Zzzzz. OMG: Zzzzzz. (RL, FFXI, WoW)
Oct. 24th, 2005 08:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserI have no idea what was up last night, but "sleep" wasn't it. Every time I think I can't function on any less sleep, I hit a new high. A new low? Whichever. If I got an hour of sleep last night, I'll be drop-dead surprised. (Or maybe I'll drop dead from having under an hour of sleep!) For no reason at all, I couldn't fall asleep. Two hours after I turned the lights out, and I was still fully awake. Some hours later I sort of drifted off a little, only to be woken by my cat. Demanding little creature... She kept me up for hours more (not on purpose, just by ... moving. And breathing. And purring.). Sometime around 5 AM I was still awake (I get up at 6). I might have dozed a little at that point, but by 5:30 my eyes were open and I was awake again.
BAH. BAH. BAH.
Now I'm at work again (boo) in the cold AC (dudes, it's 60 degrees outside! We do NOT need the AC blasting in here), with awful cramps (*cry*), and feel like crap.
---
FFXI: We're getting closer to O-Hat runs! I was excited to read![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gbeans's write-up of it in her CTY journal. On one hand I can't wait to do mine, but on the other... do you really think there's a chance in hell that I'll ever hit 70 (the minimum level to use it)? I look at all the armor I have for 68-69 waiting in my bazaar, and I laugh so bitterly at myself. At the rate we're XPing, S-E will shut down the game before I even get close to 68-70. I can't believe that at some point in the past I actually thought I might get to wear all the good stuff I bought.
(And nope, not blaming anyone other than myself. I'm just highly frustrated and sad. Please don't respond with "Oh you'll get there! Don't worry!" because that's really... not helpful.)
---
WoW: It's funny, but even when frustrated on the game (which is rare), I still have an outstanding time on it. Last night was one of those nights, but I still had fun and ended up laughing at myself (but in a good, non-bitter way) :
Instead of picking random pets and hoping for one with a high DoS, I decided to do research first (gasp! What an idea!) and pick the right one, then go out and find it. I read a few sites and decided that I wanted a worg (which I keep typing as " worf ", heh). One from a small area has the very best DoS rating, plus they're black and look even "cooler" than wolves (like wolves, but heavier in the shoulders and with protruding fangs). Wolves can't use claw, but everything else was perfect so that was good enough!
The only problem (or so I thought) was that these worgs are level 18-19, that'd mean I'd need to level one up almost 10 levels! Ugh. But for a pet I intended to keep from now on, I'd do it.
So off I go, in search of this place I've never been. (Shadowfang Keep or something like that.) Fly to the Undercity, travel through this forest I've never been in, get attacked when I entered a town to see if I could get a spot on the flight path (ha ha, it was mob-owned! Not people-owned!). Eventually I got to the Keep!
My eyebrows raised when I entered: The door was a swirl of light, and I actually "zoned" (there are no zonelines in WoW, this was the first one I encountered). The very first mob I checked had that "elite swirly" stuff around its name. And the next one did, too. And the next one... Bah. This was an instanced dungeon!
While I was checking, I got attacked by a human-mob and its pet. They were only level 16 or so, so I wasn't worried... till I was almost dead. :P Ten levels below me, and these two were kicking my pet's and my ass! After getting those two dead and healing up, I used Eyes of the Beast (my first time ever using it for anything besides fun!) and went off to look and see how far away the worgs I wanted were.
Ha ha ha, that was so much fun! Must be like a suicide pull on FFXI: Ed got aggro in every room, but kept on going, pulling it all behind him. Room after room of aggro, with no sight of the mob I needed. Bah. I zoned out and went home, without a cool black wolf-thing.
It wasn't until this morning that I realized that even if I did somehow successfully clear a path to those higher level wolves, I probably wouldn't last long enough to tame one. (Unlike in FFXI, it takes, um, 20? 30? seconds to tame a mob in WoW. The mob can (and does!) attack you the whole time, you cannot do anything, you just have to stand there and take it.)
So while the plan totally failed, it was still a fun night. :)
EDIT: Oh! I almost forgot! I tried PvP in WoW for the first time last night! Heeheehee. A hume (eh, human, so hard not to use "hume") ??? WAR or PLD and some nightelf ??? chick who kept going invisible were in the Crossroads. Now while attacking a level ??? person would be stupid, three other low levels were attacking them, so I thought I'd join in and then maybe others would, too! Hee. I sent Ed in to attack the (cute) hume, while I shot from afar. Some mage was casting spells and someone else was attacking physically, but we weren't even moving his HP bar at all. :D So funny! Then unfortunately the video on the game locked up. I heard some sort of fire noise, and by the time the video was moving again, I was dead. :( I don't mind dying at all! (Attacking a ??? I expected it!) I just wish I had seen it.
