Klenath wrote:Back in my FFXI days (retired), I was a Sandy cat. When I switched to BLM/WHM jobs I found that being from Sandy made getting my Drain scroll quite easy. Easy faction gains (cabbage runs to Selbina) helped me immensely.
Also, gaining fame for Windy stunk for my Aspir & Tele-Mea scroll quests.
p.s. What's up my old Midgard kitty friends?
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Jaela wrote:Which city do you prefer?
Windurst
Lastok
Sandy-oreo
Cute. Not biased toward Windurst at all, are we?
I like Sandy. AH and tradeskill NPSs are all near each other and the run from MH to airship isn't far. Only real gripe is that the MH is far from most of the useful NPCs.
Bastok I love. It did and still does remind me of Figaro. Industrial, efficient, compact. Very well laid out. The less used buildings are in the Port and upper Metalworks and these have the longest runs. AH is very close in both Mines and Markets to the MHs. The whole city is surrounded my a mountain to one side and the sea to the other. Very safe feeling there. I find the high spires of the tallest buildings very easy on the eyes. I like smooth corners and white stone. Only real gripe I have is that the airship dock and the MH in Port are quite a run from each other.
Windurst. I hate this hole. It has the same number of vendors and NPCs and such as the other two cities but spread over five maps rather than three. Basically the place is a huge time sink. You spend more time running, than doing. Oh, and cause it's alway brought up, yes there are warp tarus which are placed in some of the most worthless locations. The only time I can remember going "Hey I'll just use the warp taru." is when I was checking the price of fish in the Walls' AH vs the fishing guild, and way back in the day when we took chocobos out to Eco Warrior cause we didn't have 37 WHMs. Yes I've done the flower girl quest but the MH's are out of the way from most everything. The music is innane. I have it off on my Windy mule. The tarus' way of speaking is cute in small doses but highly irritating in a city of them. As much as I hate the city, it's not a total loss. The MH is close to a single point of interest: the airship dock. And the Bone and Cloth guilds are near an AH which is handy. For the most part I avoid being there unless I must. Hate Saruta too. The maps lie. Windurst also is home to some of the
shittiest quests in the game. I spent an hour on that damn hat quest only to accidentally zone when checking for any NPCs on the other side of the seemingly pointless tarp covered tunnel that leads to Port. You know that mission where you have one day to kill as many things as you can in Bubu? Well I wait till just after midnight to start it, go out kill a lot, Warp back with about 2 game hours left and I fail it cause I 'took too long'. So yeah. I despise Windworst. I have better wastes of my time than running around the dirty mazelike gopher tunnels like some kind of rodent's Sunday drive. If I want a scenic route I'll go to Zi'Tah or take an airship.
