Final Update of the Year

My productivity in game has been a little low lately as my gf has been home and spending a lot of time with me. Most of my other free time has been spent trying to rearrange my room and clean my room and on the rare occasion hang out with some friends.

As far as out of game goes, my Christmas gifts weren't all that because I got like 3 articles of clothing and then some drawers and laundry hampers. That's pretty much why I've been rearranging my room a little because I've been trying to make room for it. I also got a new DVD rack which was really nice because I was completely out of space on my old one. As for what I asked for for Christmas was a lot of movies and I only got 3, Troy(Blu-Ray), Boiler Room(DVD), and a huge box set for I Am Legend(Blu-Ray). My room is pretty much reorganized but still needs to be cleaned (since I didn't get the hot maid I asked for or the hot personal assistant) but I still need to find a better place for my Rock Band 2 drum set.

As for in game, I've done a lot of AF hunting because I haven't really had time to exp at all. I am perfectly ok with not exping because I wanted to have my SAM AF helmet before I got back to SAM since I would probably hit 60 in my next party. My SAM is really exciting because I have a lot of really nice gear for it and at 59 I get my Hauby which will really help out with damage and accuracy since it has DEX and ACC bonuses.

But before even starting on my SAM AF I had to finish my DRG AF which wasn't really all that hard to do. Its nice having a 2nd char because I can basically duo everything now including all the really tough fights. Probably the hardest part of all the AF that I've done thus far has been the Temple of Ugg. coffer that I had to get for my SAM because it was in the hardest to reach spot. I went in with Screamin and found that it was behind 2 locked doors. Luckily 1 key wasn't too hard to get and the 2nd one I could aggro mobs through to open the door. The biggest problem was that Screamin ended up having about 4 mobs beating on him while I had to run and snag my coffer. Luckily the mob by the coffer had just turned away so I could grab it and then invis, run back to screamin and have him tele out. The only way I would be able to do that was Invincible on him and then tele. I ALMOST didn't make it because he had paralyze on him and if that would've stopped him from casting I was toast.

Now my next test will be the SAM AF helm fight. That I'm actually kind of excited to do because I want to duo it with MNK/DNC and RDM/WHM. It is supposedly soloable by a MNK/DNC but I figure with my RDM there to help out on cures while Screamin's MNK just destroys the mobs it should be fun. My plan right now is: Phalanx 2 on Screamin with other buffs, run in and get enough TP for Drain Samba 2, use it, then 2hr and take out the BLM and hopefully start on the DRK, take down the DRK, and then have a nice and easy time taking out the SMN. This sounds really easy to me so I'm happy to try it out. Hopefully I can try it out next weekend when I'm back in town. It will probably only be like a 5 or 10 min fight which is kind of funny since the run to the actual fight and prepping will more than likely take longer. Once I get this fight done and get my SAM kabuto I will be ready to go back in full swing with exping SAM. And my goal for SAM is being 66 in 3 weeks which I think is definitely doable even with sky events since I will have weekends free again as I don't plan on going to visit my gf for at least a few weeks.

This next week I will be in Chicago for the first time for New Year's events and to do the whole tourist thing with my gf. Should be pretty fun, hope I don't think too much about ^^ while I'm there. lol

Quote of the Day:
I can't believe that 1 song took us almost 2 hours to beat...
- one of us during our Rock Band 1 "Endless Setlist" marathon, we did all 58 songs in a row in 1 night

Freakin Power

So I'm getting stuff done in game, working through my AF for DRG, and then BAM, power goes out for the whole friggin night. Not a happy camper.

I did get some stuff done before my power went out though, mostly AF stuff for my DRG. I got up to my AF Helm fight so that will be done this evening when I leave work early. Then I need to go start my AF for SAM becauase I have to get a jump on that because of the stupid "have to wait until JST midnight before you can continue."

Well, super short post because I am already heading out of work today and I haven't really had much to update about in game stuff anyways. PEACE

Quote of the Day:
Happy Holidays and may all your gear drop that you wish :P

Free Time

It is nice having free time again. I actually get to relax and do as I please. What I have been doing a lot of lately has been SAM leveling which is pretty fun. I realize that I don't have the drive that I used to with leveling but its nice to see me cruising through all of these levels.

My SAM hit 58 last night just before logging off because I was so tired. I am now only 1 level from Hauby, 2 levels from AF helm to help with Meditate (which I don't have yet), 3 levels from Minuet earring, 3 levels from Amemet +1 (which is very welcome upgrade), and I guess 1 or 2 levels from a good weapon skill! So much to come in the next few levels that will really help my SAM do some extra damage and take Enpi and Jinpu out of my arsenal. The thing I dread is after these next few levels I will be hitting the dreaded 60s and not see much as far as upgrades to gear or job abilities or anything really. Sekkanoki at 65 will be pretty hot but other than that I'm just looking forward to the 70s when I get LOTS of upgrades.

There in lies another problem, stop at 66 or go to 75? I'd like to go to 75 but Khrone was saying that I should stop at 66 and keep rolling for Maat's Cap. This is such a struggle for me because as much as I'd love to still go for Maat's Cap I don't really know if I can make it without taking a real break from the LS and completely concentrating on leveling again. It is a real time sink for one of the best overall head pieces in the game but also quite an accomplishment. I think I'd still like to have SAM or MNK at 75 before I go for Maat's Cap again but that is another job to 66 that I could be using that exp on. Argh, I guess it'll be how I feel when I hit 66 and see where I want to go.

Nyzul Isle went better this week, but still not great. We won 2 runs this week with a bad incident that caused us to lose the one time. It was a lesson learned so we will be sure not to wipe on that NM again. The biggest problem was that we were 2/3, as in we only did 3 runs instead of the full 4 again that we were hoping to do. That's 2 weeks in a row now to not have done a full 4 runs which is kind of annoying since I sit on tags to get us going. When we don't use that tag its basically a wasted tag because I could've gone on another boss fight run with another group. Oh well, hopefully next week we can get 4 runs in before I bounce for Chicago. I should be able to get Sunday away from the woman because I will need to finish packing since we leave basically right after I get out of work on Monday. Then after the holidays I think we are going to try and start doing twice a week so we can really get us moving through these floors as we all really want to get to floor 100 ASAP. That way we can go back and start owning the other floors for gear and be working on our new weapon skills. I'm more looking forward to the good gear because the Goliard Hands and Body are really good upgrades for my RDM which are much welcome.

Tonight will be gf time since we're doing dinner and gift exchange tonight. So I doubt there will be an update tomorrow as I won't really have anything to talk about. Til next time.

Quote of the Day:
Wait, you guys want me to switch to my WAR?!?!
- Me when we were doing Nyzul Isle and realized that my BRD wasn't really helping during the regular floor runs (and my WAR actually did seemingly help)

Venting About Vent

I was right about my laptop, I was putting in the wrong IP address. I can now connect to my Ventrilo server and actually so could Khrone. This means that the reason that Hybridkiller couldn't connect 2 nights ago was because I sort of forgot to give him the password. lol Anyways, I think I will finally have my own Ventrilo server now which is pretty sweet. That means we could all be pretty well set up for anything we need it for like Salvage or Nyzul Isle or whatever.

After I found that out about vent, I went to volleyball and won the finals, hurray for money back or a free sweatshirt. After that it was a full night of a SHITTY movie (never watch The Strangers, really bad) and then gf time. Not to mention a bunch of RL drama, which obviously I love whole heartedly.

On a side note, I discovered that Swifman had convinced Alexson to jump servers thus discovering that Swifman ain't comin back. Oh well, another friend on this server bites the dust. Good luck on your longer term stay than I expected Swif.

Quote of the Day:
Well at least we know you can connect to my vent server, now we just actually need mics to test it out.
- Me on the phone with Khrone because he connected but neither of us had working mics to try it out

Ventrilo Must Die

Seriously, so Kota had no problems setting it up, but for some reason I am having a big problem with it. I can connect to my own Ventrilo server running on my computer, but I can't even connect to it from my laptop. The only thing I haven't tried for that is using my internal (inside my router) IP address for my computer. I tried using the outside IP address and the local host and even the 127.0.0.1 addres but none of them worked. Hopefully that will at least fix my internal issues with Vent. Then I'll only have to get a new microphone since mine is apparently broken. Of course then I have to figure out how to have other people get INTO my server from outside ... like the vent site can actually do.

Maybe I'll try out Teamspeak tonight and see how that works out for me.

Last night I was in such a bad mood with the whole Ventrilo stuff that I almost didn't do anything in game. I ended up only doing some Campaign for myself and Screamin. As for Screamineagle he hit 7 merits so I decided to finally to use some up. I threw 2 merits into shield skill and then another merit into Chivalry. 2.5 minutes off of chivalry can actually really add up when you overload it with merits. I guess I should be kind of happy from that but it only curbed the anger a little bit. Hopefully when it comes time I can rank up with both of my chars again but I think I'll still be 1 rank short of the Iron Ram Hose for Screamineagle.

Tonight is finals for volleyball so I'll have that. I have a feeling we're going to win in 3 games (best of 5) so I shouldn't be out too long so maybe I can work a little bit on getting the Vent or TS servers working. But then I will either have sky or gf duty. Guess we'll just see where the night takes me again...

Quote of the Day:
2 RDM hats drop in dynamis tonight :D
- Sush after getting out of Dyanims-Xarc and making me REALLY want to do dynamis again...

Unlucky But Lucky

Last night I watched the 2nd Naria movie with my gf (which was really long .... "that's what she said") and then my gf went home because she had to wake up early today. With the absense of a gf last night, that meant I could go to sky again. I was all pumped and ready to go all out on some gods and maybe Kirin and of course I was disappointed by a whoping 12 person turn out.

We ended up getting a bunch of pop items which was really nice but sadly we only got to do a Genbu. I guess there was a buyer for the Z Mitts, Regina, that was walking around with a Mandau. Its little things like that that make me /cry. What also made me cry is that Z Mitts didn't drop so we didn't get the almost 800k from the drop. This week may be a big payout week again since not many people will probably get their points for payout. Hurray for that because gil is always nice.

