Reflections on friendships

I don't know how everyone spent their last evening on FFXIV as we know it but; as part of my last day on FFXIV, before the final save, I decided to take a few moments with some of my closest friends. I am concerned that the transition to 2.0 will cause some to stop playing or will result in us ending up on different servers. As such, I asked them each to accompany me on a field trip and I took us to the places we met. While there we discussed how we met and some of our fun memories as friends. We also took a screenshot with a final 1.0 /goodbye to commit this moment to history. Below are the screenshots as well as a description of my friendship with each of them.

Antanias Lebanon:
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I met Ant over a year ago in a random party while I was leveling up my Warrior. I don't remember much about the party but I think we were getting rather good exp for the time outside of Zahar'ak. As often happens in fast exp parties, Ant and I died. Now that would not have been significant, however, when we died Ant's character looked like he was grabbing on to Vayle's boob. Ant mentioned something about his death in party and I made a comment along the lines of "I am sure Ant doesn't mind being dead since he is /boobgrab on Vayle". This then started uproarious laughter from the party and sealed the deal on my new friend. Antanias and I quickly became close friends, duoing leves and joining exp parties together to level up our Warrior and Dragoon. Ant has always been around to greet me with a hug and plenty of cookies and I am grateful for our unlikely death positioning to have brought us together. Though we have had too many fun memories to count; my favorite Ant memory would have to be how we met. I don't think any other story will ever top that.


Reimi Saionjo:
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I met Reimi in Ul'dah over the course of a few weeks over a year ago. Reimi is a rerolled character and I will not share his original name to protect the innocent. However, I did not know that Reimi was a rerolled character when I first met him, all I knew was that some random gentleman kept trolling me in Ul'dah and doing emotes at me. When I finally got it out of him who he was, it turned out that we were previously in the same ls. Reimi is such a wonderful and funny guy; I have busted out laughing over so many of his comments. Reimi is also, almost always, pants-less. And he has a fine set of legs... My favorite Reimi memory is when we went to help a ls mate out with her Ifrit easy fight. Now, Ifrit easy is well, super easy. And Reimi decides to take that to the extreme and fight with a reindeer hat and no pants. It is awfully hard to take a flaming beast seriously when your ls mate is a pants-less reindeer.... LOL!


Jiradovia Noveno:
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I met Jira at Camp Bloodshore about a year ago when he was leveling up his first job, Paladin. I was in the area headed to kill a lower level nm with a group of friends for a quest. For some reason one of my friends at the time mentioned Jira standing there, and we asked him to join our group and did a few leves. Jira had a friendly vibe about him and he didn't have a linkshell so I started chatting with him a bit in /tell. Jira indeed proved to be a friendly gentleman and he joined our linkshell. Jira and I have been close ever since, always getting into crazy battles or just goofing off in town. My favorite Jira memory is around the time we first met, we roamed all over Eorzea to kill NM's to get his Paladin gear. It was a great bonding time and allowed us to get to know one another better.


Nopax Nopax:
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I met Nopax Nopax about 6 months ago in a pick up group for Ifrit hard. I was on my warrior out to get my ever elusive axe and Nopax was on his White Mage (as usual). I had never tanked Ifrit before but I had fought him plenty so I thought it would be no big deal. However, Nopax had to kindly remind me on several occasions to move the flaming beast lest I mpk him, my White Mage. Nopax seemed to be a pretty ok guy and seemed to know his stuff so I sent him a couple of /tells over the course of the evening asking him silly questions about the fight. I added him to my friends list and we ended up being in several more Ifrit groups together and I have spent nearly every night since then in some sort of adventure with him. One of the things I love about Nopax (and also hate sometimes when I know I failed lol) is his honesty. He will always tell me how to improve or do something better. In addition our ever present /tell banter during big battles has always made me laugh. My favorite Nopax memory actually occurred on several occasions. He has convinced countless people that doing different emotes in Hamlet will cause us to lose 25pts per emote. This has resulted in some hilarious reactions from people when we start spamming /cheer or /disappointed etc.


