Final Fantasy XI (Wings Server) - Solo NSJ Ironman FAQ V1

		Final Fantasy XI (Wings Server) - Solo NSJ Ironman FAQ V1

Q. What does "Solo NSJ Ironman" mean?
A. It will be easier to explain the 3 major restrictions of this challenge in order than all at once, here is what it means:

Solo - You cannot interact with other players in anyway. This means no partying, no auction house and no send/receive in the delivery box, ever. You must turn /blockaid on in order to prevent healing from outside sources too. Every piece of content must be finished solo with no outside help. You are allowed to use any and all regular vendors, just not guild vendors (guild support for crafting is allowed).

NSJ - This is short for No Support Job. This is simple, you are not allowed to receive a support job from Selbina or Mhaura, and must play with only 1 job, for example, Warrior only (no subbing monk or white mage or anything).

The effects of NSJ include lower overall base stats, as well as less abilities being available to the player at any one time.

Ironman - This rule disallows dying. If you die, the character is deleted, never to be seen again. This also disallows death warping for convenience to skip travel time. Reraise isn't allowed either. If you use a reraiser or reraise, and die, this is not allowed and you still died.

I will also have this rule disallow fields of valor pages or buffs, and exp rings completely. I don't think limiting food items and other crafted items is good however, as it will make it less fun, so these are not disabled.

Finally, this will not allow swapping jobs, ever. When you pick a job, you have to play it and cannot swap for any reason. This also restricts advanced jobs from ever being used: only the 6 basic jobs are allowed.


Q. What class are you going to play?
A. Probably either Red Mage or Monk. Red Mage is insanely good at most fights, but lacks fast damage, whilst Monk can destroy fights quickly but will lack staying power like Red Mage as well as debuffs.


Q. What race are you going to pick?
A. Galka, for the highest HP pool and survivability. They also have decent INT and MND, with the only weak stat really being MP, but this can be mitigated with gear and items to some extent.


Q. What would be considered a complete character?
A. A character that hits max level and has completed the rank missions up to Shadow Lord would be sufficient for my starting goals, as doing this without any external help seems pretty hard.

The rank missions are level capped on the Wings FFXI server, so there is extra challenge in trying to do them at the capped levels.


Q. Why not play on retail?
A. Retail has too many events that disallow the player to truly do a challenge like this properly, such as double exp periods, different campaigns, but also does not have level caps, essentially making grinding more effective (just outlevel the level capped content). If someone wants to attempt it on retail, you could just use the old level caps for the content and do it when your character hits the level, or perhaps have an alt that you can sync your level to permanently whilst doing it (I would say this is okay for retail if it's just for the story fights/areas, as long as it isn't abused). It is easier to manage the rules on the Wings private server.


Q. Do you think you will be able to finish this?
A. Probably not without a lot of time investment, no, but I think I can make it pretty far. It might be useful to cap the characters level and merit their weapon skills for some of the later rank missions so they have a better chance of winning, but we shall see.


If you have any further questions you'd like to see me add to the FAQ or need answering, ask me in my chat whilst I am streaming.

This was partially inspired by other challenges I have done in the past but also the WoW Ironman challenge.

Graveyard:

Gimpsubjob - RDM Level 10 - Defeated by a Goblin Thug in Dangruf Wadi