Lately my craving for the grind of exp has been tailing off. This is really bad for me trying to hit my goal of end of the year for Maat's Cap because unless I stay hardcore for the next 2 months I have no chance. At the same time I knew this day was coming because there is no way I could keep up that sort of grind for that long.
Last night I really got nothing accomplished in game on my character. I really only geared up my THF and then sat around looking for a party. While I was looking for the party I was messing around with Screamineagle's 73BST. I was doing decently well on it but there is still some getting used to the macros that Screamin set up. Some of the macros just aren't as intuitive to me as I would hope. For instance, he has seperate macros for equiping his charm gear and his CHR gear and another macro for actually charming. To me, I think those should be consolidated into 1 or 2 macros at the most. CHR is used for Charm accuracy and so is the light staff which makes me think that they should be one in the same macro if possible, but also when he has such a simple Charm macro like he does I don't see why he couldn't at least combine 2 of them. I may have to do some rewriting of some of his macros but for the most part I think his macros are pretty good becuase he has the regular pet macros like fight, stay, etc. He also has macros for equiping his attack gear for himself like his Hauby or his attack rings and earrings. Those are macros I will definitely need when I get to that point on my BST.
For the most part I am just trying to get a feel for how beastmaster works again and more of how it works at higher levels. I have already discovered that I'm picking it up pretty quickly and I even had a few good moves, like when I discovered that one of my pet's moves was an AoE move and got aggro from another mob I just uncharmed my mob then recharmed it and went back on my way to killing. It was good to see that it was almost instinct for me to do that because it shows that I could probably jump back into BST pretty quickly since it is definitely a different kind of job to level.
I suppose I won't even set any sort of goal for this evening because I don't really feel that I have that strong urge to go exp. Maybe now would be a good time to go back and get some of the AF I should be working on. Or another option is to finish Screamin's BST to 74 so I can get his AF+1 legs completed and then redo his AF legs and get my AF legs while I'm at it. This is all stuff I will need to do anyways so I guess I might as well start doing it now while I'm not really in the mood for exp.
Quote of the Day:
Sometimes, truth isn't good enough, sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.
- Batman, The Dark Knight
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
@ 200
200 levels to go!!! I didn't realize until this morning but I guess me hitting 49 on DRG last night but me right at 200 to go til Maat's Cap. Wooooooo hooooooooooooo!
Last night was another night filled with RL stuff. Got my hair cut right after work and it was a total disaster! The guy obviously in his "20 years of experience" hasn't learned how to cut my hair correctly. I am probably going to have to get it retrimmed because he buzzed the front of my hair and left the top long. At first glance at the barber shop it looked good but when I got home I realized how TERRIBLE it really was. I mean the front part of my hair is maybe 1/3 of an inch long and the hair ontop of my head is about an inch long .... WHO DOES THAT?! Anyways, after that I had to go buy a tuxedo which was actually pretty inexpensive. Then I had enough time after that to run home and grab some toast and test out my knee at volleyball. I only played the last of the 3 games but my knee was feeling pretty good at that point. This morning it isn't feeling tip top shape so I'm thinking the only 1 night a week thing is probably best ... well 1 night a week at most.
Once I finished all of that I got home and watched the rest of the Presidential Debate and then hoped on to get my 2 levels on DRG. I have finally figured out how to spawn the raptor somewhere else ... just keep killing it until it spawns somewhere else. lol But once the raptor was gone I got my DRG rolling through the exp, or at least rolling for as much as I was paying attention. I always seem to get distracted now-a-days and my exp starts to tail off. When I started I was doing about 9k/hr with my ring and at one point I dropped to as low as 3.5k/hr without my ring. Of the whole time I was out there I was probably averaging about 6k/hr, which is still pretty good solo.
I'm definitely looking forward to 51 and the uncapping of exp. It is going to be great to be able to break through that 300 exp at chain 5 cap and see like 500 exp chain 5s ... if I can do it. AU parties I think will roll really well because its like the level 37 Colibri camp without an exp cap. This is just bringing me closer and closer to my goal and I'm getting excited about it.
