Conrad Link
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Leviathan 4 life.
Then again, the jungle maps were a mess anyway, and everything on Elshimo island, which also contains them, is functionally a labyrinth - on the other hand, in-universe the maps were hand-drawn by actual people, and had some imperfections and missing parts (like the Valkurm secret beach) accordingly.
I knew a guy who knew a guy that worked as a GM for FFXI back in 2006-2007
Scanned a copy of the GM manual for you curious ppl
GM Manual
I actually liked that about those maps, though. It added to the immersion. These things were actual labyrinths and the maps reflected that. The same with things like the secret beach. Someone in that world must have put those maps together by traveling through the areas and because of that they were not perfect.
A pic with Rykoshet, shiiiiet. I haven't seen that name in ages. Good Ol'Fairy. I swear, all things lead back to that server at some point.
What would the JP watchers do if they see you? At the end of the day it would just simply turn into a claiming battle, right? How was that any different from other HNMs?
Nah fuck Fafnir, I'm firmly defender of FFXI and open world MMO but that was shit.
Fafnir popped every set hours (24 Fafnir, 72? Nidhogg) with a window of + 3 hours, so it ws about staying there for 3 hours doing nothing, for the fucker to pop and some HNMLS bot getting the claim. It sucked. His pop room was so fucking small that everyone was cramped there too.
Pop NMs like Sky and Sea were way better.
The only "good" thing about Faf is trigerring Spike Flail to kill the claimers lol but that was patched.
Seems like a good system.There's a new high-level version of the NM as part of the Unity system - if you don't get one of the 2 possible high-level versions of the sword, there's an alternate far more frequent drop that can be collected (through fights or buying it in the auction house) and traded for the best version of the sword.
There are now Unity versions for practically all famous NMs in the game, just like this.
Some pictures that were still on my old Photobucket account, mostly stuff from end-game around 2003-2004 I guess.
First Kirin fight, that entire fight is hilarious because there's no real semblance of positioning at all, everyone just kite and spread out everywhere.
Getting our LS's first Osode chestpiece, which was a pretty big deal back then.
Probably our first Fafnir kill.
Fun titbit:
Fafnir/Nidhogg was an open-world boss that used to be dominated by Japanese linkshells since basically the western release, they would post watchers at key locations leading up to the small area where the boss would spawn at random intervals, just to keep other guilds from scouting and figuring out the exact spawn timer.
We decided we wanted a piece of the action, so we had one guy log his alt out outside of view from where the watchers were posted just to intermittently check if Fafnir was up or not. The rest of the linkshell then all logged out inside a small alcove about 6-7 hours prior to the estimated spawntime, and we all waited on IRC for the alt guy to give the signal. Once Fafnir spawned we all logged in at once, rushed past the JP LS watchers before they had a chance to react, and after a really messy fight with a lot of near-wipes we claimed the very first NA Fafnir kill on the server back then.
It was glorious, you don't get to do stuff like that in a MMO world where everything is instanced.
Not in contact with anyone from back then, which is a bit sad, but that's life I suppose. ThoseGuys represent.
Wow a TG member. I remember as a April Fools joke a few members from my shell got TG pearls. The linkshell comments were fun.
What was your LS name? I vaguely recall this happening, we did do some co-op stuff with a couple of other LS but it's been such a long time.
Found the linkshell chat. I was in Eden. Yeah, Fairy was pretty friendly. TG actually helped us with our first nid at like 3am. We wiped at like 2% I hear and TG killed it and gave the drops to us. On other situations we teamed up to kill nid or whatever after server maintenances and we both had too few people.
I lotted for my thief ridill against Magikt (forgot how to spell his name), a TG member.
TG + Eden + Lost Paradise Nid fight. I was the only Eden member in this on my gimp rdm. I think I changed to it to be of use.
Anyone have any updates on the remake? I can't find anything since last year.
The first footage we ever got of Odin in Einherjar. Seeing everyone get annihilated by Zantetsuken because they didn't know about the /heal thing is so amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtRR-Q_Z9Es
It's crazy how bosses back then had this aura of mythisicm around them because not everyone has the means to get to them, let alone fight them:
Leviathan 4 life.
Someone help me with LB3 on Asura. Plz.
Nah fuck Fafnir, I'm firmly defender of FFXI and open world MMO but that was shit.
Fafnir popped every set hours (24 Fafnir, 72? Nidhogg) with a window of + 3 hours, so it ws about staying there for 3 hours doing nothing, for the fucker to pop and some HNMLS bot getting the claim. It sucked. His pop room was so fucking small that everyone was cramped there too.
Pop NMs like Sky and Sea were way better.
The only "good" thing about Faf is trigerring Spike Flail to kill the claimers lol but that was patched.
Seems like a good system.
Did they ever give an easier way to get the kraken club or some high level version of it ?
FFXI is my favourite game of all time. It's very different now than it used to be but I still really enjoyed myself going back to do Rhapsodies. Very nice ending to cap off many years of amazing memories.
I cried when Iroha thanked me. Felt like the developers talking to me. I so regret not submitting my voice for the ending song.
So I came back last year and actually played through the last expansion through Rhapsodies. If anyone with nostalgia for the game is wondering whether to return:
Do it.
The game is actually in a great state right now for returning, especially if you can convince a few friends to return with you. The storylines are solo-able, and a significant chunk of the loot grind can be done with less than a party. It was absolutely worth returning to after I had quit ~5 years ago and the story was a great conclusion to my character and the world.
Honestly I'm always surprised how notorious Ryko apparently became throughout the community, lol. He was a great guy though, good LS leader too, ever since we founded ThoseGuys.
It's just surprising to see how many Fairy folks pop up on this forum considering the size of the server, lol. It was the server for all of the players from this forum so seeing folks from Fairy find this place later is always a kick.
The GAF shell was there from the beginning too, I created the shell immediately after I logged in for the first time in 2003 or whenever NA launched thanks to a generous JP player I asked for a little bit of gil to do so, lol. So yeah, seeing Fairy folks pop up is always great.
edit; Rykoshet! That was Fairy, wasn't it? I was there. I miss those days haha
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edit; Rykoshet! That was Fairy, wasn't it? I was there. I miss those days haha
I totally remember your name, and Ploid's, and many others that used the same nicks on here
I was on Fairy since launch, always funny to remember back to all the LS drama & friendships & everything else involved. I spent sooo much time reading the Fairy KillingIfrit forum before graduating to GAF...
I totally remember your name, and Ploid's, and many others that used the same nicks on here
People seriously need to come back and play. You would probably like the RoV areas as many of the NMs are super powerful versions of classic mobs such as Kirin, Absolute Virtue. There's even a more powerful Pandemonium Warden in the Unity system. There's plenty of challenge for the best players and none of the claim drama BS.
Plus, EVERY job can be useful at end game. Even PUP (ie.e we can tank certain NMs). Heck, a good SMN can reach 99k on certain mobs with the right debuffs.
edit; Rykoshet! That was Fairy, wasn't it? I was there. I miss those days haha
It's my favorite MMO by far. I love it so much. I go back every year or so.... still trying to finish all of the story. One day I'll go back and everyone I've depended on to help me out will be gone, and that'll be a bummer.