Kres Leschae:
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Wow, what can I say about my Kresy dear... It seems like I have known him forever, probably because I have and anyone that knows me, knows that he is totally my favorite person ever. He has been my constant throughout my FFXIV career. I met Kres when I first started playing FFXIV more seriously. I was a very shy gal that didn't speak unless spoken to. Kres was in my linkshell and he just seemed super nice so I would ask his advice on gear or how to play a job on occasion. The first time I ever saw Kres's character though, was at Camp Blackbrush. I was crafting and thinking about rerolling on a different server because I just couldn't seem to make any friends when Kresy came to turn in a leve. He saw me and started crafting with me and thus a friendly conversation ensued. During our conversation we decided that we should level up a job together and so it was. We were Gladiator and Conjurer and we were AWESOME! We duo'd our way to the 40's on leves and grinding mobs. In addition to grinding we also killed nearly every free roaming mid-range NM duo. This was quite the feat back then for a level 30~something Conjurer and Gladiator. Since this time we have spent countless hours killing random mobs, participating in battles or wasting time in Ul'dah. Kres will forever be my favorite person to just waste time with. My favorite Kres memory is killing Cactuar Jack back in the day as level 30~something Gladiator and Conjurer. Back then you either solo'd Jack very slowly as Thaumaturge or you took a couple parties to absorb his needles. As we were duo'ing him for the Elmo for Kres we had an audience of people on several occasions cheering us on in disbelief. (p.s. I think Kresy went like 1/50 on that darn Elmo but it was worth it when it dropped.)


The reason I have kept playing FFXIV for so long is because of the people I have met and the friendships formed. This list is just a sampling of my closest friends, however there have been many more that have either stopped playing, have transferred to other servers or we have grown apart. I have so many screenshots and memories that it is impossible to list all of them, however, I hold them all dear.

I know that by this point very few people are reading my ramblings. However, it has been a joy to write and I hope that it brings back memories for other people of how they met their closest friends, and possibly share them.

I look forward to continuing friendships and creating new ones in A Real Reborn.

Love,
Vayle~

Vayle,

Thank you for sharing your stories! I read all of them. ^^

More than anything else, the friendships and shared experiences are reason why I look forward to spending time playing FFXIV every day.

The person I have to thank most is (I hope she doesn't mind my sharing this!)

Milicent Odin

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I first met Mili, as we call her, about a month after FFXIV started. I was browsing her personal bazaar while she was standingin Ul'dah, and wanted to buy some dyes that she was offering for sale -- but she ran off before I could complete the purchase. I sent her a /tell asking if I could find her and buy the items... but no response came for a few minutes. I had already given up before her reply finally came. It turns out she had never spoken to anyone before and had frantically pulled out the instruction manual trying to figure out how to respond!

A few days later I ran into Mili again at Skull Valley. I bought some more dye from her, and we talked a bit before I invited her into our Linkshell... and we have been great friends ever since.

Mili is always cheerful. Always willing to put down what she is doing to help a friend. She has a very level head and forever has a positive outlook on things, which nicely balances out for my sometimes moody and uncertain moments. ^^;

We have been playing together practically every day for close to 2 years now. We have been through thick and thin. Good times and some not so good ones. But her friendship has been unwavering.

One of our most memorable moments together is from the end of summer 2011, after she offered to help me scout out a location for a summer fireworks party. Just a quiet moment where we stopped to watch the sunset from Limsa Lominsa.

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nice thread :)

Good thread, was nice to read your stories :)

I really will miss 1.0 for as weird as it sounds, and although very hard I hope most of my friends don't segregate as some are from Japan. :(

Great thread, was really nice to read! Sounds like you met some great people! :)

great thread. i'd just like to say goodbye to a few of the people i have gotten to know pretty well over the last 2 years that i will probably lose contact with after arr launches because of the regional issues.

Jam Bacchi - i'll miss you even though you are from god forsaken gridania, but now i can burn it down without you stopping me.

Star Killer - I'll create a char on whatever server you wind up on just to /em stabs <t> in the back.

Cena Nana - i'll miss your awesomeness and my favorite crafting buddy. i don't know that i would have ever capped all my crafts without our 18 hour grind sessions and chatting back and forth the whole time.

there's many others i will miss once arr launches again, but felt these 3 needed special shout outs because we will probably be separated after the launch due to regional servers. i'll miss you guys. if i didn't list you and we get separated don't think you will be forgotten, but there's so many great friends i've made over the last 2 years it's impossible to list them all. please, don't feel overlooked because each of the friends i have made over the last 2 years made the game very enjoyable.