The only problem I see is that when I actually get my jobs high enough to do end game and get gear for them I won't have any points or anything to actually get gear. Like I said in yesterday's post I am thinking about joining Sush's Sky LS just to start to gain some points and see if I can snag any gear I can from them. The only problem with that is if they fold before I get what I want ... like every other LS I've been in. I have actually also considered joining Swifman's HNM LS to see if I can use my almost complete Kirin pop set there to get myself W Legs ... which would be AMAZING. I don't know how I feel about camping HNMs and stuff though. The only bonus I can see to that is that while camping I can play my PS3 more or my Wii more and actually get more use out of those systems.
For basically the past week I have just been saying no to do stuff with Swifman and I feel bad because of it since he's almost always looking for something to do, even if its just exping his DRK. And since I told him I couldn't do Nyzul Isle with him again last night I decided that tonight when he gets on I'll try to put together a party and go to my favorite level 37 camp. My only problem I can see is that I would really like to have a DNC in the party because I know that Screamin's MP is going to run out pretty quickly so having that extra healing power to back me up could help a lot. I realize that that is one less big DD to have but it is still an attacker with healing skills. I'd rather have lower exp/hr that people dying because I have 0 MP to cure them with. The added bonus of being in the past is that I can give Screamin the extra Sigil refresh which should help a lot.
As for this evening, well, if all goes according to plan my THF will go from 37 to 41 pretty swiftly. If that goes according to plan maybe I can snag another level 37 person to fly through some more exp. I would've liked to have had THF done already because I highly doubt I'm going to hit my goal of all jobs to 50 by Oct 19th. Maybe I will rearrange my goal a little and say all jobs and at least most AF done by end of October. That sounds like a more reasonable goal for where I currently am. My biggest problem spot for AF is going to be Garbage Citadel since you technically need 4 people to basically keep running around through there to get keys and pop coffers. There is the trick where you can go to the past and then run to the one part where coffers are but there are only about 3 of the 7 coffer spots behind that door, but I guess its better than nothing right?
Quote of the Day:
Well I couldn't decide on a single quote but instead I will leave you with another blog to read ... trust me I was laughing so hard I was crying at some points in it.
http://bannable-offenses.blogspot.com/2008/10/someone-shoot-me.html
Last night was another night filled with RL stuff. Got my hair cut right after work and it was a total disaster! The guy obviously in his "20 years of experience" hasn't learned how to cut my hair correctly. I am probably going to have to get it retrimmed because he buzzed the front of my hair and left the top long. At first glance at the barber shop it looked good but when I got home I realized how TERRIBLE it really was. I mean the front part of my hair is maybe 1/3 of an inch long and the hair ontop of my head is about an inch long .... WHO DOES THAT?! Anyways, after that I had to go buy a tuxedo which was actually pretty inexpensive. Then I had enough time after that to run home and grab some toast and test out my knee at volleyball. I only played the last of the 3 games but my knee was feeling pretty good at that point. This morning it isn't feeling tip top shape so I'm thinking the only 1 night a week thing is probably best ... well 1 night a week at most.
Once I finished all of that I got home and watched the rest of the Presidential Debate and then hoped on to get my 2 levels on DRG. I have finally figured out how to spawn the raptor somewhere else ... just keep killing it until it spawns somewhere else. lol But once the raptor was gone I got my DRG rolling through the exp, or at least rolling for as much as I was paying attention. I always seem to get distracted now-a-days and my exp starts to tail off. When I started I was doing about 9k/hr with my ring and at one point I dropped to as low as 3.5k/hr without my ring. Of the whole time I was out there I was probably averaging about 6k/hr, which is still pretty good solo.
I'm definitely looking forward to 51 and the uncapping of exp. It is going to be great to be able to break through that 300 exp at chain 5 cap and see like 500 exp chain 5s ... if I can do it. AU parties I think will roll really well because its like the level 37 Colibri camp without an exp cap. This is just bringing me closer and closer to my goal and I'm getting excited about it.
The only problem I see is that when I actually get my jobs high enough to do end game and get gear for them I won't have any points or anything to actually get gear. Like I said in yesterday's post I am thinking about joining Sush's Sky LS just to start to gain some points and see if I can snag any gear I can from them. The only problem with that is if they fold before I get what I want ... like every other LS I've been in. I have actually also considered joining Swifman's HNM LS to see if I can use my almost complete Kirin pop set there to get myself W Legs ... which would be AMAZING. I don't know how I feel about camping HNMs and stuff though. The only bonus I can see to that is that while camping I can play my PS3 more or my Wii more and actually get more use out of those systems.
