Pessimism Pays Off!

Many people that know me, have seen that throughout the years of playing FFXI, i've become quite the pessimist. I would blame this on the fact that SE specializes in the term "Time Sink".

What this means is that the idea of spending hours of working towards a goal, that might result in failure, and thus result in wasted time, is very unappealing to me. I enjoy the game and many of the events in it, but there is so much work that is sometimes needed to accomplish something, and if you fail, you get to do it all over again. That right there, is what has over time, made me the biggest pessimist in this game.

Usually when something "big" is planned, I don't like taking chances and would prefer to "overkill" to make sure that time isn't going to be wasted. And whenever things look like there might not be "enough" to have decent rate of success, I can't help but express my thoughts which is why many know me to be a pessimist.

Despite this annoying trait though, I don't back out on anything I offer to help with, or say i'm going to do when it means having other people take time out of their day to also help.

And so.. more to the point, last Saturday we had a few ZNMs lined up. The most difficult one being Experimental Lamia which myself and Vepion had wanted to pop. When I checked the LS at our usual start time, there was less than a handlful of ppl available. So I didn't hesitate when asked in LS what the plan was, to express that I didn't see it being possible to kill a Tier III ZNM with what he had.

But the best part is that it seems to be everyone's personal agenda to prove me wrong! (well not really, but it'd be funny if it was)

And that's exactly what happened. Well, sorta. Soulstar asked a few of his friends to give a hand, and before I knew it, we had almost 2 full parties. We made our way to the pop location, which unfortunately took longer than expected which was more mine and Vepion's fault. On all our previous runs when we had made our way to Experimental Lamia, there would always be time spent waiting for people to gather and Carste would always end up farming the Lamia Fang key in the meantime which was needed to get to the pop location. So this time, I told Vepion that we both didn't have to worry and we would be able to farm one on the way.

Fast forward to everyone being at the gate, and no one having a key because the Lamia weren't dropping any ~_~

(I had Xean's character on auto-follow when I was duo-boxing him, and couldn't resist taking this screenshot. Kinda like it, looks like the lamia is playing music for us and Carste is singing!)

So some extra time was added on, but luckily ppl didn't seem too bothered. Finally we made it to the pop location, and instead of doing our usual pull to the bottom zone, we had Vepion sac the NM up to the wall, where I then grabbed her and pulled her to the North zone where the alliance waited. Me and Carste then did the repeated zoning with some help from other members whenever we went down, and the rest of the alliance killed the adds.

Even though we had a couple of deaths, we still managed to take Experimental Lamia down and Vepion got the drop he had wanted - Enkidu Leggings.

Then for my pop, we did the fight we normally did by pulling the NM down to the south zone. This pop seemed as tricky as the last, but that might of been because at the time I was duo-boxing Xean's BRD and wasn't able to stay on top of everything as well as I could have if I had just been playing on Zerayla. A couple of deaths, but again we had another win.

And the best part? AURUM CUISSES DROPPED!

I believe we've fought this about 5 times in total, and we've never seen these drop. But finally they did! Now I just need to figure out how I can persuade a couple of LS members to let me come DRG to the next merit pty @_@

Other than that, the only other thing I figure is worth mentioning is that i'm having fun getting Tahla ready. I finally hit lvl 30 today, and started the BRD quest which i'll probably finish tonight. I've managed to get her a couple of gobbie bag quests done, and plan to work a bit more on her fame so that I can open up more quests.


I guess it's a little odd that i'm finding some fun in repeating quests when I explained at the beginning of this post that the reason that i'm such a pessimist is because I dislike repeating things... but I guess playing a tarutaru makes a difference? I dunno, lol.