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.

The Echo Awakens

I was originally waiting to do all these missions with Leenk, but given that it might take a couple of weeks to actually do, I figured it would just be easier to do all the solo-able stuff for the add-on missions and then have Lee catch up later or something. The second mission was incredibly easy... the third looks to be as well... I actually have three small NM goblin fights to go through for it. but anyways... here's Me talking with Young Aldo
Hopefully, I'll be able to make it through all the missions by the end of the week... that's my goal anyways... sad thing is this will be the first expansion/add-on I will have actually completed. lol

tonberry slaughter

Leenk and I went up to the Temple of Ugglapih today to farm some tonberry lanterns... Leenk accidentally forgot to change his sub to /sam and instead went as a slightly gimped /thf (lvl30)... turns out that worked out to our advantage. After killing a few tonberries one dropped a flickering lantern which is used to spawn a NM named Sozu Rogberry. A fairly easy little NM that drops a Thief's Knife.It's really not a big deal, but apparently the knife sells for a decent chunk (70k) so we went ahead and went on to go spawn the NM. On the way there however, we ran into Bonze Marberry A nasty little BLM tonberry that spanked us pretty good at first. I wish I had screencapped it, because the little bastard hit Leenk with "Everybody's Rancor" and took him for 4,000 hp. ugh. Lee went down, but the tonberry only had about a 1/4 of his hp left... so after throwing up invincible and then another set of utsusemi: ni (I went as pld/nin) I was able to finish him off.

In the mean time, I started the first cut scene to the new add on storyline. I wasn't going to originally, but then I saw the Nuevo Coselete... One of the armor exclusives you can get for completing ACP. It's good pretty good stats, plus... two add on augments I can put to it (like enmity +5!! huzzah!) and it looks damn sexy... especially with my pld gear. XD

I mean... seriously... look at that! How cool looking is that?

Paladin +1

Been meaning to upload this. This is the .dat swap I ended up using on my Adaman armor for PLD. (I want to do my own thing for my AF gear... when I'm brave enough to .dat mod instead of just .dat swap)

Got it here (for crediting puproses): http://ffxidats.com/page.php?al=alias3132

Now that I really look at it, it is a bit over the top. lol but still not bad. I think the winged crown is what really does it. *smirk*