Most productive day on FFXI ever? (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

It's kind of ironic: I was feeling awful because yesterday I did nothing but watch TV. I was logged in on-game from morning until night, but I literally did nothing. Today made up for it, in spades! I did so many big things today that by the end of the day I had totally forgot about the morning's accomplishments! It's only when I went to edit screenshots that I went 'Oh yeah...'. Heehee. In order of them happening:

Smallest thing happened first: Hi, Leaping Lizzy! I never camp her, just snag her when I spot her while riding by. 0/3 on her boots, but as I have leaping boots it really doesn't matter, I just like killing her. :)

A Besieged was building, but I jumped over to Chaser to do her guild turnin first.

150K GP! Yay! All she needs is 3 more gold levels then she can get her Fool's Gold! Yay!

After Besieged we scurried off to fight Fenrir again.

Woo! The puppy is mine! But I wouldn't have time to summon him and check him out until much later...

A LS we sometimes work with was doing a Divine Might run, and so a couple of us went with them. I was really nervous excited, as usually I spend days before big events worrying and fretting planning and making sure I'm ready. One of the biggest things I've done, happening at the drop of a hat! Eek!

Plus, you know, the whole 'being in Sky' thing. Sky is scary! Even just getting to Sky is scary! Hopefully I won't have to ever go back again soon. :P

At first it didn't look like we'd be able to beat the BC. Our first try was just... not good. I think we got two killed before we got kicked out? But the second time we did a better order and it worked out! (First time we did the elvaan first, second time we did galka and then mithra.) Plus I think the pulls were cleaner the second time (the first time we ended up with four of them on top of us at once).

The fights were really really really exciting! And I was actually pleased at how I did (usually I think I suck and I kick myself muchly afterwards). I got the killing blow on one of them, and did good damage overall. But most exciting was that I tanked the elvaan chick for what felt like forever! But was at least a good long while. :P I got lucky and was able to keep shadows up a lot, plus against non-undead mobs DRK has a number of ways to keep itself on its feet. It was so much fun. :)

Usually I hate dying more than anything, but somehow that was part of the fun. I died 8? 9? times, thousands of XP lost, but still: I was grinning for hours after!

Unfortunately I took almost no screenshots mid-battle (was way way way too busy), but I got some good ones from the CSs!
Smirky mithra! But she wasn't smirky for long:


Ha ha ha, Miss Pretty Elvaan Lady, how'd you like being tanked by a DRK~?

All of them together. Such sexy, sexy armor!

One battle scene -- I just took a couple right at the end, when it was pretty clear we were going to win. :)

And it ended with:
It's just so amazing that I got this fight done. :) It was one of those things I was sure I would never accomplish in the game. :) Heehee, I'm still grinning that we actually did it. :)

And as if that wasn't enough! Nyiri invited folks out to skill up, so I grabbed 35 stacks of bolts and headed out to join her!

Blast Shot is so amazingly sexy when done by a hume with a gun. I just wish Corsair got the WS, as I'll never do it in-game otherwise. :/ But if you have a modelviewer, check it out! It's so so so yummy. (And anyone need 25 stacks of bolts? :P )

Ended skilling with capped marksmanship! Woo! That's all I can do for COR is cap it on DRK. :)

Caps at 200, but have merits and +5 skill from the gun belt.

And last but not least *pantpant* hours later I got to actually call my own Fenrir!
Yay purple puppy! Mine, all mine! If I ever go back to leveling SMN (ha, unlikely) I'll be all set. Or soloing! Or riding him around like a pony!

Such a good day! :)

Comments

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

That explains why you were in Sky. =p

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

You should have poked me and said hi! Or 'WTF?'! I had a bunch of people /telling me 'What the heck are YOU doing in Sky?'. :P :D

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wasn't in Sky at that point, I just saw you in Sky on my flist and said "Well, that's odd." and didn't give it another thought. =o

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh, hee! Well it was odd, yes. :)

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad that you enjoyed yourself. Honestly, I was kinda afraid that you'd get discouraged/upset at all the death with DM. Unless you manaburn it that's just kind of the way it tends to be :/ But the fight is so exhilerating! And the rewards are awesome! So I'm doubly happy that you got an earring and that you enjoyed yourself :3

And sorry for the short notice ^^; I would've passed along the invite sooner if I'd known there were still a few slots open ^^;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I've heard about the DM fight (I almost went when Loth planned one, and studied her plan), so I knew at least one death was needed. After the first fight I was sort of kicking myself for going (because it looked like we didn't have a chance in hell, so all the deaths/XP loss would have been a waste), but the second fight was really different!

And yay earring! :)

No worries on the short notice, it saved me from days of worrying and dithering over it. :P

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

I've never done a "Super Tank" strategy before, so I couldn't really offer any comfort or ideas on how to make it work. Usually they're done more like Wiki describes with multiple people holding mobs and a planned wipe midway through.

Plus it's always more exciting when you're meshing two groups together. Fortunately we got a lot of great players between the two groups and many of them have worked together before on different things. As some others have noted, it was a nice drama-free group of 18 people where no one had any beefs with anyone else. That can be silly-hard to accomplish on alliance sized groups sometimes x3 Especially on "endgame" activities like that one. All in all, very happy with how it turned out and have sent multiple thanks to Neresh for arranging it x3 I'll be around to help his posse with the Bahamut fight he mentioned if he gets that off the ground to pay him back :3b

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Lazy. Lazy. Lazy.

Should have gotten 156,000 guild turn in points! Pfft.

J/K! *snug* Glad you had fun!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, that'll be tomorrow! :E

[quistie.livejournal.com]

Congrats on completing Divine Might! Sounds like a really exciting battle to be a part of. I'm surprised that you managed to tank Elvaan Ark Angel for so long. How did you deal with her silencing WS?

And it's good to see that you're having good days in FFXI once again. :P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I had both echo drops and remedies, but I think mostly I just got lucky. It was all kind of a blur!

And thanks! :)

[quistie.livejournal.com]

And you didn't run into Spirit Withins? (Isn't that pretty much instant kill?)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ead took one to the face! But other than that, I don't recall. Much of the fight was one big blur. :P

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

Elvaan was really odd with the WS the first time. In that the mages got hammered with para and silence, but I didn't get hit with them at all o.O On the second round I gave my extra Echos and Remedies out and then got hit with it :P Hahahaha!

And Thistle completely missed the really cool part where he was tanking Hume for a while too! Neither of us got a picture of it, but it was cool, trust me ;;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I wasn't so much tanking him as he was stabbing me in the back for minutes on end while we were trying to take one of the others down. x.x Or was there a time I was tanking him, too? I spent a lot of time staring at my magic menu waiting for shadows to cool. :P

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

There was a time you were tanking him! And you weren't just getting stabbed in the back (though that did happen too.)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh, huh! I don't recall that at all, but I guess it makes sense. With as often as people were dying, there were probably times when no tanks were up/on the mob I was on. :)

[xvolph.livejournal.com]

Congrats on all.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Wow. That was a pretty amazing day. Congratulations on everything. ^^

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[onionkiri.livejournal.com]

Congrats on DM! :D It's always pretty cool to see people do it the old fashioned way. My LS did it recently for all the people who wanted to repick earrings, but of course since we're cheap and half the shell has BLM levelled we wound up manaburning it, hehehe. (I should totally have my name on the record in that SS, since I farmed the pentasphere -- damm Ceph!) Also, I think that fight has my favorite music in the ENTIRE game.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Thanks!