Adventures of a different sort (FFXI)
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thistlechaserSo, as usual, I got home from work and put my RDM flag up. As usual, there were 3-4 other RDMs seeking in my range level. As usual, no invites came in. I went out and soloed a bit (about 75 XP), and an invite came in.
Seeing how I really can't be picky, I accepted it without question. Switched to WHM, tele-altep'ed myself, ran to town, switched to RDM, bought a chocobo, went to join the "party". WAR/MNK, DRG, BLM, and me. A WAR/MNK tank would be a MP drain and there was no WHM, so... it didn't look so hot. The current members all sucked (no one over rank 3, "lol" was used as a form of punctuation, etc), so I told them to get a WHM or I wasn't interested. None were seeking, so a half-hour later I disbanded.
During that half-hour, the idiot BLM almost got killed many times. He kept trying to solo spiders in QSC himself. Idiot.
So I went back to Jeuno, went back to soloing, and got an invite. From the idiot BLM. Now they had a WHM! So begrudgingly I went through the process again, got back there... and now the WAR/MNK was gone. No tanks, none seeking. Disbanded and left.
Lather, rinse, repeat. Soloing, same idiot BLM invites me. Now they have a tank and a WHM! At this point I had been seeking for two hours with no other invites, so I accepted against my better judgment. Unfortunately we went to my least favorite place in the game: GC.
Idiot BLM zones in, runs up and hits a beetle (in a group of them) and of course they all link on his ass and he nearly dies. Zone out, zone in. Six people in the party, including a WHM, and I'm the only one who casts sneak/invisible on people. Including on the mages. WTF?
No one knows where to camp. People fall down random holes. Eventually we get to a camp. One fight: ~80 XP with band. Second fight: ~200 XP with band. Third fight: JP DRG gets out into the middle too far, aggros a beetle. I try to sleep it, but fail (my darned sleeps never stick). It beats me to half-life before I can re-sleep it. Failed again. Luckily the melees come running and hit it (while the bat was still alive) and get it off me. JP DRG goes running up the stairs, aggros more bats, dies. Beetle comes running back.
The floor was odd and the beetle kept running around a ramp to get to me, so I tried to use that to keep it busy while the party was getting killed by the bat. Someone voked the beetle and messed up that plan. One more person died and I start yelling for the idiot BLM to escape us.
He doesn't. He runs up the stairs into the pack of bats circling the dead DRG.
Sigh. One by one, we all died. My first RDM death.
The idiot BLM kept lol'ing and saying how much being dead sucked. Finally, after biting my tongue way too much, I replied to him. I have never, ever seen "reasoning" like this before. Party chat log: What a fucking idiot.
A nice BST and RDM raised half the party and left me to raise the other half. Problem was, two bodies were still under the bats. (The BST moved one bat, but it repopped or something once he left.) WHM HPed. JP DRG didn't respond. Idiot BLM asked if we wanted to keep the party together or not.
Get this: I actually decided to stick with the party. I hadn't gotten an invite all night, and I said to myself "What choice do I have? If I want XP, I need to put up with this."
Luckily the party disbanded anyway, and I warped back to Jeuno. But I decided something: A big, big part of why I wanted to play RDM was for easy, fast invites. To be able to say no to invites. To be able to leave a sucky party if I wanted. If I wanted to do "What choice do I have? If I want XP, I need to put up with this" sort of thinking, I could be leveling DRK!
At that point I decided to quit RDM. And hey, if I quit I wouldn't have to deal with the annoyance of doing AF! And man, every time I saw a DRK in AF I got sad inside because that wasn't me. So I switched jobs, subbed WHM, and went to spend time with Dani. (PLing her party was just an excuse, they didn't need me, but it was fun to spend time with her.)
I calmed down and decided I didn't want to totally quit RDM, but that I was over my "DRK burnout" (or whatever the heck it was). I want to play DRK again. I miss playing it. I smiled so much when I saw me in my armor. My big, sexy sword! My wonderful HQ armor! Clanking when I run! That's me!
So tomorrow I go back to seeking XP parties on DRK. I'm not giving up on RDM, I may go back to it in the future, but first I'm going to go back to my true love. :)
(Dani: I'll still happily help with your AF keys! But we don't need to deal with any for me right now.)
Seeing how I really can't be picky, I accepted it without question. Switched to WHM, tele-altep'ed myself, ran to town, switched to RDM, bought a chocobo, went to join the "party". WAR/MNK, DRG, BLM, and me. A WAR/MNK tank would be a MP drain and there was no WHM, so... it didn't look so hot. The current members all sucked (no one over rank 3, "lol" was used as a form of punctuation, etc), so I told them to get a WHM or I wasn't interested. None were seeking, so a half-hour later I disbanded.
During that half-hour, the idiot BLM almost got killed many times. He kept trying to solo spiders in QSC himself. Idiot.
So I went back to Jeuno, went back to soloing, and got an invite. From the idiot BLM. Now they had a WHM! So begrudgingly I went through the process again, got back there... and now the WAR/MNK was gone. No tanks, none seeking. Disbanded and left.
Lather, rinse, repeat. Soloing, same idiot BLM invites me. Now they have a tank and a WHM! At this point I had been seeking for two hours with no other invites, so I accepted against my better judgment. Unfortunately we went to my least favorite place in the game: GC.
Idiot BLM zones in, runs up and hits a beetle (in a group of them) and of course they all link on his ass and he nearly dies. Zone out, zone in. Six people in the party, including a WHM, and I'm the only one who casts sneak/invisible on people. Including on the mages. WTF?
