I wake up the next morning to find everything in order. The registration process is very straight-forward, and I’m ready to create a character. After watching all the character introductions I went straight for what alot of people probably knew I’d pick, and spent the next 3 hours trying to "trick" (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11037) the game into letting me into the Cerberus world server. Nick (Khyros/Fallen_Angel) plays there. :3
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Total playing time to date: 9days, 10hrs, 56mins (over 4 weeks).
I honestly wanted to start this from day one, but when addiction kicked in, well, that became an impossibility. And it wasn’t just that–FFXI can easily overwhelm the unsuspecting newbie with its wide array of menus and commands. I hardly knew where to start once I created Typo (
), a tarutaru black mage (BLM).
Since I’ve gained much experience within the last month, and also since I’m now level 19, there’s quite a gap to fill in between the beginning, and now, though I certainly won’t go into every fine detail–there are too many for me to even remember..
I’ll try to make it as short as possible, while including some mini "tutorials" along the way. :3
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Before I even got my hands on the game I’d always talk about "exploring" and "adventuring" in Vana’diel, that FFXI apparently takes both these things further than perhaps any other MMORPG out there.
I wanted badly to explore, but my first trip outside the safe walls of the federation of Windurst (home of the tarutaru and mithra races) sorta steered me away from that ideal for a short while, after suffering my first defeat at the hands of perhaps the weakest enemy in the game.
Dying at such an early level is not a problem. You lose no experience points for dying in the first few levels, but after level 5 or so you lose roughly 10% of the maximum exp needed to reach the next level.
If you have 60 exp, and you level at 500 and die, you will lose around 50 exp.
Leveling down is very possible, and embarassing, and frustrating. :3 Always try to get a 10% saftey net into your next level, after a level up. You never know when death’ll hit ya.
Windurst is very…green. The town itself is tucked (
) inside a large forest within a mountain range in the Sarutabaruta region (took me 2 days to remember how to spell it, and figure out how to pronounce it), with only the main entrance walls being visible to the outside world. Sarutabaruta is split into two zones, east and west. Close to Windurst, both zones are suitable "newbie zones" for weaklings low levels to play around with the weaker enemies. It ish all beautiful. Heading further out will of course lead to more dangerous areas.
Helpful tip for all future lv1 black mages: smacking an enemy with a wand is just as important as casting Stone (a lv1 damage spell, no stone/petrify status effect) like there’s no tomorrow. Also, "check" (a command used on what you set the cursor to target. in the field, it allows you to see the strength of an enemy before you do something you regret) ish your best friend. After I learned this lesson, I quickly got the hang of fighting the weaker enemies, and many an epic struggle against Tiny Mandragoras (
) (onion heads), Bumble Bees (
) and Savanna Rarabs (
) would ensue, until Typo reached level 6. Yaay.
Vigorous training session #1 completed!
End of day 1.
Reaching lv6 gave me some confidence, as well as a few new spells, and so I decided to do something semi-important when I next logged in.
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If you ever need any direction in terms of quests, or plot advancement, there are Quests and Missions to be done, and the same "adventuring" and "exploring" come with that package.
FFXI, although an online game, has very talkative NPCs. Not only do they speak to you as usual, but they have their own agendas, interact with each other, and some can even offer you Quests, which in turn net you some nifty rewards. As for the Missions, each of the game’s 3 main nations has its own set of Missions, and you’ll want to do them at some point to get further into the game.
So far, Typo has completed 4 Windurst Missions (about 5 earth days worth of work), and made many friends in the process. Typo was invited into his first linkshell (clan), ‘The Group of Aei’, while trying to find a secret wall within the Inner Horutotu Ruins in East Sarutabaruta. Mission 1 stuff.
Linkshells are a great way to make fast friends, and an even better way to progress through the game, especially at mid-to-higher levels, when soloing is suicidal. When you join, the leader of the clan give you a ‘linkpearl’ (a magical gem), which you use to communicate with the entire group from anywhere in the world. You can only use 1 linkpearl at a time.
Aei’s group had at least 50 members when I joined, and it only continued to grow by the day. Aei herself is a taru white mage (WHM), and being familiar with the game having played the Japanese (JP) version, she decided to make a clan for beginners, like Typo, to assist them through the early levels and Missions that can be pretty rough to go through alone. So kind! I don’t have any pictures of Aei and crew, and I don’t frequent that particular linkshell anymore…but Typo will never forget Aei’s kindness! /salute.
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After completing the first 3 missions with the help of some friends, Typo leveled from 6-10, taking advantage of Giant Bees, just outside the Inner Horutotu Ruins of Mission 1.
