tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291239412024-03-07T02:33:57.846-06:00Dial M for MaunderMain Entry: maun·der
Pronunciation: 'mon-d&r, 'män-
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): maun·dered; maun·der·ing /-d(&-)ri[ng]/
Etymology: probably imitative
1 dialect British : GRUMBLE
2 : to wander slowly and idly
3 : to speak indistinctly or disconnectedlyXyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-28496403285694397522007-02-15T08:04:00.001-06:002007-02-15T08:31:25.306-06:00Happy Belated V. Day.Not much to report at this time.<br /><br />Been studying up on Prommy V. fun fun fun.<br /><br />Went out to dinner and hit the bar for drinks last night. I dont drink very often so I'm a cheap date^^.<br /><br />In ffxi news:<br />Came to the conclusion that I cant level brd and nin and participate in LS events, going through COP crap while trying to maintain an exp buffer on BLM, somethings gotta give.<br />I never really believed people when they sid COP could destroy LS's, Statics, Friendships and cause people to quit the game entirely but I see it now.<br /><br />To Quote someones thoughts on COP:<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" class="postbody" ><blockquote>I like that assesment. I haven't met a player who has completed CoP that I considered to be any less than very good. They were good learing tools for stealth, teamwork, kiting, fast DD, hate control, basically for everything that a good end-game player should have. It's a far better measuring stick and right of passage than ZM ever hoped to be.</blockquote></span><br /><br />Thank god the CS's rock lol .. COP has been fun as hell so far even when I want to wring peoples necks for running into the maze in Sac. w/o sneak on for the umpteenth time. Come very close to blowing my lid over these "random" acts of noobness but we always seem to pull together in the end. As we near the uncapped portions its good to know that some will be forced to play jobs that they have more time invested in and clear up some of the confusion about how to do what needs to be done. And even better yet RR2 gorgets lmao...<br /><br />I cant wait for this to be over so I can focus on my time in the LS again gotta get them points up ^^<br /><br />Also I started a second blog for SS's and one for my renders/silly shit etc..<br /><a href="http://picsbyxylos.blogspot.com/">Xy's ScreenShots<br /></a> For the SS archive<br /> <a href="http://timeplayed.blogspot.com/">Time Played</a> For my renders etc.. going to try to do something weekly like a mini comic<br /><br />Doing this because I live with dial up and post images at work, would be nice to update the main blog from home ^^Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-78605181917947909162007-02-13T07:37:00.000-06:002007-02-13T08:28:39.587-06:00COP 4-3 Complete!Yay!<br />Smooth like silk first round.<br /><br />Went on a second round for a fail. We would have won but some miscomunication and a loss of focus bit us in the ass. I dont mind that some want to be "leaders" of this merry band but they need to listen when spoken to.<br /><br />Break down of fail:<br />@ 1 Telling the blm to sleep ghosts.<br />Now I told them over and over blm+sleep+ghost "can" work (or so i'm told) but its a bad idea on several levels #1 creates hate, #2 "if" it should stick it wont last for shit, #3 if it requires ele seal congrats you just blew a 10 minute ja on 30 seconds of sleep before the blm gets its ass kicked and has 0 chance of it happening again. Now since there was no way in hell I was wasting ele seal on sleep they TOLD the blm joining this round to do it, I told her dont bother and somewhere along the way she started spamming failed sleeps until told to stop by the same ones telling her to do it.... BRD yes, BLM {No Thanks}<br />@2 We lost one voke from win team.<br />This lead to the blm sleep debacle but it should not have affected the outcome.<br />@3 Someone told vip to only tank the pupils.<br />Yes he was supposed to voke the 2 pupils, but miscommunication had him doing only that, not DD'n the prof. How this changed from "Throw vokes at the pupils to keep them off the mages" I can only guess.<br />@4 People forgot to use poison pots and still didnt use them after being waken from sleep.<br />Jesus jumped up fucking christ c'mon. Well I suppose some kept running into maze w/o sneak ....<br />@5 Nin poked a formor.<br />With those damned ghosts teleing around the room its no big deal hell I had a few formors targeted by mistake. The Formors wyvern took a shine to me so that caused my death #1 of 3.<br /><br />We got him under 10% even with the clusterfuck, not bad at all. Hell take away the wasted mp on cures for sleep, poor vip thinking he couldnt engage the prof and aly casting sleep I think we would have won and very smoothly. Oh that sounds like my telling vip to throw vokes and aly not to sleep dont it?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tn3-1.deviantart.com/fs4/300W/i/2004/240/1/9/Brock_Samson.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tn3-1.deviantart.com/fs4/300W/i/2004/240/1/9/Brock_Samson.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />I understand some peoples need to be a leader but trying to treat this like Dynamis or HNM wont cut it. Maybe if the "leader(s)" had vet status on these missions but they dont. When you have 8 people in the group bullshit comments like LS for leader chat onry" wont cut it because regardless of the chat color if you wont listen to what people say you just plain wont fucking listen. Its a static and needs to be treated as such, everyone contributes, everyone is an equal partner. If someone has a lvl 75 job and tells you something just wont work dont make him repeat himself for a week across LS and Boards only to shut up about it and start again when another person with the same job pops up. grrrr<br /><br />Dont get me wrong I love and apreciate the static however I will say it takes alot for me to hold back and not go off on a few of them sometimes.Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-76420574758972083212007-02-08T14:19:00.000-06:002007-02-08T14:50:47.375-06:00Gyro's mmmmhttp://cruftbox.com/blog/archives/001184.html<br /><br />http://www.poubelle.com/butterpig/archives/000170.html<br /><br />http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_30420,00.html<br /><br />http://www.astray.com/recipes/?show=Homemade%20gyros<br /><br />http://www.sheepscreek.com/recipes/gyros.html<br /><br />http://recipehut.homestead.com/GyroMeatLoaf.html<br /><br />http://www.netcooks.com/recipes/Sandwiches/Gyros.htmlXyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-60640863618354840752007-02-07T08:50:00.000-06:002007-02-07T09:28:01.596-06:00Dynamis Lord Toasted.Poor guy never knew what hit him it took "moments" to put his ass down.<br /><br />Big grats to all who were there teamwork +1.<br />Shadow Mantle dropped ^^<br /><br />Sexy new title indeed! I forgot to haul the usb drive to work to post pics so I'll have to up them tomorrow.