I remember~

[Narol]

I remember buying Kingdom Cesti before anyone but the JPs knew how you got the blue-box upgraded CP gear. Ironically, it was worth about as much as it is today.

I remember farming silk for money to buy the aforementioned weapon.

I remember seeing Serpopard Ishtar while exping in Tahrongi Canyon and explaining to my party what an NM is. Then we wiped to it. To this day, I still haven't gone back and gotten revenge on the bastard.

I remember soloing my Magicked Skull and people being amazed at me going 1/1... then I got my ass handed to me when I tried soloing my Damselfly Worm.

I remember MNK/THF to 30, then hitting 30 and going MNK/WAR god-mode on mandies.

I remember gaxe WAR/MNK god-mode on mandies to 30, then fighting the good fight for WAR/THF.

I remember when MNK was the lol job post-VB Distortion, and going weeks without an invite.

I remember zombie-soloing my MNK AF boots (pop NM, die, NMs depop, reraise, get the ???).

I remember being excited at getting my MNK AF body, selling off my Jujitsu Gi... and seeing the hyperinflation hit about 3 days later. To this day, I nerd-rage at that.

I remember CoP first coming out and everything was ridiculously, "SMN only" hard.

I remember the second CoP nerfs (the ones everyone bitches about despite that they only actually changed like 2 fights and made shit AHable). To this day I'm one of the few people who sees this round of nerfing as a good thing.

I remember ToAU coming out, and Besieged being a big deal.

I remember my first time in Sky, thinking it was a big deal having finally made it there.

But perhaps most damningly of all, I remember Meeting Again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVSHlme_yIU

[EternalSnow]

I remember when KI was awesomeeee
I remember going on allakhazam all the time and hating bg than I came to bg and now I'm here!

[Trauma]

Farming my first 100k by harvesting Elm Logs in Ghelsba Outpost.

When adventuring fellows were first released there was a huge line of about 100 people all waiting patiently to fight the skeleton in Eldieme. It was nice to see a large amount of people waiting patiently and cooperatively.

[Narol]

When adventuring fellows were first released there was a huge line of about 100 people all waiting patiently to fight the skeleton in Eldieme. It was nice to see a large amount of people waiting patiently and cooperatively.

I remember waiting in a ginormous line at the Ghelsba hut. Everyone was amazed that people were taking nice, orderly turns. Line-cutters got bitched out something fierce.

[crux]

I remember doing Eco-Warriors for gil. Hell, I remember doing Eco-Warriors.

[Kohan]

I remember when my roommate and friends were nagging me about "Final Fantasy XI," encouraging me to buy a copy of the game, but I didn't want to because "Phantasy Star Online III: C.A.R.D. Battle" was coming out a month later. It took them a few more months -- till early 2004 -- to convince me to buy FFXI instead, and start raising Kohan.

I started out as a MNK with aspirations of subbing WHM. Then I wanted to sub SAM. After learning of the TP nerf, that dream was quashed. Fortunately, I knew how to utilize the interwebs, discovered Allakhazam, and subbed WAR -- all the way to 75, fuckers.

I remember when it was time for me to go to Jeuno. The one friend who helped push me into buying FFXI -- bastard -- was a level 40 BLM. He was absolutely convinced that my changing from a level 18 or so MNK to a level 1 THF would cause all the enemies on the way to Jeuno to ignore me. Yes, that was how he thought the aggro system worked -- that foes ignored you if your level was significantly lower than theirs. I actually didn't buy into it, but he wouldn't take me until I changed, so I did.

I didn't get aggro once the entire way.

Afterward, I remember when I was leveling my WAR subjob beyond 15 or so. When we were ready for Qufim Island, three of my friends and I got incredibly drunk, changed our job combinations so we were -- as they'd been freshly coined on Alla -- "buttersheep," and were laughing our asses off while gimping it up fighting worms, and loving every minute of it. Every time we died, it was absolutely hilarious.

I remember farming non-stop in the Marshlands to sell a ton of valuable Beastman Blood, which funded the dreaded MNK level 40 crunch. I remember being subsequently shit-talked frequently on how MNK was awful at virtually everything, especially crabs, and how I kept right on leveling it anyway, because I fucking loved it.

Speaking of, here's a blast from the past:

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/3...ohanjeuno0.jpg

MNK 4eva, bitches.

