FFXI Nostalgia

Being a BLM and being absolutely necessary for people to level at any rate over 2k/hr.


Only to find out later that it ruined your ability to warp to the crystals and RAGE!

i miss being so used to trading imp silver coins to npc that i would try to trade them to all kinds of random npc's (runic portal, rent a room) to zone or w/e it was that I was doing w/o thinking.

I miss my noob days too D;
I'm sure that those Rams have raped more than 90% of the sandy or bastok starters, i still remember exactly how my first encounter with it went.

Moon
nuff said.

First time I entered Konschtat Highlands I made my way through the twisty tunnels and avoided the quadavs (after dying to it before and had to HP and run all the way back :D) and saw this huge crag.

I was amazed, wondered what that thing was. No matter how far I ran it never seemed to get closer D: until I made my way near the west side...

and saw this epic battle of a linkshell wiping to Steelfleece Baldarich...

one of the linkshell members ran towards me and I froze looking at the giant beast shake the screen. The game was shaking and I didn't know what to do. The ram took out his opponent and stared at me. I finally came to my senses and ran the other direction...

but it was too late ; ;

XD

A miss so much stuff. That sense of wonder when I first stepped into Ronfaure, coffer/skill up parties, old linkshells, goblin trains, magic bursts and skill chains in old exp parties...

I miss NM camping too. Might sound weird since most of it was boring as hell, but my heart always started to race whenever I knew the window was coming up.

I can't like everyone else's posts hard enough T.T

Some may call me sadistic.

Claiming and getting a knife before the claim delay patch.
Millions of gil from gold beastcoins and linen thread.
Thousands of gil for the priest.
Witnessing that infamous creeper pop twice in a single hour.
Forcing throat stab by standing invisible behind RMT.
Melting down dolls beside the room, killing a majority inside.
Getting Hochos between Pursuer pops.
Our goons:
Yallery Brown.
Bonze Marberry.

The most aggressive camp in the game:
Sozu-***-Rogberry.

I miss the old ways of leveling. Sure, it took you months to hit 75, but there was something special about finding a party all the way up to the top.

Now it's "Solo to Lv.30 in about 5 hours and then open chests in Abyssea for another 5 hours until you hit Lv.99". Most people don't even bother with AF armor anymore. Everyone's skills are so underlevelled. And most Blue Mages are Lv.99 with like 10 spells.

I miss having everyone centered around one Skillchain, and the excitement of pulling one off. Man, remember making sure every party had at least two Provokers? One main tank, and the other to keep the enemy's attention while the Thief SATAVB or SATADE'd onto the main tank?

I miss power leveling people. I even used to have a linkshell that I'd carry around and distribute to the party I was power leveling so I could talk to them as if it were party chat. Most of the time I did it for free, too.

I miss when the Promyvions actually had atmosphere. The absolute terror you'd get from running from start to finish, trying to aggro as few enemies as possible. And if you got aggro on the 4th floor everyone would just book it to the boss room.

A couple of weeks ago I went on a nostalgia trip about this game (I've been gone for a year so it made it even worse). I listened to every song in the vanilla, Zilart, and Promathia OST's and just thought about what each song brought back. I definitely shed a few tears at the Bastok, Gustaberg, Selbina, Kazham, and Yuhtunga Jungle themes. And then to cap off my nostalgia trip I made this video: Influential Games Tribute.

Several things I remember from the starting days...
- Full TP per hit in multihit ws.
- The old exp curve....
- Level cap raised to 75
- Being one of the few WARs using a GA and being questioned why I wasnt using the weapon my advanced job was gonna use.
- Having an airship pass was cool
- Erase was a luxury spell
- Haubergeon was a luxury
- DRK in AF was cool
- Old RNG damage
- Red Lotus Blade > Raging Fists > Spinning Slash for ULTIMATE DAMAGE
- Dynamis was released and reraise saved the day

I remember leveling my DDs, and Signet didn't give you the option of not losing TP when you rested, so the DDs always stood in parties while waiting for the mages to restore their MP, so they had enough to cure you.

Yup ! +1

I used to be a white mage for most of my FFXI life and I would forget or let my reraise wear out way too often. >_>

Now that I look back I kind of miss that too ...

solo'ing cactrot rapido for the first time and feeling so boss, and tanking ouryu/JoL/Tia for my LS. The days of rdm tank were.. the best

oh also, when gear was optimal for years.

Call me crazy, but I miss being a sacrifice. For the first few linkshells I was on, I was THE thief. Other members might level it, but when we went to events, I was always the one assigned to come thf. If something dropped, I was thanked. If nothing that we wanted dropped, I was blamed, all in good fun. And when the ls needed to get past loads of monsters, I was the sac. It made me feel almost important to have a job that could clear an area in seconds for the greater good. I liked taking one for the team. Now I don't remember the last time I was a sacrifice. It's been years.

