FFXI Best Starting City!
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- FFXI Best Starting City
I don't think there's an objectively "best" starting city when starting FFXI. Your overall personal preference, starting jobs, and unique tastes will be far more important.
Having said that, we're going to try and pick one!
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First time I played I started in San'd oria , fell in love with the fog in ronfaure around the forest and the first body of water there, Knightwell. A little pond surrounded by crabs with a little rock you could stand on. Such a peaceful serene place to fish as your introduction to that mechanic of the game. Always felt the aesthetics were tied to the races such as the Elvaan and Hume there, regal, industrial, a rich history but also tainted by arrogance.
Will always love Bastok since it was where I started. Thanks for continuing to making great FFXI content.
I went 1/1 on Rabbit Charm with no TH, on Eden. It was awesome!
Don't worry, I am here with my 100% non biased objective comparison of the cities.
San d'Oria is great for layout and convenience without being too useless for experience or money making. It's easy to get around, there're worm enemies for easy levelling for your first 5 or so levels and Ghelsba at least has the warmachine NMs for some money and dipping your toes into NM camping for new people.
Windurst is great because although being a pain in the ass to get around, other than a few specific reasons, you only really need Woods and Port, There's a few good starting quests for you to do (Justic Badge, Compound Eye Circlet, cornettes, etc) and most of all it has great money making potential through crawlers.
Bastok can go to hell.
follow up video best past city! the sandy music in the past is very different
Traveler's Mantle from spook in king Ron's tomb
Windurst loses 100%. You build up Windurst based on zones around Windurst, not Windurst. Mobs around Windurst, not Windurst. I will admit Sandy's music suuuuucks. North Sandoria is completely unnecessary, but Port Sandoria and S. Sandoria are set up great.
It's called the KINGDOM of San d'Oria! And just outside the beautiful forests of Ronfaure and best starting zone music.
Lmao fair point! It is a kingdom
@@Huntin4GamesChannel don't listen... Windy for life. I'm not rasict but should nuke all the stinky Sandorians
@@Huntin4GamesChannel I have lived in all 3 cities and I loved starting in sandy. I went to get all 3 starting rings. Bastok to me was ok. I did not like the longer walk to the duns. By the time I got windy most of my jobs was leveled so no need for me to level up their. Windy way too big!!! But I can get a easy 15k a day going thru the door and farming Fenrir so the windy key very useful. I thought about going back to sandy once I finish windy story.
Sandy Elvaan forever. Although Ive started in every city, I have the best memories of early days in Ronfaure, La Thiene, Ghelsba ect...
Bastok for me. I have soundtrack in my car and play bastoks music to feel at home. All these years later and it still gets me.
FFXI was not a game, it was a Virtual Artificial Hologram Reality Matrix.
You superimpose your soul & consciousness into your character.
Thats why losing exp felt so shitty when you were MPK'ed by Chinese Gil Sellers lol.
Gustaburg was such nice music to run around to.
Damn that’s deep. I still have some soundtracks from the game myself.
Sandoria by far. Close to the dunes and has the best starting music with Ronfaure. Bastok is too depressing and Windy is just too far from the dunes.
Ronfaure was AMAZING! The song is literally my favorite in the FFXI soundtrack. It was super easy to exp there too and yeah way easy to get to the Dunes.
Windy had the maze to level in. When I first started, it was very popular to level 10-15 there. Not sure what changed. I leveled 10-15 in there in 1 party. You killed worms.
Ronfaure music will forever hold a special little cavity in my heart, I spend so much time there as i soloed to practically 13 before i even knew you could run through the zone line to LaThiene. But I have to admit, I had a stressful 5p - 2a job with a 45 minute drive home. One night I played Gustaberg, and it was so relaxing and really helped me unwind before i got home.
