Worst Types of Players in FFXI - Players We Love to Hate

[@AbramsEX]

My favorite mob trains were the "lost" bat pulls in Garbage Shitadel that would fall through a hole in a floor and the puller not realizing it, pulls another mob then moments later an unholy swarm of bats from the basement has descended upon your party lol

[@Nightweaver1]

Like every bat in the entire world suddenly comes around the corner.

[@guyleclerc7324]

man srsly LOL Garbage Shitadel when ppl agroing linking 50mobs close to Serket in the early days was a LOLOLOL HELL in a CELL wipeout bloodbath

[@r1pfake521]

The moment when a player has to leave the party in X minutes, he says that he has a replacement player on the way for his party spot so that the party can continue, after X minutes the player suddenly has the red (disconnect) icon and you realize that there is no replacement player on the way, we called them "fake d/c" (d/c for disconnect)

[@reflexsh0t353]

R1PFake this literally happened to me last night lol..

[@JPZ89]

lol I remember doing this once

[@Effedup]

I am ashamed to admit I did this on some real shit parties from time to time. I remember once got invite from group Qufim that all had /anon on, get to camp and discover over the course of a couple painful fights that theres like a WAR/WHM in the group, I think there was a DRG/RDM or some shit, I mean they were all the stupidest job combinations. I dont know if they were trolling or what the fuck but I noped out of that shit after our 2nd or 3rd broken chain. Killed the process and called it a night. I'd been waiting hours at that point for the invite so that was just the meat on the shit sandwich that was the evening anyway. Logged back in a couple hours later on top of another group that was really confused for a second and warped home. Good times.

[@fatetreat]

When a bard joins the party everyone's stepping on eggshells, if one person says something the bard doesn't like he's gone

[@Razharvey]

fatetreat ah yes, the princess's of Vana diel :) who could forget lol

[@Iam18]

I remember saying ^_^ XP PT Do you need it!? to come off super friendly everytime I invite BRD or healer. :P

[@XxAtomic646xX]

i ended up leveled rdm and brd purely for invites to merit parties back when the cap was 75 lol

[@b16da93]

I would wait hours on my monk to try and get a party to the point that i would get pissed and hop on either rdm,whm or Brd with my LFG flag and go AFK as a great big FU to the groups that ignored my mnk.

[@phillipsuarez2759]

Yup bird, cor, rdm of you pressed there hot button poof bye bye. Lol I've done that on my brd,cor, rdm b4

[@Seegtease]

I did was one of those guys once. I played NIN/RNG briefly (for the accuracy increase) and as soon as I could equip them, I spammed shuriken non stop. They were top notch damage at that point. It was expensive, but I was dealing more damage than anybody in the party by a long shot. I got invited to a group who didn't ask me to tank but assumed I would tank (because I was a ninja) and didn't even notice that I didn't sub warrior. They kept asking me to provoke. I mean they could see my subjob, kind of on them for not noticing. The party wasn't a total train wreck though... after 1 or 2 shuriken per fight, I'd have aggro locked in via damage. In my defense, I didn't advertise myself as a tank. It was just me being rebellious because I hated the idea that Ninjas were locked into tanking and nothing else was allowed. The stealthy assassin is supposed to obnoxiously provoke and keep the attention of enemies. It just seemed antithetical to all that a ninja should be, so I hated it.

[@sagepirotess6312]

You know, you have more excitement in your voice when playing FFXi then any other video game you talk about. Glad your having fun,

[@fernandoblengio]

*You're

[@tec5412]

@@fernandoblengio weird

[@actionfiguremike4880]

Man I had to pull in parties as Drk with poison when we had a Rng.... people suck lol. But back in the day with Drk you pretty much had to do anything to stay in a party.

[@JPZ89]

Same here bro. The struggle was real. #drkfam

[@ChristopherFranko]

thing about pulling as rng is you keep hate and die when your shadows go down. It was dreadful.

[@reflexsh0t353]

Mnk/rdm because enspells...... that do like 2 to 3 damage each hit

[@ChristopherFranko]

Man, talk about job combos that sound like they would be awesome but totally blow. This one.

[@generush]

I remember doing a main mission, taking a group from sandoria to xarcabar and into castle zvahl to fight the shadow lord only to forget a key item to open the door. All that traveling into different zones and fighting all those demons. I was so embarrassed. I still remember that 10+ years later. lol

[@Phanbot01]

Back in the day, you didn't mess with beastmasters. If you came to a camp and a bst was already there exp'ing, you looked for another camp. If you were brave enough to camp on top of the bst, expect him to reward you by training an NM or every mob in the zone on top of your party.