For basically the past week I have just been saying no to do stuff with Swifman and I feel bad because of it since he's almost always looking for something to do, even if its just exping his DRK. And since I told him I couldn't do Nyzul Isle with him again last night I decided that tonight when he gets on I'll try to put together a party and go to my favorite level 37 camp. My only problem I can see is that I would really like to have a DNC in the party because I know that Screamin's MP is going to run out pretty quickly so having that extra healing power to back me up could help a lot. I realize that that is one less big DD to have but it is still an attacker with healing skills. I'd rather have lower exp/hr that people dying because I have 0 MP to cure them with. The added bonus of being in the past is that I can give Screamin the extra Sigil refresh which should help a lot.
As for this evening, well, if all goes according to plan my THF will go from 37 to 41 pretty swiftly. If that goes according to plan maybe I can snag another level 37 person to fly through some more exp. I would've liked to have had THF done already because I highly doubt I'm going to hit my goal of all jobs to 50 by Oct 19th. Maybe I will rearrange my goal a little and say all jobs and at least most AF done by end of October. That sounds like a more reasonable goal for where I currently am. My biggest problem spot for AF is going to be Garbage Citadel since you technically need 4 people to basically keep running around through there to get keys and pop coffers. There is the trick where you can go to the past and then run to the one part where coffers are but there are only about 3 of the 7 coffer spots behind that door, but I guess its better than nothing right?
Quote of the Day:
Well I couldn't decide on a single quote but instead I will leave you with another blog to read ... trust me I was laughing so hard I was crying at some points in it.
http://bannable-offenses.blogspot.com/2008/10/someone-shoot-me.html
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Busy...
RL is killin me! I wasn't able to get online until about 11:30 last night because I just had so much to do in RL and I have a ton more to do today. I still need to go grocery shopping and go find a tuxedo today and then wake up early tomorrow to take my car in to get maintenanced. Besides that I may be able to sneak in some decent leveling later tonight and hopefully hitting 50 tonight on DRG, but I'm not holding my breath.
Last night I did pretty well in my little solo spot in Cape Teriggan. At one point I was holding at about 16k/hr with my ring on. Then of course it tailed off and I kept getting sidetracked watching whatever was on TV so my productivity dwindled down to about 6 or 7k/hr. It was a relaxing pace and no pressure pushing me towards it which was fantastic. I really like how I have these goals to hit but since they are my goals and I'm not sharing them with an LS where I have to be somewhere at a certain time and I can change my goals whenever I want its very care free.
Tonight after I finish all of my RL stuff I would like to hit 50 on DRG but that will all depend on how lucky I am I guess. I will probably just stay in Teriggan for another level with my flag up and hopefully snag a party to help me move along to 50. There is always the possibilty of me setting up my own party but I just haven't had that drive to do it lately. As long as I can keep some progress going whenever I can I will be happy.
I have also been debating more and more joining an end game LS that I can come and go as I want to just start building up some points for when I actually get jobs that can use some of the gear like the 3 Shura pieces I would like from Sky (body, head, and legs), B Haidate, W legs, Kirin's Osode, and other random junk that would be really nice to have from Sky. The biggest problem is that I know it would cut severely into my exp time and I'm not really a fan of that. I have also thought about asking Sush if I could just be a purely part timer, like if I get bored of exp for a night I could run up there and go farm and kill gods with them or something. In my mind that sounds good and they could always use me on whatever job like BRD, BLM, RDM, or WAR ... or I could even go up on Screamin and tank for them if necessary. But this is all just possibility stuff that has crossed my mind and such. This still isn't set in stone but I may ask him about it some time.
I don't really have much else to say so I'll just leave it at hopefully 50 on DRG tonight, but doubtful. Besides that just getting my RL stuff done to get back to finishing DRG.
Quote of the Day:
Look at how those legs go all the way up and make an ass out of themselves.
