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[Mrdude]

10. Leveled paladin to 75
9. got Shadow breastplate
8. Spent 2 months camping cerb to get 2 hides -.-
7. one hide broke, spend another 2 weeks to get a third
6. Spent 2 months camping Khim only to claim it once, killing it 0 times
5. Got Homam legs/feet
4. got askar hands/feet/body
3. left my hnmls
2. got Usukane sune-ate after 2 years of salvage (second piece, first useful piece)
1. started playing WoW!

What an awesome year.

[Tomiko]

10. Unlocked the Mythic Weaponskills for all my jobs at 75.
9. Completed my Runic Key.
8. Obtained Valkyrie Fork.
7. Completed Ares's Cuirass.
6. Finally completed Nin & Smn relic armor sets.
5. Organized and completed 'Waking the Beast' on two occassions.
4. Solo'd Pld AF3 as Drg/Blu.
3. Solo claimed and held Behemoth as Pld/War.
2. Joined a linkshell many of my oldest/closest friends are in.
1. Attended TG '08.

[Apelila]

10: Attended Failfest '08
9: 6/6 on MNK Relic armor
8: Mel. Gloves +1, Melee pants and Cleric body (Always wanted)
7: RDM to 75, a week after getting Warlocks Tabard +1
6: Server transfer, got to do nothing for 6 months
5: Got a linkshell that's awesome making the game fun again
4: Started crafting again (Q_Q)
3: Fully merited WHM only to have expanded lvl 2 merits fuck me in the ass
2: Beat Maat on my friends old BLM after failing multiple times
1: Claimed Shikigami Weapon for my roomate via Flash + Shield bash + invicible against 7 other people. Got to watch it die while dead :3

[Pharaun]

10. Joined a Nyzul set, and using all of our luck on our second set of floor 80 runs went Denali, Askar, Askar
9. Soboro runs with my chat ls, and swearing that we'd never do them again.
8. The awesomeness of Sam/Dnc for soloing
7. Joined a Dynamis LS and got 4/5 Sam relic in less than 6 months
6. Completed CoP
5. Byakko's Haidate
4. Ranger 75 (did this for shits and giggles, but now it's what I use for events 9/10 times T_T)
3. Warrior 75
2. Ikari quit, I miss you man.
1. Finished meriting my Sam (well close enough need 2 more blade bash merits)

[Ramzii]

i fixed it for u

Greetings, Samanosuke.

I do believe you should stop riding my testicles, please.

Love,
Ramzus xoxoxoxo

[Thistle]

#1 and #7 are the biggest things. I guess #10, too.

1) Finishing ToAU. Yay! My favorite expansion ever!
2) RDM to 75. Yay handy job!
3) WHM to 75 (which will happen tomorrow, but close enough).
4) Alchemy mule to 100. (Though it was way way way too easy.)
5) Gold to 95. Gold 94-95 was hundreds of times harder than alchemy 1-100.
6) Almost finished COR merits.
7) Got full COR AF2! This made me insanely happy. :D I bounced for days after.
8 ) Got my chocobo chick necklace (finished racing bird).
9) Still haven't missed a day of chocobo digging. 4+ years and not missed a day yet! (And still haven't had the last leveling up!)
10) Outlasted all of the people who got me into FFXI. Some of them quit years ago, some just this year, but now everyone I knew when I first started playing has quit. I win?

[Colenzo]

10. Reactivating
9. Gearing up PLD and SAM again
8. Capping Merits on SAM and PLD
7. Taking up DRG and DRK to 75
6. Clearing nyzul
5. uhhhh
4. uhhhhhhh
3. uhhhhhhhhhh
2. uhhhhhhhhhhhh
1. Fuck you Fairy, Pandemonium GET!

[makojr]

10. Got sea on new character
9. Got NIN and SAM to 75
8. Got to have sam level into an ace's helm.
7. Met some cool people this year.
6. First Bahamut server Odin kill
5. First Bahamut server Dark Ixion kill.
4. Capped merits on all jobs
3. Made enough gil to cover the needs/wants of my jobs
2. Got e.body
1. Still in the linkshell I joined 2 years ago.

