Your Top 5 FFXI Moments

[Yellow Mage]

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3. Completing the RDM AF set. When I put that pimp hat on, I felt like I was king of the world. It was one of my long-term goals when I first started the game, and it was every bit as rewarding as I had hoped.

This almost made it to my list, but really, it was just getting the Tabard (and later, yes, the Chapeau) that really made it feel awesome.

2. Soloing the mob for my Exoray Mold(G1 item). It was one of the narrowest wins I've ever had. It was a toe to toe fight that took everything I had. I ended the fight with roughly a dozen hp and poison still ticking. I was really proud of myself for pulling that off.

I remember having a similar experience with the Explosure . . . thingy . . . the thing used Self-destruct, I tried out-running it, failed, had roughly 14 HP left plus the item. My reaction was pretty much the following:

[Aksannyi]

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I remember returning from Jeuno for the first time, it felt like an epic journey, and I felt like I'd just returned from a fucking military deployment or something when I got back to Sandy.

[Armando]

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Did anyone ever participate in Expeditionary Force? Back when FFXI was new there was a lot of excitement over the competition between the starter nations, but EF was always one of those things that only a very small % of the players seemed to do.

[Malacite]

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I only ever did one, and it was pretty boss.

Reminds me of the old eco-warrior quest, which I used to do every week with a group for about a month.

[Aksannyi]

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Eco Warrior quest made me so angry because I could never finish it, and you can't remove quests from your log. I hated having incomplete quests.

Also a pain in the ass because you could only have one open at a time, so if you have the Sandy one active, someone who has Windy can't go along. Well, they can, but they wouldn't get anything out of it so they essentially can't. (Because we all know people in MMOs are selfish and won't help just for helping, while there are exceptions, this has become pretty much the norm.)

I also did the Garrisons a few times, but it seemed shitty since you'd have about 20 people go and you'd be lucky if two people would get drops. Mostly death, death, and more death ensued.

So many noob memories, I swear. Because really only new players tried that crap and you'd inevitably fail because there's no such thing as organization.

[Malacite]

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Ugh Garrison was stupid though - you had to have someone hold the last mob of each wave or the new one would spawn right away, and the rewards were never all that hot either.

[Aksannyi]

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Yeah but the worst part was someone would inevitably fuck it all up.

At least when you did stuff at endgame like Dynamis, you could wipe and recover, not that it was optimal but it was a bit more forgiving.

[Mezlo]

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There were 2 good garrison items, garrison body and garrison hose. I bought those for like 30k each and used them on all of my melee DD jobs until the level 35-40ish pieces.

[Elwynn]

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* Helping Windurst win Zulkheim region. I got to do some Expeditionary Force for this, which level caps you without canceling buffs. So Protectra V / Shellra V before you start it. Duration is only determined at cast time, so you get the full 30 minutes. At level 30, those are really overpowered. That Sunday morning I and other tarus were dancing in front of the OP. I ended up getting all OP warps on all three nations before they shared them between your nations.

* Finishing CoP two weeks before they removed the level caps. One guy in the LS really wanted to get it done, and I just hung on to his coattails and let him pull me along.

* Finishing the Abyssea bosses. I was down to one or two bosses left to get Shinryu access, and I guess nobody was spamming them, so I shouted for groups to get them done. Also getting Shinryu's atma. After proc, the MNK pops a brew, then fails to kill. I had been though this before, and had a brew on me. WHM brew Shinryu FTW!

* Beating Medusa. New Year's Day 2012 I went with a group that was going to kill her, but she wasn't home. That was the last thing I needed to finish the pre-mythic quest. A few weeks ago I confirmed her on wide scan then shouted up a posse right away.

* Maat's Cap (just this week). I've been 13/15 for months and finally finished it.

[Yygdrasil]

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In no particular order...

1. Staying awake until ungodly hours of the morning following around 2 complete strangers who promised to help me get my Carbuncle Mitts. I remember being bewildered by the sights of Uggly Temple and scared out of my mind at the thought of what was on the other side of every door we walked through. Killing that NM and only barely surviving it's 2 hour to net myself my fancy new gloves was a really amazing moment. Wendy on the other hand... was not nearly as thrilled as I was when I jumped from the desk at 2:00am and squeeled in joy that they were finally mine!

2. My first trip on the Mana Clipper. I still take random rides on it simply because the view is awesome. It's a really relaxing couple of minutes.

3. A combination of my first Entry to Sea and Sky. Both zones are beautiful and like nothing else in the game. Just being able to wander aimlessly around in either zone was something really special.

4. The Airship Fight. 2 Long weeks of trial and error as my linkshell tried to figure out a way for us to beat it with me as a SMN. At the time... at 75 cap... the only job I had was 75SMN. We knew about all the combinations that did and didn't work... but not a single one involved a SMN. Eventually we won... but by a narrow window of about 5 seconds. That was a sweet victory.

5. The first time I broke 100k on a single WS. Sure I used COR's Wildfire while on a brew... but still... it was glorious. Brew + MaB Atmas + MaB gear + Vulcan Staff: Fire Shot >> Wildfire = 126,378 Damage. WHAM, BAM, THANK YOU MA'AM.

[Pawkeshup]

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Wow, 5 moments from 9 years...

#5 - The great escape!

To frame this: It was 2004, and I was just starting. I was an Elvaan RDM (laugh, go on), and soloing in La Theine. I was doing OK but then a Goblin Tinker got a bead on me. I was almost finished with my fight, so I manage to kill what I was fighting and took off on a dead run. Now, this was 2004. No despawn, no deaggro, no escape. I was already beat up, and low on MP. I wasn't making the zone, I was too far... or could I?

I ran. I ran like the awkward giraffe man I was. I cut every corner close. I even managed to rest briefly in the long run to get a little bit of MP. I cured myself and kept running, never quite able to lose my pursuer! Finally, I reached the zone, and saw him there, casting. I zone... AND SURVIVE with a shred of HP left!

#4 - Reaching Sea
I would have put the nights I got run through to sky, but really that was just a messy blur that ended with the OMG moment of being in Sky. No, sea was work. It destroyed my love for being an LS leader. It eluded me so many times. Then, a group for really great people helped get me there, and I will never forget first seeing that amazing crystaline zone, so alien and awesome...

... I have to go back and run around there someday for the hell of it.

#3 - Soloing Bastok 8-2 as BST
This was when the cap was still 75. I had been trying to get people to help, but there was never anyone on in the LS I was in at the time that was able to. So, frustrated, I decided that I was going to solo it. I think I killed half of Kuftal's mobs to do it, but I managed to chip away at that damn ghost's HP, whittling it down as it ate pet after pet after pet.

I died once I think, possibly twice. It was hectic. It was insane. It was glorious.

#2 - Any one of the Dynamis runs with the Argonauts
Sorry, I can't pick any one, and literally I could do all five on this LS. Himitsu, Muligan, Batosi, Ionian, Zalim... I could sit here all day listing off the great people in that shell. We had so much fun. I miss them all.

#1 - Founding and running the OrderOfTheTarus
Even if it ended badly, the days running that shell are the best of my FFXI days. The brightest spot, really. We started as a rebuilding of a Tarutaru LS, and became a big dysfunctional family. All of my closest, dearest FFXI friends were from here. I still see some that play, but most are all gone.

So, yea, my best moments are also my saddest, but, that's how it goes for us ghosts of the past.