Lately i've been noticing that a lot of people I know, have been feeling stressed out with the many goals they seek to accomplish in this game. I'm sure i've been feeling it myself at times. And the downside to this, is that we get so consumed with "having" to get something done that we easily forget to enjoy ourselves and the moments that we have which make this game worth playing in the first place.
So I think for this blog entry, i'm going to savor the moments i've had recently which have either made me laugh, or made me smile.
Lets start off with what I like to call, "getting cudly with the tarus".
That there is Xean and Falk (now called Sjoidjgo thanks to the RMT that hacked his account and the wonderful SE support who refused to let him change his name back). We were waiting to pop Iriz Ima, which our LS has done countless times...
The fight went very well, as always. All we had to do was bring out a few nukers, and voilà! GAME OVER for the poor elephant. Err, Marid.
Next up, a little bit of UFO farming.
Soulstar had just recently gotten his sea access, and wanted to farm up some UFO organs that he needed to quest his WS gorget. So a bunch of us headed up to Sea to give him a hand, and also to farm a few extras.
We had Xean and Zeo tanking, while Soulstar would jump in here and there for his treasure hunter. Drimergirl and myself were on healing/enfeebling duty, and of course we had our reliable Chuck Norris (aka Carste) nuking away on BLM. Carste took a couple of deaths (he has quite a nuking set) throughout the night, but other than that things went pretty smoothly and everyone who needed a UFO organ was able to get one.
Also, one thing which most people might find incredibly mind numbing - weapon unlocking.
My COR just hit 73 as of today, but yesterday I was able to get it to 72 which meant time to unlock my Coffinmaker i've had waiting in storage for months. I was really excited to finally be able to work on this and it available for future parties... until I found out that I couldn't make a level 3 skillchain. -_-
But... things worked out because I was able to drag Xean out on his MNK to help me out!
We worked on getting the 500 points I needed for what seemed like forever. And though things took a lot longer than I thought they would, I content just to spend time with him doing something together. Eventually he had to take a break which was fine, because I was able to solo the crabs in Vunker Inlet [S] just fine on COR (go go Ninja's Roll!) while he was away. Later in the night he came back and helped me finish up my last 40 points and I was ready to lvl again on COR!
Only we had to wait until the next day. Cuz you know, people need sleep. <_<
So this morning, we decided to try and setup a merit pty to get some fast xp. At first, things weren't looking too good for us because there was NO healer in sight and the only people in LS that had healing jobs were already busy.
Eventually though a RDM popped up and so I invited him right away. Then I grabbed a DRG, SAM and WAR (thanks Zeo!) to fill the rest of the party and we headed out to the Colibri camp which was empty.
I don't know exactly how much xp we managed to get, but the party we had was one of the best i'd had in a long time. Kills were easily under 5-10 seconds, and the majority of my slugshots were hitting. Xean seemed to be enjoying himself a lot because at the rate we were killing, we were definitely keeping him busy with pulls. We got up to about chain #126 and the only reason the chain ended is because we eventually had to replace Zeo and I had made the mistake of inviting the replacement before he was actually ready to engage the mobs and fight.
All I know is that I really can't wait to finally be able to do some LS merit parties with Xean's BRD. Called me biased, but he's damn good and i'm just keeping my fingers crossed he still has this new "ability" to endure long grinds in FFXI because I want LOTSA xp!
My only other challenge when we hit 75 will be to find someone willing to act as the healer. I love being on RDM, and I probably will end up going if I don't know the healer personally (most RDMs tend to be really lazy) but I really have been enjoying my COR and hope that i'll be able to bring that to some merit ptys. Or my lolDRG!
Last saturday was also a success for ZNMs. I hadn't been able to pop my Experimental Lamia for the last two weeks which really had me discouraged and pretty much ready to give up on even doing ZNMs for myself anymore, but my LS "saved the day" as the saying goes. I had a full alliance show up for my ZNM and even got the Enkidu's Leggings i'd been hoping for which I can now use on my COR. Now I just need to get the Aurum Cuisses and I think i'll be done with ZNM gear.
Then the plan is to start popping extra ZNMs that I know others need but don't have the time to really farm up the zeni. I just really have to remind myself to actually farm the zeni because like with campaign, that's one thing I always put off.
We also managed to kill Nuhn, Cheese Hoarder Gigiroon, Iriz Ima, Chigre and Dea that night which was no surprise. I was really glad that Drimergirl finally got her Blood Ring that night... she had popped Chigre the last two weeks but never managed to get her ring.
And to make this week an even bigger success, we got Xean, Vepion and Darce up to floor 81 in Nyzul. A goliard body dropped and Xean won that, which is a nice macro piece for his WHM. Hopefully we'll be able to get floor 100 in the next two weeks and then after that, we'll be spamming some assault to help Vepion get a Yigit Body for his BRD.
And though it was a sweet gesture to serenade to me and Xean, I think we might just have to persuade Vepion to get some singing lessons. Elvaan men don't exactly have that melodic voice.
Last things to note - I got myself a Hades Earring +1! OMG YES TWO WHOLE EMNITY!!!!! I still need to quest my Mermaid's Ring though to add to my emnity set.
My goal is to have so much emnity that the next time I get asked to tank something, NO ONE will take it away! ~_~
So that's all I can think to post about now.
Oh, but one last thing!
My DIRT.
*Stares nervously*
*Holds big jar of dirt close to her chest*
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