Only problem was, once I raised I was still flagged, and the NE one-shotted me. :( (I didn't even see her around, she must have been invisible or something.) I had visions of never being able to get out of PvP mode (I think it can only time out? Not be turned off otherwise?) and I kept getting killed before I could log out. (I couldn't make it to an inn for an instant logout.) But eventually (luckily) it wore off, and they weren't able to kill me anymore. :P
I can only hope that I was low enough level for it to count as "dishonorable kills" for them. :D
BAH. BAH. BAH.
Now I'm at work again (boo) in the cold AC (dudes, it's 60 degrees outside! We do NOT need the AC blasting in here), with awful cramps (*cry*), and feel like crap.
---
FFXI: We're getting closer to O-Hat runs! I was excited to read
gbeans's write-up of it in her CTY journal. On one hand I can't wait to do mine, but on the other... do you really think there's a chance in hell that I'll ever hit 70 (the minimum level to use it)? I look at all the armor I have for 68-69 waiting in my bazaar, and I laugh so bitterly at myself. At the rate we're XPing, S-E will shut down the game before I even get close to 68-70. I can't believe that at some point in the past I actually thought I might get to wear all the good stuff I bought. (And nope, not blaming anyone other than myself. I'm just highly frustrated and sad. Please don't respond with "Oh you'll get there! Don't worry!" because that's really... not helpful.)
---
WoW: It's funny, but even when frustrated on the game (which is rare), I still have an outstanding time on it. Last night was one of those nights, but I still had fun and ended up laughing at myself (but in a good, non-bitter way) :
Instead of picking random pets and hoping for one with a high DoS, I decided to do research first (gasp! What an idea!) and pick the right one, then go out and find it. I read a few sites and decided that I wanted a worg (which I keep typing as " worf ", heh). One from a small area has the very best DoS rating, plus they're black and look even "cooler" than wolves (like wolves, but heavier in the shoulders and with protruding fangs). Wolves can't use claw, but everything else was perfect so that was good enough!
The only problem (or so I thought) was that these worgs are level 18-19, that'd mean I'd need to level one up almost 10 levels! Ugh. But for a pet I intended to keep from now on, I'd do it.
So off I go, in search of this place I've never been. (Shadowfang Keep or something like that.) Fly to the Undercity, travel through this forest I've never been in, get attacked when I entered a town to see if I could get a spot on the flight path (ha ha, it was mob-owned! Not people-owned!). Eventually I got to the Keep!
My eyebrows raised when I entered: The door was a swirl of light, and I actually "zoned" (there are no zonelines in WoW, this was the first one I encountered). The very first mob I checked had that "elite swirly" stuff around its name. And the next one did, too. And the next one... Bah. This was an instanced dungeon!
While I was checking, I got attacked by a human-mob and its pet. They were only level 16 or so, so I wasn't worried... till I was almost dead. :P Ten levels below me, and these two were kicking my pet's and my ass! After getting those two dead and healing up, I used Eyes of the Beast (my first time ever using it for anything besides fun!) and went off to look and see how far away the worgs I wanted were.
Ha ha ha, that was so much fun! Must be like a suicide pull on FFXI: Ed got aggro in every room, but kept on going, pulling it all behind him. Room after room of aggro, with no sight of the mob I needed. Bah. I zoned out and went home, without a cool black wolf-thing.
It wasn't until this morning that I realized that even if I did somehow successfully clear a path to those higher level wolves, I probably wouldn't last long enough to tame one. (Unlike in FFXI, it takes, um, 20? 30? seconds to tame a mob in WoW. The mob can (and does!) attack you the whole time, you cannot do anything, you just have to stand there and take it.)
So while the plan totally failed, it was still a fun night. :)
EDIT: Oh! I almost forgot! I tried PvP in WoW for the first time last night! Heeheehee. A hume (eh, human, so hard not to use "hume") ??? WAR or PLD and some nightelf ??? chick who kept going invisible were in the Crossroads. Now while attacking a level ??? person would be stupid, three other low levels were attacking them, so I thought I'd join in and then maybe others would, too! Hee. I sent Ed in to attack the (cute) hume, while I shot from afar. Some mage was casting spells and someone else was attacking physically, but we weren't even moving his HP bar at all. :D So funny! Then unfortunately the video on the game locked up. I heard some sort of fire noise, and by the time the video was moving again, I was dead. :( I don't mind dying at all! (Attacking a ??? I expected it!) I just wish I had seen it.
Only problem was, once I raised I was still flagged, and the NE one-shotted me. :( (I didn't even see her around, she must have been invisible or something.) I had visions of never being able to get out of PvP mode (I think it can only time out? Not be turned off otherwise?) and I kept getting killed before I could log out. (I couldn't make it to an inn for an instant logout.) But eventually (luckily) it wore off, and they weren't able to kill me anymore. :P
I can only hope that I was low enough level for it to count as "dishonorable kills" for them. :D
