When thinking back at the time you were newbe.Follow

I was a REAL newbie... This was my first [And... Still only] pay-to-play MMORPG.
I'm the type to be pretty quiet and keep to myself than let on I'm a total newbie though. ;) Of course, I did a lot of the usual stupid things... Tossed away countless seals, for instance.

I used to think people being able to solo a Goblin in the Dunes was a huge thing.

I remember being killed from behind after hearing some loud thumping noises, and turning my camera around to see my first Tremor Ram. I lived in fear of that thing... And it seemed to freakin' stalk me, often blocking where I had to go [I still have the pictures. >.<].

I remember my first total raping, thanks to ethe lovely Sea Horror that felt a nice tentacle to the face, through the door no less, would be a nice way to welcome me to my first sea voyage.

And then, of course, every new area was HUGE to me.
That's perhaps the thing I miss the most. Everything new felt huge and scary, yet you wanted to know evry inch of it by hand. You became comfortable with one area, and then set out into something brand new.

Edited, Thu Oct 13 06:24:38 2005 by Aneirin

LOL!! i couldn't figure out how to open doors. i thought if i stood too close to a person warping, i'd get warped too. teleports the same way. no way i wanted to go to La Theine, that place is sure to be scarey!

I loved the days when I was a newb =P
Because I met people that were also as newbish as me, I soloed my way to 10, and I wander around highland trying out this "party" thing, a group of people with no sub sent me a tell asking me if I wanna tag along, we tried exping off different mobs, engage stuff we shouldn't engage, and was a blast =p

Ahhh, the good ole days of being total newb. This was my first online game, I choose hume warrior from Bastok and leveled to 6 right away, I was unstoppable! Then I started doing missions and got to 2-3 where I got to travel the world. Well with alot of running and a hell of alot of running I made it to Windurst and soloed my way up to 17 (rather painfully I might add) and was finally able to kick Eye mon's *** (everytime I leveled I would go try fighting him and die from lvl 6-17). Then It was off to Sandy and while traveling through the dunes I got invited to join a party and I was so excited then after 1st kill I couldn't believe the huge amounts of experience we got (compared to soloing it was great, although I was puller and tank, and what the hell is a SC anyway).

Well now I'm lvl 62 BLM and spend most of my time cooking in Windurst and every week or so out of pure spite I go and kick the crap out of Eye Mon.

I actually kinda envy the people who are brand-new to this game and are experiencing everything for the first time. I'm currently helping a friend get started, showing them the ropes and such. That they're going to be experiencing all that for the first time... Heh.. well, at least I sorta get to experience it again, vicariously :-). It'll be cool to hear the enthusiasm over a new area, or some neat cinematic, etc. etc... all those things that experienced players take for granted.

As for one of my most memorable newbie moments...

I was in Port Windurst, wandering around aimlessly, most likely completely lost. I get a party invite (at like.. level 5 tops - yep.. we were newbs :-). They're on "the big hill North of Windurst" in West Sarutabaruta. So.. I run out the gate and into West Sarutabaruta.. I make my way North.. man it's taking forever! I'm running and running and running, feeling a bit like Forest Gump, and still no hill! Oh yeah! I have a map! So I check it and, probably by some accident, I figure out how to access the map markers and see the two party-mates' markers on the map. They're in some area called Starfall Hillock. I make my way over to them.

All I remember thinking is "Man, this is so far from town!". I didn't know about the North gate out of Windy Waters at this time. I felt completely lost, totally disoriented.

I run up just in time to see one of them attack a bee.. and the bodies start dropping soon after. They die and I somehow escape with my life... probably because they'd died before I even had a chance to draw my weapon, much less attack it. I disengage and run back to town, thinking "Not going back out there for a while! That's too high level!" My party-mates decided to disband after that.

I remember running past them again at some point later on and seeing them as "Too Weak To Be Worthwhile" and thinking, "wow.. I've gotten powerful!"

What's amazing is.. for as large as East and West Sarutabaruta are, and for how much time you spend out there... it's basically your backyard as a Windurstian. It's *nothing* in comparison to the world overall. But to me, at that time, it was this massive sprawling area that would take forever to see all of. Funny how perspective completely changes things.

