Miemo said:
How you know if you are "Old-School"
- A stack of silkthread was 150k. /
- All who started in windy was richer then all else, reason see above. /
- You thought this lvl 60 person was immortal only cause he used a SH. /
- AF was the best gear in game. /
- You run to camp in GC and suddenly find yourself dead cause a bomb exploded next to you. /
- Lower Jeuno was the laggiest zone in game. /
- LoO was camped just as much as Ground Kings. /
- Noone had Sky, if you did this was the coolest thing alive. /
- People exped at Moon. /
- A tele was free. O.O!!!! X
- People with 2 jobs at 75 where gods. /
- Goblins where your worst enemy. X orcs
- People knew what a skillchain was. /
- People knew what a MB was. /
- A BLM knew how to do this before Endgame. ///
- A exp party doing 4k/h was impossible to gauge. /
- Chain #5 was OMFGBBQSAUCE. /
- Chain #7 was thought to be the highest chain obtainable. /
- A average player had 50 mil gil. /
- A Kraken Club was 130 mil+ and sold like candy. /
- You brought a entire alliance just to do G2. /
- G1 was the most challenging thing in game. /
- Sea was a myth. /
- No RMT Issues. X
- You walked everywhere. /
- You had a RR up always cause there where never any raise around. X
- Distortion was the Main SC that all party was supposed to have. /
- Parties had a "4 level gap" X
- Shadow Lord was one of the hardest bosses in game. /
- Avista solos Genbu; Epic cross server moment. /
- You could find usefull stuff in bazaars around Jeuno, not only currency. /
- Xarcabard was the farthest away from home you could get. And it still is cold there. /
- /sh warnings of incoming zone trains was seen daily. /
- /sh's about who the idiot was that didnt do the above pre zoning. /
- Autorefresh is what made Summoner Unique. /
- Fenrir was a status symbol even used in /seacoms for exp. /
- SMN got invited to exp cause they had Avatar's not /whm. /
- People exped in godforsaken areas like Bibikibay, Cape Terrigan, Labyrinth of Onzozo, Valley of Sorrows. /
Prolly gonna add to list when more stuff pops up :)
- Ulli room was worse than Aery
- RMT in sky with multi allys of clone blm's
- You would cure bomb RMT pt's with spikes on ww
- Dynamis Knuckles were king of all
- Arrow burns > you
- You lvl'd mnk just to KRT
- The choco quest area in Upper J had 50+ people at any given time
- Optical Hat was 1337
- You tanked Tiamat Pld/war
- Beating Airship was the greatest accomplishment in gaming history (Pre-nerf ONRY)
- Your xp pts ritual per pull was more complicated than most current HNM fights (pull > First voke > WS > SATAWS > burst)
- You invited a rng to our dunes pt, just because they could widescan for bones for magicked skulls
- You /tossed all your Beast seals b/c they took up room that could be used for crystals
- You wore +resist gear on your blm b/c it "added" damage
- You fought over mandy pulls with the 4-5 other pt's at Yhoator camp
- The first time you saw a shark bite do 300+ damage you nearly ***yourself
- You took/joined full ally's for AF armor fights
- You would NEVER waste gil on something as stupid as food
- You ever ran from the wild all the way back to your mog house to get health back because you didn't know about /heal
- Lvl 1-10 took days not a couple hrs
- Garrison was for the pro's
- At any given time there could be 25+ campers @ VE, LL, Mee, Jagy Jack
- People did bcnm for erase as much as they did it for Ni
Just a couple more.