5th job to 75!

Finally got my WAR to 75 this week, making it my 5th job to 75. I had hoped to ding 75 with Xean's THF, but during our last static session he was trying to setup his new mega computer (which in the end had a defective power supply which means he has to wait another 2 weeks before he can use is new computer) so I ended up getting ahead of him. I had decided to start using my Byakko's GA (thanks KeitaroAeon, was the first drop I got with you guys) to skill up my GA skill which was sitting at 223 (and thanks again to Elden and Xean who helped me skill it up earlier that week). I managed to get it up to 245 on that party, which only lasted maybe 2hrs so hopefully i'll be able to cap it in my next party. All in all, the dmg seems to be much better but I would occasionally get some pretty crappy weaponskills ~ 100-200 dmg -_-. But I did manage to break 1k about 4 times! So I guess it can't be too bad, haha.


And on that same note, Sabene got her WHM to 75 with us. All week we've been doing pretty much "all ls" merit parties trying to get her to 75. It was a lot of fun, and though we didn't always have the best jobs available we still managed to get 7-10k/hr. Its always nice to party with friends, especially because you don't have to worry about having someone who can't perform their party duties.

So the next job i'm planning to lvl will be BLM. I don't really find it too much fun to play in xp parties, but I'm sure i'd enjoy it at 75 when I get to bust out some nukage on NMs. I always liked playing the nuking RDM, but sadly as my job class (and race to a degree) was limited, I could never really come up to par to any BLM. I know that lvling BLM will be tough because ever since ToAU, its not wanted in parties much anymore... BUT! I have a plan.... I'm bringing Xean along on his BRD! So I should be able to get xp pretty decently whether its with a regular party setup or with a mana burn. And I can't wait for Xean to have BRD@75. Knowing that he's the type of player that will do his party duties efficiently (and fast) i'm sure that by the time we're ready to merit at 75, i'll be seeing those nice chains of 200+.

But in the meantime, I gotta get his BRD caught up to my BLM40. So i've decided to lvl DNC up to 40 and use it as a subjob (for those random times when it would be useful). So far I've only managed to get it to 15, so I JUST got my curing waltz which is nice... but I have yet to actually fight something "tough" and see just how good the job really is.


Me and Xean have been duo-ing for most of our dune levels and though the xp isn't that great, we've still managed. We've had a few of those stupid deaths... you know, the kind where you see an NM and you think to yourself "Lets KILL IT!". Then 10 seconds later, you're lying face in the dirt....


Yeah.....

Aaaanyways, one of the most recent things that i've had the pleasure of doing, was an Ohat run for my ls. A few weeks ago, one of our members Elden mentioned needing one and I told him to make a topic on the LS. After that, we had several members show an interest so we did a lot of farming for the hakutaku eyes needed to make a hakutaku cluster which is the pop item for the NM. Finally after everyone got their cluster synthesized thanks to our very own alchemist Tiaybara, we scheduled a run which actually happened last night.

I was a little worried about how successful the run would go because we were very limited on the "help" end. A couple of people who had said they'd help out weren't online, and a couple of others didn't even bother to let us know they had changed their minds and prioritized something else.... but in the end, it didn't matter because we went 6/6! HA!

I was really happy after our first fight. It went soooo smooth, no deaths and barely anyone went beyond yellow HP. We only had 2 WHMs at the start, and while they did run low on MP they still did an excellent job keeping our tanks paralyna'd. And our tanks definitely were on top of things, as well as the stunners. I got to go as RDM/DRK and really enjoyed stunning whenever I could but with all the enfeebles, refreshes and assisting cures I sometimes had a full plate @_@

In the end, I was extremely happy with the members that came out to help. We pulled off something that not many "social" linkshells get together to do, and seeing the reactions of everyone at the very end was worth it.

Congratulations to Elden, Standpoint, Kawanowu, Yourdestiny, Tiaybara and Zeo for your new fugly hats!!! And thanks to Ferque, Trindel, Alianne, Soluslupis, Timwakefield, Sabene and Xean for helping on the run.


Based on how much fun everyone had and the comments at the end of the run, we'll definitely be putting another run together in the future. Hopefully we can even try a few different pop NMs.

Now for the other random things I did this week...

I recently got a /tell from a player who had joined SpiftasticAdventures Dynamis LS a long time ago, and unfortunately had to stop playing and took a long break. She came back to the game, and started a new character Annalise. We ended up talking a little bit, and in the end I offered her some help to get her new character started. She took me up on the offer the next day, and me and Xean went out to help her with the Magicite Mission to get her rank 5. I hadn't done that mission in ages, so it was nice to do again.


Then I also had Anderoc invite me to help camp the rare/ex fuma with him. On my way to Castle O., he ended up claiming the NM and managed to get the drop. So when I got there, we waited for about an hourish and got the second pop. Unfortunately we didn't get the fuma though. Haha, one of these days i'll go camp them seriously, but I'll probably wait until I can find a decent site to download free stream videos so that I have something to do while I wait for the window to open. I really can't stand waiting around for NM windows, sooooooooooo boring -_-


Other than that, KeitaroAeon finally did our Kirin TP Burn. I was asked to bring up Xean's MNK/DRK because my SAM wasn't merited yet. The actual fight itself was neat, and everyone was pretty excited... the only downside to it all, was that the fight was about 2hrs late. We had a lot of people show up late, and we actually ended up making another LS wait on us. Hopefully though our next tp burn Kirin will happen on time because the fight itself is only a few minutes long.


