Thursday post!
Jul. 14th, 2005 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserSometimes thinking of subject lines is hard.
Seems like everyone on my flist has been spoiled with stuff about the new Harry Potter book. I'm open to spoilers, and I haven't come across any. Supposedly there's a big one floating around? Anyone want to toss me a link to the post/info? (Edit: Okay, I've been spoiled. Holy Cow, what a massive spoiler!)
My page-a-day calender is from Lord of the Rings. I've not seen most of the movies and I've not read the books in 20-something years. My mother sent it to me for Christmas, and I like page-a-day calenders, so I've been using it. Today's picture is so darned odd that I actually had to cover it with a blank piece of paper. It's that funky guy (Golem? Spelling?) with his mouth around some long, black thing. He's half-smiling around it. His eyes are turned sharply up, as if looking at something above him. I swear to god, I kept catching the picture out of the corner of my eye and thinking he was giving something a blowjob. This freaky, ugly, grey thing having sex on my desk! Arg! But now the picture is covered with a blank post-it note, so I don't have to keep seeing it.
FFXI: I want a pet manticore! They're my second favorite monster! I love their coloring, and their eyes are so strange but realistic! And they look fierce! Like a pet who would happily eat your face!
Last night was okay. Did my usual amount of digging (three "runs" of it -- 30 stacks of greens each run. If I do that every day, I should level to A40 within a month. So slow, so slow, so expensive...). Either I'm getting closer to leveling or I had a good area/time, because I got a bunch of gold beastcoins. It's nice to be able to actually make a profit now! Not as big of a profit as I'd make on farming or making bolts/arrows, but at least it's something. I also got 15 red jars last night (grrr!). I had to drop a ton of them. I'm going to have to empty my house of them soon, because they're making it impossible to function if I'm HPed anywhere besides Sandy.
Between the diggings I actually did something more fun and a little useful. Draque needed a drop for some quest, so we went to Quicksand Caves and killed those cactus things (and ants and spiders) for a while. Too bad a darned NM showed up and we had to leave because we couldn't pull around it.
I got 1 level of scythe skillup and 2 levels of dark magic. Scythe is so so so so slow to level! I only get a few swings in per kill. This morning I realized that I should have just offered to pay one of the mages to keep me hasted the entire time. When I hit level 60 I'll be able to hit 200 on scythe... but I'm only 188 now (and level 58). They really should make it easier to get skillups on the slower weapons, since it takes so much longer for us to skill. Grumble.
I suppose I should consider joining some random skillup parties that people in Jeuno always shout for, but... I don't know. The idea of going into a highly aggro place with a bunch of people I don't know sounds really deadly. I wish LS people needed more keys or G1 items. Seems like no one has needed any in ages!
Bah.
Seems like everyone on my flist has been spoiled with stuff about the new Harry Potter book. I'm open to spoilers, and I haven't come across any. Supposedly there's a big one floating around? Anyone want to toss me a link to the post/info? (Edit: Okay, I've been spoiled. Holy Cow, what a massive spoiler!)
My page-a-day calender is from Lord of the Rings. I've not seen most of the movies and I've not read the books in 20-something years. My mother sent it to me for Christmas, and I like page-a-day calenders, so I've been using it. Today's picture is so darned odd that I actually had to cover it with a blank piece of paper. It's that funky guy (Golem? Spelling?) with his mouth around some long, black thing. He's half-smiling around it. His eyes are turned sharply up, as if looking at something above him. I swear to god, I kept catching the picture out of the corner of my eye and thinking he was giving something a blowjob. This freaky, ugly, grey thing having sex on my desk! Arg! But now the picture is covered with a blank post-it note, so I don't have to keep seeing it.
FFXI: I want a pet manticore! They're my second favorite monster! I love their coloring, and their eyes are so strange but realistic! And they look fierce! Like a pet who would happily eat your face!
Last night was okay. Did my usual amount of digging (three "runs" of it -- 30 stacks of greens each run. If I do that every day, I should level to A40 within a month. So slow, so slow, so expensive...). Either I'm getting closer to leveling or I had a good area/time, because I got a bunch of gold beastcoins. It's nice to be able to actually make a profit now! Not as big of a profit as I'd make on farming or making bolts/arrows, but at least it's something. I also got 15 red jars last night (grrr!). I had to drop a ton of them. I'm going to have to empty my house of them soon, because they're making it impossible to function if I'm HPed anywhere besides Sandy.
Between the diggings I actually did something more fun and a little useful. Draque needed a drop for some quest, so we went to Quicksand Caves and killed those cactus things (and ants and spiders) for a while. Too bad a darned NM showed up and we had to leave because we couldn't pull around it.
I got 1 level of scythe skillup and 2 levels of dark magic. Scythe is so so so so slow to level! I only get a few swings in per kill. This morning I realized that I should have just offered to pay one of the mages to keep me hasted the entire time. When I hit level 60 I'll be able to hit 200 on scythe... but I'm only 188 now (and level 58). They really should make it easier to get skillups on the slower weapons, since it takes so much longer for us to skill. Grumble.
