so I was reminiscing

[Ksandra]

Crawlers don't have feelings

[Brill Weave]

The horror of leveling in the jungles for the first time. Dem goblins.

That shit was fantastic.

[Demosthenes]

Goblins in the jungle were no problem to me. Getting lost was the biggest problem.

[Callisto]

not me, I was cash money with that map

[Ksandra]

I used to get lost in the jungle. Then I went all masochistic and lvled chocobo digging to like lvl 6 or 7.

[Brill Weave]

Goblins in the jungle were no problem to me. Getting lost was the biggest problem.

I used to farm the shit out of Sea Serpent Grotto. You could drop me anywhere in there and I could get there no problem. Ask me to go back from there to Kazham and I would get lost on the second turn. It still amazed me that after 10 years mother fuckers still get lost going to Byakko.

[Ksandra]

It still amazed me that after 10 years mother fuckers still get lost going to Byakko.

This reminds me. I've played a fuckton of mmos, and often there are certain things in them that make me wonder why the fuck other mmos don't do this. In FFXI, being able to label your map WAS THE BEST FUCKING IDEA EVER. And yet other mmos don't do it. Not even WoW.

[AoE]

one of my friends was a SMN. we were exping in crawler's nest and got a link. he IMMEDIATELY started running, before the rest of us were even dead (we probably wouldn't have wiped if he'd stayed). made it all the way back to the entrance, with a huge train. No one could get back into CN for hours until some 75s came to clear it out.

I think I was there for that and helped clean it up. I miss the huge trains of destruction.

[Brill Weave]

This reminds me. I've played a fuckton of mmos, and often there are certain things in them that make me wonder why the fuck other mmos don't do this. In FFXI, being able to label your map WAS THE BEST FUCKING IDEA EVER. And yet other mmos don't do it. Not even WoW.

Because no other MMO's zones were as convoluted and confusing as FFXI.

[Brill Weave]

I think I was there for that and helped clean it up. I miss the huge trains of destruction.

I miss that shit. See some random dude running past you followed by a few more people. Then you see the shout "RUN!" and people head for the fucking hills.

[Ksandra]

Because no other MMO's zones were as convoluted and confusing as FFXI.

old school wailing caverns

for that matter. UBRS

[Charismatic]

old school wailing caverns

for that matter. UBRS

There's maps like that in every fucking game ever. Some people just like to hate on XI now because its the cool thing to do.

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

That Crawler's nest train fiasco while XPing was always a hilarious way to die. Serket popping while an alliance was doing AF in Garlaige Citadel was awesome too.

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

There's maps like that in every fucking game ever. Some people just like to hate on XI now because its the cool thing to do.

getting uppity

[Callisto]

That Crawler's nest train fiasco while XPing was always a hilarious way to die. Serket popping while an alliance was doing AF in Garlaige Citadel was awesome too.

The NM that always murdered me while XPing was when someone wasn't paying attention and accidentally pulled Ose

[Brill Weave]

The NM that always murdered me while XPing was when someone wasn't paying attention and accidentally pulled Ose

Fuck Ose lol. Thing was such a fucking pos.

[Arvin]

old school wailing caverns

for that matter. UBRS

Did you even play during vanilla?

[Ksandra]

Did you even play during vanilla?

yes? I started three days after release.

[Abandon]

Fuck Ose lol. Thing was such a fucking pos.

1/81, holla atcha boy

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

Fuck Ose lol. Thing was such a fucking pos.

Even better when the party tried to fight it. Wiff, wiff, wiff, wiff, wiff, wiff, wiff wiff, wiff.

The O-Bow NM popping during XP parties in that one cavern was a bitch too.