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The "Good Ol' Days" Thread:
Server: Asura
Game: FFXI
Posts: 497
By Asura.Elizabet 2020-06-10 18:39:41
- Looking for party in Jeuno, get invited to an EXP PT in Kazham, have to wait 20 minutes to get there due to airship.
.. get to kazham, forget to set HP there, zone in yuthunga, get killed by a gob train, back in jeuno, wait another 20mins for ship, this time set HP to kzaham and take a chocobo cause being cheap got you killed, chocobo your way to yhoator, find your group on the left side corner camp, kill 3 mandies, your healer's toes are cold... party disband.
By Numquam 2020-06-10 19:01:22
Yelling at my sister for causing me to lose connection on AOL dial-up. :(
Bismarck.Laurelli
Server: Bismarck
Game: FFXI
Posts: 889
By Bismarck.Laurelli 2020-06-10 20:16:45
Walked to Valkurm from Bastock. Got invited as soon as I zoned. Accepted the invitation right away because I couldn't believe my luck. Got D2 by a BLM troll who then disbanded. Took another 45 minutes to walk back to Valkurm.
Bahamut.Negan
Server: Bahamut
Game: FFXI
Posts: 2,432
By Bahamut.Negan 2020-06-10 22:22:17
Bismarck.Laurelli said: »Walked to Valkurm from Bastock. Got invited as soon as I zoned. Accepted the invitation right away because I couldn't believe my luck. Got D2 by a BLM troll who then disbanded. Took another 45 minutes to walk back to Valkurm. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...sorry...AHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Leviathan.Draugo
Server: Leviathan
Game: FFXI
Posts: 2,868
By Leviathan.Draugo 2020-06-10 22:46:37
Took me 1 hour to solo the evisceration bat NM.
Back when soloing was actually soloing.
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By Asura.Gnawclaw 2020-06-10 23:03:24
Try to build party as a newbie in Jungles.
I think I remember where that camp was.
Invite 2 people... I don't know where I'm going but we should get this started ASAP! Don't want to waste people's time.
I think I remember where that camp was.
Chocobo around for 45 minutes looking for the spot I vaguely recall. Wait which zone was it? There was a tree.. kind of a cave thingamig..
I don't remember where that camp was.
Apologize profusely for the peoples time I wasted as they curse me, leaving to make a player warning thread about the idiot who doesn't know how to anything.
It's not about the destination but the friendsparty-members we make along the way~ Classic xp parties were great.
By Xaander 2020-06-10 23:25:40
There's just so much the old XI had that's lost now. Not all of it was good, mind you, but it's like a snapshot of history. Not sure how you convey some of our old armor and style options to newer players. At least the situation got better after Limbus and Salvage. Some of the styles have been used again, but the meaning was different in the old days. Every piece of gear was like some kind of war scar and even low level equipment sets were points of pride.
That Brigandine:
AF and having the server population to encounter a random DRG gathering:
AJ + O Hat combo:
Scorpion Harness:
Barone and Mezraq:
The original Homam and Ares:
Whatever beast masters were doing back then:
But, mostly just enjoying whatever your old crew was and whatever exploration adventure you decided on:
Leviathan.Draugo
Server: Leviathan
Game: FFXI
Posts: 2,868
By Leviathan.Draugo 2020-06-10 23:28:45
Yes the eye bleeding stuff people ran around in cuz no lockstyle. It may be ugly but it smashes faces!
Server: Odin
Game: FFXI
Posts: 2,255
By Odin.Llewelyn 2020-06-11 00:10:52
I'd intentionally use some Sitabaki over Republic Subligar because *** Subligar.
Fenrir.Aladeus
Server: Fenrir
Game: FFXI
Posts: 353
By Fenrir.Aladeus 2020-06-11 00:49:35
how about wearing lvl 30 gear til you got af, for some jobs. other jobs just wore 40ish gear til 75. but this is what the private servers are for, to a point. you get to reminisce, but the old players aren't there in droves like they used to be, to be able to create these stories in the first place.
Fenrir.Aladeus
Server: Fenrir
Game: FFXI
Posts: 353
By Fenrir.Aladeus 2020-06-11 00:50:10
I'd intentionally use some Sitabaki over Republic Subligar because *** Subligar. there used to be an ls on unicorn devoted to subligaria. no joke. lol
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Ramuh.Austar
Server: Ramuh
Game: FFXI
Posts: 10,481
By Ramuh.Austar 2020-06-11 00:54:38
Took me 1 hour to solo the evisceration bat NM.
Back when soloing was actually soloing. how did it take you an hour to solo something that took a quarter of that?
Leviathan.Draugo
Server: Leviathan
Game: FFXI
Posts: 2,868
By Leviathan.Draugo 2020-06-11 01:01:49
Took me 1 hour to solo the evisceration bat NM.
Back when soloing was actually soloing. how did it take you an hour to solo something that took a quarter of that? Wha?
Ramuh.Austar
Server: Ramuh
Game: FFXI
Posts: 10,481
By Ramuh.Austar 2020-06-11 01:04:16
baronial bat did not take an hour to solo
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Server: Phoenix
Game: FFXI
Posts: 2,012
By Phoenix.Dabackpack 2020-06-11 01:44:19
There was always that ONE GUY who would auto-target the slept SMN avatars in Dynamis
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Server: Phoenix
Game: FFXI
Posts: 2,012
By Phoenix.Dabackpack 2020-06-11 01:48:08
For the longest time if Paralyze procced while you were using an item, it ate the item. I remember getting *** by this a few times, maybe during Promyvion?
Also, just Promyvion in general
Lakshmi.Buukki
Server: Lakshmi
Game: FFXI
By Lakshmi.Buukki 2020-06-11 01:49:59
deco weapon camps as drk main, abusing engage glitch for the fastest endgame exp at the time
Dude i totally forgot about Engage/disengage hack lol.