Its just too bad that I died on Xean within the first 30 seconds.... I didn't even get to use his entire "Hundred Fists". ; ; Oh well, lol... there's always next time. It looks like we might try to TP burn Kirin once every week, which would be good considering we've collected a ton load of Kirin pop sets and haven't quite been able to use them.

As for anything else going on in the game, I just finished up ToAU42. The first fight was a bit sloppy and we died in the second room, but when we tried the fight again we made it all the way to the Soulflayer and got the win. Was a bit of a long fight, but pretty fun. I love it when I get to play RDM and enfeeble the mob... and see them work effectively, mwahaha...

Our next fight is going to be against Alexander, but we're going to wait on a friend of ours to help on his BLM (we hope). We're also going to see if we can get Timwakefield to lvl 75 on his PLD so that I can come on RDM to help with refresh and healing because we don't have anyone else with RDM available. I've heard the fight is pretty harsh, and would rather wait for us to be 100% ready with the perfect setup, then waste an evening trying and ending up with only failures. Gawd the game can be such a time sink at times -_-


Last, here's a little pic I picked up while in The Sanctuary of Zhi'tah. My favorite zone in the game. Its a bit dark I think, because the image was made smaller but when you get to see all the details in full size its really nice. I'll have to use this for a future wallpaper or signature.

Obligatory LOL post.

L O L.

I spent about 5 minutes starting to type up what would of been a really long entry that basically would of been a repeat of Xean's two blog entries he's made here, plus other things that weren't mentioned. But I decided, to hell with the immature and obsessive people out there that only live to make others miserable. Its clear as ever in their postings be it on a flameboard, or a pathetic attempt to wound me by commenting to past blog entries what kind of people they trully are, and I really don't feel the need anymore to waste my time dealing with them.

I've had plenty of people in the past few days express their views and i'm happy to say that there are some intelligent people out there that know whats right from wrong, and can see the malice in people's hearts. So i'm done with it all.

Back to playing FFXI and helping out my friends, and having some fun memories to look back on. Now if only I could remember to take more screenshots so that I have some to post in my next entry >_>

Word of advice to the haters: People that go out of their way to make others miserable, need to get over themselves. ^^

(Oh, and because Xean posted his pic in the last entry he made in my blog.... I get to say "damn he's hot, and he's mine! Gotta love a guy that has a sweet heart, good morals, and isn't a stereotypical man)

Again?

Seems I'll have to take down the spouted crap being said a second time. But I'll wait on that. I'll allow easily swayed masses to continue being fooled. Besides, I have more important matters in my real life to attend to than a bunch of retards. No point bothering with those who don't seek for more information on their own accord, either because they're not smart enough or do so intentionally because their words can actually stand without that extra info being around so that they can maintain their online images of each other. Just like this:

Though, I have no problem taking people on individually. Takes up less of my time. Until then, let the people be stupid. - Xean

PS: As for "wiggas", I don't think this looks like one. Unlike all of yall. Full beaner blood. And no fools around talkin shit to make me lookin mad. That's when I flew up to Canada to be with Zerayla for Christmas. A girl I actually CARE ABOUT unlike most foolish old but immature dudes.

So ToAU does get interesting...

Before I make a seperate post to express some things about a few recent events, I figured i'd make a regular update (which will also hopefully put me in a better mood to write the next entry)

So lets see... I recently finished the ToAU35 fight, and got a few more cutscenes. For those not wanting to hear any spoilers, scroll down now until you see the "Spoilers Finished! "


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Spoilers

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So far in the story of ToAU, we know that the little girl with the two puppets is actually the Empress. We know that the corsair Luzaf, was interested in her puppets and eventually you end up going after the empress as she tries to rescue her puppets. In the end though, she joins up with Luzaf upon hearing his story which goes on to explain how in the past, the Empire of Aht Urghan destroyed the corsairs using the Lamia monsters they had experimented so that they could control them. Luzaf wanting revenge for his fellow corsairs, makes a pact with Odin the Dark Rider to become him in the future, and bring about the day of judgement once he has had his revenge over the Empire.


But later on Luzaf realizes that the Empress is actually a good person, and has nothing to do with what happened in the past and that if he destroys the empire now, he could be preventing the possibility of seeing a "better" world should the Empress grow up and govern her people. So he decides that he wants to back out of his deal with Odin, so that he doesn't have to destroy her and the empire... however, it doesn't seem that the deal can be broken. For right now, Luzaf is in control of himself but soon when the day of judgement comes, he will become the dark rider and destroy the Empire. At least thats what I understand of the story so far...

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Spoilers FINISHED!

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So yeah, in short i'm really starting to enjoy the storyline of ToAU and look forward to being able to finish the expansion soon. My static hopes to be able to finish up our last two fights in one go, but we're currently putting things on hold because our normal static day which is Sunday, is also a big sports day for football fans I guess (superbowl?) so we're just going to wait and have this weekend off.

I'm also hoping that we'll be able to get a few of our other LS members included on the last fights, because we have about 3 members that have been in other statics that either broke right at the end, or just never managed to beat the last battle. It would be great if we can get the last fight for them too, so that way we can all get our blue crowns back from stupid Najaa!