<font size="1">Lv10 Typotaru. Resting. Wearing Tunic (lv9 body/head equip). There’s a Mandragora face. Don’t hurt Typo. ;3</font>
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Levels 10-19 were fairly interesting, to say the least! But that’s a story for another time when I’m not so tired and groggy. ;3 More pictures from now on, too~ Lastly, the significance of this journal’s title will be revealed! Ooooh the suspense ish killing ye.
-edit: added some piccies. See if you can find the cookies! ;3
Black mages in FFXI have more resources than some might think, even at low levels. Enfeebling spells, for example. Blinding them is always neat, if they can’t hit you, you can’t be beat. If things get tough, Bind the enemy and run away, live to nuke another day.
If you’re going to be a BLM, it can’t be all about the nuke, especially if you’re soloing. You need to pull out all the stops and use everything you have.
Bind > Blind > Poison/Bio > NUKE!!
Poison costs almost nothing in terms of MP, and slowly lowers enemy health. Bio is neat. Not only does it have a poison effect, but it lowers physical strength. It costs a good deal to cast, so only use against enemies with large hands, or those with sharp pointy objects in them. Use poison against all else to conserve MP–you’ll stay alive that way, and not have to stop to rest as much, and when in a group, your party members will love you for it.
‘The Art of Casting 101’ paragraphs up there are just to illustrate how much more difficult things become once one hits level 10. Giant Bees and Goblins all become easy prey and yield very little exp, whilst everything else in Sarutabaruta is either too easy or too hard. Time for a new area.
For a while I’d been hearing lv12+ people in the LS talk about some Canyon or the other, so I figured I’d check the map and have a go at it myself. No one would recommend I venture up there until their level, but seeing as I tend to take the time out to gil farm (hunt enemies with semi-good item drops, then sell) to update my equipment alot, I felt I’d be able to meet the challenge.
It takes 15 earth minutes to run from Windurst to Tahrongi–if you know the shortcut. But I did not back then, so it was more like 45 minutes of trying to find my way up there using the map (
).
Tarhongi Canyon is pretty much where all the grouping begins, but I was determined to reach level 12 on my lonesome. The Canyon is desolate, the environment cold and fear-inducing–totally unnewbie friendly, but what the hey. There are Pygmaois (stronger onion heads), Sapplings, and Canyon Rarabs floating around. Every /check I make turns out to be a "Decent Challenge", "Even Match", or "Tough", and as a general rule of thumb a BLM should NOT try that kinda stuff when solo. Again, what the hey. Typo ish not so easily deturred anymore, and with his formula for victoly, managed to gain 2 levels in 4 hours. Typo had grown up a little. At least in skill, anyway. :3
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I meet Unorthodoxious on the way home. Lv15 at the time, an elvaan monk (MNK) sitting right outside the Canyon entrance. Out of the blue I am invited into his linkshell, ‘The Unorthodox Few’ (TUF "tough" ;3). Yaay. Once I activate the linkpearl I am warmly greeted by many names I had already seen running up and down various areas, going about their business. Even though I’d never spoken to any of them before, I felt as if I knew half of them already.
Unortho and a few others are on their way back into the Canyon for some leveling. I want to make a good impression, so I join them immediately on the hunt for Wild Dhalmels (
) (giraffes)–the prey of choice for level 12-15 parties. Parties, NO soloing. (Yeah yeah, the pic is of a Bull Dhalmel, but they all look the same, so phooey.)
Things are going well, and Typo reaches lv13, without saftey net. Every battle is a challenge, with one or two falling close to death now and then, but we’re getting fantastic exp for each victory, so the risk is well worth it.
Manolan, an over-eager lv14 hume warrior (WAR) decides to head in the opposite direction of our leader, claiming to have spotted a Dhalmel to the south. We head over to see him staring at it. Our white mage (WHM) says, "Don’t attack that one." Here is how this scene plays out:
Manolan: "Why not?"
WHM: "NOT THAT ONE"
Manolan draws his sword and attacks the enemy for a very measly figure.
Typo, not only the BLM, but also the eyes and ears of the team highlights the enemy and reads its name to Manolan.
Typo: "Serpopard Ishtar??"
Unorthodoxious: "Dammit"
Manolan: "HELP"
And we do, and we find ourselves in more trouble than we’d experienced as a team earlier. It looks exactly like a Wild Dhalmel, but Ishtar is a far stronger version, only distinguishable by reading its name…and /checking it, of course.
"The Serpopard Ishtar’s strength is impossible to guage!"