Well I'm back into the thinking of needing a dynamis shell and making a salvage group. The 2 big problems are that I don't have time and my gf will be taking up all of my extra time until she goes back to school. So basically any plans that I am making are strictly for after new years now. Dynamis I'm thinking more and more about going with HellsBells but that also made me just think that starting after new years I have something every wednesday from 7-9. Argh, dynamis is just so hard for me to find a group that goes at the times I want and need. As for Salvage, I still need to find a solid group that wants to go and find regular times to go. I dunno, it just keeps seeming more and more like I will never get through everything I want to, time is just too short.

As for the title, we ended our sky farming at about 2:30 AM last night but the Despot window was just about to reopen. We killed a few mobs before the window opened so no biggie. At about 3:30 AM Hybridkiller and I both state that we're getting a little tired, and I even said that I doubt that if a mob were to do Meltdown I wouldn't be able to stun in time. Guess what happened about 10 seconds after I said that ..... the mob readies Meltdown. I stun it, and then ... BOOM! It still freaking blew up after I stunned it, which makes me confused. Anyways, literally JUST after our mob blows up, the other group of duo guys pop Despot. Unlucky! We have 3 people dead and only myself(blm/whm) and Disdain(brd/whm) are still alive. I raise Hybrid and quickly realize that the duo guys aren't doing so well. Their blm had already died and the RDM was d/cing. After raising Hybrid I threw up stoneskin and blink and then Despot goes unclaimed and I immediately cast bind. Hybrid and I did a great job of bind/graving while he was weakened and we were getting everyone up. Once Orzhov was up he was kiting decently on PLD/NIN, but he needs to learn a little bit more about kiting. As for Hybrid, we need to refine his macros (and my own) if we are to do duo stuff like that because he was casting bind in vermy which means he loses out on the fast cast boost from AF hat which in turn is a 5% haste on his spells, meaning he can cast bind again 5% sooner. All in all we got Lucky and still whooped on Despot and got us each (Khrone, Disdain, Orzhov, Hybridkiller, and myself) 10 points. Now we just need the people in the LS to blow some gods up.

Tonight is another toss up night, but I have a feeling it'll be with my gf again.

Quote of the Day:
I doubt I'd be able to stun Meltdown if another one tried it.
- me, seconds before a mob did it and ended up blowing us up.

Mighty Morphing Power LS

Good news, our LS has changed again! The LS will now be selling every other Haidate to buyers.

This has up sides and down sides. The up side, the people that are looking more for the payout will get exactly that, a bigger payout from us selling the Haidates for 4.75M. The down side, the people that thought they were so close to Haidate have just been bumped down the list by 2x. For example, Khrone was 5th on the list for Haidate so now he is actually 10th. At least he will still be getting his bigger payouts now and maybe our attrition rate for sky will be higher than it seemingly has been because of those bigger payouts. The reasoning behind this change is that newer people were flying up the list for Haidate and not really deserving of it and then leaving the LS once they got it. Thus making it another point to keep people in the LS or those that are just trying to leech out of the LS. I just feel sorry for Hybrid and Khrone because they are going to have to wait longer for their Haidates. There has been more of a push though for more Byakko out put though, like the new goal is 4-6 a week which also means hitting the dio/despot farm hard.

I also got a chance to roll out with Disdain and Khrone to the bird camp in the past. We rolled with 5 people and a PL with 2xDRK, 2xSAM, and DNC plus Screamin as a PL. I almost never ran out of MP because I had just gotten a discounted Vermy from Hybrid (thank you sir) for when I helped him out. We ROCKED that spot and I went from 51-54 on SAM without much of a problem. It was a great party, especially when you are doing 10k+/hr on a level 37-41 job. My only wish is that I could use my Soboro for some fun fun damage and weapon skilling. I also really wish I wasn't main tanking because I was full timing Seigan and Third Eye which meant my damage output wasn't what it could have been, but it was still good damage when I could break out Hasso because someone else pulled a lot of hate.

I don't have much time left in the day, so I'll come to a quite quick ending. Tonight I'll probably be with my gf most of the night if not all of the night so that means I don't even know if I'll get to log on for sky tonight which means they probably won't be able to do Kirin. Well, they might if they have all the right people up there.... /sigh. Anyways, until tomorrow.

Quote of the Day:
Have to fly, have to fight, have to crow, have to save Maggie, have to save Jack .... Hook is back.
- Toodles from Hook

International Harvester

The plan last night was for a Kirin off the bat and maybe some lesser gods. As we only had about 16 total throughout the night we ended up scratching Kirin and just farmed. We aren't sure what xxKFBxx does up there because we went and killed an NM every half hour while there without competition while they just farmed diorite, I'm pretty sure the whole time. They tried to get Despot but our guys got him and then somehow they swiped claim and killed, but because they had stolen claim from us they gave us the gem.

After despot, we just rolled through everything else, SC, MG, Zip, Faust, got a diorite(from the Nexus camp), and then got 2x waters too. I don't know how all those NMs were up when KFB could've had all of them dead before we got there, but instead they still stayed at Ulli. It is kinda sad to see how terrible their LS is when it comes sky. With how many people they have there they could've cleaned sky up but didn't. That left our LS basically free roam of sky and destroying everything .... darn.

Sunday will hopefully be another good day for me if I can get away from my girlfriend because I'm already pretty high again in points and I don't think anyone is going for D Body anymore. I might as well snag one while I can. After that I'm just going for D Legs and D Head and I'll be golden. Hurray for a plan for my future, now I just have to see how it works out for myself. lol

This weekend is basically shot because I'm sure my gf will be with me 85% of the weekend which leaves me no time to game. Hopefully I can get back to the game Sunday night so I can try to be there for a possible 2xKirin night and some extra gods. I'm getting really excited for Sunday because that means I could have some really nice gear to ding into for when my SAM gets to 75. :D

Quote of the Day:
(talking about hybrid spending his fortune that he had)
Me: Dang Hybrid, you blew your load fast
Malikeye: Haha, I just can't help but say it .... that's what she said
- It made me proud that someone said it and it wasn't me or Khrone, lol

Soboro Sukehiro

Well, this week has turned out pretty darn good for me, first Byakko Haidate and now Soboro Sukehiro. I must say I am quite pleased with myself now. My SAM is going to shape out to be pretty fun to level now.

I finally broke down and bought Fuma Kyahan on Tuesday night because there was no way I was going to camp that stupid NM since all I have heard are horror stories, for instance Mactatus being 0/54 on it. Now I have a lot of really good gear for myself between 50 and 75. My list contains Fuma, Soborro, Swift Belt, Rajas Ring, Jaeger Ring, Storm Loop, and now Soboro. That gear right there could basically take me to 75 right now. As for a body piece I have Jujitsu Gi until my Hauby which I can use til end game. The only piece that I am kind of lacking on is a head piece. I plan on buying Valkyrie Mask but someone was trying to up the price on it. Although, last night while we were farming tar in the 40 cap Riverne site we found that the Carmine Dobsonflies were up. So tonight or maybe this weekend some time I'd love to get out there and blow them up as getting a Voyager Sallet would really top off my gear until end game.

That brings me to my actual end game gear in sky. Tonight we will probably be trying to do 2xKirin which means Sush has a good chance of being done with the LS. Which also means I need to try to get my hands on whatever I possibly can. I have decided that Heca isn't nearly a priority for myself as Dryadic gear since I feel that it would take less of an effort to get Heca gear from outside the LS as it would Dryadic. Plus I just feel that I could really deck out my SAM better than I could my WAR. The biggest problem of course lies in the Hagun, which is hands down the expensive part of SAM since it is 3.2M right now. Guess that means I need to keep a group going on ENM runs to try and get it to drop. Can we see that I'm getting ahead of myself since my SAM is only 51 and Hagun is 72 and I'm just as far from Shura gear as well. lol Oh the thrill and excitement of another job to 75.

Tonight I have volleyball so between that and sky I don't think I'll have any time to level my SAM. Then tomorrow night my gf will be home and I will probably be with her all night as the same goes for Saturday because she loves to spend every second with me. Maybe I can get a hiatus from her and be able to exp SAM on Sunday. Hopefully sit in the bird camp for about 5 levels or so to just get myself rolling again. Oh snap, I just remembered I haven't done my AF for SAM yet either ... dammit. Guess that's something else I have to get going on especially since I have to finish my DRG AF before I can do my SAM.

Ok BESIDES, what my future plans are beyond tonight, I still have sky tonight. We have at least 1 Kirin pop set and then depending on what else we can farm or already have we may be able to do some lesser gods and possibly another Kirin. I am just hoping that I will be able to get something tonight to help with my gear selection for end game on MNK and SAM. We shall see what this evening brings I suppose.

Quote of the Day:
(before Hybrid's try for Soboro)
Hybridkiller: I bet you 10k that it won't drop for me
(after Hybrid's try)
Me: You owe me 10k :P
Hybridkiller: You think I should tell them that my SAM is only 15?

Byakko's Haidate

First off, BOOYAHHHH BABY!!!! Byakko's Haidate is now mine!!! What has 2 thumbs and just turned into a loot whore? THIS GUY!

Let me tell you though, I EARNED that Haidate. The first Byakko we popped our tanks got dropped real fast for some reason, possibly because of Lightsday but all we know is they got pwnd. So in order to try and save it and not lose the pop set they asked me to keep dying and keep it from depoping. I lost 14k exp last night total from gods and getting to gods. In the end we got most of the alliance back up and ready to try again at Byakko. We get up, 20% of Byakko gone and 1 tank drops. Another 10% later the 2nd tank dies. Finally we say screw it and gave up on that one and let him depop. So basically I lost 14k exp for NOTHING! I was quite angry at that point and at which I didn't even think getting Haidate could make me feel better. Well, I was partially wrong. I did feel a lot better when I got Haidate but I was still a little peeved. It was good that Exion got his Haidate last night too. Poor Malikeye is next in line for Haidate again and he will hopefully get his tomorrow or maybe next week.

