Cooking, Merits, and no new Shinnies

Cooking, Merits, and no new Shinnies

Monday, July 05, 2010

Well got on kind of late again. Well after yesterday’s party and skilling up I sent back my stuff for PUP to my mule as well as some random junk taking up space. While I was in the middle of this Real Life called and asked if I wanted to go out for pizza. Well… Don’t know anyone who can turn down pizza so I said sure and went away for a while. Just hope nothing important happens while I’m away…

Well I came back from getting the pizza which was pretty good and figured I would get back to work on my craft of cooking. So making as much space as I could I grabs quite a few stacks of dark crystals and camped next to the Non-Player Character (NPC for short) that sells the items used to make the Yagudo Drinks I needed to make to skill up cooking. Only thing I hate about crafting is that the first half of the craft super easy to skill up the second half is very stupidly slow *Crys* any who working on this I managed to get up to level 57.3 on my cooking which it was 55.9 so managed to get 1.4 skill ups on it which wasn’t bad I probably would of kept going if it wasn’t for the slight problem of running out of space *Uggggg* which means only one thing when you are crafting these drinks time to head to the Auction House (AH for short) and try to sell these things off as quickly as possible. Well looks like my crafting is going to be put back on hold till I can get this done with.

So now while I’m waiting for my drinks to sell which might move slower then I hoped I think is a good time to look for a party on my WHM seeing as I would like to get the job leveled up some more. Unfortunately the whole time I was cooking I didn’t get a single party invite. So hoping things will turn around. Talked to Onedarkflame for a little bit since his event linkshell is about ready to start its Monday event trying to see what he’s up to. Well from the sounds of it they are going to go do Voidwalker Notorious Monsters tonight out of boredom I thought I would see if I could tag along and see what it’s all about but it turns out they have a full group *Ugggg* I might have to go do some stalking while they are doing this just because I don’t have anything else better to do. Stalking Cat Away!!!

Well after a lot of chasing I finally found Onedarkflame and his endgame linkshell man people must hop around a lot doing these VNMs since he went from East Ronfaure to East Ronfaure [S] to Jugner Forest [S]. When I found him I guess they were just doing tear 1’s or tear 2’s since it was only 1 party of people. Well after watching them murder a fish and a Fungie I figured that it was going to be pretty boring just watching so I convinced Onedarkflame to take a few of my Yagudo Drinks and headed back to San d’Oria to hang out while waiting for a party. I found a noobie who was looking for a Teleport-Dem and seeing that I was on my WHM/BLM with nothing better to do I figured I might as well do it. Well I invite the noob and go figure he was close to flat broke well I just figured that I might as well go for it and take the 200 gil (Money in the game) and teleport his sorry butt. Well now back to boredom. Hopefully something interesting will start up here in a minute or two till then I guess I’ll go craft another stack of Dark Crystals into Yagudo Drinks while I wait.

Well still no party invite in my WHM but Valkyrion came back on and we figured now would be a good time to go out and do that Swift Belt fight so we grabbed Dragonsbane on his THF and Valkyion on his RDM and my WHM and headed off to the Sacrarium once we head to the pop area only to be confronted by an NM neither me, valkyrion, nor Dragonsbane had ever seen before called Elel. Well after we agroed him and fought him which was a kind of a one sided fight we head off to find a pop area we check it to see if anyone has max hate which Dragonsbane did so I gave him the book to use to pop the NM. After a short fight we come out empty handed and unfortunately everyone seems to be farming the Stegotaur for Fomor Codex so they can pop the same NMs so after hearing that the same kind of mob drops the Fomor Codex in Phomiuna Aqueducts I head out there to try and farm up another Codex. While there and fighting my first monster a THF asked me if I wanted a Codex since he didn’t want the one that dropped to him I said sure and he sold it to me for 1 gil I wish I would of wrote down his name to thank him in the log but unfortunately I didn’t and he probably wouldn’t be reading this in the fist place. Any who after that we head back to the Sacrarium to try this fight again. This time Valkyrion gets max hate and can pop the NM so we pop him and fight him again to get this time… a dark crystal… *Ugggg* Well I think this is official this belt hates me either that or Dragonsbane’s TH is broken.

After that disappointment in the Sacrarium I decided to hang out with Valkyrion and Dragonsbane in a party in East Ronfaure [S] for a level 37 level Sync party. The jobs everyone chose was Valkyrion 75 Ranger (RNG for short), Dragonsbane 37 Ninja (NIN for short), Frios DRG, Yuraraina 79 Monk (MNK for Short), and Elle 35 Summoner (SMN for short). So knowing that valk is going to bring out Ittybittysummoner on his WHM I figured it would be best for me to come on either COR or BRD asking valk which one he wants since I didn’t feel like choosing since I was kind of bummed about the whole Swift Belt not dropping garbage. Any who he thinks COR since well I’m so much close to level COR to 80 then any other job so we head out and unfortunately get stuck at the horrible camp. After a while we found that one of the good camps opened up and moved over there and EXP started moving along much smother especially since I didn’t have to run half way across the map to find a monster to pull back to camp. Any who we all mange to get a few levels Elle and Dragonsbane taking the most since well they are low level and it takes a whole lot less EXP for them to level then it does for everyone else. Any who after this party I figured this would be a good time to close out for the night.

