Esti & Petale
Last night saw my return to FFXI. Technically it was a few days ago, but I didn’t do much due to waiting for Alex to get his copy and patch it and such…
It all came about mainly through boredom, and somewhat through a rekindling of Final Fantasy interest due to FFXIV news, or lack thereof.
So after much debate over which jobs we should level, I have decided upon levelling Red Mage, and Alex has gone with Samurai. I’ve always been highly tempted by Ninja though, so there’s definitely potential for flaking there 
Unfortunately it would be stupidly expensive for a newbie to do. Sigh.
I was pretty impressed by the changes they have made, lower level mobs are giving more experience now, and there are these awesome Training Regimes that give additional experience once per Vana’diel day.
This will certainly make it easier for us, we’re intending to duo (potentially trio) our way to level 75. Obviously we’ll join parties if the invite comes, but for the majority, we will be grinding our way there in much smaller groups.
Gavin has also decided to give it a try, I’m not really holding my breath on how long he will last, WoW took his virginity, FFXI is going to slap on a gimp mask and double penetrate him. I don’t think he really knows what he’s getting himself in for. He died to his first mob because he had no idea he had to equip the weapon in his inventory.
Oh the joys!
On with the adventuring.