Other than that, I spent a lot of last week farming some hakutaku eyes for various LS members. I organized 2 farmings runs and managed to get the majority of the eyes needed to craft the item to pop the NM which drops the Ohat. Our LS hopes to do an Ohat run at the beginning of February, and rather than have everyone spend an arm and a leg to buy the pop item, we're doing it the old fashioned way and farming the ingredients because one of our members Tiaybara has offered to craft the pop items for us. I also ended up spending some time soloing some of the eyes too one night to get a few eyes for members that hadn't been able to participate on the runs, but I never got one single drop. I guess i've managed to catch whatever "unlucky bug" Xean has always had. -_-

(Hojima decided to show the greatness of WAR Hand-to-Hand after a small talk about PUP dmg)

Also managed to make one of our members a little rich too.... just the week before last, a bunch of us went out to help Shaoulin get his Selene's bow. I think he's now 1/13 on it. He was able to sell his E-Bow for a pretty penny apparently after getting this. I was glad that he got the drop, and glad that we had enough people come out to help... but can't say i'm too happy for the recognization that was given after the fact. When I make my next post i'll go to explain some events that have happened recently, which resulted in some members leaving... one of which was Shaoulin. All I can say is I guess those people in the screenshot were just there for stupid reasons, and not out of friendship. (note: tone is meant to be sarcastic)


On to more happier events! I finally had a chance to try Under Observation BCNM40 as BLM. Jackstraw and Trippyhippy invited me along, and after an hour of muling all my gear over we went and did 5 runs total. On our second run, we managed to get the Peacock Charm which goes for 1.9mil, which gave us about 600k each. I've heard lots of people doing this fight and going 0/50+ on that item, so I was really happy to see it drop considering i'd only done the fight maybe another 6 times before with the RDM, NIN, NIN setup. It was kinda fun too, mostly because we screwed up the first time around and didn't all cast our Stonega III at the same time. But even still, we managed to get 5/5 wins and get a nice drop. Trippyhippy also got himself an utsusemi: ni scroll, so I guess our luck was pretty good that day.

Last thing worth mentioning.... I finally got my SAM to 75!!! Now if only people would prefer to invite that job over my RDM for merits! >_>

Well actually, I kinda prefer being on my RDM because the battle music can sometimes get annoying and I guess having always been able to heal people on all the jobs i've played so far, I still like having a little control over keeping my party alive. And I can't say that I complain too much on the cost to actually merit, all I do is buy Wizard Cookies or Marron Glace, depending on what kind of setup I have and those are a hell of a lot cheaper than sushi. Especially when you're fighting Colibri!

The only items i'm missing on my SAM for the moment, are Hagun and Byakko's Haidate. There's a lot of other gear I could get, but most of it requires a considerable amount of time investment which I just don't seem to have with everything else I have going in the game. But like with some of the PLD gear I would like to have one day, i'll just wait for the opportunity to come up and not be too concerned as long as I have just a bit better than decent gear.

And gawd I can not stand the haubergeon for female elvaan. I ended up changing my .dat to the SAM JSE body (at least I think thats what it is) which I like, but.... because I use the haubergeon on my WAR, it kinda looks a little funny when i'm playing WAR. Oh well, I think I can stand this better than the original haubergeon.


And speaking of my WAR, I finally hit 74 last night. Our static has brought in Standpoint on his DRK, and hopefully Timwakefield will be coming back permanently seeing that he's back to playing the game again. He joined us last night, and though we didn't have astral candescence we still managed to get about 8k/hr with a PLD tank and SMN Haste! Not too bad... well, actually, the only bad thing is that my WAR ended up being outparsed by Xean's THF and Standpoint's DRK..... which only confirms to me that I most likely will never touch this job after it hits 75. SAM FTW!!!!

Something That Actually Warrants A Blog Entry From Me

(All images that were made small for some reason when uploaded directly through here were now made links to the image instead.)

Just so readers know, this is not Zerayla. The author of this entry is me, Xean. Since I'm not a blogger, I asked if I could publish this rare occasion using her blog rather than create one. Now you understand the title, sort of. There are things that bother me -- like any human being -- but rarely ever to a far extent, especially not to publicize about. But one this has bothered me, yet it is not what I will be providing a lengthy discourse about. In short, what bothers me is knowing that a particular incident still remains unchanged in the minds of people, including those who claim to be objective. Note that objective does not mean a lack of ethics or morals. Objective scrutiny of what is right and wrong requires us to be Factual, Logical, and based on acceptable Principles.

One thing people forget about being factual is that we must gather absolutely ALL relevant information as possible. Since the incident has long gone, the purpose of this entry is not to reignite something. If that were the case, I'd do this for many eyes to see immediately elsewhere. But for the interested reader and myself, I'll be giving justice to the commonly missed rule of presenting all relevant information. This is not going to be me nagging, ranting, moaning and complaining or crying "Oh pity me, oh pity me, I've been made a victim!" like most people do. No, so biased readers beware.

At this point, even I would ask myself, "OK, what the heck are you talking about already?" You have a right to feel this way, but now listen to me that I am going into that now.

About a half-year ago, myself and two others became hated ones. Still doesn't bother me because I remain steadfast with my conclusions. Since most people who heard know what happened at the time of the incident, I'll recap the incident itself. In FFXI, a player named Myrrh did not get his YYR the day he planned because mostly I expressed to a shaking, worried Soulstar what he already felt but receded that Myrrh was not to be fully trusted.

