Busy Tuesday night.

Oh, I suppose this will be a FFXI-only post. I guess that's a sign that my life is pretty good right now; when I post about RL it's mostly to bitch, so 'no news is good news' applies.

Mucho adventures last night. After the LS's weekly Eco run (yay free 900-something XP for THF), we went into Riverne - Site #B01 to do the NM fight for the Riverne maps. I got to see (and fight) Moblins for the first time! Well okay, there's a NPC Moblin in Sandy, but he doesn't really count. Darned ugly critters. (I have a couple screenshots, but had no time to edit them last night.) With 12? 14? 16? people at the fight, the NMs went down fast. My only concern was people running up to the NMs (HELLO! DRAKES THERE! THEY AGGRO! Grrrr, idiots.) instead of pulling them back to the safe area by the group.

I wish I could move through Misareaux Coast without aggro. Aggro is starting to make me grumpy. Grumpier. I know there are places where I'll always get aggro, but I'd like to see some of these places stop being aggro... Maybe hitting 60 this weekend will make the difference and push all the beastmen there into TW.

Before Eco and after the NM fight I tried to mine for more silica. (I have a second goldfish kit, so I'd like to make another tank to give, sell, or display on a mule.) Only got 3 pieces in 3-4 hours digging. Bah. For the first time ever I'm seeing lots of other diggers in the Maze. Used to be I could dig in there for days on end and never see another digger. *grump* <-- ha ha, RL grumping, not 'silly angsty DRK' grumping.

Tonight I should farm. My mules are currently empty of stuff to sell (gasp!). Problem is, I don't have enough online hours on weekdays to get them filled up... Bah. Stupid needing a RL job. I'm never going to get enough money on-game at this rate. Grump.

Busy Tuesday night.

Oh, I suppose this will be a FFXI-only post. I guess that's a sign that my life is pretty good right now; when I post about RL it's mostly to bitch, so 'no news is good news' applies.

Mucho adventures last night. After the LS's weekly Eco run (yay free 900-something XP for THF), we went into Riverne - Site #B01 to do the NM fight for the Riverne maps. I got to see (and fight) Moblins for the first time! Well okay, there's a NPC Moblin in Sandy, but he doesn't really count. Darned ugly critters. (I have a couple screenshots, but had no time to edit them last night.) With 12? 14? 16? people at the fight, the NMs went down fast. My only concern was people running up to the NMs (HELLO! DRAKES THERE! THEY AGGRO! Grrrr, idiots.) instead of pulling them back to the safe area by the group.

I wish I could move through Misareaux Coast without aggro. Aggro is starting to make me grumpy. Grumpier. I know there are places where I'll always get aggro, but I'd like to see some of these places stop being aggro... Maybe hitting 60 this weekend will make the difference and push all the beastmen there into TW.

Before Eco and after the NM fight I tried to mine for more silica. (I have a second goldfish kit, so I'd like to make another tank to give, sell, or display on a mule.) Only got 3 pieces in 3-4 hours digging. Bah. For the first time ever I'm seeing lots of other diggers in the Maze. Used to be I could dig in there for days on end and never see another digger. *grump* <-- ha ha, RL grumping, not 'silly angsty DRK' grumping.

Tonight I should farm. My mules are currently empty of stuff to sell (gasp!). Problem is, I don't have enough online hours on weekdays to get them filled up... Bah. Stupid needing a RL job. I'm never going to get enough money on-game at this rate. Grump.

Oh no! It's sanity! *beats it till it goes away*

More FFXI only stuff. Two FFXI-only things, in fact!

1) The game (or my computer?) is currently having some seriously major issues. I've been digging in the Maze looking for silica, and I'm getting that tabbing=freezing bug. Or at least mostly it's that, sometimes it freezes while I'm just running. I was home for an hour for lunch both today and yesterday. Today I froze 4 times. Yesterday I froze 5 times. In an hour. And when I say "freeze" I mean my whole PC locks up. alt-tab does nothing, ctrl-alt-delete does nothing, turning it off does nothing. I need to unplug it to force a reboot.

Once today (the last crash/freeze) ctrl-alt-delete actually worked, and while I couldn't stop the programs by hand (pol and the full screen process were listed as 'not responding', but I couldn't end them), when I went into the processes and killed pol.exe by hand that ended it and I could restart the game.

This is a really big problem cause, you know, you kinda got to tab around if you expect to mine/dig. I'm not sure if it's happened in zones other than the Maze. I think not, but I could be wrong. (Plus I've spent 90% of my online time in the last few days in the Maze.)