I started in San d'Oria so I'm totally biased lol. I'm not a huge fan of the music in San d'Oria itself but I love the layout and the medieval fantasy feel to the place. I love the music in Ronfaure and how both East and West Ronfaure looks with a whole lot of green everywhere. Definitely has that fantasy feel to it for me.
Bastok till the end! Even when we got called lastok for our position in conquest for a long duration :(
They just jealous of us because we are superior players who finish leveling first. So less people EXP in conquest zones. All the noobs join Sandy and Windy.
Music is by far the best in bastok...start of an epic adventure
I agree with windurst the best starting area, but that is in an awed like wow this place is big and beautiful. But for new players no. Sandoria is the easiest. Easy to get around and navigate. Go out and to level. Windurst is huge and can be confusing.
Sandy is super easy for sure!
I always started in sandy. For real showing up to windurst for the first time, confusing as all hell.
@@davidbrown180 Heh, I started FFXI just recently in Windurst. I made it to level 10 with only Kitty clothes, an onion dagger and Dia before I found a shop to buy gear and spells.
I love every second.
Sandy for noobs, especially if you have never ever played FFXI before. Windy for everyone else.
I have lived in all 3 cities and I loved starting in sandy. I went to get all 3 starting rings. Bastok to me was ok. I did not like the longer walk to the duns. By the time I got windy most of my jobs was leveled so no need for me to level up their. Windy way too big!!! But I can get a easy 15k a day going thru the door and farming Fenrir so the windy key very useful.
best starting city? windurst! no questions
The end. shortest video ever :-D
(i need to move to Bastok. that San d'Oria music is really ... _intense_ )
They are all special in their own way, this is why FFXI is so amazing. Each individual has fond memories of their starting city, not only because of how distinctly different they are from each other, but amount of detail and complexities that go into those differences to make feel like a personal home. We can argue the difference in resources and which was more profitable or easier to navigate but the point still stands, each have their own strengths and weaknesses but feel like part of a larger economy/world due to those differences.
Bastok native. I just rando picked it all those years ago. After going through Rank10 in all 3 over the years I am still quite happy calling Bastok #1. Why ? Because I think my personality is feeling the best about what most think is the worst. Ether that or the music from hours of city fishing hypnotized me. I am a loyalist, especially when I am backing an underdog, and everyone seems to always hate on Bastok. Yet the whole world has no issue coming to level in the mines and tunnel. As for Windy ? Nothing in all of Vana'diel can be more annoying than the giant tree and Heaven's Tower.
I started in bastok in 2003. Still remember day 1. Xi holds a special place in my soul
Sandy is best city.
FIGHT ME!
JKING
11:00 - I was hearing this alt tabbed in FFXIV, and my character name is Leaping Lizzy. Ouch.
Anyways, I'm a bastok native. When I did my original run, I liked Bastok the most, but ended up afking in Sandy. When I went back in 2011 I went Windurst, but honestly...I couldn't imagine making Dunes runs as a damn Windy player. Bastok had a much easier run to Valkurm
Hahah I hate you Leaping Lizzy! Specifically the leaping lizzy that resides in South Gustaberg
My friend and I heard this rumor very early in the game where if you can steal and item off Jaggedy Ear Jack it's a 100% drop on Rabbit Charm. We claimed him and proceed to take turns stealing from him for like 10 hours while a JP player stood next to us begging us to kill it while saying it's not true. Still feel bad to this day. We never got the drop.
The music tanks Sandy for me. I agree that it's probably the best starter layout, but ears! I kinda love both Windy and Bastok though. They're so different, but they're both so good. I think Windy is always gonna be my winner since that's where my little taru spent a ton of time a million years ago. Learning my way around that giant city, and using the tele-tarus before HP warps just felt good once I finally figured out how to get around.
I prefer San D'Oria not just for the convenience, but canonically, they're the only city-state that isn't destroying their local environment. Bastok is strip-mining the countryside into a wasteland, and Windurst is so magic-dependent that it's sapping the life-force out of the surrounding countryside. While the royals do tend to bicker, and the locals can be jerks, Sandy is till on the most sustainable path forward, and have easily the prettiest locales.
