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[bzarcher]

Grr. Argh.

I swore against playing an MMORPG awhile ago. I tried the monthly fee thing with Simutronics and Gemstone, and I didn't really feel that I could justify $20 a month for it, when it came down to me paying instead of getting it for free with my ISP. I decided it was worth more to just save my money, and buy games I could play /offline/ if I wanted to.

But now...now I am tempted.

Final Fantasy XI. It calls at me. Claws at me. So many people I know having fun. Two clans I've been involved in getting linkshells together. And now my boss has it, and he won't stop talking about how great it is. Plus, I see so many FFTA things tied into it. And I /will/ be building a PC that will be able to play it.

But $50 plus $10 a month??

I just don't know if I want another monthly bill.

But it's so pretty...and I could be a black mage. Or a paladin. Or an archer. Or a ninja. Or a red mage. Or a soldier! And I could make stuff! And hook up with a good linkshell and go to town! Gah.

Damn you, Square-Enix!

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[highbard.livejournal.com]

RED MAGE! MAKE A RED MAGE! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I resist your evil!

(Though an elementalist would be kinda cool...is that an availible class in XI?)

[gearhead.livejournal.com]

Elementalists are not in the game. But this doesn't mean they can't be added in a later expansion. One of the nice things about the game is, you can change your home town. You can even change your job. The only thing that never changes is your character's initial appearance.

You can change jobs at any time and retain your old levels in a class for returning to it later.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. Though is appearance at all modified by armor/etx?

[gearhead.livejournal.com]

Yes.

In fact, there's no way to distinguish one class from another, really, except for what they do in a combat situation without calling up an examine on them and looking at their level.

Unless you count artifact armors, which are class specific and very distinctive.

The main thing is that the game is only a year old and one expansion deep, so there isn't a lot of distinctiveness or equivalency across several differently appearing lines of equipment yet, so some of the equipment looks very simliar until you get over level 20 or so.

For example, a lot of warriors tend to look alike, with one or two variations inside of a theme. Though weapons among warriors are often a matter of varying taste and style.

All 'main' pieces of armor, head, arms, legs, body, appear on the character unless it's a really small piece of equipment, like a hairpin. Unforunaitely, cloaks don't appear for the sake of cutting down on the number of polygons flying around.