Long Post - Lots of STUFF

Molester Coats. I can see why they are called that.  This seems to be a regular saturday morning occurance. I wake up too late for the boat but Jess is always there in White Gate ready to open up that coat of his and suck me and Mav into it so we can get our asses on over to Nashmau and on out to the Testing Grounds for Eye-in-jars.  However the reason I took this picture wasn't really because of the coat. Nope! I took it cause I realized I didn't actually have any really good screen shots of both Mav and Jess from the old days. SO! Might as well start right? Now I just need to catch Ravax doing something silly in Salvage and snap one of him to make the collection complete!

SO! I did my FIRST Red vs Blue the other day with Kallo and ah, some....other....person...whom I totally forgot their name. (SORRY!) Anyhow~ I've never done this Assault and I didn't really know what to expect. Red Vs. Blue you think, ok, Red Mages vs. Blue Mages right? Well that's sorta what it is. But what I want to know, is when the hell did Red Mages get polearms and greatswords!? WTF. I want to use my polearm on RDM! I feel so left out on this. And I would also like to point out that the MALE HUME is wearing his sword on the "WRONG" side, like we Female Elvaans wear all our weapons at. SO! Not just us anymore! 

Needless to say I had fun watching them battle it out whilst Kallo and uh, other person, did...ah..well...I'm not sure exactly what they were doing to be honest. I was the stand there and speak to the NPC and get the box and rune after we're done, person. SO. Yeah. I did absolutely nothing in this Assault. Which, to be honest, was nice for a change, after all those freaking Golden Salvage runs where I was like one of the only ones doin the werks. Kallo helpped when he was there, but sometimes it was just me so yeah! My turn to be lazy! All Right!

And last but not least.... a screenie of a conversation I had in White Gate one day directly after zoning in. My ego skills increased by .5~! It is kinda weird, but flattering at the same time to get messages like this. And it's not generally a once in a while occurance, it's nearly once a week at least and not always because I've been mentioned on LRB either, but sometimes it's just due to the linkshells I've been a member in. So yep! Ego Strokage! 

Trouble In Windurst

So I start out wandering around in Windurst and I fell off a bridge and landed into the water. Well that was sort of a surprise and all in itself but then getting out was even more a surprise! Here are some screenshots of my unorthodox tour of Windurst. 

Getting up out of the water took a little effort, but here I am!  Ignore the dat mods >.> I was feeling sassy.

I found a hill to climb atop to take some screen shots of an overlook onto the green, watery city of Windy. 

This is what it looked like on my map. Note the red dot! That's me! I was off  the mapped area. Yes yes, I used to label all my important quests, like "In a pickle" where you have to retrieve a smooth stone and hand it over to Chamama in hopes she'd accept it for her pickle vat lid (to weight it down, to keep it in place so her pickles would ferment) but you know, 9 times out of 10 that woman was never satisfied. FINALLY She gave me my reward after she accepted the last stone I handed her. 200 gil and a bone hairpin. o.O 

And last but not least a pretty shot of the water and roadside from my off-road excursion.  Anyone else have any weird falling down moments? I want screen shots! Or it never happened!

AFK is bad for you

Sarcasm Heavy!

Yeah. We (read: they) had a circle jerk around Meanie and I just stood around and watched. O.o orrrr something. He was afk and we were doing the tower climb, heading towards that dreadful, dreadful pot fight in Sea. 

So our first two attempts at the pot fight haven't gone so great. Stupid blm pot keeps sneaking back onto the platform and before we can react, he's full health again. I am starting to get the feeling we're about to run into a job problem again. Someone's not going to have the proper job. Hopefully that someone is me, since I am really the only replaceable one in the long run as I've finished CoP already. Paladin didn't work so well when we did it, but that was because our pld kept dying. I haven't had that issue this go around and our main issue is getting the blm pots down before ES sleepga wears off (which isn't very long).

On a seperate note, I've come to the conclusion I don't actually enjoy BLM anymore. It's fun to mana burn stuff, but I dislike doing dynamis as blm. I never know when to nuke or when to sleepga and it's just frustraiting to me. I give the career blms props for it though. I don't think I could do blm every week. Once in a while is all good but not each run. I'd go insane. Although, I'm still going to stick to my theory. I sign up as DRG, I will be asked to switch to every job but DRG. I sign up as WHM, I'll be asked to come DRG. Why!? Who knows. I think Qtipus just likes to torment me and he got Glacian signed up on the train too. (btw Glacian, me as blm pty leader? ARE YOU INSANE?!) Qtipus was pre-empting my dreams of him going into teabagging rehab most likely. Yes. Teabagging rehab. He was a sad drg too. We snickered and then had tea.

