I remember when...

[0nionKn1ght]

... we had only 1 macro book which gave us 100 macros total.


In the spirit of the 10 year anniversary, lets each mention something we remember about the game that changed. The above change was a huge one for me.

Your turn!

[Arcon]

... we didn't have any portable storage. All your food, ninja tools, meds and quest items had to be kept in your main inventory, which, by the way, was still at 60.

[Reiterpallasch]

I remember not being able to exp, not because there was nobody seeking, but because all of the good camps in the dunes, qufim, and the jungles were all taken.

[Teraniku]

I remember when levelling was solo to about level 11-12 go to Valkurm Dunes to 20, Quifm Island to 25, Elshimo Island to 30, Garlaige Citadel to 36-37ish, Crawler's Nest to 50, Garlaige Citadel Basement to 55-58ish, then quite a few spots opened up for partying.

[Infidi]

I remember it took me almost a year to get one job lvl 75 . -.- Casual playing at the time mind you but crazy easy to level nowadays lol.

[0nionKn1ght]

I remember when Summoner only had spirits, no Avatars. It was easily the most useless class available, as anything other than a nerfed healer.

[0nionKn1ght]

Please do not belittle yet another thread with pointless arguments that keep poping up in other threads.



I remember when RDM was a super important job everyone wanted, instead of a job that is rarely called upon.

Yup, tell me about it >_< - People look at my RDM like im contagious now, I used to be a centre stage princess too :(

[Vivivivi]

I remember when I decided to play all of the Final Fantasy games in order two years ago, and was pleasantly surprised that XI was still very active....

Haven't gotten to XII yet :x

[Melisenna]

I remember when people would just /shout. Now they all /yell and /shout at the same time. Because apparently it's unclear how /yell works.

[nyheen]

I remember not being able to exp, not because there was nobody seeking, but because all of the good camps in the dunes, qufim, and the jungles were all taken.

THIS! yes miss that

[katiekat]

i remember when zoning in to the citadel would haf the time net you a bat trane to the face, or a serkit to the face from the goop that zoned them.

also when astral rings were in coffer chests

[Khiinroye]

I remember when each hit of a weaponskill gave full tp. Thanks for getting it nerfed, monks.

I remember when xp for an IT++ capped out at 200 (pre-chain).

I remember not being able to make a party because the lfg list looked like (give or take 10 dd jobs):
bst
bst
bst
drk
drk
drk
drg
drg
drg
mnk
sam
thf
thf
thf
war
war

[Zerich]

the joys of gobbie pets on blm

[Phogg]

I remember when a sub-forum on IGN.com was the best source of tips and information for FFXI.

I remember this because it was a time when asking a question in the game, about the game, got more of a response then "its on the wiki".

[Luvbunny]

I remember when the game was so bad and a torturous ordeal to get anything done, and everything is taking a very long time for non sensical time sink argument. And then I am very grateful that the past is dead and buried and we no longer have to deal with all the "I remember" shit-stained rose colored glass memory.

[Mifaco]

I remember spawning Marchelute and marching him either to the Konschtat zone or Selbina and seeing how high the kill count was. There was a (now-deleted) comment on zam complaining about my work. My one dream of spawning SAM AF3 and WHM AF1 NMs was never realized :(

I also remember the never-ending monster trains in CN, Yuhtunga, and Yhoator. Bonus points if someone zoned a Knight Crawler or a Tonberry. That sure showed those lv75 white knights.

I'm also part of the grizzled CoP veterans club who spent millions of gil on meds and spent so much time formulating the perfect strategy to get past Ouryu, mithra BC, and U/O

[Chilloa]

I remember the time that whenever a Tonberry was pulled to the Yuhtunga Jungle zoneline, it killed most Parties in Yhoator until someone took care of it. Same goes for that Shadow NM in the Dunes, would mess a lot of people up. Sometimes I wish SE didn't make it so mobs disappeared...

[Brimstonelove]

I remember when no one ever wanted to have a BST in their pt, so I played solo always. (Waaaaiitttt...I still play solo. Hmmm).

[Brimstonelove]

I also remember when the name of my server was Garuda....

[Rosina]

i got a few
Remember when....