I do have to thank Sush a lot because after sky ended he sent me a tell saying that now that I have gotten Haidate he's pretty much accomplished all he wanted to do with this sky LS because the main people that he's friends with have gotten their big pieces of gear, like for me W Legs and Haidate. Even Khrone has gotten his D Body which is awesome. Now if only we could get lucky with some extra diorite and get a few more Haidates to drop so Khrone can get his we will be very set for Salvage. The gear and gil has helped greatly from this LS but now its time to start snagging the gear that I would like for when I get my SAM to 75 and the gear that has been holding my WAR back from being really good. All of the gear is kind of just junk gear to every LS now because its so common. There are very few people in our LS that want any more Heca gear or any more Shura gear besides the body pieces. Which opens the door for me. :D

Next week I will be looting as much as I can so there will be even less for me to need to get if I ever do decide to come back to sky after this LS folds. Hopefully by the time this LS truely goes under I will have MOST of what I want. Honestly the big gear I want is the Shura gear since SAM is my next job to 75. Heca would be nice but not necessary. Not to sound selfish, but I hope Sush doesn't get his N Body for at least a week or so because then I can have time to loot whore. hehe

Tonight right after work Mactatus is trying to put together a Soboro run which I am definitely up for because not having that is what originally stopped me from leveling SAM any further than 40. If I can snag that I will be EXSTATIC! Not to mention this would probably end up being one of my top weeks in my FFXI playing time because I would've gotten 2 really good pieces of gear the same week. After the soboro run we're hoping to finish off Khrone's Promyvion-Dem but if we can't get a group together for that we may try to exp with Disdain's DNC. His DNC is almost 37 which is prime bird camp leveling and I know I could find some good DD in our shell that would be willing to go crazy exping there. I think Mactatus got 10 levels (45-55) in just that camp on Monday. I am more than willing to spend basically all night there because that could mean getting my SAM from 51-58 and then throwing on my Hauby.

Quote of the Day:
Sush has made a vote:
Please vote if you want Lux removed from the LS:
1) Yes
2) No

- Final tallly was 11-6 in favor of getting kicked out. So no more Lux in our LS and as a parting gift Sush was kind enough to give Lux N Hands which I thought was very classy because Lux had done a lot of farming on his own to help the LS out so he did deserve a sort of going away gift. Kudos to Sush for being classy. And thank goodness for the biggest loud mouth in the LS being gone.

Haidate In Sight

Oh yes, it shall be mine. We got 2 more diorite last night bringing us to a grand total of I BELIEVE 3 or 4 Byakko. I know we have at least 3 right now which means it just has to be 1/3 tonight and it shall be MINE!!! After that I can start being the loot whore I've always wanted to be. Maybe I can actually get some Heca gear for my WAR then and actually have a well equipped WAR for once.

Oh the gear that can flow in towards me once I get Haidate. Maybe I should start scheming to see where I would land on the N Body and D Body lists. I definitely want to just get as much as I can, and if no one lots for this gear I would definitely drop the 5 points on ALL of it. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! I'm pumped!!! After looking at the points, once I get my Haidate I will still be right arount #20 in points and about half of those people aren't really with the LS anymore. I love this because I could easily get some really nice pieces really quickly! I am now giddy like a school girl. lol

The big problem with last night was that for some strange reason a 56MB update took 3 hours to get downloaded and installed on my computers. I ended up being late because of it. But while I was waiting for the download to finish I got a lot of play time into Rock Band 2. I have yet to fail a song on Hard but I have yet to play any of the top 15 songs. There have been times where I came very close to failing but I still pulled it out and one time when I actually got 5 stars on AC/DC - Let There Be Rock. Not to mention last night I hit the 1,000,000 fan mark and got a trophy for it. It was cool to see another trophy pop up since I haven't gotten one in a while. I have also unlocked almost all of the venues now. There are probably only about 2 more venues that I still have to unl0ck.

As for tonight, I have championships for volleyball so it'll be a best of 5 series. After that it will probably be about 8:30 or so which doesn't really give me time for much except maybe crafting. Crafting is actuallya good idea for myself since I've been dumping gil into it and I need to actually use it to make some gil for once after I dump all this gil into it. Although now I am a little scared because there is a new earring out that has 30 charges of RR3 which could CRUSH the market for RR Hairpins. Here's to hoping all my gil spent on leveling up BC does not go to waste. Then of course it will be time for sky and me getting my Haidate and a ton of other gear too. Hahaha

Quote of the Day:
Lux: Xzavier isn't responding to any of my tells, I think he's afk but I've also seen him zone. but I need a raise.
Kota: X are you there? Lux has been sending you tells asking for a raise.
Xzavier: Well I don't get them because I have him /blist'ed.
All: lol
- I think its obvious who is the most loved in the LS now...

Close Calls

This weekend was for the most part a total bust on getting things accomplished. I pretty much sat infront of my computer the entire weekend and really didn't get anything done. I got 1 more merit point, .5 more skill on BC taking me to 71.9, and then did some more sky last night. This has just been an unmotivated weekend I guess.

It was a weekend of close calls because I got 71.9 on Bonecrafting but couldn't get to 72 because some butt munch was trying to hike up the prices to at least 4k above what they were and I won't pay the hiked up price and I hope no one else does too since that is a 10% price raise (if its even only 4k higher). As far as my guild point item, I ALMOST did it this weekend. I had the web page up and new what item I had to get and knew I could easily do it, but for some retarded reason never actually did it. Then there was last night with me almost getting my next shot at haidate since a dio dropped on basically the 1st mob last night. We could've easily done the 2xKirin we did and go do Byakko and get my kitty pants ... but we didn't.

This leaves me still 1st in line for Byakko's Haidate and only 1 pop set to work off of. On the bright side we did get 2xD Body from the first Kirin last night and 1 N. Body that should've gone to Sush but he had passed out so we went w/o him. Suxorz for him! Tonight though I'm going to get my kitty pants because Byakko is going to be a good putty tat and ... give me Haidate. (Yes, I paused before finishing that sentence because I had to go through about 3 ways of saying it with a double entendre first. lol) Then once I get those pants I burn the rest of my points where ever I can!!!! MUAHAHAHA

I'm so excited to get Haidate out of the way so I can get some other gear to maybe actually upgrade my WAR or prepare for my SAM which I am leveling next. Now sky is starting to get exciting again because I don't just have 1 piece to look forward to, I have about 6 pieces to look forward to after Haidate. The only real 2 big pieces to get after haidate are D Body and N Body. I may try to pick up a D Body soon since there is almost no line anymore. SO EXCITED!

Tonight will be sky at its usual time, but we are also planning a Promyvion-Dem run for Khrone and Ramoth since they need their promies still. We did Mea for them this weekend and Khrone already has Holla done so that would mean when we finish Dem tonight he'll be in Lufaise Meadows. Sadly, if we were to try to keep Ramoth on track though too we'd have to do another Holla run for him. We shall see how this pans out though because maybe we can get Vayla (Xandrah) into the mix for some of these runs to try to make a little static for them for CoP.

Quote of the Day:
Close only counts in Horse shoes and hand grenades.
- I have no clue :P

Sad Panda Bear

It is sounding like Lolfail could be coming to an end if we don't get a strong leader to step up while Sush is straightening out his RL. Basically none of the sacks are really stepping up since Vibion was really the only sack that did anything. Trog just has a sack because he's RL friends with Sush I think. Fuman could lead but he hasn't really stepped up at all previously so I don't really see that happening. Hybrid somehow became a sack out of the blue, and he is actually willing to step up but I don't know if I see the LS really following him because he is so new. As far as Kota goes, he'd be a good leader but his playing time has seemed to be basically diddly for the past month, like how last night we could've done some lesser gods but he had the pop sets and wasn't on.

Which kind of brings me to, well, me. To be perfectly honest, I don't really want to lead. I'm willing to step up and take over while the leaders are not around, but to actually basically take over the LS while Sush is away doesn't really interest me. One thing that I have thought of is kinda of taking the lead but then pretty much letting Hybrid lead the LS. The biggest problem with this is Hybrid has a VERY short temper and I know he can blow up at people pretty quickly which scares me because that could quickly push people away from the LS. That's kind of why I think I could take the lead but then basically split leadership between all the sacks, which is what the sacks were all suggesting but Sush still wants a "leader of the pack".

Anyways, last night wasn't nearly what I hoped it to be. No dynamis, no byakko, no haidate, crappy sky farming, and I ended up staying up late. There were some positives that came out of last night. I got 1.4 levels on my BC for only about 100k which isn't so bad because I know 70 -> 80 is going to basically be a gil sink, or at least 70 -> 77. Besides that, I also got another FL assault done and was in a few screen shots on Drackonus's blog because that was his last assault that he needed for Captain. Congrats to Drack on Captain, a job well done sir.

Also, because dynamis got canceled I had some free time before volleyball so I decided to try my hand in clamming. On my first bucket I got a coral fragment!!! And then the other about 2 hours I spent throughout the night doing clamming I probably got about 20k in other gil items too. But whoever said they can usually get 6 coral/hr is full of it because they definitely weren't popping out like that for me. This weekend I'm going to keep going with clamming though because its 500 gil per bucket and you can actually make some decent gil with almost zero effort what so ever.

This evening will probably hold in store for me clamming, meriting, and then possibly some lower level exp with Disdain and maybe Khrone. Maybe we can work Disdain's DNC to 37 then do the bird camp with me, him, and Khrone. Then once Disdain hits 42 we can have Khrone switch to one of his other jobs that is at 37 and we can rinse and repeat until Khrone is out of jobs at 37 that we can use. All of that should take my SAM from 51 to about 57 I'm thinking. Wow, that's one heck of a lot of exp. lol Although, the faster I can speed my SAM to 66 or 75 the better because then I can actually have fun with another job. Just that I know its gonna take me a hunk of gil to gear SAM pretty well for end game. Oh well, at least I'll be having fun with it.

Quote of the Day:
(in tells between me and Sush)
Sush: To be honest, treubond doesn't have what it takes to be a leader
Me: ?
Sush: LOL, that came out completely wrong
Sush: I meant ******** doesn't have what it takes to be a leader
- ass was trying to rub it in my face that he thinks I suck ... MAKE ME A SAD PANDA BEAR

Lean Back, Lean Back

Talk about lazy nights. I feel like I got nothing done last night but that I did a lot. Its probably because I went on 2 Nyzul Isle floor 80 runs and didn't have anything drop on the 1st run and didn't win the 2nd one because we ran out of time. The drop rates from these bosses is TERRIBLE! I have now been on 8 boss fight runs and have only seen 1 set of askar feet drop to only be won by a BST. This is just starting to get a little frustrating when you see all these other people with this nice gear and then you don't even see it drop. Which is almost the exact same situation with RDM AFv2 hat, I've only SEEN it drop once. I guess I still don't have any right to be at all emo because I do still have my W Legs.

