Final Fantasy XI Nostalgia

Figured in amongst all the whine on this forum, we should have a few fun threads too, so I thought (based on recent posts in other threads) a bit of nostalgia over our experiences in FFXI.

For me, the most memorable moments were:

Promyvions - I hit level 30 and still had little clue what was going on in this game. My Pc could barely handle anything outside of my Mog House, so I tended to ignore cutscenes, minimizing the game while they played out, due to them crashing my PC. I was dragged up to this point in CoP with no clue what was going on, and then all of a sudden I was in an 18 man alliance, standing at the dem crystal. We entered, and the music got all emo, and I realised that I might have underestimated this game so far. Wipes, lost people, abusive language and tears followed, leading up to a 3 hour slog through the place, and ending with 8 of us left at the top. I even remember it was thundering outside my window and it was about 6:00am before we all logged out after giving up. Went back with my LS and we finally got them done the next day though. Stepping into Lufaise Meadows for the first time really got me. I was stunned. I think that was the point where I first felt the games tug and got me into it.

40+ hour grind parties - We would spend 1-3 hours standing in Jeuno (yup, no Aht Uhrgan at this point) shouting for members for Bibiki Bay and Moon parties, get to the camps after about 20 mins of travelling, and start slaughtering the landscape. After 6 hours, I would say {I'm sorry} {I'm sleepy}, pull in my replacement, and log for the night. Waking up the next morning and logging in, the same party is still there, with the odd new member, and the party is still rolling! Joining in, and continuing on over a weekend, epic.

Temple of Uggalepih - No place in FF matched this zone, for it's horrific array of aggro types. Sight, sound, magic, being a taru, you name it, it was there, and of course, the Tonberries. I remember resetting my rancor for the first time and thinking, "meh, won't have to do this again for a long time"... WRONG! Probably visited that NPC at least 250 times in my total career of FF playing.

Ru'Aun Gardens - A very good friend of mine (Segg on Seraph) used to be here all the time while I was in the lower levels, and told me all about what happened up here. I never looked on the wikis etc for pictures, as I loved the surprise, but I always imagined this wonderful lush garden full of weird creatures and gods lolloping about, with some awesome music playing. When I finally got up there, I must say I wasn't disappointed, not exactly what I imagined but fantastic nonetheless. So many hours whittled away up here wiping over and over on gods, as we learned how to defeat them.

Al'Taieu - We were amongst the first people on Seraph to gain access to sea, and as such, got very quickly acquainted with the new variations on aggro types. After exploring, we returned to the spawn point for players completing the airship fight, sat down and waited. So many people zoning in and getting glomped by the UFO hovering there. We would of course RIII them, but not until they experienced their first few encounters in this wonderful zone.

Levelling Summoner - For anyone in FFXI, Summoner and Beastmaster were labors of love. You did not get these 2 jobs to 75 on a whim. You had to work your arse off. Finding goblins and bombs at your level to solo was half the battle, as if you did it right, you would be netting faster exp than groups, but this came with hefty risks of being alone in the back of the most deserted dungeons in the game. Hours spent running backwards and forwards inside the Cape Terrigan tunnel (can't recall it's name right now, but it was the one with Bune in it) waiting for goblins to explode, and also climbing to the peak of that big snowy mountain (grah memory fails today) to get to the bombs up top. Taking the extra moment to breathe when you set your /seacom as "DD {You can have this} - {Healing Magic} {I don't have anything to give you}, slog out to the mountains, and then get that whisper that you are needed to party, only to find once you arrive you are expected to heal (which most of the time I would leave, but somedays I would just bit the bullet and do it, I was a fantastic healer, but I didn't command giant avatars just to play nurse).

Camping the kings/21-24 hour spawns - Why so serious? I would always joke about while camping these things, /em points at NM name and such, people would always respond with such venom. I would waddle about in between windows trying to start dance off's and games of hide and seek, but so many people were so up themselves, they couldn't come down off their clouds to play with the widdle taru :( - The feeling of seeing that Yinyang Robe/Ridill/Kraken Club drop you have been working on for months finally pop up in your loot pool, and the excitement that would follow on vent/teamspeak, don't really get the same feelings in FFXIV yet.

Will add in more as I think of them. How about you guys? Any stories to share around this text based campfire?

-First real party I had at like lv9-10 or something in Konschtat (Near the crag of dem on quadavs). Guy taught me how to write a provoke macro and because of it I had <call2> in my voke macro for like a year and a half.