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nice thread :)

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I met verily because he joined my ls for 3 days before Al-qaeda kidnapped and brainwashed him.

I have too many SS to post in here....

I was glad to make a few good and worthwhile friends in my time playing XIV on Sargatanas, and I'm sure if said people read my post they would definitely know who they are. Unfortunately, the majority of the people that I've encountered on this server are the most unfriendly, traitorous and abhorrent people I've ever had the misfortune of wasting my time playing with in an MMORPG, and I'm sure if those people read my post, they would also know who they are. ^^

I'm looking forward to moving to a server as far away as possible from the degenerate populace of the current Sargatanas. Hopefully I'll see the handful of decent people that made the game worth playing on this server on a new and better one in ARR.

About the whole boob-grabbing thing...it was an accident xD

Omg Nopax(nts)!?

How did he make it into these threads :D

Love that guy >.>

Thank you for sharing your stories, they make me happy! It is nice to read about favorite memories, keep them coming!

@Siegtaru - You know I have met some pretty horrible folks on Balmung / Besaid as well that I would be happy to get away from, but the number of awesome people I have met strongly outnumbers them. With my luck however, I will end up on a server with more of the horrible people than the people I actually liked.

@Wubwub - I love that Nopax² guy too, he is pretty great!! :D

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About the whole boob-grabbing thing...it was an accident xD

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Suuuure it was. . . :P

When I first opened this thread and started reading it I couldn't even finish it because I started feeling super sad about the people I may never get to chat with again. Came back after lunch and read through it and I want to say thank you to the OP for sharing. Its the friendships that keep me playing MMOs. I have so many countless friends I've made over the years on FFXI and FFXIV that I wouldn't trade it for anything. Sure, the game is fun in its own right, but that only lasts for a little while. Its the friendships and great memories you have with the people you play with that keep you coming back.

I'm happy that 2.0 is coming, but I'm also sad that 1.0 is ending because I don't want to lose the friends that I've made. I'm not talking about the people in my shell that I talk to everyday, because I'll still talk to them regularly. Its the people I partied with once or twice that motion joyfully to me when I see them in Ul'dah that I'm worried about losing the most. I hope to see everyone again in 2.0, but there's so much uncertainty about where people will end up, or if they're coming back at all. I just hope SE does all they can to keep interest in the game over the next few months so people don't move on to other things and not come back.

Mai,

My Miqo'te friend, you were one of the first people I met in FFXIV within days of launch. We stayed friends from then on! No one else was a constant in my Eorzea life. You were the only person I could trust with anything - it helped we were the same age ^.^ Of course with that wisdom came responsibilities and RL interfered for us both. I recovered somewhat, but I know yours brought you away from FFXIV - perhaps never to return. So I lost my one good friend. I don't say that with regret, but with deep understanding and empathy. Still, FFXIV has never been exactly the same. I miss you and still hope to see you in 2.0! (you too Fubii ^.^)

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Don't have screenshots but spent my last few hours saying bye to all my friends today, was sad but will most likely see them all in a few months or in beta so its all good :D Got a few of their numbers to text em or whatever.

i really like this thread ^^ so im going to share my own ! =D

in my case i had my favorite people ingame end up in 1 Linkshell, except Permata Merah <3 T.T

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Nume Monja
is hands down my favorite person in any MMO ive played, i first met him when i had just dinged my LNC and THM to 50 and wanted to try out the first dungeon released ingame, i had taken my char to the entrance and sat there for a few hours waiting for a party to need someone while i craft, he got me into his party, and the next day i joined the linkshell he was in, and from then onwards we played on almost daily basis, great personality and a great Player ^^

Shin Rutia Also had an impact on my Eorzea adventure, as he was the leader of the new linkshell i joined, and Turned out to be one of my favorite people ingame, he was different from previous leaders i had, more focused and serious, and he would pop out of nowhere with some of the funniest comments ive ever read,hes also a straight shooter, and i owe him a great deal.

Shai Shai joined our Linkshell and turned out to be one of the coolest most open minded people ive met ingame, how she didnt Blacklist us all when she first got on our Team Speak is beyond me, but im glad she didnt lol, and shes a great help whenever u needed her !

theres also Onii Kisaragi
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and Sir Dean
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, i met Dean just before he joined our linkshell, he just cracks me up, ive had allot of laughs thanks to him and consider him one of my closest XIV pals, hes up to do anything at anytime anywhere which is hella fun, when i log in and it isnt event time, i make sure to see what hes up to, to join up, hes one of the nicest people in Eorzea!

