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It is quite sad. Now if we want to find out about a zone we look up everything about it on resource sites, mobs, items, entrances, everything! Nothing is a shock or new to anybody. Back then there was not much information as nobody new the information, now all the info has been sucked dry out of it on to sites.
Come the next expasion atleast we will have a little time of exploration and adventure before we know everything about it.
It is quite sad. Now if we want to find out about a zone we look up everything about it on resource sites, mobs, items, entrances, everything! Nothing is a shock or new to anybody. Back then there was not much information as nobody new the information, now all the info has been sucked dry out of it on to sites.
Come the next expasion atleast we will have a little time of exploration and adventure before we know everything about it.
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not gonna cry.....not gonna cry....
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Edit: I can toatally feel the excitement in exploring. I remember farming with my freind edo in Dangruf Wadi, getting into the second gyser and the rope bridge in north gusta. We were all starry eyed, looking at the wonderful waterfall and the splendid view. Seeing a long lost freind, bathed in the ethereal glow of a tele crystal......simply heartwarming.
Edited, Mon Aug 9 19:25:40 2004 by WanderingWonder
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Edit: I can toatally feel the excitement in exploring. I remember farming with my freind edo in Dangruf Wadi, getting into the second gyser and the rope bridge in north gusta. We were all starry eyed, looking at the wonderful waterfall and the splendid view. Seeing a long lost freind, bathed in the ethereal glow of a tele crystal......simply heartwarming.
Edited, Mon Aug 9 19:25:40 2004 by WanderingWonder
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That was a really really really sweet story, sort of reminds me of the Little Prince.
That was a really really really sweet story, sort of reminds me of the Little Prince.
"What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides a well somewhere"
wow. i was never into FF before now and i love it. The imaging and creations they thought of is amazing....to a point looking at it, it is another world. very beautiful story....
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"They are in a great hurry," said the little prince. "What are they looking for?"
"Not even the locomotive engineer knows that," said the switchman.
And a second brilliantly lighted express thundered by, in the opposite direction.
"Are they coming back already?" demanded the little prince.
"These are not the same ones," said the switchman. "It is an exchange."
"Were they not satisfied where they were?" asked the little prince.
"No one is ever satisfied where he is," said the switchman.
And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express.
"Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince.
"They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes."
"Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry . . ."
"They are lucky," the switchman said.
"Not even the locomotive engineer knows that," said the switchman.
And a second brilliantly lighted express thundered by, in the opposite direction.
"Are they coming back already?" demanded the little prince.
"These are not the same ones," said the switchman. "It is an exchange."
"Were they not satisfied where they were?" asked the little prince.
"No one is ever satisfied where he is," said the switchman.
And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express.
"Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince.
"They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes."
"Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry . . ."
"They are lucky," the switchman said.
I started playing in November with a friend of mine; we used to do warcraft or starcraft lanparties, so we tried doing an FFXI lan party. Didn't quite work out, but we decided to keep together and keep going.
She got into a linkshell of major powerlevelers - started as the NA offshoot of a JP shell - and I bounced around a couple until I settled on a decent one given to me by a higher-level JP player. We kind of separated, chatted once in a while online, but never really played together.
Now, I'm a thief. I've been a thief since I started - and I'll take THF to 75. I play a couple of other classes, but I've only got 4 leveled, and only 2 are over 20. Part of being a thief to me was the whole silent/invisible/creeping around aspects, so I bought silent oils and prism powders and started looking around.
-- and have never stopped.
This game has so much more in it than levelling; yes, levelling is required for some of it, but it is a means, not the end. There are so many areas, so many monsters, so much to do and see that most people never seem to miss before they hit 75 the first time.
I'm in a linkshell now, started with a close group of friends. It's not large; there's only 2 or 3 of us on at a time, usually, and sometimes not even that. We're very spread out in level ranges; we're very diverse in our play styles. But we're friends, and we talk, and it makes everything more fun. Yes, we cheer when someone "dings" a new level - we also cheer when someone gets a new craft level, or finishes a quest, or finds something totally cool that they'd never seen before.
And, yes, my friend is one of the people in our shell. So is the Mithra I helped to get Dragoon - when I was only level 28. So are a few people we met doing Rank missions, or Eco-Warrior.
And, sometimes, when parties are slow or there's "nothing to do", I'll go explore an area, just to see what's out there. And sometimes they come along
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can.
