Guild Wars. Although you'll need to start in Factions or Nightfall if you want to play with more than one other person for the early "tutorial" part of the game.
What is the best MMO to jump in with a couple friends level explore and have a good time?
William Johnson
Ian Carter
>all this cope
ffxiv is circle dodging the gape with faggot erp sprinkled in.
Xavier Collins
not me, but
>Crafting
maxed
>Gathering
maxed
>Fishing
maxed
>Leveling
maxed
>Fates
lol
>Hunts
ultra lol
>Eureka
:^)
>Gold saucer
who hasnt done all this by now?
>Triple triad
who hasnt done all this by now?
>Chocobo racing
who hasnt done all this by now?
>Verminion
lol
>Mahjong
no thanks, game sucks
>House decorating
already decor'd a large to my liking
>RP
the ONLY fun thing you've listed, but doesnt save the game from current mediocrity
>Glamour
ok? what everyone has done since forever?
>Collecting achievements
fag
>Farming mounts and minions
super fag, but ive probably got more than you do. where's your 1.0 Goobbue?
Brayden Barnes
private server.
Nasomi and Eden are the most highly populated private servers if you want the classic, hardcore 2006 experience.
If you just want to quickly #yolo through the game for the story and missions then try a high rate exp server like Jova or Era or something where you can get max lvl and clear all the missions within a month or two.
Retail is a shadow of it's former self and has been redesigned to be a soloable solo-player experience to make people quit and play 14.
If you dont mind paying, it's only worth playing to get max lvl quickly and check out the story/missions.
>3 nations missions
Skippable if you want but worth doing at least for your home nation, need to get at least to rank 6 anyway to access....
>Zilart
good expansion, good story, good waifu. fairly short and can be breezed through in a day. Later on it intertwines with....
>Chains of Promathia
the true kino part of FFXI. Challenging boss fights, great cutscenes (9 hours of them), lots of good waifus, some pretty sick dungeon areas. Hands down the best Final Fantasy story of the whole FF series.
If you only want to do one thing in FFXI, it should be this.
>Aht Urghan
pretty solid story but the setting is completely cut off from the normal game's lore. It has a underage jailbait loli waifu which some people liked. Not much in the way of boss fights.
>Wings of the Goddess
this is where shit started to go off the rails and it becomes obvious that they'd fired their old writers and hired new ones.
it's ok in it's own right, but nowhere near the kino that Zilart or CoP was.
>everything after
avoid. everything mid-Wings of the Goddess and later is why the retail servers are dead now.
Hunter Powell
i'd suggest playing Nasomi desu, it's great fun with friends and Coronavirus has inflated the number of people playing lower levels currently. so getting started off wont be too tough
Gavin Rogers
how popular is mahjong in FFXIV?
Chase Bennett
I like a lot of ideas in FFXIV, but I’m currently preferring wow because even coming close to main story of ffxiv again is making me dizzy.
Alexander Campbell
both pservers and retail are neat in their own way
if you play retail play on asura, it's actually been pretty packed lately, ~3500 online
Brayden Ward
you didn't even list the real bait which is PotD solo
Luke Ward
Retail's still pretty fun, played it with a few friends a couple years back
We all started fresh and had fun grinding/exploring together
Ended up leveling SCH and enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would
Stratagems are fun as fuck