I actually have a pic from that camp.

This was OG Taint. This was before any of us knew or even cared about what that haste+1% on blitz ring even meant
Server: Sylph
Game: FFXI
Posts: 142
By Sylph.Deathknight 2020-06-11 03:55:52
Using Deodorize with Sneak and Invis.
Carbuncle.Lunatone
Server: Carbuncle
Game: FFXI
Posts: 291
By Carbuncle.Lunatone 2020-06-11 03:58:45
Not telling my party in Crawler's Nest I didn't have Utsusemi: Ni yet and letting jesus take the wheel.
Server: Asura
Game: FFXI
Posts: 3,113
By Asura.Aeonova 2020-06-11 04:04:13
Carbuncle.Lunatone said: »Not telling my party in Crawler's Nest I didn't have Utsusemi: Ni yet and letting jesus take the wheel.
I'll see your not having Utsusemi:Ni and raise you a not having quested a Crawler's Nest map.
By Xaander 2020-06-11 04:16:04
Sylph.Deathknight said: »Using Deodorize with Sneak and Invis.
Losing a crawler train in the Boyahda Tree by running over a stream and thanking your lucky stars, only to be sucker punched by a gobbue in what can only be SE's version of karma.
Server: Shiva
Game: FFXI
Posts: 291
By Shiva.Kasaioni 2020-06-11 06:00:02
Not having dispel as RDM going into a beetle party in Garlaige Citadel.
The leader of the party actually went back to Jeuno and bought me a scroll off of the AH, now that I remember.
Leviathan.Draugo
Server: Leviathan
Game: FFXI
Posts: 2,868
By Leviathan.Draugo 2020-06-11 06:09:26
baronial bat did not take an hour to solo took me an hour to solo, but cool story bro.
Asura.Brahk
Server: Asura
Game: FFXI
Posts: 29
By Asura.Brahk 2020-06-11 06:10:21
I have a vivid memory of yelling at someone for training Goblins to the zone in Yuhtunga Jungle only to be reprimanded for not having a fully leveled sub (30THF/10WAR) way back in the day. Thinking about running to a zone and waiting for hours is how I remember classic XI.
Fenrir.Aladeus
Server: Fenrir
Game: FFXI
Posts: 353
By Fenrir.Aladeus 2020-06-11 11:42:52
I started out with rdm as my first job and I had to be anon all the time if I didn't want to party.
Also 1 time trying to get to kirin i went 1/12 on that teleport.
Also one time rmt trained to my group in Newton movalpolos just so they could get the coffer.
Also learning cure 2 at lvl 14 rdm in the dunes, wondering why the mob turned and ate my face.
Also convert death. I made a friend from that once lol.
Also my first manaburn party in bikini bay, I had a bird when they told me to pull. I used to have a ss with me in rdm af standing around 5 blm with black cloaks, feeling like a leader of a cult.
Also first smnburn getting eaten for casting cure 1. Did not understand enmity.
Server: Shiva
Game: FFXI
Posts: 269
By Shiva.Phioness 2020-06-11 16:02:38
Thief Looking For Party was the best. You could farm items and camp NM's worth valuable loot while waiting for Party. You pulled, stacked hate on Tank, did nasty damage to mobs weak to piercing (Bats in Garlaige and Birds in Bibiki). THF/RNG Camps like Leaping Lizzy, Valkurm Emperor, and Argus with your Widescan/Treasure Hunter/Flee made you feel like an Apex Predator.
But all that aside I appreciate the white mages. Teleports, sneak and invis to get me to my destination along with some cures to help me kill NM's i couldn't tackle on my own made them invaluable. My funnest experience was as a newly minted whm and my buddy Generalramuh power leveled me from 10-20 through the dunes. We had a 2nd power lvl show up and it was a slaughterfest with me capping my club skill and divine magic as WHM DD lolz.
Carbuncle.Skulloneix
Server: Carbuncle
Game: FFXI
Posts: 15,018
By Carbuncle.Skulloneix 2020-06-11 16:03:50
OH man, I actually miss being level 75 RDM in Dunes, altruistically Power Leveling low level parties and taking care of Call For Help mobs and going around Raising those that were unlucky. GREAT TIMES. I wish I could do something similar in FFXIV.
Lakshmi.Leosin
Server: Lakshmi
Game: FFXI
By Lakshmi.Leosin 2020-06-11 16:04:09
DRK SATA setups to kill sky gods.
Then PLD moves.
By Taint 2020-06-11 16:14:21
DRK SATA setups to kill sky gods.
Then PLD moves.
Hell, DRK SATA to XP on Dhalmels!
Leviathan.Draugo
Server: Leviathan
Game: FFXI
Posts: 2,868
By Leviathan.Draugo 2020-06-11 16:18:01
Chocobo rentals, one day 300 Gil, next day 3k. Back when 100k felt like you could buy half the AH.
Someone reminisced about the old days of Final Fantasy XI.
I've only been playing 42 days mind you, but I don't think I've ever logged in a single day without someone talking about, "the old days" whether how good or bad they were, or things they do and just reliving the past. Heck, I even have linkshell members who don't actually play the complain, they just kind of log in and talk about the old game sitting in town all day.
Aeonova was about to reply: said: So you're really new-new? Normally we just get only people returning from extended breaks that forgot their login info and had to start new.
I won't give you a "you would have had to have been there", but pretty much that. There are stories to tell. The game was very different than it is today. Someone should start a "Good Old Days" thread. Actually...
So this player wants to hear about the old days. Let's indulge them since I know that a nostalgia topic will be fun. It's an overwhelming amount of stories and such to go over so I'll need some help. I'll provide the memes though.
First, somebody should explain what this image means:

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