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet,
And whither then? I cannot say.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
Good luck and good hunting.
She got into a linkshell of major powerlevelers - started as the NA offshoot of a JP shell - and I bounced around a couple until I settled on a decent one given to me by a higher-level JP player. We kind of separated, chatted once in a while online, but never really played together.
Now, I'm a thief. I've been a thief since I started - and I'll take THF to 75. I play a couple of other classes, but I've only got 4 leveled, and only 2 are over 20. Part of being a thief to me was the whole silent/invisible/creeping around aspects, so I bought silent oils and prism powders and started looking around.
-- and have never stopped.
This game has so much more in it than levelling; yes, levelling is required for some of it, but it is a means, not the end. There are so many areas, so many monsters, so much to do and see that most people never seem to miss before they hit 75 the first time.
I'm in a linkshell now, started with a close group of friends. It's not large; there's only 2 or 3 of us on at a time, usually, and sometimes not even that. We're very spread out in level ranges; we're very diverse in our play styles. But we're friends, and we talk, and it makes everything more fun. Yes, we cheer when someone "dings" a new level - we also cheer when someone gets a new craft level, or finishes a quest, or finds something totally cool that they'd never seen before.
And, yes, my friend is one of the people in our shell. So is the Mithra I helped to get Dragoon - when I was only level 28. So are a few people we met doing Rank missions, or Eco-Warrior.
And, sometimes, when parties are slow or there's "nothing to do", I'll go explore an area, just to see what's out there. And sometimes they come along
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can.
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet,
And whither then? I cannot say.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
Good luck and good hunting.
Yeah, this story really gets to you. It nice reading something like this when allot of posts nowdays is about quiting becaus it's hard to level. So pepole should take a time-out from the level grinding and instead enjoy the beautey of the game.
This same thing happened to my starting LS except for the end part, even though I joined a second LS I still carry the pearlsack with me incase that might happen, doubt it though everyone's just in an exp rush and keep whatever linkshells benifit them the most and toss their old ones.
Wow, that's an amazing story.
I'm obviously not the only one having the same kinda problems in my LS. I started playing because a friend of mine begged me to and wouldn't stop spamming me with screenshots every time I signed on AIM. Ah, what an adventure. I remember getting lost in the Horutoto Ruins and a "high level" 32 SAM taru saving me after I showed him the door for the Nanaa Mihgo quest. I remember my first boat ride, how nervewracking it was to run through Bubu as a little level 12 subjobless WHM. La Thiene and West Ronfaure were so gorgeous, and seeing rain, the ocean, and the Holla crag for the first time was just so awe inspiring.
Now, seven months later, it just seems like the same-old same-old. A couple friends of mine have talked about quitting all together. A few more friends say they find the game boring. I feel frustrated because I want to go and see things, and experience things, and I know there's so many places I haven't been to yet. Getting Teleport-Vahzl makes it easier to explore a reigon I never really had access to, but I'm only one of two in my LS who have the telepoint crystal.
Everyone gets so wrapped up in the leveling grind, and they get so irritated, frustrated and grouchy, it's so sad. A game is meant to be enjoyed and not endured. I have fun leveling with my static and all, but man... I'd love to just go somewhere again, for the sake of going there and seeing what I can find.
I'm obviously not the only one having the same kinda problems in my LS. I started playing because a friend of mine begged me to and wouldn't stop spamming me with screenshots every time I signed on AIM. Ah, what an adventure. I remember getting lost in the Horutoto Ruins and a "high level" 32 SAM taru saving me after I showed him the door for the Nanaa Mihgo quest. I remember my first boat ride, how nervewracking it was to run through Bubu as a little level 12 subjobless WHM. La Thiene and West Ronfaure were so gorgeous, and seeing rain, the ocean, and the Holla crag for the first time was just so awe inspiring.
Now, seven months later, it just seems like the same-old same-old. A couple friends of mine have talked about quitting all together. A few more friends say they find the game boring. I feel frustrated because I want to go and see things, and experience things, and I know there's so many places I haven't been to yet. Getting Teleport-Vahzl makes it easier to explore a reigon I never really had access to, but I'm only one of two in my LS who have the telepoint crystal.
Everyone gets so wrapped up in the leveling grind, and they get so irritated, frustrated and grouchy, it's so sad. A game is meant to be enjoyed and not endured. I have fun leveling with my static and all, but man... I'd love to just go somewhere again, for the sake of going there and seeing what I can find.
