every inch but one

Ok, I'm updating, but I'm sick so no effort will go into pictures. Text onry.

White mage is one good day of exp from 75. It still boggles my mind I took the job up this far. Some days I enjoy it, some days it seems an absolute chore to go on seek. I just don't get the sense of satisfaction from WHM I do from RDM. Personally, I feel I'm a decent white mage, but an absolutely kick ass EXP red mage. In the past month only one of my RDMs has played with the level of skill I expect from myself. And on a side note, RDMs that never magic burst make me ill.

I felt bad for my party yesterday. As we went along, the small headache I had when I put up my seek flag tripled in size. Lufaise is scary when concentration is extremely difficult. Nobody died, but if we had gone any longer I could of seen it happening. The party stuck long enough for our DRG to ding 75. Always nice to see someone ding 75 for the first time. A small goal of mine is to be sober for my next 75. ;D

Lately I've been contemplating what is next in my game.

1. CoP needs to be taken off the backburner. Looks like we need a melee again...
Any on Midgar interested? We're on Promy-Vhazl atm.

2. BLM to 75. It's only a good 2 weeks of exp away. But the static hasn't met in well over 3 months.

3. Ninja is fun. Convince Theonion that RDM is also, and go on frequent 6 hour exp binges.

4. Questing. I have lots of quest items taking up precious mog house space.

5. RNG to 75? Not really sure if I have the motivation for this one. But damn I loved that job.

6. Subjobs. Warrior and Thief need to go to 37. Perhaps SMN, but the thought makes me shiver.

7. I'm poor. I need to make gils to become un-poor. BCNM/ENM runs must be organized. Jobs must be pimped.

8. Endgame? I'm interested.

9. Level another job. Thief is always fun to me in theory. And it's appreciated more these days.
Other than that, and perhaps beastmaster, nothing really jumps out.

10. Merit. RDM alone has a long way to go in merits.

LJ update complete. I'm still sick. It's coma time.

So White Mage is over half way through 71. Exping it atm actually. My hope is 75 by the end of next week.

Thinking of finally breaking down and joining the HNM scene come multi-75s. It would be nice if my blm static could get in gear for the last five levels, so I could have three..... But I'm not exactly sure the status of things atm.

I'm dreaming of a Noble's Tunic. I've never been much for "1337 gears", however something about this piece really excites me. In thinking ahead, and corresponding with the HNM thoughts, I would very much enjoy saying it's something I obtained on my own, with my friends.

That's it for today. Send me cookies!

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Tonight's party did stick for one more goblin. WHM is now caught up to my RNG; a fact that will drive me into a pit of despair should I dwell upon it.

After trying to get on for nearly 7 hours, I was able to log in.

Currently I'm exping whm w/o a refresher. But it's okay, b/c we have 2 elvaan blms and a taru ninja who has less hp than I do. >.>

Yes, I've started drinking.

Kittens are the new taru!





Even the taru know it. They were quick to respond with a slander campaign.





Spread the truth! VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!!

Very fun ninja party last night. I ran a search for members and found Dioz seeking. So we decided to try two monks. I think the Expwatch clip in the bottom corner basically says how that worked out. ^^ Though having used the plug-in on several occasions, I get the feeling it reads a bit high. Only thing that would of made it better (and no offense to the RDM we had) would of been a vegie-taru RDM. Hurry back to us!

Ninja is fun as hell, even if holding hate off two monks is a nightmare. Probably would have been a bit easier if I had decided to exp sober. =X And :Ni elemental spells are great. Can't wait until I can try nin/blm after 51.

Plans for the rest of the day: maybe do a bit of mining and whm exp with Seckseh tonight. Might be the last chance we have to exp before he starts up his next 5 month contract on a cruise ship. Lucky bastard.

Let the disgusted comments about Dioz in subligar begin!


PS: Big shout out to Samaire for bringing out Sleep 2 for Lilbits. The one I was supposed to buy before exp. =X

Here's a nifty little tip from your friendly mithran red mage. When an RDM is soloing, has a couple links, but they are slept: PLEASE ensure you get hate when deciding to pull one. I'm sure watching a BLM Yag cast multiple level 3 nukes on me is all fun from your point of view. However, it's not so great from where I'm sitting, staring at it's name in purple.

40 Ninja. Really like the job. Much like RDM, I'm keeping track of about 8 things in my head at a time. Being the tank is a bit stressful to this veteran support character, but that's not necessarily bad. Except for when Lilchobits and the elvaan blm try to see who can pull more hate. Silly taru. However, now I'm 40 I have all the fun :Ni elemental ninjitsu. And keeping hate from naughty midgets will hopefully be easier.

