Another day, another... day. (FFXI)
Dec. 16th, 2005 10:13 pmSecond score, same as before... so long as "before" isn't yesterday. I avoided wasting time at the Christmas event and instead spent four and a half hours seeking an XP party. No invites, of course. I really hope this "seek 20+ hours before you get a party invite" isn't going to be the new norm, but it's looking that way. I spent 21 hours seeking before I got my last invite and 23 hours seeking before I got the invite before that. Twice: an entire day's worth of hours spent logged on the game just waiting for an invite. Allow me to be bitter.
However! Since it's the weekend I farmed vines and then made hi-pots and then ran off and did the Pulling the Strings solo ENM BC. Beat it again. Yay! This was a harder than usual battle though, harder than any since I got the hang of the BC.
First off, a screenshot from it! The mannequin you fight. Ha ha ha, he has an ugly scythe! I never noticed those numbers (over the moblin) before. I guess that shows you the rolling results.
And speaking of rolling, this time's results:
1) Mannequin won a weapon bash. (I still think it's odd that that's something he can win.)
2) Mannequin's TP raised to 201%. Grrr. At this point things started getting rough, as he picked a good WS to use it on.
3) Mannequin recovers 396 HP. Grrr! That filled him back up to 100% health!
4) I won a defense boost. It lasted one single hit from the mannequin. Yay.
5) Mannequin won another weapon bash to use on me.
6) I got another defense boost.
7) Mannequin got an attack boost. It lasted until the fight ended.
Usually I can beat him before his Bio II wears off, but this time I cast it twice and it wore twice before I finally beat him. I used twice as many hi-pots, too. Rough fight.
It may sound odd, but I really don't mind the "cheating" dice rolls -- that I can win this fight with the odds so stacked against me is pretty darned cool! I really, really wish I could do this BC more often. I won the first gamble to get in so I was able to enter for "only" 12K. I'd totally pay 12K per day to get 2K in XP.
However! Since it's the weekend I farmed vines and then made hi-pots and then ran off and did the Pulling the Strings solo ENM BC. Beat it again. Yay! This was a harder than usual battle though, harder than any since I got the hang of the BC.
First off, a screenshot from it! The mannequin you fight. Ha ha ha, he has an ugly scythe! I never noticed those numbers (over the moblin) before. I guess that shows you the rolling results.
And speaking of rolling, this time's results:
1) Mannequin won a weapon bash. (I still think it's odd that that's something he can win.)
2) Mannequin's TP raised to 201%. Grrr. At this point things started getting rough, as he picked a good WS to use it on.
3) Mannequin recovers 396 HP. Grrr! That filled him back up to 100% health!
4) I won a defense boost. It lasted one single hit from the mannequin. Yay.
5) Mannequin won another weapon bash to use on me.
6) I got another defense boost.
7) Mannequin got an attack boost. It lasted until the fight ended.
Usually I can beat him before his Bio II wears off, but this time I cast it twice and it wore twice before I finally beat him. I used twice as many hi-pots, too. Rough fight.
It may sound odd, but I really don't mind the "cheating" dice rolls -- that I can win this fight with the odds so stacked against me is pretty darned cool! I really, really wish I could do this BC more often. I won the first gamble to get in so I was able to enter for "only" 12K. I'd totally pay 12K per day to get 2K in XP.