Remember Back When....

camping serket, roc, exc. with a full ally, agienst 100 other people.

when mnk was actually good.

boost x10 chi blast!!!!!

before rage timers.

the gil inflation of 2005.

before they lowered the required exp needed to reach 75.

When Vrtra was the hardest mob in the game.

When no one did KS99 becuase they were to hard.

when lower jeuno and south sandy were the 2 most busy zones in the game.

Boyahda Tree robber crab trains.

pting in kuftul tunnel in the big room and watching everyone panic out when Guivre spawns and rapes everyone.

when tele holla, dem, and mea were 500gil and altep, yhoat, vahzl were 1k.

forming alliances to go farm coffer keys for AF.

Doing anything with a full ally back then, that you can easily solo now.

When rank 10 was the ***, and everyone wore their nations signet staffs around.

When you could use any nations signet staff to get signet :o

geeze I could go on for days lolol.

I remember getting THF to 30 before someone told me how to use SA and at the same time SATA soo I was aww snap ! also someone said I should start using a dagger and not a sword lol

also remember hitting lvl 50 thf and not getting any party invites =( took me 4 more years to get it to 75

remember NIN before toolbags

Zoning into CN and being dead

Oh god I remember that. I just wanted to get a traveler's mantle and this galka would pop online around 19:30, spin in place and get claim every time. Grrrr.

Remember when you were just starting the game and solo'ing on your mnk.... And then you had to party with your taru whm friend b/c he told you whm's HAD to party to get xp and you believed him?

Oh.. Was that only me?

It's semi true at least back in the day. WHM was my first 75 but not my first 1-10. I remember taking WHM to 10 was the most difficult and tedious thing I had done and I died like 5-6 times doing it =/

Wow, most ppl don't even know that NM still Exist

- A stack of silkthread was 150k.
- All who started in windy was richer then all else, reason see above.
- You thought this lvl 60 person was immortal only cause he used a SH.
- AF was the best gear in game.
- You run to camp in GC and suddenly find yourself dead cause a bomb exploded next to you.
- Lower Jeuno was the laggiest zone in game.
- LoO was camped just as much as Ground Kings.
- Noone had Sky, if you did this was the coolest thing alive.
- People exped at Moon.
- A tele was free. O.O!!!!
- People with 2 jobs at 75 where gods.
- Goblins where your worst enemy.
- People knew what a skillchain was.
- People knew what a MB was.
- A BLM knew how to do this before Endgame.
- A exp party doing 4k/h was impossible to gauge.
- Chain #5 was OMFGBBQSAUCE.
- Chain #7 was thought to be the highest chain obtainable.
- A average player had 50 mil gil.
- A Kraken Club was 130 mil+ and sold like candy.
- You brought a entire alliance just to do G2.
- G1 was the most challenging thing in game.
- Sea was a myth.
- No RMT Issues.
- You walked everywhere.
- You had a RR up always cause there where never any raise around.
- Distortion was the Main SC that all party was supposed to have.
- Parties had a "4 level gap"
- Shadow Lord was one of the hardest bosses in game.
- Avista solos Genbu; Epic cross server moment.
- You could find usefull stuff in bazaars around Jeuno, not only currency.
- Xarcabard was the farthest away from home you could get. And it still is cold there.
- /sh warnings of incoming zone trains was seen daily.
- /sh's about who the idiot was that didnt do the above pre zoning.
- Autorefresh is what made Summoner Unique.
- Fenrir was a status symbol even used in /seacoms for exp.
- SMN got invited to exp cause they had Avatar's not /whm.
- People exped in godforsaken areas like Bibikibay, Cape Terrigan, Labyrinth of Onzozo, Valley of Sorrows.
- Ulli room was worse than Aery
- RMT in sky with multi allys of clone blm's
- You would cure bomb RMT pt's with spikes on ww
- Dynamis Knuckles were king of all
- Arrow burns > you
- You lvl'd mnk just to KRT
- The choco quest area in Upper J had 50+ people at any given time
- Optical Hat was 1337
- You tanked Tiamat Pld/war
- Beating Airship was the greatest accomplishment in gaming history (Pre-nerf ONRY)
- Your xp pts ritual per pull was more complicated than most current HNM fights (pull > First voke > WS > SATAWS > burst)
- You invited a rng to our dunes pt, just because they could widescan for bones for magicked skulls
- You /tossed all your Beast seals b/c they took up room that could be used for crystals
- You wore +resist gear on your blm b/c it "added" damage
- You fought over mandy pulls with the 4-5 other pt's at Yhoator camp
- The first time you saw a shark bite do 300+ damage you nearly ***yourself
- You took/joined full ally's for AF armor fights
- You would NEVER waste gil on something as stupid as food
- You ever ran from the wild all the way back to your mog house to get health back because you didn't know about /heal
- Lvl 1-10 took days not a couple hrs
- Garrison was for the pro's
- At any given time there could be 25+ campers @ VE, LL, Mee, Jagy Jack
- People did bcnm for erase as much as they did it for Ni

When you couldn't walk through South Sandy without seeing a Eco-Warrior shout.

lol. I remember this

Lies!

<3 MNK

When you were level 15 and saw a level 75 run through sandy wearing a K Osode and you thought "OMG THAT HAS TO BE A GM".

When WHMS actually shouted for selling tele's in sandy, windy, and basty... But they only had dem and holla, no mea! XD

When getting rank 5 and an Airship pass was your idea of "Beating the game".

When you FINALLY got a Chocobo Pass, but hardly rode one because a)189g was WAY too *** much, and b) because your friend told you after 20 uses it would run out and you had to do the quest over again (I still hate you for that) -.-

When it was almost a requirement to have TWO whms in a party.

