Over the last two years that i've played this game, i've made a total of 7 mules. It originally started with me just needing some extra storage space before I had completed the Gobbie Bag quests, but then when I decided to take up Cooking as my craft, I found out that having a mule in each city would really help me cost wise, because I could just buy the ingredients from NPCs around Vana'diel saving me a fortune from having to buy the over priced ingredients on the Auction House.
But of course as time went by and I leveled more jobs, I wasn't able to really hold all my items and gear... and let me tell you, i'm a big "junk collector". I have a habbit of keeping all gear I buy, and storing it in case I ever need it again or can use it for another job, and I hate tossing items that can be stacked because eventually I can sell them for GIL!!! And considering its become a pain in the arse to farm anything and get a decent profit, I have found that by doing this I'm really helping myself and probably saved myself from having to go camp NMs to make any money because its a steady flow selling off random items that drop in xp parties when I get a stack.
So without further delay, meet my mules!
Naylita - (Name - Original name): She was my very first mule, and was going to be the character I would lvl when Xean wasn't online so that I could save all my jobs on Zerayla to party with Xean. I really like the elvaan race, and because I have this thing for red hair I picked Naylita's character model... however when I logged in, I found that her hair was more of an orange color ; ;
Anyways, I got Naylita to WAR13 I believe, and by that time Xean's schedule became more like mine and so I didn't really need to lvl another character to play. Plus, I also had a ton that I could do on Zerayla, such as farming so I decided there was no point to having another character leveled. That's when I decided to take Naylita to Jeuno where she currently acts as my "bank" and my "random item" keeper. I send her gil and try not to ever spend any on her. She's always collecting items like beetle jaws, bat wings, slime oils, and the list goes on and whenever she gets a stack, she will go to the AH and put the items on sale and then the money is stored on her until I see an item I reaaaally want and then I spend my gil. But for the moment, i'm back to saving and trying really hard not to splurge on that Aqua and Snow ring I see dropping in price ; ;
Taeyo - (Name - Original but inspired by "Tao" from Shinning Force): For some reason when I made Naylita, I wanted to make a mithra character and see if I could make a "THF" character. So I lvled Taeyo to about lvl 14, and even once lvled in dunes with Xean when he was lvling another job. It was kinda fun playing mithra but I definitely didn't like the low vitality they have. I wanted to continue lvling Taeyo but ultimately I've gotten so busy with trying to progress Zerayla that I put lvling Taeyo on the back burner and just ended up turning her into my equipment storage mule....
And now if you look at most people who have a lvl 75 job, a lot have a couple of million gil on them. Me? Nope... all my gil is in my equipment, because since day one I never ever sold a piece. The idea of having to pay for something again, and possibly more always kept me from selling it. So now Taeyo has 70/70 mog house inventory, 80/80 storage inventory and I believe her regular inventory is probably around 20/30. I have a feeling i'll have to make her do some gobbie quests down the road if I buy any more gear x_x
Cheveyo - (Name - Native American for "Warrior") : He was created to be a playable character for my brothers when they would come over. Of course, like always my brothers lose interest in the things they obtain and they never played him. In fact, I think I ended up lvling him to 10 so that they could finally try a party because they didn't like the grind of soloing... and in the end they never touched him, so I just deleted him and remade him in Bastok.
Right now he stores all my cooking ingredients, and whenever I have 10 grain seeds, i'll plant these to get some tarutaru rice. Other than that, he doesn't get a whole lot of attention... but maybe that's because he's a traitor to San d'Oria! HAHA!
Tahla - (Name - Native american for Wolf) : She was created to be a mule, but also to be the wife of Xean's mule character "Magisterial". It was kinda fun when I first made her, because tarutaru's have the best emote animations ever. There's a few where you can make the tarus look like they're kissing each other, sooo adorable! If I ever had to pick another playable character it would definitely be her.
I ended up lvling Clothcraft on Tahla in hopes of having another craft at 100. I took it to lvl 53, and lvled her leathercraft to 30 and Smithing to 15 before I decided to look into how profitable crafting was now that SE has done so much banning and removed so much gil from the game. When I found out that it wasn't really worth it to take another craft to 100, I decided to park her in San d'Oria (even though she's from Windurst) and occasionally when I need some leathercraft materials or want to synth some ninja tools for Xean I take her to the guilds and craft with her. But for right now, she pretty much stores all my clothcraft materials.
Eveth - (Name - Original) : Well though i'm not fond of humes (I once lvled one and found them to be veeeeery weak melee wise, and they couldn't take hits like an elvaan ; ;) I wanted to make one so I made Eveth. I don't really like the face on this model, but I like the hairstyle.
Currently she is my gardening mule, and trying to grow wind ores which i'm planning on turning into wind beads to give to a LS member Buckeyespud who has Woodworking 100+3 to see if he might get an HQ wind staff. She also holds a lot of low lvl brd gear that I had bought once when there had been plans for me to join a static where I would go BRD. In the end that never happened, so I just stored the gear on her. She also holds some cooking guild items which I have yet to use because I haven't checked to see what items are accepted in a while.
