Revenge of the Butter!

So, with the extended Maint. on WoW, I decided to fish a bit in FFXI today. Hit the cap I think...o_o (for the day haha)

After that, I hopped on to my chocodigging mule and came out with a nice haul of ores from my new choco digging spot. Will need to break them down into ingots later, but I'm too lazy to right now.

Soooo, then I decide I want to try to make a bazzar, to actually start what I was planning originally before I left for almost 6 months. I then thought of my cooking mule. 72 cooking...there are so many things I can make, and I'm just letting her sit there..So! I hope on to her, notice her inventory is packed with random ingredients, meats, fish, you name it. I quickly pull up wiki and have a looksie.

About two hours later, I now have my Sandy Mule (only 30 items viewable...but Sandy seems well traveled and the cooking guild isn't there, so less competition) loaded with all sorts of random goodies for sale when I'm afk or sleeping. I've just got to come up with a creative place to park her for good, and always leave her there. It's what I did with my old mule, inkpen hehehe.

Looking through all these recipes though...I'm ashamed of myself for being so lazy. There are SO many awesome things I can be making for myself, the patisser key item allows me to make those great group effect treats. I can make sushi since I have Raw Fish Handling.....why did I not use this to my advantage more...o-0

Hatted

Yay! Finally got my full Black Mage Artifact set!

there is a certain level of consideration

I must say that nothing irritates me more in-game than setting a time, being on all freaking day so not to miss said "time", when the general time expires, I still stay on hoping to get, at least, an explanation as to why I'm still standing around waiting like a jack-ass, only to have pretty much wasted my day for absolutely nothing.

Yep, apparently my time is meaningless. Other people have more "pressing matters" to attend to yes, but that dose not mean I don't deserve a little god-damn message that says "Sorry can't come tonight." instead of hanging around hoping like a fucking moron.

Don't volunteer to help if you aren't going to be around to do so. If there is even a question as to attendance, it would be nice to know ahead of time so I'm at least prepared. And, perhaps stop volunteering if you don't really want to help. I would rather bluntly be told no than to be strung along.

It may be online friendship but there's people behind that stupid pixel character too. Feelings get hurt, people feel bad when someone lets them down. I'm one of them. I'm tired of being blown off for other people and other things, it seems I somehow invite this treatment. meh.

Anyway, yeah I'm pretty pissed off about this right now. This has happened far too often, even Austin, thinking back, feels the same way as me. I recall hearing him sigh and say "Blown off again.." more than a few times in similar game situations. =/

I woke up early to get grocery shopping done for this event so I wouldn't hold anyone up. I WANTED to go to the zoo on Sunday and decided not to....there were so many other things I could have been doing had I got a MESSAGE stating a cancellation....

Macros ><

Viewing some Black Mage resources online, I've been attempting to tweak my macros...or better yet, stop being a lazy-ass and actually making a decent set of macros. I honestly chalk a lot of wipes to not having them set up properly.....and, after being back in a fast paced game like WoW for a few months, I realized just how lazy I had gotten in this slower paced game.

Now, the interface for ffxi is quite clunky compared to, say again, WoW. It's hard for people on a PC to react fast (I have no idea how it works out for people on a console.)

Basically, most of them look something like that. The body parts will be switched out as I level and get new equipment.

Now to begin to master the art of blink kiting. I get the gist of it, I've done more complicated things in WoW....believe me.... but ffxi's interface is a bit different and slower, so I'll have to adapt I suppose.

I have found a linkshell in the game that suites my playstyle well. We're currently doing the CoP storyline, so I'm very happy I got in on that. I be bold enough to brag in the fact that I am very reliable as far as showing up. It comes from my conditioning in WoW, I arrive early, get ready early, and I'm at the MEETING POINT or dungeon entrance AT the time the event is scheduled to start. In my old guild, if you weren' t exactly on time, the other 40 ish people online waiting in line at the time took your spot.

It's exciting to be getting storylines done. That's why I became stubborn and started again after "quitting" for close to 6 months (on and off). I do not like playing games and never completeing them.....

I noticed the leader does call people out on things. Like tardiness, and not bringing items you need (RR. hairpins), not nasty or anything, it's nice to know they are paying attention. So many out there that don't know the ass from the face, and they decide they want to lead.

