Goodbye Kaelyth~

After a night of contemplating, I decided that I would retire my alternate character Kaelyth. I've been able to basically accomplish the following on him:

• WAR 55
• MNK 51
• NIN 29
• Genkai 1 & 2 - Complete
• Up to CoP 4.2
• Up to Gobbiebag Quest #7
• All Moghouse upgrades Complete
• WAR AF1 & 2 Complete

The reason I decided to retire him, is because I was starting to feel overwhelmed by all the things I "had to do" in order to progress in the game with him. It was starting to be a pain in the butt to ask for help on the very simple quests (such as AF and Genkai) and not be able to solo them. I have a lot more time to play this game than my LS friends, so I don't really like pulling them away from the things they could be doing to progress their own characters, with the little game time they do have.

So for now, Kaelyth will just be another one of my mules. The bonus to retiring him of course, is that I can now take some of the gear I bought him and sell it, such as my O.Kote, Emperor Hairpin, and Cross Counters. I'm planning on "beefing" up my SAM a little more on Zerayla, by getting the items that i've put off for a long time because they really only give me 1-2 more STR. It just wasn't worth the investment a couple of months to spend a couple hundred gil for a couple of stats. But now that I have nothing else to really invest in, I figured I might as well get a few pieces and enjoy my merit pts on SAM more :)

Other than that, i'm trying to use most of my time online to get some more meriting done. I swear it never ends! I've finally completed my PLD merits, so now all that is left is my SAM, WHM, RDM and WAR. I'm going to be working on my SAM next, and get 5/5 on overwhelm.

I'm also going to farm here and there, so that I can continue lvling my crafts and eventually get them all to 60. My plan was to finish getting leathercraft to 60, but the recipe i'm working on right now produces an item that doesn't sell too often. I could always NPC it, but i'd much rather be patient and make my gil back. So my mules are storing a ton of waistbelts right now and slowly selling those off.

I finally got to try the new level sync that SE introduced in this last update. I don't think i'm a huge fan because from what i've read up on it, if you happen to be a higher lvl and use your regular gear.... the stats are so greatly reduced that the gear is just, well.... crap. So basically, i'm going to be the kind of player that would rather get out my capped gear and bring that to a level sync party, and the downside to that is the time it takes to mule it all @_@

But aside from that, the idea is really great. I partied last night with some ls members - Soulstar, Drimergirl, Elden and we fought Ziz in Mamook. The party started off a little slow, due to the petrify move that the cockatrice kept using on me (we didn't have a WHM, so no Stona was available)... but eventually Elden realized that his puppet was able to stona me so he fixed the setup and things started to speed up. Only that didn't last long, because eventually our healer RDM had to take off to an HNM.

And that is the one reason I can't see myself joining an HNM shell. I wouldn't want to have to leave at the spur of the moment just to kill an HNM.

We eventually replaced the healer with a SCH, and our DNC with a DRG (the DNC wasn't doing any weaponskills, nor really healing with his dances ---- laaaaaaaaazy!) and things seemed to be really good, but it was getting really late and we had to disband about 30 minutes later.

So, to sum it up... I like having the ability to party with friends regardless of my lvl, but there's still a bit of preparation needed in order to do a lvl sync party which takes a bit away from its "greatness".

I'm looking forward to bringing my RDM to my wednesday ls static. I'm going to have 5 people to refresh, woohooo! (/sarcasm) I'm switching roles with one of our members so that he can bring his BLU and hopefully get it to 75 in this static. I don't mind the RDM duties and i'd much rather that the rest of the group be able to play jobs they enjoy while we static.

I think i've finally reached that phase where the game itself isn't "fun" (wait a second, FFXI was fun at one point? lol) for me most of the time, at least in the playing aspect. I still enjoy meriting, and crafting but i've been playing a lot of other games on my nintendo DS and Xbox 360 that i'm finally "unwinding" from the FFXI craze that gets you hooked in. I don't ever see myself quitting unless my friends decide to quit, and my LS dies.... but I'm not as obsessed about the game as I used to be. There's still some stuff I will consider trying out one day, like ZNM, Sea Gods etc... but for the time being, i'm just going to play more casually and mainly focus on my social LS members and events they want to do.

Speaking of that, I gotta look into organizing something fun soon. My ls has died down a little over the months so we don't really have as many 75's as we used to... so that kinda limits the events we can do on a bigger scale but i'm sure i'll think of something ^^