I Bring the Pain

Last night Khrone and I did a little duoing out in Eastern Altepa before we went to do some Avatar fights with Arckk. While we were out there I got to show Khrone what kind of damage a real THF can do on those pets. I was starting off just doing SATA on him because Screamin would pull hate pretty easily with me loading him up with enmity gear. I would do about 200 or so damage per SATA which isn't too bad since the pets only have about 400-500 HP. Once I showed him what a SATA + Viper Bite looked like he was quite shocked. After the 320ish damage from that I asked him to do a little parsing. I think we were about 3 mobs into parsing and he said I was doing about 75% of the damage because he couldn't swing fast enough and WS fast enough. What was really funny is that I basically just SATA'd and that was it too. He was the only one doing any real melee damage. On actual mobs he would probably destroy me though. lol

When Arckk got back on we went and killed Shiva and Ifrit which were both pretty easy except for Ifrit's 2hr which actually did 1300+ damage on Screamin to which I was VERY shocked. Granted that was more Arckk's fault because he didn't have Barfira up at that point. Oh well, he only lost like 200 exp and he's only about 400 from recapping exp again anyways.

Its nice doing things with friends again, I like the relaxed atmosphere. Lazy exp with Khrone is nice too because I'm helping him out, but at the same time I'm getting THF to 50 in hopes of my goals. My THF is now 44 by the way, so only 6 more levels before I can be done with THF for a long time. Hopefully I can find some parties that will let my THF be a THF for once.

I know its blasphemous but I am starting to contemplate end game again because I'm seeing all these people that I used to play with in other LSs have all this nice gear and I'm just kinda getting left in the dust in that aspect. I want to have that nice gear to show for all the work that I'm doing too. Its nice to have the versatility that I will eventually have but then again none of my newer jobs to 75 will have any GOOD gear because I haven't spent any time doing end game. I know I shouldn't pick on Khrone, but its so easy because he's my brother, but I look at him and all his talking about wanting to pimp his only 75 job and he's not really doing anything about it. He has a dynamis shell but can't go to most of the events because they are all places that he can't go to since he is still waiting for his Windy clear. But I know that he really should join a sky LS because no matter how long a line is for specific gear there is no way he's going to get it unless he gets in that line. I just don't want to see him waste a lot of time in game like I did the first 2 or 3 years. The other thing is that I could EASILY get him into an LS because I know a few good people out there. Meh, I really am feeling less and less accomplished in game as this is going on. I need to find some way to rekindle my desire to level and get stuff done.

Tonight will hopefully be getting a few more levels on my THF with Khrone on his SAM. Besides that I don't really have anything else to do. Maybe I could go run around and make sure I have all the tuning forks for both myself and Screamin so I don't have to hold people up like I did last night. After that I could try to finish up the rest of my AF weapon fights and quests. So I potentially have a filled evening. Although its very tempting to go run up to sky with Sush's LS...

Quote of the Day:
Me: I almost stopped down the hall to get a taco.
Rick: Down on the 2nd floor? Because I could go for some tacos.
- Now this doesn't sound funny without a little back story ... Just before the meeting that Rick said that in I told him there were a lot of women that worked on th 2nd floor of that building. Now use your perverted mind and you got 1 HILARIOUS comment from a guy about 20 years older than me. lol


And a little bonus reading for SMN:
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/jobs.html?fjob=15;mid=1221367955244698150;num=86;page=1