25 piece for Morrigan's Robe: check
The realization that the robe isn't really anything special without the relic hat that you'll never obtain and that the 11-12 million gil can therefore be better spent elsewhere: also check

Meh.

In other news, I'm quitting my job and going back to school.  Sorta olde news now to my friends, but whatever.  Long story incredibly short, I feel incredibly betrayed by my workplace, and they can all go screw themselves.

In other other news, I'd like to know why the "indifferent" smiley looks like a happy smiley.  Not really accurate.  Shouldn't the mouth be a straight horizontal line, or something?

So a few days ago I'm bitching once again to Ezzelin about my frustrations with Long-Bowed Chariot, the Salvage mega boss that drops the 25 piece I need for Morrigan's Robe.  I'd all but given up on getting this already, due to my utter inability to find groups that can go during available times for me, groups that are actually willing to fight it instead of just farm other crap constantly, groups that are even capable of beating it.  All of these problems combined made it a pipe dream for me.

Was totally thrown for a loop when yesterday after logging on, Ezz asked me to come WHM for their LBC attempt.  I was uneasy throughout the run, because one of our melees d/c'd at the beginning and never came back, and as a result our progress through the zone was a bit slow and we had minimal time for the LBC fight.  We did manage to beat it -- which already made it the best run of LBC I've ever had, considering that every one of my past attempts was a loss -- but our group was half wiped and there were only about 10 seconds left on the clock.  I home pointed immediately in the hopes that they might be able to distribute the drops in time (as per standard Nyzul Isle procedure: if time is very short and you're dead after the boss is dead and you don't have time to be Raised, be a man and eat the HP) but no dice.  Fortunately, neither of the drops was the 25 piece I was looking for, so I wasn't too peturbed.  It it was, I'd probably have shat a brick.  Sucks for them to have lost the drops, but I was incredibly happy to actually see LBC die for once.  I now knew it wasn't an impossibility.

Ran it again today with a more solid group with more melee power, and we made that zone our bitch.  Took out all 10 of LBC's gears (first time I've seen it done, although I have reason to believe the person pulling the gears was using wireframe mode or some equivalent to be able to see through the walls and make the gear pulls easier... oh well.  Trying to find a (likely) windower user who isn't making full use of windower is like going to trade Pokemon on the Wifi and NOT ending up with at least one sharked/duped/hacked/illegitmate Pokemon.  Just isn't gonna happen anymore.  In any event, we dominated the zone, including LBC, without any deaths this time.  LBC still did not drop the robe I'm looking for, but by golly, I'm going to hop on as many of these runs as I can and hopefully it will turn up.  This is pretty much a dream group for me; nobody else wants this robe, so I have no lot competition.

Once I have this drop, I'll pretty much have all the uncertain stuff done.  All that will be left is an easily farmed 15 piece, and a not-so-easily farmed 12 imperial wootz ingots.  It'll take a while, but it isn't anything that I will need a good, dedicated group for.

Pray for me. :O

Way back on March 10, I apparently won some contest on Allakhazam that I didn't even know about.

I was able to pick a prize... free month (or was it 2 months?) of all these other various MMOs that I don't play, or a FFXI Vana'diel Clock.

Needless to say, I went for the clock.  And I just got it today :D  I'm not sure if I'll ever get my hands on a Goblin plushie, but this clock ought to do a decent job at demonstrating my geekiness.

If I'm ever able to get a picture on the internet, I'll put one up >_>

Also, just yesterday, I got my security token in the mail.  Needless to say, I only really got this for the inventory-doubling mog satchel.  Since I recently burned a good bit of gil in order to get the maximized 80-slot inventory, having a whopping 160 slots now is really paying off :D

I wonder if I will get anything in the mail tomorrow...?


Other game happenings...
- DRG to 60, THF to 54
- Up to 320 merits, finished BLM potency merits, unlocked Burst/Freeze/Flood II, unlocked Nightingale/Troubadour for BRD, re-unlocked Dia 3 for RDM
- Nabbed a Goliard hat from Nyzul, making me 3/5 on the set
- Flew through the ACP mini-expansion like a bird... that's really fast
- Switched back to Bastok allegiance once again, solely to nab a Saruta OP warp.  Yes, I'm a filthy Bastokan again

BLM is 4th 75.  Vidohunir unlocked!

