Ffxi Humblebrag

with all the talk of making things easier here and there, what are you proud of that is NOT easily recreatable? prove it! show evidence in pics or however you choose so we can reminisce and envy you.

I was the first lvl 100 NA Blacksmither on Cerberus.

In 2007?? I spent almost a year collecting Cursed Hauby ~1 materials. After I had 50+ attempts I waited weeks for a 2% moon darksday during hours I could play. I went 1/1 on the ~1.

I couldnt bazaar it since it was worth way more than 99mil and I ended up with the second Armadaberk on the server about a year later.

I am King of Jeuno. I made a yell asking if there were any objections. There were none. It's been years now. Jeuno's been great and in good hands ever since. You're welcome, my wonderful citizens.

i made a vid of a galka mnk soloing the rank 2-3 mission eye+dragon at level 25 and posted it on allakhazam. the rest has been downhill ever since.

I've soloed multiple quested WS NMs at 75 cap on bst, with charmed pets.

Including Ifrit's Cauldron guy (Retribution) and Den of Rancor guy (Spiral Hell).

Sadly no pics, all gone.

I have many mules with very inappropriate names, and none of them have been banned.

I was able to solo Automaton Assault 60 cap ENM a long time ago on NIN/RNG not long after the fight was released. Even wrote up a guide for the fight on the talk page. This probably doesn't mean much to anybody unfamiliar, but at the time it was kind of tricky to beat back then solo without any third party tools or party support. Got my Zedoma Earring, which was like a galka trophy. The poster on the talk page is buukki from Lakshmi, so evidently thats me. Also shows how long I've loved and been playing the Ninja job. Was a very proud moment in my solo adventures (2009 I think?)

I haven't enjoyed an endgame event since hnms and I still play daily.

I mean, this isn't exactly difficult as much as prohibitively time-consuming, and nobody is ever going to do it again because there's no point in it but...

Back when Abyssea was the activity of choice, when empyrean the hot new thing, you would have to go around and fight NMs for your seals, make sure you get the yellow proc, decide who gets what, all that. I actually established my current triobox setup because I wanted to be able to cover every yellow stagger - blm/brd, blu/nin, and whm/rdm if I remember correctly.

(Incidentally my blue mage, Merantha, did the 75 limit break for the first time on blu long before trusts were a thing, I've heard that was a bit of an accomplishment but it's hardly special.)

If you didn't get to do the right NMs, or other people were ahead of you in the lotting queue, or you just had bad luck with it, though, there was another option... the quests.

Each seal had I think two quests associated with it. You'd have to do the hardest version of the quest or complete it without error to get a chance to drop one, and then if you did, it was like a 10% drop for one of four random seals. Not a realistic option, really; it was just a scrap they tossed us for picking up an extra seal if you really needed it.

I completed all five pieces of my caller's attire +1 set with seals gathered exclusively through quest completion. I contributed something like 200 data points to each quest's drop table on FFXIclopedia, but sadly that hasn't survived the turbulence that wiki's suffered over the years.

I got afterglow nirvana when it was cool

hi5 brother! the very first empy +1 I got was quested bc I was too much of a scrub to kill anything or get help.

I had one of the first vere on my server, which was a neat experience.

Not quite a humble brag but an experience
A video was made in the 75 era of my ls and myself helping someone clear Tenzen, their only job was to benediction
Too which they did it way late

I responded "way to go belipo" a few times.. and it was sent to me in tells for weeks

After actually looking at the video he couldn't even work the menu
To which he later told me he was tripping balls on mushrooms

I made a galley kitchen with the original synergy recipe, before they were giving 'em away.

The first afterglow Tizona the original way... and maybe the first to have made a second afterglow Tizona.

These threads gonna create drama lol. I am still salty over it, that we didn't get any kind of numbering system for people who did it the original way which was insane for the time period.

