thistlechaser | Busy weekend, complete with pictures! (FFXI only)

*rolls over dead* Such a busy weekend. So much more stuff coming up in the next couple days. I need a vacation from work just to keep up with all the FFXI stuff! :P

Friday: A group of LS people headed off to the ferry to try to get some new NMs and/or the Sea Horror, so I joined them. Pirates showed up once (yay sand charm!) and the phantom showed up once (woo, ice spikes for Ceh!) but no Horror or new NMs. Still, it was fun to spend time with LS people. Was very nice to be on the boat and not have to fish! Was very very very nice to be able to out-pull higher level people with my Stun.

Saturday: I did chocobo digging. I dug on Friday before and after the boat trip, and I spent hours today digging. I have spent more time (and way way way more money) digging post-A45 level than I did all the levels before A45 put together, and I still have not leveled to A40. *boggle* If I wasn't able to make a profit at this point, I would have long since given up on digging. And if it takes this long to level from A45 -> A40, I cannot imagine A40 -> 35, 30, 25, 20, etc. It's a wonder that anyone ever gets to A10. Bah. But still, I made a good amount of money, so I suppose I should be happy enough.

Sunday: Sunday felt like the busiest day I've ever had in FFXI, but that can't be true. I wasn't feeling well all day, which added to the stress and made it feel busier, I think. Day started with our "Escort static" group. Well, no, actually it started before that. I dug for a couple hours, then Draque asked me about our farming plans for the day. I hadn't known we were a go on that, so once others (Beanie) logged on, I firmed up plans to go after Escort. But this meant we needed level 40 cap stuff and lots of meds ASAP, so I was in a rush to gather everything before Escort (and I made the meds while waiting for it to start).

Once Escort finished we went into the Aqueducts! Yay! Not exactly a pretty place, but tons of new and interesting mobs! I love love love fighting fomor, plus we killed some stegos and tarou... um. Toro... those other dinosaur-like ones.

We had funny luck with the fomors dropping panties (special subligars for level 50 JSE). We needed 1 SMN panty and 2 MNK panties. We killed (I believe) 5 of each type of fomor and got 4 SMN panties and 0 MNK. Heh! Zub just happened to walk by as a SMN panty dropped, so we pushed it off onto him. That's our LS for you! Show up to say hi and we'll give you a hard-to-get quest item! Heehee.

Part of our reason for going farming in there was to try to get silica (which is needed to make glass sheets, which are needed to make other new items). The drop rate was really, really bad (only got 2 pieces of it in many hours of farming). Bah.

After that we scurried off to get Dani's RSE done. It's so amazing the difference in RSE race/sex times! Hume male, especially at a reasonable time like last night, would be a mad house, but Dani (female elf) had the place to herself for nearly all of the time. The night went much better than we could have expected (three of the four times we needed keys they dropped on the first kill, and three of the four times we found chests right away). Still, it took a couple hours, but it was in the Maze so I didn't mind at all! (Sometimes the Maze feels like a second home to me. I still get lost in the newbie zones, but I know the Maze like the back of my hand!)

Coming week: Fortunately or unfortunately, it's not going to get any less busy too soon. Tonight we have to farm for more CoP mission items (oh, that's at 6. I thought it was at 5 and was in a panic because I wasn't ready). Tomorrow is Eco and I should probably work on clearing my fomor hate (hope that won't be an issue tonight). Then Wednesday is our next big CoP mission (4-3? 4-something, the flying dragon).

I don't really feel ready for 4-3 yet. Oh, I have most of the stuff purchased that I need (just need to grab an au lait! Must remember to do that!), I just don't feel mentally ready yet. Bah.

Screnshots!

Fomor fighting! -- These fights were so funny. Both the MNK and the SMN fomor were Taru, as is our tank. I felt silly trying to hit the fomor, because it looked like two small children were fighting! I kept wanting to grab Nif with one hand and the fomor with the other and pull them apart and make them stand in corners. :P

Recall the Friendship Quest that I had to stand in line for? I got some pictures of that! It still amazes me that for the most part people actually waited in nice lines and didn't cut/mob the area. Line in the orc camp -- the text is so embarrassing. I had /say filtered for most of the event, just to avoid all the "lol"s and "lmao" and all that other AOL-crap. Another line, this time in the undead place! People were way more stressed and angry on this line than the other one... plus it took a lot longer. Bah.

Summerfest means decorations and fireworks are everywhere! Well, not Summerfest. What's it named this year? Sun Breeze? Stupid. It should be called Summerfest each year. But whatever you call it, the towns sure are pretty!

Draque and I on the airship -- I can't put my finger on why, but I always love pictures of Draque and I together. Something about our hight difference? Our color difference? I think we look good together. (Don't hit me, Aurian! I don't (necessarily) mean that way!) It always seems like we're sharing a moment or something...