- Steven Tyler in Be Cool
Last night I did pretty well in my little solo spot in Cape Teriggan. At one point I was holding at about 16k/hr with my ring on. Then of course it tailed off and I kept getting sidetracked watching whatever was on TV so my productivity dwindled down to about 6 or 7k/hr. It was a relaxing pace and no pressure pushing me towards it which was fantastic. I really like how I have these goals to hit but since they are my goals and I'm not sharing them with an LS where I have to be somewhere at a certain time and I can change my goals whenever I want its very care free.
Tonight after I finish all of my RL stuff I would like to hit 50 on DRG but that will all depend on how lucky I am I guess. I will probably just stay in Teriggan for another level with my flag up and hopefully snag a party to help me move along to 50. There is always the possibilty of me setting up my own party but I just haven't had that drive to do it lately. As long as I can keep some progress going whenever I can I will be happy.
I have also been debating more and more joining an end game LS that I can come and go as I want to just start building up some points for when I actually get jobs that can use some of the gear like the 3 Shura pieces I would like from Sky (body, head, and legs), B Haidate, W legs, Kirin's Osode, and other random junk that would be really nice to have from Sky. The biggest problem is that I know it would cut severely into my exp time and I'm not really a fan of that. I have also thought about asking Sush if I could just be a purely part timer, like if I get bored of exp for a night I could run up there and go farm and kill gods with them or something. In my mind that sounds good and they could always use me on whatever job like BRD, BLM, RDM, or WAR ... or I could even go up on Screamin and tank for them if necessary. But this is all just possibility stuff that has crossed my mind and such. This still isn't set in stone but I may ask him about it some time.
I don't really have much else to say so I'll just leave it at hopefully 50 on DRG tonight, but doubtful. Besides that just getting my RL stuff done to get back to finishing DRG.
Quote of the Day:
Look at how those legs go all the way up and make an ass out of themselves.
- Steven Tyler in Be Cool
Monday, October 6, 2008
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I come bearing more bad news, its seems as though Hybridkiller is now also retiring from the game. He is moving out to the middle of no where to move in with his girl friend. As he plays on his PS2 he will probably have problems getting internet to a room he needs it and a TV to play on. The worst part of all of this is he is talking about selling off his characters which honestly I think is a terrible idea because there is always the possibility of him wanting to come back down the road. But that's his call and sadly not mine. He said he would sell them to me if I wanted them but I've vowed never to buy an account because where is the sense of accomplishment there? I accepted Screamineagle because it was given to me by an RL friend but that is the extent of me "buying" an account is paying for a second.
Moving away from the sad stuff ... I did my escort quest on Saturday and used it on my MNK which is now 50, YAY. This weekend was also devoted to at least finishing my DRK and starting my DRG which was also accomplished. My DRK is now 50 and my DRG is now 45.
I just have not been having luck with my pet camp out in Cape Terrigan until later last night. Finally the raptor didn't respawn and then I could just run back and forth between the 2 goblins swiping pets and rocking out some good exp again. It is nice seeing about 6 or 7k solo (with a PL of course) without much trouble. What is also great is watching the damage you can do to a pet.
So I have been using my parser again and I have noticed a few things about DRK and DRG. One is either I know how to play them really well or people don't know how to play their DD jobs well. Also, DRK and DRG are some massive DDs and the DRG's wyvern is SOOOOO underrated. In the time that I was parsing with my DRK I was only outdone once and that was on bats where I couldn't land any of my Absorbs or Drain or Aspir for diddly which actually does take away from a DRK. I was outdone by that MNK by about 2 or 3% in the end which doesn't sound like much but over time it adds up.
Then on DRG, WOW, people underestimate the damage that the wyvern can do. I was in a party out in Western Alepa Desert with an amazing party: NIN, DNC, SCH, DRK, DRG (me), and BRD. This party was occasionally hitting chain 6s and we weren't being PL'd, now THATS a party. I also parsed this party and noticed that alone my DRG was doing about 36% of the overall damage, which isn't too bad since the DRK was only doing about 25%. Then I realized, hey, there's Firewing's damage too..... /jawdrops If I remember correctly, the NIN was doing about 18% and the DNC was doing about 12% and Firewing was doing about 12%... yes, my wyvern was doing about the same amount of damage as the DNC and not too much less than the NIN.... WOW! So if you add in myself with my wyvern, I was doing about 50% of the damage in that party! DRGs fuggin ROCK! Its not even like I was super decked out or had uber gear, its just that my damage output so great. I know I've said it before but all you people who still think DRG can't be a good DD, YOU'RE RETARDED!