Brandon Heat , Samuraio Desax , Diablos Prime

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thanks to them and a few other people 1.0 was bearable to play ^^

fail post ill fix it when im not tired as hell.

My best buddy until the end was......

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...damnit.

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Neku Sanura,
Not sure what to say, besides.. Once loved, always loved.

She opened my eyes, my mind, my heart. That, I will never forget, as she changed my life and taught me that there are some challenges that I cannot take on alone. That I should allow my friends and family, even my significant others to help me.

Before we were together, I never understood what it meant to be in love.

I don't really have any special stories (at least none worth sharing, apart from what's being drawn in some stupid comic), so I'll just post the best pics of me and my friends I've collected in order of Beta -> Present day! Feel free to insert your own stories.

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I love you Vayle!

I think I met you first when we were doing Ifrit, but we never really talked until we started spamming Hamlet I think, and then we talked about buffalo jokes all the time. I really liked Skyping with all of you, that was totally fun. I don't have a screenshot of us cause I'm lazy to take screenshots, but here's a lazy picture I drew in paint of us.

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That's the toad we always aggro in Aurum Vayle cause it's jealous of our non-heterosexual love, and we're wearing heels cause we're fabulous.

This was a great and meaningful thread to start! It is nice to see us reflect on the people we played with which were what helped us get through the game's good, bad, WIP, and other aspects. I was fortunate to have some IRL friends to play with to start but through a random act of generosity in the slaying of a NM my toes were dipped in the social pool beyond my circle of OOG friends.

It started by Humblehearth when I was mining and I met a Miqo'te camping the deer. Rychis Ceruli was her (pronouns used based on gender of character not necessarily player) name. She asked if I needed one of the drops that she didn't. We killed it until she had to go, never got the drop but I noticed her THM was lacking jewelry and being a GSM with mats (and especially metals) on hand was able to provide some. After Ry, another world was opened up to me. Maeveena Songsteel was a great inspiration on what can be done in a short amount of time. She was professional, fun, and I enjoyed learning from her. Then there were the Omaras, Natsuki and Korjero. They are wonderful people and a great couple that were always welcoming. Dibs Dadbis is an awesome guy who is dedicated, humorous, and knows how to take and give a joke - an excellent LS leader. Riddle Lin, Priscilla Clark, the very awesome Haxaan Shivar, and, well, there are just so many to name.

It is proof that everything we do from simple emote, quest turn-in, trinket given to someone in need, or random /tell of hello is meaningful and has an impact. To all my friends I got to know, play with, and in whose company I enjoyed (primarily in Neversleeps Endlessnights and Karma Knights III but not exclusively) THANK YOU!

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I love you Vayle!

I think I met you first when we were doing Ifrit, but we never really talked until we started spamming Hamlet I think, and then we talked about buffalo jokes all the time. I really liked Skyping with all of you, that was totally fun. I don't have a screenshot of us cause I'm lazy to take screenshots, but here's a lazy picture I drew in paint of us.

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That's the toad we always aggro in Aurum Vayle cause it's jealous of our non-heterosexual love, and we're wearing heels cause we're fabulous.

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Gerik... i lol'ed so hard man, you have no idea~ *lol* ∩( ´∀▼ )∩

...also, exceptional work on the depiction of Vayle's boobs and your speedo.
Kudos on your attention to detail.

/golfclap

This thread is both touching and hilarious!

The OP really captures the spirit of this Final Fantasy title, I can't wait to read/see more.

I don't have much but..
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Iron Chef Dei Gratia - Thanks for being part of my journey; glad you're here.

War Warlocks Gridania
Ragento Guarra, Keithy Taru, Shanis Taru, Venefica Fulgora, Aequitas Safeguard, Dei Gratia

- I'm really glad you guys are part of the team. I hope to fight alongside you all lots and lots more; so we can continue to overcome all the challenges, achieve our aspirations, and have a hell of a lot of fun in the process!

