Hello,
What are iconic FFXI Terms/Names/Weaponskills/Spells, etc that are not used in other games? i.e Things uniquely FFXI.
What Terms/Names would be instantly recognizable outside of FFXI, such as IRL, but only to people to have played FFXI?
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Iconic FFXI Terms
Iconic FFXI Terms
Oh, you meant officially in game, nvm.
Carbuncle.Nynja said: »
JPONRY
I think community-memes qualify tbh.
Albeit if used IRL ppl might think you're racist.
2-Hour. I'll be dead and in the ground before I call them anything else.
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Cerberus.Dekar said: »
2-Hour. I'll be dead and in the ground before I call them anything else.
Tbh, same. :P
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XI is the primary MMO where English users call players whose job is mainly to do damage DDs instead of DPS.
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"Subjob" is a pretty uniquely FFXI thing. I know X|V used to have them, but that hasn't existed since before it became popular, so I'd say it counts.
"Utsusemi" is a pretty outstanding ability that doesn't seem to appear in other media, not even other Final Fantasy titles. Same could be said for "Geocolure" and "Indicolure". Which is pretty rare because most spells are lifted out of the Final Fantasy dictionary, and most abilities and weapon skills were recycled wholesale in X|V.
I also don't recall ever seeing "orz" outside of XI, though I'm sure it's not necessarily an XI exclusive...
Obviously any of the made-up races and locales...
"Utsusemi" is a pretty outstanding ability that doesn't seem to appear in other media, not even other Final Fantasy titles. Same could be said for "Geocolure" and "Indicolure". Which is pretty rare because most spells are lifted out of the Final Fantasy dictionary, and most abilities and weapon skills were recycled wholesale in X|V.
I also don't recall ever seeing "orz" outside of XI, though I'm sure it's not necessarily an XI exclusive...
Obviously any of the made-up races and locales...
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I came across a Twitch streamer called "Yorcia"
If that was not enough of a clue, she had Mandragora art all over her channel
She was visibly happy when I mentioned FFXI
If that was not enough of a clue, she had Mandragora art all over her channel
She was visibly happy when I mentioned FFXI
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Zilart, Promathia, Lady Lilith, and The Shadowlord.
Bio Break
Much of the music. XI's OST has actually broken out of XI's circles somewhat.
Shantotto, as much as it chagrins me.
Burning Circles
The FFXI Crab
For weaponskill names hmmm... I'd say most all of the Empyrean weaponskills haven't had their names co-opted by XIV yet. Though one notable exception being DRG's. Though instead of Camlann's Torment they changed it to Coerthan Torment, so I suppose that keeps Camlann's firmly XI only (and shame on XIV for getting rid of the King Arthur reference. I bet it was Localizers striking again).
Bastok has a bigger level of infamy than the other two city states imo. But all three are fairly iconic to XI.
Bio Break
Much of the music. XI's OST has actually broken out of XI's circles somewhat.
Shantotto, as much as it chagrins me.
Burning Circles
The FFXI Crab
For weaponskill names hmmm... I'd say most all of the Empyrean weaponskills haven't had their names co-opted by XIV yet. Though one notable exception being DRG's. Though instead of Camlann's Torment they changed it to Coerthan Torment, so I suppose that keeps Camlann's firmly XI only (and shame on XIV for getting rid of the King Arthur reference. I bet it was Localizers striking again).
Bastok has a bigger level of infamy than the other two city states imo. But all three are fairly iconic to XI.
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Ragnarok.Jessikah said: »
I also don't recall ever seeing "orz" outside of XI, though I'm sure it's not necessarily an XI exclusive...
Borrowed from JP by NA/EU players. There was quite a bit of cultural/regional crossover going on early in the game.
Warau - more commonly the 'w' seen at the end of a string of JP characters. Kinda like lol
WC - Though this is common to EU, NA players usually call it restroom or bathroom rather than water closet.
Please check it.
Idk about this one. Based on the guidelines set, Shantotto has appeared in multiple other FF games at this point, including Dissidia, World of Final Fantasy and
Asura.Vyre said: »
Shantotto, as much as it chagrins me.
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-Aja, -Aga, -Ara
-Burn
/ O X
/Random
AFK/BRB
AH/MH
AM
Add
Aggro / Deaggro / Blood Aggro
Animation Lock
Anon
AoE
"Balance"
Blind Invite
Blinking
Blockaid
Blood Warp
Box / Multi Box
Bubbles
Camp
Cap
Cast Lots
Claiming
Clipping
Cure Cheat
DC / Force DC / R0 / Red Dot
DD
Ding! <job>
DoT / Tick / Tock
Drop Slots
FL
Fame
Form
G1-5 (Genkai)
GM
HELM
HP (Home Point)
Hate / Hate Reset / Party Hate / Hate Ceiling / Tonberry & Fomor Hate
Height Difference
Kite
LINK
LS
Lastok
LoS / Conal
Lockstyle
Lottery NM
Manthra
MP Sponge
MPK
MT
Mob
Modifiers
Monster Holding
Moon Phase
Mule
Nerf
OMW
OP Warp
Ohat
PH
Packets
Pally
Pet / Stoned
PL
POL
Pop / Depop / Spawn / Despawn
Proc/Stagger
Promies / Promy
Pull / Inc / Clean Pull / Death Pull / Sac Pull
RR
Rage
Resist
RoE
SC/MB
SE
Sandy
Seacom
Shadows
Soap
Sponsor
Stacks
Static/Perma
Stun Lock
Taru Sacrifice
TH
Throat Stab
Title
TNL
Tags
Tele
Temps
ToD
Train
Trap
True Sight/Sound
Turtle Tank / Blink Tank
Voke
Whiffing
White Damage
Windy
Wipe
Yalms
ZZZ
Zerg
Zone / Zoning
Zombie
There's probably more but I'm tired, lol. Don't play other MMO's, so I do not know which terms are exclusive.