And last but not least! Revenge. 

Seeing Red

Ok. So I said I'd never do CoP again. Like. For the long run. Never. Ever. I lied. (Apparently - but does lying to yourself count really?)  Anyhow, I decided that Meanie and Sebion needed CoP. We went onwards in something of a flurry towards Sea. Camping Chip Mobs for the pumps and doing various other missions/quests to save monies for CoP again. It was fun. Not over yet! Still have Promathia to kick ass on. This piccie was taken down in sea lion's den whilst waiting for the airship battles to commence! I didn't get the pleasure of actually helping on that fight because another ... red mage ... took my place.... but you know, that's how the rocks fall. But speaking of that RDM...

I took that after Nyzul one night where no one but Aeredon died. Then after obtaining Sea for Meanie and Seb and Halidar and Pyrros, it came to my attention that Pyrros doesn't actually have any balls! Yep! After getting sea, we came across a UFO and whilst we were fighting it, Pyrros ran away! Without the extra heals, refresh and enfeebs, needless to say we died. Cept Pyrros and Meanie. Meanie just cause he's that damned good. Pyrros cause he ran off to "get the rest of his cutscenes." Yeah. We believed that. Right. Though that's not where it ended. Karma looks after her children and Pyrros had just earned her ire. He spawned the Aerns at the next tower thinking he'd just get a CS instead. Nope! Surprise! Ass Rape! Teach you to leave your companions behind. 

Foiled by a bison

Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam
And the snoll and the varible hare play
Where seldom is heard a delighted wyrm
And the skies are cloudy all day

I've been trying to obtain my cure clogs from this preposterous little buffalo named Bonnacon out in Uleguerand Range but the bastard has been just a bit more stingy than helpful. He's supposed to drop the clogs as well as a scythe but I've not seen either drop and I'm 0/7 right now. It's a dull little camp. Kill buffalo. Wait. Kill buffalo. Wait. Sing a song. Kill buffalo. He's apparently a true random lottery spawn as all sources I've found have no true estimated window for him or spawn times.  Sometimes I've gone out and he's been up, other times I had to kill the place holders for 5 or more hours, sometimes only an hour. Who really knows. I do tend to get tons of Uleguerand Milk which is a nice little regen of 2 hp a tick for a total of 80, and some hides and buffalo meat which used to sell for a nice price, but the economy sucks a lot right now.

 

Did I mention how nasty these things are? Like, hygienically nasty. They have this awful breath that gives plague and eats all your TP up. This beauty has a stun effect on his normal hits, which were smacking me for 200+ damage each. And anyone who says that his accuracy is worse than that of the normal buffalo in the area ~ needs to be pulled with a hundred arrows to the face because he hits a lot more regularly and it could be quite dangerous if he stuns. Shadows are necessary if soloing. 

There's also a wolf that spawns at night up here named Cwn Annwn (strange name) and he'll drop a snow lily which can be used in a few quests, including the one with the Lycopodium guy. 

If you trade Tarnotik a Snow Lily, he will warp you to Mine Shaft #2716. If you are far enough on Return to the Depths, you can use Ahriman Tears instead. You must give up your Shaft 2716 Operating Lever key item if you have one in your possession. ~ FFXI Wiki

So! YEAH! Nice little camp, though very very dull if alone. Bring friends for moral support and campfire sing-a-longs! 

Motivation

My red mage is at level 62 and has been for nearly a year now. I find I've hit some sort of motivation block for this job and I'm not exactly sure why to be honest. I leveled WHM to 75 fairly quickly and BLM to 75 sorta quickly (stupid soloing) but when it comes to RDM I find myself unmotivated to actually hang out on that job and seek for a party. Maybe it's because I'm afraid the parties will be stupid level synch groups only. Who knows. At any rate, I'd love to finish it to 75 just to have it finished. (Can merit it later on) Someone willing to volunteer to push me onwards to that goal?

I want to move onto another melee job after RDM is finished, though I've not decided which yet. Sort of stuck between Warrior or Samurai -- or as I've heard lately, Sam-on-rye. Both sound equally appealing for differant reasons. Any suggestions? 

2009 Statistics

Granted all this likely went up last night, including the deaths after Dynamis Tav. o.o; Remind me to shoot myself later for accidently subbing ninja. On White Mage. -.-; My bad.

It needs no explaination

However it does look a bit racist if you ask me.