TV and FFXI and other uncreative subject lines

[thistlechaser]

Yay, Heroes was on again tonight! And I actually enjoyed seeing it just as much as the first time.

FFXI: Yay!

Though that's the end of my fast skilling, which isn't such a bad thing. Now I need to wait until griffon hides are listed (which drop only from Dyn-Sandy) and HQ coeurl hides. I'm sort of semi-seriously thinking about offering to help someone camp an Assault Jerkin if I can get all the HQ hides. (Also wish I could be brave and ask random LSs going in to Dyn-Sandy sell me their hides directly, but talking to strangers is scary!)

BRD static met today, and yay! We all hit 58! Unfortunately I don't have my AF piece for that level yet (it's my AF3), but it's not like I'd actually wear it, so it's not a big deal. Guess I'm going to have to actually get my Castle Z key/coffer though, because that piece is useful and we'll probably hit 60 next week.

XP was amazingly good and easy. We went to the Mire (just outside the mouse city place, steps from the zoneline) and killed crow-type birds, flytraps, and leeches! Was really easy and the XP was so good! (Plus it was fun to XP on unusual mobs, like flytraps and leeches!) We're going to go there again on Saturday. Hopefully there won't be anyone else camping there, but if so maybe we can just use one of the other exits.

Had a Besieged tonight, which surprisingly was the first one I've caught of my vacation. I had been under the impression that lots happen during the day, but either I'm wrong or I've missed a bunch of them. (I know I missed at least one, since the warp taru is gone.) It was an undead attack, which is always tons of fun! :D

I had been looking for mobs, and across the "room" saw about 50 unclaimed ones. I stood there a moment, daydreaming, then suddenly all of them warped right to me and of course aggroed. I went 'eek!' and ran... right into Beanie.

That made me laugh so much! It was like something out of a comedy. Unsurprisingly I died, but I was laughing all the while so it was no big deal.

Tomorrow I have to go farming again. Lots and lots of farming. Funny that I used to enjoy it, but now not so much. Need to stockpile stuff for leather skilling so I can work on stuff when I get the two rarer items, then need to work hard on making money again.

New chick should be born tomorrow morning, and I can't wait! I hope I like her better than the old one. Eh, and hope she really is a her!

Comments

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

I'm never going to chase you again to try to Haste you if you're going to have such a gaggle of adoring monsters following to pound you flat... And it was funny cause you alone had almost every Lamia in the zone chasing you all at once. I'm surprised you made it as far as you did x3;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Of course I did! All women love me~ Even the undead ones!

[pomr.livejournal.com]

How exactly did 50 mobs clump and then teleport-aggro you? :) That sounds almost Cheshian.

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

When the besieged starts all the mobs come through the city gate, then up the stairs and spread out from there. Thistle ran to the stairs when they'd just entered and they all said "Fresh DRK meat >:EEEEEE" and started chasing him instead of spreading out like they normally would. Moral of story: don't run to the front. Second moral: Don't chase someone who has run to the front [bops Thistle]

[pomr.livejournal.com]

This could be a good tactic though! Have people with Flee at the gate, wait for them to aggro, then have them run to a point where tons of Black Magi and Summoners wait to nuke the shit out of them. :) MIGHT work.

Tons of -AGA spells, tons of blood pacts.

Or am I nuts?

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately that was being done when Besieged just came out and SE *SEVERELY* nerfed magic damage to the mobs. A BLM now does 10-20% of the damage to the mob that they should be doine if the mob didn't have ridiculously high magic def :/ Many BLM don't enjoy Besieged because of it ^^; I don't blame them, but it also shows SE's reaction to abusing a game mechanic :x The BLMs used to kill all the mobs before I could even draw my weapon on one. The Besieged would be over seconds after it started and I'd be lucky if I got double digit points while they walked away with the full amount :/

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Ah. Okay. :) So...it has been done, but not anymore. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Basically what Beanie said. :) I went to check the first "room" to see if there were any left there... and there were. Lots of them. :P

[genomeffxi.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't do the "poor chinese villagers with a one child limit"-thing and just check the gender of the baby chick and kill it if it's not the right one o.O (or wait until teen for color and still 'abort' o.O)
Although actually for my next one I might do that to have one of each color.. I am still raising my first one and it went up 2 more levels in discernment since it became adult, I am hoping for two more to level 6 and some special abilities learned for digging too before it auto-retires.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha ha. I said on LS that I wanted to kick it (because it did, in fact, turn out to be male >< ) but it's too cute to kick!