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Nov. 13th, 2005 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserSuch a big FFXI day. Might be one of the biggest I've ever had? So tired, but playing with the big kids will do that to you. :)
The LS O-Hat runs were gathering in Jeuno, so I got there early and just hung out. Not seeking (of course), just standing around. Suddenly a /tell came in:
I was torn between laughing and crying. After seeking for 5 days straight, about 16 hours without getting a single invite, I got one when I wasn't seeking! Such horrible irony. But soon the O-Hat event started, and I forgot about that!
Right off the bat:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gbeans is fall-down amazing. I had thought that this would be an EK (a small HNM LS our LS sometimes work with) run with them just helping us, but no! Beanie organized it all, and there wasn't an EK member in sight! (Eh, or there weren't any that I know of. I think it was all us and that other normal LS...)
Getting to the NM spawn site was amazingly painless. Sneaking/invisibling 18 people? No aggro, nothing! We /randomed to set the order for trading eye clusters, and I got high enough to get mine in today! Eeeeeek!
I'd say that the fights all went as well as could be expected. Unfortunately we had a total of three deaths over four fights, but these were such long hard fights (and we had only one WHM!!!) that that's not really too bad I think. (*snugs* to Beanie, Chip, and Niala!) The only thing I wasn't happy about was my own performance. I expected to miss a lot and not hit for much damage, but things were rough stunning-wise in the first battle. My macro was set up poorly (I've never used anything but [bt]), but when I changed it to [stnpc] I wasn't used to having to hit enter after hitting the macro, so the first couple times my stun didn't go off. :/ It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't said so often that I was a good stunner and that I beat the BLMs in XP parties and such. Bah. (And I'm not fishing for anyone to say "awww, it's okay!" or anything, this is just how I feel about how I did today.)
But I got my o-hat, so YAY! But I can't believe how hard the fights were. :) I did nothing but stare at fast-scrolling text for three hours, trying to spot what I would have to stun. *headache* I wasn't looking at the graphics at all. (Which might be why I don't have one single screenshot of any of the fights. Too busy!)
So once the fights were done I was starving and dead tired (I got very little sleep last night, again), but there were no melee 67s seeking, so I put up my flag. Minutes later, I got an invite! Oh so amusingly, we were going to XP on Steelshells. c.c (I've been skilling on those damned crabs like 24 of the last 48 hours! So tired of seeing them!) All through the party I just kept laughing and boggling that I was seeing Steelshells again! So sick of those crabs! (And amusingly, when invited to the party, the chick asked me "do you have scythe skilled?". Ha ha ha! Finally I had something people wanted!)
Oh so so so happy, I dinged 68! YAY! One major goal off my list! The party was really odd, but worked well. BLM, BLM, RDM, NIN, MNK, me (DRK). It was my first time ever being in a party with no healer, but we didn't need one. The NIN (Jessse) was amazing, and I told him so. I never worked with such a good NIN before. Held hate even through the cast-happy BLMs, even once when they used AM! We got about 10,500 XP in just over 2 hours. *BOGGLE* I never get numbers like those! I don't quite have a buffer yet (a few hundred short), but that will be fixed with Eco/Escort tomorrow.
Screenshot time~!
After helping Zee-whose-LJ-name-I-always-forget with her rank 5 thingie, I was came upon a Yag campfire. Which of these things does not belong? Which of these things is not the same~? Or however that song goes...
I tell you, I love the Tree. It's so peaceful and beautiful (assuming you ignore all the mobs that would happily eat your face). I took a screenshot for non-players, that's what I looked at while XPing for 2 hours tonight. :)
And lastly, people wanted to see my new armor, so here's a shot! I'm finally, finally rid of the leaping boots (after 60 levels of them!) and my ugly RK gloves. HQ thick hands and feet! I'm finally starting to look like a real DRK! Yay! (Since DRK AF sucks so badly, no one wears it for XPing and such. The Haub/Thick stuff is really the true DRK "AF".) One more level and I get the last piece of thick stuff and a new body piece! Then one more level after that I can trade in that horrible mask for an uglier o-hat! :D
So very happy! Accomplished so much today! Seems odd to think how unhappy I was with the game just a few days ago. I'm not going to stress out this week! Even if I get no parties at all all week! (Or I'll try not to, anyway. :P )
The LS O-Hat runs were gathering in Jeuno, so I got there early and just hung out. Not seeking (of course), just standing around. Suddenly a /tell came in:
I was torn between laughing and crying. After seeking for 5 days straight, about 16 hours without getting a single invite, I got one when I wasn't seeking! Such horrible irony. But soon the O-Hat event started, and I forgot about that!
