Seeing as I didn't really have much time yesterday I just spent it gearing up my SMN and moving around some inventory from my mule and my storage. I started a mini fire sale on my mule because I have a ton of junk on it that I will probably NEVER use again. So instead of being a pack rat like I usually am I decided to start selling some of it and started realizing that I actually have some gear on there worth a little bit of gil. The gear that I'm selling on my mule will definitely help easy the cost of all the leveling I plan on doing still.
Another thing I should start thinking about is using my CP for something and start making some gil off of it. Even if I just constantly turn in Centurion Swords or something that is about 15k a pop which means I could make like 750k just selling Cent Swords with my over 200k of CP. Or maybe start using my like 6 stacks of BC's and 2 stacks of KS ... not to mention my KS99 orb I have /cry.
One day I will get back to my Bonecrafting too because that would still be a good way to make some good gil but I just don't have the time now because I know I have plenty of gil to make it to Maat's Cap. Which is honestly quite relieving because that means I won't have to do any serious farming or anything to get all my jobs up there.
On a complete side note, windows at work is terrible because when I went to lunch it decided to restart and I thought I had posted this blog. This is where blogger being awesome is nice, because it saved this as a draft automatically and I didn't have to start from scratch again! FU Windows!!!
As for gaming, I will attempt to sell some more junk tonight and then get my Pilgrim's Wand. Besides that I doubt I will be able to do anything else because of a party tonight and then more drinking tomorrow night along, since it will be my Birfday, with the OSU game tomorrow early afternoon. Then Sunday I will be going downtown for more food and possibly beverages. Monday should hopefully be more relaxed with an early afternoon lunch for me that Momlady is cooking up and then I will just be LAZY all day long. So there are definitely gaps that I could get some stuff done in game but it all depends on how much my girlfriend requires that she be at my side...
Quote of the Day:
What do you wanna do?
I dunno, what do you wanna do?
Now don't start that again!
- convo that my gf and I had last night but I'm pretty sure its also from the animated version of Jungle Book
Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Bang Bang
Choo choo train, c'mon baby do your thang. Stomp, and let it roll. Stomp, and let it roll.
Sorry, it just popped into my head ... stinking (but amazingly awesome) camp songs.
On to the story of the day! PLD = 40! Game, set, and match. Another job done to 40 and only 2 more jobs to go!!! Next up is SMN.
Last night my girlfriend came over before our 9:30 volleyball game and we just played Wii until we had to leave. (To which she also suggested making a Porn Wii game where you have to go around doing dirty things and you could use your Mii... yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah) But then she came over my house after volleyball and we just kinda laid around and didn't do anything until she left around midnight. That is when I should've just decided not to level my PLD and just go to bed. WHOOPS! Immediately after she left I logged on and put my flag up. O:-) Within about 5 minutes a COR started putting together a party that turned out pretty well. It would've been better if I wasn't so far behind in levels from most of the other people. We had 2 people at 42(WHM and DNC), 3 people at 40(MNK/DNC, COR, and RNG), and then me at 39(PLD). The exp rolled pretty well once we got to the camp but when the WHM hit 43 it got kinda rough with exp. I was VERY pleased to be able to finish off PLD to 40 though and about halfway to 41. And again, I only had to use Screamin once because the RNG didn't see a shroom and got aggro so he took that down.
I have also decided that in my next stint with PLD I will be going more for HQ gear because it just will make life that much easier while I'm getting blasted in the face. The Kampf gear seems mostly good until 50 and no single piece is over 40k so its not like I'd be taking a HUGE hit and I'd be able to sell it back anyways. Plus I would just like to be that guy with uber gear for once while I'm leveling and since when I hit AF levels I will just be using AF full time I can do that with PLD for about 20 levels. All other jobs I can just semi gear until I get to the Maat fight at which point I would like to get some pretty good gear so I can take Maat down in 1 shot each time.
Now I will be moving on to SMN though which will definitely have half assed gear. lol I am just looking for as much MP+ gear I can find and throw on. It seems that for the most part I will just be using my RSE since it generally gives me the biggest MP jumps in most pieces. Well I guess only half of my RSE will be worn because there are only 4 pieces and for the body I will just use the Seer's Tunic for hMP+1 and then for the legs the Baron's Slops for the hMP+1. Other than that stuff I don't really know what else to get besides my Mowhaba Sash+1 (or however its spelled). I mean I guess I could spend the time getting a Pilgrim's Wand which I would actually use on my WHM and my SMN until 51 and then possibly never use it again. Guess I know what I will be doing for a while this morning/afternoon, hehehehe.