Moving backwards a little again to DRK. I was actually surprised at the damage I was putting out on DRK when my Scythe was almost never capped and my weapon skill was basically just an extra swing and didn't do any great damage, which is another reason why that MNK bested me in damage, he had Raging Fists and I had Nightmare Scythe. I'm kind of excited to see what DRK can do with an actually decent weapon skill like possibly Vorpal Scythe or definitely Guillotine. I think I did decide that in order to just keep my weapons up to scratch though I will go with GS for my next weapon as it seems a lot better than any other weapon at 50 and it should basically be a free item for me as its just an Allied Notes weapon from Windy.
As for RL, I saw a different physical therapist today since my regular one is out of town this week and he gave me some new tips on what I should be doing to hasten my return to athletics. He is actually more of a sports therapist which is actually right up my alley since that is EXACTLY what I need my leg for. He told me about using one of those thin straps for tendons as it helps relieve the strain on it and he told me to specifically ice under my knee cap. This is because the actual inflamation that I have is under my knee cap so when I ice it I should use an ice cube for 2 minutes while pushing on the top of my knee cap to raise it to more directly apply the cold. Outside of that I need to just constantly stretch basically. I'm pumped because this is giving me hope that I could be back to volleyball within a month. :D
Goal for tonight: As I don't really feel the push anymore and I have some RL stuff to do I will just say DRG to 47 or maaaaaybe 48 depending on how lucky I am with my solo camp.
Quote of the Day:
How much do you think I could get for my other character.
- Hybridkiller talking BLASPHEMY about selling his characters
Bonus QotD:
But ultimately what the bailout does is, help those that are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy to help...uh...it's gotta be all about job creation, too.
- Tina Fey as Gov. Palin .... oh man I haven't laughed that hard in a while!
Moving away from the sad stuff ... I did my escort quest on Saturday and used it on my MNK which is now 50, YAY. This weekend was also devoted to at least finishing my DRK and starting my DRG which was also accomplished. My DRK is now 50 and my DRG is now 45.
I just have not been having luck with my pet camp out in Cape Terrigan until later last night. Finally the raptor didn't respawn and then I could just run back and forth between the 2 goblins swiping pets and rocking out some good exp again. It is nice seeing about 6 or 7k solo (with a PL of course) without much trouble. What is also great is watching the damage you can do to a pet.
So I have been using my parser again and I have noticed a few things about DRK and DRG. One is either I know how to play them really well or people don't know how to play their DD jobs well. Also, DRK and DRG are some massive DDs and the DRG's wyvern is SOOOOO underrated. In the time that I was parsing with my DRK I was only outdone once and that was on bats where I couldn't land any of my Absorbs or Drain or Aspir for diddly which actually does take away from a DRK. I was outdone by that MNK by about 2 or 3% in the end which doesn't sound like much but over time it adds up.
Then on DRG, WOW, people underestimate the damage that the wyvern can do. I was in a party out in Western Alepa Desert with an amazing party: NIN, DNC, SCH, DRK, DRG (me), and BRD. This party was occasionally hitting chain 6s and we weren't being PL'd, now THATS a party. I also parsed this party and noticed that alone my DRG was doing about 36% of the overall damage, which isn't too bad since the DRK was only doing about 25%. Then I realized, hey, there's Firewing's damage too..... /jawdrops If I remember correctly, the NIN was doing about 18% and the DNC was doing about 12% and Firewing was doing about 12%... yes, my wyvern was doing about the same amount of damage as the DNC and not too much less than the NIN.... WOW! So if you add in myself with my wyvern, I was doing about 50% of the damage in that party! DRGs fuggin ROCK! Its not even like I was super decked out or had uber gear, its just that my damage output so great. I know I've said it before but all you people who still think DRG can't be a good DD, YOU'RE RETARDED!
