Category: FFXI

When I first started the game, it all seems like a happy world, no such thing as drama. I’m not good at writing so bear with me. I have too many thoughts on this topic.

Once a while I would come across players who think they’re the only person in the game. But such players quit soon after because they made a bad name for themselves, so not a problem here.

Now that I’m in 75 and involved in a Sky LS, I begin to see the real evil side of the game. Since my Lineage 2, Japan open beta days, I always thought of Japanese players as honest players. But in FFXI, slowly I come across JP players who would insult and make fun of you. These players are in their level 70s so they will probably be around for the next few months/years.

I am fucking glad no member in my Sky Linkshell behaves that way.

I don’t agree with people when they say this is just a game. However, I do not think we should get overly pissed with other people because of what happened in-game. HNMs will always respawn to be fought. EXP lost can be regained through a few fun exp pts (unless you hate your job, but if you hate your job, why play?). It’s not like getting MPKed in-game will cause your real-life lifespan to shorten a few years.

Anyways, a little JP tarutaru /cheered me when I was soloing Olavia’s escort quest. My chat log was moving fast so I missed it >_<. But I appreciate that little emote. Small simple things like this makes the game so much more enjoyable.

It seems to me that some players become selfish and hateful because of other players’ actions. Which is why I will offer help to anyone that needs it, hoping they would understand that not everyone are bad people and learn to be forgiving. OhmyfuckinggodIsaidsomethingcheesysohere’safuckwordtobalancethings.

I want to take this chance to present to you something Mahatma Ghandi said: "An eye for an eye only makes the world go blind."

Last Friday, 全力全開’ｓ Kirin battle went smoothly and we improved our battle time to 1 hour 20 minutes I think. A little more death’s than our previous run because of tank dying, having their hate reset through deaths makes it easier for BLMs to get hate.

Anyways, the Neptunal Abjuration: Body dropped [XD].

Hellokittie and I had interest in the abjuration, neither of us invoked the 20P rule, so we both cast lots.

I bought the materials for crafting the cursed harness. Everything costs 1 million. The crafted piece costs 1.4 million. So if I get it crafted, I would save 400,000gil. But alas….

Since there isn’t any oxblood on Jeuno’s AH at that time, I went ahead with buying a crafted piece from the AH. ( T-T)

With the Abjuration and Cursed Harness, I flew to the cathedral in North Sand’Oria to get it uncursed. Ta-da!

My 2.4 million gil Hecatomb Harness….. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

I noticed about 100+ increase in damage for most of my SATA Spinning Slash now. And also around 100+ increase on Kirin for Spiral Hell and Ground Strike, both around 800-999. But still not good enough. Other DRKs are doing 1200-2000 on Kirin. >_< Should work on merits soon and throw them into my Scythe and Great Sword skill.

When wearing this harness, my TP per swing went up by 2%. I usually get 12% TP per swing but now, 14%. It should help solve my problem of always getting 98% TP in EXP PTs and then wasting another 7 seconds waiting for my next swing in order to break 100% TP for WS. In EXP PTs, 7 seconds is a looooong time. ( T-T)

While doing the quest, Heaven Cent, for a little Tarutaru astronomer in Windurst Waters north, I uncovered the secret behind the iron door in the room where Argus spawns…. It’s….

A toilet!

And it comes equipped with a bottle of wine and a keg of beer!! But where’s the flushing cistern!?

This is the first toilet that I’ve found in Vana’diel… I should go on a journey in search of more of these. Before I left the room, I just had to use it!

After all these Vana years of secretly taking a leak among the trees in Yhoator Jungle, behind the bushes in West Sarutabaruta and in Aldo’s room, now I can do it without fear of getting caught in public!

Around 12 months, the time I took to level my Dark Knight job to 75. Which is currently, the highest level one can reach for a job. It could have took me a shorter time if I concentrated on 1 job, but no, some times, I levelled other jobs for fun.

The last exp pt I had, a JP member had an urgent thing to attend to so I didn’t bother to try and get him to stay for the last 2000 exp points I needed to level up. Thus, I got some help and went to do the Port Bastok Escort Quest. The reward for this quest is an exp scroll. Sadly, I got only 800exp from this scroll.

So fuck it. I went to my usual sky event knowing I will get my 75 there that night. I kept looking at my exp bar and try to time so I level up when we kill Seiryu. Sadly, after Seiryu died, I was only 7 exp to next level. (；´Д｀)

Everyone went to farm for Ro’Maeve Water and with no surprise, on the first pot we kill, I levelled up and felt relief for finally getting my favourite job up to 75.

I’ll still continue to go on EXP PTs with DRK, I need to get a good amount of buffer exp (24,000) and then switch to merit points mode and pump some stats. Looking to boost my scythe skill and critical-hits rate for now. I’ll also need to work on improving my STR gear for SATA-Spinning Slash.

To sum it up, I’m looking forward to another year of fun with everyone! 皆さん宜しくお願いします。

Oh yea! Lv 74! My last 2 EXP PTs were fun and productive.

Just when I thought I could use the upcoming National Day holiday to reach level 75, I found out it coincided with the upcoming server maintenance lasting 18 hours. ( ´Д`)

Oh well… I guess I’ll use this chance to begin coding my blog from scratch.

In-game, Glueforever has decided to quit without much warning. Leaving his JP friend and me stressed with decisions in Glue’s Sky LS, ZenryokuZenkai. But we somehow managed to pull through.

A few of the JP members wanted to leave because of Glue’s long absence without a word. And with my failed attempts to contact him, Tesutamento (co-founder) and I felt perhaps the time to disband ZZ has come and August 6th to be “Judgement Day” if I can’t get Glue to log on and speak to everyone.

So yea, Glue did not answer/reply my phonecalls. I told Tesu about this. Suprisingly, he decided to lead ZZ, because there are a lot of other members who have not benefitted from any of the events since day one. But he needs help, which I gladly agree to assist. The other members who wanted to leave if Glue is not leader, would stay, if Tesutamento becomes the next leader. It is obvious here, why no one else besides Glue and Tesu are the best people for leading ZZ, respect.

Later that night on the same day, we made the announcement after we slaughtered Seiryu, about Glue’s decision to quit and the new successors. No complaints to us being the new leaders. *phew*