The timing is critical: were I to have premeditated a plan to have Myrrh be "ninja-lotted" then there would be no doubt that was what I wanted. What happened that evening as I just arrived home was I saw my brother logged into FFXI on the Xbox360. He and other LS members were in Ro'Maeve helping Soulstar and Myrrh to camp Shikigami to get the YYR. So I get settled in and log into the game myself for a static party that night shortly after, I hear my brother saying that the YYR dropped. I look at the TV screen and see that Myrrh lots. I observe for about 30 seconds and see that Soulstar isn't lotting. So I ask "Why isn't Soulstar lotting? Is he AFK?". Let's start tracking time here; it takes a few minutes for items from the treasure pool to automatically go into someone's inventory. I watch for another 15 seconds or so and Soulstar still has not lotted, passed, or even said a word. Now I'm wondering why because he could lose the item, which up to this point all I knew was that they talked about getting it together on our LS forum. With a minute almost gone, I send Soulstar a /tell asking if he's there. There's a minor delay until he replies saying that he is. So I ask him why he has not lotted yet because he should be lotting. After a short discussion in which he is telling me he can't and me asking why, he tells me that Myrrh asked to be the first person in line to get a YYR. This proposal was presented in-game when they grouped up to camp -- it was nowhere on the LS forum. I expressed to Soulstar that proposal was unfair since Soulstar earned the right to a YYR for his work on following the ToD (time of death). I finished by saying, taking into account the suddenness of the proposal and lack of reply to Soulstar's forum post about a plan for cooperation, that I wouldn't trust Myrrh. The clock is still ticking. My conversation with Soulstar ends. I'm still in party. Soon after, he lots. That fires up Jyakotsu, who lashes out at Soulstar. As usual, Myrrh stands behind Jyakotsu also taking whatever shots he can too. The item drops to Soulstar and they're still going at him.

Up to this point, I don't have any screenshots of game conversations. I only saw what was being said in the alliance against Soulstar through my brother who was playing on the Xbox360. The Xbox360 can take pictures, but not with chat logs included. And since I was in party, my chat log pushed the conversation with Soulstar out of memory. So unfortunately I don't have screenshots of those conversations to give quotes verbatim. I can hear the haters and accusers already applauding. Nonetheless, neither I nor anyone else can prove or disprove what I have said. You either believe me or you don't. But I assure you that the accusers would never be able to give you this level of comprehension. Case in point being when Jyakotsu could not even provide oral explanation for his best RL friend (who will remain unnamed here), who said he was wanting to mediate between me and Jyakotsu so he did not require visual proof from either of us. Explanations were to be sufficient, something that Jyakotsu could not even half-provide. Rather, he always said to "look at the forum". When he told him to "look at the forum", he is talking about the Flame topic on the QCDN forum he created against Soulstar, Zerayla and me. No one wants to look at an old topic, seriously. Here are images from that conversation showing how often he said to look at that old forum topic because he wouldn't explain things himself. I wonder if his best friend ever looked at the forum, but I'll go with saying that he didn't since he never has mentioned anything about his best friend Jyakotsu's aggressive and disrespectful rhetoric.

Anyways, let's retrace back to the time around the incident. I was getting sick of them bashing on Soulstar, so I sent Myrrh a tell. From this point on, I have some screenshots from that evening. The following is between Myrrh and I:

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The first problem here is when Myrrh says "He spent one day here". Whether he spent a day or not is ultimately unimportant. Why? Well if you take a look at these following pictures, you will see that it was THANKS TO SOULSTAR that Myrrh even had a SHOT at Shikigami.

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As you can clearly see, Soulstar corrected Myrrh about the ToDs. Were it not for his willingness to offer this information, Myrrh would have arrived at Shikigami too late every time. Was Soulstar obligated to offer this information? No, he wasn't, especially since there was a gap of time between the time he camped and the prior time that the would-be thief did. Let's think about this consequentially. If Soulstar had never given the correct timings, Myrrh would have not been camping Shikigami at the right times. But Soulstar could have kept the times for himself and asked the rest of us for help to get him the YYR. Just like we did for another our of members, without requiring the help of some SKY LS with NOTHING BUT high levels because thats what its intended for. This shows that Myrrh did not care about Soulstar correcting him. Soulstar was NEVER thanked for it. Myrrh only cared about Shikigami and the YYR. Looking back at the chat, he stated that they agreed that Myrrh would get the YYR. That's fine, but the post-incident accusations that him and Jyakotsu made that I was pretty much telling Soulstar to ninjalot the item was incorrect because, as I wrote earlier, I told Soulstar that he should lot based on his right to lot BEFORE he told me about the proposal that Soulstar made which he mistakenly agreed to. On our LS forum, Soulstar wrote utterly sincere apologies to Myrrh.

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I felt so sorry for him because he was pretty much brushed off. Myrrh called his apology "bullshit". It's at the bottom of his post here.

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So Soulstar did something he himself acknowledged he shouldn't have. But he apologized and he wanted to make up for it. He, Zerayla, and myself, the mainly accused, told him we would commit ourselves to helping Myrrh get his YYR. (Following pictures are what Zerayla and I said.) And it was not because anyone told us to.

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Back to Myrrh's careless response to Soulstar. He compresses Soulstar's apology and calls it bullshit, then reflects the distrust against him onto Soulstar. Hmmm. Well anyways, take a look at that image again and read the first line. What does it say? "You may not trust me but Jya did and I had planned on helping him next". Oh no! Did Myrrh really say that? Well now we see the truth about the situation, don't we? Myrrh was never going to help Soulstar, because he planned to help Jyakotsu after getting his own YYR. I could quote that line all I wanted. But wait! Unlike some retard on QCDN called Tity? No, wait Tidy. Unlike such a fool, I wouldn't single out a quote and repeat it ten times over to use as proof, even though I'd really be taking it out of context. (I'm referring back to the QCDN flame topic that Jyakotsu made, in which Tidy quoted a chat log from Jyakotsu. He cut and paste a part of Jyakotsu's chat log, in which Jyakotsu said I made Soulstar ninjalot when I responded with an "I told him to". Yeah, I did tell him ... BEFORE he told me about the proposal that he agreed to. Regardless, the image was cut off with me quoted as saying "I told him to". Not even the entire chat log. It still does a good job of fooling all the idiots at QCDN, though. Someone might even see this and cut and paste that line by itself to post too, repeating a proven process.) So that quote alone doesn't say anything, because that's not what he meant. I followed by asking him who he was talking about, which you can see here.