Moving backwards a little again to DRK. I was actually surprised at the damage I was putting out on DRK when my Scythe was almost never capped and my weapon skill was basically just an extra swing and didn't do any great damage, which is another reason why that MNK bested me in damage, he had Raging Fists and I had Nightmare Scythe. I'm kind of excited to see what DRK can do with an actually decent weapon skill like possibly Vorpal Scythe or definitely Guillotine. I think I did decide that in order to just keep my weapons up to scratch though I will go with GS for my next weapon as it seems a lot better than any other weapon at 50 and it should basically be a free item for me as its just an Allied Notes weapon from Windy.
As for RL, I saw a different physical therapist today since my regular one is out of town this week and he gave me some new tips on what I should be doing to hasten my return to athletics. He is actually more of a sports therapist which is actually right up my alley since that is EXACTLY what I need my leg for. He told me about using one of those thin straps for tendons as it helps relieve the strain on it and he told me to specifically ice under my knee cap. This is because the actual inflamation that I have is under my knee cap so when I ice it I should use an ice cube for 2 minutes while pushing on the top of my knee cap to raise it to more directly apply the cold. Outside of that I need to just constantly stretch basically. I'm pumped because this is giving me hope that I could be back to volleyball within a month. :D
Goal for tonight: As I don't really feel the push anymore and I have some RL stuff to do I will just say DRG to 47 or maaaaaybe 48 depending on how lucky I am with my solo camp.
Quote of the Day:
How much do you think I could get for my other character.
- Hybridkiller talking BLASPHEMY about selling his characters
Bonus QotD:
But ultimately what the bailout does is, help those that are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy to help...uh...it's gotta be all about job creation, too.
- Tina Fey as Gov. Palin .... oh man I haven't laughed that hard in a while!
Friday, October 3, 2008
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"
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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"
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Different Progress
After I finished most of what I needed to do IRL last night I logged on and was planning on leveling my DRK. Well, plans changed as I was heading back to Jeuno.
First, I got stopped by Arckk because he wanted me to craft him some Mushroom Stews on Screamin which I had no problem with and did quickly. Second, I got side tracked helping Drivvt with getting some Kindred Seals that he needed for his Genkai 4 quest to raise his level cap to 70. I figured I needed to get a coffer key from a ton of places anyways so I might as well go help him get his KS while I'm abusing his TH2 tee hee. Beerman was standing in Jeuno just as I was heading out and he was really bored so I asked him if he wanted to join us for a little mob mashing and he was reluctant but came anyways, and I'm 100% positive he's glad he came.
So we get to CN and on the way to our camp (I always go down the N tunnel because no one ever camps back there except for key farming or skilling up) Beerman asks about Tiphia because she pops down there. I say she because her name is Demonic Tiphia, anything demonic has to be female ... right? Anyways, I tell him that she pops right around the corner from where we are camping so after we clear the room we can go try to pop her. After clearing the room twice, getting my coffer key, and getting 2 KS we finally got Tiphia to pop. I just about peed my pants because I was not expecting her to pop.
We're sitting there whacking her for about 3 minutes with no progress because of her like 2k Pollens. Then I tell Beerman, who is on SAM, to SC with Screamin to help boost our damage. Once we finally settled into doing a SC we started cruising again ... until 50%. Right at 50%, and I mean RIGHT AT 50%, she started trying to spam Cure V. That was something I just wasn't going to have so I just silenced her and we continued. At no point during this fight was I ever worried because I knew all we had to do was outlast her. I never ran low on MP on my RDM and Screamin only hit yellow a few times. So we did one more SC at about 25% and dropped her to about 15% or so I think and then she whipped around and targeted Beerman and did a Final Sting on him. That was probably the funniest part of it all because he got nailed with an almost 1300 Final Sting and him only being level 66 I believe died and actually deleveled too. He got what was coming to him though, because he came for shits and giggles and ended up with a Tiphia Sting.
After Tiphia we only had to clear the room one more time before getting the KS. Even though Drivvt's TH2 seemed to be not working, it worked when it mattered on Tiphia to make her 100k sting to drop. Beerman said he thinks he has another one of her stings lodged in his chest somewhere now too. lol
After that I decided to just call it a night since it was already like 1AM and all of us needed to go to bed. It was a fun night though. I have to admit for coffer key hunting and KS farming it ended up being pretty nice to just lay back and relax and get a little meriting in again while getting something other than just straight exp on a lower level job. Now that I am thinking about it, I think the week or two of coffer and AF hunting I'll be doing when I get to it will be a nice break before I get to my final Tier of leveling to 66 on all of my jobs.