As for tonight and the rest of the weekend, I doubt I will have much time to do anything. Tonight is a Browns game so I may be going out for that with my girlfriend. Tomorrow is going to be a drunken night at a coworker's house. :D Then Saturday is my birfday and I will be going downtown to party AGAIN. Sunday will probably be going downtown again for some festival with food and then Monday I get off so I will most likely just be laying around recovering from the weekend... with my girlfriend most likely. But yeah, I already hit my short term goal for the week so I'm happy. Maybe in my short time I could go snag a Pilgrim's Wand or do my escort quest for the week. Sounds like a plan to me.
Quote of the Day:
"Haha, yeah that would be funny to just start speaking different languages in Italian class, like speaking Mexican."
- my girlfriend .... oh yeah, she has some gems of quotes and stories some time lol
Sorry, it just popped into my head ... stinking (but amazingly awesome) camp songs.
On to the story of the day! PLD = 40! Game, set, and match. Another job done to 40 and only 2 more jobs to go!!! Next up is SMN.
Last night my girlfriend came over before our 9:30 volleyball game and we just played Wii until we had to leave. (To which she also suggested making a Porn Wii game where you have to go around doing dirty things and you could use your Mii... yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah) But then she came over my house after volleyball and we just kinda laid around and didn't do anything until she left around midnight. That is when I should've just decided not to level my PLD and just go to bed. WHOOPS! Immediately after she left I logged on and put my flag up. O:-) Within about 5 minutes a COR started putting together a party that turned out pretty well. It would've been better if I wasn't so far behind in levels from most of the other people. We had 2 people at 42(WHM and DNC), 3 people at 40(MNK/DNC, COR, and RNG), and then me at 39(PLD). The exp rolled pretty well once we got to the camp but when the WHM hit 43 it got kinda rough with exp. I was VERY pleased to be able to finish off PLD to 40 though and about halfway to 41. And again, I only had to use Screamin once because the RNG didn't see a shroom and got aggro so he took that down.
I have also decided that in my next stint with PLD I will be going more for HQ gear because it just will make life that much easier while I'm getting blasted in the face. The Kampf gear seems mostly good until 50 and no single piece is over 40k so its not like I'd be taking a HUGE hit and I'd be able to sell it back anyways. Plus I would just like to be that guy with uber gear for once while I'm leveling and since when I hit AF levels I will just be using AF full time I can do that with PLD for about 20 levels. All other jobs I can just semi gear until I get to the Maat fight at which point I would like to get some pretty good gear so I can take Maat down in 1 shot each time.
Now I will be moving on to SMN though which will definitely have half assed gear. lol I am just looking for as much MP+ gear I can find and throw on. It seems that for the most part I will just be using my RSE since it generally gives me the biggest MP jumps in most pieces. Well I guess only half of my RSE will be worn because there are only 4 pieces and for the body I will just use the Seer's Tunic for hMP+1 and then for the legs the Baron's Slops for the hMP+1. Other than that stuff I don't really know what else to get besides my Mowhaba Sash+1 (or however its spelled). I mean I guess I could spend the time getting a Pilgrim's Wand which I would actually use on my WHM and my SMN until 51 and then possibly never use it again. Guess I know what I will be doing for a while this morning/afternoon, hehehehe.
As for tonight and the rest of the weekend, I doubt I will have much time to do anything. Tonight is a Browns game so I may be going out for that with my girlfriend. Tomorrow is going to be a drunken night at a coworker's house. :D Then Saturday is my birfday and I will be going downtown to party AGAIN. Sunday will probably be going downtown again for some festival with food and then Monday I get off so I will most likely just be laying around recovering from the weekend... with my girlfriend most likely. But yeah, I already hit my short term goal for the week so I'm happy. Maybe in my short time I could go snag a Pilgrim's Wand or do my escort quest for the week. Sounds like a plan to me.
Quote of the Day:
"Haha, yeah that would be funny to just start speaking different languages in Italian class, like speaking Mexican."
- my girlfriend .... oh yeah, she has some gems of quotes and stories some time lol
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Bigga is Betta!!!
Surprisingly enough I had a night off from my girlfriend. She was busy with some other stuff during the early part of the night but then she was trying to play mind games with me to convince me to ask her to come over but I didn't break down. :P That actually lead to me gaming a bunch and getting stuff done around my house.
Firstly, I got home early from work because I had training yesterday and just decided it wasn't worth my effort to go back to work for AT MOST 3 hours. Instead I just went home, logged on, camped my Sachet, and did stuff around my house. I got my kitchen floor washed between pops and my car washed between pops, to which I was quite pleased with myself. But what was utterly disturbing is that I went 0/9 on my FREAKING SACHET!!!!! So I guess I'll be not camping that hunk of junk again, even though it is quite good for Elvaan with its STR+2. Seeing as I wasted about 4.5 hours camping it and got absolutely nothing from it I am not going to go for it again unless I have some TH3.