-After a party in dunes some of the party members were going on about a dragon being the first boss in the game. I hadn't even started my rank missions so I didn't know you had to be on 2-3 to fight the dragon (Neither did the other two eager nubs in the party) so after that we decided to take a trip to windurst to fight it. None of us had been to windurst before, one died on the boat (thanks Sea Horror) and another got chopped by a goblin in Buburimu. Made it to Windurst for the first time by myself and it was actually pretty awesome since it's completely different from Bastok. I then spent hours fishing moat carps there to save up for a 6k fire sword... for my WAR.

-Finally hitting 30 and being able to do the SAM quest. Now I'm sure everyone remembers how fucking hard this quest is for a lv30. Shouted a bit in Jeuno and had this pimp full AF DRG (This was when full AF was amazing and only for serious players/JP) show me the way. So we knock out the bomb in konschtat highlands and then he takes me to Sanctuary of Zi'tah. Saw a goobbue for the first time and thought it was ridiculous, then like every FFXI player I couldn't get over how awesome Zi'tah was. Definitely one of the more memorable zones in the game.

-First time fighting the shadow lord on my 55 SAM. Was too busy shitting myself to enjoy the amazing boss music and for a bunch of scrubby lv50-60's that fight is pretty hard. As with nearly every milestone in FFXI, I met a couple friends that I would talk to for years (one of which I even met again in XIV after losing contact with him years before).

-Summerfest. Yukatas. Goldfishing. Exploring high level dungeons as a lv1. Aw yeeeeh.

-Ballista royale, so many moments. Royale rules = score petras 3 at a time, 60 cap, no subjobs, no repeating jobs, teams of 6. I went on my (pre-seigan/hasso) SAM and damn was this a close match. Enemy WAR uses mighty strikes + TP wing and I third eye'd his raging rush then later on I practically zoned out their entire team by pelting them with sleep arrows. Our team ended up winning it for the server but we lost to Leviathan or some shit.

-Like OP, I too had a crazy experience with my first promy. This was when CoP first came out and nobody knew what the fuck they were doing so we took a full alliance of 18, most of whom died on the way, up to the top floor. Did we have those debilitating items you NEED to defeat the bosses? Fuck no. Wiped like bitches. Later on I beat it with the typical anti-promy build of WAR RNG RNG SMN SMN SMN. Don't even care because that shit was hard.

-Then I realized Promies are bitch shit when I did the airship battle in CoP. Took 12 tries and I have to say you're a hairy chested manbeast if you can successfully tank pre-nerf Omega on NIN. I believe the time limit was 35 minutes-45 minutes or something but we only had about 30 seconds to spare on our winning run.

-Being locked out of CN for 3 hours because one guy had to train the entire zone. Same deal with Garlaige. Being stuck in Selbina thanks to all the GOB2ZONE dudes. Good times.

-Got spook to drop traveler's mantle twice in a row and blew the cash on smithing to join the padded cap craze that everyone was milking. SE nerfed it and I lost 60k :(

-Camped Mee Deggi with a THF friend and finally got O.kotes drop (500k at the time). My legs were shaking the entire chocobo ride back to Jeuno and I blew my 250k cut on like 3 items.

-Cheating my Divine Might win by going as BLM x17 SAMx1. I was the SAM and the ONLY person with a pop item. I redid the fight the old fashioned way because I needed the challenge and that fight is amazing.

-Dismemberment Brigade BCNM60. Back when spectacles/assault earring were good money this was a worthwhile and pretty difficult BCNM. Required a balanced party with some form of AoE sleep and ACTUAL STRATEGY OMG. I never got a good drop but damn was that fight fun. I made a ton of gil off Wild Wild Whiskers though since it was an easy 3-man with like an 80% drop rate for an item worth 600k that people somehow did not know about.

-Sky. Love the zone, love the music, love the lore behind it, love fighting gods, HATE farming god pop items. Suicidal thoughts every time my LS would string the words "farm" and "water" in the same sentence.

-Swift belts. Fuck that shit. Hands down the most annoying group effort I've ever had to endure in XI.

I could honestly go on forever with stuff like this.

The COP missions really did it for me in 11. I was so addicted to trying to get good parties together and complete the tough missions. Some of them I went 1/9, 1/8 etc but when you finally pull it off it was such a great feeling. You really had to have a good party together with people knowing their roles to complete the missions which was also awesome. I'm waiting for FF14's version of epic missions that actually require strategy and are somewhat difficult.

