Zzzz, Tuesday

[thistlechaser]

I think my amusement at horrible typing is a holdover from my MUSHing days. I almost love seeing typing so bad that I can't hardly even figure out what they're trying to say -- it just makes me giggle so much! So last night when I came across this bazaar message, I peered at it and then broke out in snickers.



I know "Save a horse, ride a..." is an established saying, but I thought after "ride a..." usually came cowboy? What in the world is this guy trying to tell us to ride? My best guess is "barbarian", but that doesn't make much sense...

So tell me!

Edit: To those guessing "His name", nope. ...or at least not unless he typoed it really, really badly.

[Poll #553071]


In the continuing trend of my FFXI life, as soon as I hit a million gil (my minimum amount I need before I'll let myself start looking for a Thick HQ piece), I find myself needing to make a big purchase. Unlike the bomb core from a couple days ago, this one isn't quite as necessary, just sort of necessary.



My xbow before that was level 30, and I'm level 60, so it was quite out of date. If I used it in static I would say it was a totally necessary upgrade, but since I don't it wasn't quite as important to get it un-gimped. (However, if I can get marksmanship up, I'll gleefully use it in static. Acid bolts? Bloody bolts? Quicker TP building? Yes, please!)

And while I slept very, very little last night (*cry* zzzz) I did have a FFXI dream!



So (somehow) Aurian, Ead, Draque, and I were XPing together on our main jobs. (And silly me was XPing in my AF!) We had two more members to round out the party, but they were shadowy and I don't know who they were supposed to be. We were XPing in... Sandy! We were supposed to be staying in North Sandy (South was too easy and Port was too hard), but Aurian kept zoning over to Port to pull from.

Except her "pulling" was sort of in reverse. What she would do is run off, find a dinosaur-type mob for us to fight, then run back to us and poke/tease/tug us till we followed her to it instead of bringing it back to us. :P

The fights were really, really hard, but no one died. The mobs looked like those minotaur, but much much much bigger.

Comments

[chichiri.livejournal.com]

lol but that makes no sense. could it be a creature of that world?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Not as far as I know, and I'd probably know...

Odd fellow!

[loneguardian.livejournal.com]

Except her "pulling" was sort of in reverse. What she would do is run off, find a dinosaur-type mob for us to fight, then run back to us and poke/tease/tug us till we followed her to it instead of bringing it back to us. :P

*dies laughing* I'm not that bad. ;o; ... Well, okay, I sorta am. That's a lot like what happened last night though. ^^ Only it was me, D, Ead, Barahir, Chipoka, and a randomWHM and we were running all over Korroloka because you kinna can't 'pull' worms. ;3 Maybe we radiated our experience over to you and your sleepybrain make it into dinosaursmashing! XD

Someday, we can all exp together on our main jobs ;3 Someday!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

On your guess at the bazaar comment word: Unless he typoed his name very, very badly, it wasn't that. His name was Pov... something. Like six letters long, started with Po... something.

And yeah, some day we will! Like... when we're all 75 and we can go for merit points? Or something! And till then: capped events!

:)

[aelice.livejournal.com]

I dont think the country song will ever sound the same in my head ever again. :X Damn you.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, sorry! :)

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

You've got the bow, now come over to the RNG-side, Thistle! You know you want to, you like to shot things! Shooting things is fun! One-shotting things is funner! [tempts tempts tempts] You can show Auri how real men pull dinosaurs! Or, something like that X3

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

That thought keeps popping up in my mind. I keep going through the same dialogue. "You know, why don't I try RNG? I love shooting things, I really really want a gun, there's no downside-- Wait. I'd have to pull. So much for that idea!"

It's really funny, but I've gone through that same exact thought process again and again. You'd think sooner or later I'd remember 'pulling' earlier in it. :P

I really, really don't like pulling.

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

But the thing is, pulling really isn't that bad. You're not a slouch at a leadership type position and a puller really controls the pace of the party. It's more than just bringing the mob back to camp (that can be really fun too if you let it be), but keeping an eye on MP, knowing how much MP they'll get back while you're running to camp, etc. You really just get a feeling for it after a while, for how long you can sit and watch your prey before hitting it, and then still get the chain #3 or whatever.

As for the skill of pulling itself, it really just take a little practice and reasonable spacial sense. There are so many little things you learn from pulling that I'm sure other players don't even notice, it's like another layer of complexity to the game. Like, how many players really understand monster pathing and nodes? How many of them can use that knowledge to their advantage to add another 2-3 seconds to a pull just by hitting the mob from a different angle? Or that if they hit a mob from a different angle it'll path through it's linking buddy? I'm sure you're picking some of this up from all the farming you do.

Don't tell me that you have no idea of when certain mobs you've farmed will respawn after you kill them. I'm sure you have a little tickle in the back of your brain keeping track of what order you killed the coeurls in so that you can start the cycle over again. *That's* a puller's skill, and one you'd make very good use of as a RNG. Pssh, I'd go so far as to say that you're already *using* most of the pulling skills you need, you just don't realize it yet.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, all that sounds like fun and I'd like to do that, but my biggest problem (and the thing that would get me killed over and over and over again) is the utter lack of a sense of direction. And calling it a lack of a sense of direction really doesn't do it justice. I've been playing more than a year now, and been based in Sandy all that time, yet I still need to check my map all the time while going through Ronf -- unless I can see the walls of Sandy, I have to check my map.

It's not just game-related, there's something wrong with my brain. I always have to go to and from work on the same route, otherwise I'll get really really lost (and I've been living in this town for five years now!). It's like landmarks don't "click". I suspect that most people learn landmarks and then form mental maps, and that's how they eventually get around a new place? I think I never get to that stage; I can recognize things ("hmmm, I've been here before, I know it"), but it doesn't connect with other things.

I told my THF static that I'd drop out before we hit CN, because the thought of trying to find/remember which tunnel the camp is in makes me want to cry RL.

Back when RNG was still The Hot Thing, I had considered playing the job and just telling people I wouldn't pull, but that never seemed fair to me. It *is* part of the job, so if you play the job you should be willing and able to do it, and I don't want to cheat.

So I'm just going to stick with DRK and hope that one day they introdude a DRK gun. :)

[pomr.livejournal.com]

one day they introdude a DRK gun. :)

So...suddenly I flash back to FFVIII and think of Rinoa firing her dog at the foes off her arm crossbow. :) Then I think 'A gun to shoot DRKs into mobs!!!!! BRILLIANT!'.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

...

Ha ha ha ha ha!

[linmayu.livejournal.com]

I want one.

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Me too!

But only if I can choose whether or not the DRK survives the process, Angelo (Rinoa's dog) did---but I'd like to have the power to choose.

Bonus if I can take an UNWILLING DRK and use him/her/it as ammo! Schweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Kill all the lolDRKs, let the good ones survive.

That's not too much to ask, is it?

The sad part -- I can totally see Thistle going 'Okay, fire me boi!'

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I can choose whether or not the DRK survives the process, ... Bonus if I can take an UNWILLING DRK and use him/her/it as ammo!

Eh, I'm not sure if I like this idea as much now...

:P