I wish thief could wear those things so much. The dex!!! ~~D:
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I remember when I first got into NM hunting with a dude I met all the way in the level 8's by chance fighting low level mobs. We were both thieves, later around lv 18 he ended up going white mage. When I was around 45-50 he asked me to help camp things like Valkurm Emperor, and Stroper Chymes for archer rings. He picked up another thief, Viet, to help claim. This crew rolled between camps for a long time, bringing in the gil selling the items. It felt good getting the claims, drops, and so scary waiting on spawns. After a while we stopped camping them because of the gil sellers.
Months later the white mage got a idea of forming a endgame linkshell with another member of the NM crew that was always sleepy. While messing around with bigger NMs to get the shell used to doing stuff I crossed Viet again. I was on my low level red mage trying to keep everyone alive against Bune. I nearly went Ninja seeing him hold Bune with little effort. There were so many moments in this game like this. On a server it was easy to cross familiar names, and if people had a bad reputation, word would spread quickly. You couldn't get away with doing bad stuff and vanishing removing all memory of your existence like you can in FFXIV I feel.
They really need to remaster/remake FFXI. ARRGH!! So much money on the table, and don't go all stupid like FF7remake. Just update resolution, touch up the textures, it already looks good. Remake gameplay mechanics to control better or something. Maybe add gambits, and stuff for AI party.