[edit 7/30/08] Back then I couldn't believe Ninja would have come up so strongly. But today, it makes sense. I treat tanking as a different kind of healing/support role and those are what I do best in Vana'diel.
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Random Internet Quiz States Obvious
I came upon one of those "what xxx are you?" quizzes today. This one was for FFXI, so of course I took it. It asked quite a few questions, and then after all that, it told me two jobs had tied. I had to advance to sudden death! In the end, it told me I was a White Mage. It got my race wrong, but other than that ^^
[edit 7/30/08] Back then I couldn't believe Ninja would have come up so strongly. But today, it makes sense. I treat tanking as a different kind of healing/support role and those are what I do best in Vana'diel.
[edit 7/30/08] Back then I couldn't believe Ninja would have come up so strongly. But today, it makes sense. I treat tanking as a different kind of healing/support role and those are what I do best in Vana'diel.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Mission 2-3
Fhox, Archer, Alimahaj, Enziorian, Vegis and Aerin
Taken after successfully completing the dragon fight for Mission 2-3, giving Ali, Enzio, Archer and Vegis Rank 3!!!
Despite the actual fight lasting only 6 minutes or so, this RDB event was the highlight of my week, something I was looking forward to since it was announced a few days ago. *THIS* is why I'm a Brigader - working as a team and having fun!
As a documentary note, we kicked off promptly at 9pm EST and I immediately went to work collecting the team on WHM. Enzio was in La Theine, Fhox and Archer were in Bastok, and Ali was in Jeuno. Vegis met us at the Mea telepoint having ridden the ferry. It took almost 1 full hour just to move the team. About 45 more minutes went into flagging the final parts of the mission so all four Rank 3 candidates had the key item to get into the fight, followed by the walk or OP warp to W. Saruta and then on to Giddeus.
I wish I had checked the party roster sooner; I usually write down the members and main jobs of all my parties but I forgot to in the excitement. For once though, I wasn't the WHM - Enzio handled that job nicely while I did my dancing thing for light DD and backup healing.
P.S. Why the hell am I so small? >< Note to self, don't stand next to the Elvaan in the next group shot ^^
Taken after successfully completing the dragon fight for Mission 2-3, giving Ali, Enzio, Archer and Vegis Rank 3!!!Despite the actual fight lasting only 6 minutes or so, this RDB event was the highlight of my week, something I was looking forward to since it was announced a few days ago. *THIS* is why I'm a Brigader - working as a team and having fun!
As a documentary note, we kicked off promptly at 9pm EST and I immediately went to work collecting the team on WHM. Enzio was in La Theine, Fhox and Archer were in Bastok, and Ali was in Jeuno. Vegis met us at the Mea telepoint having ridden the ferry. It took almost 1 full hour just to move the team. About 45 more minutes went into flagging the final parts of the mission so all four Rank 3 candidates had the key item to get into the fight, followed by the walk or OP warp to W. Saruta and then on to Giddeus.
I wish I had checked the party roster sooner; I usually write down the members and main jobs of all my parties but I forgot to in the excitement. For once though, I wasn't the WHM - Enzio handled that job nicely while I did my dancing thing for light DD and backup healing.
P.S. Why the hell am I so small? >< Note to self, don't stand next to the Elvaan in the next group shot ^^
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
New Friends
Today was kind of a “meh” day. I wasn’t up to partying so I met up with Enziorian in Saruta for some duoing, WHM14 and NIN12.
Turns out it was Alimahaj playing Enzio’s char, since he had leveled without her, irritating her. I told him I thought the fact that they were an MMO couple was awesome. As it happens, by the time I met up with him, she was back from school and took over. We made our way to Tahrongi and began killing bunnies, mandies and saplings.
The xp was pretty lame, even with some DC and EM action. To make things worse, she didn’t have an Empress Band yet, being at only 750-odd CP. I wasn’t faring much better on my band. I was getting 25-40 per kill and she said 15-20’s for her. At least they dropped pretty fast with my swords.
I did things a little differently with the job setup. Knowing I’d have Cure support from Enzio, I went NIN/DNC for the endrain. It worked pretty well too, especially once we moved to the northern canyon areas with Yagudo and Goblin targets. Endrain kept resting to a minimum except on EM and T pulls and she had enough MP to cover cure panics.
As we wrapped up near 11, I pulled a Dhalmel that took both of us deep into danger territory. She fired off Benecide and I used up my TP on my new katana skill, Retsu. It was close but we pulled it off and got pretty good XP. After we were done killing, I walked her back to the safety of the shortcut path and she logged.
After half an hour AFK I soloed the rest of the way to 13, getting considerably better XP. I knew duos nerfed xp but damn….
