COR, screenshots, and such (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

So tired. After too little sleep last night, I made the unfortunate mistake of reading FFXI message boards while at work today. Gods above, do some one-handed and dual wield weapon users bitch and moan! One actually had the balls to complain that a two-handed weapon user who got the best armor possible had the nerve of parsing as well as an average-armored one-handed weapon user! I can't even count how many people I wanted to stab today. Oh no! You mean, gasp and dismay, a non-GAxe WAR might not be the best thing since sliced bread anymore?! Oh no! What will we ever do?!

Mumble. Now I'm all annoyed thinking about it again. God damned people bitching that they're not the very top of the world anymore. Grrr.

Anyway. In better news, we got to 48.5 today in COR static, so we should hopefully hit 50 next week for sure! Real bullets! New abilities! Better armor! The start of AF! And our sixth static member will be joining us as a SMN, which will make Evoker's Roll even more fun! (We're lucky to have a THF, so Rogue's Roll rocks, too.)

Some people like discovering new things; when new quests are introduced, some people take joy in running around and finding all the right NPCs for themselves. Not me, I like sitting and waiting a couple days and then following a guide so I don't do the wrong stuff. Mock me as you will, but if I had listened to that policy I would be much better off now. I want one of the new Hobby Bos (rocking horse choocbo), and one of the things needed to make it is "chocobo dye". Well, having done tons of racing and dealing in chocobucks before, I knew just where to get it! Paid my 50 chocobucks and got... my red chocobo turned blue. >< While he is really pretty as blue, red is better and I needed that bottle of dye! Turns out they put a new option in, and you needed to use that. ><

After static tonight I raced and raced and raced. Between yesterday and today I'm back up to 50 bucks, just need 25 more. Only wish I hadn't wasted those first 50 bucks by rushing!

Info on The Pit looks amazingly great, I can't wait to try it! Gotta catch 'em all!

Dear SE: If you're going to put "treasure" like this in H&C chests, I'm going to have to warn my friends to stop doing it! That could be dangerous!

And lastly, I made another goblin hat for some guy (I like that screenshot -- crafter's POV!). No clue who it was, though I think I made the level 70 BST JSE stuff for them. I'm getting more and more customers, which is really nice. :) (Edit: Eh, watch the guy I crafted for actually reads my LJ and I just totally blanked on knowing him. If I know you, sorry! Brain is shut down for the night. :P )

Tomorrow I must farm hickory lumber for the hobby bo, unless we're doing Dani's farming thing.

Comments

[deckardmagnus.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if I could commission Chaser for a Platinum and Mythril Grip +1 sometime.

No rush, I won't really be in game again til teh weekend and I don't want to get +1 grips while the market is probably exploding due to demand, but down the road, in a few weeks when prices drop a bit... I definitely want to play around with both of those.

Don't bother signing though, since there's a good chance I'll find one or both of them to be crap, and if that's the case, I don't want you wasting GP. If I decide to keep one, I'll recommission it =P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy to send you some for free, but Chaser doesn't have the key item needed to make it. (Chainmaking, so useless pre-grips!) I'm not sure if I'll get the key item for her or not, but I'm leaning towards not. Sorry!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

The first part of your post is why I don't read forums like blue garter, alla, KI, or the wiki forums. People bitch and bitch and bitch no matter what happens and it gets old fast. I have an FFXI forum and every time one of those types of idiots shows his head (one is new there right now) everyone has to gang up on them and crush them before it multiplies.

Although, I think SAM needs a nerf. They were pretty damn strong before, now it feels like they are just overpowered.

As for the dual wielders. Boo fucking who. Go get yourself a light ore and take the non-cookie cutter earring from DM suckers! (That's pointed at those hardcore people like mentioned before)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Usually I lurk around on BG for all the information, now is just a bad time. *baps them all!*

:)

[veri-of-remora.livejournal.com]

+1

I used to be a masochist because I knew how much forums on games drove me N-U-T-S-! yet I still went back, happily lapping up all the BS that flowed so plentifully from those forums only to get up and feel disgusted the entire day.

I try to stay away as much as possible now.

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Well, at least your chocobo matches his name now. ^_~

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, yes! And blue really is a nice color, but... :/

[veri-of-remora.livejournal.com]

I'm glad. I know I have WAR at 75 but I like any kick to the junk to these new-age wave of WARs who think they were created to be the top tier DD. DRKs and RNGs were meant to be the heavy DDs, only thing the WARs were able to do was to exploit poor calculations by SE on dmg in general.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yes. WARs can do so much (tank, DD), they don't need to be the top DDers, too.

Some people want everything. :/