/sigh

Time for a break... I've finally caused myself to become very burnt out on this game. It was bound to happen soon. I've actually been playing quite a bit lately, but because when I play (and the usual amount of time) is so off from what the game would normally require, I usually end up doing solo lvl grinding or even crafting (that seems very unproductive). I don't get a lot of the game by doing this. Along with that, Lee managed to get his account hacked and can't play for awhile... So without my usual group to play with (Lee being the "leader" of that group) when I AM on for any sort of extended period of time is a little frustrating.

It's been harder and harder to play ffxi as my kids are getting older too... It's nice to see all the news suggesting that Final Fantasy XIV will appeal to casual players as well since I'm gearing more and more in that direction.

Granted, I still very much like the game and SE and all that. I just need to step away for awhile. School and a deployment coming up, I won't really have a choice anyways.

Hell... maybe I'll even draw something. Haven't done that for months.

finally decided

My next job to 75 will be Warrior. With as much time as I've spent lately on SAM, THF, DRK, and a few other melee/DD's, WAR seemed to be the best choice for now. If anything Dark Knight will be next after that... I think.

Did a Nyzul run the other night with Yancey, Tenzo, Leenk, Cptporkchop, and... uh... some sch that came with us. I can't remember the guy's name. Anyways... I got two drops!!! (and forgot to screencap them.) Managed to get my Askar hands and feet. :3 They're both fairly handy for a PLD and will work well when I get WAR to 75. I'm extremely pleased with obtaining them.

This has little to do with anything, but I found it amusing... I managed to Skillchain on myself as a lvl 30 THF/NIN. lol

Back to the grind... more later when something exciting happens and actually remember to screencap it. >.<

30 SAM

Trying to lvl Melee jobs kinda gets me wanting to level ALL my jobs. Last weekend I ended up doing 2 lvls on DRK, 10 lvls on SAM, 1 lvl on WAR, 5 lvls on DNC, and 1 on MNK. I really need to work on THF as well... but I might be starting to spread myself a little thin. What's good though is that my gear for most of these jobs is pretty much the same since they're all between 37 and 20 basically... save for the weapons and a couple of other job exclusive things. Ultimately my goal is to get all this stuff to at least 37 and then just pick whatever I decide I like best and go from there. I will likely lvl DRK or WAR I think, but I kinda like SAM and DNC is just too good for solo'ing not to play around with it every now and then.

Tried doing a SMN burn pt the other day with Justin (Mehungtoolow) that ended in an epic fail. I'm not sure how. I've always been told these things are amazingly easy and quite awesome for quick xp... somehow, two of the smn's (I went as lvl 12 BLM since... I just want warp and don't care to lvl it) forgot to 2hr and then went when the COR (Justin) was afk. So... after waiting around after the emo fit everyone threw over it, I ended up warping back to my HP and went back to working on SAM again.

Started posting stuff on FFXIAH.com just for the heck of it. People post the strangest comments to artwork. I don't draw my characters in really awesome gear generally... i guess most people post screencaps on there or artwork on there for that purpose... I must have missed the memo. For anyone that's curious, go here: http://www.ffxiah.com/player.php?id=1156263

wow... soooo... my blog is gimp

after looking through a few other blogs (though Cinnabun's links in his blog) I realize that my feable blog looks fairly awful compared to most others. I'll uh... get to work on that once I figure out how these guys get some of the cool looking stat bars and stuff on their pages.

i need money.

Angel skin drops make me happy... or really... having gil makes me happy. Doing campaign for so long kinda makes me forget about farming on lvl'ing normally. So I spent last night camping Devil Manta in Kuftal Tunnel with Leenk and Cptporkchop. It usually ends up being a fairly boring time doing that, but... I'm poor so that works.

... I really need to craft more. But... I'm lazy...

I'm trying to lvl a DD job next. Kinda taking a break from PLD for awhile (though it's still my main of course). I've been messing with MNK, DRK, and SAM. I'm told I'll have the most luck with DRK and SAM for end game and tp burn pt's... stuff like that. But... I actually like mnk and with a dnc sub it's insanely easy to solo. If nothing else, all those jobs I'll take up to 37 real quick and go from there.

oh! I got my Iron Ram Hauberk! (and I completely forgot to screen cap it when I got it.)

ws over 1k

So... I know for sam's or drg's or any other DD jobs this isn't a big deal, but I thought it was kinda cool for me as a pld. I broke 1k for the first time on a weapon skill. :D

wheeeee!

Vanguard X = the blind leading the blind

So when I have any campaign ops credits, I usually do a quick run of the Vanguard X campaign ops mission... in East Ronfaure [S] primarily. It's quick (about 5 minutes so long as I'm only escorting 1 reinforcement) and easy and normally is rated at about 3 or 4 stars... so end up with about 350 XP and 1100 allied notes. Piece of cake. The only bad thing about it is that the reinforcements just seem dumb as rocks.

"... one more word out of you and I'm feeding you to the Orcs, dumbass"

The NPC will say one of three things. Either "I'm worried about the soldiers back at the Garrison" (and then he runs back to the checkpoint), "Is that an enemy scout?" (and then running the west), or "You're slower than turtles in the mud" (and running northish...toward the stronghold...sorta). The two latter NPC remarks aren't as bad. They kinda end up going in the direction I want them to without my guidance...but the former... I always secretly wish I could just kill the bastard myself. lol Still though... Easy Allied Notes and XP.

And speaking of which... 5 more days till I have my iron ram Hauberk. WOOT!