Fast, fast, fast post (RL, then games)
Oct. 4th, 2005 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserMy life has gone crazy. No time for anything! Work is... requiring more of my attention than I'd like. (I know, how dare it!) and family stuff is happening. I spent most of the day today not being terribly happy about having to log onto FFXI for yet another night (I keep saying "Tomorrow will finally be a day off!" but then something else comes up that I need to be there for), but it turned out to be the most fun I've had in a long time on the game. Why? No clue at all, other than that the company was good. We had to farm tonberries for objects for a mission on Thursday night. Good friends made for fun times. :)
As far as I can recall, I only got hate once (due to a TA which wasn't lined up perfectly -- though it looked just as lined up as every single other TA!). "Amusing" timing on it resulted in:
Heeheehee. Down to double-digit HP in one hit! Darned horrible evil tonberries. They had some really nice drops though, and I think I came out ahead, even with needing three gold beastcoins for that hate-resetting quest. Well, maybe not much ahead (no clue offhand how much tonberry coats are worth), but probably nearly break-even. Which is really, really good as I currently have zero income. :/
BUT! Speaking of income! Once I logged off of FFXI I hopped over to WoW. I XPed for a short time (one death = end of XPing, even though it was totally my own fault). I needed money (the 50 silver for the next level of skinning, you'll recall), so I decided to deal with that. I did some quests (and ended up making a lot more XP than when I was XPing :P ) andfarmed (silly WoW people not liking the word "farmed" :) ) a lot. Somehow, by the end of the night, I had 51 silver! The most I've ever had! So of course I ran off and spent 50 on the training, making me the poorest I've been in a long time. Heehee.
Only one level of skinning left to purchase (five gold! Gold! I've never even had one gold!), then I'll be able to max that out.
FFXI people: Crafting in WoW is so easy I could cry happy-tears. Get some materials (1? 2? a stack? a bunch of stacks? whatever), no crystals needed. With the touch of one single button, the game will do every synth for you. You fail? Nothing lost. And you get a skillup (a whole number skillup) on every synth. Of course that leads to high levels of crafting being basically meaningless, but I can cope with that perfectly fine right now. (Edit: Eh, or I've gotten a skillup on every synth thus far. Don't know if it's unique to my experience or not. 1 -> 23 in 23 synths.)
This is deeper than I want to go into in a "quick post", but I keep asking myself "Which game is better?" and as endlessly stressed as it makes me, and as often as it isn't fun, I still have to say that FFXI is better. FFXI makes me feel more. If I get something, it's because I earned it. The one and only thing I feel like I've earned thus far in WoW is Fluffy -- I had to quest for him, not just buy the skills... and even then, it was a simple as pie quest.
I'm enjoying WoW as a sort of "get away" from FFXI, but I'm really looking forward to the time when I'll be ready to go back to FFXI full time. I don't know how long it'll take me, but I'm pretty sure it'll happen eventually. :) I miss all you LS people so much! I'll be back full time eventually! Don't forget about me! *sniffles*
:)
As far as I can recall, I only got hate once (due to a TA which wasn't lined up perfectly -- though it looked just as lined up as every single other TA!). "Amusing" timing on it resulted in:
Heeheehee. Down to double-digit HP in one hit! Darned horrible evil tonberries. They had some really nice drops though, and I think I came out ahead, even with needing three gold beastcoins for that hate-resetting quest. Well, maybe not much ahead (no clue offhand how much tonberry coats are worth), but probably nearly break-even. Which is really, really good as I currently have zero income. :/
BUT! Speaking of income! Once I logged off of FFXI I hopped over to WoW. I XPed for a short time (one death = end of XPing, even though it was totally my own fault). I needed money (the 50 silver for the next level of skinning, you'll recall), so I decided to deal with that. I did some quests (and ended up making a lot more XP than when I was XPing :P ) and
Only one level of skinning left to purchase (five gold! Gold! I've never even had one gold!), then I'll be able to max that out.
FFXI people: Crafting in WoW is so easy I could cry happy-tears. Get some materials (1? 2? a stack? a bunch of stacks? whatever), no crystals needed. With the touch of one single button, the game will do every synth for you. You fail? Nothing lost. And you get a skillup (a whole number skillup) on every synth. Of course that leads to high levels of crafting being basically meaningless, but I can cope with that perfectly fine right now. (Edit: Eh, or I've gotten a skillup on every synth thus far. Don't know if it's unique to my experience or not. 1 -> 23 in 23 synths.)
This is deeper than I want to go into in a "quick post", but I keep asking myself "Which game is better?" and as endlessly stressed as it makes me, and as often as it isn't fun, I still have to say that FFXI is better. FFXI makes me feel more. If I get something, it's because I earned it. The one and only thing I feel like I've earned thus far in WoW is Fluffy -- I had to quest for him, not just buy the skills... and even then, it was a simple as pie quest.
I'm enjoying WoW as a sort of "get away" from FFXI, but I'm really looking forward to the time when I'll be ready to go back to FFXI full time. I don't know how long it'll take me, but I'm pretty sure it'll happen eventually. :) I miss all you LS people so much! I'll be back full time eventually! Don't forget about me! *sniffles*
:)
