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  1. #301
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    While I believe that the sentiment of Abyssea was the right way to go for FFXI, the way they implemented it was off. I have no explanation or better suggestion even in hindsight. 75 cap was definitely the highlight of the game because the absence of the nowadays damn near mandatory "life improvements" like easy soloing and teleports everywhere forced you to make connections. And as mentioned no crossrealm, you had your server pop and that was it, good or bad. An experience lost to the ravages of time.

  2. #302
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tohmane View Post
    While I believe that the sentiment of Abyssea was the right way to go for FFXI, the way they implemented it was off. I have no explanation or better suggestion even in hindsight. 75 cap was definitely the highlight of the game because the absence of the nowadays damn near mandatory "life improvements" like easy soloing and teleports everywhere forced you to make connections. And as mentioned no crossrealm, you had your server pop and that was it, good or bad. An experience lost to the ravages of time.
    Abyssea was the last burst of fun I had in XI. The whole idea of getting new abilities, so many problems being fixed in a short period of time and the sheer overpoweredness of things like atma really came at the perfect time. I seem to recall everyone at BG being so astounded that someone was finally listening at SE that we surely must have entered an alternate universe. I liken the whole thing to a POW camp where finally rescue comes. Yup, just compared XI to a POW camp. That's a thing.

    Coming directly after a low point in the game - the Yilbegan era - really made a difference. The game would have probably died back in 2010 without it. It's a pity all those changes came at the cost of essentially gutting linkshells, the lifeblood of FFXI. By making everything simpler, the game essentially came apart at her seams.

    TEAM Chains of Promathia: NEVER FORGET
    http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1.../team-pic1.gif

    Pandemonium Warden bites the dust! EminenceLS
    http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...ps5522000e.jpg

  3. #303

    Sweaty Dick Punching Enthusiast

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stig View Post
    Dunno if this was posted yet, dug up from the media. If only BG bucket existed back then:

    http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...griefbgtm9.jpg
    Hey that's me! Counting shadows whilst arguing with GMs was the tank meta.

  4. #304
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    Awww yisss!

    http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...kei-charts.gif

    Don't leave the dunes without it chumps.

  5. #305
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    I... never learned to actually read that properly. I just memorized what chained into what to produce what after many years of repetition.

  6. #306
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    Tachi: Enpi
    *Sneak Attack sfx*
    *Trick Attack sfx*
    Viper Bite
    *Distortion sfx*
    Monster melts.
    <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

  7. #307
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    Quote Originally Posted by Myrrh_Quetz View Post
    Does anyone have the Video of a Ark Angels fight that follows a Taru with some Japanese music over the run? The run itself wasn't very good but its one of the videos that got me interested in FFXI. That and a Mnk using a Kclub with Hundred Fists on a Crawler.

    I can't remember the name of the video or the music for the life of me for the Ark Angels run but its atleast 10 years old. I realize thats pretty vague but I honestly can't remember the lyrics or anything and its bugging the shit out of me
    I found this instead. Close enough!

    Spoiler: show


    Quote Originally Posted by ronin sparthos View Post
    Awww yisss!

    <adens renkei chart>

    Don't leave the dunes without it chumps.
    I... can still recall a quarter of those from memory. That's pretty bad. ._.

  8. #308
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    Personally, Abyssea killed FFXI for me because after years of everything being 75, suddenly we had new levels and new gear which made so much of the stuff we had worthless. And also because I went from being able to being a Drg with higher haste than all others to everyone being able to hit the haste cap.. AF2+1 body made me so sexy for so long ; ;

    Also, big dump inc:
    Spoiler: show






















    And CoP BC Dump:
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  9. #309
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    Oh man... What a good, and bad experience this game was for me. To think of the amount of time logged in, (somewhere around 400 days I think) is pretty insane. Had a ton of fun, and played with a lot of great people. No regrets!

    Just remembered about photobucket, where i have only a handful of remaining pictures. Memory dump:

    http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w.../darkixion.jpg

    http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w.../wormdrops.jpg

    http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w...adem/LOLKA.jpg
    Spent so much time on KA. Never got the belt. =(

    http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Batardeau.jpg
    Def not worth the loot.

    http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Mandaupic.png
    Was a little too happy getting that relic.

    http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w...Gearavatar.jpg
    Left game when all this stuff was still good.

    And my favorite THF sig...

    http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w...ThievesBLM.jpg

  10. #310
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ragns View Post
    Bratt was the weirdest person I have ever talked to in the history of my xi days and I talked to some wierd fuckers. So much shit I would hear about he/her/ transvestite/ black transvestite.. head explodes, anyway the best ss of xi old days ever and my 1st post on BG
    http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2.../maury_789.png

    Edit: Best times in xi: camping with 6 of not so savory characters all the time and the fucking ulli camps, oh gawd stealing it if someone else claimed with mazurka.. jc it was the funniest shit ever, owning boroka, setting the prices for the a.stone and h.kote. Also monopolizing Overlord B. and setting the price for the juggernaut. that's how I bought my relic, guess everyone else did gardening or maybe told their ls "yo those are my bynes for the "ls bank". good shit.

  11. #311
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    I couldn't find some of these videos on youtube, so I might as well upload them to post here.

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    Some BlueLS videos:














    Some LawnLS videos:









    And some that I actually managed to find:
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  12. #312
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    Holy crap. I found a bunch of SS from when me and Ahou(and his various other BG names) got together on Quetz and we built a Shout Alli for an AV kill. We ended up with 2 full alli's. We got some friends into it and just made up some insane lies about how the Strat would go. T hat Blm/Drk or Drk/Blm was needed for the repeatable stun and shit.