As for the rest of the night I did some LS meriting and got 2 more merits which puts me at 3/5 Ice Acc on RDM now. Now I just have to USE my RDM again and it'll be worth it. Once I finish meriting Ice I think I'm going to move on from meriting. Besides meriting I also went out with Disdain and did some Campaigning on Screamineagle to try to get his BST a little closer to 74. He's now about 13 or 14k from 74 so I guess sitting him out there and doing campaign will not only help him get to 75 but it will also help rank him up beyond Emblems because I would still like to get the Iron Ram pants for him.

Outside of those 3 things I didn't do anything else, not even my guild item which I want to start doing again so I can get my apron and have more of a skill advantage when I try to do the big gap synths. Next for synthing I think I'm going to do Demon's Knives which are 73. That way the gap for coral hairpins are even less of a jump and I will have BC+2 by then hopefully. So 73+2 to 77 is not bad at all and I really shouldn't fail too much. I may even go sit in the BC guild to get the free guild support to put me at 73+3 which means I should be successful about 90% of the time. And seeing that I just discovered there is a mini guild in Al Zahbi I can just get the support there as long as the NPCs haven't been taken. I could actually start doing this this weekend which would help me get a jump start on getting to 80BC and being able to crank out RR hairpins and making some steady gil. Ahhhh, the prospect of having a steady income outside of Sky is a very good feeling since that means I will have the gil to buy more stuff that actually interests me like a Vermy or being able to pay for Salvage gear once I get back to it. I have a feeling after New Years I'm going to try to put together a group because I will probably be slowing down with sky and Sush will probably have everything he needs/wants which basically just leaves me to trying to get a few more good people like Mac and Dray together to be able to rock out and get some nice gear. The only problem is that a lot of us would be fighting over Morrigan and only about 2 people fighting for Usu which would be great for Khrone, but crappy for me. Hehe, see how easily I get sidetracked?!

Tonight I have Dynamis right after work which means I have to fly home to try to make it on time, but I am very excited it'll be an icelands because that means GOOD GEAR!!! Hopefully we have people show up and we get some good drop rates. Basically right after Dynamis I will have to start getting ready for volleyball and then I will be coming home for sky right afterwards. I've got quite a busy night tonight.

On a side note, just before I went to sleep last night I thought about 2 things ... Morrigan's Robe and RDM AFv2 hat. Yes, I'm an addict and I admit it. lol

WARNING: TODAY'S QUOTE OF THE DAY IS DISTURBING. IF YOU HAVE A WEAK HEART OR A WEAK STOMACH OR CAN'T TAKE A JOKE, PLEASE DO NOT READ ON. THANK YOU.

Quote of the Day:
"Edward Cullen would eat you out during your period"
- from a "bumper sticker" one of my gf's friends left on my gf's facebook ... oh the grossness
(and if you don't understand it Edward Cullen is a vampire from the book/movie Twilight)

Lack Of Attendance

We had 2xKirin planned for last night and we couldn't even get a full alliance together let alone a group of the right jobs. So obviously it turned into a farming night, but of course it wasn't that great because we just have not been lucky with during regular farm time farming.

We got a Despot, MG, and I think that was it. No waters or diorites, again. Now that we do have that Despot we can go do another Byakko though which makes me happy since it gives me try #3 for my haidate to drop. Malikeye was so happy last night that he heard we have another Byakko set just waiting to be popped. I hope he doesn't freak out when he realizes that I'm beating him by 10 points now, even though I was down by about 30 at the beginning of the week. Its not like I'll be leaving the LS after I get haidate though so I'll still be around to help him get his, but I'm not passing haidate again.

Which brings us to Wednesday, today. I don't have sky tonight so I'm not sure what I will do with my free time. First thing I need to do is some house work which should take an hour or two. After that I would really like to do my guild item for the day, but that would only take about 30 minutes. That leaves me with about 5 hours left to do ... whatever. I guess about 2 of those hours could be used for meriting and just hammering out a few more merits for my RDM. Maybe I can drag Hybrid out with me because I know he still wants more of a buffer and more merits. While I'm at it I might as well bring Khrone with me too since I know he still wants to cap his H2H because he's always saying how he's missing. Hmm, maybe I can just turn it into an LS merit party then since that's already half the party just with LS people. Could see if Disdain wants to come out too.

I know I will get bored pretty easily with meriting so I'll probably put about a 2 hour cap on that. After that I want to look a little more towards Assaults and Nyzul Isle. The bonus of that is that I can be fishing on Screamin while I wait for a shout for those. Another thought that has crossed my mind is doing some sort of Nyzul Isle/Assaults static. Like, do 4 Nyzul Isle runs one day, then 3 days later do 3 assaults. Its a viable plan but that's loading up my days even more again. For me I could do Nyzul Sunday and then Assaults Wednesday, but I don't know how it would work out for anyone else. Bleh, so much I want to do in the game with so little time. Hopefully my brother will get the winning tickets for the MegaMillions on Friday so I can retire and game for the rest of my life. :D ...what a life that would be...

Quote of the Day:
I don't think Byakko Haidate is the best legs piece, because I keep missing so I need more ACC gear on my legs.
- Khrone, silly n00b

Outside Farming

Last night I wasn't in the greatest of moods and I don't really know why. It could have partially been the fact that when I logged on I was staring at an unclaimed Kirin with 2 pets out that decided to smack me in the face and kill me. What a fun way to start off your day right?

After I got a raise from the LS that was doing terrible against Kirin I got an almost immediate invite from Kota. They were already up in sky farming. So I figured I might as well help out since I'm already there. Luckily after about 3 or so hours of farming we got 3 diorites, 1 MG, and 1 Faust. Since we also popped 2 of the diorites and got the Autumnstones we got 5 more points each. I got 40 points yesterday before sky even STARTED!!!

Once sky started we popped the last diorite and popped a BB. After that I was holding on to every stone and 2/4 gems, which meant I almost had every pop item for the lesser gods. I think we ended up using every pop item I had on me too last night. It was a pretty good night because we sold N Feet for 500k which we definitely earned because we got them to drop off a Suzaku that we didn't do so well on. The biggest problem I had with sky last night is that I am now next in line for Haidate and guess what, 2x Byakko and the bugger didn't drop them either time. We still have 1 more diorite but I think we need another Despot before we can pop Byakko again so I'm hoping I get my kitty pants tonight so I can be much relieved and don't have the necessity of pushing myself in sky anymore. I can lay back a little and maybe concentrate on leveling a job again.

I am thinking that on Wednesday since we don't have sky I may try to snag Disdain and go duo my SAM with his DNC through the desert on pet spiders. Or maybe start up a party and see how well we roll. As I am dropping rapidly in the rankings in ffxiah I feel as though I need to start advancing again since I'm definitely falling behind and I haven't really done anything with Disdain since he came back. Us going and exping together could be some fun even though I don't really have that much gear for my SAM right now, but I'm sure I could gear it quite easily.

The other options I have for Wednesday is crafting or meriting. Both of which are a good idea because they will bring me closer to goals of having a money maker and the goal of becoming a better RDM in turn can be a good money maker. If I get BC up higher I can make RR hairpins and make gil that way. If I get my RDM more pimped I could go farm with Sush or Mac and split the profits of a say a Despot or Ulli which sell for 500k a piece and aren't really that hard with either 2xRDM/NIN or RDM/NIN + BLM. I guess we shall have to see what opportunity arises because I may just end up doing assaults or nyzul isle, WHO KNOWS?!

Tonight will be volleyball then maybe a quick merit party so I can get another merit into Ice Acc on RDM then up to sky. Not really sure what I'll have time for because I don't know how RL stuff will pan out since I have a ton of stuff to do ... like laundry. XD

Quote of the Day:
Hybrid: I'm pretty sure Exion is one of "those guys".
Exion dies.
Hybrid: That "guy" just died again lol
- it was funnier if you were there

Almost 2 Weeks Free

Guess what? Girlfriend is back at school for almost 2 weeks, and we all know what that means. That means more time for me to game without interruption. HAZZAH! Aren't I such a great boyfriend? lol

Anyways, this weekend I didn't really get much done. I tried a few Nyzul Isle runs for Goliard and nothing good dropped from any of the runs I went on, and by nothing good I mean no goliard/askar/denali dropped. I have now gone on about 5 or 6 boss runs in Nyzul Isle and have only ever seen 1 piece drop and that was on my first run. Maybe tonight we can start our own Nyzul Isle group like we wanted to this weekend. Hybridkiller, Mactatus, Khrone, and me were going to start a little static and now I guess we found 2 other people to join us for a full group but I only know of Zspa (Hybrid's friend) that was going to join us. I know Disdain wanted in but Hybrid said we were full which is news to me.

There is always Sky to talk about too. We did a Seiryu and 2xKirin last night but only beat 1 Kirin. So we go through this long hassel of getting people's 2hr's reset which works and then we get all set up to go, BRD's 2hr, and Vasel d/c's. He was our 3rd BRD which causes big problems. Not only did the leader of the last party NOT get me in at all but I got to sit out half the fight because no one invited me back in after I gave songs to my first party. Basically I COMPLETELY wasted my 2hr. We got Kirin down to about 20% but people freaked out and couldn't do their jobs apparently so we ended up wiping, oh well. It was really bad luck that Vasel d/c'd just as the BRDs popped their 2hrs.

I need to boost myself in points a little bit because I'm not 1st in line for Haidate like I thought I was. I guess I'm only 2nd in line which isn't cool because I want them next. lol Eh, I just realized I'm 40 points behind the guy ahead of me which is a lot of outside farming. Guess I can wait to be 2nd in line. haha So I know I keep saying this in basically every blog, but once I get haidate out of the way I will feel 10x better about sky. After that I will be pretty much done and then will just be moving on to picking up random other drops.

Outside of that, I have been doing a lot of meriting lately. I am now 8/8 in Enfeebling Magic after being 6/8 for a very long time. The only draw back was that I had to take my 1 lone merit out of String Instrument skill which I never used anyways. Now I have to start working on my RDM and working towards 5/5 Ice Accuracy which I think will just about do it for me and merits for a bit. Although I could really drop some more into Wind Acc but its not as huge a priority anymore. There is always BLM and potency of my spells, but again that is just fluff because I don't really like BLM all that much.

