Surprises, Goals, and Rages

Gonna cover this post in reverse order today.

The linkshell I've been in the past few months had been told about 20+ times that I needed Fenrir for my Summoner still. They decided to do a run on Saturday that I wasn't able to join because I didn't get on till they were almost all gathered at the Full Moon Fountain. I told a few people in the shell that I like that if it happened again that I would be livid and that I wouldn't be in the shell for some time. Thankfully they did another run on Sunday and I was the first person asked if I still needed it. We managed to kill Fenrir after what would be considered a mishap with our "strategy." Now I just need to kill him once more for my Evoker's Ring.

Sunday was the second attempt at A Crystalline Prophecy's final battle. It didn't go so well unfortunately. The problem with the first run was the Paladin ran out of MP and didn't have any Refresh drinks. The problem with the second run was that our Red Mage had to keep running into range of the Seed Crystal's attacks to heal/buff the Paladin, and ended up getting killed trying. We didn't set a date for attempt #3 this time, hopefully it's soon. I really want to get the body piece augmented for my Summoner and Drakus needs his back for his Black Mage.

I'm NEVER going to do this again, it was stupid in the first place, and I'm an idiot for wanting to do it. What I'm referring to is trying to unlock the mythic weapon skills, all while remaining on floor 20 of Nyzul Isle. 7040 weapon skill points is what's needed from floor 20, and it took me about 4 freaking months to get that many on Samurai, it'll take even longer than that if I want the weapon skill for any other job. Now that my little rant is over for this part, here is how the morning went. I got on and headed to my favorite area, Cape Terrigan, to do a little more work on merits and wsp. Did one Field of Valor page and took a break to get some food, when I came back I got another Field of Valor page and on the second rabbit I went to use a weapon skill, much to my surprise when I opened the menu, Tachi: Rana was sitting right at the bottom of the list. That poor rabbit hated what happened next; 1048 damage from Tachi: Gekko, 783 damage from Tachi: Rana, and 83 damage from an unresisted Darkness skillchain (total damage was 2614). After that rabbit hit the ground I finished the page, ran straight to Jeuno and finished unlocking Tachi: Rana, now I can just throw the Windslicer to the weapon storing NPC, where I'll probably never touch it again. Now if I could only focus on doing merits...

Summoner Fun

I finally managed to hit 75 on my summoner. It's taken forever to get, but I'm glad I stuck with it. My dynamis LS let me take it into Dynamis - Jeuno, and I didn't get yelled at which was unexpected to say the least. Now I just need to get done with the last fight in A Crystalline Prophecy so I can get a better Body piece.

It's been awhile since i've done this, but here it goes.

Final Fantasy XI before real life shit.

Finally hit 73smn yesterday, got another merit into Great Katana skill. It has become more of a chore to get summoner to 75. I usually end up playing Oblivion while I wait for a party, or if I'm soloing I end up getting distracted easily. I really need to work on merits for my samurai, and get Tachi: Rana while i'm at it. I managed to get the 3 add-ons, I'm almost done with A Crystalline Prophecy and haven't even started the others. My plan is to augment the gear for use on my smn mainly because the job lacks a lot of good gear that others have. I really need to kill Fenrir soon, I'm sick of telling people that I don't have him and then being made fun of for it.

Now for the real life crap.

I managed to get a job finally. I just gotta contact the manager to see when I have to go in and fill out the paperwork. I'm probably gonna have to leave my dynamis shell for some time because I'll be working 5-8/9pm.

Now for the only bad/depressing thing I have to write.

About a year ago I was dating this girl. I truly thought, more like believed, she was the one for me. We dated for about a month before she broke up with me. Bad part about that, she did it in a text message, which really hurt. She says it's because I reminded her of a previous relationship. She still wanted to be friends, and so did I.

About a month ago I read a manga called Rave, it's on onemanga.com. I'm not gonna ruin it simply because it's a great story. I was fine reading it until the last 20 or so chapters. What happens between and to the main characters opened a wound that I though was healed. Since then I've been kinda depressed. I don't know if my friends and family have noticed, or maybe I'm just putting on a "mask" that's keeping them from finding out. I wanna tell her how I really feel, but I'm afraid that it'll ruin what we have left of our friendship. I'm also worried that if she rejects me, that I'll have to say goodbye, and I really don't want to.