It has the visual appearance of Retribution +1.  Considering how Retribution was one of my favorite WSs in the game for appearance (come on, you're spinning a big stick into the enemy's face, what's not to like?), I'm liking this very much.

Yeah, I totally need merits now...
Totally need gil now too...
Still don't have Blizzaga III...
Blah.

BRD's done, making it my 3rd 75.  Also got Mordant Rime for it.  Woohoo!

This weekend I played the hell out of BLM and got it to 73 largely with the help of level sync (thanks Soth <3).  Spent nearly all of my remaining gil getting spells and gear for it, and just based on the looks of my new macros and gearsets and such, I'm gonna really like playing it now at its real level and making it my 4th 75. :D

But I so need to farm now. D:

I might actually have to start actively hunting merits again now.  zomg!

Got back from a 5-day trip to Vegas on Monday...

Only notable things that I got were a jackpot on a Blazing Sevens slot machine (one of the older, simpler slot machines and, therefore, one of the easier ones to hit a jackpot on) and a royal flush on nickel poker, both of which were worth about 200 dollars and change.  The royal flush was what I really wanted to get.  For those unaware, it is the most difficult hand to form in 5-card poker (10-J-Q-K-A, all of the same suit) and is the hand that gives the biggest payoff by far, usually inciting jackpot jingles and fanfares if you're lucky enough to get it.  It was my first one ever, even counting all the time I spent as a kid playing one of those fandangled handheld money-less poker games.  I took a picture of it on a cell phone, which would probably come out totally crappy if I were to get it on a computer somehow, but if I ever bothered to figure out how to do it I might come back and post it here.  I wasn't able to get the royal flush like I wanted to two years ago (when I went there for my 21st birthday), most likely due to the fact I was horribly sick and bed/toilet-ridden for nearly a whole week out of that 10~ day trip... blah.  Oh well.  I redeemed myself here, so I'm happy about that.

According to my mom, this has been the last time her dad (hitting the age of 91 sometime this year) will go to Vegas.  It's kinda sad, particularly since we knew him as a pretty hardcore gambler -- although maybe not as bad as my own dad, but we won't go there.  He's started to do a few boneheaded moves while gambling, such as hitting when he has 21 or has been dealt a blackjack (we had a nice dealer; she realized his mistakes and decided to give him the wins anyway with the approval of the pit boss, but at that point I made him go back up to the hotel room because he was obviously too tired/deluded to keep playing) and holding weird combinations of cards or forgetting/overlooking cards entirely while playing poker.  His overall condition has quickly deteriorated over the past two years or so, what with his dementia/Alzheimer's and incontinence and all... it's actually the reason why our planned trip to Japan this March got canned until further notice; we decided that it would just be too much of a hassle to take him.  It's already quite a hassle just to bring him to Vegas, because now someone always has to supervise him when he gambles, which just makes it harder for the rest of us to go nuts and have fun ourselves.  I'm not sure if he even really realized that this trip was "it" for him; he just has a blank expression on his face most of the time now... he's changed so much, so quickly.

Not much else to report from the RL front.  Oh, I turned 23 years old on this trip, if that wasn't evident.  I never got carded once on this entire trip... makes me feel olde already.  (I did a couple times when I went two years ago, despite the fact that I spent over a half of the trip cooped up in our hotel room >_<)

Got BRD to 69.  One more level before I get to try to slice up Maat with my Joyeuse again, AS A DIFFERENT JOB!  \(o.o)/

Did a pickup Nyzul run last night and saw a Goliard Saio drop (!) but I was outlotted by 8 points by the one other guy that was lotting Goliard, booooooo

Got Black Halo for {Bee}.  No AF/WSNM slackers are safe from my wrath!

I was supposed to make this update a while ago, wheeeeeee
 
Anyway, finally done it.  All jobs 37+.  Technically every sub is finished except for BST.  I'll get to BST... eventually.
 