[@Huntin4GamesChannel]

hahah ya, I do kind of miss the days when BSTs could just drop enemies on parties, now they just disappear :\

[@carlfogelin1388]

I think BST got a bad rep. Many time folks tried to bully BSTs out of an area. I remember leveling my BST in the basement of Garlaige. A group arrived about 30 minutes after me and they wanted me to get out so they had the basement to themselves. I wouldn't leave, said there was enough mobs in the area for both of us and basically focused on one side so they could focus on the other. And then they got a link which overpowered them and wiped their party. I wonder how long it took before the leader asked me to raise their healer. I would have done it sooner if I had noticed, but I was trying not to crowd them. I still smile when I think about that time and that happened way back during CoP. :)

[@carlfogelin1388]

@Pablo Oh sure, there were some people who didn't want to be with others. BST let you be unsocial... lol. But there were all sorts of misunderstandings about BST too. I remember folks saying "don't have a pet, it'll affect our exp" which was not correct. It affected only the exp of the BST and unless you're dealing with a really well geared BST, removing their pet made them a really weak warrior. I loved the challenge of BST, but yeah, folks that played them were definitely a different type of player. ;)

[@lilmorty99]

Here is my first noob moment in FFXI. back in 2005 I started to play FFXI and had never played a MMORPG before. I had just hit lvl17 Black Mage and just got warp in the Dunes. I thought it would be funny to warp a crab. I ended up warping myself back to Sandy.. Luckily my friend was PLing so the party kept me in it as I ran back. Also I did a WAR/DRK in Crawlers nest. That worked out better than the people in my party thought it would.

[@Huntin4GamesChannel]

+lilmorty99 lmao this is incredible. It would never have occurred to me to warp something else but I love it. I pulled a mob with poison II as BLM cuz it was my new favorite spell and it was something we wanted to sleep....whoopz

[@JPZ89]

LOL

[@TheHomicidalTendency]

/drk and /rng were two extremely under used classes lower leveled. Rng gets accuracy boost drk gets attack boost. They lost out to the more common subs later on because of double attack and dual wield / shadows later on.

[@Huntin4GamesChannel]

/RNG I used to use a lot at low levels, especially when my acc gear was lacking

[@ChristopherFranko]

@@Huntin4GamesChannel /rng is dope for low lvl war, thf, drk and cor.

[@Dsrikers]

As a joke I once rolled up to an altepa party as pld in full the ravens set and was kicked before I could say it was a joke. For any that didn't play FFXI this whole set lowered my threat by a lot and pld were the tanks.

[@CrunchDrop]

My friend used to do that crap with us...

[@TheHomicidalTendency]

Thumbs up if ffxi traumatized you as a child.

[@dalgrim]

20hour NM camping sessions, i.e. Charyby for the joyeuse. Dynamis wait times.

[@keltzy]

I will always remember this party where, after waiting for hours to get a composition that was plausible if not good (I think I was main healing as Smn/Whm), we got to camp, the Brd took one look at the gear the Drk and Blm was wearing and walked right out, taking his own Drk with him. I think elitists were always the worst.

[@TheGhostofMrArthurs]

still are bruh, that shit is the same in 2021 as it was in 2004

[@jaymzraulfin2227]

I remember early on in RoZ the goblins 'Bomb Drop' did true AoE dmg, many gob camps in the jungle were right next to mandy camps and it wasn't uncommoon to have 3 partys very close with 1 or 2 on gobs. Very often one parties gob would drop a bomb and wipe the lower lvl party that was on mandies. even seen 2 gob parties both bomb drop at the same time and take out 18+ people.

[@MetalSmith]

I remember the very first time I zoned into Ronfaure. I spawned hugging the ground because of a mob train at the zone. They killed me before I had finished loading.

[@distantworlds3308]

The worst one I ever did was go into crawlers nest at night time with ninja boots and Eva gear then proceeded to grab everything in the entire zone and drag it to the exit on the far end. I got a bunch of tells about how I had so many monsters that people lagged out. And there was also much death... not proud of it but it happened.

[@AbramsEX]

I recall the true MPK trolls that would grab NMs or the like and train them to the zones. Like the WHM AF NM in the secret beach in dunes someone would train to Konschtat and would walk back across the zone and obliterate everyone otw. Or when someone took Simurgh to Rolanmart Mall and they proceeded to destroy all the Bazaars lol

[@standpoint_]

CN was bad. That and the citadel could get shut down for a while with a good train.

[@ShaunFVG]

SpoonMan Abrams X good old whm shadow.... I've done that 1 once.....

[@Stupifyed1017]

Crawlers Nest was Terrible. TrainsO-Plenty.

[@klutz8019]

You forgot the mages that want to melee the mobs because they "wanted to help." Little did they realize that they were just feeding the mobs TP. And you couldn't convince them that was what was happening...

[@fredsanford1437]

yeah but my rdm had "en" spells LOL

[@AnonYmous-si6nj]

My biggest peeve was when there was an enhancer in the party who buffed players "when they felt like it". I remember being in a level 60-65 party with a RDM and BRD, and most of the time, I had no refresh. I remember being in a party with a WAR/WHM and just thinking 'Why?'. People called him the ghetto PLD.

[@ChristopherFranko]

war/whm was actually in the play guide lol.. its like ffxi devs never played their own game.

[@Sairiui]

I told someone it was my first time going to Skirmish and Delve. Apparently that's like saying you're a virgin, and nobody really likes that...but how else do you learn this shit when you don't have friends to play with?

[@agonzalez8924]

Firion Salamand lmao! Your comment was awesome! Sadly, I knew people who would boot ppl for that, and then they would have the arrogant audacity to talk shit about how they didn't want to bring along "noobs"

[@Justuas]

Check wiki or read guides before going in.