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So what he really meant was that he was going to help Jyakotsu after Soulstar. BUT WAIT AGAIN! There is an inconsistency here. If we look back at Soulstar's apology post at the end of his first paragraph (the 2nd link out of 3), we see that he said he was happy when Myrrh said he wanted to help all of our LS's Summoners (two: Soulstar and Alianne) get a YYR. It helped Soulstar a bit in putting trust in Myrrh. But now Myrrh has made it obvious that he never intended to help Alianne with a YYR afterwards. Instead his buddy Jyakotsu, who never convened with any of our members on YYR help, was in truth going to be priority. Jyakotsu himself had a different perspective about the YYR camping. This was at the supposed "mediation" between him and me.Now this doesn't prove that Myrrh would never help Soulstar, but let's not be foolish by ignoring all the common indications. If you still disagree, then go learn some psychology, or observe people yourself. People follow patterns; that is why they do the same things that aren't good for them despite the thousands of examples that say otherwise. Despite all the little indications that compound the more there are that have been mentioned, the biggest one is pretty obvious but some people have either missed or choose not to consider. And it is this: Jyakotsu would never have had the "right" to post a flame topic against Soulstar, Zerayla, me and our LS as a whole if Myrrh were to have accepted the apology and never have denied any one of us from helping him. But Myrrh did deny any apologies and any help. We already know he called Soulstar's apology bullshit. But what about the next day? I logged my character off in Ro'Maeve, Shikigami's zone, with the intent to join Myrrh for his YYR. Soulstar too. No one was allowed. Myrrh ignored all of us. And that allowed him and his buddy Jyakotsu to go off ranting on QCDN to all the retards who heard them out. As you can see in the following picture, anyone from our LS was denied. Even those who were there the previous night and did nothing wrong.

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Oh, but their alliance was full you say? Well first Soulstar said they "seem" to have a full alliance. "Seem" is the keyword. But let's say it was the case that they did have a full alliance. Firstly, the previous night, when Soulstar got the YYR, the alliance was not full. Remember, my brother was part of it so I saw. Secondly, that alliance had a number of members from our LS and some from Myrrh's Fury LS. If you look at the following screenshot, you'll see he is complaining about not getting enough responses from Fury to help him get a YYR.

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Finally, Myrrh did not have to get a full alliance (assuming it was full) to help him after hearing both from me and Soulstar that we would help. Oh but he couldn't trust us with actually doing that, you say? Well let's go with that. At the very LEAST, Myrrh could have responded to Soulstar and I when we logged on into the zone on time to camp the NM with him. But he didn't. Why? Because he was denying us. If he did not deny us, then that flame topic on QCDN would have been made null and void. But Myrrh let it continue. He wanted it to continue. While we, the accused, were telling him we would make up for it, him and Jyakotsu led the masses into their typical flaming retardation. Why did he do this? Well maybe I'll have to put the pieces together for you if you are either stubborn, dumb, or ignorant. After apologies and offerings of help made, what makes it just for Myrrh to continue allowing a hate topic existing against us? The fact that he didn't get his precious little YYR like he intended to? A lot of dumb people say that the apologies and the offerings of help don't matter. Now that's some real bullshit. So absolutely nothing can make up for it according to such people. For the rest who aren't so dumbheaded, that should have stopped Myrrh from letting it continue. But he didn't. Since he didn't get his damn YYR that he was only intending for himself so he can forget about Soulstar afterwards. Myrrh joined by posting lies in it himself as well. Look at the following image, it is from that topic.
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Oh, look. Myrrh quoted Jyakotsu who said the very same thing I just explained here! Really, Jyakotsu? You would have never made the flame if we apologized? But we did apologize and you made the flame anyways! Oh, and the easily fooled masses applaud! You see, it is what Jyakotsu really wanted. He even lies to his own best friend about it. From the "mediation" we mentioned earlier:

And I was even denied explaining why he was lying.While this "mediation" (I keep using quotes because I knew nothing would come out of it) was happening, Jyakotsu asked that Myrrh join the conversation. At the end of these two pictures, you'll see his lie. After you read it, recall that he was not banned since he was still posting to us calling all the apologies bullshit. That's what he thought I was talking about anyways. I was really talking about the topic in which Soulstar posted the correct Shikigami schedule. Myrrh never said a word about doing things together like Soulstar said.

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Myrrh was quick to nag then left the conversation. Now you can see how easily they can lie and Myrrh can change sides when it gets him what he wants. That is what he is used to anyways. First he is complaining about an LS that was not at first willing to help him and was considering quitting that LS. But then this happens and he turns his back on our shell. He wins all the attention he needs and craves from everyone online. Congratulations, Myrrh.

That pretty much wraps up what I felt the need to write up. Or what I have remembered to write, anyways. Eventually, someone who is aware of this issue will come along and be enlightened. I don't need the sympathy, though. Knowing that someone has read the other side of the story to get the full truth is enough for me. But I am in no rush for that to happen, or to happen to a large degree at all. The incident has passed away, and frankly, I didn't really care. After the first evening of replying to a ton of hypocrites on QCDN, I decided to just stop wasting my time. If people are so easily willing to go off what one side says without really asking the other side all the right questions, then I let it be. I would rather not associate with people who can do that. So yeah, I didn't care enough for it to bother me. People left our LS, and I just thought "Go ahead". If you're like that, then you're not really a friend. So why be upset? Heh.