My major newb-idents weren't seen by fellow Remorans. My friend got me into it, but I started playing before he got me a Remora world pass. I started out on Bismarck. Countless Beastmens seals thrown, crystals sold to NPCs, etc. I befriended another newb named Etelwulf. He knew me as Malachi, though. If Etelwulf is out there, "Hi!"

I made it to RDM8 before getting that world pass. I gave all my items to Etelwulf and told him to use or sell them. He said that it felt like Christmas.

Thank you OP for allowing me to reminisce.

When I was a fresh out of the cutscene noob... well, I kept telling the NPCs that I was confused. In say... I must have looked like a real doof to the people around me.

When I finally figured out how to move around I explored Windurst in and out, talking to pretty much every NPC. Went outside, learned to fight slowly... a JP rode by on a chocobo, I was very excited to see my first chocobo.

Now... this is my first MMO. Closest I got to playing anything online before was Warcraft III and Diablo II even though I rarely played with other players, and liked keeping to myself. So. When I was new I had already decided that I was going to solo to 75.

...heh

Solo'd to 13, got invited to a party by someone who's one of my closest friends now... and saw my first Coji gains 200xp in Maze of Shk. I couldn't pick my jaw up off the floor.

I've gone a long way since then. Sometimes I wish myself and the people around me were still as naive as we were then. But eh... with new things coming out like expansions and ever changing updates and things... maybe we are in some cases.

Cheers. ^^

Wow so many good memories.. I originally bought this game with my best friend. We were going to make 2 caster characters, I was going to be a BLM and he was going to be a WHM. So I Got the taru with dark hair and named him Peper. He got a taru with blonde hair and named him salt.

We started leveling (after stuggling to find a WP, wth was that?) and after hours of leveling.. and throwing away countless beastman seals (they take up inventory and i cant sell them to NPC's like my crystals? XD) We both somehow made it to level 10.

I said "Lets go north on the map, I think theres a zone at the top!" So we headed to what I know call the canyon. To our surprise there was an innocent little bunny waiting for us on the other side. At the time we didnt know how to con something, so I said, lets take it!

I bound it. He dia'd and we started going at it. 5 Seconds later, the bunny ate the both of us and we were in shock. I was like, "Did that fuzzy little bunny just school us?" and Salt said quite bluntly, "The word is rape my friend, rape."

Well needless to say We ended up at Craig Mea. Being that I have never seen it before I was soooo impressed. There was a high level JP ninja right next to the crystal. So I kindly asked him, "Hey, whats this crystal for?" And of course he tells, "DONT TOUCH IT WHATEVER YOU DO! It will warp you inside and ghosts will kill your character and youll have to start over!!!" -_- (this was wayyyyyyyyy before CoP, in fact it was at NA release)

So of course I didnt DARE touch it till I was level 20+ or so lol.


Sigh the memories.. my friend quit a week later. I was left with the name Peper. With no salt. I realized that I hated BLM and stopped at 17. As you can tell from my bio line, I finally figured out what I liked doing.

Ahh. the good ol days :)

I started in Port Bastok, eew, thats the worst. I just wanted to get outside and kill stuff. So I go outside, into North Gustaberg. I never see a soul for a week while I work my way to the bridge and die alot. I didnt know how to auto-sort and I didn't know where any shops were. By like WAR 10 I discover Bastok Markets (still not the AH though). It was great! I could buy scale armor from the shop and a little bit better sword to go with my shell shield. Eventually I made it to WAR 14 on Vomp Hill right outside Bastok Markets. I tried to go to Konstat to keep soloing, but even saplings were kicking my ***. I got frustrated and I was scared to join a party and not know what I was doing, so I changed to WHM. When I hit WHM 8 I discovered the AH. Yup, 22 levels in before I found it. I could barely afford anything because all my money before that came from selling my drops to the armor shop NPC, crystals too. The day I bought a Tunic and put it on for the first time was awesome. I remember thinking how great it looked to have a hoody. By WHM 12 I finally worked up the nerve to go to the dunes. Slowly but surely I got to 18 and got all my subjob items normally. I didnt have curaga or protectra or shellra. Just Cure 1 and 2 I think. It was all I could afford at the shop. I went back to Bastok at 18 to get my subjob equiped... I went back out to the dunes as WHM18/WAR9! Somehow I got to WHM20/WAR10 and headed back to Bastok to level my BLM and get ready for the long trip out to Jeuno. My BLM got to 13 solo where it stayed until WHM30/BLM13. I didn't know how to do the chocobo quest, so I blew it off until level 30. I walked to yhoater with sneak and invis, and back. I did rank 3, kahzam keys, PLD and DRK job quests completely by foot! I would say the turning point in my noobness was when I headed to the dunes as BLM13/WHM6. Looking back I can't believe this crap came from me.

