A gilly day! (FFXI)

I woke up this morning and said to myself "Boy, I have too much money!". And what's tbe best way to waste money? Why, to level leathercraft! Went from 86 to 89 for a little over a million gil and about seven hours of synthing. (All that time was needed to make the skilling as cheap as possible. I synthed about 120 hides to leather, then the leather into one item, then that item into another item, and THEN could synth for skill.) Was nearly a total loss of money -- I ended up with about 50 items I vendored for 4K each. So that's about 200,000g back on over 1,000,000g spent. Isn't leathercrafting fun?

*rereads* Isn't that just totally insane? I plotted out how to get the next few levels: I'd either have to spend about 30K on EACH synth or use gold chains (which sell for 2.2M per stack, I'd need one chain per synth). Each item I make would then be vendored or AHed very slowly for a very low price. Compare that to something like alchemy where you can make profit nearly all the way to 100. ...why am I doing this again? It's not like I even ever do leathercrafting for profit, it's always alchemy or woodworking. Bah, I really am crazy...

The whole day was a blast from the past: Not only did I level leather after more than a year and a half of not touching it, I actually fished for skill/profit today! Fished for about 3 hours and got .1 skill up! Isn't it nice that they changed the fishing system to give faster skill ups? And profit? About 75K... not for any fish caught, but for breaking my rods. (Broken sells for twice as much as whole.) I only caught one fish the whole time. Sole were 100% impossible for me to wear out, I just released those. Three-eyed fish didn't bite much today, I caught only one! (Though they're probably what broke my rods.)

I guess that sounds like a bad day, but it really wasn't. Leather may be nothing but a moneysink, but it did feel nice to make a little progress again.

Oh, and server-wide news: This weekend, Midgar was invaded by gilsellers. Massive groups of them (XPing in 12+ person groups o.O ), no subjobs, starter/poor armor. When we did the XP static on Saturday they were there in the Desert with us (swarms of them!), and while I was fishing today there were hordes of them. They were very very odd:

While fishing, lightning weather happened and an ele spawned by me. I grabbed it, and the gilsellers came and circled around me. Really, really close, as in touching me-close. I hadn't realized what they were yet, because I don't check folks. One of them kept saying "you be careful, must be careful" and like that. It seemed cute! Then they kept curing me... cure ones. I was level 75, and the ele couldn't touch me. o.O

Once the ele was dead, they all started asking me for money. At that point I /checked and searched them and realized what they were. Bah.

One group of them with me, circled around me. o.O I was trying to see if I could have some fun with them, but they didn't play along.

Anyone on Midgar, how amusing is this?

Ha ha ha, he speaks Chinese! How surprising is that? (Anyone not on our server: Coldlionfish is one of our oldest gilsellers.)

And lastly, a new NM! Sharp-Eared Ropipi! I can't take credit for finding him on my own: Des said he was up, so I grabbed a bird and headed over to claim him. Dropped the ribbon, yay! Added it to my rare/ex pile of stuff I'll never use. :D

A gilly day! (FFXI)

I woke up this morning and said to myself "Boy, I have too much money!". And what's tbe best way to waste money? Why, to level leathercraft! Went from 86 to 89 for a little over a million gil and about seven hours of synthing. (All that time was needed to make the skilling as cheap as possible. I synthed about 120 hides to leather, then the leather into one item, then that item into another item, and THEN could synth for skill.) Was nearly a total loss of money -- I ended up with about 50 items I vendored for 4K each. So that's about 200,000g back on over 1,000,000g spent. Isn't leathercrafting fun?

*rereads* Isn't that just totally insane? I plotted out how to get the next few levels: I'd either have to spend about 30K on EACH synth or use gold chains (which sell for 2.2M per stack, I'd need one chain per synth). Each item I make would then be vendored or AHed very slowly for a very low price. Compare that to something like alchemy where you can make profit nearly all the way to 100. ...why am I doing this again? It's not like I even ever do leathercrafting for profit, it's always alchemy or woodworking. Bah, I really am crazy...

The whole day was a blast from the past: Not only did I level leather after more than a year and a half of not touching it, I actually fished for skill/profit today! Fished for about 3 hours and got .1 skill up! Isn't it nice that they changed the fishing system to give faster skill ups? And profit? About 75K... not for any fish caught, but for breaking my rods. (Broken sells for twice as much as whole.) I only caught one fish the whole time. Sole were 100% impossible for me to wear out, I just released those. Three-eyed fish didn't bite much today, I caught only one! (Though they're probably what broke my rods.)

I guess that sounds like a bad day, but it really wasn't. Leather may be nothing but a moneysink, but it did feel nice to make a little progress again.

Oh, and server-wide news: This weekend, Midgar was invaded by gilsellers. Massive groups of them (XPing in 12+ person groups o.O ), no subjobs, starter/poor armor. When we did the XP static on Saturday they were there in the Desert with us (swarms of them!), and while I was fishing today there were hordes of them. They were very very odd:

While fishing, lightning weather happened and an ele spawned by me. I grabbed it, and the gilsellers came and circled around me. Really, really close, as in touching me-close. I hadn't realized what they were yet, because I don't check folks. One of them kept saying "you be careful, must be careful" and like that. It seemed cute! Then they kept curing me... cure ones. I was level 75, and the ele couldn't touch me. o.O

Once the ele was dead, they all started asking me for money. At that point I /checked and searched them and realized what they were. Bah.

One group of them with me, circled around me. o.O I was trying to see if I could have some fun with them, but they didn't play along.

Anyone on Midgar, how amusing is this?

Ha ha ha, he speaks Chinese! How surprising is that? (Anyone not on our server: Coldlionfish is one of our oldest gilsellers.)

And lastly, a new NM! Sharp-Eared Ropipi! I can't take credit for finding him on my own: Des said he was up, so I grabbed a bird and headed over to claim him. Dropped the ribbon, yay! Added it to my rare/ex pile of stuff I'll never use. :D