<br /><br />Spent last night farming or I should say attempting to farm codexes for swift belt run, death, fun, excitement ... we did get one to drop and I won the lot. Popped my exp ring before we started so I at least covered all exp lost. Passed out during the run 4-5 hours of tauruses did me in I guess.<br /><br />Made our first attempt at 4-3 a few nights ago, horrid mess I hope the next shot goes a bit smoother for us. At least we got an idea of what goes on.<br /><br />Been busy playing with FFXI Rendering since my connection is crapping out regularly.<br /><br /><br /><br />Nin is still @ 73 only two short levels till merit machine time /hurray! I'm debating using nin for LS activities and shelving BLM for good, at the very least going to a very basic utility gear set on it. I had wanted nin to merit, spend on blm but as usual after a week or two of blm I'm bored as hell. Nin really doesnt excite me much either anymore, I think its just my general mixed feelings about hitting the leveling wall with no where to go or maybe its just the grind of the ToAU areas ez exp has bred a new wave of lazy players.<br /><br />The problem of course is that LS activities would demand me to come as the more usefull blm (never enough blm) over nin. Then again I'm in the LS more for fun than gathering points for gear, hell it would take me a very long time to build up lock in points vs. the others so getting my hopes up and dreaming of new toys would lead to little more than frustration.<br /><br />Still need to finish thf28, sam28 and maybe drk7 to 37 for a well rounded sj pool.<br /><br />But I have a plan^^ I call it Bard .... lol<br /><br />Got the gear together for brd now just need to find the time to get rolling on it.<br /><br /><br />I'm still going to level rng again (in the semi near future) I wanted rng up for COP stuff but I am soon out of the level capped areas so its priority has dropped.Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-89364904850825013782007-01-31T00:05:00.000-06:002007-01-31T00:10:58.938-06:00FotoShop Phun.Got bored made myself a sig ..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f221/xylosofshiva/naja.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f221/xylosofshiva/naja.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Then one for a friend<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f221/xylosofshiva/4vip.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f221/xylosofshiva/4vip.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />And after seeing some nifty rendered stuff .....<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f221/xylosofshiva/we2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f221/xylosofshiva/we2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f221/xylosofshiva/we2.jpg">LINKY to the full sized render</a>Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-6624336314913115162007-01-25T07:49:00.000-06:002007-01-25T08:21:04.024-06:00Dynamis-Booby Prize. or, The place with the Zu's from HellWent on my first Dynamis-Buburimu last night and actualy enjoyed it.<br /><br />Suprisingly simple to get to the {Mega Boss}, we wiped on the first try at him when he tore ass towards the mages from the start. Smoked him after a RR. Pulled Nightmare Crabs after that, another very easy section.<br /><br />Then came the birds.<br /><br />I dont recall their name, most likely blocked from my memory like a tragic childhood event. I wondered why a dozen or two were following the puller, I decided that the puller wouldnt mpk us and tried to sleep them, I noticed they dont sleep very well and hit very hard.<br /><br />I RR'd up after a minute with a good chunk of the allience dead assuming I could use RR item then ele seal sleep them. I never got to see my char stand completely up before I was toasted again. Eventualy the allience got raised up agreed that if thats the way things were we had to at least kill the one that floated around the bodies preventing RR and forcing an allience to be tractored.<br /><br />That bird died fast.<br /><br />Then like a dark cloud racing towards us from the horizon came wave 2 of the Evil Zu's.<br />I did manage to seal-sleep a good chunk of them before I hit the dirt. Wipe #3 and it was decided the night was over, at least I got a cool new title^^<br /><br />Lol side note: Only 36 allowed in on this and I think we had 7-8 BLM's show up, previous dynamis experience in the main cities I saw 3-5, almost never a full party. Glad I couldnt lot because I would have been depressed with the odds.<br /><br />Afterwards a few of the blm's got together and went for a burn. I popped my merit cherry, not sure were I will spend it tho. I was shown a sexy new solo/burn spot in Mt. Z, on the way there every camped was maxed, I figured we would be fighting with at least 2 other parties but no we had this tasty little area all to ourselves.<br /><br /><br /><br />In NIN news:<br />Hit 72 the other day and had to log out, logged in got trial weapon but I was mini-dc'n so bad I couldnt duo latent with vip and was forced to log. Logged in the next day and decided to run to kufftal to begin unlocking/KS farm. A LS Sam joined me for some Gekko->Ten fun and we broke latent extremly fast. Sam offered to help on NM as a BRD, King came as his nin and I went nin of course and we smoked the NM. Hopped, skipped and jumped to Norg and got my shiny new WS.<br /><br />Moments after unlocking Ku (I was still building tp outside of norg to try it for the first time) I was invited to a crazy jp 12-13k an hour no ring party. I was also humiliated both tanking and DD'n by a pld/nin ( joy toy having bastid) forgot to save parse but I think I barely edged by him in dmg. I Dc'd 12k tnl and got hit with the version update so I couldnt return ;;Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-5946805633393440692007-01-22T09:13:00.000-06:002007-01-22T16:07:34.190-06:00Ouryu here we come, and Sneaky F'n AsshatsDiablos received a can of whoop ass....<br /><br />on the 4th try ^^<br /><br />Went 2 rounds (failure) outside of static to get a feel for it., a few hours later I went with static and on the second try we beat his ass into submission, if vip the nin hadnt 2hrd for the kill we would have made it with zero deaths, hell not even a close call^^<br /><br />In other news ...<br />72 NIN! Gotta go get my Trial Kantana tonight and start working on that.<br />Started knocking out a few limit points on blm solo, slow work indeed. Not really sure what if anything blmish I want to merit, with whm and rdm both in the 60's and slated to start exp when nin hits 75 I think I would be wise to throw everything into stuff I can use across the board, MP etc... after at least one fancy AM II thats is.<br /><br />Helped Lilwoody with the Yin Yang Robe NM, I guess that stupid weapon was running around for 20 minutes unclaimed while he was gathering people, got the claim, got the drop. Woody had called on some random people outside of his LS, cop group to help, one of these was a jp blm. Now this BLM waited till the bitter end to pass then JPBLM outlots woody's poor 110 with a 850 >.> with mere seconds before auto lot kicks in. Thank god whoevers pt he was in had a leader on the ball because the second that bastard got kicked woody got his robe.