I posted about it on forums to deaf ears because nobody gave a ***because nobody had one. They just wanted it for everyone and to just laugh at those that decided to pursue them before that update. I still think its one of the worst betrayals the devs did to the game! Would have been easy for them to add a system, already in place with the fishing rods, to the mythic afterglows. I'll be 80 years old still thinking about that!

It also had nothing to do with all the /check e-peen, because I didn't care that everyone was able to have one later. Just wanted something aside from them having it so you only needed 1 material. At the time it was expensive, but I knew years later it would be cheap to get those materials and our efforts erased completely.

You can't even look it up on ffxiah because it simply shows everyone having the same type of afterglow. All those peoples efforts were erased in the night of the update.

The first afterglow Gjallarhorn AFAIK

According to equip history, 2013-12-15 19:07:12

I don't think I did anything particularly noteworthy "back in the day". I killed most of the bosses but I wasn't some superhero, didn't have REM, etc.

In the modern era though, I'm really proud of having done V0, 5, 10, 15, 20, & 25 of every single Odyseey boss. I'm fairly certain I did this twice, though I'm not 100% certain if my alt actually did every tier on the lower ones...I think I did though.

Beyond that, it took a *** of work to make all 8 of the crafting shields and I'm really proud of that. It's a bit of a spicy take but especially in an age when basically everyone is botting crafts, botting cards, and botting the synthesis focuser, I'm also proud of the fact that I did it without any third party tools at all. I did buy (a lot of) spheres from other people who probably botted them, so it's a bit of a grey area, but I doubt anyone's prepared to throw out their mythics because they bought alexandrite off the AH so...I still think it counts.

I've subsequently made myself a collection of all the +2 necks, all the Su5 weapons, and a couple Altana's Repast+2, all made by me and signed by shields I made, which was a fun side project.

Fun fact: When you're the first and only person to acquire something, you can click on Owned/Equipped for that item on this site and it will hotlink directly to your FFXIAH profile. (because you are 1 of 1).

So,I would say my Afterglow Ochain is my answer to OP's question. First person to do it. 06-17-2017. Most people were amazed/surprised at the dedication and curious about the afterglow effects. (It's a paltry effect to be honest that can be overwritten by other players AM3, so meh). But, I think it was my afterglow Aegis at level 99 cap that really got the strangest reactions from people.

When no one else had afterglow, other players can see you from 30 yalms away. Most messages were like "How are you glowing?" or "that's cool" ...but a few total strangers were just seething with hate: "You selfish ***. You used 250 marrows on a shield when my weapon has been at 95 for 6 months?!??!"

I mean, yeah? You just keep doing stuff if you love the game, I suppose.

me and my friend were/are... strange... pre sparks nerf we would farm reisenjima portal 2 every wednesday for gain exp. but for some reason we would prefer to fight for the camp instead of Teaming up... so every wednesday for 2-4 hours he would steal my mobs (i should note we were both blue, he was career i was more newbish gear wise) and i would try to mpk him. needless to say it was a fun 4 hours..


this isnt anything a Normal person would brag about... but it was honestly a fun time for the both of us, and we still made plenty of gil. even me who would die often as i would focus more on getting him instead of farming sparks.

tl;dr me and buddy would go to same camp for gain exp, refuse to team up and try to sabotage the other.

Well ffxiah uses guildwork to determine that, so someone off the grid could also have it.

I made a tarutaru back in 2002. I fought valiantly against the Onion outside the gate. I was down to red HP but he was also about to die! I used benediction! He used photosynthesis! I wiffed with my spoon. He regened back to full. I ran back into the town. Died at the gate.

I remake a Hume, Monk this time. No more spoon wielding white mage shorty. Fought valiantly against the ugly saplings. Then something hit me in the back! It was Leaping Lizzy! I hundred fists. The sapling was down but I still had that lizard on me. I died before hundred fists expired. Some evil Mithra took the NM. I was devastated. But a JP War/Whm raised me! I was happy. War/Whm was best!

I think this was so early back then when JP people was still nice and worked for free raising noobs.