A Moment of Silence Please

Please bow your heads and take a moment of silence for another fallen friend.
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Ara will be missed. One thing I ask is never delete your character, just cancel it. Because there is always the chance that you will get bored with life and wish to come back again. That being said, I wish you the best of luck in life and LotR.

Well, knowing that Ara is gone now kinda blows the idea that I had yesterday at lunch of having a bunch of friends go through my happy camp and just exp for hours and just have fun with it. Oh well, it was a good idea. lol I mean I guess I could grab random people to go there and exp with me but it wouldn't be as fun so I guess I will just have to make some more friends then eh?

As far as last night goes... I actually got 4 levels on my DRK. For one, I thought I only got like 2 levels but then when I realized where I started last night I figured out I did a lot better than I expected. I was so busy not really paying attention to the game I kept leveling and not really noticed because I watched USF fall to Pitt in college football last night. It was quite refreshing to have an "average" party for once that I didn't really have to pay attention to and just kind of cruise through it. I honestly was happy getting anywhere from 5k-7k/hr and just relaxing through it all.

The party wasn't terrible or anything but I think we could've done better at a different camp because the beetles in Western Alepa just weren't cutting it for us. It was kind of sad because I was barely trying and I was dominating in damage over the 2 MNKs. Granted I was actually using sushi over the meat that the one MNK was using which I think at that point sushi was a lot better since it was a whiff fest without Madrigal. Now I can slide right into bitching about people not knowing how to do their jobs.

Yup, retards galore again, but I wasn't really bothered by any of it except one part. The one MNK kept provoking at the start of the fight. Why the hell would a MNK provoke at the start of a fight? It boggles my mind since the PLD tanking would be the one voking. I really wanted to slap the japanese MNK that was doing it because he obviously just liked getting hit or something. Other than that we had a BRD that just didn't understand how to be a good BRD or something. He would cast songs on us and would understand about trying to give the PLD and myself ballad to keep our MP up which was good. The problem came in on knowing when to pull and how to pull. Occasionally we would have no songs at all AND THEN he would run away to pull. Why would a BRD run away from a group when they have no songs when the whole point of a BRD is to give the songs to the party? Then the BRD just was pulling way too slow at first. He would actually wait til the mob died then take about a minute to just run out and find another mob. Eventually he started to understand to pull before the mob actually died, but here's the thing, he started pulling when the current mob was at 70% health still. Why on God's green Earth would you pull a second mob at 70% when it was taking us a while to kill it? Not to mention he would run to pull the next mob when we were sitting there without songs occasionally. Some things just baffle me, especially the simple problems like our party was having, a provoking MNK and a BRD that doesn't know how to keep songs on you.

I am happy that I got 4 levels on my DRK though. The only problem I have now is that I am going to need to start skilling up my GS and Scythe. I was talking with Swifman and he was saying the same thing about his mid-50s DRK. His skills are starting to fall behind because he keeps level syncing down which is great to get a party, but in the long run you will have to spend that extra time skilling up your weapons again. In my case its no real problem because all I would have to do is take Screamin out with me and go whack away on some Robber Crabs and catch up pretty quickly. I could even skill most of my weapons on my WAR which is fantastic so I could actually get ahead of the curve if I really wanted. I think having WAR at 75 already will really help my weapon skill levels greatly in the long run of Maat's Cap.

As for tonight and this weekend my gf is still trying to decide whether she is coming home or not so depending on her will decide how much free time I have. If she doesn't come home I should have DRK and DRG done some time on Sunday, but if she does I will still probably be working on DRK on Sunday. I know I shouldn't say it, but deep down inside I hope she doesn't come home.

I'd post a goal for this weekend but I don't know how much free time I will have so I will just leave it open for as much progress as I can get in.

Quote of the Day:
I wanna get in trouble
I wanna start a fight
- from Pink's new song "So What"