List your Noob Moments.....Follow

4 years of playing this game:

1. I just realized last night that there were 2 entrances to Western Altepa from Eastern Altepa desert.

2. I never knew there was a Mushroom colony in Jugner Forest.

3. I never knew how to get to the waterfall in South Gutasberg until I did my THF AFs.

* Couldn't move for like 5 minutes when I first started the game.

* I meleed all the way from RDM 1 to 51, subbing /NIN. (RDM 75 was my first 75)

* Asked help from my dynamis shell to kill the Charybdis it took me 31 hours of killing placeholders to pop, just to watch them come, kill and not even let me join the party to help/lot.

* Not keeping RR up in a Limbus 3 man manaburn run when I was the only one with Raise.

* Keeping composure up while trying to solo the FoV NM turtle in Valley of Sorrows.

* This is more suicidal than noobish, but I do use Sorcerer ring while weakened... in Dynamis. 1 hp is fun.

The first NM I ever fought was Simerg, and I was so excited about my LS getting claim and victory, I /shout'd to the heavens, "Simerg is DEAD!"

Apparantly shouting a ToD to the entire zone isnt kosher.

I recently discovered there was an AH in Nashmau

Sing, you didnt mention trying to kite and kill Ullikumi in the 1st warp room way back in the day after sky was introduced.

MooseHP, I was there for that 3 man limbus run with no raise I believe. If it wasnt you, then I had the same thing happen with another RDM.

Entering limbus zone and engaging mobs before party has all entered therefore locking people out.

WTF, PLD pulling Dynamis is the usual isnt it?

Wow, I had that happen a few weeks ago, person responsible probably won't see this though. Can't remember if it happened before or after the raise incident.

shut up T (Thrustie) lol...

Oh yeah I forgot to break alliance once when we were entering different zones in limbus... Other party could not enter their zone..

Woooooo Sibent!

Here's one. I stood by and tried to watch DB's LS kill Vrtra. I was in Sandy when I got the /t that he was down to 15% and it was the lowest he'd ever been. DB is fighting Vrtra and at the same time trying to describe to me, without me having a map, how to get to Vrtra. Then I get there and well...I stood close enough for an AoE at one point..so yea...

P.S. you've played a long time in my book if you know either Lavdrim or Taikobo.

Edited, Oct 9th 2009 4:47pm by Gamion

Speaking of old/infamous names, Blazingtiger? Killuminati!

Who else... who was that mule that was ALWAYS in San'dOria?

Alieador used to be the best THF I knew on the server, as bluntly gay as he was.

Bomber was the first NA 75 I can remember, on DRK no less...

Getting AF was a BIG DEAL, I had to find people that were like... level 60!!! I used to /shout in Lower Jeuno, /search all inv and bug anyone that was high level, especially if they were the same job as the one I needed AF for.

I made a Crawler Hunter / Soldier Crawler EXP party for my Crawler's Nest coffer Key and for Leeluu's Coffer Key. Only way I got that done was by tricking people into thinking it was an EXP party and going at an early enough level that the EXP was ok.

I applied to my first HNM LS at level 70MNK, Lunarians, and never heard back from them.

I made IntensityLS like forever ago: First post about the LS, lol I'm such a n00b...

IntensityLS

I was a part of a few of the best threads in history for Bismarck, LadyOfHolyDarkness Eater of Souls's Journal:

One of a few epic threads. (Looking back, this is when I got pissed about Karma and made an idiot out of myself to Allah's admins. Like 200 posts in a row all Decent because I pissed off Grumpywookie... Then the admins were like "Quit ******** about karma!!"

Then check this out, I got ignored to Lunarians and just upgraded Intensity!

I used to use lots of colors...


That Linkshell was a frickin blast... We did stuff together when the majority of the game wasn't quite exactly mapped out yet. I remember bragging about a Genbu kill. I duoed him just the other day.

I probably was too young to lead, and when things eventually went bad, I went to Epilogue and met Krack and his crew. Great people!

After Epilogue, I pretty much gave up on linkshells in general. I pretty much live off of helping people on my friends list while attempting new solos and trying to meet new friends. My wife plays now (Not Leeluu, though props if you were there for my in-game wedding that took 2+ years of applications since day #1 of weddings)and we're getting rather great at duoing. The part where I don't have to interact with many people on a regular basis sort of makes the game appealing, as well as the fact that SE keeps making it more and more solo/low man friendly.

Anyone remember the Astral Ring thing with Hiptaru? Tsetsuo uncovered that story, that guy was awesome. He went to LoTR online or some crap lol...

There are so many people that have come and gone from Final Fantasy XI that if you took all of the returned players that have /tell me "Hey remember me?!" then took all of those that then again quit, and returned to again /tell me "Hey I'm back!" I could tripple my current friends list.

To be honest, I'm not ready to quit, but it still feels like the end of FFXI is near.

I havent spoken to BT in maybe 2 years now.

anyone remember Greyghost? He and I would tag team as rngs for parties and did our first RNG af's together more years ago than i care to count.

You don't miss them? Not even for a second?

Looking back, I have to consider that the period of time in question was the peak of FFXI's popularity. Which is also really hard to believe since the game was so much less solo friendly, incredibly over run with RMT, and had a completely ridiculous economy.

Still man, their web site was a hilarious read.

I think Sageo and Thrustie have more noob moments than anyone I can even think of haha.

One that really sticks out of my mind was getting my friend the Yhoator Gate crystal. I was taking him to get it, and it took me 3 hours to realize that I was in Yuhtunga Jungle instead. Come to think of it, I think I was helping Sageo get it >.>