Genkai 3: Beaten (FFXI only)
Jul. 4th, 2005 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserI'm going to LJ cut this because I'm tired of seeing, thinking about, and dealing with FFXI, so if it's behind a cut at least I won't have to look at it when I check my LJ main page.
Why am I posting if I don't want to see it? Because players who haven't done G3 yet (heck, or have done it) might want to see how it went.
To complete the entire thing (minus the miniquest) took about three hours. Fully half that time was for Castle Oz. Posters on Alla can all go to hell (most claims said they soloed the whole thing, miniquest included, in 30 minutes).
Castle Oz was the worst by far. I mean really, really bad. It wasn't helped by a bad choice I had made (I didn't want a death on DRK, so I went as WHM/BLM. Reports on Alla said others had done that as well (with jobs as low as 10-20) and no problems were mentioned along with it, but that wasn't true: Damned bats aggroed me. Which meant Oz went from "invisible only" to "sneak and invisible"... which is a damned annoying thing in the middle of mobs of mobs which could kill us all. Eventually we gave up on sneaking and Yossy and Ceh just killed all the bats while weakling me stayed invisible.
@whee. Here Ceh and I were duoing it so we'd be useful (with Yossy joining us just for Oz since he needed it as well), and I was so un-useful that I was actually hurting us. Sigh.
Beadeaux: This one was a pain in the ass and took a while just because true sound mobs wouldn't get the hell out of the way. I swear we spent most of our time there just waiting for the damned thing to move. On the plus side: Ceh knew the area really well (her AF had been there), so I just followed her.
Davoi: We did this one last, and it wasn't too bad at all. I knew the route well from doing the miniquest, and moving invisible through an area is tons easier than moving sneaked. There were more NMs to avoid, and I think I got closer to one than I should have, but I was really at the "fuck it all" point and didn't care too much if I was killed and couldn't finish it.
There was only one death that whole time (me), and I still have no idea how it happened. But I got the yag crest before I died, so that was fine. I had intended to HP after that, but I hit the wrong damned button (because I'm an idiot) and reraised instead. In the middle of a crapload of high level yags. Somehow nothing aggroed me (I have no clue how they didn't) and I got invisible back up. As if a death isn't bad enough, there was a crowd there also trying to get the ???/crest. So not only was I stupid for dying, I did it in front of a bunch of people. Bah.
Back when I ran a MUSH, I did tons of stuff that wasn't fun. But never, ever had I done this much annoying stuff in the name of a game. And I won't do it again, either. Luckily there's not that much more annoying stuff ahead of me. Mostly just Maat... "Just" Maat. Ha. I'm so doomed.
Why am I posting if I don't want to see it? Because players who haven't done G3 yet (heck, or have done it) might want to see how it went.
To complete the entire thing (minus the miniquest) took about three hours. Fully half that time was for Castle Oz. Posters on Alla can all go to hell (most claims said they soloed the whole thing, miniquest included, in 30 minutes).
Castle Oz was the worst by far. I mean really, really bad. It wasn't helped by a bad choice I had made (I didn't want a death on DRK, so I went as WHM/BLM. Reports on Alla said others had done that as well (with jobs as low as 10-20) and no problems were mentioned along with it, but that wasn't true: Damned bats aggroed me. Which meant Oz went from "invisible only" to "sneak and invisible"... which is a damned annoying thing in the middle of mobs of mobs which could kill us all. Eventually we gave up on sneaking and Yossy and Ceh just killed all the bats while weakling me stayed invisible.
@whee. Here Ceh and I were duoing it so we'd be useful (with Yossy joining us just for Oz since he needed it as well), and I was so un-useful that I was actually hurting us. Sigh.
Beadeaux: This one was a pain in the ass and took a while just because true sound mobs wouldn't get the hell out of the way. I swear we spent most of our time there just waiting for the damned thing to move. On the plus side: Ceh knew the area really well (her AF had been there), so I just followed her.
Davoi: We did this one last, and it wasn't too bad at all. I knew the route well from doing the miniquest, and moving invisible through an area is tons easier than moving sneaked. There were more NMs to avoid, and I think I got closer to one than I should have, but I was really at the "fuck it all" point and didn't care too much if I was killed and couldn't finish it.
There was only one death that whole time (me), and I still have no idea how it happened. But I got the yag crest before I died, so that was fine. I had intended to HP after that, but I hit the wrong damned button (because I'm an idiot) and reraised instead. In the middle of a crapload of high level yags. Somehow nothing aggroed me (I have no clue how they didn't) and I got invisible back up. As if a death isn't bad enough, there was a crowd there also trying to get the ???/crest. So not only was I stupid for dying, I did it in front of a bunch of people. Bah.
Back when I ran a MUSH, I did tons of stuff that wasn't fun. But never, ever had I done this much annoying stuff in the name of a game. And I won't do it again, either. Luckily there's not that much more annoying stuff ahead of me. Mostly just Maat... "Just" Maat. Ha. I'm so doomed.
