Here thar be pirates! (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

High points of the day were re-doing the ToAU NM battle and doing the BC battle. For the NM battle the three of us joined forces with three random JP folks, but was still a close fight (WTF? 6 75 level folks (PLD, WHM, BLM, DRK, BST, and something else), and our tank still fell into the red? On a mob that others have duoed with ease?) That set the tone for the day.

We won the BC, but by the skin of our teeth. It was seriously embarrassing, but in reviewing the video I don't see any big reason why it went so badly. We were perfectly fine when the captain and five others spawned, but things went downhill fast then. I think from now on I'm going to go DRK/NIN for everything important. If I had had shadows, I wouldn't have died. (Tank died, I got hate, ate a WS, died. Shadows could have prevented that!) I have no idea at all why I thought I should go DRK/THF. Our DRG (<3 Aurian) killed the captain herself while the rest of us ate dirt, so it counted as a win no matter how it felt.

Depressingly, Naja apparently thinks all DRKs should wear what I wear, because she accepted my clothing right off the bat. That made me even more sad, because I had wanted to have to play around and try on all different things to see what she would like on DRKs.

Other than that mission stuff, all I did was more crafting and muling. Mules are stuffed with crap again, and nothing is selling fast enough.

Digging sucked ass. Seriously. I must have used four times the usual greens, yet still I had to go elsewhere to finish getting my 100 items. (Used ~70 stacks of greens in the Jungle, over the space of three hours. Kept taking breaks and coming back to try to catch a window with few diggers.) At one point I burnt 30 stacks of greens and got only 2 bone chips, but I was so angry and annoyed that I wasn't about to go elsewhere. Very stupid, yes.

So all in all, the day could have gone a hell of a lot better. Bah.

Comments

[genomeffxi.livejournal.com]

Maybe people on your server are reading your LJ and flocking to the same digging areas... You may have to start derailing them to other zones by saying what a great time you had digging in LaTheine and selling all those laun logs for millions of gil =P

The BC was very easy for me, we just let gessho decide who to wake up, and attacked that one. I used 100fists on the captain so he died very fast before the rest of the crew could really do anything, and i had shadows up which always help. I really like the settings in that BC, I even used it in my practice video while choosing what soundtracks to use for mnk/drk, because it's so dark.. By the way, I can't figure out why on my LJ the previous post now shows up so far down the page... Do you know what it could be? I tried everything i could think of but I am not a big LJ expert...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Maybe people on your server are reading your LJ and flocking to the same digging areas...

I do sometimes wonder that. Sometimes I think I should just stop posting about digging, because Joe Random Player will wander by and go "Hey! I can make money, too! I'll start digging!" and so I could be just shooting myself in the foot. But the thing is, I see my LJ as a journal for me, so I can look back in a couple years and see what I was doing. So I'd like to keep it as "honest", accurate as possible.

I really like the settings in that BC, I even used it in my practice video while choosing what soundtracks to use for mnk/drk, because it's so dark..

I totally loved the BC! That you could run around on the ship? So cool!

By the way, I can't figure out why on my LJ the previous post now shows up so far down the page... Do you know what it could be?

The only thing I know that affects that is the time set when you make the post (it shows up at the top of the window). If that time is accurate, I'd guess it was just LJ being buggy. LJ is endlessly buggy and often shows odd behavior like that.

[genomeffxi.livejournal.com]

By the way, I can't figure out why on my LJ the previous post now shows up so far down the page... Do you know what it could be?

The only thing I know that affects that is the time set when you make the post (it shows up at the top of the window). If that time is accurate, I'd guess it was just LJ being buggy. LJ is endlessly buggy and often shows odd behavior like that.

Well I meant the white space in between, you only see it when you look at my entries from my own LJ.
It's exactly as far as the side index goes, maybe it's normal and I never noticed because my entries are usually longer, but it's weird to have so much empty white space...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Strange, I went to your page (instead of looking through my flist) and see no extra space. The only blank space I see is below the "Page Summary" listing, where the entries on the right are longer than the summary on the left. Is that what you're talking about, too? If so, I'd guess it's happening because the LJ code uses tables, and so the table would keep the two sections even, no matter how much info is in the other side.

[genomeffxi.livejournal.com]

Oops sorry I sort of fixed it, by making the number of viewable entries per page 10 instead of 20 as it was before (I might even shorten it more now that I have an index of entries by categories in my user info...)
Before there would be this huge white space below the first entry and above the second entry from the top, buuut like I said that sorta fixed it so I guess that's good enough, thanks for checking it to help me troubleshoot though, now I wish I didn't try to hack-fix it so quickly.. it's like when you try to replicate a problem in front of someone who could fix it, and you can't, and they give you that condescending look =P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Before there would be this huge white space below the first entry and above the second entry from the top,

Strange, I wasn't seeing that at all. All the entries had the same (almost no) space between them.

Oops sorry I sort of fixed it, by making the number of viewable entries per page 10 instead of 20 as it was before

Interesting. I know my flist view is set to 50, but I'm not sure what my main page view is -- whatever the default is, most likely.

Well, glad it's fixed! :)