1) people had to shout for a citidel gate breach

2) shouts for teleport were: base teleporting was 500g and xar and jungle was 1000g

3) people death warped out of yhotoar jungle as there was "no way back".

4) bst actually killed party exp cuz pets had an exp reduction penitly on them.

[Nala]

if they summoned thier pets.

I remember when you could get hit by AoE's from other parties monsters, and seeing people zone out of kazham getting killed by gob bombs promptly getting off their chocobos then dying.

I remember before block aid when people cure bombed main tanks to steal nm/hnms

I remember when they first announced the ability to depop non nm's and making mad profit off gold beast coins in bibiki bay.

I remember when people exped in bibiki bay and i pulled on thief (and made a killing off gold beast coins)

I remember when chocobos from mea could cost up to 10k because every one rode them out to bibiki bay.

I remember when they nerfed steal because RMT were abusing 3rd party tools to rapidly steal platinum beast coins... that was when i was trying to beat maat for the first time as a thief.

I remember feeling badass for pulling off a melee victory on thf maat (since i didnt have a choice)

I remember when SE kept nerfing NIN tanking and failing to prevent NIN tanking (lol)

[Teraniku]

Yup, tell me about it >_< - People look at my RDM like im contagious now, I used to be a centre stage princess too :(

Lol Properly geared RDM was as close to God Mode for this game @75

[MiniDiamond]

I remember when leveling was a BITCH, and just getting to LV10 was a Major accomplishment, and Parting it up in Valkrum <3

[katiekat]

i remember when call wyvern was a 2hr and when you got a party request you would get asked "is your 2hr active?

[Mifaco]

Mifaco's shadow absorbs the damage and disappears.
Mifaco blocks the Dynamis Lord's attack with his shield.

[tyrantsyn]

I remember when you could only OP warp out to a zone after you became to high a level to actually get a party there.

[Zerich]

I remember when you could only OP warp out to a zone after you became to high a level to actually get a party there.

I think this is still in place.

[tyrantsyn]

I think this is still in place.

Nah pretty sure you can warp out to valkrum as low as lvl 10 now.

[Zerich]

Nah pretty sure you can warp out to valkrum as low as lvl 10 now.

level 10 was the start for lower lizzies.

[Lollerblades]

I remember Bibiki Bay meripo parties , I also remember Aht Urghan as the new Jeuno when it came out...

I remember BLM never got invited to lolibri parties

I remember when the cap was 50 and the items had an even lower drop rate ...

[Nala]

valkrum dunes wasn't always level 10 to warp to think it used to be 20 or something stupid like that it was only a few years ago when they changed levels for op warps.

[Westyle]

I remember waiting for Wal Mart to get in PS2 HDDs. They were always behind on release dates where I grew up.

[SpankWustler]

I remember when I could use Beastmaster to MPK people. That was the reason I leveled it.

I remember zoning a Tonberry Shadower to Kazham where it started a new life as the local butcher.

Those were the days. Dark and dickish days of wonder. Wonder and dickishness.

[Frost]

I remember when Samurai was one of the gimpest jobs...
I remember at the same time, Warrior* was even gimpier than Samurai...



*Ridill war was the exception

[Demon6324236]

I remember when making Relics was hard, and even took an entire ls working on a single member's Relic.

[Wint]

I remember during the beta you could ride Chocobos in Garlaige. I have a SS around here somewhere of someone riding a chocobo in front of Serket.

[Meyi]

I remember "Welcome to Seraph!" being displayed on my screen...

When black mage's best body piece was an Errant Body.

When summoners were gimp white mages.

When Chains of Promathia came out... on my birthday! :D And the Promyvions were evil. ;~; Capped at 30, had to have 18 people to kill the Memory Refluxes, and only gave us about 5 seconds to teleport up before the light vanished. The fights were almost impossible without half the party being summoner or ranger.

[Kitkat]

I personally like FFXII just because to me it feels like a somewhat single-player version of FFXI. Boring at times but I have to say of FF games I have played that one really gave me the feeling of a large world with alot of places to go to, I still haven't finished exploring it all yet ^_^;

I got lost with all the expansive areas to go to. I literally don't recall where I am in the story, but for some reason I am in a sewer where everything rapes me stating I'm obviously in a place I don't belong.