Right off the bat:
gbeans is fall-down amazing. I had thought that this would be an EK (a small HNM LS our LS sometimes work with) run with them just helping us, but no! Beanie organized it all, and there wasn't an EK member in sight! (Eh, or there weren't any that I know of. I think it was all us and that other normal LS...) Getting to the NM spawn site was amazingly painless. Sneaking/invisibling 18 people? No aggro, nothing! We /randomed to set the order for trading eye clusters, and I got high enough to get mine in today! Eeeeeek!
I'd say that the fights all went as well as could be expected. Unfortunately we had a total of three deaths over four fights, but these were such long hard fights (and we had only one WHM!!!) that that's not really too bad I think. (*snugs* to Beanie, Chip, and Niala!) The only thing I wasn't happy about was my own performance. I expected to miss a lot and not hit for much damage, but things were rough stunning-wise in the first battle. My macro was set up poorly (I've never used anything but [bt]), but when I changed it to [stnpc] I wasn't used to having to hit enter after hitting the macro, so the first couple times my stun didn't go off. :/ It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't said so often that I was a good stunner and that I beat the BLMs in XP parties and such. Bah. (And I'm not fishing for anyone to say "awww, it's okay!" or anything, this is just how I feel about how I did today.)
But I got my o-hat, so YAY! But I can't believe how hard the fights were. :) I did nothing but stare at fast-scrolling text for three hours, trying to spot what I would have to stun. *headache* I wasn't looking at the graphics at all. (Which might be why I don't have one single screenshot of any of the fights. Too busy!)
So once the fights were done I was starving and dead tired (I got very little sleep last night, again), but there were no melee 67s seeking, so I put up my flag. Minutes later, I got an invite! Oh so amusingly, we were going to XP on Steelshells. c.c (I've been skilling on those damned crabs like 24 of the last 48 hours! So tired of seeing them!) All through the party I just kept laughing and boggling that I was seeing Steelshells again! So sick of those crabs! (And amusingly, when invited to the party, the chick asked me "do you have scythe skilled?". Ha ha ha! Finally I had something people wanted!)
Oh so so so happy, I dinged 68! YAY! One major goal off my list! The party was really odd, but worked well. BLM, BLM, RDM, NIN, MNK, me (DRK). It was my first time ever being in a party with no healer, but we didn't need one. The NIN (Jessse) was amazing, and I told him so. I never worked with such a good NIN before. Held hate even through the cast-happy BLMs, even once when they used AM! We got about 10,500 XP in just over 2 hours. *BOGGLE* I never get numbers like those! I don't quite have a buffer yet (a few hundred short), but that will be fixed with Eco/Escort tomorrow.
Screenshot time~!
After helping Zee-whose-LJ-name-I-always-forget with her rank 5 thingie, I was came upon a Yag campfire. Which of these things does not belong? Which of these things is not the same~? Or however that song goes...
I tell you, I love the Tree. It's so peaceful and beautiful (assuming you ignore all the mobs that would happily eat your face). I took a screenshot for non-players, that's what I looked at while XPing for 2 hours tonight. :)
And lastly, people wanted to see my new armor, so here's a shot! I'm finally, finally rid of the leaping boots (after 60 levels of them!) and my ugly RK gloves. HQ thick hands and feet! I'm finally starting to look like a real DRK! Yay! (Since DRK AF sucks so badly, no one wears it for XPing and such. The Haub/Thick stuff is really the true DRK "AF".) One more level and I get the last piece of thick stuff and a new body piece! Then one more level after that I can trade in that horrible mask for an uglier o-hat! :D
So very happy! Accomplished so much today! Seems odd to think how unhappy I was with the game just a few days ago. I'm not going to stress out this week! Even if I get no parties at all all week! (Or I'll try not to, anyway. :P )
