Back again!

Back into the game after another few months off. I decided that, FFXI is indeed, time consuming, however, it's not "Soul Sucking" like WoW is. I can at least log on when I feel the need, play for a bit, be happy, and log off. WoW....is addictive, not sure exactly why it is so addictive, as it's pretty monotonous.

I was raiding 6 nights a week for the last few weeks, and I finally hit my burn out this week. I am flying out of town for a very important interview in New York City, so I purposely did not schedule myself for any raids this week. It was a great week....I got to spend actual time with my boyfriend (who plays too, but it's not the same as actually spending time TOGETHER, and not with 23 other people who we may or may not like depending.) I got to poke around in FFXI, and realize that I really did miss it....
My boyfriend and I came to the same conclusion, especially after reading an old livejournal entry pertaining to WoW way back when we first started dating, and it's the same as it was then. The game is getting in the way, and it's no longer becoming a fun past-time, it's like a job and where is the fun in that? You get to 80 and there's only two options, raid or pvp. Raiding requires time and 24 other people of the proper gear and makeup to do right.... And of course there's always the asshats who completely ruin the fun. Ulduar is really pretty (for Blizzard at least...Square wins on coolness factor still), and it's very challenging, but there's really nothing other than getting gear and replacing the gear a week later with something else.....I ask myself what's the point?

Friends? No, WoW friendships are fleeting and well, they aren't friendships at all really. (minus like...the odd one here and there, but it's very rare.) No one seems to legitimately care about the other person. Most people either don't converse at all, are thick and say "ah" to everything until you get frustrated and shut up, or just stop talking altogether halfway through. In my WoW career I think I have like..2-3 people I still keep in touch with, and 1 I hardly ever talk to.

I came back to FFXI and had 3 tells within the first hour of being on from people I didn't think remembered me saying "Welcome Back!". It was nice to be remembered. My old friend Chupa is still around, it's good to be back among some friendly faces! :D His Linkshell memebers are also quite nice as well, I enjoy their antics. (And they let me tag along to their Dynamis's even when I said I wasn't sure about endgame and just wanted to try it out to see.)

For now, I have a lot on my plate, and if this NYC thing goes well, it will be a very busy time for me, so I will be playing casually. I need to get away from WoW, spend some time with my love, and work on getting my life all back on track. :)

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.