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)