I'm Baaaaaaaaack

Bleh.


Its been a while ...

I'll blame the IT Dept. at work for my long absence here in blog land,see they "accidentally" unplugged me from the network and since I'm not really supposed to be on it in the first place it wasn't a priority to get me back up since f'n mid October ...


Whats new in Xland? Project Mule is a 64 MNK!
So I'm chugging along leveling the galka when it hits me ... lfg with no craft skills, no subjobs for "maximized" farming potential etc... really sucks balls. I figured I should start up thf and nin for farming/exp choices on him but uuhhg levling nin to 37 is costly no matter how you look at it, same goes for thf. It gets easy after playing so long to go on and on about skill vs. gil and how "as long as you know the job all that expensive shit is pure luxury". Bullshit... well 75% bullshit. Skill a.k.a job knowledge goes along way and for a few jobs plays a very big part, problem is that I should have capitalized underlined and italicized not forgetting to put in bold the word "FEW" but I cant find and option to underline so I gave it a red color the second time around.... How do I know this is true? M' parser whispers sweet nothings in my ear. My mnk is a machine it gives great pride seeing my #'s match or pass everyone else when the final tally comes in. After playing a balance of DD and Mage jobs it becomes rather obvious who and what can get by on a shoestring budget, unfourtunatly nin, thf and mnk dont fall into the realm of cheap jobs, I should also note that after a long history of playing with some of the best gear the AH had to offer it is unbearably hard/depressing to go forth unto the world dressed like a gimp noob.

One example:

Recently I had the great pleasure to party with a second mnk, I was not excited about the prospect out of a brotherhood of the galkan monks but rather that I had the chance to flex my nuts on the parser.
So here we go, same level, same race, same pt and two different gear/food choices.
I failed to check him or I was to sleepy when I did to get his complete profile, but our visable gear was drastic. He wore af except for a SH and his weapon was the Black Ardragas(sp?) I did check him at the beginning and he was still in "walking around town" type of gear. My gear of note: SH, O.Kote, TM Hooks+2, Ven+Woodsman rings, Kung Fu Shoes( dear lord I love these) Tiphia Sting, Brown Belt/Life Chiv Chain, Amehnt or w/e mantle etc.. ooo and my trusty Rep Subligar (yes subligar boy still lives even if the taru isn't there anymore to call him that).

Long story short .... I parsed out twice as much damage and then some. That's right more than TWO TIMES as much damage hahah and imagine I was stressing not having my CC's yet. Blessed with two very good pld's for those pt's the exp flowed and for the first time in a very long time I didn't have to gimp my mnk to avoid becoming a mp sponge.

Funny I still feel gimpy, I cant afford situation swap items so although I do have a decent amount of gil invested in the galka I made my build more of a utility set up rather than an "uber" damage one. The other mnk could out do me on average with his WS' but his normal hits were far under mine and his crits came in a bit higher than my kicks (gogo KFS!).

The price I pay for this sick pleasure? I'm am officially 100% flat fucking broke.
My mules that usually held a few hundred K worth of emergency cash each that I was always anal about repaying and never factored into the usual consumable living expenses etc.. are bone dry. Seems I took a few liberties and got caught up in joy of worry free exp a bit longer than I intended. ^^

My dilemma is this: I need/want to level alternate sj's for the galka, thf, nin, whm. I also need to pound out ZM's and at least complete the prommies. A depressing amount of work to be done at the least, not very cheap either ...

Now on the other side of the spectrum I have a char with all but thf sub to 37+, I have ZM's done, I have prommies+ I have skills and tools to occupy my down time, I have farming capable jobs and levels (other than 20 thf, that's now 28). Fuck it I said and loaded up xylos again, geared up thf and started my exp life as a hume again.

Currently working on thf and rng. I am happy to say I am doing my best to work with non "uber" gear, its hard to get over it but I have to learn how to get by with what I have. So far thf has been fun it seems to require alot from both the skill and gil depts but lacking the gil side of it I'm doing my best ^^.

RNG, why rng? well ... I have 70 WW and the bolt/arrowheads on mules to make in all honesty hundreds of thousands of arrows and bolts, and given the current markets its probably easier in the long run to just level the damned job and use them up at least it would be quicker that trying to sell them, hell I have nearly 4,000 platinum arrows sitting on a mule that cant be bundled (as I found out AFTER skilling on them) I really should just go skill up archery on rdm or nin to burn up the inventory, +15 rngd acc aint bad and being able to cap out archery using the nin would go along way towards keeping my rng skills up to date.

Like thf its one of those jobs that looked cool, but I just never got around to trying. Its also a nifty optional sj for farming/nm hunting.

Hell it looks like the old Xylos is back, rawwwr. I give my self a month or two before I get stressed out and pissed off again. This time I swore to myself that I need to pace it and not just liquidate my good gear to fund another job on a whim, I love my galka mnk too much to ruin his fun.