Not too much happening, other than me finally getting used to mage jobs.
I've been having a little fun with SMN and Carby. Spending bunches of time on trying to figure out how I want to set up my macros. Treu thinks I'm wasting my time cuz I won't need to really worry about macros for resting gear-swaps, elemental siphons, etc... for at least a couple months, but I'd rather just try to figure it all out ahead of time so I don't have to constantly re-learn my macros as I level higher and higher.
I also got a little more xp on my WHM and BLM this weekend and had a little noob party while trying to figure out the jobs. It seemed to me that having my BLM as a melee still helped out greatly at that low of a level (still hanging around Gustaberg and the Highlands) but once I get into the Dunes, I'll probably just have to stand back spell-casting. (le sigh. sounds boring to me, but we'll see how it goes.)
So, what was actually accomplished over the past 2 or 3 days? SMN 11. WHM 11. BLM 11. (Hence the most-excellent, and most-appropriate, title to this entry.)
Well, I mainly just wanted a little more experience with mage jobs before I started partying out in the Dunes so now I'm gonna just get back to focusing on my SMN. Well, unless Hybrid is back online and wants to get back to duoing with his MNK 20 and my SAM 20. For tonight, I'm just going to head out and camp the NM to get me a Pilgrim's Wand. Figured that would help out greatly while leveling, so I might as well go camp that NOW to make leveling quicker/easier.
And yes, it seems as though meriting my MNK has been put on hold for a while. /cry oh well. Our little group probably isn't going to be doing any Salvage runs or anything major for quite a while anyways while Treu and Hybrid make their race for Maat's Cap. This gives me a good 4 or 5 months to level these 2 jobs, merit a bunch and start crankin out those Assaults. Hmmm. Maybe I should start setting out a schedule for I don't focus too much on 1 of my tasks. (Mondays, Sundays = SMN; Tuesdays, Saturdays = SAM; Wednesdays, Fridays = Assaults; any other time I have = MNK merits) ... We'll see how that works out. It'll probably change, but at least I can start thinking about this and trying to get statics together to make the process run more smoothly.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!
OMFG!!!!1!1!!11
Seriously, beyond a shadow of a doubt: AMAZING {Dynamis - Jeuno} run with HellsBells tonight. My initial worries about this LS have most-definitely been tossed out the proverbial window and I am certain I will be sticking around with them for a while as my Dynamis LS. (And yay! Another city clear! Just Windy left!)
The entire run had 37 - 41 members at any given time. Pretty much the whole run went smoothly, except for 1 wipe which was apparently triggered by a person or two going afk for a bit in the wrong area. No biggie. I've come to expect at LEAST 1 death upon every Dynamis entry. lol Hmmm. We got the full 3 hour time extension within about an hour and a quarter I think (if that means anything to how smoothly we were going through mobs). Itaevin and Liquidblue were our two PLD tanks again, and this time it really seemed like they knew what they were doing. (Who knows, maybe they were just both drunk/high on Sunday's run. Heh, or maybe I was.) Hermod, main puller, awesome job; don't think he screwed up even once. Retsujo was our secondary assist and had no troubles jumping right into the role the one and only time he was asked to. Bah, wish I could remember more names, but lots of people were performing well and with great efficiency. (look at me, the consultant, trying to analyze everything)
Drops. ... Drops? ... What drops? HERE'S what drops (in order): SAM, WHM, BLM, MNK, WHM, 100, WAR, RDM, BRD, DRG, SAM, NIN, BRD, NIN, RNG, BLM, THF, THF, SAM. The last SAM ended up going unclaimed cuz ppl were waiting for it to freedrop, but the mob was only killed like 30 seconds before we were booted. (ohwellz! lost a bunch of currency too cuz ppl didn't pass on it.) And the 2 THF pieces right before that actually dropped from consecutive mobs. I'm pretty sure 3 of the various AF pieces went to 1 person too. So, 18 total AFv2 pieces and a 100 currency piece dropped to us in a single run. IN A SINGLE RUN! The last time I went on a Jeuno run, we had 2 SAM feet drop. AND THAT WAS IT for the entire run! (Do I sound too exicited over this?)
