Well, I ended up buying my Perdu Voulge last night. iniadelphinae was organizing a LS merit party not long after I logged in and asked if I wanted to merit. By party's end, I had one merit point, two deaths, and enough IS to afford the voulge with a little left over. I probably should have waited until the weekend and gotten one more merit session in, to make ( Read more... )

Started the night off with a merit party invite from Aorlik almost immediately after I finished checking gardens last night. I was just about to start my semi-nightly crafting, but I've found that a lot of times prices at the guilds tend to be better (-ish?) later at night anyway. That aside, I'm pretty much at the point now where all the merit ( Read more... )

 I need to try and find a good time to keep updating this, now with being back to trying to run at full capacity at a "job," however temporary. I ended up spending some of my recently-accumulated merits on capping out Sentinel recast. I guess for no other reason than that doing so would finish it off. Did another merit party over the weekend, this ( Read more... )

Another Big Merit Party Wed night and I've suddenly got 9 merit points burning holes in my pixelated pockets. Happy! Still debating what to actually use them for. The choices are mainly between upgrades on PLD-- which I haven't gotten to use for anything much of late--or SAM--which actually may have gone unused longer than PLD for me, now that I ( Read more... )

No Limbus last night. :( We didn't have enough people on for a viable run. That was okay-ish with me in a way, as I had to resupply a bunch of consumables recently and need to get some money back in again. Still undecided on whether or not to upgrade SAM AF hands, so I'm sitting on the mats & anc. beastcoins till later.

I was just hanging in town ( Read more... )

I decided to just put the 5 merits I'd built up into Chivalry, and cap that out. Since I'd lost quite a bit off of my buffer on PLD, I did a few Campaigns yesterday. 10:00 recast on Chivalry is indeed quite awesome. I ended up teaming with two random MNK/DNC at one in Batallia Downs. {Team up?} requests from total strangers during Campaign aren't ( Read more... )

Disappointingly, we were unable to drum up the numbers & jobs necessary for a run at Omega Friday night. We ended up farming NE Apollyon. I'll be the first person to admit I don't have hardly any experience on PLD/NIN. I know I need more, but I am extremely upset by my performance during this run. Several people went down at different times and ( Read more... )

Things have been pretty slow on FFXI lately. At least, it feels that way. Almost everything I'm actively working on will take some time to complete, so progress feels like it's coming slowly. I've managed to get in more time lately meriting than in a very long time, but I still need so many more points. I finally decided to upgrade Chivalry to 3 ( ( Read more... )

Another linkshell merit party @ Mt. Z, and I'm back to 5 merit points again. They will most likely be used on the first upgrade for Chivalry, though I'm also considering the 4th Sentinel upgrade or unlocking Overwhelm. (or 5th +HP...ack!) I still really like SAM, no question, but ultimately I end up feeling like 'just another DD' when I'm playing ( Read more... )

LS merit party last night, finally! Meriting on Trolls with 2 DNC for healing in the party, it felt more dangerous than it probably was. It was impressive how they were able to keep 4 DDs going and seemingly in no real danger the majority of the time. The only death the whole session was me, from a Troll's Automaton. Slapstick will do that, with no ( Read more... )