Morning posts could be catching on (RL, FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

Getting about 4 hours of sleep a night for the past two weeks is really catching up with me. *headdesks* zzzzz Stupid birds start chirping pre-dawn and wake me up, and once I'm awake there's no getting back to sleep. Plus, the sun comes up way too early and the littlest bit of light would wake me up... except the birds are up before the light, so it doesn't matter.

C'mon back, winter! Please! Make the birdies fly south and make the sun come up later!

Plus side: At least the mocking birds haven't come back (yet). For those who don't recall, those stupid birds make their car alarm-type calls (7 songs repeating endlessly, endlessly, endlessly) all though the night. Sing in the morning, like the other annoying birds? Nope. Sing in the daytime? Nope. 1 AM, 2 AM, 3 AM? Yay! Singing time!

Stupid birds.

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FFXI: I decided to do COR "right", unlike BRD. BRD I just wore whatever armor, no real care about HQ or not. But, like DRK, I want to do COR right. So I spent the evening making HQ Noct stuff. And since I knew I wanted to HQ it, how about signed?

Heh. I forgot what a bitch it was to HQ Noct. I ended up with about 40 signed NQ pieces (no way I'm letting signed NQ out into the world, so they're all going through the AH), including 14 NQ body pieces before I finally HQed that. No signing crystals or GP left. Going to actually have to do a couple turnins on Thistle again!

Unfortunately, after HQing all five pieces I realized I didn't actually need the head. I have a Emperor Hairpin (I guess from NIN? Thought I had sold it) so that's HP -15, DEX +3, AGI +3, Evasion +10 vs AGI +2 for the hat.

I'm keeping my eye open for a Peacock Charm (RACC +10, among other things) as well. Price is higher than I'd like, but it looks like it's slowly dropping. Hopefully I can get one for not much over 2M. (That had been my goldsmithing money for Chaser, but I haven't felt like skilling in ages.)

In the interest of doing COR "right", I suppose I'll level RNG. I like /WHM a lot, and I have /NIN available, but /RNG seems to be the other big subjob for it. Problem is, I'd rather have teeth pulled than level RNG. It's 18 now, maybe I can dump my weekly XP scrolls into it... That leaves BRD with no way to build an XP buffer though. Maybe after I get this last merit point and can spend them, I'll change to doing Besieged for XP instead of LP.

It's amazing how few CORs there are (darned Immortals~). I like to use search to see subjobs and stuff. Last night I did /sea all COR 20-60 and got only 4 CORs. o.O I wonder why it isn't a more played job?

Comments

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, after HQing all five pieces I realized I didn't actually need the head. I have a Emperor Hairpin (I guess from NIN? Thought I had sold it) so that's HP -15, DEX +3, AGI +3, Evasion +10 vs AGI +2 for the hat.

I suppose I shouldn't tell you that you don't need the feet either...RSE ftw!

Hands though. Hands will last you till wyrmal gloves. If you ever get those. =p

I'm semi-knowledgeable on COR, so let me know if you have any questions. =p

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I suppose I shouldn't tell you that you don't need the feet either...RSE ftw!

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Grrr. I actually looked at the RSE to make sure it wasn't better. How in the world did I miss the feet? Bah.

Well, at least both the Noct hat and boots I HQed 1/2. If it was 1/15 like the body I'd shoot myself now. :P

[kelen.livejournal.com]

God, I could have lent you the three pieces you need! @.@ I've been sitting on them for more then a year now.

I've also that level 30, /rng earring (Beaters?) if you wish to borrow. While I'd like to level Cor as well, it won't be for a long time thanks to trying to get rdm and thf up to 37. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

The HQ noct isn't really all that expensive to buy (the couple pieces I checked were only about 20K), but I thought it'd be cool to wear a whole set of signed HQ. See how that's gone out the window! :P

And thanks!

[kelen.livejournal.com]

Yeah. :) I bought it all damn cheap for leveling rng, then just saved it. Hopefully you didn't lose too much gil!

Also, with the Noct set I didn't need more then food to hit well. Me with my lack of accuracy... a peacock charm wouldn't have done much. I doubt you'll need it at all. :) I even had to really slow my shots for getting too much hate on rng, and that was with a gun at the end.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Also, with the Noct set I didn't need more then food to hit well. Me with my lack of accuracy... a peacock charm wouldn't have done much. I doubt you'll need it at all. :)

Ah, hm, that's interesting. Well, I'll get to play COR for a bit before I can even use it, so maybe I'll wait and see.

The other thing is, I'd much rather spend 2M on the charm than on goldsmithing. Skilling goldsmithing still feels so much like throwing the money out the window. If I'm lucky I'd get two levels with 2M. :/ At least the charm would be something I could have and hold onto.

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

Body will last you a good 10 levels. =p I haven't really looked in the legs slot.

If you do decide to go /RNG and have a bit of extra money to spend and plan on firing ammo when not using rolls, look for the beater's earring and gun belt. I don't really know what options I have for going not /RNG, but I'll look into that when I start to level COR again.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I intend to shoot between rolls! Got a stack and a half of bullet pounches waiting for me~! We're pretty much decided on me going /WHM though, for added support.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I think the lack of sleep has gone to my brain. Not only do I have RSE feet, I have leaping boots as well. ><

Basically last night's thought process went like: Ooo, new moon! And HQ is good! Yay all HQ noct! *synthsynthsynth, no checking, just synth!* 9.9

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

Achika's right, feet are only good if you're THF and lack Leaping/Bounding boots :x If you're approaching COR like RNG, pieces you might want to look at are Genin Earring (if you have /NIN) or Beater Earring (if you have /RNG), those are the lvl30 subjob activated earrings. There's also a Beater's Mantle that "Enhances Rapid Shot activation" if I'm remembering correctly, but it might be on the spendy side still and I'm not sure it's worth the gil. You really only notice Rapid Shot if you're standing there firing off a lot of bullets. COR struck me as a job that's always on it's toes and might not have the luxury to stand there and shoot for very long. The back of my brain is telling me there was some neckpiece other than Peacock I thought wouldn't be bad, but heck of I can remember what it is right now.

As for finding only 4 CORs, I'd think the job would be a lot like BRD or RDM in that the people stay /anon when they don't want to XP so that they aren't hammered with requests to come be a Refresh Whore :x Just as doing a /sea of WHM hardly gives an accurate picture after lvl25 or so >.>;

As for RNG, at least the job has the option of going pretty far solo and SE has handed out those spiffy XP rings. Could go on a worm killing rampage and just get it overwith or XP it like normal. Aven proved recently that the job gets invites pretty quickly now. Just forego skilling Archery at all and only work on Marksmanship. On a plus side, it'd give you a headstart on that for your COR!

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

I've actually been wearing nomad's mantle for the AGI+3 over the beater's mantle, but that's my opinion. =o I'm pretty much decked out in anything that can boost my accuracy and damage. =o

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

Nomad's isn't bad at all :3 Though, as I noted, Beater's Mantle might not be the best choice, but I wanted Thistle to be aware that it is out there. Often the hardest part of gear is knowing that it exists :3

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Let me tell you, I so empathize with you on the sleep thing right n-*zzzzzzz*

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hee! At least you have a good reason for it. :D Yay baby!

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Yours might not be considered as fun a reason, but birds being loud certainly is a good one as well. Even pre-baby, sometimes I could be woken up by any little sound. Now I definitely am.

Contrast that with my husband, who took the baby to bed with him last night and promptly fell asleep and stayed asleep through quite a bit of screaming. While one of us obviously needs to be able to wake up for that sort of thing, dang, I'm jealous he can manage that.