The only thing that irked me about this shell so far was the conversation between two players on ls chat. I don't appreciate hearing the words pussy, cum and buttfuck when I log on. =/ I politely told them I found their conversation offensive, and asked them to stop and do it through tells, and got a smart ass answer... So I took off my shell for the night. I don't feel I need to put up with that kind of BS. People need to grow up.

yay

So, after a few more months worth of a break, finally logged in and did that STUPID Mammet fight. Won on like..the 6th try. Very happy and glad it's out of the way. :)

Will post more with pics later.

back

Welp, I took a good time off for a breather. I got fed up, the main focus of my rage was on the constant, pathetic attempts at the Mam..whatevers...those guys who try to capture Bahamut. Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic.

So, I went back to the land of Azeroth (and if you don't know where that is you've been living under a rock....WoW... :P). Reactivated my old raiding Druid and began to level her, got her to 70, started some raids, hated the guild I was in (nice people but went through bad players like water.), move servers, and am now raiding with the "Leftovers" raiding alliance. My dream! I can raid without being in an endgame guild!!!! That's a big deal for me, as ALL of my nights were spent helping my lazy ass old guild (again only a few good people were carrying the others who were lazy asses) and preparing for my expensive, "wipe-fest" raids. I'm happy, I'm GEARING, I may actually get to see Black Temple before the next expansion!!!!

But anyway, I decided that, due to this weird...free time I have now, I could play FFXI too, since I had the urge to go back about a week or so ago. I'm taking it slow right now, so I don't end up quitting again, also the next update with the leveling down option is probably going to make my life a hell of a lot easier. People will probably be more inclined to help with missions and such.....huzzah.

Getting to my breaking point....

Got Salvage Access after taking it upon myself to attempt to get a party together.

I've been trying to get zilart mission 8 done for months now. I've been promised help for months by a few different people, no one is ever around or up for doing the fucking thing. I stood moving from Jeuno to Aht Urghan for hours now and not ONE person has even sent a tell with interest. (this has been two days in a row...hours of running around shouting.)

I've been in many shells, all of which can't stay together for more than a goddamn month after I join. They're dead, and for some stupid reason I keep the shells and check them daily for people....hoping maybe someday there would be more than ME on the shell.

I WANT to progress, I WANT to get my missions done, I WANT to see the storyline (more than anything actually)....but I can't get help for the life of me.

If this keeps up, no matter how much I love this game, I will get frustrated and quit.

I've been playing WoW again, mostly out of frustration with FFXI. I've been enjoying my time back this time. Almost 70, been doing dungeons, getting rep, getting attuned, never have any trouble finding a party to do these things with. Have a guild who will be attempting "Old Content" like Molten Core, Black Wing Layer...the good stuff that I've done and really enjoyed many times before.

Black Mage Artifact Get

Got the boots too but I'm too lazy to screen them right now hehe. All that's left is the hat, which I'll probably bug people to help me with this weekend. ^^
I used up all the charges on my Anniversary band today. Managed t help me get from 44 to 56 in less than a week. =/ Wow, I'm an addict.... Very soon, I'll have to go back to leveling Red Mage for my sub...which I do slowly, and solo (so far). I just can't deal with low level parties lately, they irriate me.

I've been a busy little bee too.

Ouchies

Putting aside a few hundred thousand gil to work on getting my goldsmithing skilled. Of course, the market for gold ingots is flooded, so I'm working on skilling up on rings. Expensive and you lose pretty much all the gil you put into it...at least with gold ingots I could just continually level off whatever money I got back from selling the ingots. ><><

Anyway, I got a decent amount of skillups at least. Currently, as I write this, I sit at 52.7 goldsmithing.

I'm up late because of nerves. I'm nervous about tomorrow. ><

Goldsmithing leveling plan

Back up to over 1 million gil (and steadily growing due to my chocodigging and bazaar at night), time to start pushing through the dreaded 50's of goldsmithing. My plan is to invest in the gil for just 1 stack of gold ingots. Sell those, and use the money I get back to continue to make another stack. I figure it will burn less of a noticeable hole in my pockets if I do it this way.

Thinking ahead, I will be planting my tree cuttings in an attempt to grow platinum nuggets. I've been saving all the platinum ores I've dug up while chocodigging and I'm itching to to get through those and on with my goldsmithing "career". Hopefully, I'll be able to make a dent in my skillups from all of the pre-planning.

As for real life land. I'm going for my medical examination for permanent residence here in Canada. (Cause' I'm a smelly, diseased American :P ) I'm nervous about it, mainly because I hate going to the hospital, and because I haven't had any sort of doctors examination since I had my appendix taken out two summers ago. =/ I'm a youngin' (23) , but I always worry about big things like this. ><><

Is it odd to say that I can't wait to NOT have the time to play this game so much anymore?

