and that makes me a sad panda

Only 1 Kirin last night and 5 lesser gods. We didn't get to do the extra Kirin we wanted to do because we somehow were missing one of the pop items that we thought we had.

We were also informed last night that Vibion was quitting because of disputes in the LS rules. Hopefully he's just a little mad and will be back soon, but we'll see. I would assume he wouldn't just up-and-quit outright though, considering he's been around for a bit, done some outside farming, and yet still has only spent points on 2 items so far.

The whole dispute has to do with how many items can be obtained per person, which is something I've actually always wondered about since Treu first explained to me like a year ago how LS point-systems typically work. Typically, one person would only spend their ls points on a rare/ex item once, because, well, you can't have more than 1. Duh. But in this case, another member, Aguaa, has 2 characters and he wants one of the items (w.legs i think) for both characters.

I kind of have mixed feelings on this:

For Vibion's case: I guess he kind of feels like someone just cut in line ahead of him at an amusement park... someone that JUST got off the ride and doesn't have to go get back to the end of the line to ride again.

For Aguaa's case: Why shouldn't he be able to get the item? He's doing a TON of outside farming, which gets us more pop-items, which means more gods to kill every night. He could be selling these pop-items to other people and actually making gil, but instead he's just donating them to the LS. (yeah yeah, he still gets ls points for them, i know...) So, getting back to the "amusement park" allegory, Aguaa basically is paying for his VIP Ride Pass and has the right to jump ahead in line.

But now lets get back to the rules regarding other items; more specifically: Osode. Since this item can actually be acquired and sold, most LSs only allow an individual to obtain it once, thus making it essentially a rare/ex item in the eyes of the LS. If we apply the "multi-character is a different character and therefore can purchase an item again" rule, then what's to prevent people from saying "oh, I need an Osode for my 10 mules too!" and just buying a total of 11 of them with LS points and selling 10 of them for gilz.

This, however, is not exactly the situation Aguaa is in, because both of his characters can actually EQUIP the god-gear, so it's not like he's just making this up and doing it to screw other LS members frmo getting the gear they want.

Then again, back for Vibion's side of the argument: if it's an item for a different character, there should be a separate set of LS points for each character, no? Otherwise it's like 1 character sharing their points to bump another character up higher on the list to get their items quicker. Doesn't exactly seem fair.

For Aguaa's side: He IS playing multiple characters. (Altho, I'm not exactly sure if both chars are on the same account, or if he has 2 accounts and plays them simultaneously. Actually, it's probably the latter, because I think he does a lot of his farming on his own, so probably needs 2 chars at the same time.) So, if he is playing both characters at the same time, and they each have their own ls points pool, then should he be getting "outside farming points" for BOTH characters, eventhough it's just 1 person? That would mean he's technically making points twice as fast as other people.

... meh. And it just keeps getting more complicated from there. Like, what if Treu takes Screamin up into sky for farming? Does that mean Screamin gets ls points too? Prolly not, since he's not in the LS; ok, that was a bad example. What if I'm on vacation and Treu takes my char up into sky for outside farming? Does that mean (A) the farming points go to ME (because it was my char up there) or (B) do the extra points go to HIM (because he was playing 2 chars at the same time) or (C) does he still only get the normal points, as if there was just him up there? They ALL seem like valid options, and yet they ALL have problems with them. Option A might not seem fair to the player because he was one actually doing the gaming. Option B might not seem fair to the character owner because it's his character that's risking the loss of XP while up there. Option C might not seem fair because, lets face it, playing 2 characters is a little more difficult than playing just 1 character, so why would anyone do 2x the work and still get the same reward as 1x the work?

