A revival perhaps?

Well, i'm finally getting back into playing FFXI, and I have to admit i'm enjoying it.

I spent the last few months getting settled into my new home, and my new life with my hubby <3

I've had a lot more time to play, but up until recently, I didn't really have any desire to. In the last couple of months, TheBrotherhood (we went back to our old shell) had become pretty empty. A lot of members had either quit, moved onto other shells or just didn't have the time to play. I found myself often being the only person in LS for hours, and this made it all but impossible to do anything. I'm not the type to send /tells to people outside of LS and ask for help, or invite myself to events. And knowing that i'm more likely to fail at "soloing", I didn't bother to try very much on my own. Eventually it got to a point where I started asking myself what the point of logging in was, if I had no one to play with. I was actually going to quit one day, until I remembered that there was an update that was coming up the following week and so I decided to stay and just give it one last shot.

This ended up being a good decision, because Carste and Onedarkflame decided to return to the LS, and Timwakefield also came back from his 100000000th break from the game. Immediately we started spending our afternoons going into Abyssea and low-manning NMs to get atma, seals, etc. This has been a lot of fun... so much that i've found myself neglecting my Netflix movies just to do some Abyssea with old friends. I've been bringing BLM, and trying to absorb as much information about how everything works in Abyssea.

I hardly touched the expansion content up until now, so there's been a lot to learn. And getting the practice in on BLM has been good, but I still laugh at myself most of the time because I just seem to make really retarded mistakes. In fact, i've started to think of myself as that one character that always gets into trouble. Only in my case, I end up dying a lot! But the deaths are nothing now with the kind of xp that you can get. After all, I already hit lvl 90 in less than a week from our low-man Abyssea stuff.

Speaking of progress, i've been able to do quite a bit of catching up this week. It's been a little bit of a hassle getting all the new gear though, because i've had to do a lot of rethinking for my macros. Despite that we now have an additional 80 slots for inventory, this doesn't increase our "main inventory" which is where our gear swaps take the gear from. And currently my WHM, RDM and BLM have over 70 pieces of gear which leaves me very little room for anything extra. Oh well...

So thanks to Timwakefield, Carste, Onedarkflame, Vepion and Anderoc I now have these:






There's a few other items i've gotten too, but I can't recall them off hand.

I've also reactivated Xean's account and have been bringing his BRD to help with the Abyssea stuff. I don't really plan to be aggressive about getting progress on him, but i've decided that little by little I will work on his MNK. Hopefully by lvl 99, i'll have that elusive Black Belt. Though I bet it'll be useless at that point, as there may be something better.

And for Zerayla, well I think i'll just keep working on her RDM, WHM, BLM, SAM, DRG and probably PLD. I haven't really cared to play on PLD since the lvl 85 update, but having gotten some new gear for the job, i'll probably get around to lvling it up soon.

Oh, and I finally finished the WoTG missions with my static group: Carste, Hesper, Anderoc and Onedarkflame. Carste actually ended up duo-boxing Odf's character because he had RL plans the night we decided to finish the missions. We also ended up fighting the final fight with a very typical setup: BLM, RDM, WHM, SAM, DRK. According to wiki, the fight is best done with SMNs or BSTs... which I wouldn't doubt is true because we had some difficulty with the fight. However, as with all the previous missions we had success :)



It's too bad that the reward isn't all that great though. I ended up getting the "Refresh" and "Magic ATK +4".

And so that about sums things up. Looks like at least for now, i'll be playing a little more often and hopefully SE will continue to update the game the way they have been recently, rather than focusing on their failure of an MMO FF14! Sooooo glad I never bought that game. I mean it's likely it may get better down the road, but just recently they fired their development team, apologized for how crappy the game has been and made the game indefinitely "free" to play until they fix things. So for now i'll stick to my FF11 ^^