In miscellaneous news, Bene, Mag, Stoik and I are all 64-65. Still haven’t seen Fhox. Replaced the Decurion with a Merc’s Knife and I think I may replace the Poison one with another Merc, for each adds +2 Accuracy. Kingdom Cesti and Noble’s bed sold for a total of 88,222.
Turns out it was Alimahaj playing Enzio’s char, since he had leveled without her, irritating her. I told him I thought the fact that they were an MMO couple was awesome. As it happens, by the time I met up with him, she was back from school and took over. We made our way to Tahrongi and began killing bunnies, mandies and saplings.
The xp was pretty lame, even with some DC and EM action. To make things worse, she didn’t have an Empress Band yet, being at only 750-odd CP. I wasn’t faring much better on my band. I was getting 25-40 per kill and she said 15-20’s for her. At least they dropped pretty fast with my swords.
I did things a little differently with the job setup. Knowing I’d have Cure support from Enzio, I went NIN/DNC for the endrain. It worked pretty well too, especially once we moved to the northern canyon areas with Yagudo and Goblin targets. Endrain kept resting to a minimum except on EM and T pulls and she had enough MP to cover cure panics.
As we wrapped up near 11, I pulled a Dhalmel that took both of us deep into danger territory. She fired off Benecide and I used up my TP on my new katana skill, Retsu. It was close but we pulled it off and got pretty good XP. After we were done killing, I walked her back to the safety of the shortcut path and she logged.
After half an hour AFK I soloed the rest of the way to 13, getting considerably better XP. I knew duos nerfed xp but damn….
In miscellaneous news, Bene, Mag, Stoik and I are all 64-65. Still haven’t seen Fhox. Replaced the Decurion with a Merc’s Knife and I think I may replace the Poison one with another Merc, for each adds +2 Accuracy. Kingdom Cesti and Noble’s bed sold for a total of 88,222.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Pushing and Pulling
Aside from trying to fix the mess with the knives versus daggers purchase and relisting the Noble’s bed for 3 grand less, I didn’t do much besides party in Qufim.
I had just changed my search comment to include pulling but I don’t know if Havocjr saw that part or not. I made it safely to the OP camp by the Tower close to my ETA and we worked on snippers pulled by our DRK Oron. Keeblr, a likely RDM, PLed us.
Once our last 21 dinged 22, we went inside. Keeblr was supposed to leave but wound up staying. Immediately upon finding a camp near the first intersection, Havoc asked me to pull. My new macros work pretty well, but the mismatched weapons I had didn’t. I was able to buy the Poison Dagger but still didn’t have the cash for the Mercenary’s Dagger. So I took my Small Sword for off-hand use.
Other than occasional bat aggro during long pulls, and a bit of confusion on my part when we switched to giants, there were no real problems. I enfeebled and healed, focusing my cures on the back-line. Keeblr seemed to be watching the front line more closely than the back and I could get cures in before he ever saw. He stayed for almost the entire party, leaving only about 10 minutes before we ended for the night anyway.
The party ended abruptly when my ClearWire box rebooted and I D/Ced. I got back in within two minutes but found an empty hall. Turns out Oron decided to pull while I was D/Cing, and the party had to zone. Havoc was apparently very pissed and after a tongue-lashing Oron logged out. I tried to say good night to everyone else (some were still on) and hoped to Havoc my pulls were OK.
I made it to within 1.3k of 24 and was finally able to shed the tacky Brass gear – hallelujah! About 6,500 more xp and I’ll hit 25 and need to do something else for a bit to avoid gimping.
One change I need to make is to add another pull macro for cases of aggro and links. I wasn’t as informative as I could be when I found myself being chased by something other than my target. That said, I think I was link-free not counting adds after the fact.
I’m thinking I may revisit PLD using DNC as the sub. I wouldn’t have aggro for awhile though… I really don’t want to level WAR ><
Oh, Enzio wants a ride back to Sandy tomorrow and I saw that Sunoco *bought* a Vermillion Cloak. I’m not sure if I should feel bad or not…
I had just changed my search comment to include pulling but I don’t know if Havocjr saw that part or not. I made it safely to the OP camp by the Tower close to my ETA and we worked on snippers pulled by our DRK Oron. Keeblr, a likely RDM, PLed us.
Once our last 21 dinged 22, we went inside. Keeblr was supposed to leave but wound up staying. Immediately upon finding a camp near the first intersection, Havoc asked me to pull. My new macros work pretty well, but the mismatched weapons I had didn’t. I was able to buy the Poison Dagger but still didn’t have the cash for the Mercenary’s Dagger. So I took my Small Sword for off-hand use.