After wassting my time in Gusgen Mines I decided it was time for me to get back to my PLD. Time was ticking away and the night was dying along with my hopes of exp on PLD. Luckily a WAR decided to start a party which ended up being a REALLY good party. It would've been AMAZING if we had that level synch though. Our highest level was the WHM and then a few thousand exp behind was a DRK. If we could've put our levels together I can only imagine the exp that would've been flowing in for us! But the party set up was originally PLD, DRK, DRK, WAR, RDM, and WHM. I brought out Screamin to help but only really used him once the whole night because of an unlucky link. This party was rocking hard and was fun to watch the damage that these two DRKs were doing. Even with my enmity +5 back piece and me spamming provoke they would still drop a 350 WS and pull hate from me. These little Taru were BEASTS! I definitely feel that my tanking ability is getting better on PLD too. I'm learning how to hold hate better with dropping a Cure III on myself towards the start of a fight to help lock in hate more and then from there a few Cure IIs and the WHM healing me were quite enough. If push came to shove I could always Shield Bash, Sentinel, or Cover to save someone else. I think there was only one time where I even dropped below 50% HP and that was because I got a Power Attack to my face from a beetle and then double crit'ed. Other than the RDM being a total n00b and not having the spells he was supposed to we did really well. Even though the RDM didn't have the spells he should've had he still did a good job though, but really, a RDM NEEDS to have Dispel, debuffs, and Sleep. Oh, and after a while the WAR decided he didn't want to level anymore so he got us a BRD to replace him which we were all ok with, hehe. So I ended the night at 39 and quite pleased with how we ended. Now I just need 1 more even decent party and I will be donezo with my PLD for a while.
On a side kinda creepy note, Vernon said he recognized me back from Fairy over 3 years ago! I don't really remember anyone from Fairy except HacTao people. His old name was Xxswatxx I think he said which doesn't even ring a bell. I remember a few people with the whole X---x names but not that name. The only X----x name I would remember is the guy that got me started on BRD back in Qufim when I was still a n00b.
Oh, and something else I wanted to mention was about shields. Actually I wanted to more than just mention it in passing because I mean this is why I named this blog "Bigga is Betta!!!" lol Bigger shields are better .... period. So there are the smaller shields which are supposed to do shield blocks more often but they block less damage. What I noticed though is when I hit 38 and put on my Jennet Shield, which is the second biggest sized shield(size 3, kite), I was blocking almost just as much and blocking hella more damage. Now that I just put in that shield link I realized that if I would've just READ the shield page on wiki I would've known all this already .... sigh. Well, now I know that and now I will always use a Kite sized shield because I was blocking about 35% of the time and blocking for about 50% damage reduction. And it also really gives me an appreciation for the Aegis and its true power.
Ahhhh, and now on to another topic for this nice long post. LEVEL SYNC!!! I'm actually quite pumped about this because I am thinking I either could use Screamin and level another one of his jobs at the same time or just continue using him as a PL. (Ha, and I just realized that if you just add a D to "PL" you get "PLD" which is what I use Screamin as to PL ...D hahaha ... oy ><) Aaaaaaaaaanyways, Hybrid is talking about doing that with Annel too to get her RDM up to 75 and actually have an extra 75RDM account. This is all good but we also have to see what the gear looks like when it gets dumbed down. For all we know right now you could lose all the super sweet stats of a piece of gear when it gets weakened. Like a Joyeuse is great because of its double attack, but if it loses that there are a bunch of other swords that are better. We shall have to wait and see how this turns out.
Another thing to look forward to is the reduction in price of Dynamis and Limbus. I will actually enjoy going back to limbus because I can upgrade a bunch of gear that I may actually use like for my BRD or for my RDM or my BLM or whatever other job I get to 75. Plus I'll be able to get Homam and Nashira gear which will be pretty pimp.
Ok, I've written quite enough for today. Hopefully I can still reach my goal of PLD 40 by Friday but I am pretty sure my girlfriend will be coming over tonight after volleyball so I doubt I will be able to get 40 tonight. Which only leaves tomorrow night to get 40 since my weekend is basically booked solid.
Quote of the Day:
"In Rolling Stone magazine they actually show you how to make the Wii characters for the main 3 people in The Big Lebowski."
- oldest brother
Firstly, I got home early from work because I had training yesterday and just decided it wasn't worth my effort to go back to work for AT MOST 3 hours. Instead I just went home, logged on, camped my Sachet, and did stuff around my house. I got my kitchen floor washed between pops and my car washed between pops, to which I was quite pleased with myself. But what was utterly disturbing is that I went 0/9 on my FREAKING SACHET!!!!! So I guess I'll be not camping that hunk of junk again, even though it is quite good for Elvaan with its STR+2. Seeing as I wasted about 4.5 hours camping it and got absolutely nothing from it I am not going to go for it again unless I have some TH3.
