Pics from the old days.

[Thistle]

Just a link instead of the image because it's an unexciting screenshot, but the file name now amuses me. firstsheepkilled.jpg

Hey, when you're a WHM main, killing a sheep is a big deal!


And this was the first thing I ever wanted in the game. I had no idea what it was or what it was called, but it looked like the coolest thing ever! (I read a ton of websites before getting the game, so it was pretty firm in my head that checking someone was rude.)

http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/coolweapon.jpg

Amusingly, it took me nearly three years to actually get one. I didn't have a need for it until I took up BRD.

[Ryko]

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/9678/skyownedok5.jpg

When one of our WHMs died in despot alley, menphis liked causing generic chaos.

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/2...ebitersgp8.jpg

That's how OG's camped alky

[Xerlic]

No dorp. =(

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/4...170515afe2.jpg

[Akiyama]

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/9678/skyownedok5.jpg

When one of our WHMs died in despot alley, menphis liked causing generic chaos.

I've always loved that picture. It's like they are lining up for their rewards, sort of like Limbus shells line up for their coinage. :>

[Tythera]

G2 ally (march 2004)
http://www.msu.edu/~burderde/old1.jpg

Look at how awesome Lei's gear is!
http://www.msu.edu/~burderde/old2.jpg

[Auspice]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...101034828a.jpg

October 30th 2003; my second SS ever. First one was fucked up because I didn't know how to take screens and ended up taking one of my head zoomed in crazy lol

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...110074439a.jpg

I'll never do Eco-Warrior with a PUG again.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...115164635a.jpg

EXPing with my first LS back in Jan 04.

[Ichthyos]

posing before the shadow lord fight:
http://aquatica.mit.edu/albums/album...9_81.sized.jpg

yabuisya and crew, fixture in port jeuno on titan from back in the day:
http://aquatica.mit.edu/albums/album...1_74.sized.jpg

papillions woo
http://aquatica.mit.edu/albums/album...6_49.sized.jpg

at our ls's spot in port jeuno:
http://aquatica.mit.edu/albums/album...7_28.sized.jpg

i miss cn/garlaige/selbina trains:
http://aquatica.mit.edu/albums/album...6_62.sized.jpg

oh, the good ol days when i was still learning how to pull dynamis:
http://aquatica.mit.edu/albums/album...7_58.sized.jpg

[Charitwo]

Manaburning DM. Most are gone except me and Suiram.
Lol I can't even remember when this was.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b259/wopadobop/DM.jpg

yea that's a while back, Icecube was awesome, I still have his signed Weskit

you forgot about Wembly and Nozoren, they still play

[Nirokun!]

; ;

my ps2 died and i dont have all my SS's anymore ; ; i only have some of the ones i saved and set to myself via hotmail

only found 2

me plvling my friend shaodin's PT:

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/7629/niroshaobp6.jpg

my LSmate took a picture of himself in AF... and i just happened to be in the picture! (this was long before we were in a LS together... just kinda happened)HARDCORE WHMS WORE HOLY BREASTPLATE!:

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/1...brennanbm9.jpg

JUST BECAUSE I WANTED TO! BEST LS CHAT EVER EVER EVER EVER!!!!! :D

http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/9710/rotpcp7.jpg

[Feielle]

My first trip through the jungle on BLM. NONE of us knew where to camp, and none of us had a map, so we rode chocobos around wildly. When we stumbled on the telepoint (which none of us had) nobody would dismount, for fear of being killed.

I still remember our tank exclaiming "its the TELEPOINT!"

http://www.ancientcirclels.com/galle...928213833a.jpg

Going to fight Fenrir for the first time

http://www.ancientcirclels.com/galle...1/Fei_Door.jpg

Old LS pic. Only 3 people still play...

http://www.ancientcirclels.com/galle...311212331a.jpg

First few months of an emerging Dynais shell

http://www.ancientcirclels.com/galle...namis_Lose.jpg


Good Times.

[Tekki]

My first SS:
http://www.theblackroses-ls.com/tekk...402221116a.jpg
http://www.theblackroses-ls.com/tekk...512214809a.jpg
http://www.theblackroses-ls.com/tekk...220150426a.jpg

[TrueZero]

Quite a few pics comin', sorry. Here's the oldest pic I have from probably Jan. '04 as a 30 WAR, LOLLENSFLARE:

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/9...osunsetzb6.png

Fairy name-dropping:

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2...222334ace3.jpg

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6...022702ank0.jpg

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7...235445adl1.jpg

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3...031235aoq9.jpg

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7...165049ane5.jpg

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/3...002310aot6.jpg

[Ryko]

Rofl@ Dantrag, Quanteria, and Marcatil

Edit: Oshit and vile

[Nagamaki]

Some old NA Seraph history :

End result of the 1st NA LS (HA) Dynamis

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...530174844a.jpg

HA's first Behe

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...608020449a.jpg

Pics aren't that great but lots of familiar names for really old school Seraph people.

[Squirrels]

First HNM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/ ... -04-93.bmp

Before Shadowlord
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...031164637a.jpg

Dancing Tarutaru!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...715170907a.jpg

[Eddie]

I wish more people started NA PC release where we didn't know jack, and I subbed WAR to backup voking on my RDM.

The amount of knowledge that's out there now about this game, it URRKKSSS me when I see high levels still doing the most retarded things.

[Demosthenes11]

^_^
Bestest level 30 party evar
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25...403210550a.jpg

Delkfut tower missions; Baimo was the first gil seller I ever met =(
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25...410175559a.jpg

My first raise!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25...728082600a.jpg

Whoring Hoo Mjuu with friends (6/30 baby)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25...704115510a.jpg

omg airship glitch
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25...702214102a.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25...123193802a.jpg

Have about 100 SS fighting various NMs too, can see me on lolalla under Mee Deggi and Poisonhand Gnadgad lol

[ono]

I started w/ the NA-PS2 release. Can't find my first shots, but from October 2004:

Finishing early Promy runs before the first CoP nerf.

http://ffxi.dcdnb.org/www_ffxi/ono/003_10082004.jpg
Four of us still play, but all spread in different shells now.

http://ffxi.dcdnb.org/www_ffxi/ono/006_10162004.jpg
Three of us still play; Darkmattre was deployed for a while and is just now getting sea, while Rand and I were the only two in the shot to get access.

http://ffxi.dcdnb.org/www_ffxi/ono/007_10162004.jpg

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http://ffxi.dcdnb.org/www_ffxi/ono/004_10162004.jpg
WAR AF2 fight when my WAR was 50 and my PLD was 55.

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Finally got a PC in November 2004, my second "HNM" fight:

http://ffxi.dcdnb.org/www_ffxi/ono/o...2-2004_001.jpg

http://ffxi.dcdnb.org/www_ffxi/ono/o...2-2004_002.jpg

62 PLD and a back up tank for a 70+ NIN. Forget why they had me 2-hour, but boots dropped in the end.

[Eddie]

My first raise was in Citadel too. *sniff*

[Alastaire]

My first raise was in Citadel too. *sniff*

I remember a friend of mine starting at PC release, and myself waiting until PS2 release. Everyday when we'd talk about FFXI he'd have a story that would end in him dying, and I remember saying, "Man, you're such a loser, when I play I'm never gonna die."