<br />Wtf. JPBLM had the balls to start bitching about it in /say<br /><br />Now had this fucker actualy thought it was random lot why did he time it to steal? I mean c'mon literaly seconds before it passed, this guy hit the button as items started falling from the add that was killed moments before before YY nm died, hell even one of the YY nm's items showed up as auto-lotted before his lot. Greedy fucker.Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-61479694709950872982007-01-18T09:45:00.000-06:002007-01-18T10:55:23.109-06:00About damned time?It was looking to be a nice lazy night off, nothing on my plate and I was still after all this time sitting at +17k tnl 75 so I decided to try my hand at solo exp while seeking on BLM.<br /><br />The last time I went to solo in this place I died a horrid death on my first pull and swore off solo exp. It should have been very easy exp, fight a rng type mob that wont melee me to death, add little stoneskin and a round of nukes for easy exp, unfortunately I linked a thf mob who stabbed the shit out of me interrupting my attempts to sleep/warp the hell out of there.<br /><br />This time I packed a RR pin, no point in making potentially negative exp any worse than it needed be.<br /><br />Arrived at camp, popped my exp ring wandered around till I found something that deserved to die and bam ...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT9L_PW-j69Pms2nmGcsSc7anA8G2pNSm3Wj1rgCJGF7qWORiwcQitJFJJrq1FZuA5QEd5fVQcI7QabrQ7FkrrSFrKYYAG_7_PRqKyzGSUGIRZXR_TJGmdosnNJNal62li5Q3E6g/s1600-h/Ding4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT9L_PW-j69Pms2nmGcsSc7anA8G2pNSm3Wj1rgCJGF7qWORiwcQitJFJJrq1FZuA5QEd5fVQcI7QabrQ7FkrrSFrKYYAG_7_PRqKyzGSUGIRZXR_TJGmdosnNJNal62li5Q3E6g/s400/Ding4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021399725885537378" border="0" /></a><br />O.o 414 not shabby at all, and I didn't die. It did take my entire mana pool to pull it off but the mobs have a 15 minute spawn time and with three in a room so I should be able to pace this out nicely. I managed to pull a few chain 2's and every other time I cleared the room a chain 1 never once coming close to death. Couple of hours later I was a little over 5k tnl when I got a party invite. I almost didn't take it, its been so long since I used Blm for anything other than friend or LS help, but I did. Traveled to the mire, met up with the party and proceeded to blow things up for a little bit when one member took off ; ;, his replacement arrived killed a few things then the nin and rdm wanted to go without finding replacements, we finished the rdm's {Last} and he warped then nin said it was time for her to go I was sitting at 1k so the nin stayed ....<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTtY6s4gtqyfu6ZG5JMmUwvuQYy79XJUx8BFABKl7Kvpx-DKLiqzuZz9Q0_F2ip40ST3hWF2UwXploMkxqqv9zQHJGravBAnfgFBdZrJ9x1fGBab42phqilvcs3sAdmXIxeMSbCQ/s1600-h/Ding1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTtY6s4gtqyfu6ZG5JMmUwvuQYy79XJUx8BFABKl7Kvpx-DKLiqzuZz9Q0_F2ip40ST3hWF2UwXploMkxqqv9zQHJGravBAnfgFBdZrJ9x1fGBab42phqilvcs3sAdmXIxeMSbCQ/s400/Ding1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021399227669330994" border="0" /></a><br />{/Hurray!}<br />Nin disbands 2hrs and I look down and lead has been passed to me /sigh. I asked the party (all jp now) {Looking for members.}??{Disband}??{Leader} {Do you need it}?? and pretty much all at the same time "{Yes Please.} {No thank you} {No thank you.} ^^" So after all this time out of the "high level game" I'm no charged with being the leader of a party, what you say that doesn't sound bad? well considering I have been in a lead position few times than I have fingers to count on I wasn't exactly confident. After some begging/harassing/silent treatment and a sneaky nin who agreed to come than changed to sam before I busted him we were back in the game.<br /><br />I ended up 8k into 75 with no Kirbyprime to spam {job} Thunder IV {You can have this.} to. Not a bad night at all. Ran to the AH to see if there was anything cheap that would show off my new status, a hat or staff etc.., sadly BLM gets the shaft with auctionable goods at 75 ... I was kinda hoping there would be a silly staff that ww's skill on or a crappy cap .. hell anything .. I think all there that I could find were some melee earrings so no sexy new anything /sigh.<br /><br />Poked around with the merit box, not allot I am really interested in except maybe a Tier 2 AM or something since my career path is still blurry.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSaZQ4u3krmhA19QyjgkhjFWgouucJeJybouxwXwkRODVR_LpWuuO3LhMqCwrlWLv_ExlEMkyqTkcq0Ax3-uEvGWaHTH6kPtmd1_jRFxXDZFGPGQ0ONZn4rSOmO0rYklRecQ3yyg/s1600-h/Ding3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSaZQ4u3krmhA19QyjgkhjFWgouucJeJybouxwXwkRODVR_LpWuuO3LhMqCwrlWLv_ExlEMkyqTkcq0Ax3-uEvGWaHTH6kPtmd1_jRFxXDZFGPGQ0ONZn4rSOmO0rYklRecQ3yyg/s400/Ding3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021399588446583890" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVe4VeW3iVtBUv3dcaxpTc-VpWjQp1ZFdOeUgK84Gu73konlPzvsZ-jzQJqQvhfdJNRPMDSvXcgRkVT6bGF_MUkHCPTdy3LKYQzNEfJx2Tn3uJ1JJ15DtVAwyjhIdX_pkw8Pkkg/s1600-h/Ding2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVe4VeW3iVtBUv3dcaxpTc-VpWjQp1ZFdOeUgK84Gu73konlPzvsZ-jzQJqQvhfdJNRPMDSvXcgRkVT6bGF_MUkHCPTdy3LKYQzNEfJx2Tn3uJ1JJ15DtVAwyjhIdX_pkw8Pkkg/s400/Ding2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021399390878088258" border="0" /></a>Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-87658860780747619942007-01-15T10:24:00.000-06:002007-01-15T10:43:54.950-06:00COP Madness. Die mammets die.Good god this shit takes forever.<br /><br />I suppose I could end the post there as it kind of sums up COP.<br /><br />Got 2-5 done last night, waited on a LS party to form people were either no-show or busy or w/e. So I sent a /t to a person I heard was shouting for 2x nin help on 2-5. My old friend Vipricerpm had shown back up for the second or third time in about a year and needed the mission too so we told the guy we had his nin problem fixed. By the time we talked to him he only needed one so we sat around waiting on LS party to maybe form.<br /><br />About 45 minutes later I get a tell from the guy saying that he did infact need 2 nin to fill up 2 parties so off we went.<br /><br />After the comical sneaking around riverne avoiding mobs and gathering up DC'd members we made it to the Mammets BC. We kept the same party format as we did on the trip in broke allience and vip's entered. 10-15 minutes later they were dumped out very much dead.<br /><br />My party went in and got shit out a bit faster than the first, we didnt even get one mammet down, a kiter lost his hold and I got gangbanged by 2x mammet oh and managed to fill the first mamets hp t full since nobody saw his transmogrify move or w/e.<br /><br />Vips parties second run went much the same way as the first only quicker ^^.<br /><br />Our second run smn blew off his 2hr, war did his smn forgot to take a mammet off the war kiting, war dies, smn outta mp, bst running like hell .... death. we did "almost kill 1st mammet.