The Starlight Celebration and stuff (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

The Christmas/holiday season has been announced. They have "presents galore" for us, but I'm not sure how the event sounds:

Then we thought, "Who better to find an adventurer than another adventurer?"
We'll employ your services to deliver all the greeting cards we have prepared, which can then be exchanged for a wonderful gift, kupo!

As long as the person is in the same zone as you, I suppose that'll be ... okay. Lots of shouting. Hopefully the person/people you need to find won't be in other cities or something. Sheesh. I hope the gifts are worth it.

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Last night was profitable but uneventful. Went mining (got two plat ores and a gold ore, among other things). Since I can now mine those rocks I need, I can make pellet belts out the wazoo, too. Made five last night, will make more soon. (They sell for 15K in Jeuno, so yay.) The ores and all the moblin bits sold overnight, netting me about 300K. Now I just have to not spend that money... except I have to. :/ I need to buy my level 72 rings, plus a new scythe too. And I have to look at upgrading my GS, but I'm worried what the cost will be so I haven't even checked yet.

I'm very happy I leveled my goldsmithing: being able to process silver ore in the field is highly handy (even if I still fail more than I succeed). It's amazing how much silver ingots sell for, too. o.O

After mining I decided to do something "fun", which I ended up laughing at myself over. I've not seen/killed a NM in a while, so I decided to camp one. Just a simple one: Golden Bat in the Dunes. I killed normal bats for nearly two hours, but he never showed up. :/ While it wasn't fun, it was mostly non-stressful, which was good enough.

Tonight I suppose I'll do another mining run (bah) and then do ... something else. I need to get my scythe of trials cleared too, plus I'd like to skill my GS more...

Comments

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Those red coats are totally adorable, though. ^^

I just hope there'll still be people to do it with if it starts during the week I'll be away. I completely missed Halloween this year, although it was more of a pain than previous events. Still, I kinda wished that I'd managed to at least get a Pitchfork.

I obsess about holiday events. ^^; I always like to get one of each clothing item for all of my characters, plus the HQ for Cydori. Plus, if there's a furnishing, then I try to get the "native" one for each character and all three for Cydori. The egg event drove me nuts, because I was going for three Happy Eggs, three Fortune Eggs (I wouldn't have cared so much about getting one for Rhialyn except that she actually had the eggs for it), and two of each kind of egg furnishing (except for Bastok, where I only needed one).

I'm just really happy that they created the storage for them. Everyone's MH and safe were starting to fill up.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I just hope there'll still be people to do it with if it starts during the week I'll be away.

I have so many mules I bet we could pair up for some!

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Oh well. :) No way am I turning shout back on. ESPecially considering how much more of it we can expect.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe people will be sensible. I'm guessing the event will go like this:

-To start, talk to event mog.
-Event mog will randomly pair you up with someone else who has talked in that game day.
-You two have to find each other, exchange items, then trade items back to mog.

If that's the case, you can /tell the person. But I'm betting people will use /shout as well.

It'll be annoying if you have to find a whole list of people... which is probably how it will be. :/ And finding people who don't speak English will be a challenge, too.

[sukashi.livejournal.com]

omg, those coats are SICK. Must get one. XD It always sucks in the main cities though, when these events happen... /sh needs to be filter, and even then it's too quiet ...

I'd like to get GS up to the point where I can make silver ingots. When I used to mine for ore in the 30s on RDM, I'd always get silver ores, and they were useless, useless, useless ._.;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

omg, those coats are SICK.

Oh? Are there images around somewhere? *hunts*

I'd always get silver ores, and they were useless, useless, useless ._.;

Yes. They sell for just enough that I don't want to drop them, but I hate that they take up space that could hold more expensive stuff! But ingots sell for about 5K (and stack!) so that's perfect.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah ha! Found images. (On pol.com, duh.) Too cute! And I bet Mithra will look hot in them.

Has nothing to do with anything!

[abiona.livejournal.com]

You should add a little section on Resetti the Mole to your Animal Crossing page! XD Man, I miss Animal Crossing ... I should get that for myself someday instead of borrowing other people's copies. O_O

Re: Has nothing to do with anything!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

If I were still playing the game, I could! But I've not touched it in ages, sorry. I see a new one is coming out though! I'm tempted to get it.

[southern-hell.livejournal.com]

I dunno about yours obviously but on my server Balin's is only 20k so don't be too afraid :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh, that'd be handy then! I'll kind of miss the dispel effect, but I'm sure I'll get over that. :)

[2515049.livejournal.com]

In my static, we hated the Dispel sword... the only time it would ever trigger was on Berserking Catoblepases, which we *wanted* to stay berserking. It never worked on the Hobgoblin Toreadors. :(

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Heh! Drat. I've only used it once in an XP situation, and that was against gobs. (And yeah, it rarely went off then.)

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

I just read the write up of the event on the website [snickers] I like moogles :3 I want a red coat. It'll be better than the red aketon I'm wearing now. As for mining, it can be "wtf?" type profitable because of the ingots. It's crazy like that...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I want a red coat. It'll be better than the red aketon I'm wearing now.

I bet the red coat for mithra will look really, really hot. Probably short and... very lacking in material. :D

And yeah on the mining. It's amazing that people mine without smithing (and to a lesser extent GS) skilled.

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

I bet the red coat for mithra will look really, really hot. Probably short and... very lacking in material. :D

If the Mithra coat is like that I'll be forced to wear a subligar instead of the Aikido pants I'm wearing now. Not sure what I'd wear on the foot slot, maybe RSE unless I can find some suitable boots. It's so hard to be seasonally stylish in FFXI D: Though MNKs do have it easy during Halloween with the orange and black ~.~

[mirramithra.livejournal.com]

Oh my, the coats are cute, but the event sounds annoying! Perhaps it will be more like the Trion's bride quest, where you'll get a description of race/gender/hairstyle and try to find a match on that, rather than a named PC. ^.^;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that'd be better! Though like the first Summerfest event it might be harder for some genders/races than others. :/