Another zzzz day (FFXI)
Mar. 19th, 2006 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserHoly cow, this has been a busy weekend. Busy is good, it's just hard to go to work Monday morning after being exhausted by the weekend.
First, a picture for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fealu_bryne! I took a screenshot of one of my macro bars so you could see it. The picture behind it sucks, but this is half of my DRK macros. When I hold ctrl down, I see that. Ctrl-1 locks me onto a mob the party is about to attack, ctrl-2 triggers my Sneak Attack ability, ctrl-3 lets me Steal, ctrl-4 sets my search comment for when I seek parties, etc. I also have a set on alt for DRK (Dark Knight, my highest job). I have a ctrl/alt set for red mage, for ninja, and for other assorted jobs.
Anyway, on to the day! Started out doing DRG AF3 for two people, a total success. While we were there, we killed Death From Above twice for Hornetneedles (one for me, yay!). Then we went off to do our KS30 runs, but unfortunately without our usual tank (he was having bad connection problems). We didn't do as well as we usually do (we lost one out of four runs) and didn't do as many runs as we usually do, but I didn't die and so I call that a success. Got two of those boots that sell for multi-million, plus one of those ingots that goes into a Hauby (~6M), plus a few million in other stuff. Nice money.
Then came the fun part of the day! Team Des Hates Our Name went off to do NPC Promy (killing strays worked out really well), and then XPed/farmed in a new area: Bostaunieux Oubliette! That is so totally the best place to XP NPCs! Nearly as much XP as killing buffalo (I was getting less than 5 XP less per kill), but the kills were easily four times as fast, so we killed a lot more. Plus kindred seals dropped so fast! Yay! Also, so much easier to get to than buffalo. Really, a total success. Gunnar hit 58 and is halfway to 59! I made 1K XP on DRK! Woo!
These screenshots are a little unfair to Des. He held hate well, but doggy butts don't make for good pictures, so most of these are when I snatched hate for a bit. :)
Undead hounds are some of the coolest looking mobs! I love how they move! (Eh, too bad you can't see them in action in a screenshot.)
Hot-hot-hot-thistlelove.com? Heehee. Firebreathing dogs ftw! Or ftbbq?
You can tell a lot about a game's graphics by looking at fire. I love FFXI's fire, it looks so realistic! This is me getting a really close up view of it. :P
The Howling. Yes, we did fight more than hounds. Really. Seriously!
Oops, I almost forgot: This thead had me laughing out loud on every page. A bunch of different forum sigs, all in the "i" format. iLFP, iDRG, iCYBER, etc. Very very funny stuff.
First, a picture for
fealu_bryne! I took a screenshot of one of my macro bars so you could see it. The picture behind it sucks, but this is half of my DRK macros. When I hold ctrl down, I see that. Ctrl-1 locks me onto a mob the party is about to attack, ctrl-2 triggers my Sneak Attack ability, ctrl-3 lets me Steal, ctrl-4 sets my search comment for when I seek parties, etc. I also have a set on alt for DRK (Dark Knight, my highest job). I have a ctrl/alt set for red mage, for ninja, and for other assorted jobs.Anyway, on to the day! Started out doing DRG AF3 for two people, a total success. While we were there, we killed Death From Above twice for Hornetneedles (one for me, yay!). Then we went off to do our KS30 runs, but unfortunately without our usual tank (he was having bad connection problems). We didn't do as well as we usually do (we lost one out of four runs) and didn't do as many runs as we usually do, but I didn't die and so I call that a success. Got two of those boots that sell for multi-million, plus one of those ingots that goes into a Hauby (~6M), plus a few million in other stuff. Nice money.
Then came the fun part of the day! Team Des Hates Our Name went off to do NPC Promy (killing strays worked out really well), and then XPed/farmed in a new area: Bostaunieux Oubliette! That is so totally the best place to XP NPCs! Nearly as much XP as killing buffalo (I was getting less than 5 XP less per kill), but the kills were easily four times as fast, so we killed a lot more. Plus kindred seals dropped so fast! Yay! Also, so much easier to get to than buffalo. Really, a total success. Gunnar hit 58 and is halfway to 59! I made 1K XP on DRK! Woo!
These screenshots are a little unfair to Des. He held hate well, but doggy butts don't make for good pictures, so most of these are when I snatched hate for a bit. :)
Undead hounds are some of the coolest looking mobs! I love how they move! (Eh, too bad you can't see them in action in a screenshot.)
Hot-hot-hot-thistlelove.com? Heehee. Firebreathing dogs ftw! Or ftbbq?
You can tell a lot about a game's graphics by looking at fire. I love FFXI's fire, it looks so realistic! This is me getting a really close up view of it. :P
The Howling. Yes, we did fight more than hounds. Really. Seriously!
Oops, I almost forgot: This thead had me laughing out loud on every page. A bunch of different forum sigs, all in the "i" format. iLFP, iDRG, iCYBER, etc. Very very funny stuff.
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Date: 2006-03-20 08:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-20 11:50 am (UTC)My UI is set up mostly for buttons too, just not based around macros. TAB targets violent mobs, Backspace targets friendly mobs or objects. F1 is my push-to-talk button for voicechat (do you guys have voicechat in FFXI? How the hell do you communicate quickly in the midst of battle? Reading the logs can be a pain when you're struggling to stay out of the way!) and keys 1-0 let me spam spells or actions or whatever. Etc.
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Date: 2006-03-20 03:43 pm (UTC)TAB: Toggle through available targets
F1-F6: Target party members
F8: Target closest NPC/mob
Commands:
/p blahblahblah: Speaking in party mode, useful in macros to notify others of status
/target (stpc): Sub Target Player Character- Allows you to target and interact with a PC nearby without disengaging the mob
/target (stnpc): Sub Target Non Player Character- Same thing as stpc, only limits selection to mobs/NPCs, useful for sleeping links
Those are only a very small number of commands available, and I won't go into skillchaining, it's kinna a pain to understand if you don't play. ; ; FFXI is very different from WoW and really requires minimal communication between players in mid-battle. What information is needed can be very easily put in a single macro (statuses like notification of weapon skills, low MP, etc) that can be tapped mid-fight to coordinate. Some end-game people use Ventrillo or something similar for chat, but I never have, and our group is one of the more efficient around.
Try this to see a bit how a boss-type battle is handled: Sylf's (Black Mage) POV in a San d'Orian rank mission (http://www.cursetheyagudo.org/movies/Sandy7-2.avi)
*stops taking over Thistle's journal now, but is bored!*
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Date: 2006-03-20 05:58 pm (UTC)After using voice, I couldn't imagine how anyone would play without it... but once I stopped using it I saw that it was in fact pretty darned easy. In FFXI, there's not overly much you need to talk about to get things done -- everyone has a role and should know what to do.
For me, my touchtyping has gotten somewhat better thanks to FFXI (I need to be able to watch what's happening on the screen and "talk" at the same time), but on the other hand, my typing sometimes goes to hell and you can hardly make out what I'm trying to say for all the typos. That's pretty darned embarrassing. :P
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