Soloing Adventures

I've noticed the caliber of parties is slowly going down the toilet. Even higher level ones. It used to be, when you got to Crawler's Nest, parties would steadily get better. However, parties there lately suck more than the dunes. Are people getting that lazy? Parties are starting to suck even with power levelers.

As for me, I'm still trekking along with Black Mage. It's a shame its getting so darn hard to find parties, as Black Mages are beasts for damage. I sometimes wish I had started playing this game much earlier (actually I wish that a lot hehe) .

Anyway, I'm at level 44 right now. Once I hit 41-ish I found it hard to find a good solo spot, as there is no way in holy hell I'm going to Castle Z. So I looked around online, and found out about a spot in in the Jungles in the Temple of Ugg. (whatever the hell it's spelled. =/) I wasn't familiar with soloing elementals coming here, so they wiped the pavement with me for a long time...I'm now fine, haven't died in awhile, save the 1 time I died due to poison and low hp. >< But we'll pretend that didn't happen, because I'm so ubber good.... o_o

Anyway, the spot seems pretty sweet so far, theres a place to zone if you get into trouble, only elementals have a lot more hp, and thus, use up more of my mp to kill them. With the anniversary band, things are moving much quicker, to my delight, hehehe. Soon I shall move on to Cape T. and goblin pets. And in a few more levels, I can get my elemental staffs, oh and I suppose I should start the quest for my Artifact Armor. Whoops! *embarassed* It will be nice to hunt for my own keys and such, as I decide to level Samurai to 75 first...which is just another beast for physical damage....too bad the defense sucks butt....

Austin (my boyfriend) is busy leveling his Mithra and has become hellbent on playing Corsair to 75, even after realizing how much bullets cost. The whole reason he switched to a female character was due to wanting to level that job. =/ "They look better in the AF." I will admit they do, and it's his game, so he should do what he wants. (Heck, I re-leveled a character, so who am I to say anything against?)

As for me, I will level Corsair someday, but for now, my focus is on my mage jobs. I <3 Mage. :)

Monies!

Did some of the past quests today. Great stuff to be had from the Sandy (S) ones, have a deathstone and angelstone to sell now, which is great as I neeeeeds gillls. My goal to do most/all quests in the game is well underway. (Can you tell when I play a game, I play the hell out of it...>< It's always been my neurotic obsession. )

Chocobo digging has been awesome lately! I usually end up in Altepa, and if its dug up at one point, I just d/c while on choco and wait until a later time in the day. It's been working great, as I don't waste as many greens on "dud" digs. I'm starting to plan ahead and save my platinum ores (as many as I can fit at least) for my next stage of goldsmithing...once I get past gold, that is.

I'm being super stingy about using my anniversary ring..still has all the charges hehe.

Operation: "HQ staves...get"

Working my butt off to save the gil to get a full set of HQ staves for my Black Mage. I'm a mage at heart, working on getting the best possible gear for these jobs. :)

Choco Digging is proving to be very profitable for me again lately. I've been sticking to Altepa Lately, coral fragments and philosopher's stones are lovely. Zinc can be made to brass, which sells nice, bone chips and femurs go to the vendor or sold on the AH depending on price....

The Gold ore I've been digging up is good for getting my Goldsmithing leveled up some more....very, very slowly. ><

grrrr

So to block out some of my the major irritations in my life right now *coughs* 18 year old younger sister called to tell me she's pregnant *coughs* I've decided to play even more of the game.

My poor eyes.... they're going bad on me...at this rate I'll probably need glasses soon ><

Star Necklace is mine now! It's a good neck for mp whores like myself. :P

I've been doing this all while coding stuff for elhaym.net
I've let is sit for way too long....

Progress

Holy Meat Mithkabobs Batman!
I have a little cooking mule Taru who is my meat mithkabob making whore at the moment. Having cooking at 72.2 is useful I think... I just need to farm some more honey to keep raising it. (I'm cheap and don't like to waste money buying ingredients.) Thanks to herb seeds and brass flowerpots, I now have 7 stacks of Kazahm Peppers to deal with, hurray for cost-cutting!

Did lots of Quests and Missions lately.


Group for the Minotaur Fight in CoP. We had almost a full alliance, I like large groups..you die less. (generally) :P
Ulma singing a pretty song with her harp. ^_^
Foul Mouthed Prishe.

