Well, I honestly haven't been gaming much lately.
First the bad news:
Went thru a bit of depression which was contracted from a couple friends and LS mates. Of course, I'm referring to the mass-thefts that took place around July 11th. First our LS leader got hacked and a couple people in the LS started saying "bullshit! he just took the money and ran!!!" And then when a couple other people in our LS got hacked (sack-holders)... well, those same people were still saying it was some big damn conspiracy. But then a day or two later me and Treu heard that not only his account, but 3 or 4 of our friends' accounts got hacked too. It was just ... devastating. Funny enough, the same conspiracy theorists were STILL insisting it was all planned, despite POL's warnings that went out the previous few days about "being careful to protect your password" and "we are now blocking large IP blocks from logging-in because of shit going down". I think I managed to convince a couple people that it really wasn't some prank, but who knows. Some people are just so untrusting that it could be a RL friend that got hacked and they'd still insist they just sold their account or something. Anyways (I wanna get this part overwith. I hate talkin about depressing stuff.) Simply put: there was talk about not wanting to come back until whatever security breach allowed this all to happen has been fixed... but whateva. Treu got his and Screamin's chars locked-out and into the recovery process. Disdain did the same for his. Ditto for Ced and Van and ... well, whoever else it was. Sounds like everyone is coming back; it's just gonna take some time for everyone to get back here.
Also, due to the circumstances, it seems (as of reading our LS forum this morning) that AstrumNovae has officially broken. With so much being stolen from our LS bank, plus pop items, plus missing leaders and noone wanting to take up the mantle of leader while Ced's going through his recovery process... I guess pretty much everyone just gave up and moved on. ; ; It sucks, but whateva. Yeah, I didn't get any Af gear or anything, but at least I got to meet more people and got in a bunch of Dynamis and Sky experience. ^^ (This is me just tryin to look on the bright side of things.)
ok... on to the good stuff:
Let's see... what have I accomplished...
- More Campaign Battles and got up to Golden Star $$$$ and even Copper Emblem of Serice $. Woo Hoo! So I spent some of my Allied Notes and bought some Cobra Unit Mittens (which will probably only be used during Campaign Battles, but I guess we'll see.)
- got Dvucca Isle Staging Point and Ilrusi Atoll Staging Point, thus finally obtaining all 6 staging points. Woo Hoo times TWO!!
- got some help from Kota, Fadee, Ruiness and a coupel other people to go on my Asuran Fists fight and got that. w00t!!!
- decided to start leveling SAM a lil more with Hybrid's MNK (got up to 16)
- decided on DNC too cuz apparently it's an awesome SJ for a bunch of other jobs while soloing or in small parties. (up to DNC 6 right now)
and uh... that's about it. I actually haven't even been online much in the past 10 days because of random road-trips and my workouts. Hopefully I'll have more updates coming soon.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Sunday, July 6, 2008
I don't have to see it, Dottie... I lived it.
So much has happened since my last update... and yet, nothing really all that great that was worth mentioning. Quick summary:
Campaign: Did a ton of campaign battles and ranked-up twice. (Sterling Star $$ and Mythril Star $$$) I should be able to rank-up again tomorrow after work. Treu has been going absolutely bat-shit-crazy over campaign stuff lately because he's just been spending what little freetime he has to game doing battles, and yet it never seems to be enough to keep his and Screamin's rank. I think tomorrow is the last day he has until they both de-rank. I hope they fix campaign because since the last update it seems to be pretty hosed. It seems a lot more difficult to rank-up. The beastmen are pushing so hard that it's like impossible to get them out of the city... battles are constantly being fought and sometime they last for up to an hour, so it's impossible to talk to any of the NPCs to get evaluated, buy gear, get Ops assignments, etc....