<br /><br />Our mini-allience was pretty bummed at this point and 6 people took off, the remainder staying looked like a good set up so we agreed to do one more run and do it proper.<br /><br />*at this point all meds, RR items etc.. were pretty much gone I think i had the one lone hi-pot*<br /><br />NIN, NIN, WAR, SMN, SMN, WHM.<br /><br />We kicked thier fucking asses.<br /><br />Me vip, and the war took center, smns kited whm did his thing.<br />1st one down np, a little late on the yellow liquid stuck him in blm mode ...<br />2nd one down "I think" we lost one smn as we droppd 1st and went to voke #2, stook a bit longer than first he used the transmogrify thing twice if memory serves.<br />3rd 2 members dead both smn, vip and I did our nin thing and smoked his ass.<br /><br /><br /><br />Started through all the cs into 3-3 got C.Landing NM done, did windy cs's and plan to get together to knock out the last nm and mountain climb. Probably farm up chips or w/e else is needed to prep for Diablos tonight!<br /><br />We would have done the 2nd 3-3 nm but I had about 3-4 hours before work and had to log ><Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-47501268520211083992007-01-10T12:12:00.000-06:002007-01-10T12:18:37.514-06:00No exp for me.Logged on right before Aspi window so I ended up spending the night there, of course the bastard wont pop till last window^^<br /><br />Cant do dynamis tonight, cop dynamis run so that gives me the night off to exp blm, maybe 75 is in my future ^^<br /><br />Trying to get a cop static going or jump into an open slot and get that crap hammered out once and for all. Not so much for the sea/limbus/rewards but just to get that shit outta the way. The rewards are nice tho ^^.<br /><br />Also trying to get ToAU missions knocked out, think i'm on the jody's acid part.Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-70459196986366076872007-01-09T12:24:00.000-06:002007-01-09T13:30:10.563-06:00The last few thousand exp are the worst.Bleh time to get that 75 outta the way after what? 2 years? think I started around 14k into 74<br /><br />1st pt invite I didnt have enough IS to use the runic portal so while looking for a brd we went out and smacked birds, while we were out there the nin commented on what a great set up we had for EMN in boneyard so after some discussion we headed there instead. 1st trip up the mountain was pure comedy, everyone splitting up, getting lost etc.. took well over an hour. We started 5/6 waiting on the whm to show and after we got the key item and he hadnt popped I d2'd the nin to go shout for 6th in whitegate.<br /><br />He found someone but they didnt have the item so we had to crawl back up a second time, only 15 minutes start to finish ...<br /><br />Hit the enm, smooth as silk, no good drops and parted ways.<br /><br />2500 exp is better than nothing.<br /><br />Took an invite last night for Manaburn {Do you need it.}<br />hell yes!<br />Mount Z, 2blm, brd and rdm. we tore it up through an exp ring took on a third blm near the end. Party was kinda short I stayed with the last blm and duoed a few more so he could get a buffer then warped and logged about 15-16k tnl. With luck I'll hammer out the rest tonight, or at least a chunk Thunder IV {Yes please}. Not sure if I will bother spend merits on it, probably just try to cap out exp.<br />If all else fails I can just solo the exp.<br /><br />After blm its time to focus on nin's 5 levels, maybe within the next month or two I'll finaly have 2x 75.<br /><br />So thats that, less time messing around with lower jobs, focus on the two higher ones.<br /><br />Maybe after they get knocked out whm and rdm will follow (both 60+)<br />RNG at 40 now going to try to get that to 60 or so for capped crap, designate a day of the week as Ranger Day, still sitting on crap loads of arrow/bolt heads so all its really costing me is the price for the lumber and some crystals the HQ staves I bazzar'd thinking I would take this fast and furious went towards blm and nin ....Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-64612835236118296942007-01-04T13:02:00.000-06:002007-01-04T13:21:48.967-06:0037 rng!Oh yeah!<br />May have a slot in a static soon so I gotta stop rng for a few days to find out>< I dont really want to tho, rng has been mad fun. I was going to stop at 40 to turn around and get thf to 45 but the prospect of a static may make me keep thf on the back burner for a while, its sitting at 28.<br />soooo...<br />Thank god most of the rng crap swaps to thf ^^ Actualy I need to start leveling up the galka again, I bought him those shiny new Strike Subligar for X-mas and I havent even gone out to party him. I'll have to post a fasion shot here since they are rather sexy ...<br /><br />Back to rng .. Rng life has been fun so far my only real issue is that I'm not overly cofident in my pulling abilities all these job levels and I have pretty much mage/tank/DD skills, no pulling. Last night was the sink or swim in Garbage Shit-I-Fell up against 2 Legit parties and 2 RMT parties (no clue who was at the gate).<br /><br />1st pull: Learn that pulling bats from across a hole in the floor causes the bats to follow the walking path through the rooms and NOT fly across the hole linking wing rats >.> No death but close.<br /><br />Party went smooth after that little lesson^^<br /><br />We took the right tunnel camp and that the RMT were pulling 2 then damage both sleep one so I ended up having to pull from near the banishing gate several times, this run sucks without risk of aggro+link+fall into hole of death and cozying up to the ghosts to try to wrap a shot around a corner aint much fun either.<br /><br />Party semi-disbanded about 1k to 35 2 people hit jeuno to change jobs and snag new members and off we went again. With the new people in place we eneded up averaging 6-7k and hour once we got rolling and even tho the party didnt last long it got me about 1/2 way to 38.Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-30869491854395480502007-01-02T10:31:00.000-06:002007-01-02T10:45:35.439-06:00RNG 30 /hurrayCracked the big 30 last night. Fun/frustrating party, we did alright considering our setbacks (things like me blink tanking as rng/nin because the war/mnk didnt care to voke very often). Ended up duo rng for a good chunk of the night no epeen stroking here other than feeling obligated to note that I did out DD ( dd damage not ranged) the drk o.O, guess those archer knives dont suck for dd lol, also note I didnt have pt misses turned on in parser so maybe he just wiffed like a mad man.<br /><br />My original plan was to hit 30, switch to thf and finish that to 30 then bounce back and forth a few levels at a time till I get them both to 37. However really enjoy rng alot more than expected so I might just carry it through to 37, lord knows I have the ammo for it.