I'm back!
I moved back to LJ, even if a free account is gimp as all shit. I just got so got sick of the comment spam for Wordpress, the weird formatting - plus, I love my DeepestSender addon for Firefox.
We had very little time left.
First of all, I've been doing more than my fair share of Nyzul Isle. Well, that's not quite true, I'm very pleased with the amount of Nyzul I've been doing. I'm less pleased with our droprates. Stupid Goliard just does not want to drop for us, in either of my statics. My oldest static, the original group, has taken a break from Nyzul and is right now just focusing on our past clears, hoping to get pretty stuff from the ??? appraisals. So far - nada. But then again, that's expected. At least Varda finally got her Goliard Clogs in our Sunday static.
Dance, puppet, dance!
I've also been doing dynamis with DynamisX as per usual, and had some good luck in a Jeuno some time back. Ever have one of those insane runs, where you can't stop lotting 900+? I ended up with a Jadeshell as well as synth materials for over 30k to NPC. I had to have Shadowfox hold some of my stuff, so I could have room to keep lotting.
I FINALLY GOT IT!
The sweetest "victory" for me with DynamisX, however, was probably finally winning my Valor Coronet in Dynamis-Bastok. I know it's a mediocre piece - a macro piece for Rampart at best - but I cannot count how many times I've lost lot on this damn thing! I've lost lot in every way and situation possible. I've lost with 980+ lots, and I've lost with less than 10 lots. I've lost them to PLD mains, PLD secondaries, people without PLD leveled. I've lost them right away, last minute, to friends, to foes. I've lost them in shout dynamises, my own shell, DynamisX, and everything in between. Thank God the nightmare's over. Of course, the Gods decided to laugh at me and immediately drop like 3 more, which all almost went to freelot, but I don't care that I spent the full 4 points for it. It was worth it!
Probably the only way I'll get to play with Tiamat, considering the state of things on Valefor...
Ultima did some more Bahamut version 2, which I was psyched about. I was hoping a couple of masks would drop, and maybe even have a chance at winning one, but unfortunately no such luck. However, my day took a definite turn for the better when I was asked to main tank a fight. I was largely unprepared, thinking I was only there for adds, but I did decently all things considered. I do need to work on my gear, though. I wish the better body pieces for PLD wasn't so damn hard to get - Valor Surcoat, Ares Cuirass, and lolKoenig Cuirass. I also need to invest in some resist builds... once I stop being a lazy, broke ass that is.
Great view.
Either way, I had a blast. I did end up dying around 30% or so, but it was still a whole lot of fun!
Just as I finish /rdm, I need /blm as well. Typically.
Ultima's Einherjar attendance has been just low enough so that it got too troublesome trying to clear more Tier II wings, and has now joined up with a different shell to do Einherjar. I really wish I could go, I was so well on my way to my Ritter Gorget - and now, after the patch it should be even easier to get the ampoules - but alas, I did that silly thing some people do and signed up for summer classes. With my alarm clock going off at 6am every weekday, I'm just not in any shape to be attending events that start at 11pm or later. :( I miss Einherjar...
Hee hee hee.
I've been manaburning Limbus here and there. Since my dear friend Ming quit the game and left me her characters, I've been taking advantage of the fact that Abbylu has BLM merits, and Regn doesn't. It's good fun manaburning Limbus, and I wish I could do it more often.It also enabled me to get my Brutal Earring. I was having a difficult time deciding between Loquacious and Brutal, but in the end I decided Brutal will be more useful, a larger part of the time, while Loquacious wouldn't be used nearly as much, despite the fact that I tank everything /nin these days.
The mission has failed. Now leaving the battlefield. Or something.
This one time, in Nyzul, we killed the floor 20 boss and got nothing, and instead of warping us out, I was like "DURR DURR DURR NEXT FLOOR!" Deciding to give it a go anyway when we got "Eliminate enemy leader" objective, and he was sitting right there, we drew our weapons. Then we timed out and didn't get any tokens. And I was embarrassed.
*
Now, from May 12th to May 29th, I didn't play hardly at all, except to level my mules to level 5 and get Mob Bonanza marbles on something like 14 characters. Why, you ask? I grabbed my trusty MNK Patroklis halfway around the globe, to visit Norway - hereafter known as the Land of the Ponies (for reasons that do not need exploring at this juncture). We stayed there for just over two awesome weeks. It was fun showing off my home country to Pat, and it was also nice to be able to introduce him to some of the other Norwegians I've introduced him to in FFXI.