For now, taking up BRD because
 
1) I want a support job to use when the healing base is already covered
2) It shouldn't be hard to level
3) Already got some stuff it can use, including HQ staves and Yigit body
4) Have way more than enough points stocked to be able to buy a Storm Fife, in case I ever take it into assaults or lolsalvage
 
So far, gotten BRD to 52.  It seems fast, but that's due in part to level sync and due in part to the fact that I "started" at 37.  Being able to have bypassed all the crappy low levels (on all of my jobs!) is quite nice.

BLM or DNC might not be my 3rd 75 after all.

Yeahhhh.  So much for thinking I'd be able to with a new comp.

- DRG to 36.  Almost at my 14th job to 37
- 4x Nyzul Isle wins after what, 3 weeks of no Nyzul?  No drops, unfortunately
- BLM to 66.  Tried Maat however, and he brought me back down to 65.  Like RDM Maat, he is still quite capable of cheesing you to death

God, what a horrid week so far.

I don't really feel like elaborating on it any further at this point in time. I can only take so much of people accusing me of saying things I've never said before it starts making me snap.

Nothing FFXI-related notable to point out. I honestly haven't felt like playing much at all lately.

( Pretty quiet weekend... )

Anyway, the September version update is here. I'll probably blab about it at some point later this week. For now... sleeeeeeep~

God, what a boring week at work...

I've neglected this place for quite a while, it seems. Well, you are all in luck. This week I've gotten SO bored that I feel like finally writing something here again. Huzzah!

( So what has happened in my near 1.5 years of absence? )
Gotta head home from work now.  I typed up too much anyways. >_>

I'll try to update this more often.  Rly.

Spring break is over, I can now update again without feeling like I'm wasting valuable spring break time XD

( This place really needs a 'highlight all your text and click this to cut it' button )

That's about it for now~

Time remaining: 10:20:06

(that's 10 hours)

No better time to finally update this thing, m i rite?

I'm actually rather annoyed with the game right now. Well, more so my mom and the people IN the game, not really the game itself. But nevertheless, I'm quite overdue to put something in here, so here you go.

Nearly 3 weeks ago now, I got the chance to go toe-to-toe with a sky god, Genbu. Solo. I'd had never fought it or even seen it in-game before, but it had always been one of my dreams to take him on alone ever since I saw the infamous Avesta do it. Long story short, I was able to pull it off. Took two and a half hours. I didn't get anything out of it (other than some recognition from people on my server that I mostly don't even know), but since then I have fought it 5 more times with some help to hasten the kills, and I've scored a Genbu's Shield and Zenith hands and crown abjurations. It's the last shield my RDM will ever need, and I am quite pleased with it.

I have some pictures of the fight, but I ran out of room for screenshots mid-fight so I don't have a picture of the kill shot. I have them hosted online for now, but no clue how long that will last, so if you care for em, drop me a line.

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Other stuff has happened since then, but not only do I not remember it all very well, it's nothing I really care to write about at this time.

3-day weekend just wasn't long enough!

Lot of stuff has been going on, but for now I'll detail the "main event" of last week.

( Gonna cut it again because I still think it's too damned long. )

Not too long after this, another big event occurred, one where I finally got to fulfill one of my own in-game dreams. Anyone reading this probably already knows what it is, but nevertheless, you'll have to wait until I can find myself more time to write about it ;D

Alright, I've been home from Vegas for a little more than a week, so what's been going on here?
( Let's see what I can remember... )

That's about all I can recall. Am I missing anything, anyone? XD

Anyway, I'm about all caught up now, at last. From now on you'll be seeing more up-to-date updates, hopefully :P

Big kudos to Vee for showing me the command to make a link. <3 The vast amount this page scrolled before actually frightened even me.

I'm not kidding here. This'll be long. If you don't have a lot of time to kill, TURN BACK NOW.

( I WARNED YOU, DAMMIT. )

If you read all that, you deserve a medal or something. I mean, da-yum. (As long as I get two medals for writing it.)