<br /><br />After pillaging my mules a bit more and using up some extra synthing items I was able to afford my strike subligar for the galka not only do they give me a bit more kick they cover my damned thighs^^ I cant wait to parse them in pt soon vs. rep subligar. Common sense tells me that the reps will pummel them for tp gain dot, but they look cool ...... post a pic laterXyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-73628891849421908062006-12-26T16:44:00.000-06:002006-12-26T17:48:03.028-06:00With a knick-knack-paddy-wack shooting arrows made of bone.This hume ranger no longer calls 'Dunes home...<br /><br />!<br /><br />Hmm... on my 16th job leveled through the dunes (15 "complete" as drg is 15 and can stay that way) I finaly got a good a.k.a. "Smooth" dunes party.<br /><br />Yes it had a PL, but not an over zealous PL.<br />It was not a PL tanks the dunes set up, the nin and war tanked 90%+ losing hate from big cures mostly.<br /><br />It was however a 5 man dunes wrecking crew ^^.<br /><br />I almost DB'd from the start, I was actualy trying to solo the last 300 to 16 so I could log out for the night when I got the tell for it.<br />Him>> Party?<party> <do><br />Me>> OK <yes><br />Did a quick check on him and saw 14 Nin/War<br />aww crap, maybe the party is 15-16 and well... its the dunes if it sucks I snag my level and head out.<br />Took invite, checked pt 14, 14, 14, 14, Me 15 200 tnl -> 16 . aww crap the options now are over camping or severly under camping for the tanks.<br />Checked again 1 blm, no other mage jobs.<br />aww crap.<br />PT Lead>> bleh still need a whm.<br />aww crap. Finger on the DB button I ran to camp, imagine my suprise a high lvl brd was there.<br />Party sits around for a while in dead silence so I asked if brd was PL? Yes. Cool I said, I'm gonna start pulling.<br />And pull I did. The lead never bothered to find a sixth once we got rolling, no need for it. It was a smooth pt start to finish, not a zomg 12k per hr pt it was a good old 5k little to no flux party. Nobody begging to over camp, nobody bitching about 50-60exp T's we just killed as fast as I could get mobs to camp and I kept them as "simple" as possible since the nin was dual-boxing the bard and I have (had) almost 0 experience pulling next thing I know 4+ hours had passed and we had every Pt member to 20 (I hit 21!!). I guess the zomg part was not only keeping a party together in the dunes built of random invites but the fact that they came there to exp, not to piss and moan, brag, cry , whine, complain fake DC, drop party and so on.. and we all understood the reward was getting the hell out of there a.s.a.p.<br /><br />The 3 parts of a Random Invite Smooth Party, from Xylos's Point of View:<br />1. Does not always mean "Uber" or "Standard" some of the smoothest parties will break the standard set, even spit in the face of party set logic, the exp flow ranges from average to zomg.<br />2. Does not require the "best" players, it requires the best teamwork. It does not take a Rank 10 multi 75 player to operate smooth, it takes the willingness to work with the strengths and weaknesses of your pt mates, sometimes it seems that the less people are set in their ways the better.<br />3. Requires a bit of tact. If the party is maintaining good exp per hour the smooth party players dont piss and moan about a few bad moments. (this happens to be my favorite part about JP pt's, not that they dont complain, I'm sure they do.. but that I cant read it so I dont get caught up in someone elses knotted pantyhose.) In my p.o.v. if a party memberticks around but runs their mouth complaining etc... the bad attitude spreads and it seems that sooner or later the majority of the party gets salty also, myself included.<br /><br /><br />So yeah, 5 crappy parties and a good chunk of solo to get from 11-15 and one good party to make up for all the frustrtation.<br /><br />mwwwaaa haaaa haaaa rng does sick damage in the dunes, if he can hit anything ^^.</yes></do></party>Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-69233544209705380822006-12-22T10:29:00.000-06:002006-12-22T11:50:34.226-06:00I'm Baaaaaaaaack<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Bleh</span>.<br /><br /><br />Its been a while ...<br /><br />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 <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">f'n</span> mid October ...<br /><br /><br />Whats new in <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Xland</span>? Project Mule is a 64 <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">MNK</span>!<br />So I'm chugging along leveling the <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">galka</span> when it hits me ... <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">lfg</span> with no craft skills, no <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">subjobs</span> for "maximized" farming potential etc... really sucks balls. I figured I should start up <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">thf</span> and <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">nin</span> for farming/exp choices on him but <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">uuhhg</span> <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">levling</span> <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">nin</span> to 37 is costly no matter how you look at it, same goes for <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">thf</span>. It gets easy after playing so long to go on and on about skill vs. <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">gil</span> 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 <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"FEW" </span> 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 <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">mnk</span> 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 <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Mage</span> jobs it becomes rather obvious who and what can get by on a shoestring budget, <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">unfourtunatly</span> <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">nin</span>, <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">thf</span> and <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">mnk</span> <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">dont</span> 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 <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">noob</span>.<br /><br />One example:<br /><br />Recently I had the great pleasure to party with a second <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">mnk</span>, I was not excited about the prospect out of a brotherhood of the <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">galkan</span> monks but rather that I had the chance to flex my nuts on the parser.<br />So here we go, same level, same race, same pt and two different gear/food choices.<br />I failed to check him or I was to sleepy when I did to get his complete profile, but our <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">visable</span> gear was drastic. He wore <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">af</span> except for a SH and his weapon was the Black <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Ardragas</span>(<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">sp</span>?) I did <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">check</span> him at the <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">beginning</span> and he was still in "walking around town" type of gear. My gear of note: SH, O.