Academic Rollercoaster
Well, I'll get the FFXI shit out of the way first.
Levelling thief to 30 proved to be both rewarding and uh....stuff, mainly owing to SATA. Taking a leaf from perfidiousba, I can: "Dash around like a myunyu and shoot stuff." (I still haven't figured out the exact context in which it's rightfully used, but I have a feeling you can eat it). I've come to the realization that with Mithra, I'd be saving myself a kick in the face if I steer clear of any mage related classes, because default stats for MIT are optimized for any DD type jobs; what with the DEX, AGI, and STR bonus (I think). MP for Mithra just licks ass, as I learned in my RDM days. So, after hitting 30, I promptly choco'd my ass to Norg to get the quest for Ninja, only to realize that "Hey, dumbass, Ninja are expensive as fuck to raise, and LOLZ, you're kinda poor. Just kinda.". At first I thought of just boycotting any fundamental Ninja abilites (i.e Utsusemi), but you know....who the hell wants a Ninja who can't do shit in their party? Mind you, I can just quest that shit, but Synth lol'd and said "It's long, tedious, and annoying, but it's free." /sigh. Oblivious to the fact that Ninja is arguably THE ideal sub job for thief, I'm thinking of alternatives. In fact, I'm thinking of just putting thief on haitus for a while, I just did the Dark Knight quest yesterday and it looks freakin' promising (and thief is an awesome sub for DRK, what with the Dex and agility stats I've aquired from dashing around as a thief). Kind of ironic since ninja's been my prime motivation for busting my ass to 30 in that fuckwad of a place Yhoatar (/shudder ~___~), and now Nin is the last job I even want to equip xD. So I'm restarting my main for the next 50 or so levels with Dark Knight today; AF gear is freakin NUTS for drk, jet black armour, and a sweet ass saraded sword (though the sword isn't AF). Probably a lot easier to get parties with Dark as well, people just kinda hate thief for no plausible reason, aside from the fact that before level 15 their basically just dudes running around with a knife and stealing stuff; at level 30 though, I should be sought after! Distortion combo yields like, hundreds of damage. And that's like the most basic thf combo there is! Dark Knight however, should just plain own: super high attack complemented by a..uh...big sword, innate dark magic abilites (poison, bio, etc...), and an altogether badass looking cat. Needless to say I'm pumped about starting over again, while I'm leveling to 10 in West Ronfaure and Ghelsba Outpost, I should aquire a massive quantity of fire crystals which sell for an assload in stacks, ultimately aiding my whole no money thing and possibly buying utsusemi for Ninja; should I ever feel the urge to level it. Kay that's enough~
School went okay. Emphasis on went because today's the last day :D, well kinda; I still have a final exam in english long block, and two provincial exams in the week and a bit to come. At the moment it looks like I passed everything with: English 70something% (it's bound to raise exponentially with my final exam today, and the provincial exam on wednsday), History 69% (same thing as english, except no final), CCNA1 81%, Entrepreneurship 62% (lolz). Not bad, not great, I care not; attained the C+ average required for the trip in 2 weeks. lol, breaking news, I just got an award in my Entre class for being "Best Techie". Go me. So uhh...yeah, I'm technically done high school. Cool.