Bad to worse (FFXI)
Jul. 9th, 2008 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserTitle of yesterday's post was "Wasted yet productive day", today was yesterday minus the productiveness.
Poor Mert, LS THF in our ToAU mission group, wanted me to make him dusk trousers. It was new moon/Darkday. He decided he wanted to try for HQ even with higher synth risk... and the damned hide was lost. Bah bah bah. On one hand, at least it wasn't worth seven million gil like the first one I lost, but... man. I knew it was going to happen eventually. :/ Bah.
For the rest of new moon/Darkday I worked on Goldsmithing Chaser, trying to HQ low level rings to sell. She was 50 or 70 levels over cap, yet she failed over and over and HQed only two. Gods above, what the hell?
However! The day was going to end well! RP was supposed to happen in an hour! But what could I do until then? Hitting wiki, I saw that Tumbling Truffle was supposedly an hour spawn, and he's on the list for that god awful NM quest. So I went out to camp him.
Hour one: No NM.
Hour two: No NM, no people for RP. Hmmm.
Hour three: No NM, one person never showed for RP and it was too late to expect him anymore.
Forty-five minutes later the damned NM finally showed.
Mert found the Japanese take on the quest, which makes amazing sense to me. Quote:
"The reward (59630 gil) is a Japanese goroawase wordplay joke. Dropping the zero, the number is 5963, which when enunciated in Japanese, gives Go Ku Roku San, or "Gokuro-san", which generally means "someone who is hard working", or in some cases someone who has been manipulated into doing a difficult task."
I hate camping NMs. It's my third least favorite thing to do on the game (right after dying and sneak/invisibling) so why the hell is this quest bugging me that I don't have it done? I'm not a quest-obsessed person! If a quest does not have some reward I want, I never bother with it! 59K is nothing, so why am I doing this? Arg!
So all around highly sucky night. Grumble.
Poor Mert, LS THF in our ToAU mission group, wanted me to make him dusk trousers. It was new moon/Darkday. He decided he wanted to try for HQ even with higher synth risk... and the damned hide was lost. Bah bah bah. On one hand, at least it wasn't worth seven million gil like the first one I lost, but... man. I knew it was going to happen eventually. :/ Bah.
For the rest of new moon/Darkday I worked on Goldsmithing Chaser, trying to HQ low level rings to sell. She was 50 or 70 levels over cap, yet she failed over and over and HQed only two. Gods above, what the hell?
However! The day was going to end well! RP was supposed to happen in an hour! But what could I do until then? Hitting wiki, I saw that Tumbling Truffle was supposedly an hour spawn, and he's on the list for that god awful NM quest. So I went out to camp him.
Hour one: No NM.
Hour two: No NM, no people for RP. Hmmm.
Hour three: No NM, one person never showed for RP and it was too late to expect him anymore.
Forty-five minutes later the damned NM finally showed.
Mert found the Japanese take on the quest, which makes amazing sense to me. Quote:
"The reward (59630 gil) is a Japanese goroawase wordplay joke. Dropping the zero, the number is 5963, which when enunciated in Japanese, gives Go Ku Roku San, or "Gokuro-san", which generally means "someone who is hard working", or in some cases someone who has been manipulated into doing a difficult task."
I hate camping NMs. It's my third least favorite thing to do on the game (right after dying and sneak/invisibling) so why the hell is this quest bugging me that I don't have it done? I'm not a quest-obsessed person! If a quest does not have some reward I want, I never bother with it! 59K is nothing, so why am I doing this? Arg!
So all around highly sucky night. Grumble.
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Date: 2008-07-10 01:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-10 03:55 pm (UTC)If you're going to be in an area for something, then just camp the NM for a little bit. They're not useful NMs other than for this quest, so no one should be camping them.
Last night, I got Shadow Eye while I was waiting for help for my RNG AF3 mob, which is near Castle Zvahl.
When I went for my key for Crawler's Next, I sat outside after I got it and waited for Drooling Daisy for about 20 minutes, which is about fiveish Ochu pops. It didn't pop in that time, so I continued on with my business.
I was going to camp Blubbery Bulge when I did my Davoi coffer key, but I died while screwing around and ate a home point.
As for Tumbling Truffle, I actually tend to see him when I'm exping in that area on a low level job, typically I won't take him unless I'm 19 and have my two hour up, though I've brought out my alts to kill it before. => I could just bring Paks out to kill it (with Achika in the party) if I saw it up when I was leveling. If I see it sometime (I still have DRG to take through those levels, and mage jobs.) and I see you on, I'll ask if you've gotten it.
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Date: 2008-07-11 03:08 am (UTC)And thanks! <3
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Date: 2008-07-11 03:10 am (UTC)Oh well, next time I synth for you, hopefully it'll HQ!