Where has the skill gone??

[Aymee]

I remember when we all started getting sky and couldn't wait to fight GODS, that's right GODS.

I entirely forgot about how exciting that was when I first got to it. Somehow I'd landed in what was basically the 2nd NA HNMLS on my server--mind you, we were awful compared to the original, but we teamed up to do Dynamis and stuff. Back when anything less than 3 full alliances meant you were doomed. Oh, and people actually got to enter before 75! What was the general 'rule'... *thinks* ... 65mage 70melee? lol

But GODS! omgomgomg. SO HARD! omg pop items are hard! I always get lost! I die so much! People had not even yet figured out how to abuse decos for max exp. GODS! Genbuuuuu... jeez I always hit him for 0, so frustrating. Why must mithkabobs always be so expensive?!

Best part about that all? At the time, being in sky AND being lvl75 was ridiculously rare yet... given there were what... 2-3 total camps for PTs 73-75? lvl75 meant you were jesus himself. So many memories of PLDs being glad they finally got warcry to help with hate while in sky at lvl70... back when all melee were horrifically doomed to suck in sky and on HNMs because we had nothing for +str/+attk/+acc in gear or food to match what mages could put out.. ((wait, some of that's still true, but at least we won the battle for easy merits!)).

Oh yea. ...and Genbu. KITED. yessssss.

[Alibeemac]

Today I took to seeking on my 71DRG. Given I'm a DRG who never gets pts I take w/e I can get. Get an invite from someone and take it. 103 in Mire so everyone goes urgh and we end up in Bibiki Bay getting about 99-150 exp a mob due to a 73 PLD killing exp plus there were six yes SIX exp pts in the Bay cause everywhere was crowded. We would have gone to MMJSP but of course people don't have the SP /sigh. Only place with no parties was Lufaise which was a suggestion to move to until of course the one person pipes up they don't have access -.- I mean come on omg no access to Lufaise meadows. This makes me cry now. SE even gifted COP to people with the recent gimping of the missions and people still won't make the effort to do it. End game is full of so many noobs now who get gifted level 75 jobs through ToAU and they don't even have to do Sky missions to get 75 now. /sigh....

[HAcoreRD]

I remember wayyyyy back.

You guys remember Goblin camp in Gustav? Where O-Bow NM pops? Or better yet, if you had 5 monks you could rape skeletons in a few levels? They'd drop mad scrolls to pay for your food too!

How about Cape T and Valley of Sorrows? A bitch to get to for slow as fuck exp, but it was tops back then!

At 70s Camping behind Moon gate. I mean, who's went there in the past year?

and not having Meadows access is inexcuseable. Fuck not BEATING cop is ridiculous. SE made it easy for these chumps to beat it now. I recall when you examined someone and saw a COP ring you'd be like "holy shit........" Now people have them, and most don't know what the fucking ~ means.

Where has the skill gone? Those players left when these fools climbed to 75. 75 no longer means skill, or how many million merits you got.

[BRP]

I wish there were level caps starting at level 30, and each genkei quest would be something simple as "Get all your tele crystals", "get a level 37 subjob", or "get rank 6". That's basically how it was in the far gone past of the time I was leveling to 75 for the first time. You did not skip things that matter or you got laughed at.

[Sylvrdragon]

I too can remember when random parties teamed up to kill the godforsaken GOB that dropped the GODLY bow just so we could XP there. When NO ONE knew where the hell they were in sky, hell whole alliances wiped just trying to get somewhere, much less fighting something.

What about PTs teaming up to kill OSE! I remember THAT shit. Of course... back when I XPed on Toramas, I was a melee RDM (kept sword AND dagger capped all the way to lvl 64). My god... those were the days...

[Eaglestrike]

I wish there were level caps starting at level 30, and each genkei quest would be something simple as "Get all your tele crystals", "get a level 37 subjob", or "get rank 6". That's basically how it was in the far gone past of the time I was leveling to 75 for the first time. You did not skip things that matter or you got laughed at.

