FFXI Update History JP Beta to CoP: A Player's Perspective

[SephYuyX]

I miss Duckie \(@)</

[Jawas]

I started FFXI when the game was made for PC, and I started playing as an import player. I started as a WHM, and reading this reminds me of the hell it was being a healer. I use to think I was doing something wrong, but it was terrible. I stopped playing, tried NA beta, and got back into the game.

I started over a 3rd time for the NA release, I played with other Beta/Import players and we were the 1st NA's to get the airship pass and our mission rank use to trick the JPs into inviting us into PTs, than they would kick us when they found out we were NA's.


My foundest memory of FFXI was during the 1st week of NA release and the full alliance of NA players trying to kill bones to get the last piece of the sub job quest.

[Makaveli]

Anybody else see the Thunder 3 being casted on that Kirin? lol Good Times seeing how far we've came in this game.

[Pergo]

how come its Andry uses Manafont!
with the exclaimation? when did they change this?

[hexagram23]

I guess not as many ppl are still around from NA release as I thoguht, I feel old when ppl are posting stuff like;

"wow i didnt know that" and "really you mean....?" and Im thinking "wow that was a long-ass time after release"

If it makes you feel any better, I remember when the level cap was 70, and when Dynamis was first introduced, and when Level 3 skillchains were added.

Word, I recall the first day of cap being raised to 75 being amazed that 2 japanese players on Kujata had hit 71. Beta testing of Dynamis had screenshots of dozens upon dozens of dead bodies with some hume F in bridal gear. How about the max rank being 9, not like it affected me back in the day.

I bet there's a good number of people on here that don't remember when there was no such thing as the "Cursed Gear" section on the AH. Looks like we're now run by the generation that brought the terms "bloodporting" and "static pt" that made me lolz when they first hit the jungle.

The Hume F in Bridal Gear was actually Destiny....the same Destiny from the last TGS that revealed how to get Parade Gorget, etc. She's an OG.

Fred.

[Swatt]

I miss Duckie \(@)</

I miss that ls =p I still have Duckie on my AIM...though i bet he's forgotten who I am

Anybody else see the Thunder 3 being casted on that Kirin? lol Good Times seeing how far we've came in this game.

Koda's a RDM =p kirin was at under 5%...think we were desperately trying to kill it. both our kiting PLDs were down... Laquincain was a war and kiting it.

how come its Andry uses Manafont!
with the exclaimation? when did they change this?

I was that awesome they had to put an exclamation mark.

ehn, i dunno =p was so long ago

[Genosync]

Let's break the game and give Red Mage CureV and RegenIII again.

Who cares about your XP anyway.

[Khamsin]

Come to think of it, they haven't done a major nerf, such as removing spells or lowering skill caps, in a long time.

I think we're way overdue, because as we can see from the past, they're perfectly capabale and willing to do a major nerf like that. Question is, what spells are they going to remove from what jobs, and what skill caps will they lower? Or worse?

[Swatt]

Come to think of it, they haven't done a major nerf, such as removing spells or lowering skill caps, in a long time.

I think we're way overdue, because as we can see from the past, they're perfectly capabale and willing to do a major nerf like that. Question is, what spells are they going to remove from what jobs, and what skill caps will they lower? Or worse?

make rampage bst only.

[xingoo]

Pure gold! Thanks for posting the link :D

[Kyreth]

Let's break the game and give Red Mage CureV and RegenIII again.

Who cares about your XP anyway.

I could care less about Cure V, but I'd like to see Regen II at least. Call me silly, but I always wondered why they yoinked most of the line from RDM's. Cure V on the other hand is one of those spells that should be WHM onry.

There's a few spots in the top levels that could use a new spell or two anyway- how many other jobs have actually lost the use of a spell?

[Lordwafik]

Let's break the game and give Red Mage CureV and RegenIII again.

Who cares about your XP anyway.

I could care less about Cure V, but I'd like to see Regen II at least. Call me silly, but I always wondered why they yoinked most of the line from RDM's. Cure V on the other hand is one of those spells that should be WHM onry.

There's a few spots in the top levels that could use a new spell or two anyway- how many other jobs have actually lost the use of a spell?

well PLD mobs were stripped of banish 3, and it became a whm only spells.

[Demitrius]

What, nothing about Summerfest mining? That was one of the finest exploits this game has seen. Fifty level 1's running around the Cauldron digging up Adaman and singlehandedly crashing the ore market. It was incredible.

[Intense]

BRD was my first job to 75. Most of the time, I got a PT upon logging in, but sometimes id seek. Although it was rare, i sometimes got the JP onry tell.

After the 2nd-3rd time, i started saying NA only. It would be funny having the same jp only fucks beg/offer money to join their pts when they couldnt find anyone else lol ;3

[Wootaru]

- Crosscounter's name has been displayed as D29. This has been fixed.

Didn't something like that happen w/ kraken club?

No, that was displayed as U238 or something.

+U656

lol I still remember that.

[Rocl]

This thread makes me feel old

[Foustian]

I also remember when mining was profitable, and there were no RMT anywhere. I mined for most of my income.

I remember the event that teleported you into dungeons as lvl1 to try and find a ??? to get some lame prize. Except, it gave you superlong sneak/invis and you didn't lose xp when you died, and when you hped, you could be teleported right back for free.

hi2u mining Ifrit's Cauldren 15+ hours a day.

When I did that event, something happened that allowed me to repeatedly port there without a partner until I actually touched the Goal Point. So I just never "finished" it, and just kept going back in, running around until I found a mining point, drop invis, mine until dry, then suicide and repeat.

Great times.

Yeah, that's what we did too. As long as you never touched the ???, you could mine for weeks easily and cheaply.

What, nothing about Summerfest mining? That was one of the finest exploits this game has seen. Fifty level 1's running around the Cauldron digging up Adaman and singlehandedly crashing the ore market. It was incredible.

It takes a real man's man to not read a thread and yet still post about how something was not included in said thread. I tip my hat to you sir.

[Raineh]

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Firefox can't find the server at qcdn.org.

/cry

[Kyreth]

Wow, lots of good stuff:

- Square anounces that the level cap at the current state is 50. Although they have it programmed until level 100, to maintain balance between players they are now ajusted till 50. But at the current state there were nothing much you could do but exping, and between users there were some unpopularity. Square responded that "You level too fast..." (lol...) or "you leveled in a way that we did not expected" (exploits huh...) But then again, users believed "What else could we do???"

Someday, we might see the curious results of a L100/L50 character?

At the same time the resists were divided into Full, Half, Quater, 1/8th, and none.

And there's the definitive on what kind of resists you can get.

Before there were "!" marks which indicated from the amount of !s how often you HQed an item. This has been removed.

ARGH.

[Swatt]

- Crosscounter's name has been displayed as D29. This has been fixed.

Didn't something like that happen w/ kraken club?

No, that was displayed as U238 or something.

because mnks were so awesome they punched uranium nuclear explosions with x counter amirite