Nobody died tonight due to my slacking off. The elf did die... but when you have hate and the entire party is slept, nuking a mob with 25% life instead of waking party members is deserving of a death. So I consider myself a tanking success story.

A big shout out goes to Miracale, who has no idea I logged him on and swiped his Jujitsu gi for photo purposes. This broke cat needs to use up some kindred seals (currently 292 >.>). If you read this and don't invite me on your next KS run, may you die to 1000 easy prey.

And final shout out of the night goes to my man Jbird. I always admired your ability to set lofty goals and pull them off, irregardless of the obstacles and/or slackers that tried to keep you down. It's sad seeing yet another friend logout for a final time, but I have no doubt great things are awaiting you in the unwired world. Peace out man, and best wishes for this exciting new stage of your life. Viva la bird!

Score! Sneak peek tickets, this Thursday, for Serenity!!!

(So excited I had to break my FFXI onry LJ rule. =P)

Well, it's been a little bit since my last update. Nothing earth shattering going on, so no need to update, right? I've spent a considerable amount of time getting merits on rdm. Damn I love exping that job! Always casting something, so many different styles you can play. It is a tad bit disturbing to me that 75s constantly gush over what a good rdm I am. After 75 levels the fact that I keep refresh on your mages still impresses you? Just how bad are the other guys?!?!


Since I love to hang out in the canal, it was only a matter of time before I successfully took out this guy:




It didn't drop the great katana. I've read it's a very rare drop, so I had no expectations entering into the fight.


Some bad luck for the roommate. Luckily it wasn't his 8 mil:





Not much else fun in my screenshot folder. For some reason this latest windower takes shots very slow and puts a bit of a strain onto my laptop. I also need to work on my camera positioning before clicking them off. I have some of me duoing Ifrit with Sama that would be rather nice if I didn't clip his head off in everyone!

That's it for now. I made it into work today, only to realize it was my day off. This is the price I pay for not checking the schedule! However, farming in-game truthfully doesn't feel that different from work. So back to the grind!

Thinking about how I currently have no in-game goal driving me.

The great plan was to go nutso with ranger, hit 75, then focus on whm. While rapidly gaining levels on rng and whm, blm static would slowly get the last 5 levels needed to cap out that job.

Now knowing what my rng used to be like, I have no desire to level it. I'd swap over to white mage... but I need several weeks of mental prep time before I exp that job. Today I logged in and stood around for most of 6 hours(of course I also finished a book IRL while my cat and moogle had a staring contest).

I should get on with plan A for this week and get drk to 37. Only six levels to go, that seems like an easy enough prospect.

This is why the masses join linkshells. It's much easier when you allow others to plan your game for you.

That's RIGHT!

XD

whoops. me bad:



two lvl 70+ jobs and two additional lvl 60+ jobs...

Just realized my first real entry was absolutely negative. Let's lighten things up a bit:



3 male tarus, one very confused cat. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Argh! So... Pissed... Off right now. Thanks for making me feel like the last 3 months of my in-game life were for nothing, SE. Now I'm level 68 ranger and the only perk I see coming from that is the fact I have a fully leveled ninja sub for my RDM.

This is one of those moments where a friggin note, email, phone call, whatever from the future saying, "Don't exp ranger, for the love of GOD! Warrior, Samurai, or Monk!" would have been fantastic. I wanted a powerful damage dealing job in addition to my mage jobs. I wanted a job that could hold it's own to any other melee out there. THAT'S why I exped rng. Now I can't even turn a mob to set up a SATA SC. Forget about gil spent, yeah it was considerable, but any job would have been. And I had lots of fun with Mira and Raawr when we were exping together. But that doesn't negate the fact that all this time put into a job with the final goal of being a formidable end game DD feels wasted.

At this point, I'm pretty sure I'm setting ranger aside. I've spent over 8 hours exping it. Finding the so called "sweet spot" wasn't hard, nor was realizing the normal shot "sweet spot" isn't where you want to weapon skill from. I had basically figured out this new system within an hour. Rangers had one thing, and one thing only. We did damage. We have no defense or other abilities. We can't counterstance like a monk. We can't use defender and back-up tank like a warrior. We don't control hate like a thf or drg. There are no fun enfeebles or stun such as a drk has. We could come closest of anyone to matching samurai tp in the game, but they would always have the edge on us there, even before this update. We did damage and it was good. Now I don't even want to log on.

I'm sure SE won't reverse this, I have no hopes for that. I suppose atm I'm wondering if perhaps this isn't the opportunity I need to put aside the Final Fantasy XI addiction and move on with my life.

POP!