I'm still alive.

Well, i'm back from my holidays. I spent christmas with my bf Xean and we spent most of the month of December with his family in MX. It was definitely a good christmas, and one that i'll miss.

I'm finally back home, and have been for a bit so I have quite a lot to update. I'll start with the oldest stuff I can remember.

(ITS CAITSITH!!!!)

First there was the new expansion released "Wings of the Goddess". So far I haven't really gotten into the expansion much, mainly because SE hasn't worked on adding a lot to it just yet. Aside from acquiring all the "Maws" which are actually teleports that take you into the past of Vana'diel, i've only participated in an event called "Campaign" a few times.

(Going through my first Maw, which is the portal to the past)

(Exploring in the past o.o)

Campaign is kinda like a garrison event where you talk to an NPC and assisted by other players and several NPCs to fend off the zone from the beastmen who randomly attack. Sometimes the monsters that attack are easy, and other times they're a pain in the butt. The good thing about this is that you don't lose xp when you die though, and depending on certain things you do during the campaign you will be awarded some xp and "Sigil" points which is the expansion's version of "Signet".


Before leaving on holidays, I did manage to progress quite a bit. I had upgraded my Gallant Leggings to the +1 version thanks to my limbus shell KeitaroOmega. We're a small shell with members from KeitaroAeon and the social shell KeitaroPrime and we manage to do pretty well. Hopefully we'll get to try out Omega and Ultima in the month ahead, provided we can get more people to show up >_<

But because I got my +1 AF, it was time to go through my PLD AF quests again so that I could get the regular versions and store my set. I managed to get some help from my social shell TBH for the AF3 fight, and had a big turnout of people wanting to help. We took out both orcs pretty quickly =)


My Dynamis shell RidersOfRohan has also been doing great. Our roster is filling up fast, with experienced and devoted members! We've been able to go on a winning streak since fall, and have yet to lose a win. Right before christmas, we were focusing on getting everyone their regular cities wins, because we're going to start focusing on Northlands this year which is a big thing for our shell. In fact, tonight is our first Beaucedine run. I'm sure we'll do great, and even if we mess up we'll still laugh about it because thats just how our group is. Its probably due to the fact that the majority of our members are just casual players, and so if something goes wrong they don't get too upset because its not the end of the world and we know we can try again. I'm so glad to be involved with the leadership of the shell, I really want to help see these deserving players obtain their gear.

(Yay, gotta love it when a small mistake in Dynamis-Sandoria results in everyone being charmed and killing the people who were out of range!)

As for Sky, I haven't really pursued anything of late but i've definitely seen our shell award many of the members with abjurations galore. Its good to see some of the newer people also get abjurations, I think its a big moral boost when they join and can immediately start upgrading their characters. Our shell is now moving on to trying tp cannons on Kirin, and hopefully Friday we'll have a successful run. Lately i've been asked to come as PLD on my character which has been a lot of fun but I have to admit that being on my WHM was more convenient. And this friday, i'll probably get a chance to try the "DD" role. The leaders asked me to come as Xean and use his MNK because we've recently recruited more WHMs, so it'll be nice to have a change. I just hope that we can get a few W. Legs to drop because since being with my sky shell, i've never seen them drop and our two main PLDs Ketsurui and Myrrdin are definitely overdue. They deserve that drop so bad, I hope we get them >_<



Other than that, i've been able to obtain the Swift Belt for my melee jobs, though it doesn't look like i'll get to use it for a while. The static for my WAR (lvl 73) has been on hold, due to a friend Timwakefield taking a break from the game. Recently he told us to continue without him but we all promised to get him to 75 whenever he comes back. He's a really good Galka PLD, so it bites that we'll have to find a pickup tank for a while. But anyways, this static should be picking up in a week or two, so hopefully WAR will hit 75 within a month or two depending on how often our static lvls.

(Fighting one of the swift belt NMs, I got 1/1 on my trade!)

My SAM is the main focus i've had since I got back from my vacation. I want to get it to 75 so that I can have something else to merit with, but RL things always come up and I can never seem to get myself into a party. The biggest downer to FFXI is the time consumption, first you have to wait 1-4 hrs for an invite, and then you have to put hours into lvling just to get a lvl! GAH! At least i'm 72 now, so i'm almost there.... just need to find time to get a party.

Oh and a note to the gilbuyers of FFXI. I hate you. You people who have within a week raised the price of the Hagun by 700k, instead of letting the idiots who put it up for sale get it sent back into the delivery box, annoy me. The entire market of FFXI is dropping, things are not worth much anymore, and then you guys go screw things up by purchasing gil with your real life money and not caring that the Hagun is 700k more than it was just a few days ago, making the price raise for future sellers/buyers. Ugh....

In otherwords, Zerayla is going to be a gimp SAM until the Hagun drops a little because I'm not spending that much on a Hagun when everything else is dropping in price. I'll be patient and wait until it goes down, and use the rare/ex GK I got from sky recently until then. -_-

Oh and speaking of SAM, I got my Tachi:Kasha! Me and Xean skillchained for just over 2hrs (with short breaks) and I unlocked my trial weapon, and a few days later got some help from some LS members to go kill the NM.