Holy hell, I'm practically pissing myself I'm so pleased with these people! (like the alliteration there?)
Too bad we didn't get multiple MNK pieces. ; ; When we started the run, I thought I was 2nd in line for MNK Hands, but when they actually dropped, they ended up going to another person that was still ahead of me, so I was actually 3rd in line (and there was still another guy, Assasin, that was behind me wanting them too). But alas, MNK only dropped once tonight, not the necessary 3 or 4.
aight. enough of that. :) The past couple days haven't been very eventful, but still successful.
I did a couple more Campaign Battles but still wasn't good enough to even keep my rank, so I kinda gave up on Campaign for now, until they fix whatever it is that they broke with the last major update. I was reading a few blogs and forums where people are speculating that your rank-ups are strictly based on xp gained in Campaign Battles and Campaign Ops, but I think it's pretty clear that there has got to be more to it than that. So, the main theory going around is that it only takes 5k xp to gain a rank in Ribbons and 10k xp to gain a rank in Stars. If this was the case, then for Emblems, it should be 15k or maybe 20k to gain a rank. This is probably NOT the case because Treu was using his and Screamin's character in something like 15 Campaign Battles and still didn't have enough to even KEEP their Emblem status. (which is what's happening to me right now too. /sigh )
I keep trying to think of what else could be added into this calculation (assuming this IS the case). Do your "acquired rank points (from xp)" get reset every Sunday? If so, that would just be... retarded. That would mean, on Saturday you would probably have enough to rank up, but if you wait til Sunday, "OOPS! TOO BAD! You can't even keep your current rank now!" Once you reach Emblem, do they expect you to start doing Battles AND Ops? Maybe you don't get as many "rank points" when you are in parties when in Battles? Maybe the "rank point cost" increases for every person that already has that rank. (or something kinda like the whole ZNM Zeni-cost system.) Maybe a death resets your "rank points" back to 0? Maybe you have to start doing Battles in other cities' zones?? Who the hell knows! I'm getting a headache just trying to think of all the complexities that it could be... even when it's probably something just as simple as: you need to do 2 Campaign Battles in every zone your nation owns and 2 in a single zone owned by another nation and that's it!
So, to get back on topic, a few Battles done. One even got me 2,030 Experience Points and 1,016 Allied Notes. I'm pretty sure that's the best I've ever done. I typically only get around 1/2 to 2/3's of that amount. Oh, and I spent some merit points on getting my H2H combat skill to level 3. :)
I ran into Tekumel last night. We were talkin for a bit and he was explaining how he was kinda bummed-out and not playing much lately cuz he doesn't think he's really making any progress in-game. I'm pretty much on the same page cuz I've been having horrible luck finding merit parties lately... which is one of the reasons I'm more than happy to start leveling a couple other jobs. (I'm also leveling other jobs just to be able to level them with Treu and Hybrid while I have the chance, before they both get their Maat's Caps.) So me and Tek were about to go merit when some other LS ppl say they're goin on an Assault run. Woo Hoo! I join them, which becomes my first Assault! Of course, I broadcast my newb-ness by showing up at the staging point without my orders. :-p I thought all you needed was a tag, and you get the orders AT the staging point. Apparently you get them in the same office that you get the tags. We did Periqia - Seagull Grounded which consists of taking an NPC through some tunnels/rooms and killing a few random mobs. (a total of 12 mobs from what I recall.) I don't know, to me it seemed so easy, but maybe that was just because the guy taking care of the NPC really knew what he was doing. (Does 1155 Assault Points sound right for this one? Or is it higher than normal just cuz it's the first time I did that particular run?) Whateva. I enjoyed it. And it got me ever so slightly closer to being able to do Salvage and also getting Pahluwan and Denali gear. :)
In closing, I just want to mention the name of an NM we saw (or thought we saw) in Dynamis tonight: Dicklix Stickytoes. That is all. And goodnight.
