This was a long weekend that I couldn't so much enjoy in FFXI. I had a lot of RL stuff going on this weekend like Screamineagle's wedding, girl friend being in town, and taking care of my girl friend who got really sick and I had to take her to Urgent Care on Sunday morning so she didn't even go with me to the wedding.
First off I would like a moment of silence for our departed brother, Screamineagle, who has retired from FFXI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thank you. He informed me this weekend that he had actually already canceled his account so it would cease to be at the end of this month. I have greatfully taken over payments so I now officially have a permanent PL and doubt I will ever take PLD to 75 on my char because his PLD is already quite decked out. There are some other things I would like to polish off on his character now that he is basically mine. I want to continue with his Fishing so it can kind of be a side project to make myself some extra gil. Also, I would like to finish off his BST to 75 just to have another of his jobs done and out of the way. When he gets back from his honeymoon he is supposed to send me his macro set so I at least have a good start on what he has used all of these years and I won't have to reinvent the wheel to finish off his BST. This is also an excellent time for me to start getting good at dual boxing. At some point I think I will go out and start just killing mobs using both myself and him just to get used to each job and knowing what I need to do to keep both going at a minimum of 80% efficiency.
One thing that I did accomplish this weekend, or will be accomplished today, is getting more guild point items. As of right now I am 700 guild point items away from getting back to my Bonecraft which hasn't been touched in over a month because of the lack of guild points. My next 11.6 levels on my BC will be a huge sink in gil unless I go farm my own coral fragments which will take quite a while. I think I am going to go farm coral while Disdain's computer is down and out with some power supply issues so I can at least cut the costs of my BC slightly. Although, I did estimate that I could make my way to 80 BC with the gil I have on me right now and approximately end with 1M after all of my items sell after hitting 80. The one thing that would be REALLY exciting about that is that I could have a consistent money maker then because of RR hairpins. Having that would help out exponentially in being able to afford Salvage gear.
Outside of guild point items I was not able to accomplish much in game. I did some Salvage but nothing dropped and the group leader got REALLY angry because people were making some dumb decisions and people died a few times for no good reason at all besides lack of concentration.
After Salvage last night I decided I would actually try to go merit for a while. I got a whoping 0 exp and -200 ISP because of using a portal that we never ended up exping at. We get the whole party together, some people go out to a camp and don't say anything so we expect that there is a camp open. Get all the way out there and only 1 person is saying anything. He is only saying that all the camps are taken and that we would have to move somewhere else and if everyone else is ok with that. At this point NO ONE else is saying anything so after sitting in B. Thickets for about 30 min and doing nothing the RNG left and then the party just disbanded. This is what I get for trying a pick up party. Too bad there wasn't anyone on my LS that was up for meriting because it would've been nice to get some extra merits under my belt. Such is life I suppose.
Hopeful things to do tonight
- get Khrone, who is now 70MNK, another MNK Testimony because he lost to Maat
- merit
- farm coral fragments (which I just realized I could do at the same time as getting his his Test because it drops from the mobs that I'd be killing anyways)
- do some assaults for once since I am really starting to hurt for points
That should be plenty of stuff to keep my busy for this evening.
Quote of the Day:
I AM BEOWULF!!!
(which btw wasn't all that great of a movie, I was very unimpressed with the story but that graphics were really good)
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