Other than occasional bat aggro during long pulls, and a bit of confusion on my part when we switched to giants, there were no real problems. I enfeebled and healed, focusing my cures on the back-line. Keeblr seemed to be watching the front line more closely than the back and I could get cures in before he ever saw. He stayed for almost the entire party, leaving only about 10 minutes before we ended for the night anyway.
The party ended abruptly when my ClearWire box rebooted and I D/Ced. I got back in within two minutes but found an empty hall. Turns out Oron decided to pull while I was D/Cing, and the party had to zone. Havoc was apparently very pissed and after a tongue-lashing Oron logged out. I tried to say good night to everyone else (some were still on) and hoped to Havoc my pulls were OK.
I made it to within 1.3k of 24 and was finally able to shed the tacky Brass gear – hallelujah! About 6,500 more xp and I’ll hit 25 and need to do something else for a bit to avoid gimping.
One change I need to make is to add another pull macro for cases of aggro and links. I wasn’t as informative as I could be when I found myself being chased by something other than my target. That said, I think I was link-free not counting adds after the fact.
I’m thinking I may revisit PLD using DNC as the sub. I wouldn’t have aggro for awhile though… I really don’t want to level WAR ><
Oh, Enzio wants a ride back to Sandy tomorrow and I saw that Sunoco *bought* a Vermillion Cloak. I’m not sure if I should feel bad or not…
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Escort for Hire
February 22-24, 2008
As usual, another weekend blur. In no particular order:
Saturday night I wound up leading a Qufim Island party when the original leader was having trouble. Here I don’t mind so much because it’s easier (IMHO) than Valkurm and I know the area and camps pretty well. And for the first time, I was also the puller! I got to refine my ranged macro into a proper pull with party alert and everything.
The party did well but the XP was middling. We started in the lake and were chaining worms and snips but the XP fell off. Just before nightfall I moved us to the tower. While they lasted, the pugs gave us great XP but the pull interval meant short chains. I didn’t want to chain-pull because our Scholar, a Japanese player called Totyan seemed to be having mana issues.
And I swear our *two* RDM’s weren’t enfeebling much at all. I never called them on it because the mobs were still going down easily.
After about two hours Blazinbluntz DCed and Darker bailed on no notice. Blazin was supposedly rebooting but in the time it took me to rep Darker he hadn’t returned. And then one of the planned reps bailed IIRC. Gotta recheck my notes. Anyway, on the alert from the Scholar of 20 minutes remaining, I decided to throw in the towel at that time. Nobody at our level was seeking and Ape wanted attention. Of course, as we said goodnights, I checked the seekers once more and there were plenty now. Oh well. I ended with 1,700 to go until 23.
I finished the night online with GT. My first ever online race in the GT universe was on 2/23 (well, early on 2/24).
In money news, I’m nearly broke, again. I’ve gone from 40k to 5 in a hurry. I bought Sleepga, two knives for Dancer and the junk for my moogle. And the Cotton gaiters to complete my mage set which Dancer can thankfully use now as well. The mog safe quest ended so I rushed to sell the Noble’s bed for about 70k, what I’ve always seen them sell for. Bad move – they’re closer to 65k now which means I’ll probably be out the 741 gil seller fee >< And to make matters worse, I somehow managed to buy the Scholar knives… I put one up for auction but there’s too much farmed crap to fit the other one in, and I can’t afford the Dancer versions. Once I get the knives sorted I should be able to sell the Kingsom Cesti to recoup that 13k (or so).
I got Ninja to 12 and farmed 8 more necklaces and turned them in. I hope I’m close to Fame 3 now… I also helped out a new WHM called Sarefina. She was under attack as I was riding into the East Saruta gate but I couldn’t get dismounted in time. I Raised her and we chatted for a bit about playing, White Magery and other stuff. Then another Yag walked up and flattened her again. Another Raise and buffs and I bid her adieu.
Sunday night was basically one long escort mission. When I logged in early Sunday night Enziorian and I chatted a bit. She wants to take up clothcraft but can’t get to Windy. I offered to take her (thinking teleport and walk) but she doesn’t have her gate crystal. But I was feeling helpful and she agreed to do the Long Walk from Sandy to Windy with a boat ride in the middle. She asked if Alimahaj could come and I said sure.
The escort was largely uneventful with little aggro and no real danger. I missed out on the only excitement when, while on the ferry to Mhaura, a Sea Horror popped. I was hoping to take one down but I had to go AFK to deal with Matt and his due-Wednesday book talk we just learned about.
Otherwise, we walked and talked and both got the crystals for Holla and Mea. I blew the chance for them to get the Valkurm and Buburimu OP warps… Once in Windy I welcomed them to my hometown and gave them the two-dollar tour. They opted to stay in Windy so I went AFK and later managed to pick up a single 1k tele.