<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Kote</span>, TM Hooks+2, <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">Ven</span>+Woodsman rings, <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">Kung</span> <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">Fu</span> Shoes( dear lord I love these) <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Tiphia</span> Sting, Brown Belt/Life <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">Chiv</span> Chain, <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Amehnt</span> or w/e mantle etc.. <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">ooo</span> and my trusty Rep <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">Subligar</span> (yes <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">subligar</span> boy still lives even if the <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">taru</span> <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">isn't</span> there anymore to call him that).<br /><br />Long story short .... I parsed out twice as much damage and then some. <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">That's</span> right more than TWO TIMES as much damage <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">hahah</span> and imagine I was stressing not having my <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">CC's</span> yet. Blessed with two very good <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">pld's</span> for those <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">pt's</span> the exp flowed and for the first time in a very long time I <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47">didn't</span> have to gimp my <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48">mnk</span> to avoid becoming a mp sponge.<br /><br />Funny I still feel gimpy, I cant afford situation swap items so although I do have a decent amount of <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49">gil</span> invested in the <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50">galka</span> I made my build more of a utility set up rather than an "<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51">uber</span>" damage one. The other <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52">mnk</span> could out do me on average with his <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53">WS</span>' but his normal hits were far under mine and his <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54">crits</span> came in a bit higher than my kicks (<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55">gogo</span> <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56">KFS</span>!).<br /><br />The price I pay for this sick pleasure? I'm am officially 100% flat fucking broke.<br />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. ^^<br /><br />My <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57">dilemma</span> is this: I need/want to level alternate <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58">sj's</span> for the <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59">galka</span>, <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60">thf</span>, <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_61">nin</span>, <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_62">whm</span>. I also need to pound out <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63">ZM's</span> and at least complete the <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64">prommies</span>. A depressing amount of work to be done at the least, not very cheap either ...<br /><br />Now on the other side of the spectrum I have a char with all but <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65">thf</span> sub to 37+, I have <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66">ZM's</span> done, I have <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67">prommies</span>+ I have skills and tools to occupy my down time, I have farming capable jobs and levels (other than 20 <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68">thf</span>, <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_69">that's</span> now 28). Fuck it I said and loaded up <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_70">xylos</span> again, geared up <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_71">thf</span> and started my exp life as a <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_72">hume</span> again.<br /><br /><span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_73">Currently</span> working on <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_74">thf</span> and <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_75">rng</span>. I am happy to say I am doing my best to work with non "<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_76">uber</span>" gear, its hard to get over it but I have to learn how to get by with what I have. So far <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_77">thf</span> has been fun it seems to require <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_78">alot</span> from both the skill and <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_79">gil</span> <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_80">depts</span> but lacking the <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_81">gil</span> side of it I'm doing my best ^^.<br /><br /><span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_82">RNG</span>, why <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_83">rng</span>? 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 <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_84">skilling</span> on them) I really should just go skill up archery on <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_85">rdm</span> or <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_86">nin</span> to burn up the inventory, +15 <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_87">rngd</span> <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_88">acc</span> <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_89">aint</span> bad and being able to cap out archery using the <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_90">nin</span> would go along way towards keeping my <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_91">rng</span> skills up to date.<br /><br />Like <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_92">thf</span> its one of those jobs that looked cool, but I just never got around to trying. Its also a nifty optional <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_93">sj</span> for farming/<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_94">nm</span> hunting.<br /><br />Hell it looks like the old <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_95">Xylos</span> is back, <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_96">rawwwr</span>. 