This last year I honestly thought i'd probably end up quitting at some point because I was about to experience what playing this game on your own, really was like. For the first 3 years of playing, i'd always had someone to be with and so the term "getting burned out" was foreign to me. That all changed last year, and it didn't take long for me to start feeling burned out with certain game activities, and creating an alternate character that I hoped would make me forget everything from before and be able to find that excitment most people feel when they first play the game. In the end though, I focused more on playing this game as a means of hanging out with my friends, as opposed to "playing" and over time the thoughts of quitting soon became a thing of the past.
So I guess in short, i'm very happy that I have a group of friends (though I feel like they're more family nowadays) that I can log in and play with every day. :)
Speaking of friends... the "Trio" has had a few more adventures in the past week:
We've been doing the Moblin Maze Monger event as often as possible, before we usually log for the night. As usual, the event is very easy but we somehow manage to get one of us killed.
(Janko's dancing skill rises .01 points!)I also dragged Elden and Janko along to help me with my SMN AF3 fight. I had gotten the coffers earlier that week, so all that was left to do was the actual AF3 fight to complete my AF set. We had to first head to The Boyahda Tree to fight 2 weapons, which was pretty easy with Janko on his BLU and Elden on his DNC. Elden had forgotten to grab his /nin subjob, but he did just fine as DNC/THF.
After that, we headed out to Cape Terrigan and took on a Manticore NM, which I now wish I had attempted to solo because he seemed much easier than I thought he'd be. Oh well, i'm pretty sure that both Janko and Elden didn't mind a chance to go beat something up!
Oh, and on our way to the first AF fight we happened to run into an old friend... AQUARIUS! This NM has a few inside jokes with the members of my LS, particularily one DRK who's famous line will forever be: "I can tank Aquarius, I have shadows!"
Of course the whole tanking lasted only a few seconds, but nonetheless our LS regrouped and killed it! (At least I think we did, its been so long)
So when we saw Aquarius up, it didn't take long for Janko to run in leroy jenkins style and get claim while Elden was oogling with excitement. And there I followed, ready to keep them both alive ¬_¬;;;
Seeing as none of us actually needed the Francisca that dropped, we ended up inviting someone in the area and let him lot it. So we did our good deed for the day ^^
SoTW also had our 3rd Hakutaku run over the weekend. We originally were going to have about 3 people popping, but in the end managed to get the clusters for a total of 7 members and went 7/7 on the Ohats. This time we ended up having almost a full alliance, and the fight was extremely easy (at least from the mage perspective, go go RDM/DRK!) Congrats to Sabene, Darce, Vepion, Fieryblizzard, Athoz, Demionknight and Zuruki who are all new Ohat owners! And thanks to everyone that came out to help :)
After we finished with the Ohat run, we decided to give a hand to Demionknight with his NM for Spiral Hell. The fight was way easier than Hakutaku of course, and barely lasted a few minutes. =P
Having had such a big turnout of LS members, I started to consider the idea of starting up a weekly thing where my social shell could take on some kind of NM for kicks. We do occasionally camp NMs together and such, but something that might require us all to be on top of our game seemed really appealing, and after seeing how well everyone did at the Haku fight I thought the best way to give us some kind of challenge as a LS, would be to try out the high tier ZNMs.
So, this coming Saturday will be the start of what I've started to call "Casual Saturday Night ZNMs". Basically any member of my social will be welcome to get the pop item needed for a ZNM, and as long as it's within our power, we'll take out the ZNM that night. We probably won't be doing this every Saturday, but as often as possible. I'm hoping to pop Cheese Hoarder this weekend and hopefully we'll get full drops so that some LS members can benefit from some of the gear.
The only other things i've been up to this week have been working on my BLU subjob, and my DRG. Thanks to Janko and Onedarkflame, i've managed to get BLU to lvl 24 and gotten most of the spells I need to use it as a decent subjob.
I started out with getting some spells in Konschtat Highlands, while hoping that Stray Mary might pop. Then out of no where, I see this BLU come and toss me a cure which happened to be Janko. After i'd gotten Sheep Song, he escorted me to Gusgen Mines where the plan was to learn Poison Breath from the undead. After engaging one of the dogs though, we quickly realized that I was waaaay too low to attempt getting the spell because I was hitting for 0 for the majority of the time. That's when Janko decided to go punchy punchy on the little pooch.