Almost forgot to mention my new dynamis shell. Well we had a whole 6 people show up for dynamis so they scratched it. There are supposedly 15 people in the shell and only 6 showing up is pretty damn sad because they were more than likely 15 good and dedicated people ... guess not. Hopefully they will be all together on Thursday because I really want to try out this low man LS and see how it pans out because this will be my first true low man LS experience. This could blossom into something really nice for myself and my friends.

Tonight I will be hoping that we get our Nyzul Isle group going because I'd love to have floor 100 access by the end of January. This isn't too much of a stretch for a goal I don't think because you can do 7 a week, which is 35 floors, which means you could be done in less than 3 weeks. I am leaving it under the assumption of doing 20 floors every week which we would then be done in 5 weeks, plus figuring in a week off or something end of January is very reasonable. There will be a struggle for some of the gear I'm sure because I know at least myself, Mac, and Hybrid will all be going for Goliard which kind of blows, but oh well. That just means once we all have access we can all do our own pick up floor runs to try to get our own pieces.

Also for tonight, if I'm not doing Nyzul Isle then Sky, I hope to be meriting some more I suppose because I still have oodles of more merits to get.

Quote of the Day:
Lux, shut up for the rest of the run
- Sush, up in sky because Lux never shuts up and thinks he knows how to do everything

Bye Bye 69...

Yeah, it was apparently a one day affair since I'm now 70 Bonecraft. It was quite painless to hit 70 because I was almost exactly breaking even so there was no harm no foul as I could still try to fish up more Shall Shells on Screamin.

Oh, that reminds me, I found some Rogue Rigs on the AH so I snagged 2 of them. That was really nice because that meant I could get back to fishing and making myself some lovely gil. What else was really sweet was last night I hit 3 out of 4 HQ2s in a row, which meant 15k in the bag in a manner of about 1 minute! I still have yet to get a full stack of Black Pearls but I have over 2 stacks of Pearls which is good for me. The problem is I don't know if I should sell these or hold on to them and craft them on my way to 80 BC. My biggest draw back right now is that Coral Fragments are 15k A PIECE!!! I mean, I understand I'm going to be losing some gil until I can actually craft the RR pins but this is pretty retarded the amount that I would be sinking in gil.

Now that I got completely sidetracked on what I was writing I guess I will just close this entry up. Probably planning on resting a lot this weekend as I don't really feel too well so fishing and meriting could be in the game plan. Hopefully I can get a bunch more shall shells to make myself some decent gil to fall back on.

Quote of the Day:
I'm too lazy to find or think of one, so go find one yourself...

69!!!

That is, I got 69 on Bonecraft last night. It was actually really easy to get and I'm pretty sure I was breaking even just NPCing my result. I could actually finish off to 70 on the same synth which I think I may do now since its really simple. Getting the extra level on Bonecraft will also help me HQ Shall Shells which I am going to be trying to do for gil. I have about 5 stacks of them sitting on Screamin right now from when I was leveling his Fishing which I was doing again last night.

Which brings me to more bad news, I broke the line and lost the Robber Rig. That is the best way of catching Shall Shells in Bubu and now I can't find ANY for sale. I actually put up on ffxiah.com that I wanted 2x Robber Rigs just as a back up. Hopefully I can find someone that will be willing to sell me one because that is going to be my money maker while I skill up Screamin's Fishing skill. Argh, its just so frustrating that as soon as I skilled up my Bonecraft to the T3 HQ level I lose my rig to GET the shall shells ... pisses me off. DAMN YOU GAME!!!!

Fishing and synthing would be perfect for this weekend too because my gf is in town which leaves me just about no time for meriting or getting anything else done. This is where crafting can really get nice because it takes very little time and I can actually get other RL stuff done in the process. Now I just have to figure out what my next synth will be after hitting 70. Maybe I will get back to crafting the materials for RR Hairpins. This also means I should get back to getting more guild points for my BC skill+ items. Bleh, so much to do and no time to do it in.

As far as sky went, we got a bunch more pop items but didn't do any gods. Tonight they are going to try for Kirin but I doubt they will have the people and as I'm one of the BRDs it will probably be a problem. Hopefully they just do more farming tonight so next week we can do like 3 days in a row of Kirins and lots of lesser gods. I'm really more looking forward to lesser gods because there is a lot of junk gear I'd like from them.

I suppose my only real goal for this extended weekend will be merit a little more, craft, and try to jump in on a couple nyzul isle runs to try and snag some gear.

Quote of the Day:
Sush: Are you 18?
Lux: No.
Sush: Are you 14?
Treu (in say): I saw that question comin
Lux: Yes, I am 14.
- then the conversation got a lot funnier after that but I'll just leave it there lol

Back On Track

Let me start off by saying my bro is a lucky mofo. He really hasn't worked TOO hard for anything in this game and yet there he stands with his 75 MNK in a Shura Togi, Melee Gloves, and his new shiney Destroyers. In all the years that I have been playing this game and doing sky my W Legs was the first thing I got from Kirin and yet I'm pretty sure he got his Shura Togi before I got my W Legs, what a butt. He really is lucky that I play this game otherwise he'd probably only be hitting 75 about now. But yeah, we grabbed some LS people and went up and got him his Destroyers, which is probably the quickest KS30 I've done since it only takes about 5 min to do the whole fight and walk people out. On the bright side of that I did get an O Ingot which is some good gil so I'm happy.

After that we went up to sky and tore up a ton of gods. Sadly I was about to get W Hands but I zoned out they dropped to someone else by accident ... oh well. I can easily get those the next god run because they are a pretty common drop and no one wants them. I am pretty pissed about missing a butt load of points right now becauase I should be way higher in the standings than I am because they can't find who did points for 2 days last week. Ugh, whatever, I just all of a sudden got in a bad mood even though I shouldn't really be because I'm probably still next in line for Haidate. There are still a bunch of junky items I wouldn't mind bidding for like a bunch of Heca and Shura gear and of course the W Hands that I should've gotten last night.

I'm pretty well shot for the rest of the week because the gf is in town and I'm sure she'll take up all of my time like she always does. Ok, I'll just stop because now I'm just venting my anger right now. Odds are I won't have any updates the rest of this week because I doubt I'll be online at all.

Quote of the Day:
Khrone > Naz
- Sush, once he found out Khrone got his Destroyers

Treading Water

The numbers lately in our LS have been kind of lacking. Last night we didn't even have 12 people show up but we still got almost every trigger mob in sky. We got MG, SC, Zip, Faust, Water, and Despot which really only leaves out Ulli and BB. When the one group got the water we had the BLM blowing up stats at Ulli and never got a dio even after about 2 hours of strictly farming dio.

On the bright side I did almost get 2 more merits which will be going into my enfeebling magic to get me to 7/8 and then I will be dumping them into Ice Acc on RDM. Tonight, since I have nothing else to do, I will be meriting again to get some more merits into my RDM because I know that still has a lot of work since my Bind was resisted on Zip a couple times which I was not happy about. The one thing I hate in this game is either missing on a melee job or not landing a spell. Guess that means I have more work to do meriting. One thing I have come to the realization of is that I don't really have any intention of FULLY meriting any of the jobs because that is just such a time sink and honestly I don't feel that is the best use of my time because I could be leveling a job that I could be having fun with instead.

As far as meriting goes, I will probably get about 10-20 more merits before calling it quits for meriting for a while because I know I'm going to get bored with it. After that it will be back to either SAM or MNK and as of right now I'm leaning more towards SAM. Right now I honestly don't feel the huge urge to merit or level another job, I'd really like to get some new upgraded gear and do some other instance type events like limbus or salvage, salvage being the higher of priorities. I'd even be just happy finishing off my Assaults and doing loads of KSNM, BCNM, and ISNMs.

As I said earlier, tonight is going to be meriting and then more sky. Hopefully tonight we can do a bunch more farming and maybe take down a few gods. Here's to hoping we have good attendence tonight because we have a lot of pop sets we are sitting on now.

Quote of the Day:
Did you hear that the OSU vs Michigan game was supposed to be cancelled this weekend?

Michigan couldn't get passed Toledo.
- gotta love raggin on the rival!!!

The End in Sight?

It seems as though the end of the LS may be within sight because Sush and Mac both just joined Dynamis Dominators. They only have runs on Wednesday nights during our sky runs but I definitely see a trend of attendence going down. Last night we only had about 8 or so people in sky and only 2 of us were on mage jobs. All we got to do was get a water and pop Olla. Its nice because I'm pretty sure we needed it but the sad part was that we need MG more and we didn't have enough to do her.

Hopefully afer Thanksgiving is over with people will be back in the swing of things and everyone showing up again. I am still hoping to snag some more pieces of gear before this LS disbands because I know its going to happen eventually, just when is what I don't know. If nothing else I will try to snag a few more seals or pop sets so I can have my own Kirin pop set in the waiting or be able to sell the full set to be able to have the gil for a Haidate. This is all just guessing though because I don't know how long this LS will last, because it could keep going strong for a few months for all I know.

Lets just say I wouldn't be crying myself to sleep every night if the shell did break as long as I could get some pop items out of it. The past month was well worth it because of the new friends that I've made and became closer to some other friends, and the W Legs didn't hurt either. hehe But now that I have W Legs everything else doesn't seem that important for me because in sky there really isn't that much more I NEED. Honestly I should probably look more for a sea or limbus or even ZNM group because those would be better suited for my needs. Or heaven forbid that I actually find a salvage group to roll with again. There is still the posibility of me getting back to working towards Maat's Cap too, or even if its just leveling a few jobs that I really want to level like SAM or MNK.

As for this tonight and this weekend I will be gone until Sunday so no update tomorrow. I will probably end up meriting on Sunday since I have a lot of work to do on my RDM still especially now that I may actually start using it in groups again (if I join any other groups). I supposed my future in what I will be doing in game will change in the next few weeks drastically again so I will just have to roll with it and see where I end up.

Quote of the Day:
3x THF gloves dropped!!!
- Sush while doing dynamis with Dynamis Dominators

Run Run Run

... as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'M THE W LEGS MAN!!! It was really fun to actually use my W Legs for kiting and pulling mobs and such. Granted it was only sky farming in which it was a really bad night, but it was still nice to be able to run around with my W Legs and actually USE my RDM for once.

