Denali Ain’t Just a River in Egypt
Ereblogs like this one are always somewhat troubling to write. One thing followed another, as things are often wont to do, but in no easily coherent form or with any greater purpose. Stringing the sequence of events together becomes kind of bothersome. So I degenerate back into “look what I did this past while” type of a blog. Dems the breaks, I suppose.
Corsair is now at level 53. Aaaand it’s been put on indefinite hold at that point. A lack of skillup is an issue (since I haven’t had a single party outside of past colibri at a maximum of level 41, putting me like 30 levels of marksmanship behind) but also decreasing funds. I am rapidly shooting myself into the poor house. Some people have made the case that I’d shoot a lot less bullets after 50 since I’d be using a Merc Kris (on loan from Brimah) and later a Joyeuse and could probably scrape by with the gil I‘ve got, but getting the job to 75 at the cost of bankrupting myself isn’t what I consider a comfortable situation. There’s a lot of gear I want to buy for other jobs too. Plus I’m not the kind of guy that “just likes to scrape by.” All this amounts to corsair simply not in the budget right now. It was a mere dream; a fun dream, yes, but never real.
On a related note, one of the major things that bothers me about my linkshell of AXI is that they give zero gil to their members, ever. No behemoth hides from HNM camping, no dynamis currency or random item drops, no nothin’. They say they used to give out gil shares from sky drops before but they haven’t in the year and a half I’ve been in the shell. They can’t claim they don’t have any money, since ever since the dynamis fee was cut in half (on sylph, O pieces have actually gone UP since then to almost double price) the bank has become wildly bloated at 20 million and climbing rapidly. I estimate the Bastok we did made the bank at least 1,850,000 gil (170k * 5 for wootz + about 200 bills * 5k each), and that’s assuming that only 100 singles (plus the 100 bill the bank took) - in reality, since we cleared almost the entire zone twice, it was probably more. Members never see a single gil of that. Fer frick’s sake. So, of course, since nobody ever gets paid, people cheap out on food and useful med items during important events, and we die more and get less done. It’s sort of a vicious cycle. The only thing they’ve committed to using the bank for other than paying for dynamis and einherjar is buying sky triggers, but considering how little we want from sky now and how stingy the sky gods often are (5 gods killed last run; about 2 worthwhile drops out of the whole lot) this seems little better than flushing it all down the drain. Maybe the half-joke about the leader using it all to upgrade is sort-of girlfriend’s relic hand-to-hand weapon really are true. It makes a guy wonder.
There are a number of obvious solutions, but the way AXI is, none of them will ever get put into practice. Every now and then I get all fired up about something AXI does stupidly that would be so easy to fix with extremely minor effort, but then I remind myself of this fact and I calm down and try to get on with my life. And on with the rest of the blog. So.
Instead of spending a lot of time leveling COR, I’ve been spending a lot of time getting merits. My DNC merits as they stand now. I’ve vowed that I’ll max out both categories for this job; the first time I’ll ever have done so, and my least used job at events. But I do a lot of meriting and soloing, plus it has really cool merits. Plans are to cap No Foot Rise then probably stick the other 3 into Saber Dance. I maintain that Closed Position is impractical and useless.
OH GOD. NO SUMMONING MAGIC? WHAT WILL WE DO?! I’m trying to get the Nyzul group going again on a regular basis, partially because some members still want some stuff, but mostly because we’re just so darn good at Nyzul that it kind of feels like a crime not to be going. Plus it’s a halfway decent way to kill time (and mobs) with friends on a Friday evening.
SSSWWWWAAAAAMMMMMMFFFIIISKKKK!!!! No drop D:
Overall halfway decent drops for the evening; denali head, denali body, and askar legs. I won lot on the body under the guise I’d use it on Corsair. When asked if I was leveling COR still, I gave a very firm “maybe.”
Recent dynamis loots. Both times I was lotting DNC. Both times I got no DNC. Aggravation. Of course, with as many jobs as I have leveled right now, almost every day is Christmas. This puts me at 4/5 WAR, 3/5 BLU, 2/5 COR. If those hands drop in Jeuno I’ll be able to store a set of WAR relic that I can’t even wear! Again I got COR, again I was asked if I was still leveling COR, again I responded with a very solid “perhaps.“
Jevan’s the only person I publicly admit to disliking in AXI, for reasons that I would get into here except for the fact I don’t want to devote any actual time, energy, and Ereblog space to talking about such a tool. In any event, this line gives me the gigggles.
Did Divine Might for Kisa and some of her friends the BLM doomsday way. Not a whole heck of a lot to say about this other than a bunch of people missing the first time nuke that ended with us wiping, but we got up and tried again. Watching 14ish BLMs simultaneously cast superpoewrful spells in a semicircle ring of bodies was one of the coolest sights ever, but you had to have been there to apprecate it.
Wise and I trapped Brimah in this Moblin Maze Monger cage and refuse to let him out until we have enough marbles to do our mazes. Or something. I now have a halfway regular static for MMM and do 3 to 6 runs near every day. It’s not perfect, but it’s getting me there. I’m now over the halfway point of marbles I need; a bit more time of regular farming and I’ll have what I need for the Koggel BC. Then I’ll get the Ermine’s Tail runes (thankfully not much different) and be able to farm that too. So this plan is actually going pretty well.
In the end I wonder if I’m in denali denial about the whole COR thing. I really don’t have the gil right now and my attempts to try to make more hasn’t been going particularly well. Yet, whenever I don’t have a new job to level, I start to play the game less. It’s already happening. I always knew I’d quit over a lack of gil some day. I just hope that day isn’t fast approaching. Well, I still have too many pending projects to want to quit yet (I’m getting at least one snow zone piece of DNC, darn it) so we’ll see how well I can keep myself motivated.