After waiting for what seemed forever for the dog to finally use the spell, we ended up giving up and took a tele-mea so that I could go and learn Healing Breeze from the Dhalmels. It took a few tries, but I learned it pretty quickly in comparison to the other spells i'd been working on. This is really the only downside to the job... I can't stand learning the spells, because my luck is soooooo aweful -_-.
And on one Monday night, I happened to get invited to do some Nyzul floors with Janko. My friday static has actually managed to get to floor 60 as of last week, but I figured that I might as well use my extra tags and see if I could help a friend get up a few floors.
The group we had, was actually very well geared and very efficient. I thought for sure we'd get 3/3 wins. And considering that my own static had done very well the week before, I had no doubts about this group doing well.
But... you can never really count on SE to make things the same for all players... because we went 0/2 on the runs, due to having Mr. Roc and Mr. Aquarius + some Soulflayers... oh, and did I mention the very very fun frogs? Yea.....
After the runs, the group asked me and Janko to join them for an ENM run: Sheep in Antlion's Clothing. I'd done this ENM before, but the static I had been in eventually broke after a couple of weeks. I really enjoyed doing the actual fight, but could never stand having to climb that stupid forsaken mountain in Attowha Chasym.
. . .
Yet, somehow I ended up doing it again. Only this time, I didn't fall ONCE! I was quite happy that I'd made the entire climb again without messing up, and even managed to actually "run" up the mountain as opposed to "walking" which is what I usually had to do in the past.
Once we finally made it to the top, we had to get a tele-mea and go back to the zone to the other area so that we could get into the ENM. We only had 4 party members (Janko wasn't able to come into the fight due to having done it previously that week) but still managed to win in under 10 minutes. Sadly, all we got for drops were two items, worth no more than maybe 5k.
But gil isn't a big issue right now... thanks to a static that I seem to have created on Sunday nights for the Copycat KSNM. I've been inviting LS members to come along, and so far we've made quite a lot of profit. Everyone seems to really like this fight because it's always funny to watch each other mpk our party members when we're charmed. Well... at least it's funny for those of us who don't die.Poor Sabene, she died and ended up deleveling on our last run ><
I promised her i'd help her get some xp to make up for it of course, and so the next day we went out to Mt. Zhayolm to do a little manaburn party. We ended up inviting Onedarkflame on his lvl 50 BLM so that he could get a little xp, and then Janko and Zeo joined us for a little bit.
Onedarkflame seemed to really enjoy himself, running out there and trying to do the pulls as the rest of us rested our MP. I was soooooooo tempted to watch him die, just once... but, I know that if I did he'd find a way to get back at me eventually. <_<>
After that, we headed out to Cape Terrigan and took on a Manticore NM, which I now wish I had attempted to solo because he seemed much easier than I thought he'd be. Oh well, i'm pretty sure that both Janko and Elden didn't mind a chance to go beat something up!
Oh, and on our way to the first AF fight we happened to run into an old friend... AQUARIUS! This NM has a few inside jokes with the members of my LS, particularily one DRK who's famous line will forever be: "I can tank Aquarius, I have shadows!"
Of course the whole tanking lasted only a few seconds, but nonetheless our LS regrouped and killed it! (At least I think we did, its been so long)
So when we saw Aquarius up, it didn't take long for Janko to run in leroy jenkins style and get claim while Elden was oogling with excitement. And there I followed, ready to keep them both alive ¬_¬;;;
Seeing as none of us actually needed the Francisca that dropped, we ended up inviting someone in the area and let him lot it. So we did our good deed for the day ^^
SoTW also had our 3rd Hakutaku run over the weekend. We originally were going to have about 3 people popping, but in the end managed to get the clusters for a total of 7 members and went 7/7 on the Ohats. This time we ended up having almost a full alliance, and the fight was extremely easy (at least from the mage perspective, go go RDM/DRK!) Congrats to Sabene, Darce, Vepion, Fieryblizzard, Athoz, Demionknight and Zuruki who are all new Ohat owners! And thanks to everyone that came out to help :)
After we finished with the Ohat run, we decided to give a hand to Demionknight with his NM for Spiral Hell. The fight was way easier than Hakutaku of course, and barely lasted a few minutes. =P
Having had such a big turnout of LS members, I started to consider the idea of starting up a weekly thing where my social shell could take on some kind of NM for kicks. We do occasionally camp NMs together and such, but something that might require us all to be on top of our game seemed really appealing, and after seeing how well everyone did at the Haku fight I thought the best way to give us some kind of challenge as a LS, would be to try out the high tier ZNMs.