Dynamis: We did a Bastok run... which we failed to clear. We were scheduled to do a Windurst run, but it ended up being cancelled because only about 12 ppl showed up. (probably due to early vacationers for the 4th of July weekend.) We did a Jeuno run just now... and failed to complete because they screwed up pulling the boss and then we ran out of time to re-pull it. We clearly rock in Dynamis. /sarcasm
Sky: much farming, never fighting gods
Zones: finally obtained the Mamool Ja Staging Point. still have 2 more staging points to go, but I can't figure out that damn Arrapago Reef map.
Leveling: Decided to level my SMN just a bit up to level 4 (yeah, there goes that goal of getting all summons while still at level 1 lol). I had a bit of my xp ring charge left over from another crap pt so i needed to dump it off onto something before it wore.
Meriting: finally decided to visit the Nomad Moogle in Jeuno and obtain my Limit Breaker key item so I can begin meriting. Spent 6 merit points so far (Hand-to-Hand 1 and 2, Critical Hit Rate 1, Counter Rate 1, Kick Attack Rate 1). I'll probably just be putting all merit points directly into H2H until it's full, primarily for accuracy reasons. I was initially going to spread them evenly throughout all 4 of these slots, but decided it would be best just to get the weapon skill up first, then spread the rest out.
Mog Bonanza: got 1 Rank 5 prize. w00t. Used it on my WAR, which is now only 3k xp away from being a non-gimp subjob.
And that's about it. Future updates aren't seeming like they will be all that eventful (other than the possible random bitching about stupid people) because I've already begun the monotony of just meriting and campaigning and meriting and campaigning.... This will probably keep up until I feel I have decent enough skills to move on to other things. (ENMs, Assaults, Salvage, etc...) But I guess we'll see.
Campaign: Did a ton of campaign battles and ranked-up twice. (Sterling Star $$ and Mythril Star $$$) I should be able to rank-up again tomorrow after work. Treu has been going absolutely bat-shit-crazy over campaign stuff lately because he's just been spending what little freetime he has to game doing battles, and yet it never seems to be enough to keep his and Screamin's rank. I think tomorrow is the last day he has until they both de-rank. I hope they fix campaign because since the last update it seems to be pretty hosed. It seems a lot more difficult to rank-up. The beastmen are pushing so hard that it's like impossible to get them out of the city... battles are constantly being fought and sometime they last for up to an hour, so it's impossible to talk to any of the NPCs to get evaluated, buy gear, get Ops assignments, etc....
Dynamis: We did a Bastok run... which we failed to clear. We were scheduled to do a Windurst run, but it ended up being cancelled because only about 12 ppl showed up. (probably due to early vacationers for the 4th of July weekend.) We did a Jeuno run just now... and failed to complete because they screwed up pulling the boss and then we ran out of time to re-pull it. We clearly rock in Dynamis. /sarcasm
Sky: much farming, never fighting gods
Zones: finally obtained the Mamool Ja Staging Point. still have 2 more staging points to go, but I can't figure out that damn Arrapago Reef map.
Leveling: Decided to level my SMN just a bit up to level 4 (yeah, there goes that goal of getting all summons while still at level 1 lol). I had a bit of my xp ring charge left over from another crap pt so i needed to dump it off onto something before it wore.
Meriting: finally decided to visit the Nomad Moogle in Jeuno and obtain my Limit Breaker key item so I can begin meriting. Spent 6 merit points so far (Hand-to-Hand 1 and 2, Critical Hit Rate 1, Counter Rate 1, Kick Attack Rate 1). I'll probably just be putting all merit points directly into H2H until it's full, primarily for accuracy reasons. I was initially going to spread them evenly throughout all 4 of these slots, but decided it would be best just to get the weapon skill up first, then spread the rest out.
Mog Bonanza: got 1 Rank 5 prize. w00t. Used it on my WAR, which is now only 3k xp away from being a non-gimp subjob.
And that's about it. Future updates aren't seeming like they will be all that eventful (other than the possible random bitching about stupid people) because I've already begun the monotony of just meriting and campaigning and meriting and campaigning.... This will probably keep up until I feel I have decent enough skills to move on to other things. (ENMs, Assaults, Salvage, etc...) But I guess we'll see.
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