It's a day sandwich! (FFXI)

Day went from good to bad to good!

NIN static this morning. Mostly went okay, though suddenly I'm not having fun with the job anymore. No clue why (other than I've rediscovered my "who the hell wants the mob to be hitting them?" way of thought). Went from 34 to 36 (yay!) and we'll meet just one more week (yay). Sadly it ended badly and I've been kicking myself ever since. I KNOW I cannot talk on ls and tank. I know this. I need to pay attention to my shadows and recast when they're down. I let them fall and next thing I knew I was dead. People say I got one-shotted (jet stream was what took me down), but if I had been paying attention I might have been able to get my shadows up. I've been kicking myself all day because I KNEW better, I KNEW I couldn't fool around and chat, and yet I did. Idiot me, totally my own fault. (Luckily the rest of the party survived.)

All day I had had my eye on /bmap. Looked like another Besieged was coming right up! I was going to use my ring and teleport out as soon as the party broke up... but the ring hadn't cooled. Grrr. So I scurried off to the ferry. The mobs had gotten to level 5! And there were only 180 people in the zone! This would have been a fun one! But the boat landed after it started, and so I couldn't get in. *sigh* I was stuck with a bunch of idiot NPCs waiting to see if the mobs would break further in. (They didn't.)

So now I was really really down in the dumps. BLU cheers me up, so I went out to try to lean new spells. Spent three hours fighting pugs, nothing. (They only screw drivered me four times in three hours!) Got an undead hound and kept it alive for 30 minutes, but it never once used poison breath on me. *sigh*

I decided I might as well go get a Dunes party. Maybe we'd fight flies or pugs and I could learn a move then. (Ha ha, great idea, right? Having a horrible day, all sad and depressed, and seek a Dunes party?) I stood around for a half hour and then got an invite from a JP guy for a Ko-whatever Tunnel party. I explained as well as I could that it would take me a while to get there, but he still wanted me so off I went!

What an amazing party! All JP other than me and one loser NIN. At level 17, she had no Utsusemi. *holds head* She claimed she shouldn't have to have it because it was "to expensive". I asked her why she was playing NIN without it, and she replied "because i can". Fucking idiots. But her aside, the party went really well. Went from a little into 16 to halfway through 18! Yay! And the JP folks liked me, too. /blush They were very nice people. :)

Tomorrow is a Carby mitts run and then NPC foo. So tired. zzzzz

It's a day sandwich! (FFXI)

Day went from good to bad to good!

NIN static this morning. Mostly went okay, though suddenly I'm not having fun with the job anymore. No clue why (other than I've rediscovered my "who the hell wants the mob to be hitting them?" way of thought). Went from 34 to 36 (yay!) and we'll meet just one more week (yay). Sadly it ended badly and I've been kicking myself ever since. I KNOW I cannot talk on ls and tank. I know this. I need to pay attention to my shadows and recast when they're down. I let them fall and next thing I knew I was dead. People say I got one-shotted (jet stream was what took me down), but if I had been paying attention I might have been able to get my shadows up. I've been kicking myself all day because I KNEW better, I KNEW I couldn't fool around and chat, and yet I did. Idiot me, totally my own fault. (Luckily the rest of the party survived.)

All day I had had my eye on /bmap. Looked like another Besieged was coming right up! I was going to use my ring and teleport out as soon as the party broke up... but the ring hadn't cooled. Grrr. So I scurried off to the ferry. The mobs had gotten to level 5! And there were only 180 people in the zone! This would have been a fun one! But the boat landed after it started, and so I couldn't get in. *sigh* I was stuck with a bunch of idiot NPCs waiting to see if the mobs would break further in. (They didn't.)

So now I was really really down in the dumps. BLU cheers me up, so I went out to try to lean new spells. Spent three hours fighting pugs, nothing. (They only screw drivered me four times in three hours!) Got an undead hound and kept it alive for 30 minutes, but it never once used poison breath on me. *sigh*

I decided I might as well go get a Dunes party. Maybe we'd fight flies or pugs and I could learn a move then. (Ha ha, great idea, right? Having a horrible day, all sad and depressed, and seek a Dunes party?) I stood around for a half hour and then got an invite from a JP guy for a Ko-whatever Tunnel party. I explained as well as I could that it would take me a while to get there, but he still wanted me so off I went!

What an amazing party! All JP other than me and one loser NIN. At level 17, she had no Utsusemi. *holds head* She claimed she shouldn't have to have it because it was "to expensive". I asked her why she was playing NIN without it, and she replied "because i can". Fucking idiots. But her aside, the party went really well. Went from a little into 16 to halfway through 18! Yay! And the JP folks liked me, too. /blush They were very nice people. :)

Tomorrow is a Carby mitts run and then NPC foo. So tired. zzzzz