Tuesday, July 7, 2010

Well I think I’ll play today by ear and see what happens. After I get on I notice that the Undead Swarm and the Troll Mercenaries are getting ready to Besieged the walls of Al Zahbi so I grab my newly acquired 80 COR and head to Al Zahbi once I get there I notice Valkyrion is also going to hit up this double whammy of a besieged so I toss him an invite and me and him hang out till the trolls and the undead get to the city. The undead make it first after some time I managed to cap my Marksmanship which is great because this gives me time to do other things with out the worry of finishing that skill at least for now. As soon as I end up capping my Marksmanship I figure I might as well get in the fight with some daggers and get some skill ups that way. After a short time the undead decided they had enough and headed out *Ugggg* these besieges just don’t last long enough. Well after the trolls were waiting at the doorsteps wanting in. So after a few more skills they decided to run off as well. I just wish that they would of stayed around a bit longer and allow me to get some more skill ups on my daggers.

Well after the Besieged I and Valkyrion decided to head off the Phomiuna Aqueducts for a fun time of looking for codexs again. Well after about and hour or two we finally get a hold of 2 codexs so we make our way to the Sacrarium for another round of Swift Belts. Well after clearing out 5 rooms of Fomor we start popping the NMs starting with the Elvaan. After a not so long fight we get nothing. So we head back over to the Mithra’s room and pop her again a short fight followed by nothing I think I’m starting to see a pattern here. Any who me and Valkyrion figured it was time to head back out the Phomiuna Aqueducts for another run of looking for Codexs. Another hour or so goes by and one death due to a screw up on my part we head back out the Sacrarium. On the way to fight the Fomor we run back into the strange Elel again who decided he didn’t have enough of us when we fought him the last time so we killed him and again junk for drops oh well that wasn’t the reason we were out there in the first place so we headed over to the pop area for the Swift Belt NMs. We do the same thing building hate with a few hiccups since people decided that they want to come out and kill Fomor too for one reason or another. Well after we get enough hate we pop the Elvaan NM again and again nothing and head back over to the Mithra which again Nothing from killing her. I’m starting to think it’s one of the unwritten rules of FFXI like No skilling up in Dynamis only this rule is Hesper is not allowed to have the following which in this case is a Swift Belt. I think this is going to end up being like the PLD relic body that I have never been able to get my hands on *Ugggg* well after this defeat I figured it was time to call it a day.

Wednesday, July 8, 2010

So was really late being able to get on today due to maintenance. Well when I got on today I put up my party flag and not even a minute later I get a party invite on my COR. That is one thing I like about maintenance is that at least if you are able to get on quickly it gives you the chance to get a party fast. Any who the party got all setup and we headed off for the bird camp with a RDM BRD COR MNK SAM WAR combo. After a while the SAM and the WAR both had to go so we managed to get a pretty awesome DRK and WAR to replace them with. We continued like this for a while till the RDM had to go and we got a SCH to replace him after that we kept going till the DRK had to go which was replaced by a SAM. After we got done with that switch the WAR D/Ced on us which we found a replacement DRG to take his spot and we continued on. Well after a little bit longer the leader got tired and we called it quits after 5 hours of parting. *Phhhw* after that I headed back to Sandy to spend my merit points which boosted me from none to 4/5 merits on my Quick Draw Recast Timer.

After that Valkyrion Inunabe and Reauland decided that they wanted to do a low level party I figured why not and came on my COR again. Unfortunately my internet decided it would be more fun to conk out on me then stay up. Think this is a sign that I partied too much today… well till tomorrow.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

So I figured when I logged on today it would be a lazy day for me till I went to dynamis but that wasn’t quite true I got an invite from Lunacie, Narf, and Midgetking from my Dynamis Linkshell to come on out on my COR for a few Merit points while I got done with a short burst of crafting. I figured why not and headed out that way. Well we fought at Misareaux Coast on the birds and I managed to pull out 3 more merit points which promptly went into the Job Ability Fold so I could unlock it.

After the party I waited to hear from Foosk which job he wanted me on for Dynamis. After a little while he decided that it probably would be best to bring my COR which was fine with me since I wanted to play around with a level 80 job. So I headed out to Bastok for the event and we got all geared up and ready to go. It was crazy in the zone things were dieing so fast that it was almost worthless for me to be DDing according to the people parcing I only managed to do about 4% of the total damage.-Sigh- Well since it was Dynamis-Bastok no new shines for me tonight though I did make 125,000 Gil from the byne bills I got at the end of the run.

After Dynamis I figured I would get some crafting in well unfortunately I was interrupted by the taru (Inunabe) wanting to party on his DNC and wanted my COR for buffs and to pull I just hope it doesn’t become a normal dependence on me –Sigh- any who I headed back out Misareaux Coast to fight some more birds…. Well not technically fight for me since I was doing the lolBRD job but I managed to pull out another 4 merit points which fortunately puts me a lot closer to getting my goal of fully merited COR done.

After the party I took it easy talking to Reauland and doing some crafting done in the quite time I had so I finished up my Yagudo Drinks and hit 60 Cooking which made me pretty happy since that means I got a half way decent crafting skill now. Well sorry this day’s log was kind of short and too the point maybe I’ll make it up in the next one with some pictures and length till then I hope you have had fun reading this.