Do you remember when...

Remember Doblyns?

Do you remember mass Uldah leve failing in large parties for max SP gain with linked and GA? And if you didn't belong to an LS, you were pretty much screwed on keeping up with the masses.

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Originally Posted by SniperRifle

Remember Doblyns?

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I remember when Doblyns were far squishier resulting in better sp.. since then i have had to resort to Puks and Raptors for my solo play after leves.

remember when mobs were 1/4 their size?

login one day and the squirrel was the size of your hand....

login the next day and that squirrel could be a lalafell's mount!

HOLY CRAP SOMEONE CALL THE EXTERMINATOR

Do you remember the days you have to carry 20 stack arrow to grind?

Remember standing next to someone Harvesting and the items going into your inventory?

Remember the forest of Onion Helms at CE release in the starting instance and not being able to find the NPC to get you out of the instance?

Remember running to Coerthas to find Ishgard to be still closed at launch!

Remember spawn camping the Behest npc and then nobody forming a party?

Remember everyone always attack anything but the RED mobs during Behest?

Remember taking 25mins to NPC 20 items?

Remember the Wards crashing every few hours and the silly names they had?

Remember when there were absolutely no NMs, including Faction NMs.

Remember when people said :

"it'll get better just wait for closed beta"
"it'll get better just wait for open beta"
"it'll get better just wait for launch"
"it'll get better just wait til after first few patches"
"it'll get better just wait for new team to get up to speed"
"it'll get better just give it a year"
"it'll get better just wait for ps3 launch" ............

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Originally Posted by Zetsumei_Tsunarashi

Remember when people said :

"it'll get better just wait for closed beta"
"it'll get better just wait for open beta"
"it'll get better just wait for launch"
"it'll get better just wait til after first few patches"
"it'll get better just wait for new team to get up to speed"
"it'll get better just give it a year"
"it'll get better just wait for ps3 launch" ............

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It has been getting better, albeit slowly. Whole reason I started this thread lol.

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Originally Posted by Zetonegi

Do you remember when you could get mages to rank 50 in a matter of hours?

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Do you remember when mages devoted to healing got screwed over after they "fixed" this, causing us to get a total of 500 sp for a 3 hour party of 15 doing over 10 5 star 20 leves at 15.

Good times ; ;

Do you remember when we had all these different stats. Also everything else on this SCREENSHOT I really liked some of the stuff they had in this game when it first came out.... it was just soo buggy that they took a lot of it out of the game. D; Also do you remember this THE CHARGE UP METER

Hm..

I can't tell if it's been said, yet, but:

Entity collision detection:
We'd catch slightly before passing through other characters or monsters.

I really miss that; 'can see how some found it annoying but for me it was the best solution I've yet seen to the choice between 'annoyingly unrealistic ghosting' and 'aggravatingly getting stuck behind impassable characters'. Well, aside from Ragnarok Online, which would push you out of a tile occupied by another entity, but that hardly works in a game that doesn't use tile-based movement.

One of the very first in a long line of features the dev's have hacked out that while they were in the game made me think, 'Oh, that's a nice touch.'

THE LAG
It was everywhere; oh the humanity!

Oh, and how it used to bug and not let you attack leve mobs randomly in the middle of a fight. That was amazing fun.

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Originally Posted by Zetsumei_Tsunarashi

Remember when people said :

"it'll get better just wait for closed beta"
"it'll get better just wait for open beta"
"it'll get better just wait for launch"
"it'll get better just wait til after first few patches"
"it'll get better just wait for new team to get up to speed"
"it'll get better just give it a year"
"it'll get better just wait for ps3 launch" ............

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yeah, i do and still waiting.

Do you remember little squirrels ? :D

Do you remember when the game was released yet it still felt like beta :| i do lol

...the best way to grind a Class up was to solo mass-murder millions of Coblyn's/Doblyn's?

The good thing was, i did end up with more than 30.000 Earth Shards and more than 1500 Earth Crystals.

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Originally Posted by Alegis

...the best way to grind a Class up was to solo mass-murder millions of Coblyn's/Doblyn's?

The good thing was, i did end up with more than 30.000 Earth Shards and more than 1500 Earth Crystals.

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Don't forget about the silver ore too :P

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Originally Posted by MeowyWowie

Don't forget about the silver ore too :P

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I sold them to an NPC >< i still want to slap myself because of that...

Do you remember when there were no targeting modes?

