Red Mage 5/5!

After about 2 years of dynamis, i've finally managed to complete another relic AF set: Red Mage! A big HUGE thanks goes out to my dynamis shell RidersOfRohan, because without them i'd be pretty gimp ^^



Thanks to this amazing team, i've been able to get 5/5 on both Paladin and Red Mage, which were the two jobs I really wanted to one day complete. I've been able to collect some other pieces over the last two years, but my biggest goals have now been accomplished and I really can't thank the members of my shell enough for the hard work they put into bringing our shell to where it is today. And now that my goals are finally done, I plan to stick around until the day everyone decides to put up their hats, to see that all the rest of the members have their goals accomplished ^^

The only downside to having gotten the 5/5 on RDM, is that technically there was another member ahead of me who now has to wait for our next Xarcabard run to get his hat! Our shell has a tier lotting system for Northlands, so only one person can lot on AF at a time and the order is based on attendance. The member that was ahead of me, was actually second in line for the RDM Hat. We had a total of two drop that night... but I think the player who was ahead of me, figured a second hat wouldn't drop so instead, when a 100c dropped... he decided to lot that, and he won. And as our rules go, in Northlands you're allowed to lot either an AF, or a 100c. So he gambled his chance away, making me #2 in line for the hat that night... and, of course it dropped! I find it really creepy too, because when I saw him lot and win the 100c I was telling my friends on skype "watch, I bet you just because he won the 100c a second hat will fall" and sure enough, it did! I hope the update SE is giving to Dynamis to increase drop rates is noticeable, I want him to get his hat next run! ><;;;;

Other than that, i've done some more meriting (my Duelist's Chapeau is sooo helpful) and just about finished with PLD. I'm not quite sure what i'll be meriting next though... still have to figure that out. Way too many jobs at 75 -_-;

This week i've mostly been doing various things to farm more gil. I want to buy Kaelyth Cross-Counters, but as usual... whenever there's a "good" piece of gear that I want, the more I save up for it, the more it goes up in price. I have enough to buy them now, but... I don't want to use the gil that I always sit on for emergencies. Not that you can really have those in FFXI, but... I just have this thing, where I have to sit on a certain amount of gil, and I can't spend it. Its weird. o.O

I was hoping that by fishing, i'd be doing two things at once. Getting skillups, AND making gil. Unfortunately, I just get the fish. I must be doing it on the wrong days or something, I'm pretty sure you're only suppose to fish during certain phases of the "moon" in FFXI. I'm just too lazy to go look up that info.... I mean seriously, what kind of game makes you RESEARCH information?! Stupid SE.....

Eh, anyways... I helped a ls member get his joyeuse earlier this week. He was really psyched. Fight was pretty fun, I always enjoy seeing my paralyze take effect *evil grin*


And then to sum up the rest of my online time.... i've just been working on Kaelyth again. I sometimes wonder why i'm putting all this time into him, but then I have moments like during my Wednesday night LS static where I couldn't care less about the extra gil/time i'm investing because I have a blast being able to party with my friends. I can't really do that on Zerayla unless its meriting now, because i'll have some serious inventory issues if I take another job to 75 @_@;;;

We've actually done pretty good recently with the Wed LS Static. Kaelyth's MNK is now 49, and i'm finally seeing some damage on him. But... I now fully understand why anyone I knew that played MNK couldn't stand being in party for more than an hour. It gets really boring, really fast! X_X


I also had some decent pickup parties while lvling Kaelyth's WAR. I got him to lvl 53, and hope to get him a few more lvls this week. My only concern is going to be that I have to keep my subjob NIN up. I've only managed to get that to lvl 29, so soon it'll be gimp. I just hope my ls members are able to free up some more time, because i'm currently lvling it with them (2 NIN, 2 DNC static) and I would prefer to stick with the static rather than go solo. Its just more fun when you get to poke fun at each other instead of being focused on everything.

And the biggest pain in the butt, is redoing all the CoP missions on Kaelyth. (This is probably the main reason I keep saying to myself that i'm an idiot for creating an alternate character, lol) I've been lucky to get into a static through QCDN, and was even able to bring along one of my social LS members, Drimergirl. We're now on mission 3.5, the Diabolos fight and hopefully by October we'll be caught up to the rest of the members in our social shell and we can finally put together a LS static. I've promised to help out the QCDN group using Zerayla after that point, because I don't like the idea of quitting the group that helped get Kaelyth caught up.


And yeah, one thing I feel worth mentioning.... the Attowha Chasm Mountain Climb in 3.3 really isn't all that bad! I remember the first time I did it, I vowed NEVER to climb that mountain again. Of course I did end up doing that though, back when I had a ls static doing the ENM for the Hagun (I really wish that hadn't of broken, it was a fun ENM) and I did it again with Kaelyth. I actually enjoyed it this time around, and only fell off once at the very start, like 1 minute into the climb!


Oh, and did I mention that I hate not being lvl 75? I really don't like having to always ask for help on everything when i'm playing Kaelyth, always feels like i'm a hassle. But i've been lucky, ls members have been good and helped me out with various NMs that i've had to kill...

Such as... Valkurm Emperor who refuses to drop the stupid hairpin. I'm 0/5 on it, and spent all of today camping him only to go 0/2. NM camping in this game is seriously the most annoying thing!!!!! I can't wait until I get this stupid hairpin, I want to go back to playing already ><