Seriously, beyond a shadow of a doubt: AMAZING {Dynamis - Jeuno} run with HellsBells tonight. My initial worries about this LS have most-definitely been tossed out the proverbial window and I am certain I will be sticking around with them for a while as my Dynamis LS. (And yay! Another city clear! Just Windy left!)
The entire run had 37 - 41 members at any given time. Pretty much the whole run went smoothly, except for 1 wipe which was apparently triggered by a person or two going afk for a bit in the wrong area. No biggie. I've come to expect at LEAST 1 death upon every Dynamis entry. lol Hmmm. We got the full 3 hour time extension within about an hour and a quarter I think (if that means anything to how smoothly we were going through mobs). Itaevin and Liquidblue were our two PLD tanks again, and this time it really seemed like they knew what they were doing. (Who knows, maybe they were just both drunk/high on Sunday's run. Heh, or maybe I was.) Hermod, main puller, awesome job; don't think he screwed up even once. Retsujo was our secondary assist and had no troubles jumping right into the role the one and only time he was asked to. Bah, wish I could remember more names, but lots of people were performing well and with great efficiency. (look at me, the consultant, trying to analyze everything)
Drops. ... Drops? ... What drops? HERE'S what drops (in order): SAM, WHM, BLM, MNK, WHM, 100, WAR, RDM, BRD, DRG, SAM, NIN, BRD, NIN, RNG, BLM, THF, THF, SAM. The last SAM ended up going unclaimed cuz ppl were waiting for it to freedrop, but the mob was only killed like 30 seconds before we were booted. (ohwellz! lost a bunch of currency too cuz ppl didn't pass on it.) And the 2 THF pieces right before that actually dropped from consecutive mobs. I'm pretty sure 3 of the various AF pieces went to 1 person too. So, 18 total AFv2 pieces and a 100 currency piece dropped to us in a single run. IN A SINGLE RUN! The last time I went on a Jeuno run, we had 2 SAM feet drop. AND THAT WAS IT for the entire run! (Do I sound too exicited over this?)
Holy hell, I'm practically pissing myself I'm so pleased with these people! (like the alliteration there?)
Too bad we didn't get multiple MNK pieces. ; ; When we started the run, I thought I was 2nd in line for MNK Hands, but when they actually dropped, they ended up going to another person that was still ahead of me, so I was actually 3rd in line (and there was still another guy, Assasin, that was behind me wanting them too). But alas, MNK only dropped once tonight, not the necessary 3 or 4.
aight. enough of that. :) The past couple days haven't been very eventful, but still successful.
I did a couple more Campaign Battles but still wasn't good enough to even keep my rank, so I kinda gave up on Campaign for now, until they fix whatever it is that they broke with the last major update. I was reading a few blogs and forums where people are speculating that your rank-ups are strictly based on xp gained in Campaign Battles and Campaign Ops, but I think it's pretty clear that there has got to be more to it than that. So, the main theory going around is that it only takes 5k xp to gain a rank in Ribbons and 10k xp to gain a rank in Stars. If this was the case, then for Emblems, it should be 15k or maybe 20k to gain a rank. This is probably NOT the case because Treu was using his and Screamin's character in something like 15 Campaign Battles and still didn't have enough to even KEEP their Emblem status. (which is what's happening to me right now too. /sigh )
I keep trying to think of what else could be added into this calculation (assuming this IS the case). Do your "acquired rank points (from xp)" get reset every Sunday? If so, that would just be... retarded. That would mean, on Saturday you would probably have enough to rank up, but if you wait til Sunday, "OOPS! TOO BAD! You can't even keep your current rank now!" Once you reach Emblem, do they expect you to start doing Battles AND Ops? Maybe you don't get as many "rank points" when you are in parties when in Battles? Maybe the "rank point cost" increases for every person that already has that rank. (or something kinda like the whole ZNM Zeni-cost system.) Maybe a death resets your "rank points" back to 0? Maybe you have to start doing Battles in other cities' zones?? Who the hell knows! I'm getting a headache just trying to think of all the complexities that it could be... even when it's probably something just as simple as: you need to do 2 Campaign Battles in every zone your nation owns and 2 in a single zone owned by another nation and that's it!