Last night did make me realize I need to rethink my laziness of macros and redo them on my RDM and probably upgrade some gear. I really don't want to upgrade too much right now though because I still doubt I'll be doing too much with it. First thing first though is meriting like a mofo. There is a laundry list of merits that I need to get now and to upgrade. My current order that I think I will be doing is:
1) Troubador (3)
2) Enfeebling magic (6)
3) Ice Acc (12)
4) Wind Acc (14)
5) Phalanx 2 (15)
6) Ice Potency (9)
7) Lightning Potency (12)
8) Minuet (14)

Oy, that's a LOT of meriting. That's 85 merits of knocking out birds. Lets see, assuming 1.5merits/hr, that leaves me at about 57 hours of meriting! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, I don't know how I feel about capping everything then. Maybe I will just get a good start on some of them like the potencies or Phalanx 2 because I don't really NEED them capped but a few more in them would be nice to have. Minuet isn't even really a priority but it would be very nice to have for merit parties since that will be just about all I will be using for meriting I'm assuming.

As for anything else going on in FFXI I can't really say anything is going on. Tonight will be my last night until Sunday because I'm going to see my gf again for an extended weekend since its M*ch*g@n weekend. I'll be back in the swing of things fresh Sunday night though ... probably meriting. lol I have a feeling the next few weeks are going to be pretty dull for my blog since it'll basically just be meriting and sky. Hopefully I can snag some good gear though!

Quote of the Day:
Also, FFXI won't make your heart explode.

I think.
- [GM]Dave's blog

THEY ARE MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!

CRIMSON CUISSES ARE NOW MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA



I would just like to say I have been in a few different sky shells and been doing sky for 3+ years. In 1 month, less than actually, I got W Legs in this shell .... ITS AMAZING!!! Now its time for me to start picking up the other little unnecessary gear like Heca hands and feet or if no one wants them Dryadic head and legs. Or I could snag some W Hands too which wouldn't hurt. I know it won't take too long to get me to Haidate because I'm still ahead of a bunch of other people so I'm not really worried. Now is when I need to cash in on as much cheap gear as I can while I can in case, heaven forbid, something goes wrong with this LS and it breaks.

As soon as W Legs dropped to me I made sure everyone had a way out of sky and then I ran to Jeuno and then to N. Sandy to get them uncursed so I could run around in them. I have plenty of pictures that I will hopefully remember to put up when I get home from work tonight. While I was running to Sandy Ukatsu asked if anyone wanted to join a group that he was in for a floors 96-100 run in Nyzul Isle and I was all about it especially because I would've been the only one that was going to be lotting on Goliard. Too bad we didn't do so well on floor 99 and wasted like 5 extra minutes that were definitely needed on the 100th floor. Since they had problems with the switches in order I was kiting 3 mobs around with my W Legs until they got it figured out. Finally they did, we got to the 100th floor and they just dove right into it w/o really giving me a chance to heal them to full and get some MP back so I had half MP and was the only healer, needless to say things didn't work out so well. It was actually just fun to kite things using my new W Legs, hehehe.

One thing I did realize though is that I will need a Vermy now ... until I get morrigan's of course. Now I won't have auto refresh while running around on RDM because I would need to be wearing full Yigit which can't happen when I have W Legs on. I am also going to have to rethink my macros because I will need a running or kiting macro because manually going into my inventory every time to put them on isn't going to fly. Time to rethink my RDM macros I guess.

Something else that worked out perfectly last night was that I finished PLD to 50. Now I can dump some of the none useful gear to the AH and the rest to my mule and free up some more space. Its nice only having the 2 jobs below 50 for Maat's Cap now, but sadly Maat's has no long become a priority. If I do get back to leveling a job though it will probably be SAM because I think it will be a lot of fun and its a job I actually would like to take all the way to 75. For now though it'll be meriting to make myself a lot better of a RDM and BRD.

Tonight will be sky and meriting so I can get Troubador for BRD to finish off the Troubador/Nightengale combo for Kirin burns. After that I will be finishing off my RDM merits to make myself a better bind/grav kiter for when I need it. Not to mention I should just finish off Enfeebling magic to 8/8 already too since it'll help all of my enfeebs on all of my jobs. This is getting really exciting again. I am getting really pumped to be switching around my priorities again and doing stuff that I haven't done in a while which is exactly what going for Maat's Cap was originally anyways. More fun shall be had tonight for sure!!!

Quote of the Day:
FUCK YEAH BABY!!!!!
- me, after W Legs dropped on Kirin (I just couldn't hold back, had to say fuck yeah)

Uh Ohhhhh...

Guess who's next in line for W Legs in my LS now?!?!?! ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got another MG last night which means we are ready for another Seiryu which is all we need for another Kirin set. As long as we nail MG tonight again we may even have 2 Kirin sets for Tuesday. :D I'm soooooo pumped because I have a feeling I will have my W Legs by the end of this week. If that happens ... I'm just gonna have to rename my blog!

As far as drama in the LS, one of the leaders quit because he was whiney that Aguaa did tons of outside farming and passed him on W Legs twice. Its funny because after 1 month of being in the LS I passed Vibion in points too and he's whining that he isn't the next in line for W Legs? He was complaining that he had put months of work into the LS and how he deserved to get them, when apparently I had done just as much work in 1 month that he had in what, 6 months? People complain way too much and can't just accept that people have more time on their hands and will end up passing you in a points system that rewards outside farming. At the same time you have to thank the guy doing that outside farming because do you think you'd be anywhere close to doing as many gods and Kirins as we do without outside farming? Yeah, 1 guy passed you twice for the same item because he has 2 characters, DEAL WITH IT. If he would've stayed with the LS he still would've been next in line, but since he sold some pop items and some gil items he's not allowed back in to the LS and has no chance of getting W Legs with us. I suppose he just doesn't understand the fact of helping people get items they want too.

Last night Nazareth logged on and he was so excited he was saying that he knows he's going to get his haidate next. What's funny is that I blew passed him in points and I gladly stated that in LS chat. He was awestruck by this, but then I told him that he deserved haidate more and that since he passed d body to my brother I would gladly pass haidate to him. He was elated again and thanked me. Honestly haidate isn't nearly a priority for me as W Legs is because I would actually USE them and haidate would be for my WAR and eventually SAM and MNK which are still only 51/50. Haidate will still be the next big item I get because it is a really good item and I WILL use it, and I don't feel like paying 4M to some LS for me to get it.

Last night I did also get a chance to level PLD a little bit because I got home with plenty of time before sky. Sadly the party I was in was total junk and the only reason we even did decently was because I was PLing us. I got 1 more level on my PLD which was nice but still need 2 more levels before I can shelf it again. That would bring me to only 2 more jobs to get to 50! I just hope that SMN and WHM are very fast to 50 because I want to get back to my DD jobs that I can have fun with.

There may be another priority change this week for me though. If I do get W Legs I may do what Sush is doing and cap RDM merits for farming/soloing purposes. I may also just start meriting again once I finish PLD because I really could use some more merits on my BRD and my BLM outside of wanting to cap merits on my RDM. Funny how priorities can change pretty quickly. Go from all out maat's cap to a month later all out meriting and end game. lol

Tonight I will try to finish my PLD to 50 so I can get back to meriting. That way I can sell off a bunch of gear or just move some to my mule. More space is always welcome on my char because I can always find something to fill it up with. I am also debating going back to fishing on Screamin now that I have just figured out how to get moghancement: fishing again, rusty buckets ftw. That means more shall shells that I can synth and make some gil off of. Ugh, more getting side tracked. It seems no matter how far you are in this game there is still so much to do and so much to keep your busy. I really don't see how people can think they've done everything in this game because I've been playing for 4+ years and I STILL haven't gotten nearly as much done as I hopeed.

Tonight's goal: PLD to 50.

Quote of the Day:
Nazareth: I'm next for Haidate now :D
Me: Actually I'm ahead of you in points >:D

There Is Always Hope

Last night I was told VERY good news, I am 3rd in line for W Legs. Aguaa is up for the next W Legs and there's no way anyone will catch him because he's quite dedicated to outside farming. Lux is next in line but I have a feeling by the time that 2nd pair of W Legs drop I will be 2nd in line. He was about 50 points ahead of me and just in the amount of farming and gods we did last night I think I got about 26 points which puts me right in the mix. I am also sitting on another Gem of the North for an extra 5 points. Having Aguaa invite me to his short after hours farming is really helping in my points category because I am FLYING up now. THANK YOU AGUAA!!!

This is giving me butterflies because having the prospect of W Legs is such a good feeling. Oh man, if I got W Legs I could really cruise on spamming sky for pop items and selling them with like Sush or Aguaa or Mac. EXCITEMENT BUILDING!!! Not to mention we are getting Byakko pop sets like mad and I think at some point we might as well start selling some of the seals because we do about 1.5 Byakkos to any other god, but probably like 3:1 on Genbus. lol Hopefully I can be back up in the list for B. Haidate quickly. :D Damn I'm excited. ^^

As far as what I got done last night, we just did some farming, Despot, SC, Zip? ... honestly I'm getting confused on what we got Tuesday and what we got last night. lol We did some more farming that's all I know for sure and then we did 2x Byakko. Byakko has been very friendly to us and we are now 7/7 on Haidate for this month, and its fine that I said that because Sush already said it last night if we were going to be jinx by it anyways. So right now we're averaging a Haidate every other day, THAT'S AWESOME. We'll be selling Haidates by December at this rate, and at 4.5M a pop that is hella good for weekly pay outs.

Pretty short updates as of now because all of my extra RL time is being taken up so I basically come home and then head up to sky. After regular sky hours I have been just doing some extra sky farming with Aguaa which has been paying off in the bonus points. Big thanks again to Aguaa. :D

Quote of the Day:
What's the best thing about marrying a panda?
No one can notice the black eyes.
...
Plus you get to do a panda!
- Khrone ... yes, my brother is disturbed :P

Lol Khrone

Some things you just can't believe when they happen, but I will save that for the end of the post because it will just help build the suspense.

Yesterday after work I started the evening off the right way, with a nap. Then I had volleyball and did pretty well, but after volleyball I knew I had plenty of time to get cracking on PLD. Sadly I only got 1 level off of PLD but I was still happy to take what I could get. It was also good to finally recharge my ring for this week because now I don't have to stress about getting in enough exp to recharge my ring before the week ends. Outside of that one level on PLD there really isn't anything else to update on it because there really aren't any gear upgrades or anything until 50 for it.