I haven't told anyone else about this dilemma. I've got till about mid-december to figure our what to do.

WOOT!!

Been awhile since i've done this, so here it goes.

Been working on the Chains of Promathia expansion for FFXI, and managed to finish it last night. The group i was doing it with hadn't had any problems up to 8-4, the final battle vs. Promathia. It took us 6 attempts before we could kill him. Our group was WHM/BLM RDM/WHM SAM/NIN X2 SAM/WAR and PLD/NIN. We kept getting screwed by Promathia's invincible ability. I'm gonna be getting Rajas Ring as my reward, I wonder if people will let me into parties as SMN/SAM once i get my Staff skilled and hit 66. I'm just glad it's done and over with, now I just have to do Divine Might to progress along the Rise of the Zilart storyline which is kinda tied into Chains of Promathia.

I hate how inorder to join a party chat on Xbox Live you have to be a Gold member. I'm not gonna pay 8$ a month or whatever for something i'm hardly ever gonna use.

FFXI

Finally got done with Mission 5-3 for Chains of Promathia. the Snoll Tzar fight would've only lasted 15seconds if we hadn't waited to buff. 5 SAM 1 RDM was what we used, i think only 11 or 12 weapon skills were used. Now just to get 6-4 completed. This storyline is getting really good and is only going to get better.

Shittyness

Thankfully i'm almost done with my english class for this semester. I'm pretty sure i've failed it even if i turn in my final project that i've spent the last two weeks working on. I was up till 4:30am cst trying to finish up the final paper the class had to write. I've decided to skip my morning classes today to try and relax from all the stress caused by this damn class.

If anyone reading this knows about Magic: The Gathering then you'll understand what i'm about to talk about. I've been building decks a lot lately. I've gotten a Jund deck that's a little slow but gets really powerful, especially when i pull out Deathbringer Thocter and equip it with Quietus Spike. I've gotten friends to give up when that hits the field. I also have a Bant deck going, don't use it much except to help test my friends' decks against powerful creatures. I'm still messing around with a 5 color deck that i've had since my first tournament. I've also got a deck of Angels and another of Demons that i hardly ever use. I've also got the Legion Aloft deck with an extra 19 cards that runs fairly smoothly. I'm still debating on whether i should build a Naya deck or a Grixis deck. If i go with the Naya deck i've got a friend that can help me make it really overpowered. If i go with the Grixis deck, then i'm on my own; just like with the Jund and Bant decks that've turned out fairly well.

Now for my Final Fantasy XI part.
This week is the first week in a long time that i've had more than a 10k xp buffer on my SAM. I also finally got my Third Eye merits finished up, it took forever and i've gotten a lot of negative comments about it on the FFXI wiki forums. They all have good points, but i spend most of my time solo, which means survivability is important and the -5/10seconds off the recast can save my life. I'm trying to figure out if I should merit Great Katana skill next or if I should work on something else. I'm still chipping away at the 7000+ points needed to get tachi: rana while meriting. it's gotten to the point where it's bugging the crap outta me that i don't know exactly how many points i have so far. I'm just glad it's Friday, which mean i get to be the suicidal backup tanking SAM in Beaucidine. Hopefully we can get some other PLD's to show up, it's kinda pathetic that we only have 1 PLD we can rely on, and I think he's gonna be missing for awhile soon which means dynamis might not happen till he gets back.

On a sidenote, this is the longest post I have written. I really need a job.

One More to Go

Finally got the Rhetorical Analysis done. I pretty much had someone else write it for me. Now i've just gotta write one last "essay" about how i've changed as a writer. I've also still got the essay i have to write for my GSD class.

Now for the final fantasy part.
After the dynamis - windy run on saturday there was a little xp party setup. I came along as SMN and didn't have to heal much. I only had one problem, i couldn't stay awake. I don't know why, but it seems like after every dynamis run i'm tired for a few hours afterwards. I wonder if anyone else feels tired after dynamis.