So, to get back on topic, a few Battles done. One even got me 2,030 Experience Points and 1,016 Allied Notes. I'm pretty sure that's the best I've ever done. I typically only get around 1/2 to 2/3's of that amount. Oh, and I spent some merit points on getting my H2H combat skill to level 3. :)
I ran into Tekumel last night. We were talkin for a bit and he was explaining how he was kinda bummed-out and not playing much lately cuz he doesn't think he's really making any progress in-game. I'm pretty much on the same page cuz I've been having horrible luck finding merit parties lately... which is one of the reasons I'm more than happy to start leveling a couple other jobs. (I'm also leveling other jobs just to be able to level them with Treu and Hybrid while I have the chance, before they both get their Maat's Caps.) So me and Tek were about to go merit when some other LS ppl say they're goin on an Assault run. Woo Hoo! I join them, which becomes my first Assault! Of course, I broadcast my newb-ness by showing up at the staging point without my orders. :-p I thought all you needed was a tag, and you get the orders AT the staging point. Apparently you get them in the same office that you get the tags. We did Periqia - Seagull Grounded which consists of taking an NPC through some tunnels/rooms and killing a few random mobs. (a total of 12 mobs from what I recall.) I don't know, to me it seemed so easy, but maybe that was just because the guy taking care of the NPC really knew what he was doing. (Does 1155 Assault Points sound right for this one? Or is it higher than normal just cuz it's the first time I did that particular run?) Whateva. I enjoyed it. And it got me ever so slightly closer to being able to do Salvage and also getting Pahluwan and Denali gear. :)
In closing, I just want to mention the name of an NM we saw (or thought we saw) in Dynamis tonight: Dicklix Stickytoes. That is all. And goodnight.
Monday, August 11, 2008
What kinda hotel is this?
Just completed my first Dynamis (Bastok) run with the new LS: HellsBells.
Simply put: this experience was different from AstrumNovae's Dynamis runs. I actually thought that AN had their shit together better.
We broke the glass and went in. Total of 29 people when we first entered. They start pulling the first set of statues and THEN realize that we haven't determined who's going to be the main assist, secondary assist, tertiary assist.... Not only that, we don't even have any PLDs. So there's a little confusion and a little discussion while mobs keep coming and noone knows which ones to attack. So they tell us who the main assist is. Then a few minutes later, they name the secondary. Then a few minutes later they name the third. Then a fourth. I swear, I think there were 5 different ppl we were assisting, so up until the last 45 minutes, I wasn't even using assist macros, I was just typing in the name of whoever was blasting out "/assist me" and using "spacebar - up arrow" to assist on subsequent mobs.
There were other problems I saw too, like the main assists sometimes were saying "/assist me" and yet they weren't attacking anything so noone's macros were doing anything and we all stood around while other ppl got attacked and time was wasted. Mobs weren't being promptly slept. There didn't seem to be an actual order to the way mobs were being killed either. (I was always told that NINs should be saved for last, and yet there were a couple times where we were attacking NINs before even going after BSTs.)
I don't know. A lot of it just seemed like a big clusterfuck at times, and yet... I can't deny the results: we kicked ass. Went in at 8:00pm, came out at 11:30pm. Had plenty of time to beat the boss and do a bunch of farming. Didn't even wipe.. well, if you don't count the last 3 minutes before the timer ran out. lol) The drops? RDM, BLM, SAM, PLD, DRG, 4 wootz ores (practically all right in a row. it was freaky.), MNK (also freaky because like a minute before some says "wow, we haven't had a MNK piece drop yet"), another SAM, and another DRG.
I have no idea how we did so well with drops and AN always had such shitty luck with it. Just like in AN, we only had 1 THF, so it's not like TH really had that much of an affect on drop rates. Maybe it's just the sheer number of people we had? We had around 30 ppl the whole time tonight, whereas in AN we would typically have around 20. Then again, maybe it's just the number of mobs we killed or the rate we killed at? We were flying thru mobs so quickly that sometimes I didn't even have a chance to get a hit in.