Nah, you got it all wrong there. Windy promotes the white magic, and keep the dark forces at bay. And our little recyclable houses, made from naturally sourced grasses, are easy on the environment. Bastok you can actually find the beds of those living in the streets! And Sandy, with their capitalist castle and corporate church, well it makes sense their castle sits on top of a vampire lair.
Bastok for life! Windurst is massive and so confusing, plus I find San d'oria music a little annoying after a while.
How many times you had to go to Bastok to talk to Cid for CoP? Based of Nasomi only... Wadi is amazing for Gil and drops.
Proud Windurstian as well, here! But I thoroughly agree with many of your points. But that's what made FFXI unique. Each had those special little perks, exclusive (AND probably unintended!), that gave the specific area an edge, over the others.
Also, ugh. Yes, *'Jaggedy-Eared Jack'* I fought this guy an INSANE amount of times. Never got the drop. Thinking back, it was probably for the better, as that drop would've sent me off, on a personal quest, of absolute insanity...
It'll always be Sandy for me, but I admit that it might be my bias :p
Trust this truth; San d'Oria literally every time. Let's not also forget the major single time trek of running to Jeuno for the first time!
Windurst for nostalgia (My 1st City) , San D'oria for quality of life.
The starting area in the dunes is on the konschtat highland side. Therefore, the objective choice is bastok. but Windurst is my subjective choice as well.
I have such a massive spot in my heart for Windurst, I just can't bring myself to start anywhere else. I've started over on retail and on Nasomi multiple times, and there's never been any question on which city to start in. That's not to say I haven't entertained the thought of experiencing the other cities - to this day I have no idea what the lore/mission stories of the other two cities are, it's just about the only story-related content that I can say that I haven't experienced yet.
I've heard people say that both Sandy and Bastok's storylines are great, and honestly if I ever get the chance to go full-time back to the game (if an official classic server is ever introduced), I absolutely plan on doing the one thing I've told myself I need to someday do: get Rank 10 in Windurst, then change my nation and start from the bottom so I can experience the storylines of the other cities as well. I feel like that's the ONLY way that I can then say that I've experienced the entire story of Vana'Diel.
I've fought Jaggedy Earred Jack a billion times. That charm doesn't exist.
And a lot of those times was with TH7.
I farmed that damn assclown for years and it never dropped, my LS mate kills it twice gets it...I hate life lol
San d'Oria. /thread
Oh, and regarding Jaggedy-Eared Jack, I hunted him for a Record of Eminence completion and actually got the drop. This was about 2 years ago, so fundamentally worthless. I happened to be leveling Thief, though, so I used it for Maat a while later.
Bastok has leaping lizzy :D Konchat has stray mary too! (money NM hunting, back in the day)
Korroka Tunnel is great exp spot instead of Valkurm.
Norg is linked to Bastok :D
I dislike Turtle/quadav trive though, sneak aggro is rough.
I always wondered if the quadav were blind... the yagudo were sneaky too meaning they’ll look right at you but when you turnaround they attack. This only happened sometimes...
I don't have to watch the video... answer is Windurst.
Bastok till we die.
I prefer San d'Oria , it's my fav by far but idk why :P
Bastok for nostalgia (My 1st City) , San D'oria for quality of life. Also, I didn't know Jeff Goldbloom played FFXI!
Windy ftw! I miss this game very much!
Come to Eden Server. We have cookies.
Claimed Jaggedy-Eared Jack 3 times on Nasomi so far 0/3.
Back in around 2005 when i live on my best mates floor... I was woken up at around 2am by my friend who got the drop.... We sold it to a player in Sandy shortly after for 1.3 million gil... (Why do i remember this shit xD) We split the money 50/50 and decked our level 20 characters out in the best gear... 1.3mil was ALOT back then....