Other stuffs:


It's been an npc focused kind of day. I did the Mirror Images quest, fought a solo bcnm with Yoli (npc's name), and broke her 65 cap. Pweh!

As for the Linkshell dilemma, I've asked around, and found a new endgame linkshell on my sever (there are many apparently) where the members and leaders (especially them) are civil, courteous and friendly. They have enough for Salvage and things like that that, but they're still working on the numbers for dynamis. We'll see we'll see ^^ I'm in no big rush, I'm still trying to get my missions all complete for my country >< .

I'm not a fan of linkshell where its "Fuck this." "Fuck that" as soon as I log on. Call me old fashioned, but I'm not a fan of constant foul language. I'm also not a fan of singling people out and putting them down for honest mistakes. :)

Back to some more quests. ^_^

Endgame

Did Dynamis Windurst for the first time the other day. Compared to the really intricate strategies of WoW, I found it to be almost boring compared. Hopefully places like Sky and Sea and such are better. ><><

I've even been searching around other servers forums for some nice sounding shells, if I find one where people aren't overly petty, nasty (apparently they yelled at a friend of mine for messing up a Skillchain the other day...honestly, once I heard that, I made my decision to find a shell that was not like that.) I never thought I would miss my old WoW guild..><><

Anyway, since I've been discouraged lately (I don't want my game to be ruined by dreading endgame events.) , I log on from time to time to farm, I'm working on packing my mule with consumables, choco racing items, food, choco medicine, choco feed, low level armor, etc. I can't wait until I can make some high level armor and sell that in Rolanmart outside of Jeuno. My goal? To be able to make the majority of my money from mules. I hate AH fees. ><
Last night I spent a lot of time farming honey for Speed Apples. I went logging in Caedevra (sp?) Mire, but I think theres that warp botting going on there....I noticed a lot of logging points suddenly disappear with no one around... will report them if I find that out when I go try again today. Dogwood logs are my focus, as I can make them into yogurt. ( for more choco apples lol)

Time to switch to windowed mode...even though it kills my eyes if I look at it too long. I still refuse to download mods of any kind for this game. :)

finally ><

I finally hit 75 today. Would post the picture but blogger is being a jerk today. =/


....off to level something else (and merit a bit)

meh..

Debating on transferring servers in FFXI. None of my friends are really on anymore so I figured I could start over fresh somewhere else and make new friends...sounds weird, but I've already developed a lot of biases toward a lot of people on my server. (like who are the resident assholes, etc.) Also, I didn't really intend to start on Diabolos (lol I liked the name Leviathan and Odin, etc more hehe), I only did so because a friend, who stopped playing like.. a month after I started, played on that server. It's somewhat frustrating to start somewhere and expect to buddy around and find the person leaves....

I've been snooping around during prime time on an open content id to see what the populations are like on certain servers. Doing my own research...

But of course, before I go through some rash decisions, I'll see about joining some different Linkshells (no ones ever really on my current one during the day when I'm normally hanging around). I don't know....meh.... The only problem is, again, the biases (I know its bad but still you hear the local gossip a lot) Linkshells on that server (and many others...) are really petty and theres tons of drama. Mainly the Endgame ones. Which I will be getting into sometime in the near future.

I think I'm one of the few that thinks a change is refreshing. *shrugs* That and its only like $12 or something really reasonable. ehhh....

*blahblahblah*

More rants meh

Sometimes I wish I could shove my foot up the worlds ass...

I'm getting very sick of people insisting I get that stupid O. Kote. The more I hear it, the more stubborn I become, and the more I don't want to camp that NM that drops it. I'm also quite sick of all the know-it-all-ism's. So you have 7 level 75's....that doesn't mean you can play. Having a few 75's doesn't make up for the lack of skill when someone who "knows everything" screws up something a new player would find simple.... I very much enjoy watching this happen. There's also an overabundance of jerks lately. More that usual. I had to blacklist a few people this week, one being in campaign, just kept insulting everyone and flapping their yap when absolutely no one was answering. You would think the fact that there wasn't anyone dignifying him with an answer, that perhaps they would think "gee, no ones respond..." and stop...but no.

