Things have been quiet.

Lately things in FFXI have been kind of quiet. There hasn't been a lot of requests in my ls for help, at least when i'm online or on our scheduling forum. I kinda miss the overwhelming list of "things to do" in the week, but at the same time i've been enjoying having evenings where I can login and just craft. I really want to get all my crafts to lvl 60, but because I've decided to try and farm most ingredients its definitely taking me a long time. Thankfully Xean's been logging in when he gets home from school and bringing out his THF to help me though, so that's sped things up.

Since my last update, I haven't really done a whole lot. On Tuesday, SpiftasticAdventures, the Dynamis LS i'm helping run (well at the moment I've been put in charge of leadership while Archmage is away) was suppose to do Windurst. Unfortunately though, we only had 2 BLM show up, and we only had 5-7 melee DDs. I guess because of the summer, a lot of people are out enjoying themselves and going on vacations and what not, instead of staying locked in the house on their PS2 or PC... so for the last few runs we've been short on members. So on Tuesday, rather than use the hourglass we were going to use, the LS decided to save it for the next run and cancel this week's Windurst run. I felt kinda bad because we had one or two new members who had just joined, and that night was suppose to be their first run. I hope our cancellation didn't give them a bad impression, because this has been our first ever since we started way back in November 2006. I guess people are just wanting to enjoy the summer rather than play video games and honestly that's fine by me. Our LS has always been lenient with people taking time off to enjoy life... we don't want our Dynamis runs to seem like work, because eventually when you start logging in to FFXI because you "have" to, the fun disappears. Progressing is important, but being able to have fun and enjoy yourself is more important I think.

Oh, I also tried doing the assault for Mamool training grounds called "Imperial Agent Rescue". The guide on this said that a PLD or NIN would need to tank a mamool, and position themselves so that the mamool is facing a door to a cell which might hide the NPC you're trying to rescue. As easy as this sounds, it wasn't for us. The information says that you need to get either a BST or WHM type mamool with a weapon, and have them use their TP move to throw it at the door. Otherwise, 3-5 "Firespits" will apparently knock down the door.

Well the first time we went, I had pulled a NIN. Lol, stupid mistake. I'm sure we had 5+ firespits go off, but after 30 minutes we were sent back and failed the mission. The second time around, I grabbed a WHM type mamool with a staff, and eventually we noticed that at some point his weapon had disappeared. I think this might have been due to one of us using our weaponskill on him, i'm not really sure. But either way, the firespit move again went off numerous times and never seemed to get the door open. I don't know if it was the positioning that was wrong (I did move a lot of times to try different angles) but after that second failure, we just called it a night.

I think our new plan is going to be to rank up first, and then try the second mission for that area. I'd really like to get those Yigit Gages ; ;.

And last night was a looong night up in sky. At first things were going really great. A LS had pulled Despot but because they didn't have enough people, they ended up wiping and our LS ended up getting claim and killing him. After the kill, we went over to the wiped party and offered to give them R3 but I guess a few more of their members showed up and they thanked us for the offer, and took their raises from their team.

I spent most of the rest of the night farming Diorite, which didn't drop until way late into the night, at about 11:30pm. In between that, we had killed Mother Globe, obtained a water item to pop Olla and also killed Faust. I think my sky LS has been doing a lot better with its farming sessions, at least by reading the posts on the forum. I think its because they've recently added a few more members and so far the members seem to be dedicated and friendly which is a good combo to have. Though the session definitely bored me by the end, it was still pretty satisfying to feel like we'd accomplished quite a bit. Looks like we're going to have a few gods to fight this Friday ^^

But aside from that, not much to really post about. As I said things have been quiet. Lots of people are taking breaks or lvling. Feels kinda relaxing right now, but i'm sure things will pick up again soon. Then its back to the hectic scheduling to make sure I can help with everything that needs to be done. @_@