Gabrielle Lyten - Who knows what I was doing or what I needed, but you were there to help. You were very kind in assisting me, and also in agreeing to be the very first member of my then empty LS. No idea where you've been, or what you're up to, but as far as I'm aware you're always welcome and have a spot in the W.W..

Shout outs:
Neasa Vera - For being totally cool and nice; and for helping out my brother and me so much for no real benefit to herself. She even gave me all of her stockpiled ammo when we were pinned down in The Quicksand during the apocalypse. What a pal.

Rounin Maou (Roro) - "Shouldn't there be an army of skeletons popping right about.. OH GOD!" Totally couldn't stop laughing. We've run into each other quite a bit in various pick-ups; and in the end you lent the War Warlocks your lance in our battle at Rivenroad. Thanks very much!

Keith Valentine - You were there to heed the call to defeat Rivenroad (Hard) various times with us W.W. Waiting for hours on end to get the party formed, putting forth the effort and up with the stress associated with the intense fight. Seems like a cool guy. Don't really know him all that well, but I'll remember him for quite some time for being there with us for the Final Battle during the Final Days..

Syn Kazama - Good attitude, very polite, very helpful. This individual gets huge props for congregating some fantastic people in the FFXiVSocial LS. Vast majority of those LS members I've encountered through various trials are skilled and kind, a pretty good reflection on the head honcho I think. I'm grateful that Dei has befriended you and as gained as much as he has from your team. Cheers!

Hlessali Runari (METEOR QUEEN) - Hands down, best BLM I've encountered or had the honor of team up with. "It's not even my main, haha." ... WHAT!? Meteor Queen, a cool cat, and a legend that I will sing praise of for the rest of my spoony Bard days. Accompanied the War Warlocks on many an attempt at Rivenroad (Hard), sporting an 100% meteor prevention record. It truly got to the point where: If Meteor Queen Hlessali Runari was not present, there was no hope or morale to defeat Rivenroad (Hard). We're not worthy!

And of course...:
To all the fantastic people that I've assisted, or that have a assited me and said:
"You're one of the best WHMs I've ever played with." - "Damn, Arista is good."

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Yeah, I know. ='¬'=

beautiful thread =]

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I made this video a little while back, much for the same reason... to remember and appreciate all the friendships made in 1.0. ^^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCr8Mq_1UF4

Awesome OP...

I'm not mentioned...

I'm okay with this...

You and Kres went wild over my beard in the Ul'dah market wards. That's pretty much the reason I joined the shell and still keep it to this day. I haven't been on very consistently so that would explain it, but ya, I still like reading all of the personal accounts of the people interacting with other people so that I can live vicariously through them.

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thought this was appropriate ; ;

Rau you made me bawl again. And again. And again. ;___;

the main draw of this game was the friendships made, Even though a lot of them ahve stopped playing we still keep in regular contact outside the game. A real friendship is going to continue regardless.

Kowen Raubahn:
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Me and Kowen met on a forum, when we were in the Alpha. I added him on Skype and now we talk about XIV, Gaming Life, the universe and just about everything until stupid hours of the morning (For me at least, seeing as I'm from the UK). Back in the beta, we'd explore Eorzea together and that is my most cherished memory of XIV, just exploring with a really good friend and taking in the sights. We've done lots of content together still just explore with every new patch to see what's changed. These days we play GW2 and do the same things. Explore and have fun. For all of XIV's flaws I can never hate it... It let me meet one of my best friends and I'm sincerely thankful for it. I can't really articulate what I mean without sounding like a sap, but there it is.

To me, this is what Final Fantasy should be, meeting lifelong friends to go adventuring with. I can't wait to adventure in ARR to explore the beauty, endure the hardships and enjoy the fun that the new world has to offer, with a staunch ally at my side ready to watch my back and give his unique perspectives on the world unrolling in front of our feet.

It's a new world after all.

There are many people who shaped and changed my FFXIV life considerably and I hope nobody gets annoyed by my long post.
The people are (kind of) in a chronological order unless they were on a screenshot together with someone else.

