Back in it

I really haven't played much for the past few months. I played a little bit in January and February, but I just kind burned out in feb. I had actually changed servers. I have a couple of buddies i work with that are on Valefor (currently) and then a couple of my friends from back home in Indiana are on Ifrit. Thinking it would be fun to play with my friends from back home, I went to Ifrit... Oh god...I had no idea how much this server sucked. Odin is the largest server on FFXI and while that's not great for hunting hnm's and stuff of that sort, it certainly makes it easy to form pt's. Ifrit on the other hand is probably one of the smallest servers so the change was pretty drastic... The friends I went to play with barely logged on or at least they were never there when I was on and this newbie (or rather n00b-e) filled server was extremely frustrating. I have spent most of my time lvl'ing lower jobs that I can probably solo (dnc is actually quite fun!) because otherwise, I'll have to deal with the actual ppl on Ifrit and that is frustrating as hell. JP players seem to hate the NA players more than usual and the NA players are somewhat ignorant of some basic things... I guess different servers are used to doing things a certain way? There was a guy in one of the linkshell's I joined that tried to tell me that the dunes used to go by a different name and they only changed the name in the past couple of months. *coughbullshitcough* Also something about GM's turning into raribs and running around the game spying on ppl. Yeah... I dunno.

Anyways... soon after that happened, my PS2 started to not work right. It was freezing up all the time, I couldn't log on and sometimes it wouldnt' even load up the game. So I just stopped playing all together for awhile. I tried the thing again last week and it seems to work fine again so I guess I can get back to playing. PLD is sitting at 70 right now so I've got a little ways to go still. I can change servers again on May 4th, so I'm going to go back to Odin or head to where ever my co-workers are going. They've been talking about leaving Valefor for Phoenix or Asura. I'd be ok with that. Visinshu and Raydin/Carmine usually start up a kick ass HNM/sky/sea/dynamis LS and keep telling me they'll get me up to speed with the lvl's and equipment they have. That and I always hear Visinshu come into work the next day and say how his LS "killed Kirin again last night!". Sounds like fun! Sign me up! :3

Odin I miss because it's my old server of course... so I miss all my e-friends there. I don't really know anyone there in person so it's kinda weird to say that. I was a little less than productive there. I spent a lot of time PL'ing and helping people with quests/missions only to see that person pass me up in lvl not long after that. It was pretty frustrating. Since my PS2 died not long after my server change, I didn't have much of a chance to tell most of the people there that I had moved. I may have pissed a couple of them off. oh well.

Anyways, I plan on putting in a pretty solid week of playing next week to try to get caught up.