Fast cast! Eh, post! (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

Quickie post because it's late and I think I'm getting sick. Hurts to swallow. :(

The day started out horrible (two hours in the Dunes put me at negative XP), but it all ended well!

Horrible party first: Amazingly, it had seemed like a good party! Almost everyone was rank 5 or over, two NINs (me and another one), BRD.

Puller (who just happened to be a DRK 9.9) : What should I pull?
Party: Crabs.
Puller: lol crabs would give gay xp lol lol lol lets do pugs or gobs! lol lol lol
Party: Pugs and gobs would eat us alive, get a crab.
Puller: lol gob incoming!
Gob: Heh heh heh! *drops bomb*
Party: *dies*
Puller: lol so funny!
WHM: *HPs, disbands, logs out*
Party: *disbands*
Thistle: *throws himself on his own sword*

As if that wasn't bad enough, one of the mages somehow mis-cast onto a nearby pug while we were all dying.
What the hell does this mean? (He corrected "cas" to "cast" in the next line, but still: Buh?)


After that I sent an hour and a half seeking (WTF? When yesterday I was getting four invites an hour while not seeking). I was about to give up when the NIN from the earlier party invited me. It was so amazingly crazy! We bounced hate back and forth, which mostly worked out well (he died once, poor fellow). The job requires way too much attention though, I can't talk on LS (or even read it, mostly), can't listen to the TV (let alone glance at it now and then). Fun, but way too crazy.

However... once I was done partying, I upgraded all my armor. Nearly everything I bought is HQ (one HQed piece I wanted wasn't for sale anywhere, and I failed to HQ it myself), and now I'm swimming in +eva. Hopefully that'll help! :D I do like the job a lot, it's just that tanking takes a ton of energy and even more attention. Can't wait to try it again. :D

And in there somewhere I XPed my NPC. He hit 53! But best of all: Gunnar is finally in a Noble's Tunic! Eee! Doesn't it look good? One of the best body armors for mages, and I have it for my NPC! I locked the body slot, I just hope it doesn't somehow come unlocked on its own.

Ha ha, I always fail at making short/quick posts. I should give up on trying. :P

Comments

[draymor.livejournal.com]

I always fail at making short/quick posts. I should give up on trying. :P
Does that mean we should expect to get your journal in book or e-book form from now on? :P

[draymor.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, by EVAS+ I assume you have the Bone +1 set, IIRC those have like -5 fire resistance for each piece, so uh... be careful around goblins or stuff with fire attacks XD

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ack! Ha! I hadn't even thought of that. Gob drops bomb, Thistle go boom! :P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Nope, just without the 'this will be short!' claim at the top. Maybe. :P

[loneguardian.livejournal.com]

I got two neat pictures tonight. ^^ One when we were racing to cast Teleport-Mea (http://www.silverbuck.com/images/ffxi/casting1.jpg) and then our our cool, sparkly tie (http://www.silverbuck.com/images/ffxi/casting2.jpg) (even if it didn't use your MP XD)! I'm particularly fond of the second one. I like how your profile is just barely visible through the energy. :3

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oooh, those came out nice! I took a couple of us as mithra girls (eee, kittens!), but they didn't come out too well.

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

Pug?

[sukashi.livejournal.com]

If only we could beat up pugs in FFXI. ; ;

Glad to hear that your journey through the Dunes had at least a decent ending :) Just be sure to take care of yourself in real life! D:

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

Aww, why would you wanna hurt a Puggy?

Ps. I am so confused about this Pug business xD;

[draymor.livejournal.com]

Pug is short for Pugils. It's a [demon] fish [from hell] for non FF11 peoples ^^.

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

xD Ah, that's a big difference! Thanks for enlightening me. As you can tell from my icon, I couldn't help but think of the dog type Pug ;D

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

That's funny. I looked through all of my online screenshots, and I don't have one single picture of a pug. Here's one from someone else's site:

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/images/mobs/ShPugBubu.jpg

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

xD Looks nothing like the dog. Ew~

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha, yes. It's a big, evil fish! :D

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*snerk* XPing on dogs would be highly amusing.

Party: Pull a golden lab, they're smushy!
Puller: Oops! German shepherd incoming!
Party: Escape! Quick!

And thanks, I will!

[who-meh.livejournal.com]

As if that wasn't bad enough, one of the mages somehow mis-cast onto a nearby pug while we were all dying.
What the hell does this mean? (He corrected "cas" to "cast" in the next line, but still: Buh?)

mm shouldn't the target cursor be on a single mob o,Oa? I hope he wasn't using -ga spells...

and now I'm swimming in +eva. Hopefully that'll help! :D

hmm. Well, I can say that you still get hit quite often. Even as a mithra with all that extra +agi and +eva, I still got hit too much. I can't say if it really helps all that much, but I'm sure it can't hurt either! :D If you ever get to level 37+, it becomes much more intensive as you try to switch out shadows from Ichi to Ni and vice versa. o,o;;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Nope, he wasn't using anything AoE. I'm still boggling over how he hit something else...

If you ever get to level 37+, it becomes much more intensive as you try to switch out shadows from Ichi to Ni and vice versa. o,o;;

Yeah, I can't wait to try that. :D

[kriatyrr.livejournal.com]

I must say, Gunnar looks quite dashing in that outfit.

By the way, I bought Matsuri a new video card yesterday, and now my FFXI benchmark results are 1183 on High and 1582 on Low. *squee*

(However, it didn't fix the issue I thought was a problem with the old card - I only get black and white out on my TV, while Lorelai gives me color with the same cable)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Doesn't he? :D

And woo good benchmarking! Yay!

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

Late comment (was on vacation away from computer)...

I definitely agree that NIN is a very intensive job. I enjoyed it but it requires a lot of attention, key-spamming and perfect timing. I'm glad that you're enjoying it :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh, hope you had a good vacation!

It's funny, but I'm really liking these intensive jobs. NIN, RDM, playing things like DRK are boring now!