Guides

Path A — Never Played FFXI

1. Pick Red Mage, Beastmaster, or Blue Mage as your first job — all three handle solo play well. See the Trust Guide for a party to run with them.
2. Level 1–50 in your starting nation's regions using Fields of Valor manuals. The !buff bonus (see commands list) + 4× EXP makes this fast.
3. At level 50, do the limit-break quests (Maat). Then keep pushing to 75 through Abyssea boosted NMs — 80% drop rate on pearls.
4. 75→99 via Records of Eminence objectives and Abyssea group parties. Full rate details on the Server Info page.
5. Once at 99, start on hunt NMs. Pick a low-pressure zone (East Ronfaure, Jugner Forest) and fight your first one. Kills award Scyld currency for the hunt shop.
6. Do the main expansion missions at your own pace — they're all playable and most give permanent stat rewards and key items. See the Missions page.

Path B — Returning Retail Player

1. Skip the levelling slog: !buff + 4× EXP + 2.5× skill-up gets an old main back to 99 with skills capped in a few sittings. Full rate table on the Server Info page.
2. Do the custom command tour: !af, !relic, !empy for base job armor sets; !rema for a base REMA weapon (gated: nation rank 10 + 10 HNM kills + 5M gil). Upgraded versions come from the Scyld shop Kupons.
3. Dive into hunt NMs. Three things are different from retail: you keep kill credit even in a group, there's no fixed ToD — the 9–11 minute window is stable, and the Hunts Master gives you a daily and weekly bounty with bonus Scyld.
4. Progress the rebalanced relics — every relic WS got fTP 5.0/9.0/13.0 and multi-hit fTP replication. See the full stat changes on the weapon progression page.
5. For long-term goals, aim at 500 unique NM kills to redeem a free RMEA weapon of your choice (Kupon W-RMEA), and push ML via siege (and eventually the Colosseum).

Path C — Solo Player

1. Buy Trust Ciphers from the Greeter Moogle — 100 points each (see the Login Points prize list). Priority picks: a dedicated healer, a tank, a nuker, and a buffer — the Trust Guide has the full role breakdown and recommendations.
2. Level 1–99 as Path A. Trusts scale with your level, and jobs like BST or BLU work well with a small Trust party.
3. Most of the 475 regular hunt NMs are soloable with a proper Trust party and prepared gear. Stick to 3-NM zones to start. Use !huntstatus to see what you've killed and what's next.
4. For ML progression, siege is the easiest solo-friendly EP source (just show up and participate). The Colosseum will add a dedicated Solo mode when it launches — 0.5× boss HP, 2.5× EP.
5. Elite Hunts are tuned for groups but several of the Tier 4 Elemental Seals are soloable with good gear and the right buffs.
6. When you get bored of hunts, Fay weapon augments are a solo-friendly side path — one Pixie NM per run in a Shadowreign zone.

Path D — Endgame Hunter

1. Hit 99 on a main DD (WAR, DRK, SAM, MNK) and a support (WHM or SCH). Upgrade job armor with the Scyld shop Kupons.
2. Run a sweep through the regular NM list, zone by zone. Track progress with !huntstatus. Prioritize milestone thresholds on the Scyld milestone table: 50 (Golden Bomb Mount), 100 (Kupon I-Skill), 200 (Kupon I-Seal — Abdhaljs for +2/+3 armor), 400 (Kupon I-RME — 300 REMA upgrade materials).
3. At 400 kills, stop and use I-RME to finish a REMA upgrade — see the weapon progression page for the upgrade flow. Your main weapon should be done before you try elites.
4. At 475 unique kills, Elite Hunts unlock. Start with Tier 4 (Elemental Seals) — each needs zone-specific kill counts + weather.
5. Clear all field elites to spawn Absolute Virtue. Killing AV resets the field-elite chain — treat it as a prestige run.
6. Time Devourer is a separate BCNM path — prep a full 6-player group and talk to the Hunts Master.
7. 500 unique kills = Kupon W-RMEA = a second free REMA weapon of your choice. Between hunt runs, fill lockouts with Dynamis Divergence and Fay augment rerolls.
8. Push ML 50 via siege and (when it launches) the Colosseum.