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Lots of Japanese magazine scans here at the gamescore forums thread.

Never expected this day would come where I totally lost interest in the game which I’ve accumulated 320+ days of playing time in.

2 years eh? Time flies.

And my interest got killed by end-game drama. Cultural differences.

Honestly, I’ve prioritized FFXI over many real-life stuff like going out with friends. But is FFXI any different than real life? In FFXI, I hang out with friends and meet new people too.

This could be a blessing in disguise.

I will still log on 2-3 times a week but no longer going hardcore.

I’m really exhausted.

New expansion coming soon! Real soon… Exciting.

And today, a surprise from SE! After an 11 hour maintenance, a version update was carried out. Along with the version update comes enhancements for PLDs.

PLDs now get Shield Mastery, gaining TP with every blocked attack. Increased rate of blocking and increased damage reduction from blocking.

And the next big thing is Auto-Refresh. PLDs gain this ability at lv35 and it seems to be 1MP/tick even for a lv75 PLD.

Now… back to levelling PLD. 

1) "Ai-ai-ai I’m your little butterfly. Green black and blue make the colors in the sky."

2) "Death becomes clearer through bloodshot eyes"

3) "Stars in the night is a natural thing, come see the joy of the light that I bring."

I was rummaging through my old CDs last night searching for a specific MP3 to burn onto my CDRW and listen to while travelling to work. I found a lot of old songs I used to listen to during my teens. Techno, rock, heavy metal, pop, para-para. Heh, I listen to many genres.

Used to play Dance Dance Revolution at the arcades a lot. If you ask me to play them again now, expect a firm "NO!". I feel too old and tired for these kind of stuff. >_>

Spent an hour listening to all those old songs.

Then I came across Kanon (classical music by Pachelbel) and went to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth again. [Spoiler Warning]I still enjoy the scene where Shinji beheads Kaoru and then Kanon starts playing and we see a beautiful sunset.[/Spoiler Warning] Then watched the battle scene between Asuka’s EVA-02 and the EVA Series. Awesome. I ended up watching the whole movie until 3am… Slept at 4, woke up at 7 for work. ( >_<)

I don’t watch mecha animes except for a few special ones like Evangelion, Full Metal Panic, some Gundam. Because most casual mecha animes are too childish or lack detail/realism.

Due to recent unpleasant events in FFXI, I think it’s good time to go back to my old anime watching days. There’s like 300GB of DVD rips waiting to be watched.

I recently finished re-watching Full Metal Panic season 1 and The Second Raid (season 2). And because of this, I’m quite eager to start watching Ghost in the Shell:Stand-alone Complex. High video and audio quality. About time I make good use of my Klipsch speakers.

Yup, until the job adjustments for PLD is applied, I won’t be touching that job for a while. Meanwhile, I’ve been levelling Samurai and Dragoon both as SJs for my DRK. At lower levels, melee jobs are quite simple. Get all accuracy equip and food and just poke things with sharp objects. Report TP and hit your WS macro when your SC partner has enough TP too.

I’ve also hit lv25 for NIN. I bet you’d be surprised to know that I levelled my NIN from 21 to 25 using EXP scrolls gained from escort quests and that rivernewort quest. Hahaha

Staying up all those nights camping Ullikummi with my Sky LS has earned me so much merits that I’ve finally capped my weapon skills merits for Great Sword. I’m eager to see how well I can hit that big ape (Kirin). It’s a little irritating how something so huge, and you’re behind him, can still evade your attacks easily.

I will save the last 2 merit slots for my scythe. I’m happy to be able to break 2000 in Dynamis-Sand’Oria that night. I was using martial scythe, and had 200% TP (Effectively 300%TP). I ate Meat Mithkabobs and had a Bard in my PT giving me 2x Minuet. I think I did Absorb-STR each time. Seeing 2000+ Spiral Hell and the 2000+ additional damage from Darkness SC is great. I love observing the HP bar of my target go from 80% straight down to 0. But on occasions where my Spiral Hell ended up doing 1300~1500 and the SC only deals 300~500, I either survive with very little HP left or I die. ( >_<) Would be nice to have a second tank always in position for SATA.

Can’t wait to get Brutal Earring. For that rare 5% chance that Double Attack procs on my WSes, doubling my damage output. I could break 3000 or even 4000~

My stay at my client’s office has been extended for another week at the request from my client himself.

Because it will make communication between the both of us easier, and I am more productive when left alone without too many other tasks to handle.

When asked if I mind? Of course not~ The environment here is much better than back at my regular office.

1) The old air conditioner behind me is nuts. During hot weather, it would not emit cold air. During cold weather, it would.

2) Every morning when I step in, I would sneeze. Almost. Every. Morning. But for the 5 days that I’ve spent here, not a single morning I sneezed. And the air here is so much cleaner.

Then again, this is a real office building I’m working at compared to my actual office which used to be an old shophouse from the 1950s. It’s one of the row of shophouses along Neil Road.

I’ve pre-ordered my copy of the upcoming "Treasures of Aht Uhrgan" FFXI expansion! Have you? [:D]
Only 2 more weeks!

SE has released information on Mog Lockers. A seperate storage space outside mog house. To summarize what I’ve read, you will have to farm(or buy from the AH) certain items that can only be found in the new areas to use as payment for using these mog lockers.

There’s initially 30 spaces and can be increased to 50, which I believe are through quests. *insert "master of the obvious" pic here*

If you fail to make payment, you will lose access to your mog locker but the items inside are not permanently lost.