Damn!
To me San d'Oria is simply classic Final Fantasy at it's best.
I started in Sandoria, and I am very happy with my choice. When I finally visited Bastok it looked depressing compared to the grandeur of Sandoira. Windurst was interesting, but it felt very stretched out, all over the place.
I like Bastok > never cared for other starting zones, leaping lizzy is too good!!!
Bastok is the best by far just because logistics. Npc ah and OP warp all in the same zone and seconds away. Low leveling is also better in bastok. Op in gustaberg is useless but bastokians dont have to use it. Zeruhn mines is right in the city
Always a taru always in bastok
bastok is the best because Cid is there and he is a OG
2:36
you watch your mouth when you talk about Bastok the land of the great!!!
Lmao
Bastok wins because three words. Centurians armor set
Oooo I didn’t dig into some of those rewards that would have been good!
of COURSE Windy Wins! But...if you are brand spanking new to FFXI? Maybe go for Warrior in Sandy, just to make it easier on you. Just turn down the music. The first trip to Valkurm, and first trip to Jeuno, are arguably easier for noobies from Sandy, than from the other cities.
However, all other access, early mobs, later mobs, fishing, all much better in Windy.
Bastok has nothing going for it....the areas of north gusty, south gusty, the other south gusty, the other north gusty....impossible to get around. Bastok Town (except port bastok ) are smaller, but the outside areas are all mixed up. Outside area of Sandy (E/W Ronfaure) are simple easy, and so are the outside areas for Windy (E/W Sarutabaruta).
So Sandy for real noobs, Windy for everyone else, Bastok for no one.
Bastok 100% Doesn't have ear piercing bagpipe music like Sandy nor is it ridiculously huge like Windy. Although both those starting areas have pleasant zones outside the city unlike Bastok and it's barren wasteland lol. But hey, that is offset by one NM; Leaping Lizzy!
Windy city and exp area is way too big... Beetles and Crawlers are a pain to exp on as a beginner. Rabbits are a nightmare for mages. So Sandy is out as well.
Bastok city is cosy and convenient. Gustaberg and the Highlands have dozens of WORMS! (Drop the mic).
Bastok is the only one with the OP warper in the same zone as an AH. It also has the worst OP warp way out in North Gusty, so it's nice never needing to use it. For newbies it sucks though because the walk to get anywhere is crazy long. Later on I think it's the most convenient, hands down. You also forgot to mention Movalpolos is connected to North Gusty which is a super unique zone.
You should've considered crafting guilds, because Windy wins in that department for newbies, no question. Fishing and cooking are super easy money makers early on and has the most guilds overall. Bastok loses that one with only gold and alchemy.
I picked Sandy on Eden because I wanted to play Elvaan this time, and it has my favorite guild, woodworking. If Bastok didn't live up to it's Lastok reputation every week I'd probably switch though. It's too convenient having the people who stack bolts/arrows/tools reliably in your nation every week as a woodworker.
Sand’orian for lifeeeee :)
I was lucky. I started Windurst, but went and finished all the other main quests for San d'Oria and Bastok . After all that, I lived San d'Oria so much more than Windirst. Only one I didn't care for was Bastok.
Windurst for life!!! You had good fishing, access to crawlers, access to yags that you could turn in those necklaces for mad rep or desynth them for the threads and the super farmable tomb for wild onions. Taru Taru in Windurst forevah!! Lol and you could fall off the pier while fishing and walk half way across the globe underwater till a GM got off their lazy butt to teleport you back!!
Hume, from Bastok.
Give me Sandy layout with windy music and I’d be super pumped. Don’t get me wrong i enjoy Sandy’s music but I enjoy the windurst music a bit more. NMs are a tough one for me, the grip/shield are great pieces of gear in ronfaure but saruta has more variety and better drops
Windurst was so cool and green, but the best part was the super chill and amazing music and Yagudos in east and west Sarutabaruta. God I have such fond nostalgia for leveling tons of classes there in low levels. Ronfaure is a very close second with it’s beautiful wooded scenery and medieval music, with Gustaberg a distant third. I hate that ugly place.