Black Mage is now level 39 after soloing the majority of the way. I only got into one...very...mediocre party with it so far. Stupidity seems to run rampant in this game.... A lot of the game is common sense, but this escapes people....o_o But again, I digress. (learn to #$!@%^@ play! *fumes*)

I've been busy ^^

A lot has gone on lately. I've gotten pretty far into the Zilart Missions tagging along with a friends linkshell. Not to "Sky" yet, but I'm getting close. Also attained Rank 7 earlier last week, after being persistent as hell about getting people to go. It worked out way better than I had expected. lol I usually can't get anyone to come. Chupacabra helped me get my Jody's Acid for the next mission in Aht Urgahn (yes I'm a slacker. ) Now I have to fight an NM. ><
(Some Screenies of my adventures are posted throughout this entry. >< ) Along with all of my Mission adventures, I've been doing a lot of quests, many of them being interesting. I don't know why most people decide to bypass most of the games quest, it really makes it more enjoyable and interesting if you do them. But that's just me I guess..>< Along with all of this I've been doing numerous quests, just to make my gaming experience more fun, and it is working. I've even almost got all of the Mannequin parts ^^
In leveling news, I've gotten Black Mage to 31 (almost 32) solo. Goblin Pets helped a lot with this, but they killed me muchly.... I'm even doing Campaigns with it right now.....it's less stressful to me than soling and dying so much. >< When I hit 35, I'm going to start flagging for parties. (I'm trying to avoid Garliage Citadel as much as I can lol I hate that place at level 30, if I get to 35, I'm less likely to have to party there.) Paladin is now 19, after a leveling session with chup and zuriel.

Oh and we now have a PSP here. :) Now I can play Final Fantasy Tactics while healing or waiting around. :)

Typing in my boredom

So some more emergency maint. today. Not a huge deal as I was kind of expecting it. You can't expect the poor employees who run this thing NOT to have a few kinks to work out. People who complain about downtime and such, I say to you:

"You go out, you learn how to program, you design and program a game as intricate as this one and you try to upkeep it."

Only then can you really, truly, be allowed to bitch and moan. Otherwise...well shut the hell up. =/
This game doesn't nearly have as much downtime as games like WoW so people should be happy about that. *has memories of her server being offline for three whole days out of nowhere*


So anyway. Zuriel got home from work for lunch and I gave him the idea of us doing some more Nation Rank missions tonight. Hopefully that will work out. Hell, I'm willing to even trying them duo, it would be fun methinks. Lately, I find myself turning into an anal stickler worrying about numbers and dying/loosing xp. Today I thought..."Why?" Since when have I become some anal player who's afraid to try something just for the hell of it?
After this I ran around Sandy catching up on some quests. I'm not in Sandy very much, and I happened to log out there..so yeah... Had some fun running around gathering items and such.

I also got to listen to Zuriel rant for hours and hours about dune parties. Heheh..... Honestly, its powerleveling and spoon feeding people levels here, when you should be learning your job, that makes bad players. This is why I don't powerlevel anymore. Sure, fast xp is great, but hell, I even found myself clueless when I hit the 40's for the first time. I started the game late and the majority of my parties had plers.... As a white mage, it annoyed me because I felt it was pointless for me to be there. At level 40-ish I found myself learning my job for the first time....I thought to myself..."This isn't right...I should know this." It irritated me and I knew it was because of the power leveling. Honestly, I wont be modest, I catch on quick and I learn fast, so I was fine. Now I make it a point to solo/duo etc with each new job I play, and experiment with the abilities. I actually don't like parties with power levelers. Especially since the time on my other character, a 60 whm at the time, watching as the parties red mage brought a75 white mage with them to power level. I was flipping mad, it's rude to me, especially at the level, to bring a healer along when HELLO I'M HERE! They didn't stop when they saw I was healing either...it pissed me off and made me bored. Anyway, yeah I don't like power leveling.

So, I found my Mannequin Legs for much, much cheaper than Zuriel. Who promptly mumbled for me to shove them down my throat. (jokingly, I love him ♥ hehe) I'll be doing bcnms for the rest of the body parts shortly.

Now off to tidy up the house and such while I wait for maintenance to be over.

Operation Sub Job (s)

Current Job levels as of now. I worked my butt off getting Warrior and Thief to 37 (for Samurai Sub Jobs) this past week. Dancer was at 14 earlier this week and I took it to level 22 in a small amount of time, thanks to a friend who Zuriel and I triode with in the dunes. Ninja was taken to 21 this past weekend, simply by soloing. I can't stand low level parties...I avoid them if I can. It's been a pretty productive few days.
I'll post more on my ventures as I go. :)

Zuriels spent the last few days trying to find Mannequin feet to complete his pet project. He's obsessed with getting that Mannequin lol. I want one as well, but I'm a bit more...err..patient....o_o

Etiquette and courtesy

Good party etiquette is something I've been seeing less and less of lately. I remember, though I only started a year and a half ago, people were much nicer... Then again I was new, and did not know as many players yet, which is probably why.

