I remember the good old days on SylphFollow

Well lot of time for update to go through today.
So whats you favorite memory of Sylph ?

I remember the good old days when there was a role playing linkshell that lived in the counts manor. They where great bunch of players but strictly stayed in character. That has to be almost 5 years ago.

i remeber way back 4 years ago whe so many ppl was walking around proudly helping out new ppl with anything that needed to be done and there wasnt alot of issues with anything when it came to gil sellers or ppl robbing you of your kills or talking trash about you

I started playing the day of the NA release, and I have the very fond memory of being repeatedly trained by several fun-loving characters in the Garliage.

I had to say - even though it sucked... it did keep me on the edge of my seat.

being mpked was painful lol

Remember when the citys were busy, and Garlaige was always packed full of parties, happy days. But i miss all those ppl on my friend list that nolonger play, makes me kinda sad

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I'm almost at the 5 year mark myself.

I remember /checking ppl runnin by me in ronfaure when I started out. I'd see 75/37 and go whoooaaaaa....I didn't pay attention to gear or anything, I was just in awe of the lvl.

Hell, my first time in a pt I panicked like crazy. I was 17war and I had to be escorted to the camp in VD from la theine. I checked the 1st fly we fought and saw Incredibly Tough and about shat myself. I 2hr'd >.> After the fly died the pt leader said, "Munkin, why did you use Mighty Strikes?" I don't remember my reply, but I do remember feeling like a tard.

My first experience being mpk'd was when I tried to get to Norg the first time. Stupid crabs XD. And yes entering the Nest was a gamble on your life lol.

As for the Crystalline Prophecy, its something different to do which is cool, especially when you're doing it with long-time ls mates ^^ Camping all those freakin orcs against 60ppl gave me the adrenaline rush I used to feel the 1st time I camped VE and the Castle Oztroja NMs :D Oh yeah, and can't forget Spook!!!!!

Back in my first ls, before it went bad....good times..

I enjoyed the days from 1-75 on MNK, everything was new and fresh. I did 3 10-15hour exp pty's, Garliage Citadel, Ayd Subterraine, and Bibiki Bay. Theres no way I'd have the stamina for somthing like that now. I start to get really bored after ~2hours of exp/meriting (unless i have some Vodka or suming).

I also liked the old days in Qufim/Yutunga Jungle/GCitadel/Crawlers Nest, it used to add a certain excitement that pty'ing doesn't offer there nowadays. The bad side of it was when ppl were purposly mpk'd. I remember being wiped out by a train in Palborough mines a couple of times which really confused me at the time.

There were times before BCNM's (and other BC style events) where my hands would become all clammy from the anticipation of whats to come. FInishing CoP was a huge milestone for me. I have to say, its very nice having ACP to work through, mission storylines make the game fun, all the ppl who said the 3-mini expansions were a sign the game is dying were all wrong. Theres so much content already in the game, adding more land/zones/jobs is not needed in the game right now. More story's from existing Characters in enviroments we are already familiar with was definately a great move from SE - good job guys!

Let me state more of the GOOD days..

- Back when fishing was MINDLESSLY fun. Click X, wait for a catch, Click X again to pull it in. God I wish I could go back in time and grind fishing before the update happened to where you have to watch it now.

- MPK trains were OMG RUN AWAY FROM THE NOOB BRINGING THEM TO THE ZONE!!!111!!

- When cities were more populated.. ever since Al Zhabi, the past etc.. The starter cities rarely have bazaars or much of a population. Even lower jueno isnt as popular anymore.

- When teleports were popular and getting them was lil more of a challenge but was least in style more.. now its Warp taru, OP warping and FoV.

and for my final one..

- When you could use the Spring version of the FFXI guide book and actually ENJOY using the book for questing and a fair amount of what you could learn about the game. (I know I still can use it on new chars, its still a lil easier to navigate for new char questing when you wanna do zone at a time) Man I wish they would do a new guidebook.. I know we have this site, but I like to have a book in my lap when I am doing stuff vs looking at the screen.

wait... it just dawn on me as i read this great thread of memories

i remember the days when allakhazam was the only friend we had to help us on the web !!!