On topic:
I remember when soloing prime avatars on rdm was "whoa" material since pretty much anyone who came with always got killed by the 2hour where as it would be lucky to break my stoneskin. I remember when lining up a skill chain with a thf required people not to move around like goobers because there was no assassin trait. I remember the first tp burn pt's being in KRT, same for Mana-burn PT's. I remember when drg were so widely popular because penta-thrust gave back exorbitant amount of TP.

[Kaelthas]

I remember when I used to pull Damsleflies to the 'secret room' in Crawler's nest in a level sync party on SAM, and a few exorays wanted to join in.

[Teraniku]

I remember when I first was able to access Sea , somebody in my LS typed "Tera, where the hell is Al'Taieu ?"

[Rosina]

I remember when I used to pull Damsleflies to the 'secret room' in Crawler's nest in a level sync party on SAM, and a few exorays wanted to join in.

that was trippy, i remember having to pull to there and ssometimes i would get lost.


I remember when my ex b/f told me exp leveling happen in sky and you had to get access just to lvl up.

[0nionKn1ght]

that was trippy, i remember having to pull to there and ssometimes i would get lost.


I remember when my ex b/f told me exp leveling happen in sky and you had to get access just to lvl up.

Hah actually that just triggered a very old memory. When I first started 2 guys picked me up as their project and I kept seeing them in sky on the /sea command (showed as gardens or something back then). They described it as a floating garden paradise where all the high levels hung out, and I literally imagined everyone just chilling out up there in hot springs and playing beach ball or something.

Other than Ragnarok Online, this was my first MMo, so I really didn't know what happened at high level, which is why I was borderline mental with this opinion of it.

[Modoru]

Didn't Penta-thrust cause the TP nerf?

Also, I remember when WAR used two axes, and when party setups with a Thief included a tank and an "SATA target".
And in relation to Penta-Thrust, I remember SAM/DRG and SAM/RNG.

[Kitkat]

Yes, that was the primary reason for the tp nerf. If I recall right, if all hits landed, you would get something like 30 or so tp back on penta thrust and could just end up spamming it.

I also remember when AoE or multi-hit attacks only took 1 shadow of utsu, or fishing was as simple as /fish and hit enter when getting a bite (you either got it, lost bait, broke line, or broke pole) with no mini game attached to reel in. I remember being able to throw rangers at Kirin with a Kclub and destroy him, same for DL, due to there being no distance penalties. I remember when there was very little difference between a war tank and a pld tank because sentinel only increased defense rather than mitigated damage (which also meant in dynamis you slept mnk and war during 2hour).

Lastly, I remember when gearing for jobs wasn't so much a hassle....because gear choice was severly limited to the point that even seeing someone break 12% haste in tp meant they were mnk, or extremely rich to afford speed belt. The choice of Haste gear just wasn't there outside of Dusk hands/feet (+1 wasn't even around yet) Speed belt, Byakko's Hiadate, and mnk belts. All pre-CoP era. Best body for drg 70+ was Assault Jerkin (wasn't half bad for thf either).....Now you have so much gear choice per job you don't have room to store it all let alone some jobs can't even carry the full extent of it. Talk about going one extreme to the other.

[Khiinroye]

Didn't Penta-thrust cause the TP nerf?


It wasn't penta thrust, it was asuran fists with relic knuckles (base drop). Due to how h2h damage was calculated, this was a 34 damage weapon that gave 20 tp per fist, with 2 attacks per round. After getting tp (2-3 attack rounds, or an icarus wing), they would need to land 5/8 hits (62.5% accuracy) to get 100% tp. Since it was a 34 damage weapon, mnks could still do ~800 dmg with asuran fists, and then have tp to do it again, and again, and again, without ever stopping. Penta thrust gave about 65 tp with 5/5 hits.


I remember when people got upset when CoP was released, because the JP version was out with content active a week or so before the NA release date.

I remember partying in the Maze of Shakhrami.

I remember fishing for hours on end while lfg, and never getting an invite.

I remember shouts for Hakutaku runs.


I remember being able to throw rangers at Kirin with a Kclub and destroy him, same for DL, due to there being no distance penalties.
IIRC they had almost no level correction penalty either.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Lol Properly geared RDM was as close to God Mode for this game @75Only rdms thought that, the rest of us knew better. Then TAU came out and you all learned otherwise.

