Mutton, mutton, who has the mutton? (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

I didn't have time to post this last night. It was a very profitable night, XP-wise. I made about 2,000 XP (solo'ing), and I'm about 200 from level 12 (woo!). I did the math while I was walking this morning, and I figured out that I killed about 130-140 monsters last night! Rarrr!

(I didn't have time to resize the screenshots, sorry. I just uploaded them before work this morning.)

I decided that goblins are really sort of cute. Too bad all of them must die. But the best part of the night was when I started killing sheep! (The sky is as red as their blood! Ha!)

Get this: Not only did I kill sheep, but at one point a second one attacked me while I was fighting the first one! And then the first one put me to sleep! Of course both attacked me while I was asleep! But was it doom? Was it gloom? Nope! Those woolly fools couldn't touch me! Miss, miss, miss, miss, miss. When I woke up, I killed the both of them! Rarrrr! Mighty mage!

I encountered a new monster I had never seen before! Enchanted bones, a verson of the very same thing which killed me in the mines on Saturday night. Apparently I hit him in the crotch... though I suppose that's not a problem anymore when you're nothing but bones. It seems to have made him mad though!

My computer crashed overnight, and so I logged back on this morning in hopes that either the egg event was still going on or that all my eggs had sold before the crash. The event was over! YAY! And my eggs all sold! (Even though it was only for 200 each, I had five of them! Another 1K!) I'm very, very, very glad the event is over. I made about 15K on those silly eggs (I have almost 30K in cash now), but I had to stay logged in overnight and through the work day -- this means I generally couldn't check email before work and before bed, which was a pain. The money was good, but I'm very glad it's over now.

Speaking of money, I guess I'll go ahead and get the spells I had been skipping. (All the bar- ones: Barstonra, Barsleepra, etc.) They seem mostly worthless, but I guess down the road they might come in handy. (Hm, Barsleepra before sheep-fighting? Might be a plan!) Too bad the level 12 spell sucks (Barparalyzra), but 13 should be handy (Slow).

I have my macros planned out (figured out at work yesterday), but I didn't put them into place yet. I did set up one for fishing though, with a built in /wait and /echo to me. Handy! Hit level 5 in fishing, too (but broke my expensive rod! Bah! Using a cheaper one now, but will probably get the more expensive one again when it breaks.).

Slightly annoyed: Some little catgirl NCP wanted three sheepskins, she claimed she'd "make me something nice with them" if I got them for her. It was only last night that I could finally get enough of them, so I ran back and gave them to her. First she said she wanted to eat them (!!! Catgirl bitch! You keep that mouth of yours off my hard-won leather!), then she finally made me the item. Very nice gloves! ...which only fighting-types could wear. Bah! Sold them off.

It's a pain in the butt that the NPCs who want things are spread from one end of the city to the other. The flint guy is in south Sandy, the bat wing guy is in the industrial area of north Sandy, the rabbit hide guy is on the opposite end of south Sandy from the flint guy, and... hm. What's in the port? Maybe nothing, other than the magic shop? Plus, they each give only ~100 for 2-4 of the items they want. 100 gil! Hardly worth the effort!

I'm not sure what tonight's plan is going to be. XP up to the next level and through the de-leveling zone, but that shouldn't take too much time. I have the second Prince of Tennis musical that I'd like to watch... maybe I won't stay logged in to the game all night! (That'd be a first!) I'm going to need to find tougher things to fight, I suppose. Sheep are only giving me 21 XP each! Everything else (hares, goblins, worms) are tending to give me only 12 XP each. :( Oh! I forgot, last night I decided I wanted to go all the way south to the tomb again, and see if I could handle that on my own now. Might be good XP there, assuming twenty goblins don't all attack me at once.

Comments

[glaciation.livejournal.com]

The Bar-element-ra spells are actually pretty useful, particularly once you're out of the early levels. Barfira makes goblin Bomb Toss much less scary, and Barblizzara is good against undead with Ice Spikes before you have an RDM with Dispel.

