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It's now been one year that I've been playing FFXI. 
I started July 31st, of 2005, around midnight or so, and I still remember starting out as a Tarutaru RDM in Port Windurst. I play on a PS2, so I didn't even have a keyboard yet and was using the ingame keyboard for the first couple days or so, although I didn't really have a linkshell yet, or really talked to anyone yet, except I tried typing to my first friend ingame, Shiaru.
I've had my ups and downs like most people ingame, and for almost the first half of the time I've played the game, I had a lot more time to play than I do now because of work and such.
I wasn't very much with exping, but I did get a lot of jobs up there a bit, and my RDM to 75 which I'm proud of, back in April. Then BLM and WHM in the 40s, and some other jobs which can be viewed in my siggy.
This game is filled with so many quests, and I've always been one to like questing, so I've done at least 3/4 or 3/5 of the total quests in the game, some are started or almost done.
I got a bit into crafting, I did some cooking here and there and got it to 60, then switched over to alchemy and did that here and there, so currently it's at 54ish.
I'm quite proud of what I've done in this game. Getting rank 10 Windurst, completing ZM, although I'm still on CoP 4-2, I'm currently lvlling my blm from 46 to 50, so that I can use that 50 blm for 4-2, and try to solo all the blm AF on my rdm.
The new expansion is great, so I've done a few things with that, and have done almost all the quests, but I'm striving to raise my assault status from PFC. I'm also lacking in imperial standing points now since I haven't really used my rdm much in exp ptys while it has been at 75, I had mostly solo'd as rdm/nin.
Some of my best times in this game have been those times meeting all my friends for the first time. I'd have to say while my old social LS that I led from September 2005 and then disbanded around January/February 2006, the LS: UltimaUtopia. I loved and missed my times with that LS, and all the people, although I still chat and remain friends with some or most if I see them around.
That LS went down because of drama that spreaded out, the few in it that caused majority of the drama, and one person in particular who brought up a lot of drama (Not going to mention any names though). I didn't want to put up with any of that, so I gave up being leader, and for the sake of the LS, told everyone they can do what they want with it or disband and move on. I wanted to move on too.
That's when I joined in with SpiritzUnleashed. Even though this LS didn't really have the same atmosphere I used to enjoy with my old LS, I enjoyed this LS for the last 6-7 months.
I'd like to thank everyone from the game who has helped me and befriended me ingame, no matter how short or long it was, and I'm glad to have some of those long-term friends who have been friends with me from the beginning and still remain to keep contact.
I'd have to say out of all my friends ingame, Teruko is one of my greatest.
Although if I went to list every person's name who had helped me and personally thanked them, that'd take forever, so I'll thank them as a whole.
Thank you.
I started this game a year ago during the Summer Breeze festival too... so the fireworks, the Azirmuth cicle game, and even the music played at night, all brings me back to that time, which seems quite peaceful. That was around the time I met one of my other first friend in the game, Moriki, as we both had started this game around the same time, as a tarutaru rdm too, and tried to figure out how to do that minigame, and then duo a bit with our rdms.
Although he did what I originally wanted to do when I started, as well as my friend Teruko, to get RDM high enough to quest SMN, and then main SMN, yet my SMN is only at lvl 24 right now.
It looks like this post is quite lengthy now, so I'll end it here for now, and thanks if you happened to read through all of that, or even skimmed it.
No, I'm not quitting if some might've gotten that idea, I'm just going down memory lane with it being my one year. I did kind of have planned to take one month break from the game sometime before the end of the year though. I was originally planning for this September, but with the release of chocobo raising at the end of August, I'm thinking of maybe October instead, since Chocobo raising is one highlight from the update I really wanted to get into.
So there you have it, my one year anniversary! Hopefully I'll remain to play this game until it no longer exists, or until for some reason something drastic happens... or the other option, complete boredom.
I started July 31st, of 2005, around midnight or so, and I still remember starting out as a Tarutaru RDM in Port Windurst. I play on a PS2, so I didn't even have a keyboard yet and was using the ingame keyboard for the first couple days or so, although I didn't really have a linkshell yet, or really talked to anyone yet, except I tried typing to my first friend ingame, Shiaru.I've had my ups and downs like most people ingame, and for almost the first half of the time I've played the game, I had a lot more time to play than I do now because of work and such.
I wasn't very much with exping, but I did get a lot of jobs up there a bit, and my RDM to 75 which I'm proud of, back in April. Then BLM and WHM in the 40s, and some other jobs which can be viewed in my siggy.
This game is filled with so many quests, and I've always been one to like questing, so I've done at least 3/4 or 3/5 of the total quests in the game, some are started or almost done.
I got a bit into crafting, I did some cooking here and there and got it to 60, then switched over to alchemy and did that here and there, so currently it's at 54ish.
I'm quite proud of what I've done in this game. Getting rank 10 Windurst, completing ZM, although I'm still on CoP 4-2, I'm currently lvlling my blm from 46 to 50, so that I can use that 50 blm for 4-2, and try to solo all the blm AF on my rdm.
The new expansion is great, so I've done a few things with that, and have done almost all the quests, but I'm striving to raise my assault status from PFC. I'm also lacking in imperial standing points now since I haven't really used my rdm much in exp ptys while it has been at 75, I had mostly solo'd as rdm/nin.
Some of my best times in this game have been those times meeting all my friends for the first time. I'd have to say while my old social LS that I led from September 2005 and then disbanded around January/February 2006, the LS: UltimaUtopia. I loved and missed my times with that LS, and all the people, although I still chat and remain friends with some or most if I see them around.
That LS went down because of drama that spreaded out, the few in it that caused majority of the drama, and one person in particular who brought up a lot of drama (Not going to mention any names though). I didn't want to put up with any of that, so I gave up being leader, and for the sake of the LS, told everyone they can do what they want with it or disband and move on. I wanted to move on too.
That's when I joined in with SpiritzUnleashed. Even though this LS didn't really have the same atmosphere I used to enjoy with my old LS, I enjoyed this LS for the last 6-7 months.
I'd like to thank everyone from the game who has helped me and befriended me ingame, no matter how short or long it was, and I'm glad to have some of those long-term friends who have been friends with me from the beginning and still remain to keep contact.
I'd have to say out of all my friends ingame, Teruko is one of my greatest.
Although if I went to list every person's name who had helped me and personally thanked them, that'd take forever, so I'll thank them as a whole.
Thank you.
I started this game a year ago during the Summer Breeze festival too... so the fireworks, the Azirmuth cicle game, and even the music played at night, all brings me back to that time, which seems quite peaceful. That was around the time I met one of my other first friend in the game, Moriki, as we both had started this game around the same time, as a tarutaru rdm too, and tried to figure out how to do that minigame, and then duo a bit with our rdms.
Although he did what I originally wanted to do when I started, as well as my friend Teruko, to get RDM high enough to quest SMN, and then main SMN, yet my SMN is only at lvl 24 right now.
It looks like this post is quite lengthy now, so I'll end it here for now, and thanks if you happened to read through all of that, or even skimmed it.
No, I'm not quitting if some might've gotten that idea, I'm just going down memory lane with it being my one year. I did kind of have planned to take one month break from the game sometime before the end of the year though. I was originally planning for this September, but with the release of chocobo raising at the end of August, I'm thinking of maybe October instead, since Chocobo raising is one highlight from the update I really wanted to get into.
So there you have it, my one year anniversary! Hopefully I'll remain to play this game until it no longer exists, or until for some reason something drastic happens... or the other option, complete boredom.