Sincerely, that was quietly profound in its effect on me- very soboring, and pulls at the heart strings...
Great story! *bump*
I almost wish in character creation screen there was:
1. Pick name
2. Pick Race
3. Pick Job
4. ( are you an adventurer) click box A.
( are you a power leveler) click box B
5. Pick server
6. Enter worldpasss......
ect, ect, ect...
The problem is I guess, is that some days I am a powerleveler...like rite now I want 25 for raise so bad!
(all the higher WHM's are going "dude? are ya stupid?") LOL.
Others days, I am the explorer.
Anyways, Great story. Thanks for sharing this with us.
But then, I have always been the sappy- sentimental type....
Great story! *bump*
I almost wish in character creation screen there was:
1. Pick name
2. Pick Race
3. Pick Job
4. ( are you an adventurer) click box A.
( are you a power leveler) click box B
5. Pick server
6. Enter worldpasss......
ect, ect, ect...
The problem is I guess, is that some days I am a powerleveler...like rite now I want 25 for raise so bad!
(all the higher WHM's are going "dude? are ya stupid?") LOL.
Others days, I am the explorer.
Anyways, Great story. Thanks for sharing this with us.
But then, I have always been the sappy- sentimental type....
i too am a taru WHM... but unlike most, i haven't yet lost my sense of adventure... i see new zone, i walk thru, throw up the sneak, and deep in i go....
back at lvl 24, during major downtime in party, i found behemoths dominion.... people we're walking in, so i followed
i wa;lk thru after them, get there, and i'll be damned, there's king behemoth... meteor OMGWTFPWN'd me, but it was an experience all it's own
the stone monuments, most get the tablet and move on... if u read them, there is very much history to vana d'iel
yesterday, attempting to get mea scroll, my party decided to venture further into eldieme to get the stone monument there... (party was 40 PLD, 40 RDM, 35 WHM, 40 WHM, 50 WHM, and 49 became 50 WAR) as we were walking thru, sneak carelessly wore off on the 40 WHM, and 3 hell hounds agro'd.
We barely made it thru, all of us two hour'd, but we lived, and had much pride afterwards, we ventured on, and eventually all got the monument
i've done much exploring, and as i'm only a 35 WHM, i still have very much exploring to go
I hope to visit la'loff ampitheater someday, and meet the Arkangels face to face in battle, and maybe grab a few screenshots...
hopefully my faithful WAR (now DRK) friend i always trip with will still be there to share more moments with me, and may u all feel the need to explore more
back at lvl 24, during major downtime in party, i found behemoths dominion.... people we're walking in, so i followed
i wa;lk thru after them, get there, and i'll be damned, there's king behemoth... meteor OMGWTFPWN'd me, but it was an experience all it's own
the stone monuments, most get the tablet and move on... if u read them, there is very much history to vana d'iel
yesterday, attempting to get mea scroll, my party decided to venture further into eldieme to get the stone monument there... (party was 40 PLD, 40 RDM, 35 WHM, 40 WHM, 50 WHM, and 49 became 50 WAR) as we were walking thru, sneak carelessly wore off on the 40 WHM, and 3 hell hounds agro'd.
We barely made it thru, all of us two hour'd, but we lived, and had much pride afterwards, we ventured on, and eventually all got the monument
i've done much exploring, and as i'm only a 35 WHM, i still have very much exploring to go
I hope to visit la'loff ampitheater someday, and meet the Arkangels face to face in battle, and maybe grab a few screenshots...
hopefully my faithful WAR (now DRK) friend i always trip with will still be there to share more moments with me, and may u all feel the need to explore more
That was the best thing i have ever read on this forum.
that really hit home.. thanks for posting that.. great read.
that really hit home.. thanks for posting that.. great read.
Yeah I am going to get my LS back together. We are already pretty tight, but we need to be like a family.
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This reminds me of my first LS. How I miss when we grouped and went exploring and got really bad xp but it didn't really matter because it was just fun to be together.
Of course, it didn't happen often. Soon everyone became high level, and left for other LS with more high level to get more help from them. I end up staying in an empty linkshell for several months, until I could finally accept it's death and move on.
Adventure is dead. /sigh
This reminds me of my first LS. How I miss when we grouped and went exploring and got really bad xp but it didn't really matter because it was just fun to be together.
