18 Hour Unfinished FFXI Boss Battle

[ALLRPG News]

Yeah, I will admit I played Final Fantasy XI Online for long periods of time. There would always be a warning telling me something like, “Death may occur after (blank) hours,” or “Hey! Get off the damn game and get a life!” Well, a guild named BeyondTheLimitation certainly avoided those messages one night.The [...]

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[Blackdragon]

Haha, that's too funny. I could never fighting a single enemy for almost 18 hours, that's almost 1/3 of playthrough for a new game. Though I know what they mean by the messages. Guild Wars had those like every hour I was online telling me to take a break. Who the hell needs a break only after about 3 hours of gametime, anyway?

[Liam McDohl]

It seems like they're confusing Pandemonium Warden and Absolute Virtue here... one of the developers said that the latter can take up to 18 hours to kill in an interview.

Edit: Turns out they're not! Lol, crazy people don't know when to give up.

[Jarrid]

Yeah, when I use to play it and had no life or job, I easily pulled off 24 hours+ straight all the time, but actually fighting one boss that long. . . hell no. Then again, I would wait for a party forever.

I would like to start playing it again when I get a faster connection, but there are so many expansions. I suppose I would need to buy them all to catch up. My characters are deleted as well, so it would be back to square-one again, too. -_-

[Void]

****ed up. Absolutely ****ed.

[Calamity84]

yeah, i use to play this game hardcore for a couple of years. hours of hours on end playing all day and night. though lots of the time i'd be waiting for a party, that was the worst...

[Nickoten]

Just so you guys know, apparently those 18 hours don't include the time it takes to make that guy spawn, which involves fighting a set of other bosses, and then the chance for him to appear is not 100%.

[Liam McDohl]

Originally Posted by Nickoten

Just so you guys know, apparently those 18 hours don't include the time it takes to make that guy spawn, which involves fighting a set of other bosses, and then the chance for him to appear is not 100%.

Well, you don't have to do them all at the same time. You could fight all the other ones seperately (which do drop their own loot) a year before fighting this guy. Fairly sure that last bit's completely wrong, and is probably confused info from Absolute Virtue stuff.

FFXI is a good game on paper, it really is, but the grind is horrible and tedious, so much worse than almost every other MMO. The sheer amount of hoops you have to go through to do even the simplest things is astounding and I have heard that the community has gone to shit over the past few years.

Agreed.

[Nickoten]

Ah, you're right, Absolute Virtue is the one who might not spawn and requires the other bosses. Pandemonium Warden requires you to take pictures of enemies or something like that and fight other bosses to eventually gain access to the item that spawns PW. The point is, there's a huge timesink in the first place just to be able to spawn these bosses, much less fight them. From what I've heard (i.e. what I just posted) ,the end game of Final Fantasy XI seems to pretty much shit all over its players.