Bloo-ooo-oooh, blue, blue, blue~ (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

It's not bad enough that all I post about is FFXI, it's becoming a case of me posting nothing but BLU foo, huh? :P Well, it's nearly all I'm doing lately, which explains things. I did squeeze in some room for other things tonight though! Did the teleport ring quest (yay!), and one or two other quests, plus a chunk of mission foo.

I'm going to have to figure out why the heck I lag so badly in the Woods and Thicket zones. My R number is fine, but my video is ... well, to say "jerky" would be an understatement. Mobs and people warp from here to there and text waits and then comes all at once (which makes sneaking/invisibling rough!). Other outside expansion pack zones do not lag like that, just Woods and Thickets. The city is fine, too. I wonder if it's caused by the same thing as my 'lagging to the point of the zone not being usable' I see in Windy Walls and one of the Ronf zones...

I had amazingly good luck with BLU tonight! Learned Helldive on my third bird (yay!) and Aurian and I both learned Bludgeon on our first Cardian! That left me time for more XPing than usual, and I got from 11 to 13. Yay!

So in the 11-20 level range I still need: Head Butt (Quadav, level 12), Healing Breeze (Dhalmel, 16), Cursed Sphere (Fly, 18), Blastbomb (Orcish Warmachine, 18), Blood Drain (Bat Family [Not BatS], 20), and Claw Cyclone (Tiger, 20).

I think my plan for tomorrow is to go to Bastok and get Head Butt and XP another level, then go to the Canyon and try to get Healing Breeze. I'd "like" (HA HA HA) to go to the Dunes at 15, but I want all my pre-18 spells before I go. (And I'm still totally undecided as to what to use as my subjob.)

Screenshots! It's funny, as I sort my screenshots I'm going 'Nah, no one would like seeing that. *delete*' more and more often, just so I don't have to edit and upload stuff. :P Lazy am I!

New sword! I look like a real BLU now! Well, other than the stunning lack of anything blue on me... I do love the sword though!

Ha ha ha! A gathering. A big gathering! *snickersnorts* I spotted that while running through the city. The middle guy is Bigglos (his name is blocked by something big). *snerk*

SPOILER WARNING: Spoiler for ToAU mission foo, I think mission 5? Strange bedfellows. I've always thought beastmen (especially yags) were a whole lot smarter than people give them credit for, but this scene still freaked me out a lot.

I'm LOVING the missions so far! Just great, long CSs in nice safe places! No jumping through hoops! I know that will change later (I'm waiting to do ToAU6/Jeuno tomorrow, so "later" is actually pretty soon), but for now I'm enjoying this anti-CoP way of doing things. :)

Comments

Re: Strange Bedfellows

[philia.livejournal.com]

I've always thought beastmen (especially yags) were a whole lot smarter than people give them credit for, but this scene still freaked me out a lot.

Considering their whole society is based on a rather intelligent theocracy, it's not really shocking that they're more intelligent than they look. ~_~

Re: Strange Bedfellows

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Since both groups are supposedly smart folks, it'd be nice if we could all just get along. They could give us back all of our AF, and we could stop killing them and selling stuff we ripped off their bodies! ;)

[barahir-ffxi.livejournal.com]

Hey.. it looks like a lot of us are getting to be in a reasonable range for a Korroloka worm party... I know you're interested in EXPing in your 10-20 BLU mobs, but a bunch of us could easily fly up to 18+ in an evening with friends. Then go after your BLU skills.

I'll be exping COR tonight for a few hours starting at 4:30pm Eastern. If you guys are interested at all.. let me know

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'd be totally up for a worm party! But I don't know if our times will overlap at all. I get home at 4 PM PST (7 EST) and so if you're going for a few hours starting at 4:30 EST...

[barahir-ffxi.livejournal.com]

Well.. That gives me 2.5 hours to get myself from 11-13 and ready for the worms party^^ If you're game.. I'll see how much time I've got left when you get on later..

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm game! Since you'll be on before me, maybe poke people on LS and see if we can get others to join in?

[barahir-ffxi.livejournal.com]

well thanks to the weather the event that was ot have my wife out of the house tonight was cancelled. No playing today... have fun!! ; ;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Awww, okay! Have fun with the family!

Spoilers?!

[draymor.livejournal.com]

Trion makes me snicker so much. I LOLed when he panicked after his "disguise" failed. So funny.

Re: Spoilers?!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha ha yes. You'd think a prince would be a little better at acting than he is!

And did you catch the line in the Sandy cutscene? Where they talk about him "escaping" to go adventuring in the past? Putting a mannequin at his desk to try to fool people, and next putting a forest hare at his desk? *dies* Our prince, he's none too smart!

[loneguardian.livejournal.com]

Gessho is love! *takes the birdy home with her* *.* He uses big words and goes all ear-droopy when reprimanded~ :D Beastmen shouldn't be allowed to be that adorable.

[barahir-ffxi.livejournal.com]

Uh oh.. a whole new strain of Stockholm Syndrome is on the rise...^^

[draymor.livejournal.com]

But he's -such- a gentleman! XD

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

So NOW you see why I have a lady yag living in my MH? ;)

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to figure out why the heck I lag so badly in the Woods and Thicket zones. My R number is fine, but my video is ... well, to say "jerky" would be an understatement.

While I can't say for certain, I would guess that those zones use a rendering technique that Squenix expects to be implemented in hardware, but your particular video card does not and the driver is emulating it in software at a much slower speed. If this is the case, the only thing you can do to improve it is to get a better video card.

It may also be a bug in your video card driver.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hmm, interesting. My card (and all hardware) met the requirements posted on thier site back when I first got the game, but maybe I've fallen behind since then.

I'm going to try turning off weather, shadows, and anything else I can find before I enter those zones again.

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

I'm going to try turning off weather, shadows, and anything else I can find before I enter those zones again.

You can try that, but I think it's something specific about the landscape of those zones. My suspicion is that it's the large number of trees/foliage. Do you have a similar problem in Jugner Forest or Elshimo?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Jugner yes. To the point where I avoid the zone as much as I can. Jugner and Windy Walls are the two worst zones in the game for me. (I suspect Walls is caused by the "details" of having all those slats in the boardwalks.)

Elshimo, on the other hand, is perfectly fine. And oddly One Ronf is really bad (as bad as Jugner) and the other Ronf is 100% fine.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hmm, interesting. My card (and all hardware) met the requirements posted on thier site back when I first got the game, but maybe I've fallen behind since then.

I'm going to try turning off weather, shadows, and anything else I can find before I enter those zones again.