[@ryanedwards7487]

Worst Trainer Zone wasn't Yuhtunga or Yhoator Jungle...it was Garlaige Citadel. The Number of Times I died at the entryway bat camp as the Paladin or Warrior tank around 35-40 because some 50-75 THF down at the Serket camp would flee EVERY HIGH LEVEL MOB IN THE ZONE!.... The level of frustration that that entailed....you have no idea. There is nothing worse than some high level person upset because they hadn't succeeded in claiming Serket training every single pit fiend and unknown eldritch horror from the depths of that place up to the areas where everyone is in their subjob leveling armors....it was just like dropping a hungry Great White into a tank full of tiny baby seals. My THF never hit 75 until I after the "Zoning Patch", so I never had the noobicide on my conscience at least.^^

[@kickassd4]

I love all your comments! I really hated when you got a group together for a mission and there always was that one guy who didn't have a key item or missed a cutscene somewhere so you had to wait or tried to find a replacement. I'll admit, I was one of those guys who would fall asleep in exp parties after a while haha. And I would also pull my internet cord out from my laptop and "d/c" when the party sucked. I was an asshole back then.

[@wodansam75]

Big Skeets thebigskeet!! Garuda ;DDD

[@carlfogelin1388]

Another annoying player is the Expert. He knows everyone's job better than you do and reminds you of it constantly. I once got kicked out of a Dunes party because I didn't know a spell we needed, one which it turned out I wouldn't learn for two more levels, but I was a new player and didn't know. It devastated me until someone in my LS told me I was too low of a level to use that spell. Another time in Dunes I was leveling a THF/RNG. I was a good aggressive puller on my RNG/NIN, so figured the /RNG would help me land the puller job. The leader of the party told me that they were desperate for a puller and I was the only THF he could find and why did I have such a stupid sj? I told him it was a great sj because of the scan capability and the others in the party agreed with me. Experts, they sure can be brutal. (Fwiw, I quickly convinced him that he had nothing to worry about regarding my pulling skills. lol.)

[@Numbahz]

Sadly over the years just like the rest of the online community in a whole, ffxi has become incredibly toxic and alot of people have lost there human touch the game and community once had, instead it's a huge one up, burnt bridge, nitpicking what they feel is wrong. On the other hand there's still some stellar awesome people just like the real world, but far and few in between.

[@ChristopherFranko]

Yea man, the lifers are weird. honestly, i found the private server players to be better.

[@SwordChux]

The party thing is where server fame came in. The good/fun players would get more invites because you/they were reputable. FFXI is still my #1 game of all time, but it died for me when my server (remora) merged onto leiviathan. All those years of building up my name turned to nothing once I was put on a new server. (God I miss this game...)

[@charleshubbard9773]

Ah, I miss 'ol Remora. Haven't played since 2013, but was my home away from home for years.

[@death299]

SwordChux merges don't remove a players reputation, they merely extend the pool and make it less known than before All the people you had a reputation with (if still playing) would still have the same view

[@aesericho3651]

SwordChux I was in remora too. Ah, the memories..

[@atomicskull6405]

The Yhotor and Crawler's Nest trains were bad, but at the same time the danger was part of the experience. I think the game was diminished when they removed that.

[@BreezyGamer92]

back in the mid-2000s my mom only let me play 2 hours a day. I hated that a lot of those days were spent LFG. I wish I could have gotten more leveling time in back then.

[@BaronLector]

Can't forget about the people who, instead of finding a replacement, fake disconnect.

[@Nightweaver1]

Those goddamn exoray trains in Nest. Oh my lord those cost me so many nights. Sometimes, while LFP on my DRK (yes shut up I know :p), I'd actually lay down on my couch, listen to that wonderful Jeuno music, and stare at the monitor looking for that telltale purple /tell text. Then I'd wake up 3 hours later to find someone had invited me.

[@Phuckseeds]

I had many of those nights as drk was the first job I wanted to level. Got 59 then could go no further. No-one would invite a drk without a haubergeon. I ended up doing sam then monk before finally getting drk to 75. Btw that was from ps2 launch until after toau to do my dream drk

[@nickwild7]

What I find funny I was like the darknight as a THF because nobody wanted to deal with SATA when a SAM could do SA and have overall better DPS than most THF. I pulled an all nighter before school one night because I got a party inv right before bed and refused to pass it up and have to solo some more XD

[@DeadyD0right]

flashbacks to those mob trains in crawlers nest, and those players between 29-30 who would drop the party as soon as they leveled up to go get their advanced job.

[@Xbob42]

As a tank, I basically felt like I could never be the first to leave a group. I mean, it's not like I had any backup tanks to replace me, and any tanks looking for groups would be gobbled up instantly. This slavish dedication to not letting the group down is probably what made me quit at level 63 in 2004 and not return until last month.

[@nqphoto]

Xbob42 playing tank in this game was one of the most frustrated things I've ever had to. I got PLD to LVL75 .... and just stopped playing for like a month. Went back in and started lvlng DRG >.