Brady was great but man you could find it "all" here and still can :)



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I remember logging in for the first time ever and couldnt figure out how to move my character at all and i just kept yelling at an npc asking him how to move thinking he was just a player staring at me for an hr.

I remember reading my brady guide to sleep when i was too tired to play after getting to lvl 6 blm.

I remember trying to npc my first linkpearl for gil.

I remember going to tahrongi canyon for my first party ever and they told me we were waiting on a tank and i thought they meant a real tank :( and when a friend told me he was going to go farm for his new body piece i assumed it involved a tractor.

I remember nobody knowing how to do anything, having to figure everything out for yourself. There were no information repositories, you had to solve quests by your own ability.
I remember 200k being a fortune and 1M being an impossible amount.
I remember thinking sneak attack would also make you undetectable to sound.
I remember calling level 50s high leveled.
I remember leveling in Dangruf Wadi with 2 other THF15s, all of us timing our sneak attacks so the goblin died before any of us got killed.
I remember wearing elemental bonus gear, thinking it was actually helpful.
I remember being new, and every zone holding a new environment, a new discovery for me to make.
I remember when penta thrust returned 60 TP and nobody had a f*cking clue what ninja was supposed to sub.
I remember mining being lucrative, and the ghosts in gusgen mines scaring the crap out of me.

Our feelings of the past are always tinted by nostalgia. However, things are always a LOT more fun when you've just started learning them. Regardless, once you've lost your naivete in this world, it never returns. RIP magic and mystery. :`(

lol, the first time I logged in, something was up with my graphics driver. I didn't have a body and nobody else did either. there were multiple sets of armor and weapons just floating around N Sandy. it scurred meh

Well, thanks to Fields of Valor and the EXP Boost, you CAN colo a lot further than you possibly could before.

It WILL take you longer, but its totally possibly so ride EP-DC mobs on Most jobs for ~70 exp a pop.

It now only takes you about 2-3 hrs to take a job from 1 to 20 (little more or less situation depending)

If you Do play on coming back, now Would be the time to do so. SE seems to be in the mode of trying to get people to stay, so they are making things easler.

Some of the good old things i remember.

My first party was in Saturabaruta, where we then went into the towers there, a whm, Blm and Rdm trioing stuff XD

Meeting all the people i have met, people from all over the world. People i talk to on a daily basis now, people i am inviting to my wedding. I know this is about the things that have changed, but the things i care about the most are my friends. Sure i liked how some things were, Skillchains and magic bursts with 5/6 jobs in a party; Nin, Drk, Blm, Whm, Rdm. But my friends are what keep me playing. To those who left, we miss you.

When I first got to Qufim, I had a fire sword equipped, and I bought all the armor possible with +fire on it, thinking i was enhancing my uber fire sword.



Yeah, when SE got rid of that aspect of the game, it made pty'ing a lot more 'closed doors'. You get your 6, go exp. Only time you might seek assistance from somebody not in your pty is if you need a raise in early levels.

I personally feel the community spirit, the 'pull togetherness' (especially on Slyph) has gone. Once 75, its all about maximum exp, new armor etc. Like sumone said earlier on in the thread, unfortunately, the magic has gone.

On the positive side:

SE and ffxi is still thriving. The servers are still full. There are more story's (mission patches) to come, and who knows what else after those SE has in store for us (fingers crossed unlimited combat merits ffs SE >.>). FFxi lives on, and there is no sign of that stopping any time soon.

I remember the first job i got to 50 was my white mage was so proud and it was so fun back then. Good to see FFXI is still kicking.

sounds weird but i do remember the days before a few things...

i remember when the PC and PS2 where the only game in town... dang do i remember that mass group that came from the 360 beta, we all wanted to know how did it work on that machine

i remember another day like that when it was just NA and the Japanese players, i really remember the day that the British came on board and we had 10x's the people to talk to :)

Things I remember (most of which aren't from the good ol' days)...