After wassting my time in Gusgen Mines I decided it was time for me to get back to my PLD. Time was ticking away and the night was dying along with my hopes of exp on PLD. Luckily a WAR decided to start a party which ended up being a REALLY good party. It would've been AMAZING if we had that level synch though. Our highest level was the WHM and then a few thousand exp behind was a DRK. If we could've put our levels together I can only imagine the exp that would've been flowing in for us! But the party set up was originally PLD, DRK, DRK, WAR, RDM, and WHM. I brought out Screamin to help but only really used him once the whole night because of an unlucky link. This party was rocking hard and was fun to watch the damage that these two DRKs were doing. Even with my enmity +5 back piece and me spamming provoke they would still drop a 350 WS and pull hate from me. These little Taru were BEASTS! I definitely feel that my tanking ability is getting better on PLD too. I'm learning how to hold hate better with dropping a Cure III on myself towards the start of a fight to help lock in hate more and then from there a few Cure IIs and the WHM healing me were quite enough. If push came to shove I could always Shield Bash, Sentinel, or Cover to save someone else. I think there was only one time where I even dropped below 50% HP and that was because I got a Power Attack to my face from a beetle and then double crit'ed. Other than the RDM being a total n00b and not having the spells he was supposed to we did really well. Even though the RDM didn't have the spells he should've had he still did a good job though, but really, a RDM NEEDS to have Dispel, debuffs, and Sleep. Oh, and after a while the WAR decided he didn't want to level anymore so he got us a BRD to replace him which we were all ok with, hehe. So I ended the night at 39 and quite pleased with how we ended. Now I just need 1 more even decent party and I will be donezo with my PLD for a while.
On a side kinda creepy note, Vernon said he recognized me back from Fairy over 3 years ago! I don't really remember anyone from Fairy except HacTao people. His old name was Xxswatxx I think he said which doesn't even ring a bell. I remember a few people with the whole X---x names but not that name. The only X----x name I would remember is the guy that got me started on BRD back in Qufim when I was still a n00b.
Oh, and something else I wanted to mention was about shields. Actually I wanted to more than just mention it in passing because I mean this is why I named this blog "Bigga is Betta!!!" lol Bigger shields are better .... period. So there are the smaller shields which are supposed to do shield blocks more often but they block less damage. What I noticed though is when I hit 38 and put on my Jennet Shield, which is the second biggest sized shield(size 3, kite), I was blocking almost just as much and blocking hella more damage. Now that I just put in that shield link I realized that if I would've just READ the shield page on wiki I would've known all this already .... sigh. Well, now I know that and now I will always use a Kite sized shield because I was blocking about 35% of the time and blocking for about 50% damage reduction. And it also really gives me an appreciation for the Aegis and its true power.
Ahhhh, and now on to another topic for this nice long post. LEVEL SYNC!!! I'm actually quite pumped about this because I am thinking I either could use Screamin and level another one of his jobs at the same time or just continue using him as a PL. (Ha, and I just realized that if you just add a D to "PL" you get "PLD" which is what I use Screamin as to PL ...D hahaha ... oy ><) Aaaaaaaaaanyways, Hybrid is talking about doing that with Annel too to get her RDM up to 75 and actually have an extra 75RDM account. This is all good but we also have to see what the gear looks like when it gets dumbed down. For all we know right now you could lose all the super sweet stats of a piece of gear when it gets weakened. Like a Joyeuse is great because of its double attack, but if it loses that there are a bunch of other swords that are better. We shall have to wait and see how this turns out.
Another thing to look forward to is the reduction in price of Dynamis and Limbus. I will actually enjoy going back to limbus because I can upgrade a bunch of gear that I may actually use like for my BRD or for my RDM or my BLM or whatever other job I get to 75. Plus I'll be able to get Homam and Nashira gear which will be pretty pimp.
Ok, I've written quite enough for today. Hopefully I can still reach my goal of PLD 40 by Friday but I am pretty sure my girlfriend will be coming over tonight after volleyball so I doubt I will be able to get 40 tonight. Which only leaves tomorrow night to get 40 since my weekend is basically booked solid.
Quote of the Day:
"In Rolling Stone magazine they actually show you how to make the Wii characters for the main 3 people in The Big Lebowski."