Once I was done with PLD I had to run up to sky for some fun fun gods. They went ok, but we wasted a lot of time just standing around because Sush passed out for most of the night so it was kind of a pain to figure out where all of our pop sets were and who had them. It turns out that we could at least do 1 of each god but we could've done more if Sush had been awake because he had a bunch of pop sets. I did get to watch like 2 movies throughout sky though because of how little of effort it takes to do a god and watch TV. lol We did get another Byakko Haidate to drop which is really awesome. Sadly we could've done another Byakko but the one guy was whining how points haven't been updated so he felt that the LS would be stealing from him if he handed in his gem for Byakko and didn't get his points for it ... WHATEVER. We finally just said screw it and went to Kirin.

Oddly enough on our way to Kirin Sush woke up. We definitely had enough DD for Kirin so it wasn't really an issue and we definitely had the seals because we had just done 1 of each god. Now here is where the funniest stuff happens. Kirin goes down with some problem but ... D Body ended up dropping. Everyone starts saying congrats to Naz, but he then states that he never said he wanted it. Sush starts asking if anyone had said they wanted it and Khone had. Well long story short, no one wanted to spend 50 points for it so it went to Khrone. Here is the question I pose to you oh wise readers: how does someone get Shura Togi before they get Destroyers?!?!?! Seriously, that is messed up that he got D Body before he even has Destroyers! None the less, congrats Khrone on your Shura Togi. Oh wait, I guess because he's broke that means I have to foot the bill for the cursed item ... yeaaaaaaaaaah. So I guess that brings his tab up to about 1.35M between what he owes me and what he owes Screamin. Good thing he's getting a payout from this LS or I'd probably never see my gil again.

As for me, I need to start doing some outside farming so I can quickly jump to the top of the list for either W Legs or B Haidate. Last night I should've gotten an extra at least 5 points but a game glitch cost us a Gem of the North from Zip because Zip didn't drop the stupid Gem because I zoned out just as he died which probably caused the glitch since Aguaa and Jaugax had those gems already. Hopefully a GM will be able to give it to us since it should've gone into the treasure pool for when I zoned back in to lot. But all I need to do is stick with Aguaa and have him help me get all these extra points and I should be golden with items I want.

Tonight is a farming night that I again do not want to miss because I could use all the points I can get, but I REALLY need some sleep. I think I will have to cut myself off at about 1 tonight because I just can't keep going on like this.

Quote of the Day:
Happy burfday
- Sush when he told Khrone to lot the D Body since Khrone didn't even have enough points to lot it

Silky Smooth

That's about how our evening went. Between me popping 2 coffers for my DRG AF and sky farming everything seemed to go very well minus one or two hiccups.

When I got home I had time to do what I thought was maybe my 2 coffers for DRG. I got the Boyahda Tree coffer with almost no problem because it was in a spot that I ended up not even needing sneak to get to. After that I still had about 30 min before sky so I decided I'd OP out to Yhoator to do the Ifrit's Cauldron coffer. On my way to the OP to warp back to Bastok I ran into Ramoth, an old friend, that just came back to the game I guess after having some REALLY bad medical issues. He said he had some sort of blood problem in his right brain and ended up having to lose almost his whole right brain which left his left side mostly paralyzed. After spending a year in the hospital he has a 22 year old cute live-in girl to help take care of him. She is actually the one that convinced him to start gaming again which is actually good for him because it'll keep his mind going. It was funny to see him wearing the xxKFBxx or whatever shell because I'm pretty sure Drivvt is in that shell too. But it was good to hear that he's doing alright and getting back into the game.

After talking with him I ran up and found the coffer in Ifrit's Cauldron almost right away, the only problem was waiting for the stupid flame spout to go down. Once it went down I quickly popped it and ran up to sky.

In sky we did an AWESOME job of farming. We popped Despot in about 15 minutes of being up there. Right there was a great start to the night. After that we did Steam Cleaner which popped on the last pop of our first detector, which again was awesome. We also found that Faust was up and decided to go knock him out while racing another LS to him. It was not a pretty fight because both LSs wiped and then they gave up and let us take out Faust which when we finally told the PLD how to tank was pretty easy. Then we split up again and went to water and dio but ended up only getting 1 water in the time we were up there but I guess they had also gotten 4 more dios before sky which is REALLY good news. After they popped their water we went over and took out MG which wasn't hard at all. To keep on going with all the good news, we walked out of MG and did Despot again who popped AGAIN in about 15 minutes. Once we finished Despot we were thinking about calling it a night but then someone saw that Zip was up so we went and took him out after a slight mishap with the PLD Flashing the wrong mob and getting a ton of aggro from a bunch of mobs. All in all I think we knocked out EVERY pop mob except BB which we have literally about 10 of anyways. Tonight should be a good night of gods and hopefully another Kirin or 2.

With my free time before sky tonight I'm hoping to get back to PLD because I need to burn through my exp ring for the week. Not to mention I just want to finish my PLD to 50 already so I can get crackin on my last 2 jobs to 50, WHM and SMN. Its a great feeling to be this close to getting to 50 on all of these jobs. So I'm hoping 50PLD by the weekend and then back to my SMN.

On another note, it was good to hear that Hybrid is not going to sell his account and he will be coming back probably in December. It was also nice to see Disdain on again because its been a long time since I've seen him around. Good to see some of the older people back around the game, gets me all nostalgic and stuff.

Quote of the Day:
I just woke up.
- Khrone said that at about 11AM this morning meaning he was late for work

Nap Time?

I have been sooooooooo tired the past week and looking forward to the weekend to catch up on all of that sleep that I missed out on. Well, I didn't really get to catch up that much because Friday I got stuck doing dry wall and then came home to do my escort and choco race and then some AF stuff, like finishing my BST AF.

I am pleased to announce that my DRG is finally 50! That is why I was able to start on some more AF Friday night because I was actually starting my DRG AF quests to get rid of my keys. Friday I started my AF2 quest which I then completed on Saturday because I had to wait til JP midnight to be able to continue the quest. On Saturday I only did my DRG AF up until the fight because I didn't even have time to finish the friggin fight since I spent most of the day doing dry wall for my brother's garage .... AGAIN! That's why I got very little sleep on Friday night. Saturday night I went to another Halloween party that was pretty fun, especially the good music and all you can drink beer. It was also the first time I have ever played Dodge Ball indoors because a bunch of my friends and I went as Verizon and another group went as the Average Joes from Dodge Ball. Much fun was had by all.

After that I was quite sloshed and ended up getting about 11 hours of sleep on Saturday night which felt FANTASTIC. Too bad getting that much sleep basically ruined my Sunday because I woke up in time to get to the concert I had to go to. The concert was fun and I'll just leave it at that.

Once I got back from the concert Khrone came over and we played some RB2 and ended up unlocking like the gig that lets you beat RB2 I guess. There are still a lot of places that I can't even play at yet but I guess the final gig is open to me now.

Khrone finally went home and I ended up just camping a coffer in Quicksand Caves for my DRG AF. Some butt munch was there popping coffers on THF and then logging until they repopped. It took me 2.5 hours to finally get my DRG AF from there which I won't even use for a looooooong time, but I'm just glad I'm making progress. Hopefully I can finish up the other coffers pretty quickly and then whoop on Dark Spark and get all my AF done for DRG by the end of the week. It will be nice to open up even more space in my MH because I was struggling for space but now I have about 20 open spots and am loving it!

As for sky, we had quite the off night. Sush decided to take a group of our BLMs to try to beat PM6-4 but was unsuccessful quite a few times I guess. So we did Suzaku slightly short handed but didn't really have any problem. That one seal finished off another Kirin set for us so we decided to go kill Kirin. Got there and ended up waiting for about an hour for people to get there because Mact stole one of our WHM to do his Alexander fight to finish ToAU missions. He even had a miss tell that went to the LS saying that he wasn't going to Kirin and he might come up afterwards but ended up not. This is also after the fact that Sush bailed because he was in a bad mood from failing PM6-4. We finally gather together for Kirin, do our practice run, BRDs pop their 2hrs (one of which was me), we sing our songs, and we get ready to fight Kirin... and we're ready ... and we're waiting ... and the 1st party loses their songs .... and the 2nd party loses their songs ... and BOOM there's Kirin! Supposedly fuman had problems with his trade getting interupted so after the 2nd group lost their songs I think just about everyone was thinking that he wasn't going to be popped. Well we were so wrong, because there he was without any BRD 2hrs anymore. By some miracle we beat him with a bunch of people dying but we beat him none-the-less. To top it all off, we got W Legs to drop which Aguaa got for his 2nd char. Guess that means 1 more person out of my way for them.

I wasn't so pleased with how the LS got ran last night because everyone looks towards Sush for leadership and he bailed on us, then Mact bailed on us. Luckily Vib was ready to step up and get people going for everything. None of it ran smoothly, and we had 2 D Hands drop off the one god which someone actually bought from us for 250k ... WASTE OF GIL. Then at the end of the night to top off the bad day as it was, someone dropped the aliance after our last god and we lost a Siren's Hair and the god's seal since people didn't pass and they broke the alliance. Not so pleased about that because that would've finished off another Kirin pop set for us. Let's hope tonight runs a lot smoother than last night because if it doesn't run well I have a feelign some people may leave the LS and there was already a lot of complaining and people whining about points not being updated in over a week.

Tonight will probably be more coffer hunting because I have a dinner and something else to go to so I won't be on until later. It would only give me about 2 full hours to level my PLD which really isn't enough because that 2 hours is from the time I get home to the time sky starts which really means if I got a party RIGHT away when I got home I could get an hour and a half in if I'm lucky, which I haven't been. So this is perfect for being able to just run around and do something productive with short amounts of time. Thankfully I'll have a lot of other jobs to do this with too.

Quote of the Day:
Oh, it's good Scottish weather, madam. The rain is falling straight down. Well, slightly to the side like.
- William Wallace from Braveheart

I Do It For The Lols

Oh these crazy kids that are in our LS. There used to be no drama and then 1 person appears out of nowhere and all of a sudden DRAMA. Supposedly this one person, Valkyria, believes they are the best PLD on the server and would be able to solo tank all of the lesser gods in sky. What was funny is that (s)he got owned by Byakko. Oh how they talk how great they are then fail, it puts a smile on my face. We never had any problems with lesser gods today at all, and even Kirin ran smoothly. I must admit, last night was AMAZINGLY productive because we killed a bunch of gods, got 3x Byakko Haidate, AND got a W. Legs!!! I'm thrilled to see people getting what they actually want and getting out of my way to get the gear I want. :P And on a quick side not, I guess Valkyria is a leacher and this was the first time I saw him/her in the LS and they got M. Head which is pretty funny because I doubt we'll probably ever see them again .... darn.

