What stuff was exclusive to 1.0?

[Kaliesto]

I know some legacy players here have exclusive mounts, but what were other things that are kind of floating about that still exist?

Also what stuff no longer exists from 1.0?

[Supersnow845]

There is a whole chunk of random legacy items of no apparent worth hanging around

The goggles in my pic are a legacy version of the iron goggles that exist currently in ARR

No functional difference other than an icon in the inventory box

[Jeeqbit]

There were hamlet defenses that involved all the roles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkbm3VrAnKA

[Wyssahtyn]

can't really do a proper temple knights cosplay since the specific gloves they use are a 1.0 legacy item.

[Fawkes]

Legacy mark


Hermes Shoes


Dalamud Horn




Dated gear (it's just ugly old gear with less job restrictions)


There's some neat titles from 1.0 achievements too


Also there's a bunch of junk items from 1.0 that are still around, just miscellaneous things that serve no purpose anymore but people were allowed to hold onto them if they wanted and leave them on a retainer forever and maybe sometimes link them in shout chat as a goof.

[Enkidoh]

Technically the Onion Helm, Garlond Goggles and Asuran Armlets also count as although the item codes to unlock them are still theoretically redeemable in ARR to this day, it is virtually impossible to source said codes, as the means to gain them has all but been eliminated (the first two were bonuses with the Collector's and day one 'Standard' editions of 1.0, the third only offered to JP and NA players who signed up with an included voucher for the now defunct 'Square Enix Members' site and were sent the code in return).

Unopened CE and first run Standard editions of 1.0 are very rare now due to SE actually requiring retailers that still had unsold stock to return them to SE to be disposed of, so these actually sell for enormous amounts on sites like eBay now simply for the item codes (and there is no guarantee they're really unused, so cavaet emptor if you go down that particular path).

There is also the Wood Wailer's Jacket for DoW classes that is now a completely unique piece of equipment that is unattainable (as I understand it was part of a 1.0 LHW class quest where the player had to repair a damaged Wood Wailer's Jacket, and upon repairing it successfully it became an equippable item of armour which then had to be traded to the NPC - not surprisingly a lot of 1.0 players actually decided to sacrifice the quest's completion just to keep the item in their inventory, and it carried across into ARR where they can still wear it and use it as glamour. This has not been made available in ARR either, so the gear is therefore unique (it also is the only way to make a truly authentic Wood Wailer glamour as the colouring of ARR available gear is not the same).

[Absurdity]

There were hamlet defenses that involved all the roles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkbm3VrAnKA

Adding to that there was also Chocobo Escort, which kind of still exists in some ARR escort fates.

What is also no longer optainable are a bunch of old titles, like the "Inquisitor" title from Hamlet Defence.

[Tint]

Here is a list of legacy titles:

https://www.lalachievements.com/titles/Legacy/

[Bacent]

Adding to that there was also Chocobo Escort, which kind of still exists in some ARR escort fates.

What is also no longer optainable are a bunch of old titles, like the "Inquisitor" title from Hamlet Defence.

The Chocobo escort missions were the original way to get the Chocobo Mask too. Level 35 with good stats for the level (Ignoring magey defence stats), used by all classes. It's basically the same exact item for the Racing Chocobo Mask, minus the stats. Achievement based item as well.




Also I know the reason all materia turned into 'cracked materia' because they changed how it all worked. There used to be like 3-5 versions of each rank materia, and each one could only be equipped in certain slots and had to do with all sorts of micromanaging stats.

(Thank god they didn't bring back the 'if you fail to meld a materia, the item and materia are gone for good stuff they originally had it)


Oh, and also the 1h weapons + shields for Cnj/Thm/Whm/Blm are also technically leftover from 1.0, but they abandoned those after the Levi EX weapons, never to go back to a wand and shield for the classes (Wish they would since we have invisible pld shields now and they could just do something like that for Cnj/Thm/Whm/Blm so the FFXIII weapons wouldn't be USELESS outside of glamouring and Bozja). It's why they won't touch the lower level items for said classes.

[Allegor]

It's not an item but worth mentioning: legacy characters have slightly different cutscenes and dialogue options, at least in ARR (not sure if it's brought up again in later expansions)