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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.