I can't remember the full team setup, but I know we had 6 BLMs, 2 WHMs, 2 RDMs, 3 SMNs, 2 MNKs, 2 PLDs (when we realized we had no PLDs, 2 ppl left, switched jobs and came back in. not sure how they did that though; i thought once you left you couldn't come back in for 3 more days.)... hmm... 1 THF... and I think that's about all I remember checking.
All-in-all: I liked the old LS; I like the new LS. Since the old one is gone, I should stop comparing and get on with my life. Clearly these guys are successful in what they do, so I'm not gonna bitch. It's just gonna take me a little while to get used to the new peoples' personalities and get used to the way they do things. I'm glad Tekumel convinced me to join. (Just kinda wish I listened to him a couple months ago; I wouldn't have spent all that time building up LS points and not getting to spend them on anything. lol)
Hmm... what else... other stuff I've done since my last entry:
- few more Campaign Battles, but still not enough to even keep my current rank :-p
- did a bunch more leveling: WAR (37 FINALLY), SAM (20), DNC (13) and SMN (9)
- oh, and I applied to HellsBells. lol (I prolly shoulda mentioned that at the beginning of this post)
- Treu has his character back. Ced's back too. As far as I know, the rest of the others that got hacked are still waiting, but I'm guessing they'll be up-and-running before the end of this week.
And that's about it! The near future will probably be just leveling some of these lower level jobs to try to keep them up with Treu and Hybrid while they go for their Maat's caps. Treu already has all of his jobs at 30+ so I really gotta get movin on some of these.
Simply put: this experience was different from AstrumNovae's Dynamis runs. I actually thought that AN had their shit together better.
We broke the glass and went in. Total of 29 people when we first entered. They start pulling the first set of statues and THEN realize that we haven't determined who's going to be the main assist, secondary assist, tertiary assist.... Not only that, we don't even have any PLDs. So there's a little confusion and a little discussion while mobs keep coming and noone knows which ones to attack. So they tell us who the main assist is. Then a few minutes later, they name the secondary. Then a few minutes later they name the third. Then a fourth. I swear, I think there were 5 different ppl we were assisting, so up until the last 45 minutes, I wasn't even using assist macros, I was just typing in the name of whoever was blasting out "/assist me" and using "spacebar - up arrow" to assist on subsequent mobs.
There were other problems I saw too, like the main assists sometimes were saying "/assist me" and yet they weren't attacking anything so noone's macros were doing anything and we all stood around while other ppl got attacked and time was wasted. Mobs weren't being promptly slept. There didn't seem to be an actual order to the way mobs were being killed either. (I was always told that NINs should be saved for last, and yet there were a couple times where we were attacking NINs before even going after BSTs.)
I don't know. A lot of it just seemed like a big clusterfuck at times, and yet... I can't deny the results: we kicked ass. Went in at 8:00pm, came out at 11:30pm. Had plenty of time to beat the boss and do a bunch of farming. Didn't even wipe.. well, if you don't count the last 3 minutes before the timer ran out. lol) The drops? RDM, BLM, SAM, PLD, DRG, 4 wootz ores (practically all right in a row. it was freaky.), MNK (also freaky because like a minute before some says "wow, we haven't had a MNK piece drop yet"), another SAM, and another DRG.
I have no idea how we did so well with drops and AN always had such shitty luck with it. Just like in AN, we only had 1 THF, so it's not like TH really had that much of an affect on drop rates. Maybe it's just the sheer number of people we had? We had around 30 ppl the whole time tonight, whereas in AN we would typically have around 20. Then again, maybe it's just the number of mobs we killed or the rate we killed at? We were flying thru mobs so quickly that sometimes I didn't even have a chance to get a hit in.
I can't remember the full team setup, but I know we had 6 BLMs, 2 WHMs, 2 RDMs, 3 SMNs, 2 MNKs, 2 PLDs (when we realized we had no PLDs, 2 ppl left, switched jobs and came back in. not sure how they did that though; i thought once you left you couldn't come back in for 3 more days.)... hmm... 1 THF... and I think that's about all I remember checking.
