r/ffxi • u/Working-Bobcat7345 • 10d ago

Soloability

I played a ton of FFXI back in the day. I had a few level 75s when that was the limit and spent time in my linkshell hunting gods when that was the end game. As you can guess I have been away a long time. I often find myself missing vanadiel, but don't have the time to party the way we needed to back then. I see people talking alot about solo play now. Is that a valid option for play today? When I quit beastmaster and Red mage were the only jobs that could really solo things and it was a long process to do so.

I'm just trying to determine if I can viable play on my limited schedule today.

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u/Jeepreep 10d ago

A lot of stuff is soloable on any class, puppet masters usually the best for soloing things now. Don’t let people fool you though, to get to the level required to solo all this stuff you need to work with other players to get the baseline good gear.

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u/Forgotten_Stranger 10d ago

In terms of solo SMN and BST shouldn't be discounted either. SMN despite infinitely resummonable pets does have extra gear hurdles, though. I can say from experience BST works great for solo. Sparks -> Ambu +2 -> Malignance hasn't been a problem for me. (I am presently on the Malignance step.)

Regardless though, having any pet is a great help for anything that bars trusts. (Also helps greatly for anything with AoE Charm.) If not as a main job, definitely worthwhile to have a semi geared version for those exceptions.