The FFXI part of the day...

[thistlechaser]

My first event of the day set the tone for the whole day: Since getting the snowmen (ice energy and mega-storage), I set about to rearranging my moghouse. I had WAY too much stuff in it -- well over what I needed for 80 storage. (Part of it was to balance the energies but part of it was also because I liked how it looked.) I spent two hours rearranging and muling stuff, buying and reselling stuff, trying to get my house to the minimum amount I needed for 80 storage and ice energy as well as in some kind of shape that I could live with. In the end I hated it and put it almost exactly back how it was (one bookshelf switched for one 9-drawer almirah and four fish tanks sent to a mule). What a waste of time, except that the almirah-thing looks a lot better with those ice energy lamps I have -- reminds me a lot of Al Zahbi, enough to make me homesick. :}

After that I did my daily game-work and a quest to kill time -- anything to keep me from Campaigning. I'm so not in the mood for that anymore.

As static time grew close I packed and got all excited and happy and bouncy... then it was called off. Unpacked and spun my wheels more.

Eventually I decided to try to skill great axe (not really needed, but DRK can do it so whatever). I had heard tell about skilling on fortifications during offensive campaigns, so I headed to CN_S to try it out. Apparently the fortifications there are only level 35. >< I can't see GC or EN being different level, and when is some other zone going to fall to beastmen, so so much for that plan. Since I was there and it was a pain to get to (and since I had nothing else to do and was annoyed) I stayed there and flagged and beat on the fortifications. Made about 12K XP in a couple hours. o.O Felt like yet more wasted time, but this time it wasn't.

If not for the RL end of things (cooking rice! And getting cleaning done!) this would have been one of those horrible days where I felt like I might as well have been at work. :/

Comments

[iniadelphinae.livejournal.com]

Apparently the fortifications there are only level 35.

I don't know that the mobs themselves are much higher. I generally go to Jugner on RDM/WHM and melee with sword and shield. As it happens, the only skills I don't have capped on RDM (that I care about) are shield and parry. Parry is at 146, and shield is somewhere around 128. Not a single skillup on either, not even on the NMs, and I've had hate often enough that I would have gotten some by now if it was possible.

We'd kind of figured you just couldn't skillup in Campaign, but I guess it's just a really low skill cap. Which is completely retarded considering my ACC sucks on THF in Campaign, even with full ACC set up, and my dagger is apparently well beyond the skillcap for those mobs.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

We'd kind of figured you just couldn't skillup in Campaign

In campaign, if you're flagged and so get XP/AN, you cannot skill. What people do is go to a campaign and don't get flagged and then beat on mobs/fortifications to get skillups. (And mages easily cap healing by spam-curing the NPCs.) However, if you do this and get hate and die, you really lose XP since you're not flagged.

I wish you could skill up while flagged (like Besieged), but I guess that'd be too good. :/

[iniadelphinae.livejournal.com]

... figures.

I'll go fight good old fashioned mandies in Boyhada for shield and parry then. NPC curing, however, I'm all over. Those poor guys in places like GC really get beat down. Healing is the only magic skill not capped yet because I am a Regen whore.

[citizenbleys.livejournal.com]

should do at least a -little- campaigning every week, just for promotions. I'm not doing as much as I used to, and I'm worried about losing out on my Allied rank >

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I seem to be doing at least 1-2 per day, so hopefully that will be enough. (I'm a little worried that the highest ranks might require 24/7 Campaigning to keep your rank, but I guess we'll see...)