As the title says , who really made your time on FFXIV such a great thing
The thread idea was also in FFXI
As the title says , who really made your time on FFXIV such a great thing
The thread idea was also in FFXI
5v5 is fun to play even alone. That's why l kept paying sub, but l Did make some friends along the way in the arena.
I came from another game with shall we say a less than friendly/helpful playerbase. I initially started during ARR but the game didn't click for me. I tried again during Heavensward. Rolled a Summoner and embarked on my journey playing solo except for duty finder because I had been rather conditioned to keeping to myself by that other game. I was level 35 with gear so bad I couldn't get past my 25 class quest so had no jobstone. A lady asked me in gridania one day why I didn't have a job stone. I was just tired enough to tell her exactly what was happening. She ran off and made me a full set of gear and just gave it to me. Got the jobstone first try.
What she taught me has served me extremely well. This is a different sort of place with some really wonderful people in it.
Myself because I mostly played alone
The healer and DPS players when I was a noob and tanking Tam-tara for the first time. I had explained I was brand new and still learning and that it was my first ever dungeon experience, so I was asking things like if it was necessary to target which mobs need to die in order with 123 and stuff. All the things I learned from watching videos and reading guides before I ever stepped foot into my first instance. They were patient, supportive, and gave me good advice as I asked for it. They taught me how to (then) stance dance properly and how many (then) Flashes were needed on average.
Now I try to do the same for any new players in Mentor roulette as best I can today.
My sister!- she made me like this game,
she introduced me to this game and helped me throughout the game.
We still play this game together to this day..
Sadly, the person who left the biggest impression on me is also the same player that left a bad one. That's how things tend to go when people I allow to get close hang around long enough.
That's pretty doomy gloomy, so here's a picture of a cute crab!
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My best friend, who convinced me to give FFXIV a try. Initially by streaming herself playing it whilst I had Covid and was in no fit state to do a great deal beyond lay in bed staring at my smartphone. Watching her play caught my attention and I eventually decided to give the game a try for myself, and in doing so became hooked.
This actually came with an added bonus - it convinced me to call it quits on the MMO I used to play, with it's increased commitment to gamble boxes and ridiculously overpriced (£300) 'bundles'. I'd become sick and tired of that business model and, as a result, the game attached to it.
It's been slightly over two years now and I've never looked back. And I often make a point of reminding the friend in question that it was all her doing!
I came from FFXI and started playing here when the beta testing opened for 1.0 started. Everyone played with on FFXI came here.
myself
been a solo player since 1.0 will always be a solo player, i dont need friends to enjoy video games
My Ex bought the game for me because she wanted to play it with me, but I wasn't really fond of it the first couple days.
Even as i was staring to like it, I was playing Paladin and I was bad.. like really bad. Think of any of your cursed DF tanks you get, and that was me in the early months. I was bored and had picked up Arcanist at some point because I thought Scholar looked neat with the fairy, and my ex had basically quit the game after a month, so I didn't feel beholden to play tank to her healer. I was actually watching Cohh Carnage playing the game on Twitch. He was running Wanderer's Palace and Amdapor Keep for Mythology on Scholar and I watched him for a couple hours thinking it looked so much fun.
I eventually kept leveling Arcanist and picked up Scholar. Was a bit of a learning curve at first, but I ended up really enjoying it. Still swap between maning Scholar and Summoner to this day.
I almost certainly would have quit the game not long after my ex quit if I hadn't watched Cohh Carnage and felt inspired to give another class a try.
I originally went into the XIV beta with some friends that I'd raided with in Everquest through the Velious to Planes era. Depressingly they didn't stick around with the slow GCD being particular pain point.
I slugged it out solo for a while fully expecting to be a guild of 1 as I was for much of my time in WoW as well, but ended up spamming dungeon runs alongside a tank by the name of Nik. After a farming session, we got chatting away and after learning that I didn't have any FC plans lined up, he lined me up a spot in Solitude (which turned out to be about the strongest raiding FC in EU out of the gate) and the rest was history. We made a sport of trading a random tree frog from the final beta which I still carry to this day.
If you ever see this Mr Nik Niryet, put that Football Manager run down and give my inventory slot back =((((((
Myself because I know how to have fun in the game without relying on other players :)
Nobody makes this game "amazing" for me. I play this game for my own reasons. Friends, especially on this game are a fleeting temporary thing. We're all seperated by thousands of miles, and live our own individual lives. It's only natural to grow distant from people over time, and if your reason to play this MMO is to play with said friends, you won't be playing very long. Especially not with all the drama this community likes to churn up. But I do appreciate my friends company while they still have the time to share with me.
Though I do have to give a round of applause to all the people I KO in PvP as well. It's always a great time when you get to step on weaklings like they're peasants from the Brume.
During HW I was having a serious medical emergency in the middle of Sor Khai and I said "I'm sorry, but I need to leave. Something very urgent."
After a couple of days, I logged in and one of the DPS from that party had been trying to find me to see if I was okay. They approached me in Idyllshire and were relieved.
That was eight years ago and still that means a lot.
I won't cite names, but long ago when I had actually started to look for FCs, I found myself in one with someone who was fairly passionate about crafting -- Something which ended up having a domino effect on me, as it turned out to be a massive joy, and part of my experience in the game for a good part of 7-8 years.
A (former) friend of mine who bought the game for me as a late birthday gift. Obviously very generous, but he was also so patient and instructive, and I loved having someone to talk about MSQ with as I went through it, and queue for duties with me -- especially raid series. Have a lot of positive memories of duo-ing the Omega raids with him in rapid succession lol. Miss him!
Definitely my wife. While we met well before FFXIV, it was my wife, then-girlfriend who started playing EQ1 while we were in college. And she introduced me to MMOs. And we've found joy in playing MMO games ever since. It is very nice having someone to do content with and we put each other's needs before our own. It just makes for a pleasant experience overall.
A couple years back I joined a new FC and got to be pretty good friends with a couple people. Fell out of touch but when I think back it was probably the most fun I had playing the game. Chatting on Discord during the day and logging in to party up at night. It definitely gave the game some staying power for me. I still log in pretty much every day to do a couple things but it does feel a bit empty and quiet doing it alone. Can be tough finding the right crowd to click with.
I have a friend on my friend's list. They picked me up and helped me understand Eureka. They saw me struggling and went out of their way to show me the ropes, and I will never forget that. They have since moved to the EU, and their name is lost to me, but just remember that I remember you and appreciate you.
me, myself and i
A really good real life friend of mine. He's like my brother from another mother. He led the first raid static that I joined. I learned quite a bit about how FFXIV endgame works during my time in that group. He no longer plays, but we keep in touch of course and sometimes play other games online together.
A friend who got me into XIV because he took me through Coils when it was story relevant for me. As a sprout, it was an incredible experience.
Guy named Xav who introduced me to Eureka and guided me through the entire experience from zoning in to finishing Baldesion Arsenal, also introduced me to a permanent crew of CWLS folks who turned out to be great fun in all sorts of content and a guild-outside-a-guild. We were just randos in a dungeon group and he invited us all along to Eureka for funsies and it went from there.