I finished the Chains of Promathia missions up to Sea right before they lifted the level limits on the areas. It was all amazing, the burning circle fights, Diabolos, going to Promy-Vahzl. It's now dated content, but being able to go through it back during the cap days was amazing and it was one of my greatest accomplishment feelings right next to getting rank 10 for Bastok.

Kuftal Tunnel. Guivre. Yes I became his snack one day when he sneak attacked me. I went walking into the middle where the path opened up on the south side of the zone and I suddenly notice the screen shaking. Never experienced it before, was just wondering what was going on, Guivre says sup and 2 shots me. Ironically I was there for dragoon AF that day.

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Originally Posted by Shikaree

Kuftal Tunnel. Guivre. Yes I became his snack one day when he sneak attacked me. I went walking into the middle where the path opened up on the south side of the zone and I suddenly notice the screen shaking. Never experienced it before, was just wondering what was going on, Guivre says sup and 2 shots me. Ironically I was there for dragoon AF that day.

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Ahh yes Guivre. Always came outta nowhere and annihilates 2-3 parties killing crabs. Good times.

As for the bad memories, my top 5:
1) Seeking thf in Jeuno for 8 hours on a Saturday then finally getting a party only to disband when you get to camp because the 6th member pulled out.
2) Being constantly poor as a new player, stranded in the Yuhtunga Jungle with not enough gil for an airship ride.
3) Making almost all battle missions require a party sucked. Had to grab people who already finished it from your LS to help you most of the time, thanks to those willing to help.
4) Having to rely on white mages to teleport for the most part sucked. 20-30 minutes shouting for a teleport-vhazl was not fun.
5) NM's drop rate was horrible for the length of time it took for them to pop, sometimes took a week to get a piece of low lvl NM equipment fighting for claims and finally getting the drop. Now in 14 the pop is ridiculously quick but the drop rate still sucks, at least its all rare/ex so not many botters bother with it.

what a downer
i loved CoP i read that story from chapter 1 and it was amazing even for a mmorpg i loved it
i always loved making my own pt idk y ppl always complain about having to wait for a pt id always do a /sea all ??-?? inv
and make a pt in minutes every time
loved the first time i did dynamis and my ls let me go rdm/nin >.> and meele att the ppl (i still was a refresh whore)
i loved when i camped all the little nm's like leaping lizzy and went literally like 1/50 but it was so amazing the time i finally got the drop ya the wait sucked but omg worth it!
best part about final fatnasy 11 though was the community everyone was nice and wow people just helped people
funniest part about final fantasy 11 is went npc companions came out people litterly made a LINE! FFS a line XD! on a game just to wait that was rly funny.
forgot one: first time kuftal tunnel we had to time freeze perfectly to our weapon skill then get to watch the blm run around trying not to die when the tank gets agro back

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Originally Posted by danny52844

i always loved making my own pt idk y ppl always complain about having to wait for a pt id always do a /sea all ??-?? inv
and make a pt in minutes every time

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Well on my server at least "Kujata" around lvl 56-60 you would do a /sea 55-60 invite all (or whatever the command was) and see 3 thfs and a bst pop up. RARELY you would find a whm, rdm, tank, or anything useful. So making a party was pretty tough at least around though lvls. This was YEARS ago though so I'm sure its easier in the past few years (before TOAU).

tbh i loved having 3 thfs in a pt idk y ppl dont? get the pup to go /war sata the tank sata the pup sata the tank and its almsot dead ._. people are always to picky this stuff owns expecially on colibri for later game i actually had a 5 thf 1 rdm pt at lv 30 ish at garliage citidal and later crawlers nest it was awesome

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Originally Posted by danny52844

funniest part about final fantasy 11 is went npc companions came out people litterly made a LINE! FFS a line XD! on a game just to wait that was rly funny.

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ONLY in fucking FFXI. New feature that requires people to go through a battle field where only one person can participate at a time and niggas form an organized line so everyone has to wait for their turn. It was also funny to see everyone freak when the one or two assholes that skipped the line came. Probably has to do with the fact that your reputation actually mattered in FFXI.