That would be great, take out the current genkai's and do something like this. Current Genkai's are generally fairly useless, though I vote to keep LB2 just because I remember doing that back in the day and it was great, obviously keep the Maat fight. LB3/4 weren't really that hard, just annoying, unless you're someone who can't dodge aggro.

[Maxxthepenguin]

You aren't a real FFXI player unless you've had to level through Toramas as DRK without the aid of sushi.

[Guano]

OMFG

I remember my FIRST TP burn party on weaps.........

I said to myself.......CHAIN 25, XP will never be better than this, I am gonna be such a badass with getting 8k/hr meriting.

Hitting Genbu for 0.........LMAO

Everyone scrambling cause the big bird starting doing 'GA spam on everyone and no one figured out Chainspell Stun yet.

The big kitty was THE mob to beat in the game. You barely had enough people to form an alliance and all the time wondering this guy in INCREDIBLE, we will never beat him.

OMFG.....my first O-hat run.......talk about monkeys fucking a football.

First time I got th drop on the Jujitsu Gi, Fuma, O-kote......all the stuff that even every gimp player has now.........

[Loren]

LB3/4 weren't really that hard, just annoying, unless you're someone who can't dodge aggro.

I still see the occasional person /shouting for a "limit 3 party", sometimes for hours.

[Plow]

You aren't a real FFXI player unless you've had to level through Toramas as DRK without the aid of sushi.

don't forget perryton ><

[Builttolast]

KRT Meripo can I have it?

I haven't done one of those in over 2 years. You just can't get people out of AU these days.

I started this game a few months after US release. Reading this thread has made me yearn for those times again. I'm not sure whether SE intended to breed such players but it's done nothing to satisfy the old school "pre every nerf" players (especially MPK patch ARGH that ruined everything).

[Thistle]

This thread reminds me why I only party with LS people.

And what the hell is up with people /telling you {Hello!} and once you reply (because hey, maybe it's someone I 'know' and I just forgot), they ask you to join their parties? Ask in your first /tell so I can just ignore you! ><

[Delekii]

I always laugh when people say "I yearn for the olden days when everyone got shitty exp and needed 50% more to reach 75.. why cant we have those gold old days back". Ridiculous, lol. There's a good reason that people don't go to KRT, and it's because KRT sucks major slurping donkey penis compared to the camps of today.

Simple answer, don't do shit with idiots.

[SamanosukeShiva]

alliance lv 15PT in dunes 30-50/kill, this is waaaaaaaay back ; ;

[Eaglestrike]

You aren't a real FFXI player unless you've had to level through Toramas as DRK without the aid of sushi.

So that basically means no one is a real FFXI player anymore since 2h acc is hax now?

[Secksi]

You guys know whats fucking great about all this? It happens again in a little over a month. I still remember exploring all through ToAU when it went live, can't wait for the next one. So much excitement in those first 24-48 hours.

[Saraphym]

I always laugh when people say "I yearn for the olden days when everyone got shitty exp and needed 50% more to reach 75.. why cant we have those gold old days back".

I think they are usually talking in a nostalgic sense, you'd have to be a retard not to see exp'ing/meriting is a lot better now.

[Eratosthenes]

And what the hell is up with people /telling you {Hello!} and once you reply (because hey, maybe it's someone I 'know' and I just forgot), they ask you to join their parties? Ask in your first /tell so I can just ignore you! ><

I always just ignore tells from strangers that consist only of "(hello!)". Once they politely tell me what they want, I'll usually respond.

[Saraphym]

And what the hell is up with people /telling you {Hello!} and once you reply (because hey, maybe it's someone I 'know' and I just forgot), they ask you to join their parties? Ask in your first /tell so I can just ignore you! ><

seriously, I don't think there is anything wrong with this at all.

It's way more polite than "pt k" or xxxx invites you to join party out of nowhere. (i've gotten both numerous times at 75 too)

[Zarath]

Man I remember when there was a time where if u had a lvl 75, u were at least decently geared enough to do high chains, now it's all nitpicky with rank 6 75s, and banking on a good DD/Support/Healer...