So, this coming Saturday will be the start of what I've started to call "Casual Saturday Night ZNMs". Basically any member of my social will be welcome to get the pop item needed for a ZNM, and as long as it's within our power, we'll take out the ZNM that night. We probably won't be doing this every Saturday, but as often as possible. I'm hoping to pop Cheese Hoarder this weekend and hopefully we'll get full drops so that some LS members can benefit from some of the gear.
The only other things i've been up to this week have been working on my BLU subjob, and my DRG. Thanks to Janko and Onedarkflame, i've managed to get BLU to lvl 24 and gotten most of the spells I need to use it as a decent subjob.
I started out with getting some spells in Konschtat Highlands, while hoping that Stray Mary might pop. Then out of no where, I see this BLU come and toss me a cure which happened to be Janko. After i'd gotten Sheep Song, he escorted me to Gusgen Mines where the plan was to learn Poison Breath from the undead. After engaging one of the dogs though, we quickly realized that I was waaaay too low to attempt getting the spell because I was hitting for 0 for the majority of the time. That's when Janko decided to go punchy punchy on the little pooch.
After waiting for what seemed forever for the dog to finally use the spell, we ended up giving up and took a tele-mea so that I could go and learn Healing Breeze from the Dhalmels. It took a few tries, but I learned it pretty quickly in comparison to the other spells i'd been working on. This is really the only downside to the job... I can't stand learning the spells, because my luck is soooooo aweful -_-.
And on one Monday night, I happened to get invited to do some Nyzul floors with Janko. My friday static has actually managed to get to floor 60 as of last week, but I figured that I might as well use my extra tags and see if I could help a friend get up a few floors.
The group we had, was actually very well geared and very efficient. I thought for sure we'd get 3/3 wins. And considering that my own static had done very well the week before, I had no doubts about this group doing well.
But... you can never really count on SE to make things the same for all players... because we went 0/2 on the runs, due to having Mr. Roc and Mr. Aquarius + some Soulflayers... oh, and did I mention the very very fun frogs? Yea.....
After the runs, the group asked me and Janko to join them for an ENM run: Sheep in Antlion's Clothing. I'd done this ENM before, but the static I had been in eventually broke after a couple of weeks. I really enjoyed doing the actual fight, but could never stand having to climb that stupid forsaken mountain in Attowha Chasym.
. . .
Yet, somehow I ended up doing it again. Only this time, I didn't fall ONCE! I was quite happy that I'd made the entire climb again without messing up, and even managed to actually "run" up the mountain as opposed to "walking" which is what I usually had to do in the past.
Once we finally made it to the top, we had to get a tele-mea and go back to the zone to the other area so that we could get into the ENM. We only had 4 party members (Janko wasn't able to come into the fight due to having done it previously that week) but still managed to win in under 10 minutes. Sadly, all we got for drops were two items, worth no more than maybe 5k.
But gil isn't a big issue right now... thanks to a static that I seem to have created on Sunday nights for the Copycat KSNM. I've been inviting LS members to come along, and so far we've made quite a lot of profit. Everyone seems to really like this fight because it's always funny to watch each other mpk our party members when we're charmed. Well... at least it's funny for those of us who don't die.Poor Sabene, she died and ended up deleveling on our last run ><
I promised her i'd help her get some xp to make up for it of course, and so the next day we went out to Mt. Zhayolm to do a little manaburn party. We ended up inviting Onedarkflame on his lvl 50 BLM so that he could get a little xp, and then Janko and Zeo joined us for a little bit.
Onedarkflame seemed to really enjoy himself, running out there and trying to do the pulls as the rest of us rested our MP. I was soooooooo tempted to watch him die, just once... but, I know that if I did he'd find a way to get back at me eventually. <_<>
I also got to catch a little action with rank missions again. Carste decided to take on the challenge to get rank 10 within a matter of weeks (I think he's just about done now) and asked for some help with the Bastok Missions. Some of the missions I wasn't available to help out for, but when I did get a chance to beat up stuff I definitely didn't hesitate!
As for my last update... DRG is now 49!!!!!!!!!
I've managed to get into some LS parties as of late, and so far they've turned out really nice. The best party I had so far was when we went to East Ronfaure [S], and kept chaining the ladybugs like crazy. If it weren't for people farming in the area, i'm sure we could have gone beyond our chain#6. Nonetheless, it was fun and I can't wait to finally get the job to lvl 75 so that I can finally make a little more room. All this low lvl gear is really making things a pain for my inventory situation.
(Ooo another pretty .dat swap! This would be an earth elemental)
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