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