Heads up

Been thinking to stop blogging. I don’t know if this gonna be forever, or if next week I’ll be here posting again.

Apparently people misunderstand posts. People love to talk and Q_Q over nonsense. I don’t hide I’m unhappy recently, but I’m doing my best to fix stuff and make everything work properly. It’s only a stupid MMO, but there are still things that make me feel really really sad inside.

And <3 Maiev for talking to me the other day

Still Alive!

Not referring to Portal game, but yes, I’m still alive!
I’ve been really tired mentally recently and angry with my web host (everything still loading super slow..) and spent most of the time relaxing and playing offline games on my 360.

I’ll make some serious post soon, sorry for my absence :(

Who said PLD is cheap? BLM rapeness inside!

Definitely playing Paladin better recently! Made some brand new macros, which actually are helping a lot both hate and “surviving” wise. I bought some new fancy things (Shield torque, buckler earring,Ada legs, resolute and ……… Quick belt (working on codices and swift belt right now) and borrowing Dusk Gloves from Kerb until I’ll get Homam hands.

Also working on Shield (and leveling Savul, got lvl 59!), while wearing all skill+ gear possible I have, including a Masters I bought for this occasion(+10!) and -evasion stuff (Hauby, aurum hands and Adaman legs, for a total of -30ish approx)
Been fighting Black mandies in Den of Rancor getting decent skillups. The whole process is actually going fine since I brought my RDM mule with Phalanx II with us (took over Michael few time ago), and now I’m 20ish levels until cap. Gimp I know. Kill me :(

And still having bad luck with WAR and PLD NMs in Beadoux [S]. Mask and Sword just don’t exist at all. But I’m still happy since I went 1/1 on Shield!
And tanking those NMs makes me actually emo, due my very very low hp. Really, fuck that. I think I’m going to leave my 1 million fire resist planfor some HP++ stuff on AH (not like we fight Tiamat everyday, and honestly my BLM is doing great on Tia, so rather bring that).

This is a total of TWO MILLION GILS D: Probably most PLDs out there are already horrified seeing this, yup, this is actually the idle gear i want to get. Call me gimp or crazy but i’ll go for it. It’s actually good since I have all hate++ things on flash rampart and sentinel macros and I can actually CureIV myself when I’m going to switch back.
And no, this is NOT a final gear solution, since as you can see there is no homam there :p It’s basically something I can buy/get soonish.
The only item I’ll have hard times to get will be indeed Bloodbead ring, due my short time and the NM itself being a big asshole to farm. Koenig cuirass will just be a matter of time, just need Odin to put that stupid thing out and see if sacks allow me to get that (I should, not sure tough!)
Steppe sash is insanely expensive -1mil itself-! but I’ll probably try the BC on my mule, I should have enough seals for a couple of runs. If I don’t get that lucky, I’ll just buy.
Everything behind this is myself getting tired to die after eating some ugly tp move and die one hit after only because I’m a taru.

Paladin fail times are followed by BLMs uber winnings: we fought a total of 10 Ouryu yesterday (B2 mask inc soon for me I guess!) and I got some crazy damage there :3-

I’m still waiting Kerb to post all the fight parses but I can’t stop drool on this! →→→→→
Had to censor all names otherwise he will kill me (wiill probably do that anyway but it’s OK, I can take the risk!)

Not hiding I’m so happy :3~
I still miss tons of merits (no one wants to know about my Freeze and Potency meripo status, even tough I have capped elemental) but I guess that’s “kinda” OK since I have good gear <.< But will fix that soon.

Like I said in the previous post, my Salvage group got destroyed, me and Kerb decided to take a break from it, focusing on other stuffs (like Nyzul, Assault clears), leveling my Scholar and farming/doing random stuff!
I guess it’s deserved after a couple of years of Salvageing. Feels good not having to worry about APs^^ And maybe I’ll be even able to get Yigit feet, about time I’d say! I’ll just tag along with Amina when his group will do Bhaflaus to get Morri feet 15, just for the sake to complete the piece. Don’t want to have TWO 35s (body too!) waiting at npc ;;

Regarding Ouryu, we kept breaking our own BC record~
Too bad the one we did best was a guest orb x.x; That means no SpikeFlail’ member name on it! Whatever, like if that is something really important.