All-in-all: I liked the old LS; I like the new LS. Since the old one is gone, I should stop comparing and get on with my life. Clearly these guys are successful in what they do, so I'm not gonna bitch. It's just gonna take me a little while to get used to the new peoples' personalities and get used to the way they do things. I'm glad Tekumel convinced me to join. (Just kinda wish I listened to him a couple months ago; I wouldn't have spent all that time building up LS points and not getting to spend them on anything. lol)
Hmm... what else... other stuff I've done since my last entry:
- few more Campaign Battles, but still not enough to even keep my current rank :-p
- did a bunch more leveling: WAR (37 FINALLY), SAM (20), DNC (13) and SMN (9)
- oh, and I applied to HellsBells. lol (I prolly shoulda mentioned that at the beginning of this post)
- Treu has his character back. Ced's back too. As far as I know, the rest of the others that got hacked are still waiting, but I'm guessing they'll be up-and-running before the end of this week.
And that's about it! The near future will probably be just leveling some of these lower level jobs to try to keep them up with Treu and Hybrid while they go for their Maat's caps. Treu already has all of his jobs at 30+ so I really gotta get movin on some of these.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Nothing to see here... Move along... Move along...
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.
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 $$$$ and even Copper Emblem of Serice $. Woo Hoo! So I spent some of my Allied Notes and bought some Cobra Unit Mittens (which will probably only be used during Campaign Battles, but I guess we'll see.)
- got Dvucca Isle Staging Point and Ilrusi Atoll Staging Point, thus finally obtaining all 6 staging points. Woo Hoo times TWO!!
- got some help from Kota, Fadee, Ruiness and a coupel other people to go on my Asuran Fists fight and got that. w00t!!!
- decided to start leveling SAM a lil more with Hybrid's MNK (got up to 16)
- decided on DNC too cuz apparently it's an awesome SJ for a bunch of other jobs while soloing or in small parties. (up to DNC 6 right now)
and uh... that's about it. I actually haven't even been online much in the past 10 days because of random road-trips and my workouts. Hopefully I'll have more updates coming soon.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
I don't have to see it, Dottie... I lived it.
So much has happened since my last update... and yet, nothing really all that great that was worth mentioning. Quick summary:
Campaign: Did a ton of campaign battles and ranked-up twice. (Sterling Star $$ 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.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
A day without blood is like a day without sunshine
Dynamis Sandy run last night... got the clear. No biggie. I think we've done that run like 4 times since I joined 4 or 5 weeks ago and we've cleared it all but once so far. When the hell am I gonna get the Jeuno and Windy clear?? But I digress...
I was pretty shocked that on our run, not 1 single person WS-ed a NIN mob! Also, one of our sackholders didn't show up last night. Coincidence? Possibly... but then again, as I recall from our last Dynamis Basty run, she WS-ed couple NIN mobs right in a row, even after being warned not to do it time and time again. /shrug So last night, only 1 NIN self-destructed and I don't think anyone died from it. Good job DDs!! ^^
Hmm... what else...
- I got to put together the main DD pt (4x MNK, 1 SAM and 1 WHM; where the hell did all these MNKs come from suddenly?), so I guess I'm officially part of the main alliance now and will hopefully never be in the outside pt again. lol
- only 1 full-wipe, I believe, just before we got to the stables. another near-full-wipe happened in the stables.
- only 2 ppl de-leveled last night, one of them happened to be the WHM in our DD pt (ouch for us DD)... and she only started the run off at 70 (ouch again for us)... but whateva. I can't be mad/complain because I showed up to a couple runs still at like lvl 70 when I first joined.
- AF drops: onry PLD hands (Joel?) and BRD head (Ced)... and like 15 WAR relic weapons. lol
As for campaign, I STILL can't rank-up yet. I swear, I've done like 15 to 18 campaign battles since my last rank-up (Bronze Star), ALL of them were successes (not 1 did "the allied forces retreat"), I've made probably at LEAST 15k in xp and maybe around 8k Allied Notes and yet I still can't rank-up. WTF Mate? There's gotta be something else to this rank-up stuff. Maybe I have to do some Campaign Ops to get further or something?? /sigh Maybe I should just give up on looking forward to getting that Cobra Unit gear and just get back to focus on pting when I'm not looking for groups to do other runs that I need to go on, such as:
- Double Dragonian: last night some of us in the LS were talking about doing this run soon, so hopefully it gets done ASAP (but hopefully not this weekend while I'm out of town again!)
