What's your best FFXI nostalgia moment?

[Viq]

Christmas Jeuno music in this motherfucker

[Darkmagi]

Ultimate nostalgia, it made me sad that I was too lazy to turn my FFXI music back on for it this year.

[Omnipotent]

Doing those fucking Eco-Warrior quests because it gave 5,000g(ballin') and a chance @ 1,000 EXP as well in a full alliance THAT WOULD NEVER WIN AND WE WOULD WIPE EVERY TIME............RAGE......................

[Viena]

XI was quite a social game, and my fondest memories from it would be the ones involving other people. While discovering the first few areas was neat, it's not until Valkurm where you really start meeting other players and building relationships that possibly lasted for years. Even if it made for a miserable experience for more seasoned players, we all learned quite a bit from it when we first stepped in there and had our introduction on how a party worked, with concepts we would rely on for the rest of our XI story. It also marks a point where you become more able to start participating in early quests and explorations together with other linkshell members, and some of my group adventures are something I'll unlikely forget.

Promathia's missions coming to a close tie isn't a surprise either. The sheer amount of dedication that these required when they first came out only strengthened the bounds of these groups persistent enough to get through them, leading to the aforementioned feeling of accomplishment hardly matched by anything else within the game. It's not that much of the end game content didn't require a similar dedication from an entire LS, and lead to an equal warmth when your LS first succeeded at them. However, most of this content ended up becoming routine, fading many of the similar emotions we could have earned from them into oblivion, where Promathia stood unique.

[Yimoa]

Meeting a newer player as a 38THF, him being in awe.
Down the road seeing the same friend leveling DRK
and wanting to keep Great sword skill capped
(Mind boggling..I know.)
Moments later: "Hey watch this!"
"Character readies shockwave. Character was defeated by Character."
He slept a massive group of lizards with it, along with killing himself with souleater,haha!

[Demosthenes]

Rolling 16 deep in Sarutabaruta with irl friends that started at the same time.

[Bukadan]

most of my memories that lasted in this game are the relationships that i made over the years. i played this game originally with 6 other irl friends, and one of them was the most hated person on my server, gilgamesh, him being rinste. I had to perservere through the default hate i got. It took a long time for me to gain the general populations respect but i did, and i did it through show with my skill as a ninja (one of those top notch geared nins that lowman camped those money nms like bune and OB) and through the relationships that were made along the way with people who would vouche for me in the long term. the gameplay and successes that were had almost pale in comparison to the camaraderie and social experiences i had with some of the best people ill ever meet in my life. Growing up playing this game was absolutely something i would never give up.

[Gulkeeva]

The stanislav drama that was all over my server.... oh the memories.
You would see it on forums, and ingame in jueno, and while camping HNM's

Oh yeah Valkurm Dunes.... man first week of FFXI, "OH SHIT ITS NIGHT EVERYONE RUN TO TOWN!" (sees like 200 people sitting behind the gate)

[Demosthenes]

Nothing like 3 parties camping the same clipper spawn until the skeletons and bogys showed up. I can never find that valkurm dunes jpg. YOU KNOW THE ONE I'M TALKING ABOUT!

[Kalmado]

Meeting my in game friend of 4 years while leveling Bst on my second character. I'd always respect another solo Bst or if a party was at the camp I wanted. I went to the Marsh Murre camp in the Mire and I see a taru Bst soloing. We ended up duoing and it was glorious. Next day he was online and sent me a tell and we duo'd again. It felt amazing to exp with someone where we barely typed a word because we were so busy killing, pet swapping, etc and yet everything ran as smooth as could be.

[Viena]

Nothing like 3 parties camping the same clipper spawn until the skeletons and bogys showed up. I can never find that valkurm dunes jpg. YOU KNOW THE ONE I'M TALKING ABOUT!

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[Demosthenes]

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I love you so much right now.