I warped back to Windy, changed to Dancer, flagged, and got on the airship to Jeuno. I then flew to Kazham and met Stoik waiting at the gate, on NIN25. I think he deleveled ‘cos I swear he was 26 Saturday. He’s been on a lot now that he’s returned. Apparently went through a financial crisis or job problem, and found out is girl was cheating on him. Fhox will at least be glad to see he’s leveling again ^^
Stoik and I both packed it in about midnight. I’ll have to ding 23 tomorrow and switch mercifully into my Cotton armor set.
And speaking of Fhox, I haven’t seen him in days. Wonder what new game he’s got now…
As usual, another weekend blur. In no particular order:
Saturday night I wound up leading a Qufim Island party when the original leader was having trouble. Here I don’t mind so much because it’s easier (IMHO) than Valkurm and I know the area and camps pretty well. And for the first time, I was also the puller! I got to refine my ranged macro into a proper pull with party alert and everything.
The party did well but the XP was middling. We started in the lake and were chaining worms and snips but the XP fell off. Just before nightfall I moved us to the tower. While they lasted, the pugs gave us great XP but the pull interval meant short chains. I didn’t want to chain-pull because our Scholar, a Japanese player called Totyan seemed to be having mana issues.
And I swear our *two* RDM’s weren’t enfeebling much at all. I never called them on it because the mobs were still going down easily.
After about two hours Blazinbluntz DCed and Darker bailed on no notice. Blazin was supposedly rebooting but in the time it took me to rep Darker he hadn’t returned. And then one of the planned reps bailed IIRC. Gotta recheck my notes. Anyway, on the alert from the Scholar of 20 minutes remaining, I decided to throw in the towel at that time. Nobody at our level was seeking and Ape wanted attention. Of course, as we said goodnights, I checked the seekers once more and there were plenty now. Oh well. I ended with 1,700 to go until 23.
I finished the night online with GT. My first ever online race in the GT universe was on 2/23 (well, early on 2/24).
In money news, I’m nearly broke, again. I’ve gone from 40k to 5 in a hurry. I bought Sleepga, two knives for Dancer and the junk for my moogle. And the Cotton gaiters to complete my mage set which Dancer can thankfully use now as well. The mog safe quest ended so I rushed to sell the Noble’s bed for about 70k, what I’ve always seen them sell for. Bad move – they’re closer to 65k now which means I’ll probably be out the 741 gil seller fee >< And to make matters worse, I somehow managed to buy the Scholar knives… I put one up for auction but there’s too much farmed crap to fit the other one in, and I can’t afford the Dancer versions. Once I get the knives sorted I should be able to sell the Kingsom Cesti to recoup that 13k (or so).
I got Ninja to 12 and farmed 8 more necklaces and turned them in. I hope I’m close to Fame 3 now… I also helped out a new WHM called Sarefina. She was under attack as I was riding into the East Saruta gate but I couldn’t get dismounted in time. I Raised her and we chatted for a bit about playing, White Magery and other stuff. Then another Yag walked up and flattened her again. Another Raise and buffs and I bid her adieu.
Sunday night was basically one long escort mission. When I logged in early Sunday night Enziorian and I chatted a bit. She wants to take up clothcraft but can’t get to Windy. I offered to take her (thinking teleport and walk) but she doesn’t have her gate crystal. But I was feeling helpful and she agreed to do the Long Walk from Sandy to Windy with a boat ride in the middle. She asked if Alimahaj could come and I said sure.
The escort was largely uneventful with little aggro and no real danger. I missed out on the only excitement when, while on the ferry to Mhaura, a Sea Horror popped. I was hoping to take one down but I had to go AFK to deal with Matt and his due-Wednesday book talk we just learned about.
Otherwise, we walked and talked and both got the crystals for Holla and Mea. I blew the chance for them to get the Valkurm and Buburimu OP warps… Once in Windy I welcomed them to my hometown and gave them the two-dollar tour. They opted to stay in Windy so I went AFK and later managed to pick up a single 1k tele.
I warped back to Windy, changed to Dancer, flagged, and got on the airship to Jeuno. I then flew to Kazham and met Stoik waiting at the gate, on NIN25. I think he deleveled ‘cos I swear he was 26 Saturday. He’s been on a lot now that he’s returned. Apparently went through a financial crisis or job problem, and found out is girl was cheating on him. Fhox will at least be glad to see he’s leveling again ^^
Stoik and I both packed it in about midnight. I’ll have to ding 23 tomorrow and switch mercifully into my Cotton armor set.
And speaking of Fhox, I haven’t seen him in days. Wonder what new game he’s got now…
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