Originally I had memories of "Nidhogg is going to rage, everyone escape", but now I think of running to Ro'Maeve and trying forever to get YYRs for friends. Ugh.
Originally I had memories of "Nidhogg is going to rage, everyone escape", but now I think of running to Ro'Maeve and trying forever to get YYRs for friends. Ugh.
So I just installed and updated and there is maintenance.
WHAT A PERFECT REMINDER OF THE GAME. HOLY SMOKE THE IRONY.
Battery is dead in mine, but it wasn't hard to get SE to remove it, and they have the smartphone token app now. The game is quite different than you remember. The grind has relocated to earning job points, and getting supplies to get the best equipment augments. Reaching endgame is quick, getting what you want from it is not so quick. The free week is active now for another 5 days if you can get your token taken care of. Big EXP rings right now, 150% boost, infinite charges.
Those 24 levels would take you less than a day now, and you'd have equipment to do an Alluvion Skirmish for good gear shortly after reaching 99. Regearing isn't as big of an ordeal as it was at 75.
if you actually think all of his posts are about ffxi, you're dumber than a box of rocks.
lol, my post count can attest to that
Lol same. Probably 50% of my posts are from the NHL thread.
I did (for game time, not forums). All my friends knew I wasn't going anywhere on dynamis nights. I think we had tuesday/friday? monday/thursday? i dont remember anymore. but my buddies might.
Yeah I mean Dynamis was Tuesday and Saturday when I was in my first shell. This was when I still lived up north. My friends knew Saturday was unavailable, but we could go out on Friday nights.
Once I moved down here, I changed shells (a couple times, actually), but I had only one friend here at that point, who was someone I'd met in game. We were in the same shells so we basically rearranged our lives around the game.
And then when I got into HNMs, well, I'm not ashamed to admit that I was fully addicted to the game at that point. If it was Nid, I was skipping class for A Body. That was more important to me back then. Obviously I've now gotten my priorities straight, but back then FFXI > all. I probably would have stolen money to keep my sub active if I had to.
Like I said, I thought of a lot of the people I played XI with as really close friends -- closer friends in fact that the friends who I only saw when we were drinking on weekends. If I had plans with friends, I usually made sure not to cancel on them to play XI, but in the same vein, if I had plans with XI friends, I wouldn't cancel on them if someone called out of the blue and said they were going out drinking on a random night (especially since we drank a lot in college and it was likely we'd be doing the same thing very soon -- which makes my RL sound just like XI life..).
It's been like five years, but I had a chance to catch up with some old LS friends in Destiny the other day and it was just like talking on vent way back when we all played XI.
yeah, i never canceled either. and i still keep in touch with a large chunk of my old LS mates. some are easy; we're all on Hyperion in XIV. Others i'll text out of the blue.
When I was in college, I left a 4th of July pool party midway through to come home for a Kirin run. I was up for W. Legs! My roommate came home about an hour later to ask me what the hell I was doing. I told him some half truth/half lie about how I had this planned event on the game with a lot of people and that I couldn't let them down.
He then asked me if any of those people were gonna help me get my dick wet. He made a good point, so we went back to the pool party. Hooked up with some girl, she was probably a 4.5/10 if I'm being generous, but my LS went 0/5 on W. legs drops that day, so I think I came out better for it.
Oh man, the day I got W.legs was hilarious. It was the day before I got put on probation in my LS at the time for probably being a whiny cunt. W.legs dropped and I bid all 259 points on it x.x and got it by a long shot. Proceeded to HQ them or else id face never ending torment...
wlegs stories are always great.
LS leader was like "As a bonus tonight - whoever gets Wyrmal Leg Abj I'll buy them HQ Cursed Cuisses!" which was totally cool.
So just like any other shell, they have a prio list, same as LSs used to do for things like Shadow Ring from DL.
Only instead of being a bidding system, it was sorta flat rate for pts. W Legs drop and "Alright, PLDs and RDMs go for it!" type thing. Dude lots a 967 and the "CGs!" etc start raining down in Party and LS chat. I was the only one that hadn't lotted and "Richy, just go for it, GL beating 967, and CG again *person's name*"
**Richybear's lot for Wyrmal Abjuration: Legs: 973**
*silence*
I got a tell immediately from the leader "Those are just for your RDM kiting. Buy your own fucking cuisses."
it aint over till the item leaves loot pool
first lesson of XI endgame