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thistlechaser) wrote2005-09-13 10:15 pm
thistlechaser) wrote2005-09-13 10:15 pm
When the game stops sucking, I'll stop posting at night... (FFXI only)
Sure it's after bedtime, but once more I'm pissed instead of sleepy. (And no one better blame themselves for this. I'm an adult, I could have refused to go. So hush.)
A third person was needed for the Creeping Doom BCNM, and though I'm a DRK and not the recommended BLM, I was asked to go. I have zero faith in getting much of anything from BCNMs, but I know that the person asking had been wanting to do this and I had plenty of seals, so I agreed. (I'm wording this as carefully as I can. Again, I blame no one but myself. I could have said no. No one should try to take the blame for this. Edit: I'm rereading this over and over. I hope it doesn't sound like I'm blaming anyone. I'm mad at the BC and myself, not anyone else. Seriously and honestly! So no one better feel bad!)
First run: We timed out. The darned mob had no MP left, but we couldn't finish nuking it before the clock ran down.
Second run: Beat it, but got crap drops. Worked out to about 7K per person. (Hardly covering the food and drinks used, ignoring the value of the time invested.)
Third run: Damned BCNM lived up to its name, and we were doomed. One mage died, then the other died. I started meleeing, because that's what DRKs do. I successfully hit my 2hr macro for once, but that wasn't nearly enough to beat it when the damned thing had the MP to still cast Cure III on itself.
How in the hell was me, with my "wet paperbag defense", supposed to deal with this? Slowed, paralyzed, and using the slowest weapon on the game:
My second death in two days, when I usually go so long with no deaths. I'm losing XP on DRK, and we're not going to be gaining XP for another month. I got (another) R3 from Merlee so I didn't lose that much, but I still want to cry.
As good of a screenshot as you can get of me meleeing Bitoso, when I'm in the most butt-ugly armor ever invented.
I know LS people will laugh at this (because I used to wear subligar all the time), but dammit, I can't stand doing it anymore! I looked ugly! I've gotten used to looking so good in my DRK AF and yag hat, it was horrible seeing myself looking so bad. :( (Oh ho ho, can we get any shallower?)
To be fair, the night before this was totally opposite: The LS was the funniest it's been in a long, long time. Yossy in Zubis's collar (*purrrr!*)! Caboose wanting endless hugs! "Friendly orgies" in Merlee's bed! I laughed out loud so much. :) I love you guys, and I'm so happy we can have so much fun when the "adults" are all off doing other stuff. :)
A third person was needed for the Creeping Doom BCNM, and though I'm a DRK and not the recommended BLM, I was asked to go. I have zero faith in getting much of anything from BCNMs, but I know that the person asking had been wanting to do this and I had plenty of seals, so I agreed. (I'm wording this as carefully as I can. Again, I blame no one but myself. I could have said no. No one should try to take the blame for this. Edit: I'm rereading this over and over. I hope it doesn't sound like I'm blaming anyone. I'm mad at the BC and myself, not anyone else. Seriously and honestly! So no one better feel bad!)
First run: We timed out. The darned mob had no MP left, but we couldn't finish nuking it before the clock ran down.
Second run: Beat it, but got crap drops. Worked out to about 7K per person. (Hardly covering the food and drinks used, ignoring the value of the time invested.)
Third run: Damned BCNM lived up to its name, and we were doomed. One mage died, then the other died. I started meleeing, because that's what DRKs do. I successfully hit my 2hr macro for once, but that wasn't nearly enough to beat it when the damned thing had the MP to still cast Cure III on itself.
How in the hell was me, with my "wet paperbag defense", supposed to deal with this? Slowed, paralyzed, and using the slowest weapon on the game:
My second death in two days, when I usually go so long with no deaths. I'm losing XP on DRK, and we're not going to be gaining XP for another month. I got (another) R3 from Merlee so I didn't lose that much, but I still want to cry.
As good of a screenshot as you can get of me meleeing Bitoso, when I'm in the most butt-ugly armor ever invented.
I know LS people will laugh at this (because I used to wear subligar all the time), but dammit, I can't stand doing it anymore! I looked ugly! I've gotten used to looking so good in my DRK AF and yag hat, it was horrible seeing myself looking so bad. :( (Oh ho ho, can we get any shallower?)
To be fair, the night before this was totally opposite: The LS was the funniest it's been in a long, long time. Yossy in Zubis's collar (*purrrr!*)! Caboose wanting endless hugs! "Friendly orgies" in Merlee's bed! I laughed out loud so much. :) I love you guys, and I'm so happy we can have so much fun when the "adults" are all off doing other stuff. :)
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I might go solo some EPs or something to try to regain the ground...
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Random parties at your level -usually- aren't as bad as loldunes stuff. Besides, I thought you were on the leading edge of your static anyway?
And there's always Escort. ;3 Escort+Eco will make up for those deaths easy.
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People will only go to Onzonzo - and then bitch about the torama's.
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And there's always Escort. ;3 Escort+Eco will make up for those deaths easy.
Yeah, I was thinking that, too. I've been doing nothing with that XP other than sticking it onto THF, but I need only one more level of THF ever, so I really could drop some onto DRK.
Besides, I thought you were on the leading edge of your static anyway?
Nope! I'm somewhere in the middle. I was "back of the middle" till we got all that XP while eye farming, then I moved to "front of the middle", but there were still two or three people ahead of me. Ashn was one of them though, so who knows what the new order will look like. Kawaru is like almost a whole level ahead of us all. Ashn had been just behind him. Ead, Ceh, and I made up the middle, and poor Drque was quite firmly the tail end.