- my Asuran Fists fight: Tekumel said he still hasn't done his DRG WS fight either, so hopefully we can get a group together to do his and mine in the same night
- Prommy runs: I still only have 1 cleared so far
- etc...
Side note #1:
Tampa trip this past weekend was awesome. 18 guys showed up for a bachelor party (only 1 of which actually lives in Florida). Some heavy-flirting with a 21 year old broad that sat next to me at the ballgame Friday night, but didn't have the nerve to get her digits... cuz her dad was sitting right next to her and staring me down the entire 9th inning. lol Golf on Saturday was cancelled due to rain, so we ended up reverting back to our college-days and played drinking games all day long. Only 17 of us made it to the steak house for dinner (cuz one of my pledge brothers can't keep up with us now that he's got a kid). Got some contact info from a hottie later that night... turns out she's 19 (hey, it's still legal!) but was a Miss Teen Florida or something recently. Guess I gotta make plans to head down there again sometime relatively soon. Flight back home sucked (weather delays, luggage lost, etc...) so I missed out on the Dynamis Jeuno run on Sunday night. (Man, I don't think I wanna know if they cleared it or not; I still need that clear.)
Side note #2:
Word of the day: Cockaigne
I was pretty shocked that on our run, not 1 single person WS-ed a NIN mob! Also, one of our sackholders didn't show up last night. Coincidence? Possibly... but then again, as I recall from our last Dynamis Basty run, she WS-ed couple NIN mobs right in a row, even after being warned not to do it time and time again. /shrug So last night, only 1 NIN self-destructed and I don't think anyone died from it. Good job DDs!! ^^
Hmm... what else...
- I got to put together the main DD pt (4x MNK, 1 SAM and 1 WHM; where the hell did all these MNKs come from suddenly?), so I guess I'm officially part of the main alliance now and will hopefully never be in the outside pt again. lol
- only 1 full-wipe, I believe, just before we got to the stables. another near-full-wipe happened in the stables.
- only 2 ppl de-leveled last night, one of them happened to be the WHM in our DD pt (ouch for us DD)... and she only started the run off at 70 (ouch again for us)... but whateva. I can't be mad/complain because I showed up to a couple runs still at like lvl 70 when I first joined.
- AF drops: onry PLD hands (Joel?) and BRD head (Ced)... and like 15 WAR relic weapons. lol
As for campaign, I STILL can't rank-up yet. I swear, I've done like 15 to 18 campaign battles since my last rank-up (Bronze Star), ALL of them were successes (not 1 did "the allied forces retreat"), I've made probably at LEAST 15k in xp and maybe around 8k Allied Notes and yet I still can't rank-up. WTF Mate? There's gotta be something else to this rank-up stuff. Maybe I have to do some Campaign Ops to get further or something?? /sigh Maybe I should just give up on looking forward to getting that Cobra Unit gear and just get back to focus on pting when I'm not looking for groups to do other runs that I need to go on, such as:
- Double Dragonian: last night some of us in the LS were talking about doing this run soon, so hopefully it gets done ASAP (but hopefully not this weekend while I'm out of town again!)
- my Asuran Fists fight: Tekumel said he still hasn't done his DRG WS fight either, so hopefully we can get a group together to do his and mine in the same night
- Prommy runs: I still only have 1 cleared so far
- etc...
Side note #1:
Tampa trip this past weekend was awesome. 18 guys showed up for a bachelor party (only 1 of which actually lives in Florida). Some heavy-flirting with a 21 year old broad that sat next to me at the ballgame Friday night, but didn't have the nerve to get her digits... cuz her dad was sitting right next to her and staring me down the entire 9th inning. lol Golf on Saturday was cancelled due to rain, so we ended up reverting back to our college-days and played drinking games all day long. Only 17 of us made it to the steak house for dinner (cuz one of my pledge brothers can't keep up with us now that he's got a kid). Got some contact info from a hottie later that night... turns out she's 19 (hey, it's still legal!) but was a Miss Teen Florida or something recently. Guess I gotta make plans to head down there again sometime relatively soon. Flight back home sucked (weather delays, luggage lost, etc...) so I missed out on the Dynamis Jeuno run on Sunday night. (Man, I don't think I wanna know if they cleared it or not; I still need that clear.)
