Big things and little things (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

A bunch of bits and pieces:

1) Cehra (yshyn): You should get a contact address for draymor so you can send him any heart attack-related medical bills. He gave me an idea (of something not to do), and now it's stuck in my head and won't go away. :) Why is it that when a WHM suggests not doing something I want to do it all the more? Heh heh heh. So anyway, I was babbling about it on the LS last night:

Guillotine (4 hits) + SE + SATA = *drool*

That'd take me down 40% of my health in seconds, but if the TA part was set up right all the hate would go onto Ashn (NIN tank) and there'd be no/little risk of death to me. Man, adding 400+ damage onto a SATA'ed WS just by using SE? So so so sexy.

SE is totally my favorite part of being a DRK. I love the idea of literally being able to give part of myself to do more damage. Sometimes I wish that the DRK two hour worked in reverse (right now it drains for as much as you hit for) -- that it'd be like a supercharged SE... but that'd be sort of suicidal, I suppose.

2) I wish our LS would go do some other big fight. Like Beanie's kicking boots NM ant thing, but bigger/longer. (Didn't Ead want a pair of those for his MNK? We should go back and do it again!) This morning I watched a video of a HMN fight and it was so cool. I'd love a fight that goes on for an hour or more! It'd be so different (and so much more exciting!) than the little fights we do.

3) Did tons of farming last night. Not enough farming of course (there's no such thing as "enough farming"), but a lot of it. Drops were amazingly good (3 stacks of coeurl whiskers, 1.5 stacks of meat, 12 hides in a couple hours -- that's 2-3 times more than I usually get in the amount of time I spent!).

I also finally got the last piece of silica I needed to make the second glass sheet. Woo! No more digging! Or at least not till Ead starts making the tanks, if I need to get my own for that. I spent three or four whole nights digging in the Maze -- I was starting to feel like I was growing moss from being underground for so long!

4) Still no armor. *sadness* No HQ thick pieces have been listed in the Jeuno AH yet, and I'm sort of not wanting to contact the chick with the Hauby +1 in her bazaar yet. She has it listed for 14M. I'd like to offer her a lower price and see if she'd go for it, but I think offering 10M would probably be insulting? I wanted to wait till I got to 12M before making an offer, but maybe I'll just wait till 11M... but then it might be sold by then! Bah bah bah.

Comments

[draymor.livejournal.com]

Meh, nothing a CureV can't handle >:P

Oh but uh... before you do that, can you please sign this waiver here?
kehehe

/comfort Cehra

[pomr.livejournal.com]

I'm told WHMs hate that SE ability. :) Makes things that much harder for them. :) Though...if you could do as you listed, then nail the mob for a decent drain...

[yshyn.livejournal.com]

I want you to remember 2 things:

1) When you do that, you get a massive HP loss. What does a WHM have to do when you have a massive HP loss? Cure you.
2) What happens when a WHM suddenly has to cure a massive amount of HP loss? They get massive amounts of hate.

It's not just your own level of hate you should worry about.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, true. Hmmmmm. I hadn't thought about that as much. (I mean hey, the mob never comes running at you, so WHMs don't get hate, right? ;) ) I wonder if the move would put enough hate onto Ashn to keep it off you curing me?

I suppose we'll have to carefully try it some time...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and Ceh made a good point below. It's not just my hate we have to think about, it's hers as well.

But man, I still love SE. Nothing like seeing my HP fall to know I'm doing a good job! Heh, I'm sort of like an anti-WHM.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Heehee. *signs!* Ceh made a good point below (that there's more than my hate to be concerned about here), so we're going to have to be a little more careful about trying this.

Though of course if I stacked my 2hour onto it as well, she wouldn't have to cure me at all~

[yshyn.livejournal.com]

The mob does occasionally come for me, you just don't remember. ;) It usually only happens if Ashn accidentally misses an Utsusemi cast and then gets interrupted, his HP is in a constant state of dropping and if I don't throw out one cure after another, he'd be eating dirt. The only other time, usually, is if you get hate. That DRK defence of yours means fast damage-taking. SE HP loss is at least predictable. :P

But then my AF gear does include -Enmity. I get an additional -4 if we level soon. It helps. I could also eat food with -Enmity, but it's never available on the AH.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

The mob does occasionally come for me, you just don't remember. ;)

Hm. Might be because I don't play mage jobs, but whenever the mob goes towards you two, I usually figure it's Draque who got hate. NOT because he's a bad player or something, but I always just thought that BLMs get hate more than WHMs do.

The only other time, usually, is if you get hate. That DRK defence of yours means fast damage-taking. SE HP loss is at least predictable. :P

I'm torn between laughing, blushing, and apologizing. :} It's always so strange when I get hate -- almost always it's when I do nothing. No SE, no LS, no WS... just normal hits. Now and then I do get it through my own fault, but those are rare (luckily).

I could also eat food with -Enmity, but it's never available on the AH.

You know Aurian will make food for you, right? For any LS person? Just bring her the stuff needed and she'll synth it. She's like cooking 98 or 99, so she can make most everything.