Native of the objectively best starting city of San D'oria checking in. It's probably the most convenient city to be from. N. Gustaberg where parts of it are cut off from the rest is a pain. So is just getting around in Windy. The winner is clear.
Sandy by no small amount. Played the game when it launched, Started Sandy, got rank 10, will never look back. Heck, every character ive played on retail and private have started Sandy.
Jagged Ear Jack sucks. IDK why people think that charm is even worthwhile how hard it is to get. Steal+1 is kinda useless considering how much you can get from the AF set for free and +1 DEX and AGI is also bad once you get past 21, spike necklace destroys it for damage. Anyone who paid millions for this item was straight up dumb. lol
1. bastok 2. sandy. 3. windy for me. this is mainly due to quality of life for me, basically bastok I dont have to use the map ever know it like the back of my head +)
The rabbit Jack ? 12000 h aand i think i only see it one time.. Well not exactly, i have see thé dead boby of him killed by another player.. San do was bad for nm.
I'm all about starting in Bastok. I really dig Windy tho. Was a big fan of popping Spiny Spipi while leveling for the cape
I recently started playing FFXI and I agree Windurst is the best. I just love it. All the green and blue and typical final fantasy races like cat people and tarutaru :)
At 75 era, bastok was objectivly best due to mines having access to OP warp, AH, MH, and chocobo stable.
Bastok back in the day - outpost warp, auction house and chocobo stable right next to each other plus leaping lizzy right outside. with current transportation these days it doesnt matter quite so much!
I think windy loses from the starting perspective solely for poor dunes access. As soon as you are 10 you have to go to valk and the boat is slow and occasionally dangerous.
Hahaha You surely want to start a war with a question like this! I took a very long time to leave my starting city (Windurst). Yes, it was huge, but man... I got used to it really fast.
Drops are not a reason to choose one city over another. Start in Windy. Travel to where ever to pick up whatever NM or drop you need. Bastok mobs are not limited to Bastok population.
As always such an enjoyable video. I think Zuren mines and Korroloka tunnel edges out Bastok for starter zone leveling though. Also Bastok Mines is the best city zone of all. It has literally everything you need in a short distance. OP warp, AH, Conquest guard, Choco, and just the best lol.
I'm from Windurst, and even after doing all the story missions I'm still WIndurst. Love to it pieces.
I'd say the objectively best starting city is San d"Oria. But for me there will always be a softspot for Bastok as that's where I did.
Bastok Always - easy to get to the dunes. Leaping Lizzy and its the one i have memorized.
Haven’t watched the video yet but I’m here to argue with anyone who disagrees with Windurst
I disagree with all statements that don't say San d'Oria is the best in every way possible. Totally not bias either, though.
Bro could you tell me where you got those blue and purple lights from? They look choice!
Sandy is always my starting city. Rabbit hides and bat wings can make you some decent starting gil and fame, and orcs drop fire crystals which sell for good gil.
Windurst... Definitely windurst....trust me :P
I love Windy, but Bastok was better to start in if you were going to exp in Valkrum Dunes.
I hated running from windy to the Mhuara ferry, the boat ride was super dangerous back in the day lol.
@@grantbishop1961 yeah the mhaura run was dangerous,but that just made it more fun.I have tried multiple times starting in bastok and sandy but windy will always be my #1
Bastok till I die bishes
My friends who started in Bastok and Sandy both moved over to Windy where I was to farm silk thread (worth 1k at the time) while leveling.
currently on Eden, its 400-700 per silk, and huge amounts for a stack.
I love this channel. Keep up the great work!
Travel distance to LaTheine/Tahrongi is better than tryna get to Konschant too
You look like you just got back from playing 18 holes.