The past week, I've spent some time in the dunes leveling various jobs. (I'm going on a sub-job leveling spree, I want to make myself more versatile.) The first party, I was the Paladin. Three new players and two that have played for at least a little while. One was a healer and refused to sit to rest mp...the other was having huge lag issues. (I hate that.) One of the new players insisted on talking to me, "I'm going to make you lol ", among other somewhat creepy comments about uhm...female characters. oO For two hours of partying....I got about 1k xp. OK. Yeah, that's the dunes for you, I expect that of party there. I only go in hopes that I'll find the occasional decent party and get some xp.

The next time I go as Ninja. None of the members wants to pull, so I start pulling. We lose a member in between our pathetic kills. We get a Thief. They pull, do ok, then for some reason start to aggro Goblin Bounty Hunters. It happens, but uhm....I don't ever recall, even at the start of the game, aggroing during pulling THAT much. =/ Anyway, we move camp. Lose another member, another leaves, and the Thief logs off without saying anything.

Coming to my rant. I HATE when people do that. I HATE HATE HATE when people don't have the courage to just say "Look, I'm done." This person played before and had higher levels. At no point in the game is it considered OK to just log off during a party. I've had a healer do this in a party before, and I still remember the name. (probably because the characters name was the same name as my actual boyfriend. :P) I remember people who screw the parties I'm in over. I steer clear of parties with these people in them. If they do it once, they'll do it again. It's just in very bad taste to do that and I myself don't...so yeah. (minus the time my keyboard freaked out on me and I had to force d/c on purpose to try to fix it...I felt so bad. I couldn't even type to them to tell them. My words came out as gibberish...I fried another wireless keyboard that day lol.)

So yeah my little party Do's and Don't list.
-Don't get into a party when you only have...say...45 minutes to play. It's just common sense. It sometimes takes that amount of time just to get to a camp.
-Do bring food. I find even in Valkrum it's very helpful. I'm not talking Squid Sushi or anything, especially for the dunes, but grilled hare is very cheap, lasts for a few hours (as long as you don't die.) and gives you a nice stat boost. There are some great low level food recipes that can help get your through the dunes. No excuses that "I don't have money." grilled hare is dirt cheap to make, and is about 400-500 gil on the AH. I honestly recommend leveling cooking a bit to make these goodies for yourself. It comes in handy in a pinch. Mages bring pies or at least cookies for mp restoration. I've started to carry cookies on me when I'm in low level parties. Just in case a mage doesn't have them.... Orange Juices are great for mp restoration and cap out at level 12 cooking...you can buy the saruta oranges in windy for quite cheap and farm the water crystals. Bring a stack or two of oranges with you, along with the crystals and synth them on the go if need be. (just not when you're supposed to be...say...healing...><)
-Don't come naked. I cringe when I see this. It shows you don't care at all, and it does help to have some defense. I'm not talking about double astral rings (kind of overrated...I have one and it isn't all that impressive.) but at least have gear for your level. I've seen many a party where someone like the healer comes with absolutely nothing on. At dunes level you can have some +mind and +intellect gear...it's not THAT expensive USE it. There are also some GREAT low level items you can get for leveling these jobs, some from NM's other from quests. Gil might be an issue at low levels but just do quests. Many have gil rewards, others, even better, have equipment. You can gear your low level character up completely on quests if you really wanted to.
-Don't fight with other party members. Seriously. So many times I'm in a party and suggest something or mention something and get knocked back by the guy who is like "I know more than you because I have 7 level 75's." This is the same guy that will probably screw up and pull three gobs or log out halfway through the party because it's not going well. I know the type. I'm a veteran of a game called World of Warcraft....I know how irritating "know it alls who talk out of their ass" can be. >< Having a 75 does not make you a massive pool of knowledge. You can still be a bad player. =/ Don't give these people the satisfaction of a fight. Generally they've got a chip on their shoulders and want to piss you off to vindicate themselves.... Just ignore them.
-Don't get discouraged. The games tricky to learn. I can still remember being in Valkrum the first time on my black mage overnuking and doing everything wrong. lol It's a learning experience, and it's supposed to be fun I think a lot of the long time players forget this. If you screw up, and you will, just shrug it off and don't let it get to you.
-Do use the Auto Translate function. While waiting for a party why not go through and view some of the phrases it can translate. It helps when communicating with non-English speaking players. This game is distributed all over the world, don't assume everyone is going to know English. If you are party leader, use it to give directions at all times. Don't assume everyone can understand you.
-Don't talk about members in party chat. It's just mean. Especially when you're talking about another player who you know does not speak your language. It's cruel and you never know how much English a player can understand. (The Japanese, if I'm not mistaken, have to take two years of English by default in school...so yeah....keep that in mind if you are one to do this kind of thing. Same goes with any other language really, I tend to see the most animosity between the English and Japanese...) If you've had it done to you, ignore it, there are jerks all around the world, that doesn't make an entire group of people jerks. Remember that. You wouldn't want it done to you, so don't do it yourself.