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Originally Posted by danny52844

tbh i loved having 3 thfs in a pt idk y ppl dont? get the pup to go /war sata the tank sata the pup sata the tank and its almsot dead ._. people are always to picky this stuff owns expecially on colibri for later game i actually had a 5 thf 1 rdm pt at lv 30 ish at garliage citidal and later crawlers nest it was awesome

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I also loved multiple thfs but other people, at least WAY back when, didn't like thf in parties because it required them to actually line up with the mob. Lazy people. There was no pup back then either.

if ppl were to lazy id be like \^^/ o well ur replacements otw {see you again!}
(id never invite them again :P)

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Originally Posted by danny52844

if ppl were to lazy id be like \^^/ o well ur replacements otw {see you again!}
(id never invite them again :P)

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Yes but at the time I was playing there were no other choices available. I made it a point not to party with them again but it sucks if that's what your stuck with.

RNG PTs in Celestial Nexus with my KC before RNG melee got nerfed...Orz

Any burn PTs from 50-75 with the right jobs were amazing, and before all the burns...a good old fashioned Skillchain with Magic Burst PT like Square Enix intended.

First trip to sky with BBQ and NIN tanking our first Byakko and getting crushed after a Claw > Triple Attack www and watching Elles solo tanking while lying on the ground.

TP Burning Kirin or Playing as RNG and trying to drawing tons of hate from endless Barrage > Slugshot when kiting him the old school way.

Painful memory: Tanking Hakutaku 10 times in a row flawlessly and of course on the 11th try which happened to be my cluster...fcking up and clicking Ichi off too late sending me to the dirt and wiping...

Killing HNMs with a small/select group of skilled players to equip our social linkshell

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Painful memory: Tanking Hakutaku 10 times in a row flawlessly and of course on the 11th try which happened to be my cluster...fcking up and clicking Ichi off too late sending me to the dirt and wiping...

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Same exact thing happened to me. I was 10th or 11th to go and the pt disbanded. So after tanking for 9 of them they all left never to have another attempt at it again. I got into another party weeks later but that really pissed me off the first time. Wish I had a full LS at the time but I was only in a small social one at the time.

Everything about CoP missions was amazing.

So many great memories, it's gonna be a long post!

First days in Ronfaure: Well we've all been there, it was my first MMO and I didn't know exactly what it was all about, I'd been expecting FFXI for years with my best friend and the only thing I knew about the game came from a french player's blog during XI's first year. It was EU release and the game was packed with noobs. Nobody knew left from right then and the min/maxing was oh so far away. Ronfaure blew my mind, I'm a lazy guy but I remember waking up at 6am everyday to play the game and kill pugils in the river. I made a friend named Dracant then, he wanted to be a DRG and I wanted to be a DRK, and time would reunite us.

My first party in Valkurm Dunes: I was level 10 or something and I had built my own LS (damn, paying 8k then was all it took for me to go broke) and we went there cause we'd heard it was the best place to go to when you wanted to exp. So we went, 10 of us ranging from lv8 to 16, on lizards. We were all like "What? this exp is so gay!" but we stayed there for hours cause none of us wanted to walk all the way back to Sandy, and we were having a good time anyway.

My first exp chain: Oasis, anyone? My first real party as a lv14 WAR with a Great sword, killing a crab gave us 190exp, then 230, then 250, I couldn't believe it. At the end of the day I was lv20 and nobody could believe it in the LS, I was the cool kid aha :)

My first trip to Jeuno: I was the highest level of the LS and I didn't wanna wait so I decided to go to Jeuno alone, although I had no idea how to get there. When I was in La Theine I asked two guys for directions, they told me to go to the dunes then to Konschat Highlands because Jugner was too dangerous. When I got there I saw Quadavs, it was great but I had no map. Eventually I arrived in Passhow Marshlands and got lost, but some lv30 Galka RDM helped me. Lv30 was a big deal for most of us then... I arrived in Jeuno at 6am and had class at 8, so I called it a night, but I was proud to have arrived.

My chocobo license: Well, you all know what that's like ;)

