Babbling brooks... and DRKs

[thistlechaser]

FFXI only, and mostly just nervous/exciting babbling. :)

Very belatedly I saw Niala's post on the CTY site, and eee! I'm so excited about doing CoP 3.5! But even more importantly, I'm excited that I might be more useful than I am in other fights! I can stun every 45 seconds (assuming I keep my MP high enough), so hopefully I can keep the darned thing from ever using its Nightmare move.

Would you believe that someone (not on CTY) posted "who bring's DRK's to a BC??"? Gah! *sniffle* Abuse me all you like, but don't you go abusing my job!

From what I'm reading, this fight won't be as bad as 2.5, but the next BC fight looks much, much harder than both. Eek. It's a 50 level cap, so by hook or by crook I'll be 50 by then and can go, but I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to stay with the group after that. I doubt I'll be 60 in time to do the 60 cap one. ;;

I'm expecting to get Alchemy to 56 tonight. I don't really want to craft, but I bought like 40 poison flours (which don't stack) so I kinda need to use them up. Hopefully I'll get home and finished before the new moon hits (I think I will).

Ugh. I wish I'd stop stressing about FFXI. Once we get a tank for the static I'll be able to rest a little easier. (No responses to my post on the LJ Midgar comm, and only one LS person expressed interest on the shell.)

I really just need to settle down, mentally. I have this big feeling hanging over my head: I feel like I'm falling behind "everyone". But it's not a race! And if it was, I certainly wouldn't be fighting against people on the LS! It just makes me sad that I accept so much help but I can't give back as much as I'd like to. ("Oh, sure, I'll go help you all with X! ...just raise me after I die fighting the first one, 'kay?") Heh, you know, maybe we need to bring in more low level new members to the LS just so us middle-level folks would have people we could help. :p

Stress, stress, stress. I'm a little stress kitty. Meow!

Note to self: Still need to clear fomor hate. Go kill more things soon, and die at the end to eat the extra XP.

Comments

[yshyn.livejournal.com]

Very belatedly I saw Niala's post on the CTY site, and eee! I'm so excited about doing CoP 3.5!

*grumps*

;.;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Sorry! *snug*

[2515049.livejournal.com]

Heh, you know, maybe we need to bring in more low level new members to the LS just so us middle-level folks would have people we could help. :p

Wow, who ever thought we'd hear *you* say that? ^^;

Anyway, I've really been enjoying the opportunity to finally be able to help lower-level people. It was as much as a year ago that I was helped through things like the rank 5 mission, and now I finally have had a number of people who I've been able to help.

I still have a definite lean toward only helping my friends (that is, people I'm going to continue to interact with, probably via linkshell), or at least friends of friends. But there's been decent people who have shown up in recent times around CTY who are friendly and worthwhile.

While I don't want to coddle my lower-level friends, it makes sense to walk people through certain things, because there's so far fewer people doing them any more. When I did the rank 5 mission, we had about eighteen people involved who needed to get the mission done, and three people escorting us. These kind of large groups don't happen any more, so it just makes sense for someone like me to take a person or two, even if they're rather low level at the time.

And being without a tank in a static is rough. We were there for a long time.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Wow, who ever thought we'd hear *you* say that? ^^;

*snicker* Yeah.

[linmayu.livejournal.com]

Tanks around that level are pretty hard to find, and even harder if you're looking for someone who's a decent player and not a loltank. I've got PLD49 with rather good equipment (nothing uber, though, I don't even think PLDs get anything comparable to boots, hairpin, and the like until the late 50s or so) but it's already in a static. ; ; My other static went random-tank-of-the-week for at least 10 levels before we found Sivara. >_

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

No worries! :)