Last Dynamises went fine. Still no drops, but fine. I guess the increased drop rate doesn’t really apply to us.
ANOTHER Buburimu with no sign of Valor cape (this is getting ridiculous, seriously) but got a decent amount of -1s! And i got my very first one ever :D
I’ve never been much interested on them, mostly because their upgrade cost. But there are few piece of gear that are really worth it, like Sorcerer’s gloves +1. Two more dark skill is really a nice improvement.
The only useless AF2+1 I want (because, the HQ version does really nothing performance wise) is the petasos! Just for the white border freakness and to be….cool.

Kerb managed to get a trigger for Provoker, an NM in Promy Vahzl that drops Stone gorget.
We gave it a couple of tries, and it’s actually really easy to fight! We just failed once because our MNK didn’t sub nin, but after a wipe he went to change to NIN and everything went smooth and fine.
I had to Reraise-sack it multiple times to make it not depopping while people were coming back, after homepointing.

Jowah saves the day and the trigger! Gratz Kerb for your new shinyz! And also to me and Sofo for the opportunity to get the zone map -awesome thing since it gonna be real handy for Promathia missions-

And yeah, set is going pretty well. Went 1/1 on bosses, still have to do mea, we just have problems finding a day we’re all online x.x; Sucks that some of us work I guess!
Can’t wait for next mission, me playing as PLD! Orz.

Nothing out the ordinary

I kinda lost the usual FFXI groove recently, going sleep at regular times and skipping some events, which is something I considered absolutely unacceptable till few time ago. Basically it’s real life going in the worst way ever, I’d fire myself at work but I cant because my family needs my contract to stay in our house.

Anyway, enough boring non-game talkings, but unfortunately I haven’t done anything interesting in the past days. After AV nerf it was all QQ’ng and sets (Nyzul and Salvage) getting destroyed, finding me asking why I keep playing (hardcore) and getting emo… so yeah, “life” hasn’t been good in game also.

Got some minor accomplishments~ But sorry I don’t have any picture since I’m at work and my USB pendrive failed so horribly.

Scholar 53! Can finally randomly …..leech from Kerb in sea.
Not to mention that Level Synch is definitely the most awesome thing that SE did from…probably CoP?
Being able to party whenever you want with LS people, regardless of your current level, and skip that nasty 45-60 is a dream!

Upgraded Choral Cannions (had mats since forever, was either toss or use them, needed inventory space) and got BLM AF2 hands -1 in last Dynamis… tried to buy 28 Windy currency but NO ONE was selling them in Rolan last night. Oh well, need to get those before Sunday anyway.
Trying to get Glamour Jupon (have subligar for ages) but I got incredibly unlucky and I need to wear Silk slops which those are never on AH.

Started COP set for Kogenta and other friends. We managed to do an awesome Holla clear and we’re about to do both Mea and Dem this week! I can’t wait to get outta there for some Phomiuna fun, want to try some mad strategy that popped into my mind :3- And apparently I’ll have to tank from cap 40 for all missions x.x;

Made new layout for blog...about time. Apparently previous one wasn’t appreciated by most people. It’s already…. version six. Ow, this blog is actually old, being up for two whole years and some spare months.

Little souleater story. I should make a page about past version maybe, sometimes is nice to look back~
And yes, screenshots are chronologically in order. My most favourite are indeed #4 and #6 (current one), and my least favourite is probably… eheh #1. First try ever on Wordpress also~

I really hope to feel better soon. I am sick of this, living just to hold to the weekend. And not talking about “woo-hoo, cant wait for sat = FFXI!!!” but I have enough of all shit happening at work and everything related. Anyone has a job for me? I can bring cookies :(

Absolute Virtue, what happened.

Absolute Virtue was patched, we came, we equipped our weapons and killed it. Easy? Well, kinda.
My linkshell doesn’t have at the moment enough DRK zerg power to kill it down (not like it matters anymore) and our leaders decided to team up with another good linkshell, Novorsa.