[@Abbnfitchguy]

Another thing was before level sync it took sometimes hours to make a party. I was invited to a party in crawlers nest and after I traveled all the way there I was told they invited someone else. I was pissed and just trained a huge line of mobs right in the middle of their party and let myself die and it wiped them all out lol. As a White Mage in Jeuno teleporting people for Gil other people would steal my teleports away. There was a guy that offered to double your Gil with a lottery in Jeuno but if you win he would log out of the game without paying you and take your money. While playing as the tank in a party I always kept the hate on me and never let anyone die before myself. I shake my head when I see dead party members and the tank is still alive. At the beginning I did notice the Japanese players being racist. They only let me party with them maybe 2 times in 10 years.

[@Neitenth]

Tim Terrell I had the basically the same thing happen in Kuftal Tunnel. They refused to even take the time to warp me out. I didn't have enough items to get out of the zone safely, especially because I didn't know it very well then and I was deep in the lower levels of the zone. I watched their party long enough to get a good idea of how long their chains lasted before they needed to rest a bit. I figured out when I needed to start training mobs if I wanted to die in their camp when they were at their weakest. I used Invincible to pull a really huge train and watching them all die was one of my favorite FFXI moments.

[@ShindoKokoro]

Really? I've always had the nicest experiences with JP players. I remember one time I was doing some mythril ore farming in Fei Yin on my SAM and I get a tell from some JP group sitting at the battlefield there asking me to help them with 5-1, and I was like, eh ok why not it's been a while since I did that. So I join and they don't even have a full party it's just a couple of mages ,no tank, and I think a DPS and I'm there on my SAM/THF. I basically asked them in broken auto-translate if they were sure about this, like I could basically go and /WAR and come back, but they were like nah, it's fine. Somehow we beat it just fine and they were all /praise ing me and saying (Thank you) (Thank you) (Samurai) (Too strong) and I felt really embarrassed and humbled, and I remember thinking how fun that was and I'd never have that experience with a NA party, cause they'd never go in undermanned or with a sub-optimal setup.

[@Soulzzzzz]

man JP players get too much hate but most of the time they can't understand you so no invite, or they just too OP... one time i got invited to this merit party on sam, I had soboro lol the war's swings was doing as much damge as my ws i think they were just too shy to kick me hahaha.

[@squidy3603]

All the party issues made me wana bst but I couldnt level whm because I would always fall asleep and wake up to a dead party

[@AndyPlaysGames]

Dual tanking SAMs was fun. Just ride that Seigan/Third Eye/Provoke macro and weapon when you can. Good times.

[@ChristopherFranko]

yea dual tanking sams was good for sure

[@joshuataylor7456]

Man u make me want to play ffxi again

[@江波也]

A lot of trains were accidents, and what else could they do than run for their lives... nobody really wanted to take the blame and get themselves killed and leveled down haha... It was annoying sometimes when it got your party wiped or members killed who had to wait for raise, etc, but the occasionally to-the-zone mass-run wasn't too bad. My biggest annoyance was with the jobs that refused to play their job, also. Like the melee white mage who didn't heal anyone but themselves, or the paladin who refused to provoke, lol. I played THF once and I absolutely hate pulling but when we had nobody else, I did it anyways, cause you know, everyone has to do their part. Annoying were also the groups that would camp on top of you. Generally people were friendly and if a spot was taken, they knew they had to look elsewhere, but some party leaders I guess didn't wanna put more effort. Also of course, the vital jobs that suddenly had to leave! When the tank or healer had to go after the group just spent two hours getting everyone together and on location, and they of course couldn't find a replacement (I love the fact that it was a thing to try to find a replacement for oneself!) cause they had to go RIGHT NOW, so often the whole party just gave up and disbanded... Equally sad: the party members that didn't wanna keep trying. When the leader had to go, a lot of parties automatically disbanded cause nobody even wanted to try to recruit a new person even when there were lots looking. Somehow losing the party leader equaled the end of the session for many people.

[@koosjuh75]

My LS Mate (Sanoshin) made a video about this. Look it up Sanoshin - FFXI - Day in the life of a goblin! :) Edit: I just watched it again. Everyone who reads this comment Please go watch that video and it just puts in perspective how many people died in Yhoator.... That guy was just there filming for 1-2hours .... nothing special. I was in LS when he recorded! :D

[@agonzalez8924]

The kind of players I hated were the fake disconnectors. You know the type that would just bail on you during an xp party/event/quest simply because they were too cowardly to announce they had to go. I understand disconnects are a thing that just happens from time to time, but in over 13 yrs of ffxi I never once disconnected and was unable to get back on. And I've played on dial up, dsl, and fiber optic connections, so I don't care to hear any excuses about how one would dc and couldn't get back on.

[@Coinspinner2]

Qufim island. Gigas, leeches, weapons, every damn thing in the zone all piled up by the zone to Jeuno. My first time leveling there players dropped a gigas on the tunnel mouth. More players kept coming out and failing to dodge the agro, keeping the gigas on that spot. I put it to sleep and called for help, hoping other players would join in and help kill it. They... actually did, surprise. But it was touch and go for a bit. After hitting level 59 or so I would "volunteer" my time clearing trains there. Felt really good. But it's an experience that is lost to time now.