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 <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_97">galka</span> <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_98">mnk</span> too much to ruin his fun.Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-47540218647968563772006-10-11T14:43:00.000-05:002006-10-11T14:48:00.879-05:00Xylos is dead.R.I.P. <br /><br />Will he be resurrected?<br />Can't say for sure. <br />No joy left in this character.<br />Dance on his grave w/e, mourn the loss, do what you must.<br />laters..Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-84996487197385898262006-10-10T12:02:00.000-05:002006-10-10T12:23:16.825-05:00hmm deflation or depression?The economy sucks balls.<br />Not that this is anything new but my current play style has really truely fucked me over.<br /><br />Project mule has been fun as hell, but it has officialy drained me dry. I have gotten so caught up in this crackish addiction that I have most everything even my Lu Shang rod is up on the AH because I am compelled to purchase even more items.<br /><br />What would the sale of the Lu' net me? Cross-counters, or a brown-belt/scorpion harness.<br /><br />Why dont I just farm this crap? Well short answer is lazy. Semi long answer is to take advantage of the current price drops before its "to late". Longer answer is that I really have little love left for a good portion of this game outside of exp or fishing etc.. end-game activities have no draw for me, but I may have to poke my head into end game stuffs a bit to boost my income. Adding to the problem is that if I were to enter end game again I have no gear. nothing. nada. zip. <br /><br />I have managed to burn most all my bridges or lost the map to get back to them. I have mentioned before having a very short friends list so gathering a few buds to go smash and grab a bcnm etc.. is not a viable option. I have a pretty good skill set for synthing but the market trends make crafting a lose/lose situation outside of major farming and the current influx of RMT has screwed the farmers or anyone attempting to farm. <br /><br />I need to find a friend that gardens and pester them for info, I think I can handle gardenings stress lol.<br />anyhow...<br /><br />It's time to get The Mule into a good LS, he tried with a newbie shell handed to him by an old friend but dear lord calling them newbs is being far to nice. He is going to need AF help soon etc.. so I have to bite the bullet and start begging/applying around lol.<br /><br />He is however doing well in the exp arena, just hit 35.5ish and is the only source of pleasure this game has for me at the moment. Keeps me from pulling the plug and saving myself 20 bucks a month^^.Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-87172451635958122992006-10-06T07:59:00.000-05:002006-10-06T08:40:02.441-05:00Busy week #2Been a while since I posted here ;;.<br /><br />Well.... I created a new mule to hold some extra junk and complete my collection of two mules in each of the four main cities. <br /><br />This mule ended up being leveled a bit for fun.<br /><br />This mule is now a smokin' rank 2 sandorian with level 8 fame in sandy, level 5 fame in bastok, level 7 fame in jeuno all gobbie bags complete (worth the price since having 30 slots just plain sucks.), chocobo license etc... and just dinged 26 (almost 27) last night. <br /><br />This mule is also running incognito, he was created on a new handle, I had to many mules and this was a forced option and decided to go with the fresh start theme. New friends, new LS's etc...<br /><br />Been fun so far, in the dunes with no sub I was called a RMT, Gilbuyer, subless noob etc.. lol the joys of being a frech character with a sugar daddy^^.<br /><br />Sticking to this theme I think he will get his own blog seperate from this one sooo...Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-68567784422382209252006-09-29T10:34:00.000-05:002006-09-29T10:54:45.338-05:00Waders obtained!Got my fishing Waders last night!<br />Synthed my own signed fishing gear!<br />Synthed my own signed chocobo gear too!<br />Xylos brand outdoors gear is a step above your grandpas WalMart gear.<br /><br />Kinda funny, until I put on the choco gear it never dawned on me that I had yet to see anyone wear this stuff... hopefully the +15 ride time works on personal choco's.<br /><br />Made a quick round trip on the ferry and turned in a few more Marlins, nothing exciting.<br /><br />No exp on bst, ran out of time since I logged on rather late.Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-50023506227594475082006-09-28T13:39:00.000-05:002006-09-28T13:56:01.396-05:00Last GP fishing run for me.Tonight I will obtain my waders! Fashion shot in the works ...<br /><br /><br />Did my gp fish last night, afterwards hit 24 on bst. When I was 6 exp into 24 I got a bit cocky and hit up the wrong mob, it was a high T and started to chew through the DC-EM at an alarming rate and a second farmer showed up to my spot and killed off the pets so I threw a EP at it and ran like hell. I made it to the zone and decided to call my choco and hit jeuno, I wanted to see if I could pull off a few worms at 24. The worms in quifm made for some tasty exp but I was still a bit low to charm the local crabs they all showed as mid-high T and seemed to lose charm quicker than I liked. I ended up 2hr'n a high T crab and reigned terror upon the lake worms for 25 minutes. When the 2hr'd crab finaly died after I failed to let reward cool down enough I tossed out a jug crab finished the worn I was on and was going to call it a night but I got cocky again and decided to make one more run around the lake. By now the RMT pt had killed all the worms and I was concerned about my pet so I threw him at a low T hoping to finish it meleeing. Bad idea I guess... as soon as I hit the mob my pet came uncharmed and one mischarm later I ate dirt. I RR'd up and ran towards jeuno, noticed obody at tunnel camp so I started killing worms there till I dc'd. When I logged back I must have ran to far out before dc and caught instant wight aggro for Death #2. <br /><br />Gave up on bst for the night and grabbed rdm clothes and sword and went out /thf to see if I could farm a little silk outsie of windy. Drops rates sucked, after an hour I had landed 4 spools of silk and made one cloth >< on my last run I found Tom Tit Tat up and took out my anger on him, seeing him made me decide to try one last loop and I caught the Pilgram's Wand NM up and got him too. <br /><br />So the nights summary is 68863 or so Fishing GP, I'm 500 into 24 BST, farmed up a single silk cloth, killed two low level NM's and got my Pilgrams Wand.Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-21766796012330343172006-09-26T09:35:00.000-05:002006-09-26T09:53:05.480-05:00Oh so beastly.Knocked out my GP fish now at 62K and change.