Introducing...

My new alternate character... Kaelyth!

I decided to make another character that I hope to get a few jobs to 75 on, and basically play whenever i'm in the mood for something a little different. I'm hoping to get his MNK and DRK to 75, but I don't have any plans to take him into any kind of endgame. Plus there are perks to being able to play on a male character... most guy players won't toss casual flirt talk my way because they'll automatically assume i'm a "he"!

It might be that I just wanted a change, to put my state of mind somewhere else... but either way, its nice to just play another character and not feel this craze that I always get when playing on Zerayla where I HAVE to progress really quickly. Instead, I can relax and just play.

So yeah, there's Kaelyth. Elvaan ftw!

So onto the update... this week has been really busy. Its funny how I was saying not long ago that I needed to keep myself busy, and now all of a sudden everyone in my social LS seems to be at that stage where they're doing AF, and any non scheduled time, is being spent helping them out. Its fun but very crazy right now @_@


For starters, I helped out Soulstar and Drimergirl with their AF. We farmed coffer keys here and there, and even managed to slay an orc NM on the way to Davoi. Brave little Soulstar...


We ended up doing his AF3 for his DRK up in Delfkutt's Tower. Elden came along on his PUP and while I tanked the weapon NM, they took on 2 skeletons. It was kind of chaotic because their HP was going up and down, and I had to toss some cures here and there while I waited for them to help me kill my mob. Gotta love RDM/NIN. We're weak as hell, but we can survive foreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever!


And because I had received my two AF+1 items from Limbus to upgrade my Fighter's Calligae, I decided to redo my AF quests along with Drimergirl so that I could store my WAR AF set again.

We headed over to Palborough mines, and without a moment's hesitation I just jumped in and spawned the big turtle and started denting him with my SAM. *sigh* I really wish I could play my DD jobs more often, I love getting hate from the mob, dodging his moves all the while letting off my skillchains one after the other.


Then there was also Standpoint who needed to get his RNG AF3 done. We headed into Xarcabard and I got to play tank ^^

Well actually, Squishy (aka Standpoint) ended up tanking but thats only because I kept focusing on trying to get a decent screenshot!!!!! The stupid camera kept locking up on me. But it was great, we had most of our LS out there killing the tiger and had it down in a few minutes. Would of made a more interesting story I bet if Squishy had actually died... oh well (would of served him right for all those Canadian jokes! ; ;)


Then there's been of course my "almost daily" static on my BLM. Sabene and Alianne make up the rest of my static, and eventually... we will get 75! We actually ended up having one really good party session where we went from lvl 56-60. The only downside though is that we burned through our anniversary rings! So now its back to "normal xp". Which isn't sooo bad.... except that for parties like today, we had to settle for the old Conquest areas and well... thats quite a bit slower.


And speaking of my BLM, I finally found a decent .dat for the shaman's cloak i'm currently waiting. I couldn't stand the look of it, and went to ffxidats.com looking for something I could use. I eventually saw the BLM outfit from FFX-2, and while it is borderline "showy", i'm still ok with it. Its not like i'm going to have the camera facing her chest all the time, and I reaaaaaaaally love the hat!

I really can't wait to take BLM to endgame. I'm gonna drag Sabene up with me so that we can nuke like crazy... pull hate from the PLDs, mwahahahaha! BLACK MAGES OF DOOM!!!

yes...

So... we also tried to get Sabene her Shaman's cloak by killing Centurio XI. Unfortunately the disgusting insect decided he wasn't going to give us the drop, nor anything else decent. -_-


It was actually kinda funny too, because that WHM in the backround, Terribleone had the biggest "tantrum" when we got claim. Started calling us a**holes and other things. He had been there 2hrs before us, and apparently that meant the NM was his. And I quote him "Apparently you don't care about other people".

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lol, yeah. I can relate to being choked about having someone show up later than you for an NM, only to have them get claim instead of you.... and as mad and frustrating as that can make me, I still don't openely attack the person. I just vent about it to my LS!

And we were going to stick around for another spawn, but by when the window was open again, there were another 3 CC in the room and we just didn't feel like dealing with the competition. So we went and tried to farm some BLM scrolls. Which didn't drop, but thats ok.... ancient magic is crap anyways. >_>

Last weekend Sabene, Alianne and myself helped out a friend Sulitas with his last windurst missions. He had been with us for the first portion, but due to some internet issues he wasn't able to join us when we finished up windurst missions. So we scheduled to help him on the weekend, and that was a success. It was really convenient too that Kiersten came into the LS for a short time that morning, because he jumped at the offer to help us out and be our tank. If he hadn't been there, i'm not sure we would have been able to get the last mission done easily without any deaths.


As for my own endgame stuff.... RoR finally got our win in Beaucedine! Our last two runs we had tried a new strat, where we would split into 2 alliances to maximize our farming. This worked out pretty well, but unfortunately left us with too little time to kill the boss and there were some other little.... "technical difficulties" that kinda contributed to the loss... BUT we got our win and now hopefully next month will be the last time we have to actually get the win, because our entire roster will have access to Xarcabard!


Next week we'll be doing Bastok, and hopefully we'll get lucky with the Wootz ores which we're now adding to our LS Bank to increase our "Month End Bonus" which is basically "extra" gil that we split to the people that meet the requirements (aka the people that stay the entire run)

I'm also 15 mercenary points away from finally being able to get my Perdu Voulge. It was really disappointing ranking up earlier this week, only to find out I was still 1 full rank below the one I need! GAH!!!!!

This time our assault runs were actually kind of interesting. We did this one, where we had to disguise ourselves as Mamool and open chests and bring the items back to an NPC without being caught. Sneaky we were..... sneaky....


Aside from that, i've basically been having fun with my LS. We've been doing some pretty retarded stuff in game though...

Like the time when we decided to stomp a tree sapling mob with our chocobos. Yes, that worked very well. *cough*


I also helped out Onedarkflame get his WHM testimony earlier today. Funny thing about this story... is we got the WHM testimony on the first Lagoon Sahagin we killed. Only problem is that I didn't think to pass it, and Odf didn't lot it. So the test dropped to me. >_>

We farmed for close to 1.5hrs after that trying to get another, but sadly one never dropped. And during the last 20 minutes, 2 other LS members came to help, but still no drop. Then after Odf had to leave, they decided to kill another Lagoon and farm a bit for fun.... and of course the test drops on the FIRST lagoon they kill.


GOOD JOB SE!

And then there was last night.... me and Squishy were SUPPOSE to be pling, but we were laughing too hard at the fact that poor Soulstar's HP was droping almost to half with one hit from the pugil that we lost focus. And well he died.




But that wasn't the end!


Thanks to SE for designing the hilarious dance emotes, I was able to dance on top of Soulstar's dead corpse! Mwahahahaha!


And as tradition goes...



Yep. You can't see him in that pic, but he's there.


It was a fun night though.