[@Blaze87540]

Yeh, I remember those ps2 days, everyone was a trainer at least once.

[@amotoh1784]

BEFORE THE RANGED DISTANCE NERF: Wholeheartedly disagree with rangers pulling. Ranger was leagues ahead of literally everyone else from 30-75, only sam/rng,war could get close (basically acting like a ranger with arrows). Pulling slowed you down (since you would have been expected to leave early). You were asking your best dd to pull when an inferior dd could have done it with less of an effect on killing speed. Literally anybody in your party that has the capability to equip range and didn't need to rest for mana was better. This fallacy of "oh a ranger should pull" continues to this day on classic servers.

[@carlfogelin1388]

How did you miss the "know it all"? The guy who knew your job and told you whenever you did something he thought was a mistake. I got kicked out of one of my first dunes party as a RDM for not knowing a spell. Turns out I was 2 levels too low to know that spell, but I was too new to recognize the guy's mistake. You also run into elitists. "Why are you playing WHM on a Galka?!!" Racial advantages are minor compared to the competency of a player. How about the overzealous player? Had a BLM in a Quifim party that severely over-nuked because he was enthralled with his DPS. As a WHM I had planned to focus on our PLD, but the BLM was tanking. Nothing I said would stop him till I didn't heal him. He got the message, PLD tanked from then onwards.

[@AtomicArtumas]

My least favorite type of player in all MMOs are those that join the super hardcore endgame guild/linkshell/etc. and claim they know all the fights, claim they know how to play, claim they have all this gear.... and then don't. Having run some of the most hardcore "guilds" in both FFXI and SWTOR, whether running the guild itself or being event/raid leader, I've had far too many experiences with these people. Protip: It's only going to hurt you. We don't do the content that gets you the gear you're missing. That's why we ask if you have it. Because we aren't getting it for you. We aren't going to just "miss" you not having it. You not knowing the fights is going to be immediately noticeable to everyone in the group. Almost any super serious endgame group is generally speaking, in talks with every other super serious endgame group, and yes, we do server-wide blacklists. You lie to the best guild on the server, and odds are you're not getting in the worse guilds that would've actually taken you.

[@carcillian]

I used to get a group of RMT’s in my WHM teleport taxi service and teleport them WAAAAY THE FUCK OUT...then kick them out the party...trapped forever...on the frozen tundra...

[@kurakidan]

I lived in Japan and was partying with some JP players during the big earthquake on March 11th 2011. One person instantly Dced, two more said they should evacuate and I was still thinking, damn I don't want this party to end while my apartment was violently shaking... (I was in Tokyo so wasn't too much damage).

[@squidy3603]

Playing on eden. A taru WHM in the dune. This galka thought he could tank in lvl 1 rse gear and a greataxe.........i left as soon as i could

[@burningflag3679]

I pulled the "I've got to go once". Knew I was about to lvl. So waited hit my lvl. Everybody went grats, I said thanks. Then dropped "sorry guys I've got to go"... Waited a few seconds. Then added "to the bathroom, brb". After a few playful f you's. We all had a good laugh and went back to grinding.

[@Neitenth]

I'll never forget the RDM who came out to our party in Quicksand Caves and then outright refused to cast Refresh on anyone. "Everyone always wants Refresh. I'M NOT YOUR MONKEY!"

[@chishioengi]

There was a guy named Jspeed on Caitsith server back in '04-'05 who was universally hated throughout the entire server due to his penchant for MPK training people. XD Everyone I knew had been killed by him more than once. I really like all of your videos but I think this was my favorite one of all XD Oh god, the memories

[@reyjusuf]

PLD/BLM is great in level 60 capped pvp because of Ice Spikes (PLD has innate enhancing skill)

[@shahua]

My worst experience was a Crawlers nest party, I was going in black mage, I was in my early 30s, I don't remember the exact party setup but there was another BLM in the party with me who judged my every decision, called me the "Worst BLM he ever met" Proceeded to argue with me over my lack of knowledge about the job (Mainly enfeeble or magic bursts), I was maybe 13-14 years old and hadn't been playing more than a month at the time, naturally I wasn't going to be a god at that point, after awhile the party kicked him for being rude, I just kind of kept quite, shaking from anxiety on the verge of just logging out but luckily the party was on my side and helped me with any questions I had. (I hadn't even seen or been told magic bursts were a thing at that point.) From that moment on, I was asked to rep this guy or party with this guy every single invite and he would flat out refuse to party with me or let me replace him, I would spend over an hour or so getting to camp just to see him and then not get invited, he would just decide to stay and party longer just so I wouldn't get my chance. Because of this I learned everything there was about BLM, I soloed a lot, the game became a lot more time consuming and to this day his username still haunts me. Give me a goblin train over a guy like this any day.

[@MechaGodAnri]

My main was a DRK back then, I took what I could get with no hesitation and kept my mouth shut lol...Hell I've had days where I couldn't get a party invite let alone one going because as soon as I'd invite someone then someone else would leave. Most I waited on a party otherwise was probably 8 hours on a good day lmao...honestly if it wasn't for my LS I probably wouldn't have gotten DRK as far as I did.