My Kazham Airship Pass: That right there will always be my best memory of FFXI. Dracant, the friend I mentioned, was already in Kazham and told me I needed 3 keys to join him. I started in Sandy and it wasn't easy as a WAR25/THF12 but I eventually got my key off an Orc in the upper part of Yughott Grotto.
Then I took a chocobo and went to Bastok. I'd never been to Gustaberg and since I was always broke I never had any maps, so I got lost in Konschtat again. When I arrived in Gustaberg my chocobo left me, so I had to walk. I remember standing on the rock near Leaping Lizzy where you have a view of the place near Wadi, and I stopped there a while cause I thought the place looked awesome. I eventually reached Bastok and asked around to know where Palbo Mines were. Once there I got to the second floor and fought some Quadavs, but they have insane defense and I had a link, so I was going to die. Then some WAR30 with the Eisen set came along and owned the add, saving me. That armor was the shit so I was both grateful and impressed.
He helped me for a while and I got my second key. He accompanied me to Selbina after that and then logged off cause he had to get some sleep. Before that though, he told me how to get to Giddeus, but that didn't help all that much. My first cruise was awesome, I'm sure you all remember yours.
When I stepped outside Mhaura I discovered Dhalmels and all those mobs I'd never seen before. After some time I got to Sarutabaruta and that's where the magic occured. That place looked gorgeous and I remember being sad I didn't choose Windy as my nation. I met some guy who was fishing in the river and he gave me a willow rod and some worms. I fished with him for a while, then I went to Giddeus. I got lost again cause that place was the worst maze I'd seen yet, but a THF60+ helped me get my key (I guess he was farming Yagudo necklaces for Utsu:Ichi).

Kazham and beyond: Kazham and its music were awesome. I kept using that rod the guy had given me to pass the time while waiting for invites. And you had to be careful when zoning because of the Gob trains outside. I met up with Dracant and we leveled to 30 together, then we went our separate ways to unlock DRG and DRK. For most, unlocking DRK is a pain in the ass but I was so happy to be there that I actually enjoyed whacking 100 mobs in Gustaberg. After that, I kept the promise I'd made to myself and went all the way back to Saruta to level my DRK.

After that, well, my adventure began. I could talk about so many more things but I think people have already given up on reading this lengthy post, aha. Getting DRK AF, the Airship Pass, killing the Shadow Lord with a party of 6 50's, going to Lufaise Meadows for the first time... I spent 6 months farming in Delkfutt to pay my Hauby, Assault earring, Sniper rings and Vassago scythe. After that, Labyrinth of Onzozo; dieing after using all buffs before Guillotine like a moron, and so on. And finally, I'll never forget the sunsets and the sunrises in Bibiki Bay during exp parties, and the joys of Spinning Slash back when 6k/hr groups were the bomb and going /THF was also the perfect excuse to steal Gold coins from Gobs (they were selling for like 50k then!)

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funniest part about final fantasy 11 is went npc companions came out people litterly made a LINE! FFS a line XD! on a game just to wait that was rly funny.

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This was crazy, it happened on every server and almost nobody cut the line. I waited over an hour to do that fight..

The lines were huge too, found a pic of it below (about half way down the page) but the line in the SS is a lot smaller than what it was when they added the quest.

http://kanican.livejournal.com/43276.html

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Originally Posted by Nilheim

My first trip to Jeuno: I was the highest level of the LS and I didn't wanna wait so I decided to go to Jeuno alone, although I had no idea how to get there. When I was in La Theine I asked two guys for directions, they told me to go to the dunes then to Konschat Highlands because Jugner was too dangerous. When I got there I saw Quadavs, it was great but I had no map. Eventually I arrived in Passhow Marshlands and got lost, but some lv30 Galka RDM helped me. Lv30 was a big deal for most of us then... I arrived in Jeuno at 6am and had class at 8, so I called it a night, but I was proud to have arrived.

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Oh yea.. the first trip to Jeuno. That was fun running through the marshlands dodging aggro trying to follow an online map of where to go. I actually made it the first time through without dying!

one simple reason ffxiv doesnt capture the feeling is cuz everyone is a winner no challenge at all in the game. they even noob out the goblins.

ffxi made you always feel like the next mob was gonna kill you or have oh sh*t moment around every turn, quest/missions made you travel to new areas.

i sure hope this game does not trun into a warp, queue, instance game if so im done with it cuz you always feel alone and the world is empty. dont see a point to new items when i can kill anything naked.

COP was AMAZING , took months to finish was worth it..... (pre nerf of course ) , Zilart come second ....

the temple of "death" gez , tomberrys everywehere!

I loved the missions , that made FFXI fun as hell ... the BCNMS , assault , campaign ect

Oh and the jobs , Sam , Blu , SMn , pup lots of options :D

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This was crazy, it happened on every server and almost nobody cut the line. I waited over an hour to do that fight..

