much either – all the paladins, dark knights, etc were long removed from their WAR days, if they ever had them, and had zip for handmedowns.

I dont know why some people have such differences in farming. Oh well.

Good to have you abroad lufia.

I made it to level 30 of 75 in FFXI. I didn’t have the absolute best gear, but I had pretty good gear – definitely nothing to be ashamed of. My subjob was appropriately levelled. I had to farm for two weeks prior to when I pushed for 30, in order to have the gil for the gear that I knew I would need when I got there. Lots of running around with the Chinese gil farmers logging in Ghelsba, lots of dead Yagudo for 0 xp, lots of fishing for moat carp. And after 30 the prospects didn’t look like they were going to be any better. Farming in WoW is _nothing_ like that.

Welcome to WoW Anonymous.

Hi. My name is Psy. I’m addicted to WoW. I have my own blog. It’s sickening. No, not the blog, but my addiction. I love it. I hate it. I love it.

Wait, if it’s “Anonymous”, why did I just tell you my name?

Anyway, I hope you get your computer upgraded soon. Makes a huge difference when you can actually see the landscape more than 20 feet in front of you, and still be able to fight in the middle of a raid.

Actually, I do have my own WoW blog. Feel free to visit. Mostly rogue stuff, but general stuff, too. I think you can just click on my name or something to get there.

Oh, you speak of farming in FFXI? I’d like to see how you compare it to WoW farming once you get to that point.

Welcome again!

-Psy