- oldest brother
Monday, August 25, 2008
Flash ... OOOOoooooh
Defender of the universe! Oh, whoops, hehe. PLD is now at 37, w00t w00t, which means Flash. Another hate keeping spell/ability which always makes my life better. :) I went from 35 to 37 with Swifman since he wanted to do something and I was just working on my PLD so we went and duo'd. We just picked up at my spot in Yhoator Jungle that I always did with bret until 37. His DRG was doing really well even though he was kind of undergeared. It is not like it even matters though because we were getting PL'd so we were just constantly rolling. Towards the end it was kind of a struggle because there were a lot of DC mobs popping up and killing our chains. But we did get our goal of 37 for both of us. :D
As for other things I did, after my gf went home, Assault. I did a couple Periqia assaults with Swifman because he's trying to get his Yigit body for his BRD. It was nice to do some quick and easy and kinda fun assaults again. Not to mention it just builds up more points for me to use on either gear or to save up for Salvage. After a few runs of that with him he MADE me go do a Nyzul Isle run with this pick up group so I could try for Goliard feet. Lets just say things didn't work out so well with people not knowing what to do and people constantly dying. We still got the last level where we found out we were going to be trying to kill Fafnir but when 2 people died VERY quickly someone either zoned us out or we timed out just before Faffy got his final hit on me to kill me. Something else that was kind of pissing me off last night is POL was just randomly crashing. Once we went into Nyzul I crashed again so I quickly logged on from my laptop and did the rest of the run from there. It kinda pissed me off because that never happens to me.
After that I just went to bed. Although I was thinking about logging onto Khrone and doing a Double Dragonian run for him but I was too tired and it was pretty late. He would've been very happy but I would've been UBER tired today. I don't see us really having a problem getting them for him because Swifman owes me now, and I know Hybrid has a bunch of seals and so does Disdain, so that's 5 right there. Not to mention that takes care of BRD, NIN, MNK, RDM, and I guess a WAR, THF, or RNG depending on who decides to go what job because Hybrid, Disdian, and I all have multiple jobs that we could go as.
That right there for DD is why I would rather have all of my jobs at 75 then have like 3 or 4 fully merited jobs. I like to be able to say, oh yeah, I can switch to that job to help you out instead of, oh, you don't need a WAR ... guess I'm screwed then huh? I mean if a group is doing a quest/mission and they only need a WHM I would have WHM ready, but if I only had like 3 DD jobs I would be worthless. Being able to switch jobs on a whim is great because then I can help in EVERY situation. Well, I guess it wouldn't be every situation because I doubt I will have EVERY job geared. I suppose that could be something that I look at while I am leveling all these jobs, which ones I want to have full geared at 75 and which ones can kind of fall by the wayside.
Jobs to have fully geared:
SAM
MNK
RDM
BRD
WHM
BLM
Jobs to have partially geared:
BST
SMN
DRG
NIN
THF
DRK
Jobs to not have geared:
PLD (since Screamin is so much better geared than I could be)
RNG (costs gil to shoot arrows/bolts)
WAR (I'd rather gear SAM or MNK)
So I guess that just about leaves me with having gear for EVERY job... Ugh, I will need to figure this out better as I get closer then huh? lol I doubt I will really have much gear for most of these jobs outside of AF or AFv2 because like for the mage jobs, its basically just MP gear that crosses over. Then for melee jobs, its just ACC and STR+ gear which hopefully most will cross over. Tanking gear I don't really think I will need because hopefully I can work Swifman into our low man stuff because he is now a W. Legs and Ares Cuirass PLD that also has his NIN pretty well geared. I could really see us working him into our Salvage and Limbus runs too because he's a really cool and trustworthy guy who is always looking to get some better gear for his char which is EXACTLY what we are doing too. :D
As for tonight, I NEED NEED NEED to do some house cleaning because my brother is really starting to get pissed at me for basically doing NOTHING around the house which I totally understand him being mad at me for. After that I foresee a phone call from my girlfriend and her coming over and then me being stuck playing Wii and that's it. Hopefully I can work in some FFXI in there to try and get some more exp on my PLD. My goal for this week is to finish PLD by the weekend.
Quote of the Day:
Dean: "Where'd you learn to blow smoke rings like that?"
Minhthe: "From sucking on your mom's penis."
- Yeah, we were laughing for about 15 minutes because of that... lmao
As for other things I did, after my gf went home, Assault. I did a couple Periqia assaults with Swifman because he's trying to get his Yigit body for his BRD. It was nice to do some quick and easy and kinda fun assaults again. Not to mention it just builds up more points for me to use on either gear or to save up for Salvage. After a few runs of that with him he MADE me go do a Nyzul Isle run with this pick up group so I could try for Goliard feet. Lets just say things didn't work out so well with people not knowing what to do and people constantly dying. We still got the last level where we found out we were going to be trying to kill Fafnir but when 2 people died VERY quickly someone either zoned us out or we timed out just before Faffy got his final hit on me to kill me. Something else that was kind of pissing me off last night is POL was just randomly crashing. Once we went into Nyzul I crashed again so I quickly logged on from my laptop and did the rest of the run from there. It kinda pissed me off because that never happens to me.