See, here's Pat in front of the Royal Palace. He was disappointed not to see any ponies, but we did go up and poke the funny Royal Guards, though. Norwegian Palace Guards look much cooler than British Palace Guards. Norwegian Palace Guards have black uniforms, and their hat is hard and tall, but with this weird tassel-looking thing just kinda sprouting out from the side. Go google it or something.
By Akerselva at Grønland.
First up, we met up with Brenni, the girl who way back in December 2004 said, "Lexa, you've got to play this game I'm playing now, it's called Final Fantasy XI!" She's very cute, she's getting married to her beloved manthra Desdemona this summer, she's got a big, drooling dog named Garm, and two very awesomely cute ferrets named Simpel and Skade.
Cassian: HALP HALP RAEP!
Next up was Cassian, Pat's personal Kosebamse. Pat was overjoyed at finally getting to meet the love of his life. Cassian seemed apprehensive, but we all know he's hot for Pat. Cassian used to be in CeeTeeBee, but he quit the game back in December. Like a big fucking jerk. Now who's gonna do freakish damage to their JoLs, hm?!
*lick*
And then finally, there was Detarium. Detarium was also in CeeTeeBee for a while, but he left to play with Brenni and Desdemona in Fusion. Something about not being able to be in a US shell on an EU schedule, 4am events... something. I dunno. *whistles* If you thought Pat was enthusiastic about seeing Cassian, that was nothing compared to how happy Detarium was to see Pat! I have another picture of Pat touching Detarium's ass. Trufax. I just didn't know how to shop their avatars in over that scene...!
*
Anyway, back to our regular schedule.
/verygimpdnc > /war
I've been doing some Campaign on my NIN. It's not so bad when there's a lot of battles, and when I get decent exp for them, but I'm still not a huge fan of Campaign. Usually, I have to wait so long between battles if I camp a zone, and if I try to chase it - even with the handy messages in the past towns - I'm usually either so late that it ends almost immediately, or so early that I have to wait forever for the mobs to get there anyway. It gets very annoying and frustrating.
lolEva build.
Thank God Pat's WHM leveled into my level range. It actually gave me motivation enough to suffer through an actual exp party, and my NIN is now 66. One level in something like... five months. All right! :D I've also pretty much put my evasion build on the shelf for now, except for soloing.
HI2U Dark Ixion
The most recent update came with a lot of goodies, but the best part about it - in my opinion - was Dark Ixion. Not because his DORPS are the most amazing items in the game to date, or because the fight is like the best ZOMG fight ever, or for any other reason really, except the fact that I was the first person to tank him. Ultima got the first claim on the server, and I was the first tank on scene. Yelsaewnor and Blueshawk were right behind me, and 90 minutes later, Ixion gave his shit UP!
Pretty dead horsie.
It was a very interesting fight. I'm particularly interested in if Acheron Kick really is his little mini-version of a Spike Flail (aka triggered when someone takes hate from behind). Also, remind me to bring Echo Drops next time I fight him. x.x His lack of HP bar was a little annoying, since I don't use such fancy plugins as Infobar, or other programs to scope out the HP. I died quite a few times. But I can honestly say he's the most fun I've had tanking for a long, long, long time. I was bouncing around the room after it was over. I was also fortunate enough to be let into the alliance again near the end, and snagged the title, which was HUGE for me.
Ixion Hornbreaker
My FFXI career is most unremarkable. I play the game, I do my thing, I have bad luck and good luck and I tank stuff. But I don't usually do anything special. Valefor wasn't the first server to take down Dark Ixion, but we were far from the last, and being one of the 18 first people on Valefor with this title was incredibly huge to me.I am however, sad that some other people there who were there from the start and arrived early, as well as helped scout him, did not get the title that day. That was probably the biggest drawback to not being able to tell its HP%, otherwise they should have been let in to get the title.
DORPS
No cape for us that time, we've gotten it since. Congratulations to Varda, Modoja, Redd, Onorok, Joanna, Spit, Nekio and Mhmmmimafreak on your pretty DORPs. Did I leave anyone out?
CHEESE!
I haven't looked too closely at a lot of the recent update beyond Dark Ixion, but I've started to accumulate a little bit of zeni for the new ZNMs. It's an interesting premise. Although I sincerely hope endgame shells all over will be laying down Soultrapper rules for their events, since sometimes you can get asked to bring pictures of... inconvenient mobs. Does anyone really wish to lose an Einherjar or Salvage because people are busy snapping pictures instead of WS'ing/curing/voking/whatever? It's made for some interesting situations when it comes to regular mobs, though.
Finally, some random shit.
949 lot on freelot. Go, go.
My very first Spike Flail, one time we got Darters.
It's literally been years since I learned a new spell on my PLD.
Awesome mule name.
