Hurry up and wait (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

Was both a busy and a boring day. I (and a number of other people) thought a LS event (killing the NM for that ToA map) was happening today, but it was really scheduled for next Sunday. Since a bunch of us where there and ready, we went out and did it (and will go again next week). Then we discovered that two of us didn't have all the CSs (the guides we used hadn't been complete) so we battled it again!

While waiting for the fight to start, I did that dat/font change. Screenshot that kills two birds with one stone: NM and font change! At first I didn't like the change (I noticed the text too much) but in an hour or three I got used to it, now I love it. Also, I pronounce "Chigoe" as "Chicago" in my head, so it amused me that we were battling Plague Chicago. Easy fight, though the enaspir it had annoyed the hell out of me (at least it was only 3-5 MP per hit).

After that we killed the RNG AF3 NM (tiger) for Beanie. Easy kill. When did AF3 mobs get so wussy? :P The "best" part of the fight (though I know this is a bad way of thinking) is that I got hate a couple times... using my axes. Real proof that my skill is high enough that the axe damage doesn't suck! (At one point it turned towards me while up on two legs, worrying me muchly! Please don't WS me, Mr. Tiger! I'm sorry for calling you wussy!)

After that I had zero to do, so I farmed eles in the Canyon for a while. That turned out to be a good thing!

I got bored of that, so reached the very bottom of my list of things to do when bored: Chocobo dig. First three runs were average: Broke even (barely) on two, lost about 10K on one. That's really the best I can hope for, even though I'm a high level digger. It's sad, but our server has too many diggers. But the last trip out (#4) was amazingly different! I must have been the only digger in the Highlands -- I got 14 elm logs! Eeee! Combine them with the 15 or so I got in the last digging trips over many weeks, and it was time to craft!

I ended the night with 24 stacks of bast parchment and 12 stacks of black ink. I had to pay for the fish to make the ink (I have the skill to catch them, but oh how I hate the "new" fishing system!) I bought... 5? 6? stacks of Nebis at 30K each, but with them I'll be able to make... (oh dear, maths) 12 stacks of ink, 12 synths per stack. That's 144 inks/synths. Each ink will make 33 shihei if I don't HQ or fail. That'd be 4752 shihei? 144 x 33? Doesn't sound like a high enough number, but 4753/99 = 48 stacks. I guess that's right.

Ha ha, have I lost everyone yet? If not, one last bit! There was a Besieged tonight, but it was an annoying one. Yes, still fun, but annoying. I died FIVE times! Used six pieces of sushi! Last one eaten not 15 seconds before it ended. Bah. I can't believe how much I died. Usually dying once is rare, and twice was my record.


A BLU beastman did that, but I have no idea what move it used. Overkill, anyone? (It killed a dozen or so others along with me.) My axe is not skilling up at all, even though I eat sushi and can usually connect. It's 204, which is a little low (my axe and GS were 250+ when I started Besiegeds), but still, I should see more than one skillup in 45 minutes. :/

Tomorrow: Make a kazillion shihei! So yay for having farmed eles today!

Comments

[onionkiri.livejournal.com]

If I remember right that's Radiant Breath, seen a couple other SS's of it doing around the same. It's just the BLUs during Beseiged, I guess they beefed them up or something!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sounds likely. And painful!

[genomeffxi.livejournal.com]

Radiant breath or bad breath, or possibly self-destruct. Both are based on his remaining HP and so they can do a ton of damage early on.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Probably one of the first two. I think the same beastman was still there fighting, once I unweakened and ran back in. ...unless in Besieged they can self destruct and keep on standing. :P

[blaineffxi.livejournal.com]

Amazing interface. How did you get the dats for that?

Keep it up! I love your LJ. ^^

[southern-hell.livejournal.com]

brandson.livejournal.com
If you don't like certain things about it like the cursor, or the menu, I'd be glad to change them for you.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I meant to friend his LJ, thanks for the reminder!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I got it from http://www.ffxidats.com, but as commented below, you can get it directly from his LJ as well. It was an easy change, just one dat file swap!

And I'm glad you like it! :)

[peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com]

Hi Thistle!

Hokay mon, me be needin' ta speak whicha. May I get your e-mail address?

If you want to keep it a secret, just send me an e-mail at peppygrowlithe@gmail.com and I'll reply.

I heart you!

ALSO ITS BEEN TWO WEEKS WITHOUT WORLD OF WARCRAFT AND I'M GOING INSANE PLEASE SAVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

thistle AT hot-hot-hot-catlove DOT com, baby!

And have you been watching the new Pokemon series? It's actually... good. I'm enjoying it, amazingly enough!

ALSO ITS BEEN TWO WEEKS WITHOUT WORLD OF WARCRAFT AND I'M GOING INSANE PLEASE SAVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Did you know it's a proven fact that people can die when away from their favorite MMO for too long~? ;)

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

You silly people, I said I didn't know if I was going to be around yesterday, and that's why I was scheduling for next week. ^_~

Oh, well. Sorry for the confusion, and thanks for still being willing to do it again. ^^

And Beseiged was lots of fun! I did useful things! Okay, I'll be quiet about it now. ;p I'm just happy that going /RDM worked.

[kelen.livejournal.com]

*laughs* It was pretty funny. Everyone logged in going.. "NM fight today!" and I kept going "June 9th!" ...I'd spaced on it being July. 9.9; At least I had the date right?

But yes, I'll happily help again on the 9th. Just make sure that people get all the right cutscenes. That somepage entry you listed doesn't have them all I don't think. After you talk to the kid at the barrels on the dock, you have to go upstairs, above that location, and to the very end of the walkway. There's another cutscene there. :) Much thanks to Aur and Beanie for that!

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Well, it's just barely July, so I keep thinking it's still June, too.

Are there any cutscenes beyond the initial one, the one at the docks, and the one at the walkway? I know I did those three a while back, but if there are more, then I'm missing them. The wiki entry I linked to does have those three listed, but not in much detail so it's fairly easy to accidentally skip over one line and go straight to the part about the NM.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

There were three of them. Under an arch (the one in the walkthrough I followed) then one by some barrels, then one at the end of the dock.

[kelen.livejournal.com]

The link she posted has the proper listing of cutscenes, so it's all good! Just the one I used didn't. 9.9 I checked the Somepage one after finding out I was missing one, and yep.. listed there.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I think the issue was that none of us are used to things being planned more than a week in advance? I heard 'Sunday' and nothing else! :P

No worries! It was a fun fight, I can't wait to do it again!

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was wondering if scheduling more than a week in advance would cause confusion. Now I know. ^_~ But I didn't know if I'd be home yesterday afternoon (and I wasn't) and I also thought something else had already been scheduled.

I'll make sure to add a little extra emphasis if I do multi-week scheduling in the future.

[veri-of-remora.livejournal.com]

nooooo ur using a pick?? whyyyy... lol actually i offhanded a pick too until i got myself a francisca. =P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's the reserve captain's pick. Attack +10 for folks from Sandy! Sooner or later I'll upgrade it, but I spent too many CP for it so I'll be using it for a while first. :P