|
Travis Touchdown -> RE: =AK= The Ultimate Nostalgia thread (11/10/2014 18:58:20)
|
This week's release being what it is, my mind can't help but drift back to all the times I swapped pets from Aria's Pet Shop when I started out some eight and a half years ago. I always used to rename every pet I got my mitts on, and of course this was several years before the rewards sweep so that 20 gold each certainly burned a hole in my single/very-low-double digit leveled character's pocket. The Truffle was my pet of choice for several months, with it's multi-elemental nature and the nature of elemental resists back then meaning that it was effective against pretty much anything.
Which also gets me thinking about when Gatta Island originally came out, since I used one of the Light Gattas that I bought from that quest back when it first came out for... quite some time. It might have actually been years, I don't quite recall. Kitty Con Carne, I believe, was its name, since at the time the term "chili con carne" was stuck on my mind because reasons and I thought it was kind of funny at the time.
Ah, and the Koofu! How many hours I farmed for the Koofu Caller, and then alternated between the darkness Koofu and Daimyo depending on my needs. Truthfully, I can't remember the last time I used either.
And speaking of Daimyo I remember when I steadfastly refused to use anything but class armours! Dragon Wings was my spam spell, Daimyo my loyal healer at an impressive 5 HP/MP a turn with no cost, and since I thought Bonus to Hit affected damage, not accuracy, I kept using that one Dragonslayer skill that gave a bonus to BtH, thinking that I was so much stronger for doing it. Perhaps that's the power of the Placebo Effect. XD
The old Reign Plate might have been the first time I used anything else, after months of farming Fairwind Springs to scrape together enough gold to obtain it; so it's weird to think there are some encounters today that give more gold by themselves than what I spent on that armour back then! Still, it was worth it. And back then, the "Ubers" had level-locked attacks! At first my Reign Plate only had two hits, but one day I had gotten powerful enough to stick my sword into the air, followed by bathing my foes in a wave of fire that could somehow do water or ice damage if I felt like it. Weird times, weird times.
Plus, I used to identify as a Berserker. Who would have thought that I would consider myself some weird Assassin/Sorcerer hybrid only a few scant years later?
|
|
|
|