The lines were huge too, found a pic of it below (about half way down the page) but the line in the SS is a lot smaller than what it was when they added the quest.

http://kanican.livejournal.com/43276.html

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#2 - ATNM Test,...... Epic lol

bump cause i enjoyed this thread :P

My fondest memory of FFXI is kind of silly but it stuck with me for some reason after all these years. I went to Altepa with a friend I met in game (god I miss some people from that game like Shinojr and Ninetailz on Shiva, we were friends for 3 years and then poof we each went our separate ways)...anyway me and my friend ninetailz went to Altepa and we were just screwing around as she stole from ants on her thief I was soloing a scorpion as a BLM and It was an EASY fight. My HP dipped a little at one point and ninetailz asked me if I was OK and I'm like yea this is a piece of cake.....then the damn thing hits me with its stinger and I'm dead before the words leave my mouth...for some reason we laughed so hard about it and that one moment stuck with me.

Alot of good memories from FFXI. There were weeks of fishing off the boat at lvl 30 as war with a freind even though I never got it higher than lvl 14 fishing. Getting hit with AoEs from other PTs in khazam. As others have said trains at mant zones which i always thought were funny. Helping many people with snk invis as rdm for their 4-1 i think is was.(crests) The other northen land dynamis (not xacarb) were I went as Drk got charm and killed an entire PT of mages cause I had souleater up. When me and a freind set off fireworks in drg job fight and let another friend solo it. Being bugged by an ls mate everyday to help in an HNM fight in rolanberry. My first time zoning into sky. Having friends set up a couple tvs in my basement and repeating Pertifing Pair all night long. Trading random items to the ??? by the craigs to spawn that gob NM everytime i used them. Powerlving ls mates for hours just cause. Soloing an entire army and NM in campaign. Being killed right after getting raised in besieged. Sneaking to the portals in whitegate areas. Helping a pld friend get his jelly ring. Getting on just to chat with the LS and end up running to gutav or somehwhere else cause someone saw that x nm was up and i wanted to help raise our funds in Ls bank.

But, even though FFXI had alot of good memories there was all so alot of bad memories like days of 6+ hours of waiting for party invites. Pking back when AoEs hit everyone. Being broke almost the entire time. Sub job arugments. People stealing items in endgame events and from LS. But, I think my biggest regret is never getting anything really done. Sure i dinged 75 on a few jobs but i never finished nation mission. Never finished zilart fights. Didnt even get to start prommies. Never got fully merited on my lvl 75 jobs. Aside from dynamis and sky i really didnt get to do any other endgame events. Even though there were somethings I wasnt fond of in FFXI, it really was a memorable expreince.

This one gets me every time.. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARghlVjBab0

awww the memories and the good days! I remember when first ppl met kirin and blms casting aspir on it for hours till it run out of MP, and my first time in a HNM shell that other ls claimed a Nidhogg and someone in my LS was trying to MPK and whole ls got sent to jail LMAO!! Camping NM 21-24 hours or logging at camps on every maintance!! I remember the calls at 3am to hold Tiamat while wake more ppl up to kill it and sell gaiters lol. I remember my Dragoon which i put lots of work into and my precious Aegis <3. Working on enhancing magic gear and merits so i could solo better on my pld. I remember those exp chains 200+ <3 (the best way to lv up!).... Those were the days....

My favorite memories of FFXI were accomplishing things that seemed almost impossible.

Winning Maat battle with RDM in the early days.

Finishing CoP and Apoc Nigh after what seemed like an eternal struggle to get a group together for it. This was back in the days where you actually lost EXP for those battles, and some of them taking 6 attempts or more! (I'm looking at you, Snoll!)

Camping Yin Yang Robe or Joyeuse, getting the claim, hounding my friends to come help kill it -- and actually getting the drop.

On the first day when PS2 version was released I would change job to THF, run up to a newbie and /emote steal their gear, gil, weapon, etc.. Then my friend would send them /tells informing them to take their gear off so THFs couldn't steal it... So many naked n00bs running around LOL.

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On the first day when PS2 version was released I would change job to THF, run up to a newbie and /emote steal their gear, gil, weapon, etc.. Then my friend would send them /tells informing them to take their gear off so THFs couldn't steal it... So many naked n00bs running around LOL.

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LOL if that actually happened. I remember the great PS2 n00b wave.. fun times -_-

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Originally Posted by Ruri

LOL if that actually happened. I remember the great PS2 n00b wave.. fun times -_-

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Yeah, it was back in Sarutabaruta on the Odin server.. It started off when I /emote stole some gil off a n00b and he started freaking out. (he didn't know how to check his inventory I guess..) That's when I began to "steal" everything and my friend would play 'good cop' and tell them how to protect their stuff.

