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!

campaign results

As it stands, I'm right now 12 days aways (3 more evaluations) from getting my Iron Ram Hauberk. :D This will be my first set of any thing resembling end-game gear so I'm rather excited about it. Campaign goes pretty well for me for the most part. I average 2k+ on most battles and generally do the vaguard X campaign ops missions for extra allied notes.
From August 12th




From August 13th



I lurk around a few forums now. I'll probably never post. I've never really been a fan of socializing through message boards over the net...unless I know the people in person. I read what a lot of people getting in campaign as far as XP/LP goes. I kinda wonder if people know that there are caps on what you do and if they know how that effects their rewards. I'm sure they kinda do...but you always kinda see people either playing against a mob like they would in an xp party. >.>
oh well.
I do well in campaign. I'm happy with it. I think though after I've gotten my IR set completed... I'm going to be done with it for awhile and probably start working on lvl'ing a new job. I have only 1 lvl 75 at this time... I need something else.

Eirwen's lineart

I like doing surprise gift art for people... it's just sort of a random little thing i like to do. A lot of them time when people ask me for art (and I don't know them very well at all), I don't like to do it nearly as much. Even if it's a commission and I'm getting something out of doing the drawing. I'm weird like that.

So right now I'm working on a drawing of Eirwen who is a friend of mine and former Linkshell member when I was on Odin. All the guys I know on Deviantart that play on Odin are good guys (and girls) and were part of the reason I even considered staying on Odin.

Eirwen's drawing has colors but they're very much in the WiP stage. I'll post that up when they're done. I'm going to do something a little more cell shaded that normal I think.

Got WotG mission screencaps to post, but they're on my other laptop so I'll post them later.

heh heh...

I almost forgot to post this.

Got some art to for Sorasha for her and her boyfriend's character wedding. Just for the fun of it... plus a few other things to do.

In game... let's see... I got a Walahra Turban recently though I don't really use it much. The haste effect it comes with is nice but with no def on it, it doesn't work REAL well for me most of the time... Leenk, Cptporkchop, Nattaku, and myself went after the hagun ENM again the other night... kicked it's ass but we still didn't get a drop on Hagun. Go figure... and also... I"m starting woodworking craft with my wife. :D fun stuff.

I will be adding some stuff to this page soon to spiff it up a bit. Hopefully everyone reading (all 2 or 3 of you ^^;) will like it when it's up.

haven't posted art in awhile

I think I need to come up with some sort of banner and/or maybe some graphics for this blog. So for the banner, I'm working on this image:

Of course I'll crop and color it soon. Might use it in my Deviantart Journal too.

Working on merits and Nyzul lately. Still haven't finished lvl'ing RDM to 37 (sitting at 33 currently). For merits, I'm mainly doing campaign battles. It worked well enough to lvl me to 75, so getting merits should be a piece of cake. As for Nyzul runs, well... my usual group isn't always on all at the same time so we don't always go... A lot of the time the guys in the group are much more worried about hunting NM's for gil. which is fine I guess... I can think of other things I'd usually rather do. Oh well.

making a brickwall

In case I never mentioned it before, I hate mage jobs. They for whatever reason frustrate me to no end... Which is why I'm glad I'm only lvl'ing any of them to 37. I took RDM yesterday from 23 to 30, which is far enough that I can now sub NIN and solo my last few lvl's on the job. Maybe someday i'll get tired of playing a tank job and actually want to play something that doesn't take nearly as many (or any) hits.

I lvl'd with cptporkchop (Joe) for about 5 hours yesterday in Qufim. I actually prefer that place to kazham and thank god for lvl synch because we pretty much stayed at 20-22 and killed the same easy mobs for the most part. The party went really well... Joe would like to take credit for making it, but he only took over after the former leader d/c'd and never came back (which turned out to be a blessing).

Afterward, we went down to Palborough Mines and did the BCNM royal jellies once before I decided it was a bit late and logged for the night. The BCNM ended up a bust anyways... nothing of value dropped except for a phalanx scroll for my rdm.

Not much else exciting happening. I'm rather exhausted today and I have work tomorrow... so no gaming for me tonight. I may do some sketching instead.