Rhaya Nuin
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My dear RL friend - after so many years playing different games or not playing at all, it was really great to start in a new world together. Of course you were the first person I met and you shaped me the most out of all the people I've met.
I remember convincing you to start in Limsa Lominsa with me even though you loved Gridania way more..I guess "Sorry for being so selfish?" For the first time in my life I started a game as a tanking class to protect you, the squishy archer in the back row and the way I look today is all because of that decision. We've always had a bit of rivalry between us and thanks to that I put through with hours upon hours of tedious grinding or fighting the same primal over and over again. Thank you for motivating me by killing Dodos faster or by reaching a higher level than me ;)


Buritoslicer Buritosandwich
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I've got to know you a bit on this forum, remembered your recognizeable name and when I ran around in Limsa Lominsa very late at night when few people were there I saw that name again and decided to randomly talk to you. You were very nice and funny and even invited me and Rhaya into your Linkshell, CounterPost.
We learned a lot from you; without all the helpful bits of information we might have left the game back then when we were just starting out and things started to get difficult and very confusing.
You also helped me get rid of my fear of talking on vent in a language which is not my native language even though I wanted to sink into the ground after a 10 minute dialouge of me trying to pronounce the word "axe" and you only understanding "eggs"..x_X"
Today we are no longer playing together because you are on Sargatanas now and I'm on Ragnarok but outside of the game I'm still keeping contact to CounterPost and hopefully we will meet each other again in ARR when creating a second character is free.


Wakaba Lungberg
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The leader of my precious linkshell Tears of Dragons!
When Rhaya and me were trying out crafting for the first time at Camp Bearded Rock Rodgar Dalmar was searching for German speaking newbies and we decided to join the German LS he invited us into. It took me months to realize that the nice guy who asked us if we wanted to form a grind party with him the next day around Cedarwood against some Dodos - Waka - was actually the leader, not Rodgar :p
Wakaba, you have been part of almost every great memory I have of this game; you were always there, you were always helping and you put up with my selfishness all this time. We did small Ifrit together, first Toto-Rak together, you even got me my first normal Ifrit win when I was too afraid to join any party. At some point it seems you even trusted Rhaya and me enough to make us your co-leaders. I hope I didn't disappoint you so far^^°
I'm also very happy to have seen you do things younger members were too late to see; like..actually leveling a class :D
Thank you for being a constant in my life in Eorzea. (But I'm still angry about all the pants you broke!)


Quichy Sturmbruch
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You've been there even before I joined ToD but it wasn't until the 30ies that we met. You wanted to help Rhaya out getting her bow from the NM in Nanawa Mines aaand...back then, you still enjoyed being conjurer.
You hopped on and off all the time and sometimes I've seen you more often on this forum than ingame but when you were online you were the kind of WHM who singlehandedly healed us through the most dangerous situations.
In discussions we rarely had the same opinion about ANYTHING regarding FFXIV but we still got along fine :)
I hope to see you a lot more in ARR which will hopefully grant all your dreams, even if they aren't mine as well.


Geumran Utym, Ljuke Avel and Auster Odell
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You guys were the funniest people I've ever met :D My heart is still broken that Gumgum never fell in love with me just because I'm easy prey..*hurt*
I sadly don't have a picture of Aus (I mean one on which more than his name can be seen;P) but I mean all of you when I say that I loved all those nights we spent talking for hours upon hours until I fell asleep on the keyboard. LJ was the first one to shock me and spark the fear of naked dancing Lalafell in me, though!
But I also owe you guys my first tries (and wins) on harder content like Cutter's Cry so I guess it's fine :rolleyes:


James Schneider
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Soon after ToD moved over to Ragnarok I was picked up by you.
I was still sad to have lost the people from CounterPost but at the same time I was terribly lonely at night after the normal European players went to bed.
After joining a late night Ifrit party I was invited into your linkshell, Limit Break.
Our dialouge that night ("You will never have the first place in my heart!") became a running joke but you never got mad at me for putting your gentle offers down because I was doing some stuff with ToD instead of you :eek:
I'm very thankful for that and also for taking me to play with the big guys (like Garuda) despite my bad equipment^^
Special thanks go to Noctis Caelum for being the nicest member of Limit Break (besides James) who always looked out for me and talked a little extra to me.


