FFXI Nostalgia/Why did I ever stop playing!?/Let's all go back to 2009/Never forget Kujata Thread

[Byrthnoth]

I was a resilient black mage in Dynamis (I did not typically die), but did rustle my jimmies when helpful mages would stack single target Sleep II on monsters that I had Sleepga'd.

My favorite time in Dynamis wasn't the nooby wiping time, though, it was a period of about 6 months before they released Dynamis v2 when I was in a lowman sell/split group that shat on every Dynamis zone and sold coins for a crazy marked up price because supply was crap. Characters had gotten pretty overpowered, so I would pull pretty large groups of monsters and sleep them on the melee, who were probably still dealing with the previous pull. We ended up breaking up when everyone had all the relic they'd ever want and dreamland currency yields were insufficient to hold our interest... then a month later they released Dynamis v2, and I'm sure we all did Dynamis for another year solo anyway.

[Kalmado]

I remember doing trio Limbus with a few friends. That was a lot of fun. Same with Sky. A few Beastmasters could do some cool things, but so could a few BLMs or a Blm & Rdm. When our small group saw the exp too, others in the LS wanted to join. We never had the best gear or took down HNMs (just Roc, Sim, etc), but we had a decent run. There were a few that just could not believe 6-8 could do Limbus/Omega and when we did, and they got gear, it was a really cool achievement for them and it made me really happy for them.

[Josiahkf]

I miss the days of saving a shitload of people from death in those old events. Like dynamis breakga incoming due to poor planning with a shell I'm trying to help; Running ahead as a whm and reposing the asshole slimes/scorpions/birds right before they finish casting etc, taking way too much pride in my whm capped divine/divine macc set etc. While my Blm mule would compare dicks timing thundaga III's

Or campaign when the northlands first came out

[Wulfgang]

The low man, high difficulty stuff was my favorite part of XI. We once doomvoided SW with 5 real people and two dual-boxed characters to prevent a JP/TW group from getting it out of spite. Zone in and its Lambton Worm; decided to give it a shot. It was the biggest clusterfuck in history as I was both the only tank (PLD/NIN) and one of two healers (RDM dual-box). My echo drops > Ni macro burned through like 4 stacks of Echo Drops from Aeolian Voice or w/e. We won with like 1:20 left on the clock due to someone healing it for like 12,000 HP halfway through. We had killed LW a million times already at that point, but I will always remember that one.

There were four of us who had been together since the beginning pretty much on Sylph: me, Siefer, Fyrebrand, and Franzhelmut. All were really top tier players and we did some cool things together, but it was the late nights together on Ventrilo trying to do stupid shit with 4 people that was the best.

Drunk Fire Bomblet farming will always hold a special place in my heart as well.

Tri-boxing will always hold a special place in hell for me. Dragging Jumpdog, Chardero, and Wulf through DA, then VoS, then BD, then to some SW spawn, then to dynamis as glass mule, etc. fucking drove me crazy in the end. I was half glad when they finally banned Jumpdog for my 24-7 botting of tiger fangs in Batallia (sounds stupid as hell, but the ban rate was way lower than Devil Mantas, etc. as no one typically noticed someone doing that and it made 500-600k a day).

[Yuri-G]

I might get some hate for this but:

I miss Besieged. that shit was insane. there wasn't much of a point and it never really was worth time but it was fun as hell. something about a hundred+ players all (ostensibly) working together toward a common goal... and the items didn't hurt either. 2-hour spam, go!

[Anoat]

Nowadays Besieged ends in 10-15 minutes and the mega bosses always die.

[Serra]

There was a time when diorite didn't exist so Ulli was free spawn. That was a major bottleneck.

I remember "exping" there for like fourteen months.. Fucking Haidate >.>

Think I was next in line for that entire stretch too..

[Yuri-G]

Nowadays Besieged ends in 10-15 minutes and the mega bosses always die.

lame. the challenge was what made it so fun. it was alliance-lite for us casuals who never really did the big group stuff.

[Josiahkf]

I might get some hate for this but:

I miss Besieged. that shit was insane. there wasn't much of a point and it never really was worth time but it was fun as hell. something about a hundred+ players all (ostensibly) working together toward a common goal... and the items didn't hurt either. 2-hour spam, go!

Nah I miss besieged too, but only because I was a whm~23 going to whitegate alone early and popping fanatics drink to spam diaga was insanely fun, made me realize I loved tanking. I dreamed if having cure IV one day purely so I could blend in with the hundreds of rdm75 around me in curing capacity lol

[Aksannyi]

No, I was just thinking of Besieged the other day, and the music. Ugh I loved that shit. The only thing I didn't like was how fucking long it took them to get to town.

[notorious bum]

I remember losing at least two bomb cores and those R10? conquest arrows in Besieged a few times, due to lag. That was some shit QQ for my broke ass at the time lol

edit: 40k CP per arrow for foreigners... yeah

[Josiahkf]

Ugh Fuck those conquest arrows man, I had forgotten lol

[Spicyryan]

lame. the challenge was what made it so fun. it was alliance-lite for us casuals who never really did the big group stuff.

The challenge not to blackscreen on the 360(so glad I am on PC now) or freeze on PS2? The challenge of trying to be useful in a sea of lag and gimps skilling up or being useless? The challenge of finding dead people all over the map in your PUG alliance who need a raise? The challenge of being one of those people who needs that raise for 10 minutes from not being able to get out of weakness and dying again? The challenge of being a pet job because of the hate just had them kill your pet? Before the time limit was created it was a challenge to see how well your hours upon hours could be spent in the same lagged zone!

Besieged was a great concept that needed a lot of refining it couldn't get.
Despite all of that there were times I had a lot of fun in there, but not when it be two hours or more.

[Aksannyi]

I just hated if you d/c'ed during you'd lose all the progress you'd made. Sometimes you could get back in, sometimes you couldn't.

Fucking being paralyzed and using a toolbag of something ... I think they eventually changed that, but losing an expensive bag of shihei was bullshit. And yes you can see the status debuff and just not use the thing, but shit happens and sometimes it hits right when you're using it, I never understood why people would be like "WELL THERE'S A WAY FOR YOU TO PREVENT THAT" when it was just fucking bad design from the get-go that never should have been in the game at all.

[FNH]

We will not go on the boardwalk now because of ambush!

I just hated if you d/c'ed during you'd lose all the progress you'd made. Sometimes you could get back in, sometimes you couldn't.

Fucking being paralyzed and using a toolbag of something ... I think they eventually changed that, but losing an expensive bag of shihei was bullshit. And yes you can see the status debuff and just not use the thing, but shit happens and sometimes it hits right when you're using it, I never understood why people would be like "WELL THERE'S A WAY FOR YOU TO PREVENT THAT" when it was just fucking bad design from the get-go that never should have been in the game at all.

They fixed that and the ammo thing

[Josiahkf]

YOU AGGRO THE FUCKING DEATHOUSE YOU PAY FOR THE WHOLE RUN

[Dimmauk]

YOU AGGRO THE FUCKING DEATHOUSE YOU PAY FOR THE WHOLE RUN

LOL so true. Until you clear the death house.

[Aurara]

Fucking Fairy Ring in dynamis valkrum tho. . .

[Aksannyi]

Ahhhh yes the death house, the huge row of people hugging the wall past it ... god I wish I had some screenshots of that.

[Aurara]

Only dynamis pull i really fucked up so bad the run ended then and there was in jeuno, lol. Holy fuck was that a mess, death house was never an issue for me tbh.