2) This is that 'Oh no! It's sanity! *beats it till it goes away*' subject line point. I've been thinking about HQ stuff again. Since a Hauberk +1 is so much more expensive (and rare) than a Hauberk NQ, I decided to look at the HQed thick pieces to see if they'd be a better value.

NQ thick piece: 100K. (Accuracy: 2 Attack: 4 Evasion: -2)
HQ thick piece: 1-1.1M. (Accuracy: 2 Attack: 6 Evasion: -2)

A million more for +2 attack? For just one piece of the... four? thick pieces I need? (Edit: Wait, three pieces, I think? Hands, feet, legs?)

*sigh*

The HQ Hauberk has a lot more increased stats.
HQ = Def: 48 STR: 6 DEX: 6 Accuracy: 12 Attack: 12 Evasion: -10
NQ = Def: 47 STR: 5 DEX: 5 Accuracy: 10 Attack: 10 Evasion: -10

+2 acc, +2 att, +1 dex, +1 str. But that's for.. 8-11 million more in cost.

*sighs more*

It's really just not sane to be considering these pieces. But... I want them. But at those prices it doesn't make much sense... But...

Hm. On the other hand, if I were to buy 4 HQ thick pieces at 1 million extra each, I'd get +8 att for 4 million. The acc on the Hauberk would be nice, but... +8 attack for 4M vs. +2 attack/+2 acc for 8-11 million extra. ("Extra" being cost above the NQ price.)

Maybe that should be my plan. Get the HQ thick pieces as they become available (they're not sold very often) and then save for the HQ Hauberk after...

I wish the sane part of me would shut up and stop telling me how stupid it is to be considering all these HQs.

Oh no! It's sanity! *beats it till it goes away*

More FFXI only stuff. Two FFXI-only things, in fact!

1) The game (or my computer?) is currently having some seriously major issues. I've been digging in the Maze looking for silica, and I'm getting that tabbing=freezing bug. Or at least mostly it's that, sometimes it freezes while I'm just running. I was home for an hour for lunch both today and yesterday. Today I froze 4 times. Yesterday I froze 5 times. In an hour. And when I say "freeze" I mean my whole PC locks up. alt-tab does nothing, ctrl-alt-delete does nothing, turning it off does nothing. I need to unplug it to force a reboot.

Once today (the last crash/freeze) ctrl-alt-delete actually worked, and while I couldn't stop the programs by hand (pol and the full screen process were listed as 'not responding', but I couldn't end them), when I went into the processes and killed pol.exe by hand that ended it and I could restart the game.

This is a really big problem cause, you know, you kinda got to tab around if you expect to mine/dig. I'm not sure if it's happened in zones other than the Maze. I think not, but I could be wrong. (Plus I've spent 90% of my online time in the last few days in the Maze.)

2) This is that 'Oh no! It's sanity! *beats it till it goes away*' subject line point. I've been thinking about HQ stuff again. Since a Hauberk +1 is so much more expensive (and rare) than a Hauberk NQ, I decided to look at the HQed thick pieces to see if they'd be a better value.

NQ thick piece: 100K. (Accuracy: 2 Attack: 4 Evasion: -2)
HQ thick piece: 1-1.1M. (Accuracy: 2 Attack: 6 Evasion: -2)

A million more for +2 attack? For just one piece of the... four? thick pieces I need? (Edit: Wait, three pieces, I think? Hands, feet, legs?)

*sigh*

The HQ Hauberk has a lot more increased stats.
HQ = Def: 48 STR: 6 DEX: 6 Accuracy: 12 Attack: 12 Evasion: -10
NQ = Def: 47 STR: 5 DEX: 5 Accuracy: 10 Attack: 10 Evasion: -10

+2 acc, +2 att, +1 dex, +1 str. But that's for.. 8-11 million more in cost.

*sighs more*

It's really just not sane to be considering these pieces. But... I want them. But at those prices it doesn't make much sense... But...

Hm. On the other hand, if I were to buy 4 HQ thick pieces at 1 million extra each, I'd get +8 att for 4 million. The acc on the Hauberk would be nice, but... +8 attack for 4M vs. +2 attack/+2 acc for 8-11 million extra. ("Extra" being cost above the NQ price.)

Maybe that should be my plan. Get the HQ thick pieces as they become available (they're not sold very often) and then save for the HQ Hauberk after...

I wish the sane part of me would shut up and stop telling me how stupid it is to be considering all these HQs.