A Brenner Christmas (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

LS Christmas party was tonight. I didn't feel like going (I don't feel like doing anything lately, just check my last few posts!), but I hadn't been able to take part in any of the previous years Brenner matches, so I wanted to try it out this time.

Best. Thing. Ever. Crazy fun and I actually forgot about work for a couple hours! :D RDM seems like the best job choice to go on. WHM? HA. COR? Fun but too smushy. DRK? Second choice -- yay DDing but boo smushy. BRD? HA HA HA.

I didn't get to kill anyone (I only meleed once) but I had a hell of a good time making everyone else curse. :D Sleep, gravity, blind, para, slow... Silence mages. Bind people trying to flee away from folks on my side. I learned lots, too!

As much as I generally don't like PvP (the idea of working on a PvP player in WoW makes me twitch), it really was a good learning experience. Two of us went on RDM, and we were basically one on one the whole night (other than when others jumped in and made it two, three, or four on one). I think it'd be different than a PvP server though because we all knew each other and there were no hard/ill feelings or anything.

Hmm, on that note, I think my WoW account turned off tonight. I haven't logged on in a couple weeks, hope I hadn't had anything in my mailbox.

Screenshots!
The day of the update, I made one of the new items. Pretty, pretty Harp Stool!

Dunes Dyna, 4 AFs in the pool at once!


Christmas Brenner! xvolph and I teaming up against that other RDM. :D

After the fighting we had a party in that rent-a-room in Whitegate. I may or may not have gotten a little drunk. *cough*

The hat and subligar were part of my Secret Santa gifts! Eeee! Both were signed, too!

I gave out a metric crapton of MH stuff for Christmas. :D Some stuff for my secret santa, and something for everyone who mentioned MH items in their wishlist post, and I had some as prizes for the "MVP winners at Brenner (decided in a secret vote). Yay cool moghouses for all!

I posted this under a friends lock the other day, because I didn't want anyone to see it before Christmas. I made three of these really cool masks, one for my secret santa, one for a random person who mentioned wanting MH stuff in her post, and one for me! :D

If there's one thing my LS is good at, it's forming lines. Our weddings are always the best because we have nice, straight lines!

By the end of the night, drinks had been flowing a while and things were taking a turn towards adult. Can you blame a guy for wanting a rice cake? Heehee.

Comments

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Nothing says fun like a good line right? (http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/8758/img20071202200230bt7.png)

We once tried to make a W...WORST IDEA EVER!

I know me and achi and some other people have screwed around in Brenner before. I had brought it up about our christmas party this year, I don't know if it will happen but I really hope it does. 18+ people doing to end each other = fun days!

[citizenbleys.livejournal.com]

You won't lose anything in your inbox. I quit WoW for 2 1/2 years and when I came back all of my shit was still there.

More than I remembered actually.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* That's a great line!

And it's tons of fun, I hope it happens for you! We didn't have that many folks (12-13, I think?), but it was still great fun.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh, odd. I thought you lost anything in the mail/AH! I thought the mail was only kept for 30 days. Huh.

Yay!

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad you had fun and Brenner and it wasn't stressful or anything. I'm in the same camp that I'm not fond of PvP, but for once a year I'll swallow my dislike and go for it. I'm not sure I did anything productive other than running around throwing Sidewinders on SAM. I sorta forgot about the flame thingys (hey, it's been a year, darn it!) And I'm pretty sure I have a couple good pictures of the 4 vs. Bean hahahaha

And you're right, that mask is really cool :o *paws* I so want to go to the Mithra homeland ; ;!

[iniadelphinae.livejournal.com]

Is the Wiki link for Brenner any good, or is there some place that has a good guide? I've never been a PvP person, but I must admit I've been curious to do a this job vs. that job with friends (or even THF v. THF, WAR v. WAR, etc.), just for fun and something different to do.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I had zero clue what I was doing! I know there was something we were supposed to be doing with the flame thingies and /quarry, but I had no clue what. Once I did /quarry and got the thing you need to score with, but I had no idea how to use it so just held onto it the whole match.

but I must admit I've been curious to do a this job vs. that job with friends (or even THF v. THF, WAR v. WAR, etc.), just for fun and something different to do.

If you want to just do that and not care about playing and winning (like me, just killing your friends seeing what your job can do is fun!) then you can ignore the rules and just fight.

I haven't looked at the wiki, but I bet it covers the basics enough to show you how to set up matches?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just ignored the flame thingies and focused on the fighting. Seemed more fun that way!

I'd offer to make you a mask, but I know you have no wallspace, too. (I'm keeping mine on my mule's wall.)

[mertondew.livejournal.com]

/quarry is really more of a Ballista thing. It's not necessary at all in Brenner, but it can get you some useful temp items. Petras are only used to score in Ballista, and they're actually more of a hindrance than anything in Brenner because they prevent you from using the /sprint command. Did I forget to mention the /sprint command? It's like using Flee. Petras do still have some limited use in Brenner though. Talk to the Pursuivant and he'll refill some HP/MP in exchange for petras. I think they can also be used to repair a damaged Flammen-Brenner.

Heh, even the things I do less than once a year I research way too thoroughly and take way too seriously.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Talk to the Pursuivant and he'll refill some HP/MP in exchange for petras. I think they can also be used to repair a damaged Flammen-Brenner.

I wish I had known that! The darned thing stopped me from /sprinting the whole first match. (I had used the command while buffing... so I had it the whole entire time. >< )

Can't wait for next year!

[quistie.livejournal.com]

Glad you're having fun in game again! We used to do random Ballista matches in CI, too (well, back when we had enough people for those). I'm not really into the whole PvP thing, either, but I've always had fun in Ballista matches.

Another fun thing is to experiment with some level restrictions. It's such a different experience when everyone is capped at level 10.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah! A couple of us wanted to try it at 10. That'd be crazy. :D