I could go on and on all night but I think thats it for now. :P I'm very quiet in parties since I don't like to start stupid debates over stats and equipment. (If one more person tells me I need an o-kote I'll tear their face off......>< I r violent. :P (joking by the way) I'm still discovering what is best for me.

The new update comes out today. I'm still waiting for it to download....My boyfriends downloaded faster, so he's in game while I'm sitting here pouting away. :)

new job

Since I'm going to hit 75 Samurai very shortly, I was considering where to go from there. I like Samurai, I just want to level other jobs and find the one I like most. :) I've been flip-flopping my choices in my head for days nows.... I would like to level Paladin, the times that I have played a tank job, I really liked it. I would love to level Bard, I leveled it a bit on another character and found its easy to get parties with, I like being support, and I've recently found that I really like pulling. Not to mention I'm not half bad at it. I've been called on to pull a lot with my Sam...and ew....I hate pulling with a bow instead of a crossbow. >< Black mage has been a pet side job of mine for a month or two (I level it when I don't feel like partying that day.) , it's fun, I don't mind the idea of having to solo once I hit higher levels and such.... Corsair seems kind of interesting to play. :) I like the idea of using a gun! :)

So, yes, I'm at a loss of what to pick after this. >< Meh....

Lots and lots of stuff

....grrr....had a whole entry that blogger ate....

To sum it up, since I'm not rewriting all of that again. I'm 70, Maat is down, Zilart Missions were done this past weekend, waiting on the Antican fight now..... and I am now 400k in the hole from my new 70 gear.

Funny Screen below.

By the time he was done with his train of mobs, he had the entire lower half of Yhoatar Jungle chasing him. :)

^_^ eeeeeee

*Squee* Next stop, the apron!

...I may never know....

Why am I constantly referred to as "he" "man" or "dude" ingame? It's honestly pretty obvious from the way I type ,I am, in fact, female. At least the last time I checked.


meh....

Also I love when a GREAT party disbans because of a fight over damage and SATA.... >< Right before I was about to level too.... Now I'm forced to do campaign since it's a bit too late for a party.

I'm also getting somewhat lonely. Everyone that I am close to in-game....minus the boyfriend....is always busy and off doing their own thing. I tend to get one word replies from people who are further occupied, but they are occupied basically all the friggin time. I'm getting discouraged a bit. That and everyones in different shells and quite happy with them.
I suppose I should just go back to the game thing I did with Austin. Traveling as "the pair" and doing our own thing alone. This is what happens with me most of the time, people get caught up in their own thing (and rightfully so) while I tend to get left in the dust. I guess I just don't make that much of an impression on people. ><

Anway, back to campaign, then bed.

Turban ^_^

So after a bout of fishing, I got bored and decided to use some of my 47,000 imperial standing points to finally get my Walahra Turban. Granted, I can't wear it until 75, but I figured I would get all those Bronze Piece turn-ins out of the way now.

Today was spent afk-ing, and working on getting my cooking mule some gobbie bag quests done. Was entertaining running my level 9 to Jeuno. =/ She still needs more fame for the rest of the gobbie bags, but at least I got some done. Cooking requires lots and lots of space ><. I plan on making her a Super-Mule, will get her the mog locker and fill her mog house with storage stuff. Then I can get rid of one of my crappier mules and only have her. :) It will be nice! And I will feel so organized!

exploration :)

This past week or so have been exploration trips. :) It's been fun. Above is a screen from when Zuriel and I were exploring Attohwa Chasm. Oh yeah, first image of my Samurai Artifact Set. :3
I've had it for months already, and for some reason, never took a snapshot lol. We were in the middle of climbing this really narrow cliff to the top, where some sort of altar thing was.