Side note #2:
Word of the day: Cockaigne
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Dream a little dream of me
Nice. Just had a dream that I was running down the street that I grew up on, from my grade-school towards my parents' house, avoiding mobs, with a bunch of my friends. For some reason, I could run a little faster than everyone else (maybe I activated my sprinter shoes?) but I got reckless and aggroed. (Was it a Dancing Weapon? I know those things were ONE of these mobs.) I aggroed SOMEthing and while I was killing it, like 8 more people-based mobs (like fomors I guess) started aggroing too cuz my sneak wore off from being hit by that first mob.
After killing like 3 mobs and a dozen more just coming at me, I decided it would be best if I just ran for it and tried to zone (zoning would occur when I got to mom and pops place). I was down to like 300 or 400 HP (so like 20% of my total. I know this because I could see it in my lower right corner. Yeah, like all of my dreams, I was seeing this in 3rd person.) but I eventually made it safe and sound.
I only made it home alive cuz a few "helper" NPCs and other friends were picking off some of the mobs when I crossed Beverly Hills (one of the cross-streets). As soon as I entered the house, the mobs just stopped coming at me in the street, started wandering around for a bit, then started walking back to where I had first aggroed them.
There was more to the dream, but the rest didn't really seem ffxi-related. Like, it turned out some of the mobs were in fact police officers that were trying to take me in, but they couldn't enter my parents' house. and I knew they would try to break the law by entering illegally, so i set up a PC and a camera/microphone (actually, it looked like the camera for the PS3) and pointed it out at the cops. When I opened the front door and started taunting them, they just turned and walked away.
There was another part (before all the running actually began) about a friend puking in the middle of a nice restaurant.
Now... How often have you had dreams like this? And why haven't I had more of these?
No, I didn't aggro anything by accident in Dynamis last night, so don't go thinkin this is a guilt-trip dream. lol
Aight. Gotta go pack cuz I'm flying down to Tampa after work today. I shall miss gaming for the next couple days. Hopefully I won't fall behind in points cuz after last night's run (2 MNK feet dropped), I'm now first in line for MNK gear. ^^
After killing like 3 mobs and a dozen more just coming at me, I decided it would be best if I just ran for it and tried to zone (zoning would occur when I got to mom and pops place). I was down to like 300 or 400 HP (so like 20% of my total. I know this because I could see it in my lower right corner. Yeah, like all of my dreams, I was seeing this in 3rd person.) but I eventually made it safe and sound.
I only made it home alive cuz a few "helper" NPCs and other friends were picking off some of the mobs when I crossed Beverly Hills (one of the cross-streets). As soon as I entered the house, the mobs just stopped coming at me in the street, started wandering around for a bit, then started walking back to where I had first aggroed them.
There was more to the dream, but the rest didn't really seem ffxi-related. Like, it turned out some of the mobs were in fact police officers that were trying to take me in, but they couldn't enter my parents' house. and I knew they would try to break the law by entering illegally, so i set up a PC and a camera/microphone (actually, it looked like the camera for the PS3) and pointed it out at the cops. When I opened the front door and started taunting them, they just turned and walked away.
There was another part (before all the running actually began) about a friend puking in the middle of a nice restaurant.
Now... How often have you had dreams like this? And why haven't I had more of these?
No, I didn't aggro anything by accident in Dynamis last night, so don't go thinkin this is a guilt-trip dream. lol
Aight. Gotta go pack cuz I'm flying down to Tampa after work today. I shall miss gaming for the next couple days. Hopefully I won't fall behind in points cuz after last night's run (2 MNK feet dropped), I'm now first in line for MNK gear. ^^
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