Been a while

Just getting a feel for getting back into blogging my tales. I needed a place to put all my goals in one spot, so i thought of this. First thing ABC's should be cheaper now with lowering the cost of limbus, woot.

Total Coins Needed: 300 (Worst Case)

Boxer's Mantle (must have)
Brutal Earring (must have)
Musical Earring (must have)
Loquacious Earring (maybe)

Non Job-Specific Merits: 13 meirts to go!
HP: 5 (2)
MP: 3 (3) DONE!

Sword: 4 (2)
Evasion: 4 (2 i think)

Critcal: 4 (2 i think)
Spell Interruption: 4 (1)

Missions:

Windy Rank 10 (need some BLM's)
COP completed (should be easy on 8-1)
ZM completed (just need the last fight)
ToAU completed. (heard it gets harder later)

I think thats enough stuff for now and would make me pretty content.

Castle Key Farming

Last night I was able to log in to FFXI, despite Tuesdays being an off day for FFXI. Tala and I ran up to Castle Oztroja to farm a coffer key for my last missing RDM AF (Warlock's Tabard). The place was packed, but after a while we finally got the drop. Tala thought I could get the item even as THF, so we stayed there and hunted for the coffer... and hunted... and hunted. It finally popped, but I found out that I did have to be RDM to get the item. Woohoo! 10k gil... and a death when I linked half the zone.

So, the night was kind of a wash. No key now, and no AF. And, we never had time to hunt for the item Tala needs for the next ToAH mission he is on.

But, tonight is another night, and we will see.

61 Warrior

Last night Tala and I quickly got an XP party - which, luckily, seems to be the theme when we are partying as NIN and WAR. Sadly, the leader wanted to head out and fight Colibri in the Thickets. Now, I am not a bird hater, but we clearly were not the party to be out there. For one, poor Tala had to contend with a WAR (me) and a RNG who despite pulling hate every few seconds refused to slow it down and let hate settle back on Tala. So, after a few chats in the ls chat, we decided to drop from the party to be replaced by a PLD and a DD; we then formed a party with a few other ls members.

We headed down to Aydeewa Subterrane and had a great time on crawlers. We had a THF, so I didn't have to work as much about pulling hate with Rampage, but I decided to sub /THF and use my great axe instead. The change was nice, and I had a great time - great axe is now only 20 levels under cap, but you would never know it by my damage. Despite the under-leveled weapon, I still pulled out decent damage.

Tala's Pic

This is what Tala really looks like.

(I'm actually testing Picasa's built in Blogger feature so I can upload screenshots more easily.)

Attack of the Rampage

My warrior finally hit the level for Rampage and it is now mine! It was pretty sub-par at first, because we were camping Lesser Colibri outside of Aht Urhgan. Eating food was out of the question for me, because I kept pulling hate despite Tala's valiant attempts to hold the birds at bay. Then, when I would pull hate the mages would sit stupefied as my hit points went from 850 to 0 (through three shadows too). - Pecking Fury is a bitch.

We were finally tired of that location, and people decided to break up after a few hours of partying. Tala and I immediately put our flags back up and within moments Tala had created a great party. We took the boat to Caedarva Mire to fight Marsh Murre which are plentiful in the area outside of the town (very nice short walk with no aggro). Needless to say, this camp was 100% better than the Colibri camp as we reached over 8,000 an hour with no xp ring.

Everyone in the party did a pretty good job. I kept pulling hate with upwards of 800 point rampages, but we had an abundance of healing power with both a WHM and a DNC in the party so it was a non-stop, zero-downtime fight. We had a few mix ups, however, such as when the DRK used and AOE WS and hit some sprouts - not fun. A few other times I took too much hate and got a beat down.

Over all, it was a great party, and a great XP spot for 54-57.

Here is a parse from the fight:

Time For Some House Cleaning

Well, now that the cats are out of the bag, namely Tala has revealed that she (he) is Flotsam (he)... we can restart this blog. But, I need to update the header, get new screenshots of Tala because the character model is different than the old Flotsam.

Since my character is the exact same one (the old Jetsam) I can leave things the same. Although, I do want a pic of every job I am leveling in AF so I can change the avatar on the right to match the current job being leveled.

Check back soon for updates!

Guess who's back!?

Bonus points to the first person in Moogle Army that finds this post, or figures out what is going on... assuming Moogle Army is around much longer. It looks like it isn't doing well in the membership department, maybe because there are some loud mouth jerks with pearls now who like to assert their high and mightiness over people. New people ask a question and get "lol" and attitude back in response.

Luckily, there are some old, respectable people in the shell that balance out the bad attitudes and enforce some civility.