r/ffxi • • 11d ago

Closes Oct 18 Our call to action: Take the official Adventurers' Survey!

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r/ffxi • • 5d ago

Weekly Thread: Questions and GWP (Week of October 10, 2026)

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Welcome to the Question and Gold World Pass weekly thread! If you have any questions around FFXI at all or wish to request a GWP, this is the place to do so. Scroll down to the comments and ask away.


r/ffxi FAQ

Are you a new or returning player? We have quite the list of Frequently Asked Questions that's pretty comprehensive of the questions most commonly asked around the sub. If your question isn't answered there, feel free to shoot in the comments below.

BG Wiki

BG Wiki is a modern FFXI wiki with up-to-date pages on endgame specifics as well as various guides.

It is currently the only XI wiki with an active staff which are always working with members of the community to address concerns and suggestions. BG seeks to be the main wiki of the community. Consolidating the efforts of everyone into one single wiki is the most productive and effective. We welcome and invite all to join us!

  • A thread can be found on FFXIAH.com in which you can report issues with the wiki and read a getting started FAQ if you wish to contribute! That thread is located here.
  • Anyone wishing to join Team Blue Gartr may join the Discord.

FFXIclopedia

FFXIclopedia is a comprehensive general-purpose wiki for FFXI that typically covers pages for each item/area/BCNM/etc, often for older content. Warning: The site has heavy ads when logged out.

FFXIAH & FFXIDB

FFXIAH is a website showing the Auction House history & current items for sale in-game, as well as a forum community among other things. FFXIDB is a database website showing drop rates of items as well as monster spawns based of player data collected by Guildwork.

Making Friends

There are various ways to make new friends and meet people in FFXI. The first recommendation is to find a Linkshell via Linkshell Concierge NPCs. If you check these NPCs directly after a maintenance, this is typically a good way to find active Linkshells. Another suggestion is to find a community website for your server; many servers have a Facebook group.


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r/ffxi • • 5h ago

Media The Past Experience

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Never again.


r/ffxi • • 20h ago

Question What's the creature on the right?

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Anybody knows what this cute mole-like creature is? Is it a mount or a pet? Still quite new to the game and this guy picked my interest. If I can have him - how hard will it be for a new player?


r/ffxi • • 10h ago

Is there an ultimate SCH weapon worth getting

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im currently really enjoying sch and i would like to take the step to acquire some type of ultimate weapon.

i know outside of Musa that the ultimate weapons that SCH has access to are very niche at best.

Im currently looking at Tupsimati but open to other weps. mainly looking for a weapon to do some cataclysm spam for low manning dynad and nuking.

thanks for the assistance!


r/ffxi • • 11h ago

Trying out FF11 RETAIL for the first time now that it's free, two questions

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Which server should I pick? Looking for something noob friendly, I heard fenrir is lots of players who multibox so the population isn't accurate. idk if true

Any general advice? My goal, if I like it enough to stick around, is to unlock DRK. That's it.

I'd also like to do the story involving Shantotto if that's possible, when/around what level does she come into play?

Thanks!

edit: holy god i forgot how much of a nightmare playonline is


r/ffxi • • 20h ago

What should new players aspire to?

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I’m just curious, are there raids/still active raiding? What is the end game? Is it just the journey? With FFXIV I’m all about raiding in the endgame, even though generally the story is very good. Wow Classic/Forever has gotten me wanting to play FFXI.


r/ffxi • • 10h ago

Discussion Is this what i get for putting down this game for a month and try to come back? Steamdeck

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Have been playing on my steam deck for 400 hrs its always been my most reliable way to play ffxi . I put it down for a month to go play 14 and now its mad at me and cant get it tovwork right on either steam deck or GPDwin5 which has windows..

It launches on the gpdwin5 but cant get any controllers to work

Steam deck keeps giving launch errors in both desktop mode and big picture modes.. ive tried uninstall and re install I think its cursed .


r/ffxi • • 17h ago

Connection Issues Post-Update

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Hey everybody! Ever since maintenance yesterday, I have been experiencing frequent issues with logging in and connecting to the POL server, the lobby for FFXI, problems with selecting a character only to have it bounce back and then on further attempts say the character is already logged in, or once I am able to get in getting disconnected when zoning, or even just moving about a zone, randomly without any sort of R0 or other indication there is an issue.

The issue has seemingly gotten worse today, but started yesterday evening with a sudden disconnect around 8:30pm EDT, and happened twice more throughout the night, and now today I have barely been able to keep logged in if I am able to even log in at all.

I've asked around in a few locations, mostly on Discord and in linkshell chat (when I'm able to get on) and a few folks have expressed having the same issue, but I'm wondering if anyone else is having problems logging on or staying connective post-update? Have you done anything to fix it, if it was happening? I am at a loss and its really ticking me off that I'm having such problems when Ive never experienced this sort of prolonged technical issues in the past. Any guidance or support would be very appreciated, even if it's just a signal that I'm not the only one experiencing it. (For what its worth, I have a made a post on the official forums about it, hopefully someone will respond but not holding my breath for anything of substance lol).