[McGoonagle]

Avoiding Quads and Goobs on my first run to Jeuno.

It was such a relief to see that gate, and to have someone pull that gob off me.

[Delirium]

I remember mining in Gusgen for a long time to get astral rings for my whm
I remember being so damn excited when I got the first Shining Cloth off my LS third ever Suzaku kill
I remember the thread on BG about how to spawn and kill Despot, Ulli, etc
I remember Steam Cleaner disappearing but was working as intended
I remember being the first NA group to get sea access and wondering where all the sea gods were at and what kind of awesome gear they would drop to replace sky gear
I remember alliance groups for days to get people papyrus for genkai 1
I remember 2 hour kirins being fast

[EternalSnow]

Nice video narol

[Narol]

Huge long train of thought led me to having to ask this: "Do we kite Faust?"

[Drex]

when my friend was trying to convince me to start playing, i was watching while she was in an xp party in the dunes. i saw a drg there and was like "fuck yeah pet dragon, if i do play i'm gonna be a drg". then i said a drg subbing whm must be awesome and she was like "no, melee jobs subbing whm usually suck cause they have no mp". i was like "cmon do a search for high level drgs, i bet they all sub whm" as a joke, and when she did about 20 drgs popped up, most of them soloing /whm. lol.

also, when i did start i really wanted to be a drg still, so i started as a mnk, took it to 18, got my sj, and leveled war to 37. unlocked my advanced jobs, and started leveling drg. in the 30s i wanted to buy a venerer ring really bad, but they were expensive at the time, so i took up my randomly 12 whm to 36 to tele-taxi. then i saw alteps and yhoats were worth more, so i kept leveling til i had those. then i saw vahzl was worth even more, so i pushed ahead to 42. by this time i had plenty for the venerer ring, but i liked whm so much i went ahead and took it to 75.

5 more 75s later and i only touched my drg again to get it to 37 for sam sub.

[Callisto]

I remember 2 hour kirins being fast

Oh god, one shell I was in didn't have enough DDs and Kirin was alive long enough to run out of MP and Astral Flow us twice

[Titanss]

I camped argus like a month ago helping a friend get his pca and he quit lol ;; well disappeared. I hope he is alright though irl.

you must be a true friend. I WOULD NEVER HELP ANYONE WITH IT.. ever

[Aurara]

i remember when dominion was a warzone

[Dowzer]

I remember resetting my 2 hour after changing jobs.
I remember SMN burning Ghelsba long before level sync.
I remember fishing angel skins at Cape Teriggan.
I remember Ash Dragon on the Zilart Mission headstone path.
I remember our first wlegs drop going to my DRK.
I remember when RMT camped everything.
I remember using the Decimation quest to decimate RMT at Sozu with Yallery Brown.
I remember pulling Guivre on the RMT at Phantom Worm.
I remember being a gimp DRK thinking /MNK was good with a KC.
I remember getting banned with a KC.

[Tomiko]

I remember....
-Dalt.
-when KI server forums used to be worth reading. (I met Miz and others there!)
-when beating Dynamis Lord was a rare accomplishment.
-needing an alliance for Limit 2.
-when mobs pathed back instead of despawn.

[EternalSnow]

you must be a true friend. I WOULD NEVER HELP ANYONE WITH IT.. ever

lol

[EternalSnow]

maybe I'm imagining things, but a long time if you got hit by a mob while zoning didn't it stop us from zoning? Maybe I'm wrong, but for some odd reason I keep thinking it happened.

[Moridam]

I remember when MNK was the lol job post-VB Distortion, and going weeks without an invite.

Oh god do I remember this, took me ~6 months to go 50>60. Everyone had a hardon for crab camps for that whole stretch, Kuftal, Tree, Cape, Gustav Tunnel... and everyone knows you can't fight crabs without distortion!

The rare parties I did get every now and then were, I imagine the only ones at all that tried out the more 'offbeat' spots like bats in KRT.

On the plus side, the long LFG times gave me plenty of opportunity to farm up the 2M to buy Spartan Cesti which were all the rage back then.

[Massimo]

maybe I'm imagining things, but a long time if you got hit by a mob while zoning didn't it stop us from zoning? Maybe I'm wrong, but for some odd reason I keep thinking it happened.

If you die just before/while zoning (unless it's really late in the process) it'll kick you back out. Never did by just getting hit though.