I suppose I should consider joining some random skillup parties that people in Jeuno always shout for, but... I don't know. The idea of going into a highly aggro place with a bunch of people I don't know sounds really deadly. I wish LS people needed more keys or G1 items. Seems like no one has needed any in ages!
Bah.
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Date: 2005-07-14 06:11 pm (UTC)Gollum = The degenerate, ring-fixated creature from The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. That was probably a fish in his mouth in the picture.
People mixing up the two words is one of my pet peeves...I know one guy who pronounces golem as gollum and gollum as golem, and it drives me up the wall.
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Date: 2005-07-14 06:24 pm (UTC)Looking at the picture, I guess it could be a fish? A skinnny/narrow one. Looks more like an eel than a fish. ...okay, it looks more like a hose covered in duct tape than an eel or a fish, but I suppose it could be an odd fish.
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Date: 2005-07-14 06:24 pm (UTC)100 on the two weapons I can wield. Seventy below cap. :P
I wouldn't join a random skillup party. But that's just me. In fact, most skillup parties wouldn't help me much. As WHM, you tend to still be healing people, and as a result, you don't get any hits in.
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Date: 2005-07-14 06:25 pm (UTC):P
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Date: 2005-07-14 08:32 pm (UTC)I don't know if this is appropriate to put here, but I don't know another way to send it to you (LJ n00b). I can delete it if Thistle_Chaser wants me to.
Here's a few tips:
1. When joining random parties only join skillup parties that are only going after skillups, not keys, because people who need the keys will be under-levelled for that area and require more healing. Then make full use of Regen I/II/III.
2. Cast haste on yourself and use accuracy boosting food like Jack o' Lanterns. A life belt (accuracy +10) is a very good investment if you can afford it. Make every swing count!
3. Don't use your best weaponskill. You want the mob to last as long as possible. You don't necessarily want to kill the mob.
4. It is possible to solo some of your skillups on easy prey. Zones are your friend. So are Stoneskin, Blink and Regen. Popular zones include Boyahda by the cloister, Kuftal, Norg.
5. You can gain skill ups off any mob that would have conned as even match or tougher to you at the level that your weapon skill is currently.
For example, say your weapon skill level is 100. Use this skill database to find out at what level you would have gotten club skill 100 had you kept your skill levelled. For a white mage, you could get club skill 100 at 35.
Then go to this mob database and do search for all mobs in the range 36-40. Now find a crab in that range and go smack it. Just kidding, but crabs are great for skillups since they have hardly any nasty attacks.
The closer the mob is to your skill level cap, the more often you'll hit it (more opportunities to get a skill up), but the smaller the skill-up you'll receive. I'm still looking for the sweet spot. :3
6. Everyone on the linkshell probably has some weapon they would like to level. Abuse this knowledge and form your own skill up party. If you're able to say the mobs you're fighting are good for the skill level range x-y, you'll likely get more helpers.
7. If all else fails, team up with a black mage friend or sub black mage, equip a level 1 weapon and sleep an appropriately levelled crab. Whack away for zero damage. Sleep the crab again when it wakes up. Rinse. Repeat. This is best done close to a zone to allow for fluff ups. :3
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Date: 2005-07-14 08:48 pm (UTC)I'd as soon ask you to delete something from my LJ as I would ask you to delete your love from my heart~ (Heeheehee!)
6. Everyone on the linkshell probably has some weapon they would like to level. Abuse this knowledge and form your own skill up party.
And I second that one! My marksmanship is 100, so that would be about equal yours! I can't skill it at the same time as scythe because there's too much difference.
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Date: 2005-07-14 09:37 pm (UTC)And yes, I do know that as a healer class I'm supposed to heal. 9.9
I know you mean to help, but I really do know all these. I bitch and moan occasionally for self-deprecating purposes. I soloed my current weapons to where they are, and in order to get to that level I was practically getting killed with every mob. It's just really hard to solo. Stoneskin, etc., aside. But thanks for the thought. :)
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Date: 2005-07-14 08:44 pm (UTC)All of them! Heeheehee.
But yes, if/when you want another, poke!
And yeah, sometimes I think about leveling another job, but... meh. Seems so much like work! Chocobo digging and endless bolt-making are boring, but to me leveling a job seems more so!
Speaking of which, I stuck a post up on CTY. If you want to join us on Friday, leave a comment there?
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Date: 2005-07-14 08:18 pm (UTC)As for skilling, heck, I can tank stuff that's EM to you. My suggestion? Get a scythe with LOW delay. Skilling, you don't need as much damage as you do when partying. Beestinger, for example, is a freaking awesome dagger to skill with because it hits so bloody fast.
Besides, if you're skilling, I need to be able to keep hate, and I can only tank with /WHM :x So don't hit things hard or they'll hit you. X3 I think D still needs to clear his latent too? *shakes D*
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Date: 2005-07-14 08:42 pm (UTC)*sniffles* Little DRK Aurian is all grown up!
Yeah, it's a good idea to get a "fast" (ha ha ha) scythe for skilling. I'll have to look into them and see which one would work.
As of last night, D was still working on his! So maybe we can wrap stuff together!
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