[Teraniku]

Only rdms thought that, the rest of us knew better. Then TAU came out and you all learned otherwise.

Um, yeah, name another job that could solo Genbu @ 75, then your argument might be valid, instead of using an Expansion that was specifically designed to make BLM and by default RDM less desirable for partying.

[Meyi]

I remember when I used to pull Damsleflies to the 'secret room' in Crawler's nest in a level sync party on SAM, and a few exorays wanted to join in.

I remember this before level sync. ^^

[Modoru]

Um, yeah, name another job that could solo Genbu @ 75, then your argument might be valid, instead of using an Expansion that was specifically designed to make BLM and by default RDM less desirable for partying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VufIdmgsS_0 NIN/RDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L7sEtcBluI MNK/NIN

...What now.

[Slaxx]

Wait didn't ToAU make RDM the only acceptable mage job for experience parties?

[0nionKn1ght]

Um, yeah, name another job that could solo Genbu @ 75, then your argument might be valid, instead of using an Expansion that was specifically designed to make BLM and by default RDM less desirable for partying.

RDM was the only mage job you would see in parties in ToAU as they could adequately and extremely efficiently heal a 6 man, haste it, and keep themselves refreshed, without ever stopping. SMN was ok but unless they wanted to nuke their mana on Hastega every few minutes, ignored. WHM was ok too, but required at least a 2-3 MP per tic gear set to even start to keep up and not cause downtime in the high chain 200-500+ parties. BLM was left to gather dust in a corner while sucking it's thumb (however BLM manaburns were awesome in Mount Zhayolm, specially on my Suicide BRD). BLU was very meh, not enough people knew the job well enough though.

I didn't even have to flag up on my RDM, as within about 10 seconds of logging in I had people bidding to make me join their BEST TP PARTY I WILL EVER JOIN!!!

[Arcon]

Only rdms thought that, the rest of us knew better. Then TAU came out and you all learned otherwise.

What a load of crap, not that I expected anything else out of your mouth. The rest of you were just jealous. Before and after ToAU, RDM was an excellent soloer, tank and healer/buffer. Genbu was an easy solo, but not many jobs could have solod Seiryu, Suzaku or even Zipacna or Faust. RDM could. If you think RDM was anything less than overpowered at 75 you're mental.

[Scuro]

I remember when AV and PW were impossible..

P.S
RDM's ran it from the beginnings of FFXI until Abyssea, its when Abyssea came that RDMs were humbled some, and which is why I share no sympathy for the class, especially to the DD's. Thats a change that I won't be regretting any time soon, although I do hope that RDM's get enfeebling bonuses, but knowing most of them they would think its a valid reason for why they should be a DD than an enfeebling job @+@

[sc4500]

My list of remember is to long but these are the few i remember.

1. Remember leaving the gamecube version of PSO for this game since abunch people i knew came over , we never did find each other since we all were on different servers, after few months we found that out.

2. Remember One day i pulled a 12 hr work day with a 16 hr work day and when i came back on the game 30+ people in the linkshell that i was in , they were all above my level and they couldn't lv with me, so i just spent next yr and half just crafting stuff with my flag up and everytime I get a party invite it be time for bed.

3. Remember I ended up getting a xbox and was in a halo2 game and this one dude , ended laughing his ass off at me, because i didn't know how to create a party on this game, but he did teach me and then when the xbox 360 beta came out i felt godly till had 40 people join the server I was in and had to give them 100k gil each because was so cocky and had 6 mil on me at the time.

[Teraniku]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VufIdmgsS_0 NIN/RDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L7sEtcBluI MNK/NIN

...What now.

lol I stand corrected /bow

[vienne]

after reading this forum for a long time i finally found the ideal thread to make my first post, cause everyone loves a bit nostalgia and the older i get the more i enjoy looking back at the things they changed for good (or for worse).

i remember stating in ls (pre-aby era) that i loved playing ninja and that everyone acted like it was their first visit at the zoo and their first glance at the monkeycage. now you run through pj and walk by 20 nins and i stopped feeling special ;)

[Rekin]

I remember spending more time fishing in Kazham then leveling.