[Kimiko]

In no particular order

10) Started Dynamis with Cloak&Dagger, most everyone is now clear to Xarc. Also, Duelist's Tabard & Argute Gown!
9) 100+ Limbus runs with the LS with a perfect 30/30 mega boss record. 4/5 Nashira Pieces
8) Goliard Trews, Goliard Clogs, and Mage's Staff from Nyzul.
7) Did lots of Campaign and Besieged, Siren is still perfect @ Besieged
6) Did lots of Sky, getting most of the LS the items they needed (where's the love on the wyrmal legs though Big-K?)
5) Finished ToAU! Working on San d'Oria missions (rank 6)
4) Leveled Scholar to 75, Thief to 60, Puppetmaster to 36
3) Did a decent amount of Einherjar and obtained Omega Ring
2) Won our first ever KS99 Wyrm battle
1) Did a LOT of Salvage, QQTH still hasn't dropped my coat yet (0/186... ;_;)

Course I've always got something up my sleeve when it comes to this sort of stuff: http://www.staronion.com/kimiko/?p=502

[Hyriu]

No order, like everyone else pretty much.

10) Leading a successful endgame LS
9) Leading a successful Dynamis LS and learned how to pull most zones.
8 ) 5/5 WHM AF2
7) my LS killing about 90% of all Lambton worms who popped on Alex.
6) LS getting 2 D.ring this year. (2 in '07 too).
5) Breaking our Hauteclaire curse(1/82ish, now 6/100+)
4) First and only AV zerg on Alex, 5th or 6th cross-server maybe, idk/care.
3) 4th 75 job, NIN and succesfully NIN/DRK tanking everything there's to tank.
2) Beating Odin.
1) Adaman Hauberk <.< after being 8 months solo lot and missing every single drop.

[yrpaine]

10. Captain rank
9. Got a few new 75's (whm/pld/drk/bst)
8. Got Runic key and a bunch of new ws
7. Beat Odin
6. 2 more stored relic sets (brd and rng)
5. Ace's helm
4. Black Belt
3. Kraken Club
2. Started new LS
1. Got a special someone in my life

[Minnich]

10. Got lv75 PLD
9. Got lv75 MNK to tank in salvage.
8. Obtained Hauteclaire
7. Obtained Ares's Cuirass
6. Obtained Ace's Helm
5. Rejoined my friends on Valefor.
4. Rejoined my friends on Asura, bringing another friend with me this time!
3. Successfully tanked almost every end game HNM/boss on my gimp PLD.
2. Joined a salvage group with some of my closest friends on Asura.
1. Quit the game. (I will return!)

[Qtipus]

Highlights of my year in order:

1. Finished Gungnir.
2. Beat Odin starting Einherjar from scratch.
3. Finished 4/5 Ares pieces in just under 3 months. Gyroscopic Gears suck.
4. Helped revamp my dynamis shell (with an assist from SE).
5. Finished Askar set.
6. Bonecrafting to 100 along with it's 3 most common subs to 60. (Thanks for the boneworker's ring SE!)
7. Picked up Roundel Earrings for 6 people in 10 BC attempts.
8. Drakesbane'd a Greater Colibri for 5.2k damage using Gungnir.
9. Killed my girlfriend's character twice. (One assault, one dynamis).
10. One epic crafting day consisting of: Unicorn Leggings+1, Genie Weskit, 2x Genie Tiara, and 3x Nereid Rings.

[Traydor]

Highlights of my year

1. Bard 75
2. Ninja 75
3. Scholar 75
4. 8/8 Enfeebling merits
5. 5/5 Nin Relic
6. Finally did Dynamis Tav! Last Night even!
7. Fully Meriting Red Mage
8. Making some really great friends.
9.Playing this game too much!
10.Keep saying I will quit, then SE releases a patch.

[willriker]

10 lead a group and 100% finished with nyzul Isle (150k tokens and all static has all items wanted)
9 Made it into the best HNM LS on our server with only PLD leveled (during LOLPLD era)
8 Tanked every single fight through CoP, Roz, Bastok missions on PLD
7 CoP and RoZ on "The Final Verse"
6 Wrote a fantastic Wiki guide on PLD (ok ok it was great with pre toau thinking and needs an overhaul)
5 Wrote about the two kinds of hate, VE and CE, in my guide 1 1/2 years before kaeko's enmity testing.
4 Tanked every HNM in the game on PLD, and won (outside of Lapton worm, IM COMING FOR YOU!)
3 Reaching the point in the game where gill is not a nesecity, nothing left thats good enough to buy for me outside of relic/kc and the like
2 A10 Chocobo Digging
1 Most importantly, ive lost count of how many totaly random new players i have helped to break their level caps.