When you didn't recieve sp for killing sidequest mobs?

When there were no exclamation points for quests?

When there were NO sidequests ;P

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Originally Posted by KiriA500

Remember when you gained SP during a fight, resulting in you sometimes gaining 0 SP with Guardian's Aspect during a guildleve?

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Dunno if its been said cuz i've only read the first page of replies, but...

Do you remember when conjurers and thaumaturges could get like 5 ranks off 1 guild leve by spamming AoE cures and buffs on each other with guardians aspect active? Because they got random SP for every person the spell affected, and the aspect greatly boosted this SP. People were R30 cons on launch day.

I don't remember it in retail cuz i only got the game about a month and a half ago, but i remember it from beta xD I do know it still worked back during the launch though.

Remember all the RMT shouts?

Do you remember 111111111211111132111111 no stamina.

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Originally Posted by Gazille

Do you remember when the game was released yet it still felt like beta :| i do lol

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That's because it was pretty much identical to Beta in almost every way.

I remember when criticism wasn't seen as trolling and people were actually understanding of others' different opinions on a game....

Do you remember when you only had 2 rank 20,30,40 gathering leves instead of 6 per reset because only one city had them.

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Originally Posted by AsterBarnivere

I remember when criticism wasn't seen as trolling and people were actually understanding of others' different opinions on a game....

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It was a beautiful time.

actually, criticism have a different meaning from unpunishability of word. A lot of people here think he can say any wrong, pretext or just fool ideas without any basis and be praised for that. I don't know in what ideal world people live, but in this you have freedom to say bull****. But if you say bull**** expect a shitstorm

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Originally Posted by yukikaze_yanagi

actually, criticism have a different meaning from unpunishability of word. A lot of people here think he can say any wrong, pretext or just fool ideas without any basis and be praised for that. I don't know in what ideal world people live, but in this you have freedom to say bull****. But if you say bull**** expect a shitstorm

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no you misunderstood. it was originally on the forums you could give positive or negative feedback and it was all taken without the flame fest. people were always on here bashing everything about the game and tanaka personally and that was fine, but soon as yoshi was put in charge anything negative said was whining or qq.

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Originally Posted by thepinksupervisor

Do you remember 111111111211111132111111 no stamina.

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nope and if you do you were playing it wrong.

my favorite remember whens:
-you had to use guard or a shield ability to gain any shield sp
-some of our buffs being added to the game when you scrolled over them with a mouse they were all in japanese, even if you had FR/DE/EN version
-and remember when we didn't have these forums? And we had to wait 3 months for crappy info because no one wanted to give it to us.
-and the six anima cost for every teleport. It was insane.

Do you remember when it showed how many people where logged on?

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Originally Posted by thepinksupervisor

Do you remember 111111111211111132111111 no stamina.

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No because I didn't suck at the game.

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Originally Posted by MeowyWowie

It has been getting better, albeit slowly. Whole reason I started this thread lol.

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I think the game peaked back in mid-december.

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Your an Iron File is damaged.

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You spearfish the begin spearfishing!!! :D

Remember to make an iron round knife blade you needed an iron round knife, but to make the iron round knife you needed the iron round knife blade? lol!!!

And speaking of unattainable items...

Anyone remember spruce logs and branches were attainable along with rosewood branches? (never got a log though). Sad I sold them. :)

Do you remember the rank up fanfare first day in the beta 3?
First thought was "Oh, nice ^^"
After 1 minute in Camp Bearders Rock it was "How annoying!"
Because you didn't hear only your own rank up fanfare, but from all the other players in the area too

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Originally Posted by HiirNoivl

Remember to make an iron round knife blade you needed an iron round knife, but to make the iron round knife you needed the iron round knife blade? lol!!!

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Lol, broken recipes ftw.

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Originally Posted by HiirNoivl

You spearfish the begin spearfishing!!! :D

Remember to make an iron round knife blade you needed an iron round knife, but to make the iron round knife you needed the iron round knife blade? lol!!!

And speaking of unattainable items...

Anyone remember spruce logs and branches were attainable along with rosewood branches? (never got a log though). Sad I sold them. :)

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Yea, i have those logs and have one Ebony Log and 4 Ebony Branches.

When if you died, there was no "return" option, you had to turn the game off and log back in and you'd still be dead. This was the brink of the game lol

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Originally Posted by MeowyWowie

Do you remember

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On the 21st day of September?