I was kind of on-the-fence about this topic last night. Then, as I was writing this, I'd take one side... then the other side... and it turns out, I still am not REALLY leaning towards one side or the other. Yes, I believe that anyone doing all of this extra outside farming work deserves the item for a character that can legitimately use it. But I can also see people trying to abuse the system if we allow this to happen. (Let's say Disdain want's an Osode and I have buckets of excess points. I can just tell the LS that Disdain is my 2nd account and I want to spend my points on getting the next Osode for him. Then BLAMO, I just cheated the system and got a friend an item essentially for FREE... which actually just rips-off everyoen in the LS.)

This is getting long-winded so I'll just end this part by saying: In my opinion (at least "my opinion at this time"), let Aguaa spend his points and get the item for his 2nd char. Vibion is still next in line for it, and at the rate we've been getting this gear, that would be MAYBE an extra day or 3 until he gets it. But we should just be careful that future ppl don't try to cheat the system, like I explained above, because that could severely delay anyone else getting the gear/items they want.

/em wonders if it might be a good idea to post all of this on the LS forum for discussion... or if it will just make some people MORE angry at others and potentially drive some ppl to quit.

ok, enough of the serious/depressing stuff...

There is some good news from last night though (besides the fact that I'm finally back into the positive with ls points, lol) is that we got another w.legs, osode, and haidate so that gets everyone else a little closer to getting their goodies... and the LS that much closer to being able to start selling these items and making some serious cash. ^^ Hell, we even sold d.hands a few nights ago to someone for 250k! Can you imagine how much people would be willing to spend for GOOD gear? lol I think Treu is next in line for w.legs, which means he might actually have to change the name of his blog! wthomfgbbq!!! Well... he MIGHT be next in line. There's still some debate as to who is actually in the lead right now considering the points db is behind by like a full week; it also depends on who wants what (someone might still be in the lead in points, but want something else first, or just might not be around when we do the desired god, etc...).

Pretty Fly For A Rabbi

That's right. My Monk is all kindsa crazy pimped out now.
ok, well not "crazy" pimped out.
not even really "all" that much actually either.
ok FINE, just 1 piece of gear so far, but I'm ecstatic about it!

D. Body

w00000000000000000000000000000t!

Can anyone comprehend how happy I am with this new LS so far? I've been here all of... what... 9 nights! And I have a Dryadic Abjuration: Body piece already! Another quick little loan of around 800k borrowed from baby brother and I has mahself mah Shura Togi! I guess I can return this Scor... wait... heh, then again, it's not like Screamin really needs his Scorpion Harness back right now. Guess I'll hold onto it. I'll need it once my other jobs start getting higher anyways. Assuming I don't already have Campaign Body pieces for them by the time they get up to a high enough level.

So we were on a god run last night up in sky and when we got to Kirin, noone said they wanted the D Body. Sush assumed Naz wanted it eventhough he didn't say anything in LS chat, but Naz is apparently saving his points up for Haidate so the only other one up there that wanted it was lil' ol' me. Yeah, lil' ol' me who doesn't even have his Destroyers yet. rofl Treu just about pissed himself when he pointed that out to me... and followed it up with "ok, yeah, we REALLY gotta get you on a Destroyers run soon now. lol"

Thank you Sush for getting this LS together and keeping it so organized!
Thank you Naz for passing on the D Body. (meh, it'll prolly drop tomorrow night and you'll get it for 5 points instead of 50 now. lol)
Thank you Treu for yelling at me to "bid on 1 NOW". And also for loaning me the gils to buy the cursed item. (Hopefully with the rate we're collecting cash from the LS cash-outs though, you'll hopefully have your gil back within 2 months!)
And what the hell, Thank you Dis for finally logging back on! (Too many ppl have been quittin lately.)

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Oops. This was supposed to be posted yesterday, but apparently I forgot about it. As of right now, I already bought the Cursed Togi (for 949k gil) and got my Shura Togi. ^^ Was usin it up in sky last night during farming and 3 Byakkos, and I could already tell the difference. Treu also mentioned to me that this is apparently only the 4th D.Body that ever dropped for this LS. And I got it in my 2nd week with them!