Something else I think I decided is that I will level WHM last to 50 and then first to 66 because at 50 I don't get anything for WHM, but at 66 I will have Raise 2. So 50 is no biggie, but 66 is actually nice to have if some of my friends need an R2 somewhere to help save them some exp.
As for tonight and this weekend, I found out that my gf is thinking about coming home this weekend because she apparently can't live a week without seeing me. When I didn't sound so excited to see her I think she got pretty bummed out and may not come home now. So gaming this weekend will kind of be up in the air so I guess I will just have to make tonight count.
Goal for this evening: DRK to 41, yes its a low goal but I'm thinking if I relax tonight I can go all out this weekend ... hopefully.
Quote of the Day:
Seems like everyone got what they wanted tonight.
- Me, to Drivvt and Beerman because we all got something we wanted last night
First, I got stopped by Arckk because he wanted me to craft him some Mushroom Stews on Screamin which I had no problem with and did quickly. Second, I got side tracked helping Drivvt with getting some Kindred Seals that he needed for his Genkai 4 quest to raise his level cap to 70. I figured I needed to get a coffer key from a ton of places anyways so I might as well go help him get his KS while I'm abusing his TH2 tee hee. Beerman was standing in Jeuno just as I was heading out and he was really bored so I asked him if he wanted to join us for a little mob mashing and he was reluctant but came anyways, and I'm 100% positive he's glad he came.
So we get to CN and on the way to our camp (I always go down the N tunnel because no one ever camps back there except for key farming or skilling up) Beerman asks about Tiphia because she pops down there. I say she because her name is Demonic Tiphia, anything demonic has to be female ... right? Anyways, I tell him that she pops right around the corner from where we are camping so after we clear the room we can go try to pop her. After clearing the room twice, getting my coffer key, and getting 2 KS we finally got Tiphia to pop. I just about peed my pants because I was not expecting her to pop.
We're sitting there whacking her for about 3 minutes with no progress because of her like 2k Pollens. Then I tell Beerman, who is on SAM, to SC with Screamin to help boost our damage. Once we finally settled into doing a SC we started cruising again ... until 50%. Right at 50%, and I mean RIGHT AT 50%, she started trying to spam Cure V. That was something I just wasn't going to have so I just silenced her and we continued. At no point during this fight was I ever worried because I knew all we had to do was outlast her. I never ran low on MP on my RDM and Screamin only hit yellow a few times. So we did one more SC at about 25% and dropped her to about 15% or so I think and then she whipped around and targeted Beerman and did a Final Sting on him. That was probably the funniest part of it all because he got nailed with an almost 1300 Final Sting and him only being level 66 I believe died and actually deleveled too. He got what was coming to him though, because he came for shits and giggles and ended up with a Tiphia Sting.
After Tiphia we only had to clear the room one more time before getting the KS. Even though Drivvt's TH2 seemed to be not working, it worked when it mattered on Tiphia to make her 100k sting to drop. Beerman said he thinks he has another one of her stings lodged in his chest somewhere now too. lol
After that I decided to just call it a night since it was already like 1AM and all of us needed to go to bed. It was a fun night though. I have to admit for coffer key hunting and KS farming it ended up being pretty nice to just lay back and relax and get a little meriting in again while getting something other than just straight exp on a lower level job. Now that I am thinking about it, I think the week or two of coffer and AF hunting I'll be doing when I get to it will be a nice break before I get to my final Tier of leveling to 66 on all of my jobs.
Something else I think I decided is that I will level WHM last to 50 and then first to 66 because at 50 I don't get anything for WHM, but at 66 I will have Raise 2. So 50 is no biggie, but 66 is actually nice to have if some of my friends need an R2 somewhere to help save them some exp.
As for tonight and this weekend, I found out that my gf is thinking about coming home this weekend because she apparently can't live a week without seeing me. When I didn't sound so excited to see her I think she got pretty bummed out and may not come home now. So gaming this weekend will kind of be up in the air so I guess I will just have to make tonight count.