After that I just went to bed. Although I was thinking about logging onto Khrone and doing a Double Dragonian run for him but I was too tired and it was pretty late. He would've been very happy but I would've been UBER tired today. I don't see us really having a problem getting them for him because Swifman owes me now, and I know Hybrid has a bunch of seals and so does Disdain, so that's 5 right there. Not to mention that takes care of BRD, NIN, MNK, RDM, and I guess a WAR, THF, or RNG depending on who decides to go what job because Hybrid, Disdian, and I all have multiple jobs that we could go as.
That right there for DD is why I would rather have all of my jobs at 75 then have like 3 or 4 fully merited jobs. I like to be able to say, oh yeah, I can switch to that job to help you out instead of, oh, you don't need a WAR ... guess I'm screwed then huh? I mean if a group is doing a quest/mission and they only need a WHM I would have WHM ready, but if I only had like 3 DD jobs I would be worthless. Being able to switch jobs on a whim is great because then I can help in EVERY situation. Well, I guess it wouldn't be every situation because I doubt I will have EVERY job geared. I suppose that could be something that I look at while I am leveling all these jobs, which ones I want to have full geared at 75 and which ones can kind of fall by the wayside.
Jobs to have fully geared:
SAM
MNK
RDM
BRD
WHM
BLM
Jobs to have partially geared:
BST
SMN
DRG
NIN
THF
DRK
Jobs to not have geared:
PLD (since Screamin is so much better geared than I could be)
RNG (costs gil to shoot arrows/bolts)
WAR (I'd rather gear SAM or MNK)
So I guess that just about leaves me with having gear for EVERY job... Ugh, I will need to figure this out better as I get closer then huh? lol I doubt I will really have much gear for most of these jobs outside of AF or AFv2 because like for the mage jobs, its basically just MP gear that crosses over. Then for melee jobs, its just ACC and STR+ gear which hopefully most will cross over. Tanking gear I don't really think I will need because hopefully I can work Swifman into our low man stuff because he is now a W. Legs and Ares Cuirass PLD that also has his NIN pretty well geared. I could really see us working him into our Salvage and Limbus runs too because he's a really cool and trustworthy guy who is always looking to get some better gear for his char which is EXACTLY what we are doing too. :D
As for tonight, I NEED NEED NEED to do some house cleaning because my brother is really starting to get pissed at me for basically doing NOTHING around the house which I totally understand him being mad at me for. After that I foresee a phone call from my girlfriend and her coming over and then me being stuck playing Wii and that's it. Hopefully I can work in some FFXI in there to try and get some more exp on my PLD. My goal for this week is to finish PLD by the weekend.
Quote of the Day:
Dean: "Where'd you learn to blow smoke rings like that?"
Minhthe: "From sucking on your mom's penis."
- Yeah, we were laughing for about 15 minutes because of that... lmao
Friday, August 22, 2008
Avatars
No real progress for me last night even though I had a totally free night because my brother wanted me to help him with avatar fights ... yay. We beat Garuda and Titan and lost to Shiva because the bitch kept casting sleepga which was hitting me from over 20' away. I guess it was something to pass the time even though I would MUCH rather spend my time leveling! He owes me so much in this game as it is, now his tab just keeps going up. Since I know he reads this ... I'm not going to help you do EVERYTHING in the game, you gotta get some stuff yourself. :P
Seems like most things in the game he's been basically handed on a silver platter, like getting to 55, buying most of his major gear, buying is spells (Utsusemi: Ni), getting some of the quests done for him... He has it sooooooooooooooooo easy compared to what I did when I started. It took me like a year and a half to get my first job to 75 and it took him just over a year and he basically has all his basics for a 75 MNK too. I just had BRD so I only needed RSE and AF to get me to 75. Argh, I think I am just bitter because I can't really think of anything he can help me with so me helping him is like giving away hours of my life. lol Yeah it helps him get further along and such, but I've been screwed over so many times by people that I "helped" and they never helped me... like LSs. The whole thing of me doing Maat's Cap is that its something that I am finally doing for myself and no one else. I realize that I should still be doing stuff with others and yadda yadda yadda but I'm actually having FUN leveling! Its crazy scary because I remember hating exp, but not anymore. There's this excitement I have about getting another level and coming one step closer to Maat's Cap or one step closer to having fun on another job and gaining those new abilities or spells and being that much more flexible myself. Man, I'm getting a smile on my face just thinking about this stuff! Like getting Auto Refresh on my PLD now is awesome because it'll make me more flexible with casting cures and holding hate more. Then at 37 I get Flash which will really help me lock in hate even more, and not to mention 37 makes it a viable sub job for my RDM. Then I will be switching back to SMN and then I will be constantly getting new Blood Pacts to play around with and have fun rockin out with my avatars. Then I get back to Monk which is one of the jobs I am actually looking forward to leveling all the way to 75. Once I start on Monk at 30 I'm taking it straight to 50. It'll be about the only job I take straight from one goal to the next (30->40->50) without switching jobs in between. Oh the fun that will be had...