*Being extremely proud of having my WHM AF shoes and rocking them proudly until blessed pumps. Now a days I wouldn't even think of equipping them

*Running into Jormungand and trying to rally people to fight him since I was so excited he was up, before realizing no one (understandably) wanted to fight him. But I eventually fought him and got his title.

*Getting tossed into Mordion Gaol!

*Grinding through VD on my first job as a Warrior with a great axe while subbing monk. I still have not finished getting it to 37 as a sub.

*Farming Ghelsba Outpost so I could sell fire crystals for 7k a stack.

*Making the mistake of starting smithing in 2005 at level 20 on my first job, while paying 7k a stack of fire crystals. I lost a lot of money making only the recommended crafts from the NPC until I discovered I could make 30k by converting a stack iron ingots into sheets. My first synth was a bronze dagger, and it cost me 7k to make and sold for 2k. I didn't get a skillup.

*Claiming Aspidochelone as a WHM75/WAR35 against 70 other people while a trial member. He dropped a W. Body

*The first mob I ever fought was a Young Quadav. And by "fought" I mean "Ran across half of North Gustaberg AWAY from Bastok while being thoroughly confused about why it was attacking me"

*My first linkshell was Rgonots. Not RgoNots nor RgoNotsofSylph. Rgonots. I wore my pearlsack with pride.

*Oddly enough I remember my first foray into Promyvion. I was lagging real bad, didn't know about true sound/sight, and accidentally killed Tebian.

*Finally getting 20/20 jobs high enough to never have to step foot into Valkurm Dunes again. That was Wednesday.

*My first party at level 12. I had no idea what to do and we were in Konschtat Highlands. I checked a Tremor Ram and provoked it so we could fight it. There were 3 of us (total) level 11-13. It went about as well as you can imagine.

I had to quit playing in 2006 due to real life and just burnt out on the game. Oh sometimes how I wish I kept all of my disks and info! Alas, I have a six month old and by the time I get home from work/cook dinner/play with baby/put him to bed/make lunches for next day/shower it's late and I collapse into bed.

I miss crafting. The challenge to make money, watch when Windy was in power so I could get cheaper items in the stores, craft like hell on the right days for HQs, etc. I miss my crafting mules, just getting up early in the morning to mass produce pies before LS events.

I miss "just farting around". When crafting was done (no money/AH full of stuff to sell) I'd go wack things in VD, go around raising people, just walk around Vana'diel to see what there was to see.

I miss the old way of fishing. When they changed it I tried it, didn't like it, and quit fishing. I enjoyed sitting back and fishing lazily while chatting to my LS or to those on the boat when trying to fish for big ones/level woodworking.

I miss my friends. I had some great and crazy times. Especially when it was a ragtag of people/levels helping out in various quests.

I do wonder who is left out of the old crew that still plays. I hold no ill will to anyone still playing/played. I wish I could if I had the time, but damn I'm OCD and know I'd spend way too much time in game! I do look forward to seeing the Distant Worlds concert here in Baltimore next month.

i remember when i first started playing and someone came up to me and had me come with him to the AH and he bought me gear. it was only bronze gear but since i was new i thought it was the best gear ever :)

I remember hanging out in The Sanctuary of Zi'tah farming with members of the Cheapskinks and just enjoying the company and the beautiful music...

Death training mobs away in Dynamis as a Taru RDM so that HKS could clear a zone...

Running level 1 mules from Windy to Jeuno with all my old friends...

I remember the powerful music when you first ACCEPT the terms for the first time

I remember the animations of the races performed in the character creation screen. From the tarutaru running around playfully and eventually falling to the ground to the Mithra sitting around.

I remember reading both Strategy guides and believing what it said.

