I'm still alive.

Well, i'm back from my holidays. I spent christmas with my bf Xean and we spent most of the month of December with his family in MX. It was definitely a good christmas, and one that i'll miss.

I'm finally back home, and have been for a bit so I have quite a lot to update. I'll start with the oldest stuff I can remember.

(ITS CAITSITH!!!!)

First there was the new expansion released "Wings of the Goddess". So far I haven't really gotten into the expansion much, mainly because SE hasn't worked on adding a lot to it just yet. Aside from acquiring all the "Maws" which are actually teleports that take you into the past of Vana'diel, i've only participated in an event called "Campaign" a few times.

(Going through my first Maw, which is the portal to the past)

(Exploring in the past o.o)

Campaign is kinda like a garrison event where you talk to an NPC and assisted by other players and several NPCs to fend off the zone from the beastmen who randomly attack. Sometimes the monsters that attack are easy, and other times they're a pain in the butt. The good thing about this is that you don't lose xp when you die though, and depending on certain things you do during the campaign you will be awarded some xp and "Sigil" points which is the expansion's version of "Signet".


Before leaving on holidays, I did manage to progress quite a bit. I had upgraded my Gallant Leggings to the +1 version thanks to my limbus shell KeitaroOmega. We're a small shell with members from KeitaroAeon and the social shell KeitaroPrime and we manage to do pretty well. Hopefully we'll get to try out Omega and Ultima in the month ahead, provided we can get more people to show up >_<

But because I got my +1 AF, it was time to go through my PLD AF quests again so that I could get the regular versions and store my set. I managed to get some help from my social shell TBH for the AF3 fight, and had a big turnout of people wanting to help. We took out both orcs pretty quickly =)


My Dynamis shell RidersOfRohan has also been doing great. Our roster is filling up fast, with experienced and devoted members! We've been able to go on a winning streak since fall, and have yet to lose a win. Right before christmas, we were focusing on getting everyone their regular cities wins, because we're going to start focusing on Northlands this year which is a big thing for our shell. In fact, tonight is our first Beaucedine run. I'm sure we'll do great, and even if we mess up we'll still laugh about it because thats just how our group is. Its probably due to the fact that the majority of our members are just casual players, and so if something goes wrong they don't get too upset because its not the end of the world and we know we can try again. I'm so glad to be involved with the leadership of the shell, I really want to help see these deserving players obtain their gear.

(Yay, gotta love it when a small mistake in Dynamis-Sandoria results in everyone being charmed and killing the people who were out of range!)

As for Sky, I haven't really pursued anything of late but i've definitely seen our shell award many of the members with abjurations galore. Its good to see some of the newer people also get abjurations, I think its a big moral boost when they join and can immediately start upgrading their characters. Our shell is now moving on to trying tp cannons on Kirin, and hopefully Friday we'll have a successful run. Lately i've been asked to come as PLD on my character which has been a lot of fun but I have to admit that being on my WHM was more convenient. And this friday, i'll probably get a chance to try the "DD" role. The leaders asked me to come as Xean and use his MNK because we've recently recruited more WHMs, so it'll be nice to have a change. I just hope that we can get a few W. Legs to drop because since being with my sky shell, i've never seen them drop and our two main PLDs Ketsurui and Myrrdin are definitely overdue. They deserve that drop so bad, I hope we get them >_<



Other than that, i've been able to obtain the Swift Belt for my melee jobs, though it doesn't look like i'll get to use it for a while. The static for my WAR (lvl 73) has been on hold, due to a friend Timwakefield taking a break from the game. Recently he told us to continue without him but we all promised to get him to 75 whenever he comes back. He's a really good Galka PLD, so it bites that we'll have to find a pickup tank for a while. But anyways, this static should be picking up in a week or two, so hopefully WAR will hit 75 within a month or two depending on how often our static lvls.

(Fighting one of the swift belt NMs, I got 1/1 on my trade!)

My SAM is the main focus i've had since I got back from my vacation. I want to get it to 75 so that I can have something else to merit with, but RL things always come up and I can never seem to get myself into a party. The biggest downer to FFXI is the time consumption, first you have to wait 1-4 hrs for an invite, and then you have to put hours into lvling just to get a lvl! GAH! At least i'm 72 now, so i'm almost there.... just need to find time to get a party.

Oh and a note to the gilbuyers of FFXI. I hate you. You people who have within a week raised the price of the Hagun by 700k, instead of letting the idiots who put it up for sale get it sent back into the delivery box, annoy me. The entire market of FFXI is dropping, things are not worth much anymore, and then you guys go screw things up by purchasing gil with your real life money and not caring that the Hagun is 700k more than it was just a few days ago, making the price raise for future sellers/buyers. Ugh....

In otherwords, Zerayla is going to be a gimp SAM until the Hagun drops a little because I'm not spending that much on a Hagun when everything else is dropping in price. I'll be patient and wait until it goes down, and use the rare/ex GK I got from sky recently until then. -_-

Oh and speaking of SAM, I got my Tachi:Kasha! Me and Xean skillchained for just over 2hrs (with short breaks) and I unlocked my trial weapon, and a few days later got some help from some LS members to go kill the NM.


And so the most recent fun activity that I did, was help Standpoint get his BLU AF3 fight done. We had to fight a mob that spams -ga spells, and knowing that we'd need to take it down asap I brought my SAM and decided to 2hr. Unfortunately the 2hr was a bit of an overkill, and Xean was disappointed because the fight only lasted about 10 seconds ; ;


Last, myself and Xean have joined a ToAU static with some LS members. We did mission#22 on Sunday to get one of our members caught up, and by the looks of things we should be able to complete the missions within 3 weeks or so. The fight for #22 was fun, though like the previous time me and Xean had done this, it didn't go according to plan. The plan was for one person to enter, die and then let the NPC tarutaru take hate as she killed the monster. The rest of us, would heal her. Well... I figured to speed things up i'd toss a Bio III. Lol. Smart. I ended up kiting for about 10 seconds before just deciding to take a death in hopes that we could still go with our plan, which actually did work... it just sucked that I made a stupid mistake >_<


Thats it for this update, there should hopefully be some good stuff to come soon because this month i'm going to try and get some LS events going again. Its been far too long since TheBrotherhood did a subligar race, or garrison and we need to take a break from the grinds and just hang out and goof around.