And so the most recent fun activity that I did, was help Standpoint get his BLU AF3 fight done. We had to fight a mob that spams -ga spells, and knowing that we'd need to take it down asap I brought my SAM and decided to 2hr. Unfortunately the 2hr was a bit of an overkill, and Xean was disappointed because the fight only lasted about 10 seconds ; ;


Last, myself and Xean have joined a ToAU static with some LS members. We did mission#22 on Sunday to get one of our members caught up, and by the looks of things we should be able to complete the missions within 3 weeks or so. The fight for #22 was fun, though like the previous time me and Xean had done this, it didn't go according to plan. The plan was for one person to enter, die and then let the NPC tarutaru take hate as she killed the monster. The rest of us, would heal her. Well... I figured to speed things up i'd toss a Bio III. Lol. Smart. I ended up kiting for about 10 seconds before just deciding to take a death in hopes that we could still go with our plan, which actually did work... it just sucked that I made a stupid mistake >_<


Thats it for this update, there should hopefully be some good stuff to come soon because this month i'm going to try and get some LS events going again. Its been far too long since TheBrotherhood did a subligar race, or garrison and we need to take a break from the grinds and just hang out and goof around.

Cure? What is that?

I never thought it would happen to me, but it finally has. I've been burnt out of playing the role of healer, specifically on my WHM. For the past few months, all my event linkshells have needed me to come as WHM. I've rarely had the chance to play on my PLD or my RDM, which is really unfortunate considering that i've managed to merit out my RDM by a lot.

I remember when I first started the game, and me and Xean were just creating TheBrotherhood our social LS, I would go out to West Ronfaure and look for new players and PL them a little and help them out. I'd invite them into our LS, and from there help teach them the ropes of the game. Sadly though, as time went by it became very rare to actually find "new" players. Most of the lvl 1-10 players in West Ronfaure were often mules or just veteran players lvling a new job. There wasn't really much help I could provide other than PLing, and so I eventually stopped looking for new recruits to our shell this way.

But the point of this story is that I reaaaaaally liked having my WHM at lvl 30 at that time. I liked healing, and keeping people alive and helping them that way. I sometimes would go out and help PL linkshell members if they had a bad party setup and needed a little backup healing. I honestly WANTED to get my WHM to 75, so that I would be more helpful to my LS members.

But ever since I started joining endgame and having people always request my WHM, i've found that i've started cringing whenever I hear "Pls bring WHM". I really don't like sitting in the back and just tossing out hastes and cures. I don't mind when we fight gods and other mobs that require me to be quick with other spells (erase, bar spells etc) but for the most part, I would much rather be in on the action, doing something TO the mob rather than just keeping my pt members alive. Plus I really miss the battle music, in a lot of the zones where I end up, there's never any music... stupid SE -_-

So yeah, i'm really hoping that once I finish with my 2 DD jobs: SAM & WAR, that maybe my event shells will allow me to bring something other than WHM. The only downside to all this is that I can't rely on my RR3, and often endgame events get expensive for melees because of the meds you have to bring >_<. Oh well, if I can at least take a small break i'll be happy.

So speaking of my DD jobs, i've managed to get WAR to 72. I was hoping that i'd have it at 75 before I fly down to spend christmas with Xean (next thursday) but because of the US holiday this week (thanksgiving) most of my static is going to be away and busy so we won't be lvling this thursday or saturday. And then next thursday, well i'm flying out. But hopefully i'll have it at 75 in the two weeks that follow, our static generally gets one lvl per session.

And for my SAM, well thats been a bit of a challenge to get invites on. I'm adequately geared, but I just never seem to be seeking when others around my lvl range are. And considering that most people just merit these days, usually there's maybe only 1-2 parties lvling anyways so waiting to be invited as a replacement isn't the most reliable way to get a party invite. Oh well, my SAM is almost at 64 and i'm sure i'll get it to 75 eventually. I definitely have found SAM to be more enjoyable to play than my WAR, mainly because there's more to do on the job. I like keeping busy.

As for regular updates, I finished getting 8/8 on my enfeebling for my RDM. I was going to get 8/8 for elemental magic, but because of how long it takes I decided to put that on the backburner for a while and work on my WHM merits. Started working on my Cure Recast time, and now i'm down to the last upgrade for that.

Unfortunately my crafting has kinda been slow. I started to pick up clothcraft a few weeks back, but because of the cost of gear upgrades me and Xean have needed (got him his Blau Dolch recently with the gil we had been saving up for the last couple of months on my mule) I've decided i'd wait for a bit. I really do want to get all my crafts to 60 one day, but I know the cost to put into that will add up. Usually i'm pretty good with cutting down the cost by a lot though, because I try to farm up my ingredients when i'm crafting. I really can't put more than 50k into crafting without seeing it come back. And though i'm sure I could make some gil crafting lower lvl items, I often find that farming will get me more gil per hr than crafting would. There's a lot of time you have to put into crafting for gil >_<

Other than that, I decided to quit my Sea linkshell Prowess. There were some good players in the LS, and I was mainly there to help my friend get some gear but the shell itself has been deteriorating. 2 of our last JoL's were completely wasted because we had two people call for help during the fights. I was never able to stay until the end because I have limbus (and for some reason people take over an hour to gather together even though the start time is always listed in the ls msg -_-) I think that the moral of the LS really dropped, because our last session we didn't even have 12 people show up. I really can't see the LS continueing, its only a matter of time before it breaks with so many people leaving and I think I would rather be doing something else more productive and enjoyable. I told my friend of course that if they ever need me for something really big, that he can always call on me and i'll help out. But I just don't want to put in the time for an event that i'm not having fun with. Sea seems more like a headache to progress in, than any other endgame event i've tried. Maybe it was just the LS, the people in the LS... i'm not sure but for now Sea won't be one of my focuses.
On a good note though, I got to play PLD on Kirin with KeitaroAeon. They were a little short on PLDs and asked me to come up and tank, which was fun... except that Suzaku seems to really enjoy one shotting me. Whether i'm fighting him as a mini, or as a god I always seem to get killed by the stupid bird (and no, i'm not wearing Bomb Queen Ring). But its all good, as long as we get through the fight in the end I'm not too worried about my deaths. Plus when I was kiting Kirin on our last run, I think I had the longest "kite" time and stayed alive, hehe. I think that time Xean had come as WHM (lol) and thats probably the reason why. He's always on top of things and keeping me healed.


