aht urhgan only for the jobs?Follow

Ok I dont mean to bash you or your thread, but if you are looking at aht urghan as a place ONLY to get advance jobs, complain about High lvl mobs, complain about seeing nothing new, and just keep going on about how the expansion is pointless. Let me point some things out to you.

1. The new jobs. Did you have to fight NMs to get any of the NEW advance jobs? NOPE all you had to do was quest it simple no? Hell even getting access to aht urgan wasn't impossible, but very easy depending which mission you chose. Now you're a lvl 54 DRG right? Didnt you have to run a quest (which required sneak and invis), and in the very end have to fight a NM dragon whom i bet you didnt fight by yourself? Heck that goes for almost all the advance jobs before ToAU.

2. Speaking of the mobs I like the fact that we have a new place to exp. Since mobs even aggro to lvl 75's it gives us a new place for MERIT POINT pts! Heck i dont mind killing EP right outside of white gate for a mear 25exp that goes toward my merits every little bit helps to ding @ 10k per point.

3. About every mob that aggros you, I say pure genius on SE's part, it kinda makes you want to lvl your mage jobs just for sneak and invis doesnt it? (Hello boom population of WHM, and RDMS!) Now low lvl parties can be complete when you are finding that 1 whm or rdm just to main heal. Anyone wanna pt in valkurm dunes or zehrun mines? (sp)

4. As far as besieged, and assault go. Heck i enjoy assault who wouldnt want access to new armor? Besieged yeah i agree with you on this, but if it means EASY exp and EASY Merc points or whatever they are called I'm in! Even if the beast men atm are just pansies, wait till later when they get harder stronger and meaner, after all most of the besiege's i have been in have only been lvl 1.

5. All in all im satisified with my purchase of ToAU I dont mind waiting for updates Heck been playing this game since it got released for PC. I'm in no rush to do anything, so just kick back and enjoy the game.


Edited, Sun Apr 30 01:11:09 2006 by Raikuken

you obviously didn't do much assault to say this D:... mayeb coz of lvl 54 drg ^-^; but i dunno. i've done 3 assaults now so i guess i can't say much for myself. But only one of them was zerging mobs (i'm sure some others prolly are also, but in my case..).. the others require bombing the door and other various tricks to complete mission, not just engage attk.. sleep...(but hey, FFXI's main stream is obviously revolve around combats..).

i read somewhere a while back that the expansion content mainly targets the higher level players. Which makes sense as there is enough content for low level players as it is. SE prolly aim to attract the people who "seen most of the stuff/seen it all" so they keep paying up their money to play this game.. whereas the lower levels has a lot to do as it is... i bet you havent seen much of the COP and zilart stuff, no?





i managed to get to a staging point for this mission without sneak nor invisible... and since most mobs aggros lvl 75... /shrugs~ stealth skills ftw!

Edited, Sun Apr 30 04:26:37 2006 by SpiraTheWhm

You could probably xp off of birds and spiders right outside Bhaflau Thickets. Once people calm down with the farming, that is. Right now, everyone's out there. Although...birds are a bit harsh. They have Feather Tickle which zaps your TP to 0, and they have Snatch Morsel which erases your food effect. Since I've only solo'd them, I haven't figured how to keep them from doing either move, so xp'ing on them would be kinda risky (gil-wise mainly). But, once it gets old, I think we'll have a lot more sweet zones to level in.