Goldsmithing is level 50, and stalled until I get some more gil. Fishing on Kelvena is 17 already. I'm making some nice profits off of yellow globes and tiger cod. Cooking on my mule is at 69, I'm working in 70....I just need to clear out some more space. Soon it will be time to take a trip to Selbina to turn in items for fame. ><><

I've been Campaigning my brains out lately, mainly because I'm lazy and don't feel like waiting around for a party. Oh, and the triple Besieged yesterday helped out xp wise too. :P

Next goal is to hurry up and beat Maat, then to get my ass to 75, and start venturing into another job. :3 Still not sure what job it will be yet. >< Oh yeah, and gil, I could use some of that now....goldsmithing is hell right now...I'm on gold.....expensive and sells at a loss. :(

rushy rush

My cooking mule is now at 68 cooking ^^. This means I can HQ tons of food and put some money back in my dwindling pockets. Kelvena is at 48 goldsmithing and I think I will put the leveling on hold until I stock up on a few 100k of gil and the smithing glasses. Guild turn ins here I come! This will give me an ample amount of time to dig up some gold coins chocobo digging in the meantime. I like making profit. :)

Now to my other issue...if you want to call it that. I have a friend in-game that has an endgame shell that he joined a few months ago. He keeps urging my boyfriend and me to get leveled so we can join and start doing endgame. However, I'm in no rush to run out and join one of these shells as soon as I hit 75. I did the whole endgame thing is World of Warcraft, I did the drama, I did the dungeons until my eyes bled. (I was starting to see Hakkar in my freaking sleep >< ) And by drama, I mean A LOT of drama. >< I know FFXI tends to not be as .... uhm .... strict as WoW guilds make it, but I know the Linkshells are run similar. Now to explain myself a bit more.

1. When I start working again, I probably wont be on as much. I like to putz around in-game, crafting, soloing for beastmen seals, farming (yes I don't mind it.) , doing random quests and missions, etc. If I don't have much time to myself when I'm home, it means I will just be going to my "endgame shell" to do events...and nothing else. Now, in WoW it was different, as I had hit 60, and seen pretty much everything. I didn't feel I needed to explore anything else, so I did endgame. FFXI... well, there are still some places I have yet to visit, after playing for a year and a half. I don't want to log on and HAVE to go to a LS event, when I might feel like leveling one of the other zillion jobs I have yet to level.

2. Drama. I know there is a lot in pretty much any endgame shell. I don't think people understand completely when I tell them, "I've done the whole endgame thing in another game...I know how people get in these things..." It's the reason I stopped playing WoW. Drama. I have never seen people bicker so much over the STUPIDEST things like I did in that game. I've encountered some players in FFXI who remind me of these type of people, and of course, the ones I did talk to are in endgame shells. I know there is A LOT of drama going on nowadays as well. I don't feel the need to annoy myself with it.

I can tell if I hurry and join the first endgame shell I find, I will end up burning myself out in a few months and quitting. I did it once, I will do it again, I know myself too well. :)

So yeah, even when I hit 75 I will probably wait to join endgame stuff. I want to experience the game for myself before I commit to a group effort. I believe in giving all or nothing so yeah....=/

That and I don't like being rushed... :P

Digging Rank and Thief

So as far as chocobo digging ranking, I figured out that I am classified as "Artisan", at least, according to the zone loading time before being able to dig. It will be nice to hit the next rank and actually have a chance at pulling up elemental ores.

As far as goldsmithing, it is slowly seeping away at my gil. >< I took more time to farm to compensate, stealing beastcoins and selling the ingots I make out of them and such. Slowly, but surely, my gil is starting to recover. I just wish people would stop undercutting the Sorcerers Ring so much...it went from 1 mil to 750k =/ I'm still trying to sell the one I got as a drop in "Treasures and Tribulations" (bcnm 60)

Solo leveling Thief is great, though a bit expensive due to the costs of bloody bolts. :) Working on getting Thief to 31 today...possibly 32 if I get really lucky. It's interesting being able to take on Toughs without being utterly smashed to the ground.

Sorry for not posting

Apologies for not updating for the last moth. I've got some family issues going on right now that are really stressing me out. I haven't been in a cheery mood for the last month or so, and being unhappy kills my will to do...anything really. Yep, depression is lovely....:(

I'll post again when something interesting happens ingame >< I spend the majority of my time afk-ing lately. I just need to fix things in my life, then I'll be back and...hopefully, happy, once again.

Happy late New Year!