-Burn
/ O X
/Random
AFK/BRB
AH/MH
AM
Add
Aggro / Deaggro / Blood Aggro
Animation Lock
Anon
AoE
"Balance"
Blind Invite
Blinking
Blockaid
Blood Warp
Box / Multi Box
Bubbles
Camp
Cap
Cast Lots
Claiming
Clipping
Cure Cheat
DC / Force DC / R0 / Red Dot
DD
Ding! <job>
DoT / Tick / Tock
Drop Slots
FL
Fame
Form
G1-5 (Genkai)
GM
HELM
HP (Home Point)
Hate / Hate Reset / Party Hate / Hate Ceiling / Tonberry & Fomor Hate
Height Difference
Kite
LINK
LS
Lastok
LoS / Conal
Lockstyle
Lottery NM
Manthra
MP Sponge
MPK
MT
Mob
Modifiers
Monster Holding
Moon Phase
Mule
Nerf
OMW
OP Warp
Ohat
PH
Packets
Pally
Pet / Stoned
PL
POL
Pop / Depop / Spawn / Despawn
Proc/Stagger
Promies / Promy
Pull / Inc / Clean Pull / Death Pull / Sac Pull
RR
Rage
Resist
RoE
SC/MB
SE
Sandy
Seacom
Shadows
Soap
Sponsor
Stacks
Static/Perma
Stun Lock
Taru Sacrifice
TH
Throat Stab
Title
TNL
Tags
Tele
Temps
ToD
Train
Trap
True Sight/Sound
Turtle Tank / Blink Tank
Voke
Whiffing
White Damage
Windy
Wipe
Yalms
ZZZ
Zerg
Zone / Zoning
Zombie
There's probably more but I'm tired, lol. Don't play other MMO's, so I do not know which terms are exclusive.
Cerberus.Kylos said: »
White Damage
This is World of Warcraft terminology. Melee damage in XI used to just be called damage over time, since we don't have typical DOTs in FFXI.
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Carbuncle.Nynja said: »
Please check it.
Idk about this one. Based on the guidelines set, Shantotto has appeared in multiple other FF games at this point, including Dissidia, World of Final Fantasy and
Asura.Vyre said: »
Shantotto, as much as it chagrins me.
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I guess I'll say gearsets, gear swap, and gear macros. Can't think of really any other game where you switch gear on the fly like XI.
Cerberus.Kylos said: »
AH/MH
AM
Blood Aggro
"Balance"
Blinking
Blockaid
Cure Cheat
R0
DD
Tock
Drop Slots
G1-5 (Genkai)
HELM
HP (Home Point)
Hate / Hate Reset / Party Hate / Hate Ceiling / Tonberry & Fomor Hate
Lastok
Lockstyle
Lottery NM
Manthra
Moon Phase
OP Warp
Ohat
PH
POL
Promies / Promy
RR
Rage
RoE
SC/MB
Sandy
Seacom
Taru Sacrifice
TH
Throat Stab
ToD
True Sight/Sound
Blink Tank
Windy
AM
Blood Aggro
"Balance"
Blinking
Blockaid
Cure Cheat
R0
DD
Tock
Drop Slots
G1-5 (Genkai)
HELM
HP (Home Point)
Hate / Hate Reset / Party Hate / Hate Ceiling / Tonberry & Fomor Hate
Lastok
Lockstyle
Lottery NM
Manthra
Moon Phase
OP Warp
Ohat
PH
POL
Promies / Promy
RR
Rage
RoE
SC/MB
Sandy
Seacom
Taru Sacrifice
TH
Throat Stab
ToD
True Sight/Sound
Blink Tank
Windy
Pretty sure I cut the list down to what is XI centric while also not just being JP mannerisms.
It's kind of hard to do/know though, cause even playing other MMOs, there are MMOs older than XI and terms people came up with in those got applied to XI stuff as well. Like how we call Tu'lia Sky, there was the Plane of Sky that Everquest players just called Sky before we had our Sky.
The word moot, might be used elsewhere but the ffxi crowd loves the moot term moot.
Cerberus.Dekar said: »
2-Hour. I'll be dead and in the ground before I call them anything else.
Imagine saying "use your 45 minutes".
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Seun said: »
Cerberus.Kylos said: »
White Damage
This is World of Warcraft terminology. Melee damage in XI used to just be called damage over time, since we don't have typical DOTs in FFXI.
All damage in FFXI is in white text, or really any color text you want.
Definitely a thing brought over by WoW players where different damage types use different colors.
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Asura.Jdove said: »
The word moot, might be used elsewhere but the ffxi crowd loves the moot term moot.
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Bahamut.Suph said: »
Cerberus.Dekar said: »
2-Hour. I'll be dead and in the ground before I call them anything else.
Imagine saying "use your 45 minutes".
I even go as far as to say "your second 2-h" meaning the new special ability the jobs got... which to to this day I still don't know what they are called.
Godfry said: »
Bahamut.Suph said: »
Cerberus.Dekar said: »
2-Hour. I'll be dead and in the ground before I call them anything else.
Imagine saying "use your 45 minutes".
I even go as far as to say "your second 2-h" meaning the new special ability the jobs got... which to to this day I still don't know what they are called.
SP and SP2
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Carbuncle.Maletaru said: »
Godfry said: »
Bahamut.Suph said: »
Cerberus.Dekar said: »
2-Hour. I'll be dead and in the ground before I call them anything else.
Imagine saying "use your 45 minutes".
I even go as far as to say "your second 2-h" meaning the new special ability the jobs got... which to to this day I still don't know what they are called.
SP and SP2
Ill stick with "second 2h"...
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