Sacrificial Mithra saves the day again! All aboard the Sac Train! TOOT TOOT!

in b4 "r3 onry plz" by every single dead person

I miss being the snackrifice too :D! Though it wasn't usually good if I got sacrificed, normally I was the only WHM, BLM or BRD >_>

Hehe, that reminds me! We were doing dyna, I think it was Windy, and the pull was too large. The blms were going down, my husband was the only whm, and as soon as the blms were down he went down. One of the plds started mouthing off about how the whm was either afk or drunk because he wasn't healing properly (because he was dead, maybe? xD) so when the fight was over and my husband got up, he only gave that pld a raise 1 because he'd been being an ***. The pld declined the raise and insisted on a R3, to which my husband said nope and we all moved on to the next camp and left him laying there dead. We had another pld or two, so it's not like it was causing the group a huge deal of trouble to leave him. Eventually one of the rdms had mercy on him and went back and raised him.

tl;dr? Be nice to your whms. They are diabolical on the inside!

Relevant: http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/4358/remember-back-when

this a million times over.

Didn't know there was a thread from years ago like this one. But who am I to look back so many years for a thread? I was reminiscing about things I use to enjoy or hate about FFXI when I started playing. I just wanted to share that feeling.

also being the opener/closer of the 1st sc on sky gods cause that ment ppl trusted you not to eff up the sc. how i miss "NOBODY EFFIN BREATH UNTILL YOU SEE LIGHT GO OFF" in pt chat lol

The exploration of FFXI. Going into a zone you've never been to and exploring every inch of the place, checking mobs, seeing what NMs I could spawn and being the first to find out what they dropped.

Being a BLU. A real BLU. The ones that would stop leveling UNTIL they had all the spells for the next 10 levels. Soloing imps to recap exp and maxing out merits solo. Taking a full alliance of BLUs to spell hunts. No greater sound than 18 simultaneous headbutts going off to stun a tp move that wasn't the spell so the mob kept its TP.

I miss ToAU. Endgame before Abyssea. Limbus, Old Dynamis where nothing dropped and you weren't even mad about it you expected it, Sea, Sky, Salvage, and Einherjar.

What I truly miss the most from the old days was helping others with noob things. Airship passes, sub job items, genkais, missions, etc.

And lastly friends. The ones that left or quit before all the level cap increases or introduction of Abyssea.

I miss watching BLMs die to normal VT-IT mobs cause they didn't idle in PDT gear so they lose their stoneskin in 1 hit and they get interrupted trying to sleep/gravity/bind. Also pet camps. And getting kicked from nyzul boss floor parties (or any party) cause you weren't JP. Oh and lastly, selling insect paste at the knight's pond.

I miss the old drama at birds when all the spots were full and someone decided to pull one from another camp, followed by the other party returning the favor until one group or the other had too many birds to handle, resulting in rape via bird cluster.

Or that first boat ride to ToAU, when you had 300-some people crammed onto the same boat..

... and new content, you know, not completely rehashed stuff.

1. Feeling superior because I was rich enough to afford a Mea Chocobo to Bibiki.

2. Exploring new XP camps. This is the one that I miss the most - I led a static from 30ish to 70 and the entire time we did unusual zones. This was before levelsync so you couldn't just camp at E Ronfaure (S) and find a new sync when you need to.

2.1. Exp. Chains. The feeling of epicness when you reached six. Chain ~240 in E Ronfaure (S).

I miss crafting sets of Nomad gear for ls mates after we unlocked our first advance jobs. raising plants, just to watching them glow. Pulling crawlers, wondering why one was named Spiny Spipi, and the revenge hunt after the home point (and maybe a few more lvl's).

Following my first taru on an adventure thinking "What did I just get myself into...?". Following my second taru on a mission thinking "Are they all like this?!?!?!" and then never feeling at home unless a taru is running the linkshell.

But i really miss exploring the new and unknown zones in the game with a few friends beside me and not counting the times we die or wipe, or even the loot we get. Just that it'll be fun till we pass out after a long day of fun and can't wait to log in to do it again the next day.

Amen!

I voluntarily refused to go beyond Lv.60 for almost 6 months because I couldn't get Body Slam or Memento Mori, and no one wanted to help me. Looking back, it's kinda silly (especially considering how most BLU's practically never equip those spells anyway), but I was proud of myself in the long run.
(Incidentally, shout-outs to Hikarino for actually jumping servers just to help me learn them back in the day)

Indeed! Just saying there's plenty more nostalgia in that thread too! : )

Nostalgic moments... first time playing with my friend Cetra and my sister Mirae. Mirae died to some Ding Bats the first time, and in hindsight its kinda funny XD
I was always set to be a SAM in that game, and that's what I became and stayed with until the end. Many good memories learning the ropes aspiring to be good at your job.

I also have fond memories of going to Aht Urghan the first time. You had to get these certain items to go on the boat I recall. One of them dropped from those Mayfly things in Valkurm Dunes. Me and my sister accidentally stumbled upon VE, poked it for about 3 minutes before deciding to claim and kill it. Drop went to me, 1/1 lol. Never camped the guy before that XD

Also, the music. Music really evokes many fond memories of doing simple things, leveling up, or camping NMs or what have you. This game was idea to play with friends since it was such a social game.

Finally, many fond memories of Dynamis. People hated it, but I loved it. I found it painfully hilarious when our entire alliance died because a SMN NM just 2 houred the crap out of us. All you suddenly hear is "Ugh!" "Oogh!" "Ah!" all over lol XD Ahh those were the days...