So this weekend will probably be a bust for me because I might be going camping ... I still haven't decided yet. Honestly I was kind of excited to go but now I am pretty indifferent about it. I will see how I feel after work today and decide then I think. Other than that I think my weekend is pretty free and hopefully I can get my PLD to 37 by the end of it. Guess I will just set that as my weekend goal: 37PLD. Well, and maybe finishing avatars with Khrone.
Quote of the Day:
I know exactly what I'm going to do with my Spotted Dick.
- Angela ... yeah, I completely lost it after she said that lol
Seems like most things in the game he's been basically handed on a silver platter, like getting to 55, buying most of his major gear, buying is spells (Utsusemi: Ni), getting some of the quests done for him... He has it sooooooooooooooooo easy compared to what I did when I started. It took me like a year and a half to get my first job to 75 and it took him just over a year and he basically has all his basics for a 75 MNK too. I just had BRD so I only needed RSE and AF to get me to 75. Argh, I think I am just bitter because I can't really think of anything he can help me with so me helping him is like giving away hours of my life. lol Yeah it helps him get further along and such, but I've been screwed over so many times by people that I "helped" and they never helped me... like LSs. The whole thing of me doing Maat's Cap is that its something that I am finally doing for myself and no one else. I realize that I should still be doing stuff with others and yadda yadda yadda but I'm actually having FUN leveling! Its crazy scary because I remember hating exp, but not anymore. There's this excitement I have about getting another level and coming one step closer to Maat's Cap or one step closer to having fun on another job and gaining those new abilities or spells and being that much more flexible myself. Man, I'm getting a smile on my face just thinking about this stuff! Like getting Auto Refresh on my PLD now is awesome because it'll make me more flexible with casting cures and holding hate more. Then at 37 I get Flash which will really help me lock in hate even more, and not to mention 37 makes it a viable sub job for my RDM. Then I will be switching back to SMN and then I will be constantly getting new Blood Pacts to play around with and have fun rockin out with my avatars. Then I get back to Monk which is one of the jobs I am actually looking forward to leveling all the way to 75. Once I start on Monk at 30 I'm taking it straight to 50. It'll be about the only job I take straight from one goal to the next (30->40->50) without switching jobs in between. Oh the fun that will be had...
So this weekend will probably be a bust for me because I might be going camping ... I still haven't decided yet. Honestly I was kind of excited to go but now I am pretty indifferent about it. I will see how I feel after work today and decide then I think. Other than that I think my weekend is pretty free and hopefully I can get my PLD to 37 by the end of it. Guess I will just set that as my weekend goal: 37PLD. Well, and maybe finishing avatars with Khrone.
Quote of the Day:
I know exactly what I'm going to do with my Spotted Dick.
- Angela ... yeah, I completely lost it after she said that lol
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Like a Rock
BOOM! So I get online last night at about 11PM after my girlfriend went home and within about 10 seconds of me being online, and not have even MOVED from the spot I was standing in I already had a party. At first one person sent me a tell asking if I wanted to join and I just kinda ignored it because I wanted to clean up some inventory first but then the leader sent me a tell too. Then I accepted graciously and went out there and WORKED IT. Not only did I realize that my hate keeping skills is hard when I'm at least 2 levels below the main DDs but I need to get a High Breath Mantle for when I hit 36 to keep hate better. I did a good job and the one SAM we had in our party even said that, but I felt that I could've done a much better job. I was doing shield bash and sentinel to lock in hate occasionally but those are 5 minute skills and we were rocking down mobs towards the end in under 30 seconds! Basically I turned into a back up healer which I could deal with because I was so much behind everyone else. When I was about 300 short of 35 the BRD hit 37 if that gives you a hint on how I was the lowest in the job ranges.
All in all it was a rock solid party because I brought out Screamineagle ... and didn't even use him ... for our party at least. There was another party around the corner that died and needed a raise so I ran him out there, while still tanking, and raised them. haha Having a BRD and COR in your party REALLY helps out. Not to mention when you hard 2 more solid DDs in a RNG and a SAM, with the support of a good WHM that actually knows how to use Regen. It was just a really good party last night and I was able to get 3 levels in it!
