</3 in Labyrinth of Onzozo (FFXI)

I haven't felt like posting lately. Haven't been doing much of anything exciting, plus I've been sort of meh on game-stuff lately, so no posts.

Took MNK to 9. SMN to 11. Looking for some job I could really like (I really want to work on BST, but that's in a paused static -- I'm so close to jug pets!). I want to get SMN at least to 20 so I can wear the Carby Mitts I've had forvever.

I've been slowly working on the quest for the Siren Flute (lol BRD 75 didn't ever do that series of quests -- I had been borrowing one). I really hate quests, and boy is this series of them are some of the most annoying ones I've ever done. I spent 6 hours (across two days) standing in the Glacier waiting for non-ice weather during daylight hours. Then tonight I spent another 6 hours getting (or trying to get) keys and chests.

SSG? Easy. Key dropped on the 5th mob, and while the chest was in the last spot, I got it so it's all good. Yay.

That left Castle Zvahl Baileys chest and Labyrinth of Onzozo chest. LoO is my least favorite zone in the whole game. I can't put into words how much I hate that place. Hate XPing there, died so many times. Died to Ose. Died to XP mobs. Died to Ose while trying to XP. Died trying to sneak/invisible my party to XP camp. Hate LoO so much. Plus I don't have a map of the zone. I decided to do it next, so I wouldn't have the worst one to do last.

It wasn't fun, key was slow to drop (I was /WHM, unlike /THF for the other two places -- I wanted reraise and cure power, just in case. Hate LoO), chest was in potential aggro (EP--, but I wasn't going to chance it). But I got the chest and got out of there.

Trotted off to Castle Zvahl Baileys, thinking that'd be the easy one. Killed mobs for two hours with TH. Not one single key. >< A party looking for Shadow Lord (in the front-most area 9.9) got keys and popped two chests. How? No clue. They were WHM, RDM, BLM, BLM, PLD. No TH, yet they got multiple keys off the same mobs as TH-me. (They were all level 50-ish, so weren't killing faster than me.)

I gave up after two hours. I'll have to go back some other night though, because it annoys me to not have this done.

And to end on an amusing note: Even when TW, six links (demons) can almost kill a DRK. Drain II and Dread Spikes are really handy though -- it's nice to have a few extra ways of draining HP. I didn't die, so I guess we can consider the night to have ended on a positive note? :P

</3 in Labyrinth of Onzozo (FFXI)

I haven't felt like posting lately. Haven't been doing much of anything exciting, plus I've been sort of meh on game-stuff lately, so no posts.

Took MNK to 9. SMN to 11. Looking for some job I could really like (I really want to work on BST, but that's in a paused static -- I'm so close to jug pets!). I want to get SMN at least to 20 so I can wear the Carby Mitts I've had forvever.

I've been slowly working on the quest for the Siren Flute (lol BRD 75 didn't ever do that series of quests -- I had been borrowing one). I really hate quests, and boy is this series of them are some of the most annoying ones I've ever done. I spent 6 hours (across two days) standing in the Glacier waiting for non-ice weather during daylight hours. Then tonight I spent another 6 hours getting (or trying to get) keys and chests.

SSG? Easy. Key dropped on the 5th mob, and while the chest was in the last spot, I got it so it's all good. Yay.

That left Castle Zvahl Baileys chest and Labyrinth of Onzozo chest. LoO is my least favorite zone in the whole game. I can't put into words how much I hate that place. Hate XPing there, died so many times. Died to Ose. Died to XP mobs. Died to Ose while trying to XP. Died trying to sneak/invisible my party to XP camp. Hate LoO so much. Plus I don't have a map of the zone. I decided to do it next, so I wouldn't have the worst one to do last.

It wasn't fun, key was slow to drop (I was /WHM, unlike /THF for the other two places -- I wanted reraise and cure power, just in case. Hate LoO), chest was in potential aggro (EP--, but I wasn't going to chance it). But I got the chest and got out of there.

Trotted off to Castle Zvahl Baileys, thinking that'd be the easy one. Killed mobs for two hours with TH. Not one single key. >< A party looking for Shadow Lord (in the front-most area 9.9) got keys and popped two chests. How? No clue. They were WHM, RDM, BLM, BLM, PLD. No TH, yet they got multiple keys off the same mobs as TH-me. (They were all level 50-ish, so weren't killing faster than me.)

I gave up after two hours. I'll have to go back some other night though, because it annoys me to not have this done.

And to end on an amusing note: Even when TW, six links (demons) can almost kill a DRK. Drain II and Dread Spikes are really handy though -- it's nice to have a few extra ways of draining HP. I didn't die, so I guess we can consider the night to have ended on a positive note? :P