[Gulkeeva]

http://imageboard.neko-sentai.com/_i...672f113bae.gif

that brings back memories of this gif... haha

[notorious bum]

I never got to experience the pleasure of limitless suffering in Valkurm Dunes. Thank god for starting in Windy and the easy levels gained off of Giraffes then, later for SJ, the wisdom of jpn folks showed me the power of korroloka worms.

[Kaisha]

Did anyone else think the floor in Valkurm was snow when they first ventured there? It made no sense with the grassy hilltops and the trees, but god fucking damn it was bright.


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[S N K]

First Fafnir kill with TG on Fairy.

The JP linkshell that monopolized it liked to skillup while they waited for it to spawn, so none of them were in the pit. Meanwhile we had logged out our entire linkshell in the pit and were using my level 5 mule to occasionally log in and see if it was up. When it finally spawned, we managed to log in the entire linkshell simultaneously and kill it before the JPs could get back down to the pit and claim it. Of course this was so long ago that we didn't even know not to stand in front of it, and the fight took probably literally two hours, so we lost probably ten tanks to Dragon Breath...

Another one was about two months later, when Nidhogg popped with literally about twelve minutes left before maintenance and we managed to down it with less than 30 seconds to go before the servers shut down. We were literally getting the "please log out" message during the whole fight. I'm not even sure how we managed to down it so quickly back then, but we did somehow. http://nidhoggohnoes.ytmnd.com/



Also this:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...6-12-57-51.jpg

First kill on Fairy, 06/15/2005.

Ryko could tell you more about these, if he ever comes around here anymore.

How could you fucking forget the KI post of "TG WAISTS A NIDHOGG"?

[Xantavia]

I'm thinking about the times I was so pumped that I logged off with a natural high.

5) Soloing the ToAU graveyard fight Lost Kingdom (twice) as a low 60's bst, kiting the shadow between Nashmau and the graveyard with only DC and EM pets. 1 mischarm would have killed me.

4) Soloing subligar for my gaudy harness in aquaducts thanks to familiar.

3) Killing Valkrum Emperor and getting hairpin 1/1, then seeing leaping lizzy on my walk back to bastok. Killed her and got boots 1/lost count. Both items in like 30 minutes of same day.

2) After finally beating promyvian-holla (something like 20 attempts), we decided to try Dem for shits and giggles. No animas, no 2 hours, but we somehow won.

1) Doing the Mea fight. I was attempting to co-tank as war/nin. Other tank went down early, followed shortly by our smn. Whm went down. 4th person died. Down to me and a rng. Bouncing hate back and forth. Suddenly the cutscene for the win started. 4 dead bodies in Lufaise Meadows, I have under 30 hp, think the rng may have had 100.

[Delayed]

dunes took my vote, I met players who I later ended up in sky with, and everything else from there. that and I probably doesn't more time there leveling than anywhere else. but finishing cop access was pretty close 2

[Taim Meich]

Maat fight, easily. I spent well over a month going back and forth between farming RDM testimony off Ruby Quadav in Qu'lun Dome and failing at the fight. I know I took at least one break over a week in there out of frustration with the thing. When I finally had my gear/skills good enough and luck was in my favor with him not resisting my sleep or gravity and I actually won, I think it was easily the most memorable moment for me. Winning various events in the CoP storyline did come close, though.

If I substitute "Maat" with "Schultz", that's my fondest experience, too. Fondest, in a masochist way of thinking, of course, since it took me 21 fucking tries before the stars aligned and a) the grimoire was not earth or light element (insta-fail), plus b) absolutely no nuke was resisted. I needed to go mining mount Zayholm for Khroma ores back when those were 500-600k a pop to get 3 HQ staves (that was after try #5 or 6), then wait for the right conditions.

I remember an afternoon that I tried 3 times, the first two being insta-loses, and the last one losing because I totally messed up due to being nervous that I ended up shutting down the game reall depressed.

But when I won... Oh, boy! Still feel proud today.

[Prothescar]

learning me first couple of spells on BLU (: nothing has matched the magic of learning BLU for me, it felt so different compared to everything else.