My thoughts retail vs horizon

As most people know I have quit paying my sub for retail and moved to horizon

Retail just doesn’t do it for me anymore

I don’t like any of the endgame events

The only one I like at all is master leveling said that numerous times

Dyna d, sortie, omen, odyssey I don’t care for any of them

Getting a master pt and getting to play my favorite jobs is great but it isn’t enough

Also I enjoy digging fishing and crafting but it’s hard to call any of that worth it

I miss my friends

But I don’t miss all the know it alls in the linkshell that answer every question but also seem to be stroking it as they do it

I don’t miss that new players ask questions and I can’t even remember the answer because I did that content 20 years ago

And I’m past the point of wanting to wiki it to help I don’t want to wiki it to help lol

Horizon is great. I can get multiple parties a day usually. Eco warrior is pretty fun. High wind is great. I’m having a blast. It’s like I’m playing the exact same game but at a better time in the games life.

I can camp nms and while I don’t exactly care for claim shield I’ve got used to it. I can’t wait to start fishing and digging then eventually crafting after I get rich. Sitting at 450k rn but I’ll be spending all my Gil soon once I get 75 on 75 gear

Camping spook has been the greatest ffxi thing since idk when maybe abyssea lol it’s been a long time since I’ve had a group that actually coordinated not that spook has much coordination but I enjoy it

Retail hasn’t had nm camping in soooo sooooooooooooo long the competition is nice even if claim shield causes you to not get claim but that’s okay

Hoping to get 75 next week but I’ve got a lot of prepping I need to do before maat. Mainly hit 70 get a good buffer and finish artifact gear capping skills also wouldn’t hurt

I really hope toau gets delayed as long as possible. I don’t want to even think about needing to level those jobs up or doing the missions or working on a mythic

Really interested in pushing my pc to the limit on horizon to get the best graphics while maintaining 60fps

Addons and plugins are great but I don’t get to serious about them

I like that hacking is a big no no

That you can only have 1 char per ip 

That buying/selling Gil and accounts actually always ends up in a ban

Bottling always ends up in bans

It’s a little hard for me since I know how to write programs to bot and I know how to use my programs safely 

Getting fishing or digging capped without a bot just sounds like hell 

And having to use the will power to do it legit and not bot is something I don’t know if I can do

But I’d love to give it a shot

Anyways quick update retail and horizon

I think horizon is honestly a better game

I don’t think retail has a single thing going for it

Even if I worked my ass off on retail and made 300m or 600m what would that even mean there’s nothing left I want

Of course I can play my bis jobs in master parties but I’ve been doing master parties for like 6 years now lol

It’s getting old

Horizon is going great having a ton of fun can’t wait to get some of the real end game trophies