The Bar-status-effect-ra spells only decrease the time the status effects last, rather than giving a better chance to resist. They are situationally occasionally useful, but you'll be disappointed in Barsleepra (which seems to reduce sleep duration from 'over a minute' to 'a minute').

I usually solo in West Ronfaure on gob/sheep/orc junk until 14th, just because it's easy and low-downtime.

And the catgirl leatherworker apparently has a devoted idol following who write her into slash. You learn scary things on the Internet.

[eilonwey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what glaciation/Verity said about the
bar*elementra* spells. The other very handy thing that they're good for is leveling your enhancing skill. I stand outside of my mog house and cycle through them very quickly. When I run out of mp, I run back into my mog house to refresh my mp, run back out again. Rinse, repeat.

Have you done the quest that lets you travel through the back alleys of San D'Oria to any part of the city? There's a little mitra girl in North Sandy, I believe. You give her a marguerite flower and she tells you the secret to back alley travel. Being able to cut through your mog house makes quest hand-ins much less annoying. Also, the really good part about all those silly quest handins is the fame that you build up. You need a certain amount of fame to get the high level quests. I have turned in stacks and stacks of rabbit hides and bat wings and I am still trying to get more fame!

There is good fishing in port if you cut through one of the warehouses. I think that's where Russet does most of her fishing.

I liked your second Enchanted Bones screenshot.

-Elhaym

[chrysoula.livejournal.com]

Interesting tidbits about the goblins: they're the universal beastmen (orcs are local to Sandy, for example) and some of them are even civilized... rather fine crafters, for the right price...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, so in other words I'll never get away from them? Heehee. On the other hand, I'll be very happy to leave orcs behind! I should probably be able to handle one (or maybe two) of them right now, but... eh. They're still big and scary to me! :)

and some of them are even civilized... rather fine crafters, for the right price...

Now that sounds interesting! It'd be cool to be able to deal with them instead of pound their heads in.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

The Bar-status-effect-ra spells only decrease the time the status effects last, rather than giving a better chance to resist. They are situationally occasionally useful, but you'll be disappointed in Barsleepra (which seems to reduce sleep duration from 'over a minute' to 'a minute').

Ah, that's too bad. Though in truth, I can't much complain about the sheep putting me to sleep -- it already lasts well under one minute (I'd guess ... 20-30 seconds, maybe. Enough to be hit twice by them.)

I usually solo in West Ronfaure on gob/sheep/orc junk until 14th, just because it's easy and low-downtime.

Hm, I should go west more often. I've been sticking to the east about 98% of the time. Down to that empty building (handy safe(ish) place to heal) then down around the spike of mountains and into the sheep area.

And the catgirl leatherworker apparently has a devoted idol following who write her into slash. You learn scary things on the Internet.

...

That's rather scary!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

The other very handy thing that they're good for is leveling your enhancing skill. I stand outside of my mog house and cycle through them very quickly. When I run out of mp, I run back into my mog house to refresh my mp, run back out again.

Holy cow, that's a good idea! I never thought about using the mog house's recovering as part of that "cheating" leveling up! (I did it a lot while standing around dealing with egg foo, but just /heal'ed to recover MP.)

Have you done the quest that lets you travel through the back alleys of San D'Oria to any part of the city?

Very belatedly, yep! It's a handy as heck way to get around.

I liked your second Enchanted Bones screenshot.

Didn't that come out well? I love taking screenshots. :)

[istarion.livejournal.com]

_XD I have no clue about online RPG games ^^;;; but the screenshots you put up are amusing XD

...and That is one BIG sheep O.o;;;;;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Isn't it big? And they seem even bigger when they're trying to kill you!

[istarion.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh! *runs* XD If people tried to count THOSE sheep in order to go to sleep, I think they'd have nightmares XD