Hrm, I'm questioning if I should start over or try to scavenge a bunch of job levels at 70 to get Samurai back up. That and to figure out a class to pair up with samurai that's neat.

  One of the uh, odd htings about the Samurai job is that one of its armor option is robe. Looking down the list, there's an amazing robe option that boosts both magic attack and attack. However, ti requires a lot of wis for a job that uses str for magic attack calcs. Am I going crazy or is this normal? 

   I'm guessing on the best way to build a samurai and a job to pai up with it. I see some weird things as options, including a katana that works with Soldier stuff. And limit break through the other passive is a fun option.

Honestly, I think it's just my stat spread on my character that's annoying me right now. there's somewhat of a rule of thumb to follow with main stats, and I'm a bit behind. I just need to accept that if I just try to pick the highest str value moving on the next 30 levels, I can just fix it all up from lv 100-110. 

  And admittedly berserker isn't so bad playing around with it. I think I just need to keep pushing forward and grab triple kick for bosses, and boosting fury damage on everything. And raise fury. Still want to raise up Samurai at some point. Seems people at some point int he 100's move onto ap grinding for more class options. Samurai just seems too helpful for serving as a secondary to survive the training process for other jobs.

  Though on the topic of Samurai, is it just the buffing classes to put with it? I always thought combining  it with swordsman might be a fun option. The autoattacks with a samurai don't seem that great even with buffed str and atk. Just get a multi-charge quadraslam. It would be a burst (if slow) burst of damage. Among the other options.

  Also soldier because of that weird Material blade katana. Though Soldier would probably have better pairing options. Unless people just want to do samurai stuff until low on health, then switching to soldier moves... Hm, weird idea.

  but right, I think I'll probably play something simple for a bit to think and just play with my long neglected Geomancer.

Wow, so much I have to learn. I actually completed a few missions from FF7 yesterday, so I feel good about that. I used the news channel thing to find out about a few of them, and that… Regennisis organization for some of them too. This missions are so memorable, I mean, I've never had to dress up as a girl in any other game to help complete a mission and oh my gosh am I still wearing that dress? Oh no! Lol! And that comment Arith's mom made before we left for the mansion… I still have to get more shells for the RoboCook, but I could see finishing that today.

@33 they are starting to convert quest into mission so... if you stuck somewhere you can freely ask around now. qinfo was  illegal

What clients do you guys use.
Should i use the soundpack for it?
Also, can't the admins just increase the spawn rate of the mobs?
say, if a mob spawns 50 at a time, make it spawn 90 at a time, or increase the rate of which they spawn

Okay so, a few things.

1. Quests are still around, but they're being converted to missions when referring to jobs. Swordsman, dk/hk, cleric/sorcerer and magitek are all mission-based now. Soldier and dragoon quests are still in place. Here's a tip though. Use google. Seriously. All I'm going to say, but if the game doesn't want you to talk about qinfo, then that's fine, but the info is out there.
2. Don't raise str and wis just so that magitek/geomancer are better. Because here's the thing. The game will add your attack and magic attack to get a number to use for damage. So let's just use raw easy numbers here. If you had 200 attack and 200 magic attack, it will add the two together, get 400, divide by 2 and yield 200 attack on magitek/geomancer skills. Now, if you had 350 attack and only 50 magic attack, same deal. You won't be penalized if one of those stats is low while the other is high; trying to raise both is generally going to mean that your vit or will suffers, and you'll end up being a char that's decent at melee, decent at spells, and generally just doesn't cut it.
3. Spawn rates. Some areas are smaller than others. Zozo, for instance, has well over 200 mobs in it; when you're doing the mission there, you will not be able to kill those mobs fast enough to clean the area completely before it repops, unless you're ridiculously overpowered (mission is level 40-ish, if you're level 55+ maybe you can do it, if you can play on vulns). There are two types of maps. Most areas are static, which is to say that room 1 always loads the same mobs. Another is called a generator, which means that every time a mob is killed, another mob is generated somewhere else. I believe that's how this works. Most areas are non-generators because the administration doesn't want someone just camping in an area for ever and ever and ever, and because some monsters need to be limited. Most missions don't make you do multiple repops of an area at lower levels; it only starts becoming an issue at higher levels, and again, there are tons of other places to go. You will nearly always have more than two missions open at once; if one area is empty, go find another. It's not hard.

If you see Atropos or Nyrrhl around, BTW, that's me.

I don't know. parking oneself at lv 15 and grinding classes to job level 20 (I've seen someone at Job level 20 on a Jumi, oof) sounds like a great way to frustrate someone. I sort of know it's possible to do if you know how to grab blue mage and thousand needles early. essentially can smash things a bit higher doing an unavoidable 1k damage for stuff 10-15 levels higher), but that's sort of painful. Essentially grinding the same few areas, over and over for days/weeks depending on intention at lv 15...

  I've sort of been told opposite. That's it's easier to grind jobs later with access to better equipment to boost up your piddly job attacks. It'll take a bit of slashing down weaker mobs, you can eventually enjoy the boosted benefits higher level ap. Well that, and level jobs that can hold their own as a secondary for decent damage to skip the first 15 job levels.

  Bit weird though. I see other players just quickly level, and do all their ap grinding at 120-140, or do it at lv 15-30.

  ...Though, i do recommend grinding out buffing jobs you plan to take and use often at low levels. Leveling bard or Mediator is just painful at higher levels. Though not impossible.

  ON that balance bit, I uh, think it depends on the approach. geomancer's equipment slots seem all over the place. Axe is entirely useless, instrument only has one useful option at weird stat spreads with agi/wil. This mostly leaves swords and it's many weird options with differing str/wis reqs. Though, that elemental list sword seems like a statless boost to geomancer/magitek. But until then, it seems like a weird mix of clothes, robes and swords. Not sure what one might recommend for dual att/mat boosting between clothes/robes.

mush, here is the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3zu2mezd9t6b … t.zip?dl=1

Yukiko is no longer maintaining it or so I heard, maybe someone should step in and continue developing the soundpack?

to return to the original topic of this thread, Although you'll be shutting yourself off from about half the game. 4dimensions can be used somewhat. It is based on dekumud and there are 8 races, though gringo and indian are exactly the same. in terms of fantasy races, you have centaurs, fawns, elves, and dwarves, and if you want future stuff, you have space wolves and martians too.

The game has you jumping about time and space as after a cosmic disaster, a tourism company has set up a thing where you can go to varous parts of time to tour and such. The game is lighthearted, and of course, not historically accurate by any stretch of the imagination.

Also, unlike a lot of muds there is a lot of puzzle solving in this one and the best gear in the game is only available to those who do the puzzles and such throughout the game.

The game hasn't been super-active for years but they still put out a new zone from time to time as they did one based on "attack of the clones" and another one that is a battle between goblins and orcs in another.

A lot of the ancient/prehistoric time period can deal with mythical/fantasy stuff and that is the bread and butter of the medieval time period. Even a few places in the future have a fantasy feel like one that is based on final fantasy 7. And although while not truly "fantasy" There's a victorian london II section in the old west dimension with classic gothic horror characters.

I gave it a shot a few years ago, but gave up because of something... now I don't remember, but I do remember a guild, what was it... it's a kind of combination bitween warrior and umm, mage? , not really, but yeah they could like make their blade in flame or something.