When you and 10 of your friends road the boat from selbina to mhuara for hours and hours straight, just because that was the cool thing to do.. (I'M ON A BOAT ***!).

When you actually thought girls played mithras! lol XD

And last but not least..

Remember when you had fun!?!?

When chocos where like 2k >.>

I been playing for a long long time and I don't remember that =(

Partied all those areas except VoS. I try to block out those memories though.

Haha Labyrinth of Onzozo was so fun with paralyze and silence spam...

Never had this happen to me, so when people say there is always a bunny tougher than you I don't understand the joke.

"Appearance is decieving" Pretty much..

If you ever run into Unut in the tree, you'll understand =P

When there were 20+ people lfp at any given time. now its slim pickings. (Even was level sync)

I remember my first boat ride. I didn't think much of it as I made my way up to the top deck. As soon I open the double doors, I see Kraken, it saw me, and I died lol

I remember when I was puller in Boyahda tree and I pulled Aquarius to camp by accident! Kind of "oh ***!" moment I will never forget lol.

Meant that atleast I didn't care or hear to much about what RMT where doing pre the end-game era.

I liked exp in Onzozo. Couple pts there, freak out when Ose popped and allianced fought him for 10-15 minutes and he drops a whisker lol.

And surprised no one has said this one yet.

Remember when 'depop' didnt happen? Gobs would just walk away from Kazham back to where ever they came from and pwn everyone in the way, killing ur chance at getting any exp for a good 20 minutes cuz some dumbass would reaggro the train just as they were getting out of the way. And dont let that train be in Crawler's Nest or Garbage Shitadel.....
"/casting spell warp. See u guys tomorrow."

When you first hit 20 and dropped everything to run to Jueno to get your chocobo. 2 of my RL friends helped me do this but they told me that if I left the Choco stables between feedings that the chocobo wouldn't let you feed it again, So I literally sat in that damn stable for 6 hours so I could get my chocobo.

When I first walked into K.highlands for the first time with 5 ppl in a pt and saw a ghost for the first time and everyone in the pt thought "there are 5 of us and 1 of him..what could go wrong.....RUN!!"

Getting whm and blm to 37 for rdm sub was going the extra mile..

When dd's came /war to xp..

The first time a blm cast something at a ToAU bird camp and someone died cuz it was Freeze..

The fact that this changed makes me cry.

I have been only playing for about 1 year but oddly I do remember most of all these
memories

Prolly cause I did play for a few months around the time of the NA release.

Mostly the one thing I do remember is Eco warrior, all the old "cool kids" part spots and actually doing garrison!

That is all (god that took forever to type this on iphone)

OK Lets see. Long List
WARNING: Some of these were probably said already

~ Looking at the region info and wondering "How the hell do I get THERE?"
~ Seeing someone ride by on a choco and wishing you could ride one too

~ When people would cast "Deodorize" on you...not as a joke... but actually thinking it protected you.

~ Farming Silk Thread for days and making a fortune

~ Starting to save up that 10-15 mil for my E.bow

~ Soloing Spiny Spipi and and thinking I was tough as nails.

~ When people actually partied in The Maze and Bubu and NOT just Dunes Onry

~ Waiting on the boat and going "Ooooh look! Pirates!!" Just to dock... dead.

~ When LOLShura Kote were "OMG I has +4 Acc on my Hands!!!"

~ When it was the "Linkshells Osode" and not "Your Osode"

~ All day and night shouts in Jeuno for O.Hats

~ When Lower Jeuno would lag you out due to the number of people in it.

~ You would see someone with a Rajas/Tamas/Sattva ring... and you respected them

~ 500 gil Tele shouts.

~ For that matter... SHOUTS at ALL in any of the three cities for tele's and missions

~ When WAR, PLD and occasionally SAM were your Tanks... and NIN was just a DD/Debuffer

~ Dragoons using "Call Wyvern"...just too loose it in 5 seconds to an AOE... and not being able to call it back for another 2 hours.

~ Zoning into Ronfaure and hearing the music... and immediately thinking of Sir Robin from Holy Grail.

~ when the "Search Function" for party members targeted ONLY people in the SAME ZONE, and YOUR LEVEL. not anyone who had flag up.

~ Seeing one... then three... then five people run past your party... followed by Guivre who would stop, face-rape your party, then continue chase.

~ Leveling in areas like Lab. of Onzozo, King Ramp.Tomb, Uleguerand Range, Bostaunieux Oubliette, etc etc.

~ Going to Attohwa Chasm for the first time, finding the mountain, spending 2 hours or so climbing it... and thinking something REALLY cool was at the top.

~ Seeing a SMN summon Diabolos for the first time and thinking it was the coolest thing you ever saw.

~ 700+ people on the dock waiting for the boat on the first day of ToAU release.

there's soooo many more that I just can't think of at the moment.

I leave you with Mine (and probably ALOT of RNG's) favorite N00B moment:
~ Leveling my RNG in The Boyahda Tree. I was told to pull crabs.
So off goes the macro "Incoming {Aquarius}!!! {Pull Back}".
The whole party goes WTF??? Leader says "Just let him die. We'll raise him afterwards"
I threw a hissy fit because I thought my party was a bunch of A-Holes letting me die...

If rhere is one thing that makes me sad it is this, I don't know how many times I have been asked to go /nin just so "the rem won't have ro heal u as much" which tbh If the rdm can't keep me alive in a noal pt situation then he should be leveling something else.

My friend got into a argument about how drg should always sub nin... I called him a moron pretty quick.