Goal for this evening: DRK to 41, yes its a low goal but I'm thinking if I relax tonight I can go all out this weekend ... hopefully.
Quote of the Day:
Seems like everyone got what they wanted tonight.
- Me, to Drivvt and Beerman because we all got something we wanted last night
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Lazy night
Last night was a very lazy night. I barely did anything in game or IRL for that matter. After work I decided to go watch my team play volleyball since I still can't play. It was quite painful to watch them get smacked around and me not to be able to do anything. Then one of my friends I've known basically my entire life and some other people I know were playing in the next game so I stayed to watch that too. Its pretty different standing back and watching instead of being in there and playing.
Once those games finished I went home and finally logged on and just kind of sat in Jeuno waiting for an invite because I wasn't really interested in throwing together my own party so I took what I could get. I had to level sync down to 33 which wasn't all that bad because I was only 38 when I started but the PLD was talking about how he really should've never level sync'd below 40 because he loses so much as far as armor and job abilities, which I kind of agreed with him on. I did get a level out of the party which really wasn't that great because the BRD wasn't pulling when by all means he should have been and the DNC was pulling way too slowly and didn't understand where mobs would be and to disengage before the end of the fight to go pull. Whatever, I had some fun doing about 46% of the final damage of the party and being able to use my abilities and such.
I have to kind of relearn how to play DRK because I never really learned how to before. I think in just that party last night I really learned a lot about Souleater and Last Resort and Drain and balancing hate. By all means I could've been tanking so easily over the PLD but that would've just been dumb. Learning when to use a job ability and how to use it is way more important than just having uber gear. I've been learning that more and more as I progress through all of these jobs.
Tonight will be another laid back day becuase I have a bunch of stuff I need to do IRL until about 9PM. After that I will try leveling my DRK again and if nothing else I will just go try to actually put a party together for level syncing at my new fav spot. Hopefully Ara or Beerman or Khrone or Drivvt will want to come with me and have some fun leveling.
Since my goal for last night wasn't even close to being met I will stick with a much easier goal: DRK hitting 41 tonight. This is meaning I will be putting myself further behind my goal but I've also found that just blitzing through these levels isn't as fun as actually accepting some of these crappier parties because it makes you more appreciative of the good ones.
Quote of the Day:
Your knee needs to get better fast because we need a regular [volleyball player] on Sundays.
- Friend I've known my entire life telling me that I basically have an open invite to their Sunday night league which would be awesome
Once those games finished I went home and finally logged on and just kind of sat in Jeuno waiting for an invite because I wasn't really interested in throwing together my own party so I took what I could get. I had to level sync down to 33 which wasn't all that bad because I was only 38 when I started but the PLD was talking about how he really should've never level sync'd below 40 because he loses so much as far as armor and job abilities, which I kind of agreed with him on. I did get a level out of the party which really wasn't that great because the BRD wasn't pulling when by all means he should have been and the DNC was pulling way too slowly and didn't understand where mobs would be and to disengage before the end of the fight to go pull. Whatever, I had some fun doing about 46% of the final damage of the party and being able to use my abilities and such.
I have to kind of relearn how to play DRK because I never really learned how to before. I think in just that party last night I really learned a lot about Souleater and Last Resort and Drain and balancing hate. By all means I could've been tanking so easily over the PLD but that would've just been dumb. Learning when to use a job ability and how to use it is way more important than just having uber gear. I've been learning that more and more as I progress through all of these jobs.
Tonight will be another laid back day becuase I have a bunch of stuff I need to do IRL until about 9PM. After that I will try leveling my DRK again and if nothing else I will just go try to actually put a party together for level syncing at my new fav spot. Hopefully Ara or Beerman or Khrone or Drivvt will want to come with me and have some fun leveling.
Since my goal for last night wasn't even close to being met I will stick with a much easier goal: DRK hitting 41 tonight. This is meaning I will be putting myself further behind my goal but I've also found that just blitzing through these levels isn't as fun as actually accepting some of these crappier parties because it makes you more appreciative of the good ones.
Quote of the Day:
Your knee needs to get better fast because we need a regular [volleyball player] on Sundays.
- Friend I've known my entire life telling me that I basically have an open invite to their Sunday night league which would be awesome
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