No one knows where to camp. People fall down random holes. Eventually we get to a camp. One fight: ~80 XP with band. Second fight: ~200 XP with band. Third fight: JP DRG gets out into the middle too far, aggros a beetle. I try to sleep it, but fail (my darned sleeps never stick). It beats me to half-life before I can re-sleep it. Failed again. Luckily the melees come running and hit it (while the bat was still alive) and get it off me. JP DRG goes running up the stairs, aggros more bats, dies. Beetle comes running back.
The floor was odd and the beetle kept running around a ramp to get to me, so I tried to use that to keep it busy while the party was getting killed by the bat. Someone voked the beetle and messed up that plan. One more person died and I start yelling for the idiot BLM to escape us.
He doesn't. He runs up the stairs into the pack of bats circling the dead DRG.
Sigh. One by one, we all died. My first RDM death.
The idiot BLM kept lol'ing and saying how much being dead sucked. Finally, after biting my tongue way too much, I replied to him. I have never, ever seen "reasoning" like this before. Party chat log: What a fucking idiot.
A nice BST and RDM raised half the party and left me to raise the other half. Problem was, two bodies were still under the bats. (The BST moved one bat, but it repopped or something once he left.) WHM HPed. JP DRG didn't respond. Idiot BLM asked if we wanted to keep the party together or not.
Get this: I actually decided to stick with the party. I hadn't gotten an invite all night, and I said to myself "What choice do I have? If I want XP, I need to put up with this."
Luckily the party disbanded anyway, and I warped back to Jeuno. But I decided something: A big, big part of why I wanted to play RDM was for easy, fast invites. To be able to say no to invites. To be able to leave a sucky party if I wanted. If I wanted to do "What choice do I have? If I want XP, I need to put up with this" sort of thinking, I could be leveling DRK!
At that point I decided to quit RDM. And hey, if I quit I wouldn't have to deal with the annoyance of doing AF! And man, every time I saw a DRK in AF I got sad inside because that wasn't me. So I switched jobs, subbed WHM, and went to spend time with Dani. (PLing her party was just an excuse, they didn't need me, but it was fun to spend time with her.)
I calmed down and decided I didn't want to totally quit RDM, but that I was over my "DRK burnout" (or whatever the heck it was). I want to play DRK again. I miss playing it. I smiled so much when I saw me in my armor. My big, sexy sword! My wonderful HQ armor! Clanking when I run! That's me!
So tomorrow I go back to seeking XP parties on DRK. I'm not giving up on RDM, I may go back to it in the future, but first I'm going to go back to my true love. :)
(Dani: I'll still happily help with your AF keys! But we don't need to deal with any for me right now.)
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Date: 2006-01-06 07:08 am (UTC)It's disgusting how some people can get so far in the game because of their job. Watch, TYRAELS (think of something original, morontaru?) will get into an HNMLS, and get the best gear for that job, and be pampered in the next few months. Same thing always happens with crappy players that play highly demanded jobs, and it irritates the hell out of me... hence me going BLM, but that's another story /cough It's a fun job, honest! ._.
Honestly, after quitting for a few months on RDM, I'm beginning to find it a really interesting job once again. I know you're not gonna quit RDM, but it's honestly an entertaining job with COMPETENT players >< Though, it's nice to see your flame for DRK rekindled. ^^
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Date: 2006-01-06 06:08 pm (UTC)Very. Though at least after the fact these parties are good for a laugh. This morning I snickered out loud over just how stupid that BLM was.
It's disgusting how some people can get so far in the game because of their job. Watch, TYRAELS (think of something original, morontaru?) will get into an HNMLS, and get the best gear for that job, and be pampered in the next few months.
Gah, yes. We can only hope that he'll continue to do highly stupid things and will end up getting his HNM LS killed over and over and over again. :P
I know you're not gonna quit RDM, but it's honestly an entertaining job with COMPETENT players
Yeah. I kind of already miss the job some, but I'm just so sick of partying with idiots. (Not that my DRK parties won't have idiots as well, but hopefully fewer of them.)
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Date: 2006-01-06 06:45 pm (UTC)Party wipe occurances usually drops to "rarely" onces people start getting emergency exit spells, kinda sucked that your lifelne BLM was a tool though.
That said, I was amazed while taking BLM through the jungles a while back at just how little people knew about crowd control. I swear I have never seen a sleep spell used on links and whatnot before CN, when BLMs get it at lvl 20. All those deaths from random goblin aggros or blotched pulls, the trains to zones, it'd be much easier if someone remembered to read/update their spell list once in a while.
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Date: 2006-01-06 06:53 pm (UTC)Yeah. And I was kind of annoyed at myself, because I could have hit my panic (chainspell+warp) macro, but I didn't feel right running out on my party. I should have though. I really should have.
All those deaths from random goblin aggros or blotched pulls, the trains to zones, it'd be much easier if someone remembered to read/update their spell list once in a while.
Read them, know what the spells do, then use them. How's that old saying go? 'Knowing is half the battle.'
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Date: 2006-01-06 09:31 pm (UTC)What's the difference between a dragoon and a stripper?
They both dance around their poles, but you'd rather have a stripper in your PT.
*booohissss* >_>
I am working on BLM because I want to deviate from Bard, but now I miss Bard. XD If I level both those jobs, I'm sure I wont burn out. :) I'm going TOTALLY by instinct this time. If it's a bad PT night.. I just hide. I'll bail. Because I'm sure the piper will be nice to met the next day.
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Date: 2006-01-06 09:36 pm (UTC)They both dance around their poles, but you'd rather have a stripper in your PT.
*rolls* That's great!
I am working on BLM because I want to deviate from Bard, but now I miss Bard. XD
I know exactly how you feel. Somehow I miss RDM already, even though I haven't even spent one night away from leveling it yet. Sheesh! :D