I found myself tanking Jailer of Love. Which is something I actually love (well, I just ADORE it), mostly because of the RDM subjob!
Nothing out of the ordinary there, just the same good ‘ol spamming stuff for hate, and die for JoL 2hour. Just had to hold that thing for few minutes at low percentage while Graeson, Amina, Hoss and other DRKs were getting ready with songs, rolls ‘n stuff. We killed ally leaving only tanks and BLMs in to let them kill JoL, and keep melees hate free.

Everything but DRKs and a WHM in each party joined the zergfest. That means no fancy title for me :(
I was healing people from outside ally (I literally had 4-5 /ma “Cure IV” playername) and the whole zerging was going awesome.
But unfortunately, we screwed up a couple of stuff (early Drain IIs and most important, a missed Benediction due lag) and first try ended like this.

What sucks most, is that we wiped at 1%. Yes, ONE FUCKING PERCENT. Matix tried a desperate EES but damage wasn’t enough for the kill :(
It just sucks I couldn’t do anything, and since too much time passed since we engaged, we obviously couldn’t recover. Sucks to be us.

Second try, same strat. Me-Cyn-Terny poke JoL, hold it a bit and then make BLMs kill. Absolute Virtue pops, DRKs gets their drains and buffs and they go. And apparently, the strat worked perfectly on our second try ever.

Absolute Virtue DEAD! FIRST KILL ON RAGNAROK!
I know it’s quite late to post this, but I’m still excited for that fight. My only complain/whine is not being able to get “Virtuous Saint” title ; ; I guess next time I’ll get it! (when players will fight another working strat in 783438 years)

Drops? Bellona’s, Mars’s and Raphael’s Rod. Three. Yeah three. And sucks the fact it wasn’t our pop.
What does that mean? We killed AV but got nothing to show off :( Even a stupid rod would have been enough!

SquareEnix is such an asshole to players right now, patching AV again after a single mere week.
Why? Because they don’t like zerg? Then why they let us zerg Dynamis Lord. Or King Vinegaroon. Meh.
I was really happy because it was finally killable, and besides items and everything, the whole teaming thing with NO was awesome. Linkshells working together to fulfill something is great imho. And, isn’t the base concept of Final Fantasy itself, with the whole friendship blah blah thing ?

Anyway, we kinda left our toughts from Absolute Virtue right now, and been focusing a bit on past NMs and Pandemonium Warden (we got a pop set!) But i guess that will be next post’s main thread!

Hellday is now playing on Dukefleed character while waiting to have his old taru back. Since he wasn’t able to make it in time for an Einherjar run, he asked me to get him the clear.
Well, I got kinda tempted to play/try a melee job (Ridill WAR), since it was a lolT1 chamber and had a big amount of people anyway. And I did.

I think I’ll never level a melee. At least, WAR doesn’t really fit me. It’s……….. boring. Extremely boring.
And seeing my HP dropping w/o being able to do anything is an horrible feeling! The only jobs I could ever raise could be only DRK DRG and THF probably, mostly because they look more “active” battle wise and got better unique stuff. Don’t get offended you proud melee guys ;(
All jobs above can be a real viable option, since by then I’ll have some homam, but it’s not the time to even think about this! I resumed leveling SCH last weekend (thanks Grae!) and I’m 46 and some exp. Yay :3~

Ok, that was totally unexpected o.o I mean.
We were waiting for our AV “date” and Ami just traded me out of nowhere. “Oh cool” I thought “He’ll probably trade me those HQ Coral legs for JoL he lend me that other time”
But then I saw this x.x Novio Earring! Literally died irl D: I think Ami had to wait at least a whole minute to complete the transaction. I’m so happy ; ; Thank youu!! Still shacking irl for it!

Next item for BLM I’m planning to get is Merciful Cape. Me and Kerb have like a total of 5H.Q. Aern Organs, I hope it will drop, I’m like 0/8468756 on Ix’MNK ._.! Wish me luck!

Made this picture on MY OEKAKI (yes the huge fontings means: YOU VISIT AND DRAW IF YOU CAN K?) as a gift for my dear friend Petisu! She also play on Ragnarok, very nice PLD and RDM~
I got a new tablet (Wacom Bamboo) and I’m spamming doodles everywhere!