That trick worked for almost the whole first week. :D

Another great memory was the pile of bodies near the docks Selbina (due to the Sea Horror) or the wholesale slaughter outside the gates of Selbina due to some guy training the SAM af mobs back to the town... I was pretty low level and we had no idea how to get out of there LOL.

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Originally Posted by Zantetsuken

Yeah, it was back in Sarutabaruta on the Odin server.. It started off when I /emote stole some gil off a n00b and he started freaking out. (he didn't know how to check his inventory I guess..) That's when I began to "steal" everything and my friend would play 'good cop' and tell them how to protect their stuff.

That trick worked for almost the whole first week. :D

Another great memory was the pile of bodies near the docks Selbina (due to the Sea Horror) or the wholesale slaughter outside the gates of Selbina due to some guy training the SAM af mobs back to the town... I was pretty low level and we had no idea how to get out of there LOL.

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Heh trains. So much fun. Except for zoning into Crawlers Nest or Garliage Citadel and being instantly killed by 20 mobs. Then when they finally move you see 10 players in a pile at the zone line.

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Originally Posted by rainfish

This one gets me every time.. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARghlVjBab0

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Yup, that video is a prime example of how strong the community was.

Sky-

My best memories come from sky, to me it is the perfect endgame. I love farming god pops, killing gods, building our kirin sets, and just hanging out killing.

First day in sky we pulled despot and i was beyond excited (lvl 70 i believe not many ppl invited DRK back then >_<) so as we pull him to the lake to kite/dot, and in my excitement i cast bioII in the middle of a bunch of magic pots and elementals -.- group wipe and we lost despot....... good times.

My best moment was when my all windurst LS finally got our first kirin pop set. We poped him and about 5 min in a WHM called for help on kirin..... -_- so after we all wipe/logout and zombie we try killing again. After about 10x more wipe another linkshell came and killed our kirin with 25% left(mainly because they had watched our sad attempts for about an hour and wanted to start their pop). Luckily, they let us lot our 1 drop(Hecatomb body) and all of my ffxi luck came together into a 998 roll and i won it. Best moment of my ffxi career, fighting for almost 2 hours and failing was awesome and engaging and because of the kindness of another ls i got my drop.

My worst moment came when trying to craft the cursed harness, 2 diff crafter with 100+3 botched the synth, costing me about 1.5 mil to actually finish making the body -.-

edit: my actual worst moment joining a static pt for my first 75 (SMN, BLM, PUP,DRK(me),BST, PLD(sometimes a WAR or NIN the tank never showed up to the static -_-)) Slowest pt to 75 i think you can get, wanted to /wrist but played with the static group the majority of my ffxi career.

other great moments-

Beating Maat
Shouting for raises
First 75

/miss ffxi

I miss the strategy. You don't have a PL in qufim, someone had to keep track of the time you had to huddle up together by the entrance to the lake camp and not get aggro'd by undead pop until 4 in the morning in game time. EVEN at low levels there was strategy.

In xiv if they give us chocobos, please give us a quest for a chocobo riding license, not just "you can now pay gil for chocobos without a quest", I dont want to wait 8 hours in ishgard though >.<

I tried to trade npcs stuff in this game, still might offer to trade you when giving you a linkpearl in xiv >.< idk if i miss it...okay i miss it...i wanna kill ixals for their stupid necklaces to get fame in the far east and then have to TRADE them to a mithra who tries to jack your crap from you in a reworked gridinia mission for public companies? *wink*

That was mean to link the white mage vid for xi, makes me cry EVERY TIME!

p.s so many memories of just sitting in my mog house, listening to that music typing to people. I love xi because if you wanted to practice another language you could find a ls that was accepting to you because of that pursuit and they would try to help you while practicing their english (this was with french). I hate that in xiv, we're homeless and we don't have "jobs" (ha get it!)

I agree with just about everything others have brought up. I recall the Event Treant in 2003 the best though.
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/bestiary.html?fmob=1411

-The whole CoP experience. Most favorite expansion for the game, period. Challenging arena fights, the planning, farming, and gathering folks to do it; the scenery, the music, the exploration, and the storyline was all woven together to be the best experience. With the level caps implemented on the fights, you had a very strong feeling of progression as you made past each hurdle, and when that final hurdle of Airship was crossed... now that was a glorious feeling. Then they nerfed it all to hell so any cheap two-bit jockey can do the whole thing solo. UFOs need to prob those people good and hard.