<br /><br />Hit jeuno and geared up bst o.O. <br />Not as expensive as I had thought, not as cheap as I wanted. After minimal research I decided to just hit Jugnar and target shrooms. Ended up burning off my ring in a little over an hour and a half and called it a night about 3100/5000 with no deaths. <br />The no death thing suprised me a bit, I guess bst is like riding a bike or maybe a tricycle, I wont say it went smooth but it could have been worse. <br />The only real problem was that the shrooms had a habit of respawning as T making pet pulling tricky at times, the DC-EM's seemed to like to spawn dead center in the area making me pull the fight far out and run back in to avoid links. <br />I tried the ghetto release trick a few times until a T @ 1% almost killed me. Tried various jugs and pet foods for giggles but stuck to the locals 95% of the time, the shrooms seemed to eat my jugs for lunch.<br />Going to complile usefull BST info and post it over in the links area soon.<br />All in all the trial run as a bst was great, cant wait to get out there everyday and burn my empress charges.<br /><br />Back to fishing.. The contest will be reseting soon I hope its something in my range. My waders will be obtained within the next few days so I can start on my bone specs.Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-13226046184494265162006-09-25T12:51:00.000-05:002006-09-25T13:18:22.789-05:00Craft-O-Ramma is over!And I'm not even broke o.O.<br /><br />Everything outside of gold and smithing is at a sufficient level to piddle around and cap out as I see fit. It was a wild and crazy week, tons of crap to sell off too^^.<br /><br />Now that I got that out of my system it's time to pick up a job and just fish and GP on various crafts (bone spec's here I come).<br /><br />I think I will take up BST again. My LS is packed full of BST to pester for advice so I hope it makes the job go a bit smoother. <br /><br />I have enough gil left to gear up fairly well for now, my food/med mule should also be able to hold me over for a long time, hell with my new set of craft skills I can make a chunk of my own gear/food/meds.<br /><br />My bst is 23 right now the last time I took it out was to try jug pets^^. It seems like the perfect job for now. I can exp on my own time, maybe just burn my ring everyday, who knows.Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-31586687032224081662006-09-24T23:05:00.000-05:002006-09-24T23:06:49.571-05:00Update ...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/1600/img_0157.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/400/img_0157.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-29049663545385259342006-09-24T16:06:00.000-05:002006-09-24T16:26:14.633-05:00A visual post covering the weeks events.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/1600/r4dm2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/400/r4dm2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/1600/c1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/400/c1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/1600/c2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/400/c2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/1600/c3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/400/c3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/1600/c4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/400/c4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/1600/c5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/400/c5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/1600/b1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/400/b1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/1600/b2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/400/b2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/1600/l1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/400/l1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/1600/l2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/400/l2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/1600/rdm1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1381/3555/400/rdm1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29123941.post-51941136799668284532006-09-21T08:33:00.000-05:002006-09-21T12:05:07.506-05:00Craft madness week continues!First off let me apologize for my wall-o-text posts.<br /><br />Took bonecraft from 0 to 50 over the last two days and got 18 levels into cloth also last night. Also bumped fishing GP to 50k so I should have those waders in under a week unless SE decides to screw me with a string of 1200 gp days.<br /><br />Must say I am rather excited to obtain my first ever bit of GP equipment^^.<br /><br />Bonecrafting was a blast, I will be capping that off at 60 after I complete the other items on my vanity craft list. I learned the value of properly estimating material quanities too... Other than over estimating and purchasing an obscene amount of beetle jaws Bone went very smooth. The "ring" levels hurt a bit as it would be nearly impossible to sale the amount of rings I made (bone, beetle and horn) but the arrowhead levels provided some return on my investment. All in all I estimate bone at a 50-75% loss >< not good at all but I can say that if a few weeks of farming pre-crafting had been done I would have made a tidy profit. It also was such a blur that I really have no clue what crafted items or excess materials I have floating around at the moment so maybe the losses are not as bad as I think.<br />The investment into bone was moderate and close to my guess. The one thing that perhaps saved me from going farther over budget was the number of synths that required non-stackable items (ram horns, scorpion claws, giant femurs) and that all the ring levels could be offset by desynthing the items back into workable stock. The beauty of non-stackable items is the ability to sit at the AH near cap and purchase them bit by bit and not getting stuck with a whole pile of 4k items clogging your inventory.<br />I kept synthing till I ran out of materials and passed my 48 goal, eventualy I will bring it to 60 for the "cap"<br /><br />Since I was already in windy and crafting there has its perks (quick run to the fishing guild to turn in points) I decided to tackle cloth.<br /><br />I really only want cloth to 30 for now, if I can find a "reasonable" route I will run it to journeyman also to ease the eventual 60 cap cap run much like I did with bone.<br />So far cloth is an utter pain in the ass. Having to go back and make cloth from threads to make items to desynth into threads to make cloth is making me dizzy. Circle of life I guess. I would much rather purchase the cloth and eat the loss but I must have picked the wrong day/time to start and got shafted. I really think I may have over estimated my needed materials on the venture but a good deal of them sell fast on the AH in windy so offloading a good chunk of them quickly is a viable option vs. NPC'n them for a loss.<br /><br />After the cloth run is complete I think a crafting break is in order to sell off the items I made and open some more room on the mules again. Then on to leather o.O...<br /><br />Another thing I noticed is that the "Big Four" late 50's early 60's body gear is all 69ish cap crafting. Vermy, Hauby, Byrnie and Scorpion Harness all perfectly capable of being custom made and signed on a single character^^.Xyloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12251320038317586489noreply@blogger.com0