Quickie FFXI and RL post

Lots of new screenshots from the upcoming expansion pack have been posted: http://www.livejournal.com/community/finalfantasy11/2592425.html *drool* So pretty! I just hope the quests/whatever to get access won't be too annoying.

I've decided to re-buy a Balmung, and I'm currently camping the AH. Unfortunately I sold mine for 4,100,000 and the one that sold since then was for 4,500,000 so I'm likely going to have to pay a large stupidity tax. :( But it'll be worth it! I can't believe how embarrassing last night was. (Not to mention my SC partner was a SAM and the WHM never hasted me. So annoying when I can't keep up with TP!)

RL: Though I'm still sleeping like crap (my cat won't sleep on the bed anymore, apparently I'm kicking her in the night and knocking her off and such), but a big problem at work (bad customer) is finally almost gone, and it feels like all my stress is gone with him.

Lost: Last night was probably my favorite ep in a long, long time, probably my favorite since Locke's backstory. Eko rocks my socks!

Quickie FFXI and RL post

Lots of new screenshots from the upcoming expansion pack have been posted: http://www.livejournal.com/community/finalfantasy11/2592425.html *drool* So pretty! I just hope the quests/whatever to get access won't be too annoying.

I've decided to re-buy a Balmung, and I'm currently camping the AH. Unfortunately I sold mine for 4,100,000 and the one that sold since then was for 4,500,000 so I'm likely going to have to pay a large stupidity tax. :( But it'll be worth it! I can't believe how embarrassing last night was. (Not to mention my SC partner was a SAM and the WHM never hasted me. So annoying when I can't keep up with TP!)

RL: Though I'm still sleeping like crap (my cat won't sleep on the bed anymore, apparently I'm kicking her in the night and knocking her off and such), but a big problem at work (bad customer) is finally almost gone, and it feels like all my stress is gone with him.

Lost: Last night was probably my favorite ep in a long, long time, probably my favorite since Locke's backstory. Eko rocks my socks!

Crawling slowly towards 74! (TV and FFXI)

Okay, if someone had told me that Dancing With The Stars could actually be an interesting show to watch, I would have laughed at them. But it is! The music is fun, the dancers are at least good (not perfect, but hey), and the "stars" are amusingly not-stars-anymore. They've even got someone from a boy band, which is really funny. :P

FFXI: Slowly, slowly I crawl towards 74, but I'm making forward progress! And that makes me so so so happy!

Partied in the Meadows (off birds only, no rams), 3 hours = 5K XP (with band). Sucky XP? Maybe, but to me any XP is good XP! The birds were really too high for us though (71-73 party). The fights lasted long enough for me to WS two or more often three times per battle. o.O The party had a couple deaths, but luckily not me (though it was close at one point, when my TA wasn't lined up right and the PLD couldn't pull aggro off me for half the fight).

I spent a couple hours before getting the invite trying to buy Balmung back. No luck... but that turns out to be fine. I totally forgot about my scythe (I forget about that darned thing all the time, haven't used it in weeks!). My old scythe (V's Scythe) also had 5 acc on it, and I lost that when I switched to Death Scythe. So what's the point in getting my 5 acc back on my GS when that won't help when I use my scythe? So tonight I decided to test sushi:

I ate sole sushi at the beginning of the party, and seemed to miss a lot less than yesterday. Not as good as previously, but not embarrassing. When the food wore, I battled for a while without it, to get a "control" sample. I seemed to miss more, but not by a lot. Once I was satisfied, I went to eat more sushi... only to find I had the whole stack left. By mistake I ate a chiefkabob! Heehee. So with no acc food (and with what must have been much tougher mobs than last night) I missed less than last night. Odd! I missed more than makes me happy, but not so much that I felt I was embarrassing DRKs everywhere.

Amusingly, you can buy 52 stacks of NQ sole sushi for the price of Balmung. I'm not sure how long that many stacks would last, but hopefully it's still a good bargain.

I'm nearly halfway to 74! Woo! I can't wait to hit 75 and be DONE! Done done done! Half of me wants to get a nice big buffer once I hit 75, then give Dynamis another try, but half of me wants to put DRK aside and never touch it again. I have no clue what I'll do at that point though... (I keep joking to myself that the prize for "winning" the game (hitting 75) is getting to quit the game. :P )

Crawling slowly towards 74! (TV and FFXI)

Okay, if someone had told me that Dancing With The Stars could actually be an interesting show to watch, I would have laughed at them. But it is! The music is fun, the dancers are at least good (not perfect, but hey), and the "stars" are amusingly not-stars-anymore. They've even got someone from a boy band, which is really funny. :P

FFXI: Slowly, slowly I crawl towards 74, but I'm making forward progress! And that makes me so so so happy!

Partied in the Meadows (off birds only, no rams), 3 hours = 5K XP (with band). Sucky XP? Maybe, but to me any XP is good XP! The birds were really too high for us though (71-73 party). The fights lasted long enough for me to WS two or more often three times per battle. o.O The party had a couple deaths, but luckily not me (though it was close at one point, when my TA wasn't lined up right and the PLD couldn't pull aggro off me for half the fight).

I spent a couple hours before getting the invite trying to buy Balmung back. No luck... but that turns out to be fine. I totally forgot about my scythe (I forget about that darned thing all the time, haven't used it in weeks!). My old scythe (V's Scythe) also had 5 acc on it, and I lost that when I switched to Death Scythe. So what's the point in getting my 5 acc back on my GS when that won't help when I use my scythe? So tonight I decided to test sushi:

I ate sole sushi at the beginning of the party, and seemed to miss a lot less than yesterday. Not as good as previously, but not embarrassing. When the food wore, I battled for a while without it, to get a "control" sample. I seemed to miss more, but not by a lot. Once I was satisfied, I went to eat more sushi... only to find I had the whole stack left. By mistake I ate a chiefkabob! Heehee. So with no acc food (and with what must have been much tougher mobs than last night) I missed less than last night. Odd! I missed more than makes me happy, but not so much that I felt I was embarrassing DRKs everywhere.

Amusingly, you can buy 52 stacks of NQ sole sushi for the price of Balmung. I'm not sure how long that many stacks would last, but hopefully it's still a good bargain.

I'm nearly halfway to 74! Woo! I can't wait to hit 75 and be DONE! Done done done! Half of me wants to get a nice big buffer once I hit 75, then give Dynamis another try, but half of me wants to put DRK aside and never touch it again. I have no clue what I'll do at that point though... (I keep joking to myself that the prize for "winning" the game (hitting 75) is getting to quit the game. :P )