0/2 on Jaggedy-Eared Jack in over a decade, little bastard
#BastokBaby
I've gotta say Windurst, just because it was my home - but I also dig Bastok in a big way. While Windurst is really relaxing to me, no other city inspires adventure like Bastok does with its music and industrious environment. Really appreciate your FFXI videos btw, as someone who looks back on the game fondly. No other game can match its nostalgia!
I started in Bastok personally. I always liked it idk
native sandorian here, I'm not a fan of that music either
Bastok is the armpit of Vana'diel. And they have Galkas, ewww.
San d'oria is full of pretentious, smelly Elvaan.
Windurst has the best starting ring for mages. Tarutaru are cute as hell, and have the best dances.
Wadi oh you mean the bog of eternal stench.
In Sandy/Ronfaure, there is also the NM mushroom -Amanita - that dropped the Tenex Strap, which was decent for low level. The Fungus Beetle is also there, dropped the Clipeus shield which was 'fairly' decent for low level.
That being said, I was Windurst through and through, however I liked each of them for their own unique, different reasons.
I've only seen the Rabbit NM once some poor new player had attacked him without knowing. There was about 10 players standing around waiting for the player to die (some of which were able to cure to help) I tried to keep his life up but it wasn't meant to be.
Oh man, unless I missed it you didn't mention Vrtra at all! Definitely gives sandy some cool points imo.
I will always start in San d'Oria because elves for life. However, for those that know what they are doing, the amount of money that can be earned early on in Sarutabaruta cannot be ignored.
Going THF out there with leveled sword skill and sneak attack/treasure hunter and HELM opportunities can net you tens of thousands of gil a day which makes your adventuring that much more enjoyable. If you can gain access to some fast travel between your starting zone and Saruta, you don't even have to touch Windurst to earn good money. Just make sure to bring that warp scroll.
Sandy does have two GREAT dungeons nearby that more than make up for not having the quality, farmable goods Saruta has in K.R.'s Tomb and Fort G., so the choice to go Sandy first (again, elves for life + STR starting ring), and gaining fast travel access to West SR is what edges it out for me. The repeat quests in Sandy also earn you quite the bit of money until you can access one of the best repeat quests in the game with the black tiger fangs.
SAN D'FREAK'N ORIA
I started in Sandy because of the music ironically enough and it had 95% of the jobs I was interested in. I did lvl Brd from 1-10 in Windy though. I just found leveling it there to be much easier.
wow~ "where should I begin?" this question really triggers/brings back lots of memories. I quit ffxi many years ago, but I did put in some serious thoughts about this same question back then because the decision can affects players greatly in this game. I think the only thing that matters WAS where do people like to gather (and you don't have to worry about social distancing in this world).
FFXI changed a lot, people don't really need each other to play in this virtual world any more to get to lv 100, so I guess the main thing that matters IS which cities you like the most. And so the question "Where SHOULD I begin?" shouldn't really matter anymore.
I started FFXI from the first day it released in NA. If I can go back in time to play this game again, I will choose to start from Windust as a Tarutaru WHM (P.S. WHM stands for White Mage, it DOESN'T means White Hume Matters!). Then I will take the Windust ring, running naked to San d'Oria and change allegiance to San d'Oria ASAP. That week is a special week, it is the only week when all 3 nations ranked lowest.
After that, things are getting straight forward (to me) until my tarutaru hit 75, but that will be another story for another time.
P.S. There is one thing that I would like to point out is that besides Guildworker's Union Representatives, ALL three cities are equally convenience IF you know the shortcuts in Bastok, and portals in Windust. I did some measurements back in the days, so I am pretty sure that I am right about this point. If you think I am wrong about it, it just means you don't know the tricks well enough.
I played a Galka (Mage) and still started in San d"oria ... I knew was was best lol. (still no joke I did that).
hume, RDM, Bastok.
San d'oria represent
prince trion is my guy dude
Bastok, next question.
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