Oh, and have I mentioned: "i so happy"? ^^

Change. Now it's time for change. Nothing stays the same. Now it's time for change.

[guitar] Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew Bum Bum Bummmmmm...

This of course is in reference to not only aspects of my FFXI life, but also the political happenings currently happening in our.... wait... i'm not even gonna go there. No talking politics in here. No talking REAL LIFE stuff in here. All of that is insignificant! Must.... game.... MOAR!!!

So I joined another LS a couple days ago: lolFail. I've been having a good time so far. Everyone seems to be easy-going and don't get all bitchy when they happen to die because someone screws up. If you die, you die. Hopefully you learned something from the experience. You may pass on this knowledge to others, or you may not. You may laugh, or you may not. But at least there's no stressful cries of "wth? why'd our WHM not 2-hour ffs?!?" which usually just starts to put stress on everyone else. (or at least that's my take on it.) But I digress...

No, these guys are pretty good too. We spent my first night just farming for like 4 or 5 hours; maybe 20 of us split up into smaller groups to collect as many pop items as possible in the time we had. And because we do our runs so late, we basically had ZERO competition with other LSs when going after these NMs. Sweetness, pure sweetness. :) Then the next night (last night) we farmed a lil more then went and killed some gods (including Kirin) with basically no trouble at all. Supposedly we're doin a bunch more god-hunting tomorrow night, and hopefully that will include 2 more Kirin deaths.

Yay! Another LS that can get stuff accomplished with efficiency. I so happy.

I will most likely be spending all of my time up in {sky} for the next several months, with the rare occassion of maybe leveling some other jobs or meriting on the weekends. (And going on whatever Dynamis runs I can do with HellsBells.) Treu wants me to come help him asap on getting some of his BST AF gear too, so that'll prolly be what goes on this weekend. I'm still considering trying to do a bunch of Assaults and CoP and yadda yadda yadda... but I'll probably spend 90% of my game-time with these guys up in sky over the next several months.

Here's to hopin I gets me mah kitty pants and shura togi sometime in the foreseeable future!

"Ill change.
Not tomorrow but today..."

It's Miller time!

er... I mean: it's Melee time!

Yeah, that's right. Just yesterday I realized that jack-o'-lanterns only cost 1k gil from the festival moogles (and can even be FREE if you just step outside the city and spend no more than 5 or 10 minutes killing a single 1-hp bat and a weak-assed NM) which means it's time to start putting that good food to some good use and leveling my melee jobs this week. Most likely just DNC, but I suppose my THF is a possibility too.

Next week i'm outta town and, the week after, i'm pretty sure the event will be over. Hmmm... Maybe I should just stock-up on them for future use... or even profit, considering they normally sell in Bastok for 3k.... but I guess we'll see.

This weekend I spent a couple hours in Campaign Battles again just cuz i was bored lfp (unsuccessfully for a couple hours) on my DNC. Did a little exploring of the past over towards Castle Oz [S]. Got my final past Gate Crystal (in Meriph [S]). Got more xp and meritted Kick Attacks up to level 2. And, to top it off, even got a rank-up in Campaign. ^^

I also did more questing in Windy and am basically a fight (some bones NM in Eldieme Necropolis) away from getting my key item to get easy access into the Fenrir Prime area. And even wasted a couple hours camping Quu Domi again... 2 out of 3 I got the claim. None dropped the haste feet. When I left, I told one of the other campers the ToD and he kept me posted on his luck over the next couple hours. He was claiming both Yag NMs multiple times and didn't get either to drop to good stuff. I'm startin to think those haste feet are purely a myth, invented by some cruel, sadistic brat who just sits {Invisible} on the level up above, laughing all day and night at the people down below, wasting their time and whittling their sanity into oblivion. ... Then again, the dude I gave the ToD to "knows someone who went 1/1 on the feet and was something like 0/80 on the hands".

OMG! That "someone" was probably that same sadistic brat spreading his lies!!!