Edited, Thu Oct 13 12:34:21 2005 by Spungy

I see so many nice reply to this thread and don't know where to start at I realize that you people love this game just as I and we had similar experience as new player it's really funny to look back at and to the new players it's fun to know what's going on in your minds to and just ask if you have a question about this game or just enjoy and find it out your self.

I once saw a lvl 1 Warrior use staff as weapon and I wanted to give her a advice or maybe even buy her a Greath Axe or Axe + shield if she want to be tank but she did not reply, maybe she did not understand English or maybe she just did not know how to reply a tell.. she was death and lay there on the ground and I sat on her but no reply.

Hehe, my first few days were a bit slow.

Starting in Bastok, with my Adventurers coupon, it took me ages to find Reet, then I was stood there for about half an hour trying to work out how to trade.

My first steps out into South Gustaberg, I didnt know about Healing position to recover HP, so after each battle or two, I headed back into Bastok to my Mog-house to get my HP back.

Must have played a couple weeks before I even saw Konshtat Highlands, let alone the dunes. I soloed to 16 by going deeper and deeper into Dangruf Wadi. Died a lot and then the long trek back each time. Heh, I miss it!

Let's see...

On my first Selan (Phoenix server), I didn't know how to equip a weapon, so I attacked about my first 5 mobs with H2H (As a WHM!). Then my friend asked me if I checked in the equipment menu, cause he just thought I didn't come with a weapon. I remember one of his friends coming up after I died, and then my friend asked for help to make me not be dead, cause neither of us knew what a home point was, so we didn't want to go to it cause I didn't think I had a home! His friend said something about it was noting 2000 gil couldn't help, so I thought they were going to get me a Phoenix down. ; ; Obviously, that didn't happen

I remember wondering why a mob of the same type would slaughter me when the previous one wouldn't, until I learned about the /check command. I also remember trying to figure out why my Protectra wasn't casting on everyone in the area I was in (I think I was near an EF group, I was near the town gates, and thinking people would love me for casting Protect, I tried it.). I also remember the first time I heard about ITs. A party I was invited to (My first party ever) was like "Let's take a tremor ram!" and the others were like "No dude, that's IT!". I didn't know how to talk in anything but /tell and /say mode at this point, so I didn't talk very much. I thought that IT stood for some kind of special event mob. I also tried curing people in town with my piddly little 8 HP Cure 1 and their bar not budging. I told one person that I'd keep curing him till he was full!

Selan #2 (Valefor) didn't live very long, maybe a couple days. I don't think I got past 3.

Selan Numbah 3 is my current Selan. I gave up one WHM early on cause I was angry at dying all the time, and took up RDM cause "Blades hurt stuff!". Planned to go back to WHM after I got my subjob, but then I didn't.

I remember the day when few people had full artifact armor sets. I saw a ton of DRG AF, and was like "Wow, they're just like Kain in FFIV!"

As well, I did the typical newb stuff, throwing away beastmen seals, not knowing how to sort, stuff like that.

I was level 1 and too afraid to go outside and fight anything because I'd heard you lost exp when you died, and I didn't want to delevel to 0.

When I had 66K I thought that was a lot of gil. Someone in my LS said they wanted to buy a Scorpion Harness but didn't have enough, and I asked him if he wanted to borrow some gil from me, since I had so much!

I /check'd someone and all I got was ???. So I /tell'd them asking, "what job are you? i think something's wrong with my system. all i see is ???"

I was upset because I wanted to change from RDM to another main, but I thought you had to be 18 and have completed the subjob quest to change your main at all.