Nelle - (Name - Character from the movie "Nelle") : She's the platinum haired twin of my character. She originally was going to be my Bazaar mule that I would leave on over night, but the majority of crap items I would send her to bazaar never seemed to sell. I then just decided to take her to Jeuno and have her sell some items that i've found can be bought from NPCs and sold for a little profit on the AH. She also currently grows my tree cuttings that I try to farm, and turns them into tree saplings which I use on other mules.
Talith - (Name - Original) : A while back I had a really bad few weeks in the game with a few friends who ended up giving up on TheBrotherhood... the LS that I have worked very hard to make the best social/event LS on our server. I'm sure its not the best, but I think its pretty up there as far as quality of members go. Anyways, I felt that everything and everyone were all leaving and I just wanted some "alone" time so for almost a week me and Xean were playing on new characters we made, and Talith was mine.
I luckily got out of that phase, and decided to turn her into a gardening mule (she's now growing fire ores hopefully) and also use her to store crystals that I send to Zerayla whenever I craft. I'm planning on getting all Zerayla's crafts to 60, so i've just been storing any crystals I get on Talith.
Bellydancer - (Name - Original, given by Xean) : When I was lvling my alchemy, one of the recipes was for Artificial Lenses which are not stackable. I wanted to be able to use this item in future recipes (Invisble Powder) but of course, my other mules were getting a little crowded and didn't have a lot of inventory room... so I needed to create another mule and figured that a Galka would be a good option.
So, after getting Xean to help me with giving a humorous name I created him... and I even gave him a story. He is the exotic belly dancing galkan son of "Sprinkles", a Galka character created by Lokelani.
And so that's all my mules!
I guess to finish up this post I'll briefly summarize last night because a few good things happened. When I logged in, I had originally planned to help Kiersten farm but then he mentioned the possibility of getting his Jelly Ring which he didn't have for his PLD. I jumped to the opportunity because it would mean yet another NM I could solo on my RDM/NIN ^^
So we headed down to Bostineaux Oubliette and along the way, I had warned Kiersten about trap doors in the ground that were hard to see. Unfortunately he fell down one, so I went in after him and was going to try and help navigate back up to the top floor... but before we could get our bearings, his sneak must of worn because he was aggroed by some leeches which, to our luck linked.
So we popped out our NPCs and began beating on them, but of course I hadn't been prepared and had to fix my macros before I could really help and get some enfeebles out. I slept 3 leeches that had linked, and we killed them one by one with our NPCs. I think we had a 5th one link in the end, but thanks to my convert there was plenty of MP to keep us alive and we killed them.
When we finally got back to the NM spawn area for Sewer Syrup, we began killing the two placeholders (Mousses). On the 4th pop, Sewer Syrup spawned which was a relief for me because the last two times i'd done this for 2 other PLDs in my LS, the NM took about 3-4hrs to spawn. So once spotted, I rested up MP and took him on. Everything was going great until a haunt from behind somehow aggroed me even though I was quite a distance away, and then Kiersten went and soloed him... but in the meantime, a Werewolf bat also spawned and so Kiersten and I were trying to keep each other falling too far on HP. In the end though, we beat our mobs and Kiersten got his Jelly ring!
After that, I waited for Xean to login and we went and seeked for a party on our WHM and NIN hoping that maybe we might get 62.... but as luck would have it, that didn't happen. Haha, go figure....
We were fighting puks in Wajaom Woodlands, but unfortunately our party setup was once again not the most ideal. We had another NIN, THF, BLM and BRD which normally would of been fine, except that the other NIN wouldn't voke fast enough, and didn't have tools to enfeeble leaving Xean to be really frustrated for the first few hours. And of course, the THF was kinda slow, only making the experience even more annoying for Xean who I felt really bad for. The one job he enjoys lvling and he can't get into a decent party to have some fun with people that can do their jobs quickly and efficiently >_<
(And because i'm evil, here's a pic of Xean in his subligar! He was switching on and off between tanking and DDing and this was his setup when he wasn't tanking)And then later on, our BRD replaced himself with a Japanese RDM. And this of course, is where I got frustrated... because see, I was doing the hasting and occasional curing. Other than that, there wasn't anything for me to cast (unless Xean asked for a flash). Xean was doing the enfeebling, so basically the only thing the RDM could do was the enfeebles Xean couldn't (Dia II), Refresh and of course.. NUKE!
Yes I know RDMs can't nuke enough to dance about, but at least its added damage. But instead, this RDM would constantly re-cast enfeebles that myself and Xean had (I was casting enfeebles when his wouldn't stick) and not ONCE did he even try to nuke. He didn't have to convert, nada!!! If I had been this RDM, I would of taken the opportunity to go crazy nuking and you can bet I would of been using that convert, because otherwise I would of felt like a worthless member of the party sitting on 500+ mp!!!! So yeah, yet another "bleh" party which left me at 3k tnl >_<
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