Canabi Kuma, Anarya Felizitas, Dinalph Nuit, Ponti Flux, Marc Wellenbrecher, Tribun Exx
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I met all of you when you joined ToD and you all became reliable members, getting helped and helping others yourself :)
I thank you for letting me rediscover my basic adventurer's joys like the older, smaller parts of content or the exploration of Eorzea.
I'm especially thankful for your help on my close to impossible goal to get the stronghold NM achievement before the final save^-^

Canabi, you are an awesome tank (and a good whitemage as well even if you don't believe it!:p) and besides all the nights you spent listening to my complaints and thoughts and being my best gossip buddy, that's what I remember the most about our time together - how great you protected me on our journey to the most far-off corners of Eorzea!

Thank you for all the fashion tips, Ana. Talking to another girl in teamspeak was very nice and refreshing ;)
I just wish you get more self-confidence for ARR because really, you are able to join and beat endgame content; don't think so lowly of yourself!


The whole Tears of Dragons LS
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Especially Levin Den, Yukiko Kuroshima, Kasimir Goldberg and Lakryma Tyental.
Levin and Kasi for their "naked" pictures which made me freak out and the long discussions about Dalamud and the world as a whole.
Yuki for proving to me that an initial dislike can turn into friendship. I still disagree with lots of stuff you say on the forums and often don't understand half of it but I like you a lot now :)
Of course everyone else as well!

Other people kind of important to me were the Deluxe brothers, Natsch, Luna, Alicia, Vivi Doomage, Avamaria Phonix and Mimi Abendstern.
Thanks to all of you for some of the most funny moments, conversations, lots of Lalafell noises or for letting me learn new stuff without flipping out because I wasn't doing it right at first :o
Thank you Vivi for always still greeting me when we meet even if others have forgotten me.


I hope I can meet all of you again in ARR, especially the ones who ended up on a different server or who are rarely in FFXIV because they are not happy with it yet.

Hmm, I have done many memories with friends, recorded videos of linkshell and others and more through the journey of 2 years. I guess my cloest of friends would be this picture here, before i transfered server from fabul to Aegis.

http://i.imgur.com/wxfys.jpg

ANd then met a very true friend in Aegis and made a video with her at the same time putting every element of my journey and friendship in it. ;p.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1663...&feature=g-upl

It doesn't end there. as we move to 2.0, more friends and more adentures will unfold :D.

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Originally Posted by A_Hortensia

This thread is both touching and hilarious!

The OP really captures the spirit of this Final Fantasy title, I can't wait to read/see more.

I don't have much but..
http://i.imgur.com/nKQ4l.jpg
Iron Chef Dei Gratia - Thanks for being part of my journey; glad you're here.

And of course...:
To all the fantastic people that I've assisted, or that have a assited me and said:
"You're one of the best WHMs I've ever played with." - "Damn, Arista is good."

http://i.imgur.com/sv2nj.jpg
Yeah, I know. ='¬'=

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Most elleqently put good sir!

I will now copy you :D

The the Entirety of FFXIVSocial LS
You all rule! Seriously, you have made the last few months most enjoyable and memorable. I can't wait to explore ARR with all of you and tackle all the new content. We are still a young LS but I could not ask for better members. You never let Teamspeak get boring and you push me to be better, or sleep deprived, or something like that.

The LS Garuda crew!
Hard work, perseverance, lots of Elixirs, Food, Repairs and resets we pulled off some great wins. Dei Gratia, Metyn Aurea, Xyla Ndra, Kazuhira Jaeger, Ryuuji Ryuu, Nonori Rereyl, Taeli Aeithsura, Oni Sesshomaru, and the fill-ins we had, Markus Aurelius and Hlessali Runari (AKA The Meteor Queen) we could not have done it without any of you! All I gots to say is "WHERE MAH BAAAARD BUFFS MON!?"

To others:
Arista Hortensia, Aequitas Safeguard and War Warlocks Gridania
Had some great attempts at Raven Hard, may not have gotten that sexy earring but we all had fun being pummeled by VD repeatedly. You guys are solid and never relent, that is key to success! Everything we get involved in goes well and I hope to see you guys on the other side of the time warp.

Tony Dincht - Got my first Garuda win thanks to you and your group. Was a great time and Like Arista, a WHM can never hear "You're one of the best WHMs I've ever played with." too many times ^^

I even had some fun times with those CASUALS from Evil and Almost Evil. Though I hear they felt I was too hardcore with my MNKs 100-broken-fist style agains Miser.

These were my most recent memories and for those who know me, know recent memory is pretty much all I have...
For those cats from back in the day I'm glad I still see your names running around Uldah.