Last thing I can think to write about is that i've decided to get my SMN to lvl 40. A lot of our LS members in TBH are wanting to setup CoP statics, and i'd really like to help out when I can. I know that for some fights, SMN is a great job to have for the BCNMs so I managed to get together some LS members and we lvled in Crawler's Nest. I got my SMN to 38, so only 2 more lvls to go and then it'll be ready.

Busy, busy, busy.

For the last two weeks, i've been doing a lot in the game. So much that I haven't really allowed myself to do a lot else, like updating this blog. <_<

Well to start, TheBrotherhood finally got our last SMN Alianne his Ying Yang Robe. Alianne had gotten the ToD, and for once the spawn time for Shikigami happened to be at a decent time. (His window always seemed to open in the early AM for me and Xean -_-) So on a Saturday morning, our LS gathered out in Ro'Maeve and we camped the NM against a few other groups. Xean ended up getting the claim after Shaolina had spotted the NM on his widescan, and from there we all gathered to help him bring it down. And lucky for Alianne, because the YYR dropped on the first go.


Right after we killed Shiki, Zeo asked for some help on the weaponskill NM for GreatAxe, so those of us who were free went out into The Sanctuary of Zhi'tah and took down the tree. Was a very easy fight, not much of a challenge ; ;


For the rest of the week, me and Xean did a lot of various lvling on different jobs. He wanted to bring his DRK to 37 to use as a subjob on his NIN for sky events, so I helped PL him to 28. As usual, he sported his shiny subligar =P


After he hit lvl 28, I joined up with him on my THF and we took both jobs to 37 within a matter of 3 days. We had quite a bit of luck with our parties after Kazham, always seeming to gain a lvl at least within an hour if not less. And because of this, it freed up a lot of time for us to be able to merit.

Some merit pts we did with our LS members, and others were pickup parties. Though I managed to finally get Protect/Shell V for my WHM as well as devotion, getting those merits seemed tedious at times, especially the last merit pt that we had. We had a BRD who didn't want to pull, which was fine because our THF volunteered to do the job. But it only got worse from there.... our BRD wouldn't finale the mamools we were fighting, wouldn't really help with erasing, wouldn't sleep links (until the party was nearly wiped), wouldn't keep songs up (i'd say I had ballad maybe 60% of the time) and the list goes on. Sometimes I wonder how people manage to get to 75 and not be at least "decent" at what they're suppose to do -_-

And we have also pretty much started a LS static with our WAR and THF. Timwakefield is our PLD, Alianne is our BRD and depending on when available, we have Tiaybara as another THF, Shaoulin as RNG and Falk as WHM. These parties aren't always "super xp" but the atmosphere is pretty relaxing. Whenever there's a death, there's never any yelling or insults being shot back and forth, and its just nice to be able to party with other players that do their job well, and are also geared accordingly. So far we've maned to get our jobs to lvl 69, so hopefully before the end of November we'll be at 75.


I also managed to finally participate in a beseiged for the first time in months. I never seem to catch these, and though i'm not a fan of the event, I do like getting skillups, xp and some imperial standing. I actually enjoyed this last beseiged, mainly because all my enfeebles were landing.... well, that is until I met up with this guy:


At first I thought I might of accidentally changed one of my .dats but after checking, I found out that this guy is one of the NMs. I wasn't able to do a whole lot to him, though every once in a while one of my enfeebles stuck.

As for the endgame activities, I recently joined my friend's sea LS Prowess. I really don't find myself eager to get any of the gear I "could" earn, nor do I find sea all that appealing as far as the farming goes. I know its pretty much the same as Sky, but I just don't really find myself enjoying it a lot. For now i'll stick around and help when I can (lately i've had to leave early for limbus, and on the other farming day I have to do errands in RL) and hope that at least my friend can get a little closer to getting some of the gear he wants. I think i'm mostly attending for that reason, because I just don't feel as interested as I thought I would in earning anything.

Sky has been going really good. I managed to get my Rostrum pumps (thanks KA!!!) and the only item I now need for my PLD/RDM/WHM would be the W.Abjuration legs. Eventually i'll be working towards getting my SAM and WAR some gear, but being that I can't equip anything yet because they aren't even lvl 70+, i'm going to wait.

Then there's Limbus which has seemed to be really good to me lately. Together me and Xean saved up 75 coins to get him his brutal earring, and now he's going to help me get coins to upgrade my PLD feet, and also my loquacious earring. I also have the items to upgrade a RDM and SA AF, but these aren't yet priorities compared to the others ^^;

Last thing that is worth noting.... well actually one of the two last things.... Xean got his sirocco from Kreutzet. We had camped the NM late one night with some LS members, but he never popped. Then Xean got the ToD the next morning, and so the following night we had a bunch of LS members come help him kill the bird, and he went 1/1. Seems his luck has changed, because Carste went 1/6 on that stupid bird ; ;

And so onto the last thing.... me and a few other LS members killed Bune! This is a wyvern NM in Gustav Tunnel, I believe around lvl 80ish. Timwakefield and Carste were with us (we were there to do the another WS NM for Carste) and the first time we ended up wiping because we didn't exactly buff before the fight, but after raising we managed to kill him. Unfortunately no drop.