Craft leves, as of this date.
A classic example of why you should think before you type.
Giggity.
THE END! END, I SAID!
We had very little time left.
First of all, I've been doing more than my fair share of Nyzul Isle. Well, that's not quite true, I'm very pleased with the amount of Nyzul I've been doing. I'm less pleased with our droprates. Stupid Goliard just does not want to drop for us, in either of my statics. My oldest static, the original group, has taken a break from Nyzul and is right now just focusing on our past clears, hoping to get pretty stuff from the ??? appraisals. So far - nada. But then again, that's expected. At least Varda finally got her Goliard Clogs in our Sunday static.
Dance, puppet, dance!
I've also been doing dynamis with DynamisX as per usual, and had some good luck in a Jeuno some time back. Ever have one of those insane runs, where you can't stop lotting 900+? I ended up with a Jadeshell as well as synth materials for over 30k to NPC. I had to have Shadowfox hold some of my stuff, so I could have room to keep lotting.
I FINALLY GOT IT!
The sweetest "victory" for me with DynamisX, however, was probably finally winning my Valor Coronet in Dynamis-Bastok. I know it's a mediocre piece - a macro piece for Rampart at best - but I cannot count how many times I've lost lot on this damn thing! I've lost lot in every way and situation possible. I've lost with 980+ lots, and I've lost with less than 10 lots. I've lost them to PLD mains, PLD secondaries, people without PLD leveled. I've lost them right away, last minute, to friends, to foes. I've lost them in shout dynamises, my own shell, DynamisX, and everything in between. Thank God the nightmare's over. Of course, the Gods decided to laugh at me and immediately drop like 3 more, which all almost went to freelot, but I don't care that I spent the full 4 points for it. It was worth it!
Probably the only way I'll get to play with Tiamat, considering the state of things on Valefor...
Ultima did some more Bahamut version 2, which I was psyched about. I was hoping a couple of masks would drop, and maybe even have a chance at winning one, but unfortunately no such luck. However, my day took a definite turn for the better when I was asked to main tank a fight. I was largely unprepared, thinking I was only there for adds, but I did decently all things considered. I do need to work on my gear, though. I wish the better body pieces for PLD wasn't so damn hard to get - Valor Surcoat, Ares Cuirass, and lolKoenig Cuirass. I also need to invest in some resist builds... once I stop being a lazy, broke ass that is.
Great view.
Either way, I had a blast. I did end up dying around 30% or so, but it was still a whole lot of fun!
Just as I finish /rdm, I need /blm as well. Typically.
Ultima's Einherjar attendance has been just low enough so that it got too troublesome trying to clear more Tier II wings, and has now joined up with a different shell to do Einherjar. I really wish I could go, I was so well on my way to my Ritter Gorget - and now, after the patch it should be even easier to get the ampoules - but alas, I did that silly thing some people do and signed up for summer classes. With my alarm clock going off at 6am every weekday, I'm just not in any shape to be attending events that start at 11pm or later. :( I miss Einherjar...
Hee hee hee.
I've been manaburning Limbus here and there. Since my dear friend Ming quit the game and left me her characters, I've been taking advantage of the fact that Abbylu has BLM merits, and Regn doesn't. It's good fun manaburning Limbus, and I wish I could do it more often.It also enabled me to get my Brutal Earring. I was having a difficult time deciding between Loquacious and Brutal, but in the end I decided Brutal will be more useful, a larger part of the time, while Loquacious wouldn't be used nearly as much, despite the fact that I tank everything /nin these days.
The mission has failed. Now leaving the battlefield. Or something.
This one time, in Nyzul, we killed the floor 20 boss and got nothing, and instead of warping us out, I was like "DURR DURR DURR NEXT FLOOR!" Deciding to give it a go anyway when we got "Eliminate enemy leader" objective, and he was sitting right there, we drew our weapons. Then we timed out and didn't get any tokens. And I was embarrassed.
*
Now, from May 12th to May 29th, I didn't play hardly at all, except to level my mules to level 5 and get Mob Bonanza marbles on something like 14 characters. Why, you ask? I grabbed my trusty MNK Patroklis halfway around the globe, to visit Norway - hereafter known as the Land of the Ponies (for reasons that do not need exploring at this juncture). We stayed there for just over two awesome weeks. It was fun showing off my home country to Pat, and it was also nice to be able to introduce him to some of the other Norwegians I've introduced him to in FFXI.
See, here's Pat in front of the Royal Palace. He was disappointed not to see any ponies, but we did go up and poke the funny Royal Guards, though. Norwegian Palace Guards look much cooler than British Palace Guards. Norwegian Palace Guards have black uniforms, and their hat is hard and tall, but with this weird tassel-looking thing just kinda sprouting out from the side. Go google it or something.