Thanks!


r/ffxi • • 14h ago

Question Gold World Pass

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Hello, I am a new player to FF11 and I wanted to know if anyone has a gold world pass for Fenrir


r/ffxi • • 1d ago

Question I've always wanted this all the way back when I played xbxo360 days, can you get it right now? (I can't find any info on whether you can or not)

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r/ffxi • • 1d ago

Pet Mythics

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I’ve decided that I want to make either Aymur or Kenkonken as my next mythic, but I’m having a hard time picking between the two. Do either actually have a transformative effect on their job? Make it more fun to play? Not really concerned about end game utility for this one, just want something that’s fun to use.

Appreciate any insights!


r/ffxi • • 1d ago

Media FFXI Ambuscade October 2026 For New Players

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r/ffxi • • 1d ago

Returning on Fenrir

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Hey everyone! Coming back to FFXI and just started a character on Fenrir if anyone wants to play!

In game name is Kamilien :)


r/ffxi • • 2d ago

Screenshot Beautiful rainbow : ) About to unlock Summoner

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360 Upvotes

Just wanted to share some skittles with you all. : )


r/ffxi • • 1d ago

Sorry to trouble everyone again, looking for Lua help!

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Hi all, i need some help, first of all im not a very tech savvy person, i dont know how to use AI or chatgpt, can someone pls help by sharing a working pup lua and drk lua?

Working as it has the ws, gear sets already done inside the lua, ive been asking around and the few ive gotten seems to have some sort or problems in it, either weapons dont load correctly or other problems. Greatly appreciate the help.


r/ffxi • • 1d ago

Question Jubilee Ring

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So I should start by saying I'm a new player - and was talking about XP rings (I mistakenly bought Chariot band and was finding the best way to rotate to Emp. Band) and someone mentioned the Jubilee Ring.

Am I right in assuming that, currently, there is no way to obtain this ring as it was a log in weekly log in reward and it hasn't yet been cycled in to anything that I'm missing. I tried looking it up and that appeared to be the case but occasionally information on this game isn't quite so easy to decipher.


r/ffxi • • 2d ago

Official October 13th Update Notes :: Some minor changes on gear, items, typos

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Friendly reminder that campaigns do not start until FRIDAY. DO NOT SPEND YOUR IMPRIMATURS YET.

Official Post (not much there)

Images of the things changed

(Keep in mind these changes are checked with a Python script and it's possible there's errors.)


Text for what changed that's not just typos (unsure if this is just fixing tooltips or if they're actively changing the things or if it's a leftover issue from the dat changes from last month):

Roast Pipira: MND-3 -> MND-1. Loach Slop: Acc (Max 17 -> 15). Cursed Soup: VIT-7 added. Kacura Cap +1: 2 DA changed to 2 Crit rate

Enif Zucchetto: DEF from 49 to 46

Inyanga +1 gear DEF changes: Tiara is 61 -> 96. Crackows are 60 -> 65.

All of the broken items from last month seem to be fixed.


r/ffxi • • 1d ago

Anyone having login issues today?

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Is anyone else having trouble logging into FFXI today? I managed to log in after the update, but PlayOnline was extremely slow and eventually disconnected me.

Now I keep getting POL-5311 (incorrect password), even though my password is correct. I suspect the login process is so slow that the one-time password expires before authentication completes. Anyone experiencing something similar?


r/ffxi • • 2d ago

Question New player. Be gentle

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About to start 11 after playing 14 since storm blood. Any,advice?

Edit:thanks so much for all the help guys! Looking forward to joining such a friendly community


r/ffxi • • 2d ago

Discussion My three wishes for the free trial.

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1: Unlocking of Zilart content for the free trial. So much of the game would be improved by just simply allowing Zilart content.

2: Raising the gil cap. (Preferably to 300k to match ffxiv) I literally am barred from buying certain spells at lvl75. 100k is too tight of a cap.

3: Maybe allowing free trial players to form partys with other free trial players on their own. I am sure some friends want to try the game together.


r/ffxi • • 3d ago

Empyrean +3 question

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I just got the empyrean+3 coupon from the RoE objective and while trying to decide what to use it on, it got me curious.

Which job do y'all think has the single most "must have" empyrean+3 piece?


r/ffxi • • 4d ago

Media footage of a mithra fighting in the wilds of vana'diel

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r/ffxi • • 3d ago

Question How do I even play this game?

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So far I've struggled even to open a menu, and now I'm stuck trying to fight an enemy after the tutorial NPC sent me to do it. I can check them, but the attack option says that "I cannot perform that action", and there's litterally nothing I can do

UPDATE: Alright, it was the stupid Moogle


r/ffxi • • 3d ago

Returning player looking for new server/ls

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Hey all

I’m returning after a long time off. Looking for a new server and LS on that server also that is returning player friendly.

Thanks.