I remember starting at the NA PC release. Which happened to be roughly around Halloween. I received my original pumpkin hat and never threw it out.

I remember choosing Tarutaru not knowing the consequences (high INT & MP, low HP & STR).

I remember first time I saw /panic for the first time.

I remember when travelling wasn't about shortcuts of teleporting. It was actually travelling. Seeing things you never saw before. Seeing mobs for the first time (and not just color variations).

I remember my first Notorious Monster sighting: Tom Tit Tat. Forever it would change the game that I knew.

I remember my first Linkshell when my chat log filled up with other people's chatter and it was colored differently.

I remember attacking elementals or aggroing them.

I remember tossing Beastmen seals because I didn't know what they were for.

I remember my first crag I saw: Tahrongi Canyon and how the weather effects were on and getting my first warp crystal.

I remember the Maze of Shakrami and the large bones in the first open area.

I remember Selbina and the Valkrum Dunes seeing those disgusting pugils.

I remember when going into Lower Jeuno and it would take half a minute for people around you to appear.

I remember the first time I joined these forums and reading threads and other forums thoroughly. Replying if I have any knowledge of the topic. I remember the freshness of reading about monsters and job forums. How a lot of the time was spent here when there was downtime due to maintenance or new patch was released.

I remember getting my first drop: Emperor's Hairpin. A friend wanted it for so long and I gave to him as a present because his Thief would use the DEX and AGI boost more than I could. That was a real feeling of accomplishment: To help someone get what they want. Sadly this accomplishment slowly changed to greed in end game. Needs became wants, but lets not talk about that.

There is so much more that I can talk about. I'll post another time. These are great memories that I tend to always come back to. A lot of bad memories as well come back, but it's best to think of the good times.

Ha...I'm the one that got Airrun to start playing.

AAH was the best LS I was ever in. Back when Hotdogs, Phrozen, Airrun and other various members were playing regularly was the most fun I had in game.

However, as with all good things, they must eventually end.

dang...

I remember when fishing and gardening was fun and 'not' potentially character life threatening. The days before the rmt wars when we all had fun and they where "just there" but we did not have suffer every single update as Square tries to get "them"...

/sigh

FFXI where did you go when Sandy was cool and Jueno was so far away it was an adventure just to go there !

yeps, i remember the good old days on Sylph

Tebian, I beleave your original post was about the "Bloodline Legion" That Both Players, Scye And Ariciont Were a major part of after branching off from Crystaline after...(Problems) Of in character Roleplaying felt to be (Uneducated) In best of terms, lol.

Those........Those were the good old days, When Shortyellowbus, Acara, Enigmaticknight, Krain, Ariciont, Shuki,Ikijha, Canadaman(TeamBlitz Endgame), Mikey(Endgame), Ect, And others were all Branching into Linkshells And main end-game shells, after leaving many shells such as MuchHated or Even TeamBlitz.....TeamBlitz...Ftr, Best LS Ever.

I remember a specific Massivenoneko, Best in game ninja even today next to Twolipsrbetter, Man...so many memories of FFXI, shame i only pop on once in a while....

Bottenmaru...
Twolips,
Akamaru,
Massivenoneko,
Shuki,
Ikijha,
Ariciont,
Darklink,
Evilchocobo,
Crimsonwitch,
Pretension,
Solana,
Chaekoe,
And many many more who escape me,
Man....So many names....

And before you an flame me, Chest! Muahaha, Said it for you. <3


I miss all of you who stuck with me even those who support me as a ninja and sam main now when i pop on...your a part of my life i can never forget...and Crystalline I hope your striving stronger then ever as a RPG LS Community. <3

And Truebrotherhood, Those who still hold your pearls for the last 6 years of leveling and being there for me...my closet friends on FFXI Even though I vanish at long periods of time, You always have your pearl with pride knowing Scye will never die through the ridiculous rumors and tragedies we have all fought as a team. <3