[@Prich319]

What about the Primadonna party leader who demands you adhere to his every want? I was once blind invited to a party as a Corsair/Dancer, pretty much made the trek from I believe Gustaberg (S) to a colibri camp outside Whitegate. I've almost arrived when he takes it as a personal offense that I didn't sub nin. I didn't have enough money to buy both ammunition and ninja tools and even explained this to him. He then dictates to me that I WILL sub ninja or I can find another party. So I return to Whitegate, disband from the party, return to the past, and go straight back to farming. The fact I chose to leave of my own free will offends him even more as he starts verbally abusing me over private chat, or at least until I finally had enough of his shit, blacklisted him, and reported him to a GM for good measure.

[@foomp]

I used to run THF/BRD back during the NA launch days. Hoo... that was an embarrassing thing to do. I think I got that idea from the Brady Games guide lol. Of course, in my defense, this was a time when no one had much of an idea of how gimped subjob abilities were without certain requirements met.

[@joshuaa.kennedy8837]

I never tried that SCH/DRK for AoE absorb TP sleep and drain Daniel Miller. But I did not get my Dark Knight up until the end of FFXI for me and I was noob since the new EXP upgrade shit.

[@BaronLector]

Back on Fairy, Garlaige Citadel was shut down for over an hour because Beetles and Bats were drug to the entrance. Timer would restart if someone went in while mobs were at the entrance.

[@KittStargazer]

I had a Dynamis group that all worked with one another to enter zone, except for one group that would just decide they didn't care and go into zones whenever they pleased. They were notorious for doing a lot of shitty things too because they simply put, didn't care about anyone but themselves. Stealing HNM's from other endgame groups, ect. The works...

[@waynegoin5534]

Recently in a BLM Quifim burn party on Eden we have had a BLM who uses a 1 click macro for each pull it causes him to pop up late in the pull and sit down to heal late so he always lower on hp and mp and he doesn't get thunder off sometimes until the pugil is almost dead it causes other BLMs to die due to having to use more spells and running out of mana or not enough shared hate, I have been the BLU puller so it did't effect me quite as much but still annoying I won't give their full name but it starts with Cham.... oh and he doesn't use any food buffs

[@lolRNG]

I went into Garbage Shitadel one night to help a skillup group with the coffer key. Entered, and some asshat actually zoned a bunch of damn coffer mobs, though I managed to defeat them before they killed too many of those innocent level 30s exping lol. No coffer key dropped XD

[@nugsboodlepoo]

Players that annoy me: the ones who have nothing in their bazaar but some trash item/wedding ring for 99,999,999 Gil. I’m looking for deals, no one cares that your in-game wife gave you love chocolate.

[@crisvok]

for 1. will and always will be the player who doesnt respect other peoples time -accepting a party invite to a location you dont have OP warp to without saying anything to leader -accepting mission party invites without doing CS first or communicating that you still need to do CS -setting your HP obnoxiously far away with no means of getting back into the action in a timely manner -taking your sweet sweet sweet time getting to camp with no communication. a Simple "hey need a smoke break" or "hey need to take dog out" goes a long way As someone who makes parties a bunch I know its a bit mean but there is a reason the game has a kick player button!

[@ExcelGenerations]

Played with a RDM who refused to make macros. Worst player I've ever been with lmfao.

[@ACloudWithoutAir]

How bad of an idea is a RDM/RUN balancing out points on 1 and 2 hand sword and no shield, just 1 sword of some sort, parry and dodge focused, and then using magic completely still in every situation?

[@Mr.Kirito19]

Come to ffxi eden private server and enjoy the good old lvl 75 max level feelings. So much fun much better than retail servers with this trust npc kill a easy prey and get 15-45xp for a kill that take a while this is final fantasy xi 😊

[@Vanyal1984]

I was around when nin/brd started to be tested. Someone tried it in Sky and we were all very skeptical at first... most of us didn’t want our night ruined because of an experiment. To our surprise it was a threat holding machine. The only issue is that sometimes they held Too much threat, so the off tank couldn’t pull threat off with provoke alone, haha

[@hippopotatomoose]

I loved SA, TA on the WHM!!! Freaking hilarious! I played BLM with 3+ enmity. It was not a good time in the dunes LOL

[@danz409]

the party falling apart before we even start thing. that bugged me way moer than it needed to... ugh...

[@DanielRenardAnimation]

*ONE of the type of player I hated most:* I'm out, camping a NM, I've maybe gotten it to spawn once or twice over the past 2~3 hours but no drop. The pop-window is coming up in just 2 more minutes and I get ready to go kill some place-holders. A player rides by on a Chocobo, spots me, turns around and comes back, dismounts and starts searching the area too, like... WHY?! Dude, you were clearing doing something else, until you saw me and then decided to come piss on my parade. _NM camp-crashers = High stress factor._

[@DanielRenardAnimation]

*Another type of player I hated most (Abyssea era):* I return to the game and join some old LS members for Abyssea farming. We spend X-amount of HOURS per day, farming the same NM's over and over. I ask if we could do *1* NM, 5 minutes walk from where we were, for a seal for the "new" PLD armor set...They don't feel like it. We get the one-billionth item from their NM and the player goes _"Yay done! That completes my 5th set! Think I'll work on _*_my_*_ PLD set now!"_ I left _'non-75 FFXI',_ dual-wielding and brandishing a pair of middle fingers in the air.