I’ll use these extra space to store my PLD equipment to eliminate muling. But, you have to be in Al Zahbi in order to access your mog locker! The thought of having to travel to Mhaura and taking a ship to Al Zahbi to access my mog locker turns me off. Though they did mention that they will allow access to mog lockers in other cities through future version updates. So until then, I probably won’t bother putting much equip inside.

But this still doesn’t solve the problem I’m experiencing. I need more goblin bag quests! ( >_<)

My standard Dark Knight equipment which I carry on me most of the time:
Accuracy set: 13 pieces.
Strength set: 13 pieces.
Spell casting set: 6 pieces.
Misc: 1 vampire cloak.
Weapons: 2 great swords, 2 scythes, 1 dark staff.
Medicines: 1D prism powder, 1D silent oil.
Food: 1D Sole Sushi, 1D Bream Sushi, 1D Meat mithkabobs.
DRK AF2 equip (except head): 4 pieces.

A total of 47 items already for a single job. Throw in Kindred’s Seals, Beastmen Seals, empress band and I’m easily all out of space. ( T-T)

Just… give me 2 or at least 1 more goblin bag quest….. ( TAT)

1 months ago, I started planning for a Divine Might battle with my Sky LS, ShinZenkai since a few of us in the LS, including me, wants the earring.

The date of the battle, April 1st. We started a brief discussion on battle strategy 2 weeks before the battle during our trigger farming sessions.

On the actual day, people who offered to help, did not turn up and didn’t inform me. And some who told me they would help but ended up wanting to do other things instead. I panicked a little at this point. But fortunately, I managed to gather 18 people. A member who previously couldn’t come because of work, was able to at the last minute.

We spent about an hour in Jeuno, discussing the order of killing and purchasing medicines for this fight. We had 6 triggers, meaning six tries at this.

For those who don’t know, this battle involves fighting five Ark Angels and two pets, one wyvern and the other, either a tiger or a mandragora. You’re lucky if tiger was summoned as mandragora has AoE sleep.

Our first run was a trial run. For everyone to know how strong each AA is and for the tanks to know how well they could kite them. We had a little problem at first where after we kill the AA Taru, the melees were kind of lost. Standing around doing nothing. We ended up fighting AA Galka, which is not part of the kill sequence. We wiped anyway. But at least we killed 2 AAs and this made me confident that we will do fine on our second run.

Second run, was the serious battle. After everyone got raise 3, we gathered TP with opo-opo necklace, and waited for night to come. Because at night, our NINs could put on their AF feet which increases movement speed only at night. All 4 NINs we had were kiters.

It was fun, it was exciting. We killed the AA Taru fast before he could use his AoE Petrify WS. This time we had our bard shout out the next target. But most of us already had the kill sequence memorized. lol

We went up to the corridor and killed AA Mithra, had a little hiccup here as his AoE WS hits us hard and puts us to sleep. He charmed our monk at around 1-2% HP I think. But someone managed to killed him somehow.

Next is AA Galka. Not a problem here. He went down without much hassle. The next 2 pets were also killed easily. AA Hume wasn’t much of a threat. We got him low before he Mijin Gakure-ed so we didn’t take much damage from him.

Last one is the AA Elvaan with the coolest looking shield so far. As we slowly reduced his HP, he also slowly reduced our numbers. I think we had 3 deaths here, I don’t know how.

The battle lasted 12 minutes. It felt longer than that. >_>

9 people got their earrings, we had 4 guests, all needed earring. I haven’t chosen mine, couldn’t decide :/ But I will most likely get Abyssal Earring just for Dark magic skill +5.

Two days later, I went on doing the CoP Missions with my static. It’s an easy battle from what I heard. Yup, easy enough that my PT killed Promathia’s second form with 5 people and even tanked it up front without kiting. Because I died early in Promathia’s second form. ( T-T)

It was really depressing. Feels like I’ve accomplished nothing. ( T-T)

Since it was 11pm in Japan when we finished the fight, we only had to wait an hour before we could proceed to watch the remaining cutscenes and finish this storyline. We farmed a few organs and tissues while waiting.

It took us 3 hours to travel around many places to watch all the cutscenes including the last one at Blueblade Fell. The ending is touching. I urge everyone to finish this CoP story! All those deaths and exp lost was worth it. Hmmm…. Anyone happens to know where I can watch the ending again? I want to hear that song (with sung lyrics!) again. [:D]

So today’s the first day at my client’s office. The thing about this place is they have very strict firewall rules. A lot of sites have been blocked. So using my laptop borrowed from work, I did a quick scan and randomly connected to one of the unsecured wireless networks. There were about 10 results, 7 of them encrypted and requires a password.

After connecting, I tried to connect to the router. A screen popped up requesting for a username and password. On that same dialogue, the model of the router was displayed. I googled that to discover that it’s a D-Link router.

Went to D-Link’s website and downloaded the user manual there for this router I’m connected to. Scrolled a few pages to find the default username and password to be admin/admin.

Tried accessing the router again, supplied this default username and password, and "wallah!" I’m in.

This router also happens to contain the login details for the internet account! The username is clearly displayed in a text-field and the password is hidden in a password-field. So, view source…

<input type="password" name="password" value="t3hp455w0rd"> (this is just an example!)

Then I logged in to his ISP’s website, went to customer service and logged in to see this person’s account details. Sadly, it’s only a 256kbps account. I was hoping for a 10Mbps connection so I could use it and leech some stuff.

As the building I’m in is an office building, the nearest home apartment building is about 100-200 metres away. Signal strength: Fair~Good.

Message of the day: If you are using wireless routers, be sure to at least set a WEP password.