What is your fondest noob memory

[MrMageo]

Simple question what is your fondest noob memory.

Mine would have to be my very first trip to the valkurm dunes from bastok. I was so pumped the whole way having just dinged lvl 10 RDM and getting all the great equipment i could. Leather Armor + 1 (I still have it kicking around as a matter of fact) was the first purchase i made other than spells. Happily trouncing any agro i came across on my way to Konstacht Highlands i was feeling like a king.

Upon entering Konstacht Highland I was overwhelmed at its size, i found a giant white building and checked around it. I found my first usefull item on that trek my DEM crystal. I proceded in the direction of the Dunes only to be trounced by a battering ram >.< i nearly died i was so close yet so far. A lovely group of people happened by and raised me and escorted me to the zone. It was then i joined my first linkshell tho sadly i forget the name i do not forget the people RIFTE,TRISTEN,ARWINESS,ARWEN,BULMARAESTAR of garuda, i thought they were the shit so powerful. Oh how noobish i was as they were only Lvl 30. Ariving in the dunes i was astonished to see the amount of people waiting and talking it was over whelming. Unfourtunatly several of us were killed by a zoned gobby who wanted blood. But my new friends came back and got me again and stayed with me the rest of the day ^^.

This was probably my most thrilling moment in my whole FFXI carear greater then the quests, job unlockings, missions, or even dinging 75 and capping my quest from noobhood to endgame. I miss those days bumbling along vanadiel in uncertainty afraid of everything that moves, and curious of things you shouldnt be. I miss the unexpected death when you would go to the rest room and come back and find your self dead from a random montser. Now that i am an experienced player i cant go back in time and revisit that except in my memories i know the game function and even starting a new charecter would take little or no time to level it again. As much as i love final fantasy 11 i need a new challenge in my life so i can feel nervous and excited again at the same time.

As for that Ram he regularily eats a Blizzard 3 at least 1 time a week...

[Selphiie The Enchantress]

Oh man right as i was thinking about mine too wow, ok.

When i first started the game I had NO clue what i was doing. I started in Sandoria because i always loved the whole "Knightly/Castley/Kingdomey" kind of scene. So i went out exploring and somehow (and amazingly without dying) ended up in Bastok...

Now i had no map and had no idea what the funk i was doing, so i spent three days /shouting in Bastok in all caps...

"CAN SOMEONE HELP ME GET BACK TO SANDORIA, IM LOST AND I CANT FIND MY WAY BACK HOME"

Now your probably thinking "why didnt you just death warp?" well, stupid little nooby selphiie put her HP in Bastok as soon as she saw the glimmering crystal "Oohh shineyyyyyy"

After 3 days of probably getting on everyones Black list in Bastok, someone finally agreed to escort me back to Sandoria.

Yeah, very nooblet.

[Murphie]

I think my fondest newbie memory is probably the first time I zoned into LaTheine Plateau. Cheesy, I know, but that was the first time I realized just how big this game world was. I thought everything was going to be like Sandoria and Ronfaure. Nice zones, but not really expansive. I was terrified of everything there, but hooked by the game at the same time.

[MrMageo]

^^ thats awesome i also found cities by mistake, well windy i was about lvl 12
running away from some mobs i found selbina, took he boat from muhura, i wish i was a noob again so i can experience things again for the first time. Even my first trip to sky and dyna didnt over whelm i simply though im a 75 RDM i know what to do see something and kill it case closed. The only thing that was cool to me and suprising was running backwards through my carear it seemed when i went to the past for my first time, the return trip to Bastok was much like my first trip from it.

[Callisto]

Mine is also Ram-related, looking back it's pretty golden:

Like many Sandy residents, I spent my early days leveling in LT and often times getting face-raped by random Rams that would seem to come out of nowhere despite the fact that were friggin' huuuuuuuge...I had just dinged 20 and was walking back from the Dunes to Sandy to meet my cousin so that we could make the big first voyage to Jeuno and get our Choco passes. On the way back I spotted a Ram, and noticed it conned DC or EM to me, something killable. When I caught up with my cousin, the first thing I said in pt chat was 'Holy shit we can get back those asshole rams now!!!", and we agree to take one down if we find it.

We head on out of Sandy and make our way to LT, and promptly spot a Ram. In the name of Great Justice I draw my sword and charge in, casting Dia on it. The Ram immediately one-shots me, then turns to my cousin and does the same. While we're laying on the ground some random noob runs by, he is also one-shotted, you see his dead body fly halfway across the screen before coming to a stop. That Ram's name was Bloodtear Baldurf, and this was the day I learned about Notorious Monsters, and how Bloodtear Baldurf =/= normal Ram.

[Mog]

Mine was getting my chocobo pass! :D!!!!!

[Aksannyi]

For me, it would be getting the keys to Kazham and then journeying there. There were four of us who went up to the 3 beastmen areas to farm keys ... 3 RDMs and a WHM, all of us 25 and lower. How we survived I'll never know but it sure was fun!

We made it to Kazham, well, three of us did anyway as the other guy had to go to bed, and we explored the area for a while. I then fell underneath the wooden planks in the zone and I had to call a GM to move my character out of there. Looking back, my party probably could have invited a teleporter to get us out of there but we weren't thinking about it, only how funny it was that I was stuck. My friend got screenshots, but I doubt I still have them on my PC.

I miss those guys.

[Ellipses]

It was an RL friend of mine who got me started on this game, and we managed to play together exactly twice. The first time, he PLed me with what was probably like a level 15 WHM or something. The second time, I'd gotten to level 10 and we went to Konschtat Highlands together. I don't remember much about it, except that I was completely lost following him.

