However, if the alternative is to not have Trusts, I’ll totally take the inconvenience of re-summoning. It’s not terrible, but when you have a full party to individually dismiss and re-summon, and you gain levels as quickly as I seem to, it’s something I ended up doing often. My only beef with Trusts, and it’s a small one… is that you have to re-summon them every time you level up if you want them to be on level with you. You know, that thing you summon, run around with, and feel accomplished having? I know I feel tough with a huge tiger following me around… and he’s pretty strong, too! Since up until last month, the game didn’t have things such as mounts to collect, Trusts kinda seemed to be the collectable thing to me. Being a solo player and a collector, I have to say that I really, really like the whole Trust collection system. Once I learned about this, I picked up a whole slew of new Trusts, including that really awesome tiger at the top of the post! Say what you want about dated graphics, I think this NPC looks pretty darn good!Īpparently, Ciphers are normal rewards for things like log-in events – I picked up a Shantotto II Trust from log-in rewards this month, for example. Last month, there was some Alter Ego Extravaganza going on that I wasn’t totally aware of until near the end of the month. Yeah, I know they should technically be called Alter Egos, but folks seem to call them Trusts, and that’s rubbed off on me. With that said, one of my new favorite things is to collect Trusts in FFXI. I also now have Shantotto II from this month’s login rewards.

Collecting Trusts My little Trust collection. So, I’m officially bringing that series to an end. However, I am changing the slant of my posts from being a “Return to Vana’diel” to something more like my normal progression posts. I’m still very interested in checking out these storylines that are dangling before me, and I want to put that cheaply-purchased box of expansions to some use. I’ve also been slacking off my progression in the game quite a bit in favor of trying out other games lately. I have a level 30 Red Mage, a level 30 Dark Knight (Advanced Job), unlocked chocobos, earned mounts, and am progressing in my city ranking.Įverything from here on out is brand new to me, so I no longer feel like I’m in the state of “returning”… if that makes sense.

At this point, I’ve already far surpassed anything that I did back when I played FFXI over a decade ago. It’s been almost a month since I began playing and writing about my return to FFXI.

Ffxi alter ego extravaganza