Turn out the Lights, Party’s Over

Looks like I won’t be returning to FFXI at all. Slim chance, but the two or three of you still on Bahamut shouldn’t get your hopes up. I’m sure everyone still playing will get over it. I won’t be moving over to any other MMORPG. I played SWG when it first started and it was okay, but FFXI was just more fun. I played WoW for a couple months back when Burning Crusade came out. It’s not a bad game, but it’s just not FFXI. A little cliché, but that’s the way things go. Luckily, I took screenshots of most of my time in Vana’diel so I can present my own experience in my own awesome blog. Which kind of becomes useless since I’m not playing but if blogs are for anything, it’s being useless.

Starting Out


Here’s me on my way out of the dunes finally. I’d just gotten war and mnk to lvl 20, and was exploring Horutoto. Shortly after this was taken, Dopleganger Gog Killed me. Stupid asshole.

Here I am doing what most people did in Qufim, lfg. Back when I started we didn’t have all these fancy-pants “Level Sync” and “Fields of Valor”, and that’s the way we liked it! In fact, the path to Qufim was through the snow and uphill both ways. They changed that to that sissy tunnel right before they put Fenrir in the game.

I’m now at 21, finally getting my chocobo quest done. If you see anyone you know in the background of these, leave a comment. Unless it’s Osker. Everyone’s talked to him before.

I rode my chocobo back to Windurst just in time for the first Halloween. I got a Quadav costume from the NPC and called the whole even retarded. Anyone that was there will agree with me. Anyone that doesn’t agree with me is lying.

Back to Qufim, right outside Delkfutt’s Tower. I don’t know any of these people, but I may have to look them up on FFXIAH.com just to see if they still even play.

Level 24 now, and finally grew my first tree. This would turn into my main source of income when the economy was still inflated. I once had over 35 million gil on me and blew it all in less than a week. Just like real life, the economy is a bitch.

At lvl 30 here, with my shiny new Eisen armor set that came with Chains of Promathia. I never did beat that stupid expansion, but from what I’ve read about it I didn’t miss much. Thanks for trying to drag me through it, Tala. At least you tried.

Sauromugue and killing weapons. Remember when that was new and so very, very exciting? I was also subbing ninja, which is very bad at 30 nowadays apparently. Stupid kids and changing things. Everyone knows everything was better the way it was.

Ah, Garbage Shitadel. I never really had a problem with the zone, so I’m not really sure why it’s called that by some people.

Later…

We’ll skip ahead a few levels and witness me in Altepa fighting Anticans. Probably the best beastman race of any MMORPG I’ve ever played. They’re ants. If they’d just add a Queen Antican the game really would be finished. If they have added one, let me know.

As with most jobs, being a warrior all the time gets boring. I decided to unlock Samurai, and had to beg and plead with the douchebags of Ignited to actually come and help with any of it. Unless Eyfa was on. As s/he was a solo dragoon, s/he was more than happy to come help out as long as it meant killing something. As Eyfa was a Mithra, I have to use the gender-neutral “s/he” when talking about him/her.

Leveling sam can be a lot more fun than war simply because I didn’t really like tanking. Actually, I fucking hated it. You never have to worry about that on sam, though. I don’t think they’ll ever be considered great tanks for any level, unless you’re going to try to turd count (same definition as splitting hairs, nit-pick btw) and tell me they can tank some stupid monsters I’ve never seen and will never see. Up yours, turd counters.

As with most jobs, being a samurai all the time gets boring. I went back to warrior and used my gardening riches to get a shiny new Luisant gloves and a Walkure Mask. I couldn’t find anything exceptionally better than leaping boots, so I’m wearing those. Yeah, I’d be lynched for that nowadays. Well, those weren’t nowadays so fuck off.

The Shitadal basement. Where dreams go to die, or something like that. I didn’t have that problem in my brand new Luisant Haubert. It was about 1.5 million gil back then, too. So not only did I have more money than the rest of the party combined, I also had that sweet blue Mooglearmy linkpearl next to my name. Beat that, Sparkus and Scarlett! Whoever the hell you are.

The Mooglearmy once got a skillup party going in Fei’Yin, and I got invited to work on my sword skill. The 1.6million Bloodsword demanded it. Remember Truce? I know he was a paladin when I joined and I think he quit shortly after. That’s all I know about him. And look, there’s Bermont back when he was a little baby (white?)mage.

When I finally hit 60, I equipped all my artifact armor just to take this screenshot. Son of a bitch, the war sports bra looks stupid.

Here we go on the way to Aht Urhgan. I’ve got my Haubergeon and some of the Sipahi armor set added with that expansion came out. Goddamn boat ride was like 30 minutes, too.

Almost level 70 now, and I found Aricelia! She always had more endgame gear than me, but she also put in the hours to “earn” it. I have to put quotes on earn just because I think the methods used by most endgame linkshells to distribute treasure is fucking stupid if you don’t have 20+ hours a week to play. You can argue with me all you want about this, but it’s my blog so I win and you fuck off.

This one’s of my Samurai finally getting past 60 in Aydeewa Subterrane. MoogleArmy had been deserted, so I have that ugly-ass linkpearl next to my name. I don’t remember what they called themselves, only that Tala got me in and the leader and his in-game girlfriend (IT’S A MAN!) kept calling each other “hun”. Fucking disgusting, seriously. I don’t remember what happened to the rest of the party in the picture, so I’ll assume I killed them all.

For a while, Kyrek wanted the sword Cancer dropped for his warrior. Or paladin, I don’t really remember anymore. Anyway, I went out there for a few hours and helped Kyrek beat Cancer. He’s lucky it’s a crab, because actual cancer’s not nearly as easy to beat or as stupid-looking as the crabs.

End of Days…..

Here’s me at the closest I ever came to endgame gear, which would be considered a decent starter set. Joyeuse, Maneater, that stupid turban with the name, gay purple haste gloves, surfing pants and unicorn boots. Intimidating, I know.

What Engame is supposed to be about: Killing Byakko until he drops his pants. That linkshell I’m with in the pic was a steaming pile, so even if the pants did drop from that one I wasn’t going to be getting them.

Nyzul Isle, on the other hand was actually pretty enjoyable. Get a random party together than run up 5 floors to fight one of the bosses that might drop part of some nice free armor sets. But the drop rate is low, so most of the time we got nothing. Except this one, where I got Goliard Clogs for when I was leveling Scholar. Being the one mage job I actually liked playing I felt I need the clogs even though I was only level 40.

Finally, me with my second “endgame” linkshell, Kazoku. Except for Mogwae (who got me in) and a couple others, it was a collection of douchebags. Especially the leader, who apparently used them to get into an even more “elite” linkshell with an even stupider name. If anyone knows what “kazoku” means let me know. I’m not looking it up myself. As I didn’t have the prerequisite amount of melee/mage jobs leveled, I’m not sure how I got it without actually filling out a gay application.

Next, and final: The List