Of course, it didn't happen often. Soon everyone became high level, and left for other LS with more high level to get more help from them. I end up staying in an empty linkshell for several months, until I could finally accept it's death and move on.
Adventure is dead. /sigh
One day if someone come back, I can say welcome home to him."
/cry TAKE ME!!
/cry TAKE ME!!
That is one of the best stories I've ever heard. Wow is all I can say.
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This is the first thing I've seen on these forums that I can't immediately make a smartass comment about.
So sad... Brought a tear to my eye really.
Easily the best thing I've read on these forums.
Easily the best thing I've read on these forums.
This has revitalized my interest in Exploreing.
/sniff
now, now I am thinking of quitting my ls.
I am tiered of grinding, Even in my "younger" days I enjoyed travelling and finding new things to do and see.
Although I am not the level to really explore some places, others are now more open then ever. The less explored areas of the world, I am coming and you have nothing on me.
/em's face becomes determined.
I will find the gill for my own ls, and In the memory of that Jp whm, if nothing else, I will form a exploring group.
No matter the peril, seraph will not know it is untill too late.
A static would have to be the group in essence, as that would be the only way to ever gain experiance and survive in some places.
But I feel it is my duty now. I will return and see all of our great world for myself.
CoP, here I come.
/sniff
now, now I am thinking of quitting my ls.
I am tiered of grinding, Even in my "younger" days I enjoyed travelling and finding new things to do and see.
Although I am not the level to really explore some places, others are now more open then ever. The less explored areas of the world, I am coming and you have nothing on me.
/em's face becomes determined.
I will find the gill for my own ls, and In the memory of that Jp whm, if nothing else, I will form a exploring group.
No matter the peril, seraph will not know it is untill too late.
A static would have to be the group in essence, as that would be the only way to ever gain experiance and survive in some places.
But I feel it is my duty now. I will return and see all of our great world for myself.
CoP, here I come.
... Even if it's only from my own thoughts, or only from my own decisions, that's probably the most moving thing I've seen in years. There aren't really words beyond that.
(Even for those of you who don't speak Japanese, try remembering the story and reading it back in your mind as you watch the video. The collage of images of memory and music make it even more so.)
(Even for those of you who don't speak Japanese, try remembering the story and reading it back in your mind as you watch the video. The collage of images of memory and music make it even more so.)
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This story says a lot... I felt quite sad while reading it eagerly awaiting the outcome ,as many of us who have read it and will read it can relate to. That gut feeling. It doesn't necessarily have to fundamentally include the fantasy world of Vanadiel but even just life in it's whole form. Leaving some place you once were, as i currently am moving from a place i adore. It's sad. The things we forget in life, the feelings that have swamped over us at one time just to be clouded by the greater pursuit.... the greater pursuit usually being the end, always in life we are trying to get to the end and once we are at that end we sit upon the idea and think back to the little mundane things we experienced upon our adventure. Then, as in the story, we reach a point where we are talking about these things to nobody but ourselves, but thinking always thinking of the one's that have contributed to make such an adventure so delightful. In the end, there shouldn't be one member left in a linkshell that so many had first bonded themselves with. Personally, i have faught with this very truth in the game. I think back to the first friend i've made who now mines constantly while i went on a few exp benders... i think back to Yhoatar Jungle with my good friends Ritant and Xeero (Valefor) and how much integrity we had ingaged into the fun of the battles not the numbers that end up in chatlog in yellow. It pains me to see so many of my friends just exp junkies...where i enjoy lvling and wish i was higher only so i could be with my friends. I'm currently lvl 36 and have beeen 36 for about a month now only because i wanted to farm for Astral Rings the first piece equipment i ever saw that i thought one day i'll be able to sport those babies! I've done a lot of farming, crafting, lvling other jobs, and have spent days just wandering around with friends doing odds and ends; and on some of those days i regretted enjoying those days with friends because i felt like i didn't get anything done to further the pursuit to that grave "75". And then i think to myself well i really don't want to race to lvl 75 because then that'll be closure to picking Mithra job Red Mage on the first day i bought FFXI. The good things in life should not only endure in memory but also in the company of others. My fellow adventurers! Who were scared to hell when they first stepped into the Maze... lol, died provoking a goblin off a friend. See this story isn't about Final Fantasy necessarily is as it's about all the aspects of life... sometimes you need stop treading through one zone in the world and take a look around at what you got and what this world embraces us with.
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