[@Huntin4GamesChannel]

Ughhhhhhh so frustrating

[@Huntin4GamesChannel]

Abyssea was...very frustrating to me. But ya, feel like we lost some of that group mentality

[@DanielRenardAnimation]

Sometimes, I can hardly blame the player(s). FFXI wasn't very good at _"rewarding the group"_ for the effort, IMO. Usually there would only be few, if not 1 sole benefactor from a full-group effort, allowing for some really greedy mentality to surface. Maybe my fault for not being more verbally(textually) demanding, saying _"I want this!",_ instead going with a mentality of _"If I help them now, _*_'maybe'_*_ they will offer to help me later???"._ Only ONCE did I get _frustrated_ enough from the lack of help, that I actually pulled the _"I want this!"_ card (and still felt kind of bad about it), after I had personally spawned a once-a-day NM and attempted to solo it, but obviously couldn't. I barely mustered to pull out even just a couple of capable hands from the LS to help me low-man and just baaarely succeed in defeating that NM, but I tell you what, I sure loved that _'Joyeuse'_ ever since that day. 👍

[@arkhitekt7733]

Looking back, this game was a huge waste of time. Not in the sense of "It's a video game, duh.", but because progression was mostly hindered by inordinate amounts of time and setbacks in order to get to the objective.

[@angelosan]

Oh god the trains, the pain, the pain! On Seraph we once had one of those fleshmonster undeads from behind gate 1 in Garlige Citadel be trained all the way to the zone line and it just sat there for almost a day together with some skeletons, bats and beetles. Just eating up anyone who tried to exit or enter. Parties finding other camps in other zones out of fear to enter and the few parties still inside huddle up and hide from it's anger. Untill finaly someone called up a few high lvl friends to form a party and drop in to put a end to it's reign of terror.

[@lylepup222]

Seraph!

[@JohnSmith-cy4xt]

I was Melee Rdm/nin for a looong time. Funny to think I didn’t change it until merit parties and was told I needed whm sub. No one ever said anything about it until merit parties.....lol

[@muncherparsons704]

This is why you always wanted to be the party maker, check everyone's gear before heading out. We all had those valkurm dune nights🤣

[@fakenamerton2568]

I remember in the FFXI us beta, i went deep, deep in crawlers nest, slept a crawler, then ran back and stood at the zone line until i saw them coming. The zone was not possible to enter without dying for about an hour before a gm reset it. Good times.

[@joshuawu2585]

Once when I was partying the tank left and we have to use the RDM as tank... It was horrible the RDM died in the first pul!!! 😂

[@bankait_rex1860]

dude so many memories lmao that's why this game was epic and some of us will never going to have that experience again, how about rangers running out of arrows lol and missing all the time cause their skills where not up to date.

[@christopherbailey3482]

I remember getting sent to the slammer for bringing trains of mobs to windurst as a kid. Being teleported into a jail with crazy looking game masters looking down on me. The good ol days

[@johnnyblazem5326]

I gave up on this game when i hit 64 has a mnk/war and spent a week trying to get a party. I had all the best gear and was good. But no one wanted a mnk. This was before any expansions

[@makaisenki]

Sam/Blm is basically just a gimp DRK. Why would you do that? Now SAM/Sch THAT I would support at level 60+ because of the utility of being able to sleep mobs. I got shit in Abyssea for being Pup/Sch but I was literally AoE sleeping mobs when they pulled too many at once, and saving the whole group from dying, so I don't know what kind of drugs the black mages that LITERALLY COULDN'T SLEEP ANYTHING were giving me crap about. Other than jealousy cause a puppetmaster was a better spellcaster and I was able to heal, and my puppet did more damage with spells because I farmed Koppernickel ore to level up pup, and then crafted it into ingots, and then made 40k a pop, making tons of gil, getting plenty of skill ups, and having relatively few issues.

[@XxAtomic646xX]

i call bullshit on you sleeping stuff in abyssea pup/sch, people dont seem to realize Skills matter and /sch your dark magic skill is capped at your subjob level, at least /blm you could elemental seal sleep but that only works with elemental seal

[@Theprofessorator]

I don't know why this video reminded me of this but one of the highest praise I ever received was as a THF on Qufim, pulling mobs for a burn party with a crossbow and someone said, "That's a good fisher there, you can tell because he goes to pull before our current mob is dead." I was definitely blushing IRL, that's what I love about FFXI, all of the random memories.

[@MechaGodAnri]

I had the same experience once in the same area as a THF, it's the little compliments that count :D. Then again I also recall shortly after receiving said compliment I messed up and ended up causing the party to wipe. Luckily they didn't get angry and just laughed it off telling me not to let it get to my head haha.