-Assault, Limbus, and Salvage. Quick, requires planning and strategy to go smoothly, and doesn't require massive amounts of people. Rewards are also lovely, and isn't nearly as draining as Dynamis.

I have a lot of fond memories of FFXI :)

The first time my boyfriend and a friend of ours ran through Korroloka tunnel at 20-25ish (sneak and invis all the way) to Altepa Desert. We had no map of the area and are trying to find the entrance to Rabao, when our friend spots something in the distance... in PT chat he says "Hey, let's ask that dude over there" and he runs up to a cactuar only to get one shotted!

A whole group of us at level 20ish decide to try and climb to the top of Delkfutt's Tower and complete Mission 3-3 (killing Porphyrion). It took us a couple of hours trying to get through the floors (trial and error with teleports), sneak and invis dropping at all the wrong times and having to stop and kill goblins etc on the way. We finally make it to the 10th floor knowing that we have to kill this big Gigas. There was a 75 BLM sitting by the portal at the top and he offered to help kill it with us. I think he cast one spell and it fell over; we were all pretty amazed at the time and hyped that we'd managed to finish the mission (ok, with some help) and that our hard work was not in vain.

Camping for a whole week in Ordelle's caves with a MNK friend, with no ToD, and finally claiming Morbolger against another person camping so that he could get his Brown Belt (they were like 1mil at the time and we were noobs that couldn't afford that then).

One of my first parties in the Dunes, someone managed to link a dragonfly and we were getting beaten up pretty badly (I think our tank died) then someone started curing us who was standing nearby and after a few minutes we managed to kill both mobs and recover (I don't know why they didn't just pull it off us at the time thinking back). I checked the player to see that they were a level 40 something RDM and I was like "that's cool, I want to be able to help people out like that"... I played RDM for 5 years after that and loved it lol.

Aht Urhgan Mission 44- Nashmeira's Plea- our PLD accidently covered the wrong person and I died after chainspell nuking Raubahn down (tactic was melee kill first, magic second and then however on the third). We managed to beat the fight though with not a lot of time to spare (not the best party setup- DRK dual weilding swords...., RDM, BLU, PLD, SMN, WHM) and the music from that fight still gets to me. Alexander was definately a fun one ^^

First time running through Caedarva Mire (I was level 50 I think) trying to get the outposts with my heart pounding, trying to dodge truesight Imps and then later Soulflayers. Oh, and chigoes... god I hated those little buggers just suddenly popping up out of the bushes.

Beating the Promy's way before the nerf- the sense of achievement at finally reaching Lufaise Meadows with a rag-tag bunch of strangers...
But, the best COP fight of all before they nerfed it was One to be Feared. I think it took us 4 or so attempts to finally win that fight; we always had one wipe (either on Omega or Ultima I forget now), but I always remember that as long as you didn't die more than once you still had enough time to recover and complete the battlefield. (Now it doesn't matter of course :( I was so sad when I helped some LS people out getting Sea and beat the airship fight so easily.)

Dawn was an exciting battlefield, running around in what looked like space with Prishe and Selh'teus fighting along with you. Seal of Quiescence was horrible (AoE mute, couldn't be removed with echo drops) but otherwise I didn't think this fight was as hard at the time as One to be Feared. Loved the whole atmosphere though :) Plus... Rajas ring at last!

Someone managed to call for help on Kirin in our LS hehe, took probably 10mins of relogging of all PT members and reforming to try and finally get him back claimed with one person kiting and a healer keeping an eye on them. At least it only happened the once... although we did have someone cfh on Byakko once too lol.

So many fun battles in FFXI- Divine Might, Storms of Fate, One to be Feared, Dawn, Nashmeira's Plea, Sky Gods, Sea Gods, Odin in Einherjar.... I really hope that FFXIV will end up giving players the same sort of fond memories, sense of achievement and fun (yet sometimes frustrating) battles. ^^

Oh oh oh! Memory rush!

First starting the game, was picked up by a friendly Bard who got me setup, and got me my Rank 5 before I hit level 9. No clue at all what I had done, or how tricky this was at the time for other players, and I easily got my airship pass. I was tractored through Castle Oztroja from entrance to the one way door, to get my missions completed.

So many memories have come back since reading these posts. Kinda glad I started this one now :D

You know what gets me? the sound home point crystals make when you stand near them. Awww yeah.

Really hope that in 8 years I'll be thinking back to XIV nostalgia but man, dat FFXI. Can't wait to get home and level my DNC.