Dear veteran FFXI players

[Altaeiu]

HI! I am Alt. I play on woot-eye or it's more commonly known name, Wutai.

What server were you guys on? any fond memories? linkshells? Past loves? Awkward encounters? Tell me +_+

My name was Firelili I played on Kujata and was a part of the linkshell spirits crusade. A lot of those people I crossed over to play WoW with and continue to speak to after 6 or 7 years of knowing one another.

However, my fondest memory was my first trip to Selbina from Windhusrt. My party and I boarded the boat and as soon as it cast off I was the first one on the deck. Everything looked beautiful! There were pugils (not pugilists) and crabs and genetic NPC convos to listen to. After about 5 minutes I saw a sea monk and went to go touch it. I ran in circles around it and decided to inquire as to what this thing was. My party told me it aggroed and to get back down in the deck then suddenly the creature ran downstairs and killed my party, came back up, and went back to floating around. I never understood why it attacked my party (maybe missfire?) but its things like that I will ALWAYS remember.

[Peregrine]

Played on quetza for 6 years, and ran a lovely dyn shell for 5 of em. Fondest memory, or memory most burned into my brain, is soloing to 15 on thief with no subjob on quads in Palborough mines. To this day I can't walk into those mines without apprehension, even if the entire zone couldn't kill me.

[Jormungand]

Used to be in a relationship with a girl named Daggy on my old server Pandemonium. Best to forget those horrible times.

[Nume]

I was Numemonja on Hades server and was a member of AscendantSky, one of the oldest HNMLSs of FFXI.

My fondest memories have to be our overall rivalry against our, back then, rival LS, Excellence and our first Vrtra kill.

The Vrtra kill was one of the first serverwide and was at a time when there were still no strategies on how to kill it. The battle was an epic confrontation which lasted a few hours. At 1% health, one of our Garudas hit Vrtra from the back and made it spike flail which resulted in a complete wipe of the alliance, but by some stroke of luck I evaded it. I still remember all the others around me getting thrown past me against the walls of the cave. Everybody thought it was over. Scared and the same time frustrated that the battle was lost because it would start recovering in seconds, I buffed with all I had and charged blindly at the wyrm and Guillotined it head on.

I was expecting to drop dead after that, but instead Vrtra dropped to my feet amidst some epic shouting from my LS mates. That was one of the best feelings I had ingame.

Looking forward to FFXIV giving me more of these kinds of feelings.

[Jinrya-Geki]

I am Ryajin on Siren server, and I am an alcoholic.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Originally I started on Bahamut, wasn't there for real long for I took the first emigration when they offered it. They made 2 new servers Remora and Hades. I end up on Remora, I was there for most of my FFXI life, roughly 3 years and then the server was dying and I had some friends who had moved to Asura so I followed suit there. I have a Elvaan RDM, BRD, SAM that was 75 named Darrgoth. I never did the Abyssea stuff I quit just before it came out.

[Eekiki]

I started as Nalysnyky on Caitsith, and shortly thereafter started over as Eekiki on Ragnarok, which was my home for six years. I quit shortly after Abyssea when I got my XIV beta invite.

[XenoZero]

Originally Godofwar, from Fairy, had a few loves, one of Which whom, is Lapunzel (now Lapunzel Lee), I traveled 1500 miles to meet her, was supposed to be a short stay, but that was 6 years ago, and i don't regret a thing!

[Moth]

Hikiri on Carbuncle Server, played since US release on the PC, left about 4 months or so after WotG release O: I started with lots of RL friends and made even more ingame ones. Also met hubby Klaus on there

[Altaeiu]

Hikiri on Carbuncle Server, played since US release on the PC, left about 4 months or so after WotG release O: I started with lots of RL friends and made even more ingame ones. Also met hubby Klaus on there

I left 4 months after WoTg too... LOL