[@H.Collector]

What about the guy who always coincidentally D/Cs when the party is having some trouble or downtime?

[@ChristopherFranko]

Omg remember the castle z mob trains when the skeles would agro from ages and age away.. omg.

[@JulianWasHere]

I Seem to remember chocobos being tricky pets in FFXI that you had to Keep an extra eye on... is that true? :)

[@octo20]

Remember when another party would camp close to yours, and you'd get hit by AOEs from the mobs they were fighting? God, that was so awful. There was also the trick where people would Bind mobs on top of you, and they'd start attacking anyone who came in range, whether they had claim, hate, whatever.

[@fredsanford1437]

that was the worst, then your party would get hate but the mob was still purple and you couldnt defend yourself LOLOLOL good times

[@brianself260]

I have to apologize to camps in kuftal tunnel where accidentally agro gravier dragon to zone bahamut server

[@douglassequeira5419]

Nope try crawlers nest lol and you will understand 100 people trying to get into the zone only to meet with 1000 crawlers ready to rip apart anyone trying to enter the zone.

[@dozer14328703]

I was there when that was still a thing until they fixed the agro and resets. It took me years to get DRK to 60.

[@EricWZ]

i just went to soloing as DRG/WHM. But now im back playing again as BST/BLU..... just started up 2 days ago since 2009.

[@Huntin4GamesChannel]

awesome! DRG/WHM soloing was some of my favorite, but BST is obviously king

[@Iam18]

Not sure if placed under trolls but people with under leveld subs haha

[@Huntin4GamesChannel]

+Patric____ hahaha this was always a tense subject cuz you'd be like aaahhh.. it's like...sort of required

[@Jonluscavich11]

When I first started playing circa 2004-5 this was me. I'm ashamed to admit it, but I was the 40blm/14whm, the 45RNG/10NIN... I didn't even have Utsu ; ;. I loved the game though, and was a hell of a puller with ranger so people would let it slide and invite me. When I went back I made sure to always have my sub capped, but will never forget running around with the gimped subjobs haha.

[@the_fate_of_all_fools]

Lol I was one of those. Joined the game when it released on PS2 and I was trying to bulldoze my way to unlock PLD. I had my warrior leveled up but I found the MNK job I was subbing a chore to level up. I kept the MNK at 7, so I was WAR 30/MNK 7 when I went for PLD. I did a good job for being an MMORPG noob so most of the parties I joined didn't have too much of a problem with my underleveled sub. MAN, I miss this game.

[@JPZ89]

THIS LOL

[@DrBaileyBoom]

As a tank my most hated was people leveling the for treasure finder and refused to learn how SATA works

[@evog35viii]

I remember several years ago seeing an alliance of all drk/nin.... with Kraken clubs.

[@bishop34567]

People in parties that won’t let a PLD keep hate on a NM and it causes party to wipe... yea I dealt with those people... a lot...

[@gravefox4206]

I acutally tanked Kirin as RDM/WAR back in the day before CoP was released. My LS let me go as it just for fun cause we alrdy had too many ppl and fight was gonna be easy but then out of nowhere the Tank DCed and on instinct I provoked him and suddenly my whole ls was like WHAT!!! NO WAY!!! Best moment of my life after that my LS desiganted me Backup Tank and only let me sub WAR NIN or DRK depending what we were doing XD. the stigma behind RDM melee is that at the time most RDM didnt understand they had to use their whole kit reguardless of /sub. one guy on my server Lordandrew was basicly the icon of a terrible RDM/NIN and even the mention of RDM/NIN would invoke his name with hate and anger.

[@Doomxeen]

I usually tanked HNM until they were dead after my chainspell/stuns on rdm/drk. But yeah, there WERE times where rdm meleeing with an enspell was actually useful. The first levels after getting refresh, you basically have infinite mana in any kind of decent party, so you can add some decent damage and if you're fighting enemies that are good for exp, it's probably just beneficial if they waste their time using their shitty TP moves. Also, I routinely saved large chains with discretionary spirits withins'. But, you know, it's easier to just parrot popular opinions you've heard.

[@mrtylerdurdensir]

The guy who isnt good enough to dual box but is doing it anyways. Always my favorite

[@smallville4351]

I had to leave as whm once because i shot myself with a pellet gun. I’m sure no one believed me.

[@nathanyork2358]

Oof. Hours of setup before mediocre exp gain. What a frustrating system

[@anthonylasalle7392]

I'm not ashamed to admit in high school me and my bud's from 7pm Friday to about 3am Sunday would just exp jobs, with only taking breaks to eat, piss, and shower... the 4 of us would take turns on jobs sharing non rare/ex gear, who would be the WHM and BRD was rotated per party.

[@Huntin4GamesChannel]

miss these nights ^^

[@AndyPlaysGames]

I would honestly go right back to FFXI right now if I didn't have a $27.95 bill every month. Base game, mules, plus extra wardrobes adds up. 14.95 for FFXIV is just better for me right now. .... or is it.... mandys..... malboros.....Shantotto...... I hear you! I'm coming back....!.. maybe.

[@drwxtxf]

Bro I love how he begins talking about training to zone as he enters yuhtunga jungle rotf