Now I'm really pumped about having Auto Refresh because that is going to help soooooooooooo much. I was barely having enough time to rest a tick or 2 between fights so I was pretty much blowing my load on Cure 3s to keep hate and then having no extra MP to keep me going. It was nice though because I was doing a good job of keeping my MP good enough to never really run out of it. Overall I must say I was impressed with my tanking and besides the lack of enmity I did well. Woo woooooooooooooo, pumped to level more now! :D
Tonight I dunno what I'm gonna do because I don't know what I'm doing IRL. Khrone wants me to go do all the avatar prime fights with him so he can get all the summons. I'd have to spend a little time running around grabbing all the forks because I think I only have like 2 of them right now. It shouldn't take me too long to get them all because I can either OP everywhere or teleport everywhere, so no biggie.
Quote of the Day:
You're a good tank!
- Alexandre, the SAM who thought I was some sort of pimp tank, lol
All in all it was a rock solid party because I brought out Screamineagle ... and didn't even use him ... for our party at least. There was another party around the corner that died and needed a raise so I ran him out there, while still tanking, and raised them. haha Having a BRD and COR in your party REALLY helps out. Not to mention when you hard 2 more solid DDs in a RNG and a SAM, with the support of a good WHM that actually knows how to use Regen. It was just a really good party last night and I was able to get 3 levels in it!
Now I'm really pumped about having Auto Refresh because that is going to help soooooooooooo much. I was barely having enough time to rest a tick or 2 between fights so I was pretty much blowing my load on Cure 3s to keep hate and then having no extra MP to keep me going. It was nice though because I was doing a good job of keeping my MP good enough to never really run out of it. Overall I must say I was impressed with my tanking and besides the lack of enmity I did well. Woo woooooooooooooo, pumped to level more now! :D
Tonight I dunno what I'm gonna do because I don't know what I'm doing IRL. Khrone wants me to go do all the avatar prime fights with him so he can get all the summons. I'd have to spend a little time running around grabbing all the forks because I think I only have like 2 of them right now. It shouldn't take me too long to get them all because I can either OP everywhere or teleport everywhere, so no biggie.
Quote of the Day:
You're a good tank!
- Alexandre, the SAM who thought I was some sort of pimp tank, lol
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Screamineagle is back
That's about it for my update. >.> I haven't had a chance to log on in a 2 days because of the woman. Heck, I haven't even had a chance to check if I got everything of Screamin's back. I'm pretty sure I would have though considering I have only traded some stuff between myself and him. As long as his big ticket items like the Lu Shang's, O. Kote, and P Charm are still on him I'll be happy.
Having that P Charm will help GREATLY with leveling all of my melee jobs. ACC is key for any job that swings a weapon. Not to mention this is one of the best neck pieces even at end game I am basically set with ALL melee necks until 50 and I need a parade gorget, but beyond that I'm set.
Can't wait to get back to PLD! I am really loving just leveling again. Its a great feeling knowing that I will always have something to do in game until the end of the year and I can do it ALL at my leisure. I know I repeat saying this stuff OVER AND OVER again but it really is that great of a feeling. Having been constantly tied down to LSs for so long its such a relief to be relaxed and doing stuff that I want to. Every day I'm looking forward to getting back into the game and leveling some more. Like tonight I won't really have time to level before volleyball but I will have time to maybe do a chocobo race and if I REALLY push it, maybe an escort.
My stomach is really freakin out right now though because of the greasy food I had for lunch. Hopefully it subsides or I may not be up for volleyball tonight. And hopefully I can get 2 or more levels tonight on PLD :D
Quote of the Day:
Me: "I feel like I should drink some Dawn to cut the grease in my stomach."
Khrone: "Oh, for a second I thought you meant the cute little blonde I met a few months back, because I could go for that too."
Having that P Charm will help GREATLY with leveling all of my melee jobs. ACC is key for any job that swings a weapon. Not to mention this is one of the best neck pieces even at end game I am basically set with ALL melee necks until 50 and I need a parade gorget, but beyond that I'm set.
Can't wait to get back to PLD! I am really loving just leveling again. Its a great feeling knowing that I will always have something to do in game until the end of the year and I can do it ALL at my leisure. I know I repeat saying this stuff OVER AND OVER again but it really is that great of a feeling. Having been constantly tied down to LSs for so long its such a relief to be relaxed and doing stuff that I want to. Every day I'm looking forward to getting back into the game and leveling some more. Like tonight I won't really have time to level before volleyball but I will have time to maybe do a chocobo race and if I REALLY push it, maybe an escort.
My stomach is really freakin out right now though because of the greasy food I had for lunch. Hopefully it subsides or I may not be up for volleyball tonight. And hopefully I can get 2 or more levels tonight on PLD :D
Quote of the Day:
Me: "I feel like I should drink some Dawn to cut the grease in my stomach."
Khrone: "Oh, for a second I thought you meant the cute little blonde I met a few months back, because I could go for that too."
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