Corsair is now at level 53. Aaaand it’s been put on indefinite hold at that point. A lack of skillup is an issue (since I haven’t had a single party outside of past colibri at a maximum of level 41, putting me like 30 levels of marksmanship behind) but also decreasing funds. I am rapidly shooting myself into the poor house. Some people have made the case that I’d shoot a lot less bullets after 50 since I’d be using a Merc Kris (on loan from Brimah) and later a Joyeuse and could probably scrape by with the gil I‘ve got, but getting the job to 75 at the cost of bankrupting myself isn’t what I consider a comfortable situation. There’s a lot of gear I want to buy for other jobs too. Plus I’m not the kind of guy that “just likes to scrape by.” All this amounts to corsair simply not in the budget right now. It was a mere dream; a fun dream, yes, but never real.
On a related note, one of the major things that bothers me about my linkshell of AXI is that they give zero gil to their members, ever. No behemoth hides from HNM camping, no dynamis currency or random item drops, no nothin’. They say they used to give out gil shares from sky drops before but they haven’t in the year and a half I’ve been in the shell. They can’t claim they don’t have any money, since ever since the dynamis fee was cut in half (on sylph, O pieces have actually gone UP since then to almost double price) the bank has become wildly bloated at 20 million and climbing rapidly. I estimate the Bastok we did made the bank at least 1,850,000 gil (170k * 5 for wootz + about 200 bills * 5k each), and that’s assuming that only 100 singles (plus the 100 bill the bank took) - in reality, since we cleared almost the entire zone twice, it was probably more. Members never see a single gil of that. Fer frick’s sake. So, of course, since nobody ever gets paid, people cheap out on food and useful med items during important events, and we die more and get less done. It’s sort of a vicious cycle. The only thing they’ve committed to using the bank for other than paying for dynamis and einherjar is buying sky triggers, but considering how little we want from sky now and how stingy the sky gods often are (5 gods killed last run; about 2 worthwhile drops out of the whole lot) this seems little better than flushing it all down the drain. Maybe the half-joke about the leader using it all to upgrade is sort-of girlfriend’s relic hand-to-hand weapon really are true. It makes a guy wonder.
There are a number of obvious solutions, but the way AXI is, none of them will ever get put into practice. Every now and then I get all fired up about something AXI does stupidly that would be so easy to fix with extremely minor effort, but then I remind myself of this fact and I calm down and try to get on with my life. And on with the rest of the blog. So.
Instead of spending a lot of time leveling COR, I’ve been spending a lot of time getting merits. My DNC merits as they stand now. I’ve vowed that I’ll max out both categories for this job; the first time I’ll ever have done so, and my least used job at events. But I do a lot of meriting and soloing, plus it has really cool merits. Plans are to cap No Foot Rise then probably stick the other 3 into Saber Dance. I maintain that Closed Position is impractical and useless.
OH GOD. NO SUMMONING MAGIC? WHAT WILL WE DO?! I’m trying to get the Nyzul group going again on a regular basis, partially because some members still want some stuff, but mostly because we’re just so darn good at Nyzul that it kind of feels like a crime not to be going. Plus it’s a halfway decent way to kill time (and mobs) with friends on a Friday evening.
SSSWWWWAAAAAMMMMMMFFFIIISKKKK!!!! No drop D:
Overall halfway decent drops for the evening; denali head, denali body, and askar legs. I won lot on the body under the guise I’d use it on Corsair. When asked if I was leveling COR still, I gave a very firm “maybe.”
Recent dynamis loots. Both times I was lotting DNC. Both times I got no DNC. Aggravation. Of course, with as many jobs as I have leveled right now, almost every day is Christmas. This puts me at 4/5 WAR, 3/5 BLU, 2/5 COR. If those hands drop in Jeuno I’ll be able to store a set of WAR relic that I can’t even wear! Again I got COR, again I was asked if I was still leveling COR, again I responded with a very solid “perhaps.“
Jevan’s the only person I publicly admit to disliking in AXI, for reasons that I would get into here except for the fact I don’t want to devote any actual time, energy, and Ereblog space to talking about such a tool. In any event, this line gives me the gigggles.
Did Divine Might for Kisa and some of her friends the BLM doomsday way. Not a whole heck of a lot to say about this other than a bunch of people missing the first time nuke that ended with us wiping, but we got up and tried again. Watching 14ish BLMs simultaneously cast superpoewrful spells in a semicircle ring of bodies was one of the coolest sights ever, but you had to have been there to apprecate it.
Wise and I trapped Brimah in this Moblin Maze Monger cage and refuse to let him out until we have enough marbles to do our mazes. Or something. I now have a halfway regular static for MMM and do 3 to 6 runs near every day. It’s not perfect, but it’s getting me there. I’m now over the halfway point of marbles I need; a bit more time of regular farming and I’ll have what I need for the Koggel BC. Then I’ll get the Ermine’s Tail runes (thankfully not much different) and be able to farm that too. So this plan is actually going pretty well.
In the end I wonder if I’m in denali denial about the whole COR thing. I really don’t have the gil right now and my attempts to try to make more hasn’t been going particularly well. Yet, whenever I don’t have a new job to level, I start to play the game less. It’s already happening. I always knew I’d quit over a lack of gil some day. I just hope that day isn’t fast approaching. Well, I still have too many pending projects to want to quit yet (I’m getting at least one snow zone piece of DNC, darn it) so we’ll see how well I can keep myself motivated.