Diagonally parked.
I think I left my brain in Disneyworld. Possibly somewhere amid the insanity that is Hollywood Studios. Tower of Terror FTW. It was a wonderful 10 day holiday full of mischief and mayhem and much gluttony, which ended quite too soon for my liking. But as with all good things, there is always an end, and it brings me back to my attempts at being useful in FFXI again. Seriously...
Starting Sunday.
I understand that I arrived back home at 4:15 AM that day and jet lag may be playing a factor... but I really should know better. Ouryu battles are interesting and I've never actually done one outside of Chains of Promathia missions so I suppose I shouldn't be on the top of my game. I SHOULD, however, understand sleep order. I was supposed to be after Gilthas in the sleep order for the battle, Elemental Seal > Sleep 1/2 when Ouryu is ground bound. When he wakes next BLM uses ES and so on and so forth.
I missed the order.
I felt sheepish for that and wiping during that fight didn't exactly help that feeling along. I was preoccupied at the beginning of the battle listening to a friend lament over a personal situation, in which I wanted to be of help so that could be a factor. Or it could have been that I didn't know how to gauge when to go because they don't do any /p macros so I need to look through my log which scrolled by WAY too fast for me. I even have most of my chat filters on so I'll have to play around with that I suppose.
Monday actually went by without any problems really. We completed Bahamut version 1 for the Storms of Fate quest. Thanks so much everyone that helped out! Huge success and got 6+ people clears to start on Apocalypse Nigh. I'm still missing the last ZM missions in The Celestial Nexus, so I need to see if I can get those done at some point as well. After that, Mayari, Silphatos, Dreadscythe, Sylvhen & myself went to Sky to farm some Diorite. I got some xp for my BLM and realized I'm rather poorly equipped as Syl's 73 BLM was able to out damage me. I really need to work on that among other things.
Tuesday was another story altogether. Showed up in time for Sky as Salvage happens 2 hours before I get home from work. Went THF then found out that we were actually going to do some God pops. THF/NIN although nice because of shadows, isn't very good at dealing any damage whatsoever to gods and so I was an add in for Treasure Hunter near the end. Works for me and I've no problems with that. Though when we hit Byakko we didn't have enough people to fill all the spots so I was in the whole time. I can't hit Byakko. He's a white blur of BAD. I did manage to gain enough TP to do a light skillchain with... BUT I used the wrong macro. Instead of hitting Shark Bite I hit Dancing Edge... oops.
After Sky we did Einherjar. Siegrune's Chamber. It's the second time Ive done it, same chamber, different mobs. I'm thinking of making an assist macro for my blm or possibly just a /target macro because too much happens on screen for me to follow with any semblance of use. I think I now have 1000 Therion Ichor, I think I'll try and save up for one of the rings for my BLM or Gleeman's Cape. I was looking at the Kubira Bead Necklace for THF, but if I can get the Breeze Gorget for weaponskills I don't think I'll really need it. We'll see.
/end emo (eh heh)
Starting Sunday.
I understand that I arrived back home at 4:15 AM that day and jet lag may be playing a factor... but I really should know better. Ouryu battles are interesting and I've never actually done one outside of Chains of Promathia missions so I suppose I shouldn't be on the top of my game. I SHOULD, however, understand sleep order. I was supposed to be after Gilthas in the sleep order for the battle, Elemental Seal > Sleep 1/2 when Ouryu is ground bound. When he wakes next BLM uses ES and so on and so forth.
I missed the order.
I felt sheepish for that and wiping during that fight didn't exactly help that feeling along. I was preoccupied at the beginning of the battle listening to a friend lament over a personal situation, in which I wanted to be of help so that could be a factor. Or it could have been that I didn't know how to gauge when to go because they don't do any /p macros so I need to look through my log which scrolled by WAY too fast for me. I even have most of my chat filters on so I'll have to play around with that I suppose.
Monday actually went by without any problems really. We completed Bahamut version 1 for the Storms of Fate quest. Thanks so much everyone that helped out! Huge success and got 6+ people clears to start on Apocalypse Nigh. I'm still missing the last ZM missions in The Celestial Nexus, so I need to see if I can get those done at some point as well. After that, Mayari, Silphatos, Dreadscythe, Sylvhen & myself went to Sky to farm some Diorite. I got some xp for my BLM and realized I'm rather poorly equipped as Syl's 73 BLM was able to out damage me. I really need to work on that among other things.
Tuesday was another story altogether. Showed up in time for Sky as Salvage happens 2 hours before I get home from work. Went THF then found out that we were actually going to do some God pops. THF/NIN although nice because of shadows, isn't very good at dealing any damage whatsoever to gods and so I was an add in for Treasure Hunter near the end. Works for me and I've no problems with that. Though when we hit Byakko we didn't have enough people to fill all the spots so I was in the whole time. I can't hit Byakko. He's a white blur of BAD. I did manage to gain enough TP to do a light skillchain with... BUT I used the wrong macro. Instead of hitting Shark Bite I hit Dancing Edge... oops.
After Sky we did Einherjar. Siegrune's Chamber. It's the second time Ive done it, same chamber, different mobs. I'm thinking of making an assist macro for my blm or possibly just a /target macro because too much happens on screen for me to follow with any semblance of use. I think I now have 1000 Therion Ichor, I think I'll try and save up for one of the rings for my BLM or Gleeman's Cape. I was looking at the Kubira Bead Necklace for THF, but if I can get the Breeze Gorget for weaponskills I don't think I'll really need it. We'll see.
/end emo (eh heh)