    II'll post them all once I get them sorted out. That was one of the best april fools too. We claimed everything was free lot. Then we traveled so 100 different locations several times, claiming we needed crap from those locations. We bought all 36 people with us as we went too. God, it was one of my favorite troll moments.

    And that the Migger thing

  13. #313
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tarage View Post
    Vigilia, I know what doujin your avatar comes from. >_>
    Sir, you presume I do not?




    Moar nostalgia...

    The couple of days after Fenrir was put into the game I was still a n00b but there were tons of JPs everywhere outside of Windurst just running around with Fenrirs.
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...531163257a.jpg

    First of many Manaburn DL kills. I did Dynamis a LOT. Too much probably but oh it was so much fun. For several years I co-managed Sky LS/friends Dynamis group United while being a pearlsack in Manaburn and their Friday runs were 1am-5am my time. How I used to stay up for that I don't know anymore. Then a short break while focusing on Salvage and joined a HNM LS and then eventually the said HNM LS wanted to do Dynamis again and bam we had Wubmfub Dynamis LS and Team Tav. I'm also pretty sure Manaburn were the first on Asura to clear Dyna-Tav (first of the NA/EUs that anyone knew about at least) but I can't find my pics of that. Sort of ironic I didn't do my own relic until after the big Dynamis revamp but I just never had the time or the money until then.
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...rd_4_group.jpg

    Random crowd crash, these were always fun. Especially for the one or two peeps left behind.
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...stealcrash.jpg

    Found Aurik's old usefulness chart. Iirc BG titles were based on this for a while?
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../usefulgr7.jpg

    Some of the many times we killed everything in Bastok. Can't do this shit now.
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...06_2_empty.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...pshotnames.jpg

    And this one time when we cleared Jeuno but with seconds to spare to try take a pic.
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...euno_clear.jpg

    Finally own relic, very late but anyways.
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps8ca2b837.png

    Asura's best known RMT crew and everyone else playing Where's Ullikummi?
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...camp_wally.jpg

    Once in desparation over a 2-week holiday home I installed FFXI on my mum's PC. Windows ME and no graphics card to speak of. Fucking played it like this for two weeks as well.
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...222184720a.jpg

    I was RDM all the damn time when not BRD. And the one time I dualbox a friend's character to get a TH4 up to a god run this happens. Typical.
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...luvsritter.jpg

    Woodworking sucked.
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ngs/looogs.png

    So romantic. Midwinter 2003/04, met my future husband in a Brit guild doing newbie missions.
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...T_scudley2.jpg

    November 2004, ten years later we have a mortgage and two kids. Eeek.
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../groupshot.jpg

  14. #314
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    Quote Originally Posted by Avinor View Post
    I swear, Dillinger spent more on his Chi Blast setup than most monks at the time did on their melee gear.
    Fun fact, Dillinger and I get together for lunch about once a year. FFXI always comes up and he always asks about you. He sends his love.

    I forgot how many sets of ingredients I went through for Xerlic without ever HQ'ing. It was many, many more than this though.
    0/96 before I finally bought them from that JP Mithra.

    Welcome to Titan, we take a relaxed approach to claiming things.
    No way, man. We had a NASA linkshell on our server.

    You know shit was about to get good when you saw someone come running down into the pit with a trail of spiders. or this.

    http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/a...24/Cfhhogg.jpg

    Quote Originally Posted by Vigilia View Post
    Found Aurik's old usefulness chart. Iirc BG titles were based on this for a while?
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../usefulgr7.jpg
    They're still used. Just a lot of people have custom titles for donating money to BG iirc.

  15. #315
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    For those interested, here's a 14"x14" 300 DPI recreation of the Bastokan Emblem.

    Let me just spoiler that badboy.

    Spoiler: show



  16. #316
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kingadem View Post
    Oh man... What a good, and bad experience this game was for me. To think of the amount of time logged in, (somewhere around 400 days I think) is pretty insane. Had a ton of fun, and played with a lot of great people. No regrets!

    Just remembered about photobucket, where i have only a handful of remaining pictures. Memory dump:

    Holy shit, a picture of me in TTK, thats so fucking old lol. Those names Q.Q

  17. #317

    One of the longest running jokes we had in ThoseGuys. BloodFlavor or w/e it was on Fairy had a monopoly on Faf/Nid before NA got around to it and learned how to fight it etc:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...rkr/ofline.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/rowerkr/dice.jpg

    Forge, the galka turtle...

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...r/forgepop.jpg

    Arvin used to(might still have) a crush on me :D

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6.../arvinkeke.jpg

    Fairy had so much drama lol:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...shubot20up.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...erkr/ebody.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...r/pheotail.jpg

    The jokes:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...kr/dsfunny.jpg

  18. #318
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    Most of my screenshots are lost to time I think

    Here are a few I salvaged from Imageshack though:



    lol pd


    Limbus!




    Discovering Windower and Drawdistance






    I loved the Red Mage set, though I never play it anymore.

  19. #319
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    Holy fuck so many people in that proto ultima picture I remember/played with lol..fuck

  20. #320
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    I stopped playing because delve was a pain in the ass and we kept getting undergeared players back when it was 18 man content, along with the fact that it was hard to even gather 18 people for anything.
    Before that... I think I stopped shortly after adoulin because it was just a pain to advance unless you had a certain set of jobs.

    I don't quite miss the 75 days. Don't get me wrong, FFXI had some great memories, but it was a god awful game in some aspects.

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