In other news, I got myself a pretty good party last night on PLD and got 3 levels. I'm now a 46PLD! 4 more levels and I get to mark off another job and then it will be on to SMN and WHM. It is kind of exciting to know I am creaping on the goal of all Maat's Cap jobs to 50. Once I get all of those jobs to 50 I will be able to get back to jobs that I really want to level, like SAM or MNK. I know before I said I was going to take WHM straight from 42 to 66 but that has changed because I am no longer blitzing to Maat's Cap. So I figure if there is no super rush I might as well enjoy the jobs I plan on doing which I would really like to work on SAM.

SAM shouldn't be too hard to get to at least 66 but the thought of taking it straight to 75 has crossed my mind as well. This is one of those jobs that I think would be really good to have because of how powerful SAMs are now. Me being Elvaan really is nice because then I have my base STR to fall back on for my WSs. As far as gear for SAM I don't think I would need too much I don't already have, except for getting some gear back from Disdain that he still has. I think he has my Chiv Chain and my Assault Earring which the earring I'm not as worried about but when I hit 60 the Chiv Chain I will want back. If you're reading Disdain, gimme back mah stuff, and while you're at it just come back to the game. :P

This evening I have to go put up more dry wall in my brother's garage, /hurray! Hopefully we won't be there long though so I can come home, finish my BST AF with Khrone's help, do escort and choco race to finish my DRG to 50, then probably go work on my DRG AF so I can eventually go store that too. After I get some of that done I am hoping to get back to leveling my PLD because I really want to finish it to 50 this weekend or even by tomorrow night. I have a ring charge left on this ring, but then I can still recharge it. So theoretically I could double ring tonight and then get another ring charge in tomorrow to finish my PLD off.

Goals for this weekend: PLD to 50, DRG to 50, finish BST AF, start DRG AF, and get SMN ready to roll which shouldn't take long.

Quote of the Day:
It's not who I am underneath, but what I *do* that defines me.
- Batman in Batman Begins

Iron Man

I thought it was a really good movie. They had some good comedy in it but they still kept to a plot. I would have to say I give it a 2 thumbs up and highly recommend it to anyone.

As for in game updates... Just sky farming again and it just seemed like nobody was really ontop of their game. We only got SC, Faust, and MG last night. I guess SC and Faust went well but MG was pretty ugly. Basically you just have to keep the tank alive and you're fine. Needless to say the first time we didn't, and then the 2nd time the puller pulled the slaves waaaaaaaay past the BLMs so we couldn't -ga them down and killed half the alliance again. It was sad to see us do that poorly on a mob that isn't that hard. The first time we were doing really well except a few times when the other BLM didn't know how to stun because my stun wasn't back up yet. But then we still had 3 RDMs there and none of them were curing the PLD when he was getting down into red HP. How do you not cure when he's in the red? Whatever, it was just one bad MG run that on the 3rd try we did without almost any hitch and went down very fast actually. It just seemed like people all of a sudden started trying.

Sadly because last night I got out of work late I didn't even have time for some RB2. Then when I went to my RL stuff I came back and decided to just watch Iron Man which I thought was well worth the time. After that I had about 30 minutes before sky so I just went up and we were trying to get Despot to pop with no luck.

Tonight will be a night of gods and hopefully 2xKirin. The only 2 gods I really want to do are Kirin and Byakko because they are really the only 2 that I want stuff from. Other gods do drop some nice pieces of gear like the Heca gear or another piece of Dryadic gear, but basically I just want B Haidate, W Legs (as if you couldn't tell by the name of my blog), and then eventually the Heca and Dryadic gear. Here's to hoping for a VERY fruitful night.

Quote of the Day:
Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing.
- Tony Stark in Iron Man

Le Sigh

Well we did almost a full double circuit of gods twice. I think we did 2 Byakko, 2 Sieryu, 2? Suza, 1 Genbu, and then 1 Kirin. From all of those gods almost nothing of interest dropped. No Byakko Haidates and only a Kirin's Pole from Kirin. We did a little bit of NM popping before we did gods but that was only to finish off pops sets so we could do a bunch. Hopefully we can get some more diorite because we have tons of half Byakko pop sets. This week has been kind of a bust so far on getting people gear in sky. I don't think we got 1 really good piece of gear to drop from a god.

Tonight will be more sky farming since we always need more pop sets. Then tomorrow will be more gods and hopefully 2x Kirin. I just really hope we can get some more B. Haidates to drop because I want one and I know Khrone does too but there are still about 6 others that want them too. We will hopefully have some good luck diorite farming tonight so we can pop 2 more Byakko on Thursday. Then Kirin better start putting out some W Legs or I'm gonna get pissed. Kirin needs to be putting out more than just Osodes too because I'm sure there are a bunch of people hopeing to get N body and D body outside of the long line for W Legs.

As for tonight for myself I have some RL stuff to do when I get home from work which means I'll have time to play some RB2 before I have to leave. Then when I come back I'm going to try to get a level or two on my PLD. Hopefully I can get PLD to 45 tonight since I'm already about halfway through 43 and I have a ring charge to use. I am just looking forward to the hopeful progress I will make this weekend because I will have so much free time. Maybe I'll even try to throw together a small group to go to floor 20 on Nyzul Isle.

Quote of the Day:
The Oracle: I have your word?
The Architect: What do you think I am? Human?
- Matrix Revolutions

Here Comes the Boom

I finally did it, I used my merits that I had been saving up. I was up to 8 merits that I was sitting on and finally decided to use them on my BLM since I will probably be using it a lot more than I'm doing end game again. Since my Elemental Magic skill is already capped at 8/8 I decided to bring the pain with my BLM and dump the merits into ice and lightning potency. I now have 3 upgrades to ice potency and 2 upgrades to lightning potency. The crappy part about all of this is that I STILL can't break 1k on my tier 4 nukes on a golem. This needs to be fixed either through gear or merits. I mean I could break down and finally spend some gil on a job and upgrade some of my BLM gear, but honestly I'm not really interested in upgrading my BLM at all unless it is an inexpensive upgrade like how my Yigit gear was or the free Jet Seraweels.

As for other things I did last night. I got 2 levels on my PLD which was a definite plus. The first party I was in was pretty good and we cruised pretty well. But the second party was really good and I did a majority of my own curing because Auto Refresh and the spell Refresh are amazing. It is great to be able to sit there and tank and not really worry too much about needing to rely on someone else to be curing you and making sure you stay alive. In the second party I think there were actually 2 sets of couples, 2 of whom I know were married and 2 of which I think just lived together. Israphael was a cool dude and the whole group in general was fun and could take jokes and dish them right back out. I like parties where its not just a grind but you get to actually have fun talking to people too. That party would've left me at 44 but sadly I had to run up to sky to get some more points.

As far as sky, it was just another night of farming. Got a diorite, but not from Ulli room, 2 Despots, a bunch of Gem of the Souths, and an SC. I think that was all we got which is still a good run because that leaves us with a bunch of gods and a Kirin tonight and more gods and possibly 2 Kirins on Thursday. This will be nice to have tons of gear getting distributed and possibly being able to snag some of the lesser gear that I would like to have. I am just excited to be doing lots of gods because it always moves me that much closer to getting what I really want.

Quote of the Day:
Me: How many times has Sush died tonight?
Linkshell: None
Me: What are you guys doing wrong then?
***15 minutes later***
Me: Its about time Sush died lol

Gotta Love Halloween

This weekend was a fun weekend besides feeling really sick last night. Lots of going around to bars to see all the sexy costumes that girls were wearing, and let me tell you my jaw definitely dropped on some. I just wish I could've taken in the sites a little more but having my gf at my hip all the time kinda brings ya down. Oh, and some girl was flashing her thong around at the one bar. My gf wasn't so happy that I saw that... oh well. :D

Outside of RL stuff I didn't really do anything in game. I did do some more sky farming and we FINALLY got a diorite. It had literally been a week drought of diorite. The water farming I guess went well too because they got 2 last night. From what I heard if we get another diorite we can do 2 of each god this week and possibly 3 Kirins. This is what I joined this LS for, spamming gods and Kirins. I should already be in the hunt for gear that I want in about a week or 2 because I'm flying up there in points because I haven't missed any sky since I joined. Last week I got 28 points which is already halfway to B. Haidate and I'm not ranked 42 already. I would guess by the end of this week I will have about 60 points and be in the top 25 or so. My only worry is I don't know how many people ahead of me want/need W Legs and B Haidate. Haidate I'm not as worried about because it seems to drop at a decent rate, but W Legs has a seemingly low drop rate. I guess I should be less worried about W Legs since I am still sitting on almost a full Kirin pop set to maybe take to another LS and see if I can just take 1 item and then they get the rest. From my pop set I would at least get an Osode, N Body, D Body, or HOPEFULLY W Legs. Osode would definitely be at the bottom of my list because I can always just buy that and since the price seems to be slowly going down and is not really THAT great for what I would use it for. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I think I will settle in on getting B Haidate first and then snag whatever other gear I can like other Dryadic gear or Neptunal gear.

As for this evening, I am probably going to crank out a few levels on my PLD. I don't have anything outside of laundry to do tonight which is GLORIOUS. I mean I could go do my escort tonight or choco race to try to finish my DRG so I can get going on finishing my AF for DRG since I have all the necessary keys. Honestly I need to finish off my BST AF too because I am just waiting to do my last quest which I REALLY need to finish off. Ugh, so much to do I don't know what to do first!
Priority list for tonight:
1) PLD
2) BST AF (if I can get some help because I'm pretty sure I can't solo it)
3) choco race/escort to finish off DRG to 50
4) (only if DRG is 50) DRG AF quests

There, now I have a list. Let's see if I can stick to it.

Quote of the Day:
Robert Langdon: The ancient male symbol was the blade, it's a basic phallus. It's still used today on military uniforms.
Sir Leigh Teabing: Yes, and the more penises you have, the higher your rank. Boys will be boys!
- The Da Vinci Code (the movie)