He warned me that if I saw any rams, I should run away because they'd slaughter us. However, at the time, I'd never seen sheep in the game, so I didn't know the difference. We got in a ways, and started fighting some, and then while we were resting, I saw a sheep. So I pointed at it, and then ran, found another sheep, and another, and just kept running away.

We ended up separated by probably not very much distance (but it seemed like it at the time!), because he had no idea why I was running away, and what from. I told him I saw a ram (and he believed me, because he'd never seen the initial pointing at the sheep). It wasn't long before he had to log off, and then I was stuck there, completely lost. It took me half an hour just to find my way out.

I spent the next week at least terrified of sheep, until I saw a real ram. And I never told him what had really happened.

[Celeal]

Mine was Warping to Homepoint, and spawned at the same spot where I used Warp...

/blush

[Legion]

Running from sandy to windy so that I could join the fishing guild. A friend showed me the way we were both lvl 12 without a subjob, avoiding aggro all the way.

Thing I miss most I think is the trains of gobs that peeps would bring to the selbina zone and everyone else panicking and trying to get away

[Dranzia]

My wife and a very good RL friend and I all started playing together, and at lvl 16 we decided to make the trek to Jeuno.

Still cracks us up to talk about how we wandered through M. Mountains, and then when we got to Sauromugue (sp), we had no clue what we were doing. I remember telling my friend (who was MNK at the time):

"Hey, run by that lizard and see if it aggro's..."

[Murphie]

Mine was Warping to Homepoint, and spawned at the same spot where I used Warp...

/blush

I did the same thing! Except with an Instant Warp scroll. I spent all of my CP on it, and then warped about 10 feet.

[Quetzalcoatl]

oh...i remeber the first nooblet thing i did...i started in Bastok(i saw it as an industrial city so i though i could find more and better stuff there...silly ><) so i started exploring everything talking to every1 and end up zoning into Korroloka tunel... i didnt knew about the check shit...so since i killed some worms at Gustaberg i though well i can kill one of this... but as soon as i aproached the mob...it used Gastric bomb or w/e its called and bam! 1-shoted! lol

after that i meet a couple nice guys that told me about Selbina while we were pt'n at Dangruf so we head to there... i remeber when i first saw the crag of Dem it looked so awsome to me. we walked around just to find ourselfs being chased by a ghost... we decide to fight it! 4 of us WHM WAR MNK WAR we fought him and 1 by 1 he started killing us till only i was still on foot...idk how but i killed it! damn i felt like da big shit... so well some1 Raised my friends and we continued our trip to Selbina. i meet a guy there that asked me if i would like to travel to Jeuno(i didnt knew where that was) and i agreed so we run through Pashow and Rolandberry he was like 20 and i was like 15...we arrive to Jeuno and i loved it there i meet first 2 Latin friends cuz they saw my Bazzar coment(typed in Spanish) they pearled me and i meet some good ppl on that Ls that are my best friends till now.

oh btw i also saw my first NM that day in Konschant Steelface Baldarik... i remeber seeing 3 Tarus killing it (RDM WHM BLM 55) the thing was so big to me so i thought those guys were so damn powerfull.

i also remeber the first time i saw a PLD 75 i made me a promise that some day ill look like him ( Adaman gear) and now i look better

i miss those days... but i still spend some time in Gustaberg helping new ppl and remembering the old days...

[Ameroth]

I think my fondest newbie memory is probably the first time I zoned into LaTheine Plateau. Cheesy, I know, but that was the first time I realized just how big this game world was. I thought everything was going to be like Sandoria and Ronfaure. Nice zones, but not really expansive. I was terrified of everything there, but hooked by the game at the same time.

I felt exactly the same when I first trekked from Bastok to Konschtat Highlands and it kinda just hit me that I was basically running around a scaled down version of a real planet.

Other than that, I remember getting the idea that the only way to get to Jeuno was via airship travel, and I didn't think I'd ever get an airship pass. Around level 21 when I stopped getting invited to parties in the dunes, someone finally told me that you can reach Jeuno on foot. So I ran my ass through Pashhow and finally got to Rolanberry Fields to find I had no map. Someone was kind enough to run me towards Jeuno though.

/sigh Good times.

[Vyuru]

Favorite newblet memory?

At level 7, making the trek from Windurst to Sand'Oria for the awesomeness of the Wing Pendant that I just HAD to have.

The trip was pretty mild without much excitement, I'm pretty good with avoiding aggro and I had boughten most of the maps beforehand. However when I reached Mhaura and took the ferry who should spawn but none other than the Sea Horror!

Being a smart newb who at the time didn't know what the AH was and NPC'd all my fire crystals for gil (because hey, they're good gil) I knew that this was no ordinary monster and hid in the pilot's cabin to avoid detection.

However, 2 brave people decided to team up and attack the Sea Horror and save the ship. One was a lvl 46ish Rdm, the other, I forget what he was, in his 30s. The Rdm was instantly killed (he lasted long enough for stoneskin and blink to disappear), the other fellow thinking that this may not have been the best of ideas, ran into the pilot's cabin and begged my lvl 7 war for help. The Sea Horror came in and killed both of us, horribly, but strangely left the pilot alone.

Some kind fishermen on the ferry raised us after we reached Valkurm, and pointed me in the general direction for Sand'Oria.

And that's about it

2nd favorite memory was a exp party in King Ranperre's Tomb at lvl 14 or so, Wind Bats/Gobs/some worms made some pretty good exp that was a good alternative to the Dunes.


My favorite not so newblet memory would be summoning my wyvern for the first time as Dragoon. In all honesty that job is more than just a job to me, it's the job that many of my friends helped me to get, and have helped me on, it is the job I have met many friends on, and just, due to everything that I have experienced while playing FFXI, it is the job that to me almost symbolizes why I first started to play this game.

It's all about companionship, comraderie, and good times.