/em wants to feed the tasty brat to Jormy...

SAM's Song

Here's a happy tune (a happy tune...)

Good stuff happening this week and I don't even need to spend much time discussing it: SAM up to 37. ^^ Killin spider-pets in East Altepa = good times... except when the damn goblins keep turning around all the damn time and link and kill your chain and.... (happy place... go to your happy place....)

Other than that: defeated Ramuh Prime and can now summon him, thus completing all main 6 avatar pacts. Yippy skippy! Also: defeated Shiva and Ifrit again to start collecting whispers for the Fenrir Prime fight. Also: started on the Windurst quests to obtain the key item to get access to Toraimarai Canal via the Priming Gate in Windurst Walls. Hopfully I'll have the quests completed by Sunday so we can blitz through the remaining avatar fights again and maybe go hit-up Fenrir Prime.

nuff for now. sleepytime.

Keep the change, ya filthy animal.

So, Treu was out of town again, which means I got to borrow his equipment and be home alone, all weekend, abusing Screamin.
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No, you perv, "his equipment" meaning "his laptop" and "abusing" meaning "PLing myself".
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You sick little monkey! "PLing myself" does not mean "playing with myself".
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Yes, technically I was alone and playing, but it doesn't mean it the way you're making it sound.
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No, it doesn't mean "playing with Screamin" either.
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Stop it already! It's not sexual at all!
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Seriously. Just knock-off the giggling already. /sigh

Accomplishments over the past few days:
- SAM is now at level 30, and I'm startin to see how sweet of a job it is. All of those Job Abilities and Traits to help build TP faster. Mikey likey!
- DNC is now at level 25, which now means free Snk/Invis! (I've basically always just been using potions/powders/ninja-tools, which are costly and/or take up inventory space.) Some of the dances are pretty slick too, but apparently I need to be in parties to make them really effective. (Soloing from 21 - 25 went kinda slow.)
- Defeated 3 more avatars, so I can now summon them: Ifrit Prime, Shiva Prime, Leviathan Prime
- Obtained Carbuncle Mitts, which I actually should have gotten like 3 levels ago for my SMN, but whateva. Now I can get back to leveling SMN without feeling gimped.

Near-future plans:
- Defeat Ramuh Prime so I can finally summon all Celestial Avatars
- Defeat all main 6 Prime Avatars again, to get the whispers, to get my Moon Bauble, to go fight Fenrir Prime, to be able to summon Fenrir, to be schweet
- Level SAM up to 36 or 37 so we can hit-up the {fun} zone
- If that is accomplished this week, then I'll probably switch back to SMN and start leveling that up to 37 as well

Cobra Lalalalalalalalalalalalala!!!

I haven't done too much over the past several days because I was out of town for a wedding for an extended weekend. So, here's a quick summary of what's been accomplished since my last post:

1. Got my SAM to 23 with /WAR out in Qufim. It was kinda nice to make some progress on something other than my MNK.
2. Did a lil crafting and bumped my smithing and clothcraft up a tad bit more. I only mainly did this to start clearing up some inventory space.
3. A ton of Campaign Battles. (as usual) But I finally got enough xp to rank-up and get my Holy Knight Emblem and, just last night, my Brass Wings of Service key items! After getting the wings, I immediately ran over and bought some Cobra Unit Subligar for 50k Allied Notes. Yay! New Leg Piece! Maybe I can finally get rid of my Vendor's Slops!

Well, honestly, that was it. I guess now I can back-off of doing Campaign Battles and get back to leveling SAM, SMN and NIN. The only thing I currently want to save up my Allied Notes for now is the Cobra Unit Body piece, but since it hasn't been released yet, I can take my good ol' sweet time ranking up and just hope they add it in in the next update in November. (I supposed I could also save up some Allied Notes for some good gear for SAM, SMN and NIN too, but I won't be needing those items for quite a while.)