By Akerselva at Grønland.
First up, we met up with Brenni, the girl who way back in December 2004 said, "Lexa, you've got to play this game I'm playing now, it's called Final Fantasy XI!" She's very cute, she's getting married to her beloved manthra Desdemona this summer, she's got a big, drooling dog named Garm, and two very awesomely cute ferrets named Simpel and Skade.
Cassian: HALP HALP RAEP!
Next up was Cassian, Pat's personal Kosebamse. Pat was overjoyed at finally getting to meet the love of his life. Cassian seemed apprehensive, but we all know he's hot for Pat. Cassian used to be in CeeTeeBee, but he quit the game back in December. Like a big fucking jerk. Now who's gonna do freakish damage to their JoLs, hm?!
*lick*
And then finally, there was Detarium. Detarium was also in CeeTeeBee for a while, but he left to play with Brenni and Desdemona in Fusion. Something about not being able to be in a US shell on an EU schedule, 4am events... something. I dunno. *whistles* If you thought Pat was enthusiastic about seeing Cassian, that was nothing compared to how happy Detarium was to see Pat! I have another picture of Pat touching Detarium's ass. Trufax. I just didn't know how to shop their avatars in over that scene...!
*
Anyway, back to our regular schedule.
/verygimpdnc > /war
I've been doing some Campaign on my NIN. It's not so bad when there's a lot of battles, and when I get decent exp for them, but I'm still not a huge fan of Campaign. Usually, I have to wait so long between battles if I camp a zone, and if I try to chase it - even with the handy messages in the past towns - I'm usually either so late that it ends almost immediately, or so early that I have to wait forever for the mobs to get there anyway. It gets very annoying and frustrating.
lolEva build.
Thank God Pat's WHM leveled into my level range. It actually gave me motivation enough to suffer through an actual exp party, and my NIN is now 66. One level in something like... five months. All right! :D I've also pretty much put my evasion build on the shelf for now, except for soloing.
HI2U Dark Ixion
The most recent update came with a lot of goodies, but the best part about it - in my opinion - was Dark Ixion. Not because his DORPS are the most amazing items in the game to date, or because the fight is like the best ZOMG fight ever, or for any other reason really, except the fact that I was the first person to tank him. Ultima got the first claim on the server, and I was the first tank on scene. Yelsaewnor and Blueshawk were right behind me, and 90 minutes later, Ixion gave his shit UP!
Pretty dead horsie.
It was a very interesting fight. I'm particularly interested in if Acheron Kick really is his little mini-version of a Spike Flail (aka triggered when someone takes hate from behind). Also, remind me to bring Echo Drops next time I fight him. x.x His lack of HP bar was a little annoying, since I don't use such fancy plugins as Infobar, or other programs to scope out the HP. I died quite a few times. But I can honestly say he's the most fun I've had tanking for a long, long, long time. I was bouncing around the room after it was over. I was also fortunate enough to be let into the alliance again near the end, and snagged the title, which was HUGE for me.
Ixion Hornbreaker
My FFXI career is most unremarkable. I play the game, I do my thing, I have bad luck and good luck and I tank stuff. But I don't usually do anything special. Valefor wasn't the first server to take down Dark Ixion, but we were far from the last, and being one of the 18 first people on Valefor with this title was incredibly huge to me.I am however, sad that some other people there who were there from the start and arrived early, as well as helped scout him, did not get the title that day. That was probably the biggest drawback to not being able to tell its HP%, otherwise they should have been let in to get the title.
DORPS
No cape for us that time, we've gotten it since. Congratulations to Varda, Modoja, Redd, Onorok, Joanna, Spit, Nekio and Mhmmmimafreak on your pretty DORPs. Did I leave anyone out?
CHEESE!
I haven't looked too closely at a lot of the recent update beyond Dark Ixion, but I've started to accumulate a little bit of zeni for the new ZNMs. It's an interesting premise. Although I sincerely hope endgame shells all over will be laying down Soultrapper rules for their events, since sometimes you can get asked to bring pictures of... inconvenient mobs. Does anyone really wish to lose an Einherjar or Salvage because people are busy snapping pictures instead of WS'ing/curing/voking/whatever? It's made for some interesting situations when it comes to regular mobs, though.
Finally, some random shit.
949 lot on freelot. Go, go.
My very first Spike Flail, one time we got Darters.
It's literally been years since I learned a new spell on my PLD.
Awesome mule name.
Craft leves, as of this date.
A classic example of why you should think before you type.
Giggity.
THE END! END, I SAID!