Named monsters like this are known as Notorious Monsters (NM(s)). Hyper Notorious Monsters (HNM(s)) also exist. Neat.
Considering its strength, the battle was surprisingly easy. I had to use my 2 hour job ability, "Manafront", which allows a BLM to cast repeatedly for 30 seconds without expending any MP. I "saved" the team’s ass. :3
Unorthodoxious and Vangelis (another WAR) bit the dust pretty early. Typo became the team’s new tank (the person who keeps the enemy in one place, and takes most, if not all the punishment–NOT a BLM job!), since he was casting like a fisherman on speed. He fell shortly after the WHM ran out of MP and died for curing too much. Seconds later, we "won", but only one team member out of 5 survived, and you can tell by now who it was.
Unorthodoxious: "How many exp points did you get from it, Mano?"
Manolan: "170."
Typo: "I somehow don’t think that was worth it."
WHM: "ALWAYS ALWAYS read the name and /c before you attack!"
Vangelis: "/shout Can anyone raise?"
Manolan: "Sorry guys."
Typo: ":3"
Typo levels back down to 12, cries, and then returns to his home point in Windurst Woods, as does the rest of the team. There are no WHMs in the area with Raise (a lv25 spell).
So because of a couple n00b mistakes, that happens. Getting your team killed sucks, as I would find out first-hand much later on….
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I spend some time in Windurst selling things at the auction house (
) (AH). Rarely ever will you want to buy/sell items from/to NPCs. You will get duped, and feel as if making money is the hardest thing ever to do. A little patience and you can afford whatever it is you NEED (keyworded there, since alot of nice low-level items cost an astronomical amount of gil, but aren’t necessarily vital to your survival).
For example, Silk Cloth sells for roughly 300gil to NPCs, whereas the average price it goes for to other players at the AH is 600gil a piece. A stack of 12 can net you 10,000 gil. Not that silk is easy to obtain, but you get the picture on the pricing thing. For the record, AHs are completely player-based–no NPCs involved with transactions, so essentially the players are the ones who place value on items. How’s that for an in-game economy?
I got tired of being a tunic guy. Having hoods and all, you are unable to wear any headgear while sporting a tunic. Royal Footman’s Tunic has +12 defense, +1 INT (intelligence stat deals with black magic power only), and restricts headgear. A Linen Robe (
), however costs less, and offers slightly less defense, so if I could find suitable headgear, I’d be able to boost my def beyond that of the Tunic I was wearing. Losing the tunic’s +1 INT was not a concern to me, seeing as I was trying to focus on my defense. All solo players should!
Fungus Hat (
).
A good defense item by all means. Erudite’s Headband would have suited me better for an INT+1 bonus, but less defense, but look at the hat, people. Sexay. Added effects: +resistance to water and dark elements. Nifty.
Typo had to have it.
I would spend the next couple earth days doing nothing but hunting Crawlers (
) for their Silk Thread drops, and Gobbies for their expensive gear, until I raised the 12k for my beloved hat.
My obsession with this thing made me somewhat (in)famous in both my linkshells, and the fact that the hat is bigger than me is such a bonus. ;3 Also, it’s a rare item from a tough quest, which explains the hefty AH value–but hardly anyone wears it as a result, so I get to look unique. ^^ Typo is NEVER without his hat.
Fungus Hatty-watty.
Unless he is fishing (
), and even then it’s still in his inventory. ":3
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Typo does not frequent the Group of Aei much anymore, and since Aei is going to be switching servers soon, the group will soon cease to exist. Thanks for your help in the beginning, Aei! Baibai and good luck!
Some of my friends from that group are now members of TUF, so it’s all good.
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Picture of the day. This one’s for Ender.
Weak magic, pathetic attacks, big red beak.
Yagudos are dumb. Yagudo Initiate, Scribe, Mendicant, Persecutor, and many more. They’re found all over Sarutabaruta, as well as Tahrongi, and are death to low level players, as well as some mid levels in the Canyon. Their home is in a place called Giddeus, just off of West Sarutabaruta. Strong ones live there, and annoy the hell out of everyone trying to do mission 3.
Bird’d.
Also, I’ll add a couple pictures to the first post later.
I think I’m going to make something of a beastiary, by snapping as many enemies as I can (because trying to take pictures can get me killed…monsters hate the flash ;3), and sticking them in here. And, I’ll remember to try and snap the people I talk about, namely party members, friends, etc.
Fungus Hat Typo + Double Bird’d by 2 Carrion Crows.
Q. Why is a sub so important?
A. Strength.
You can be two things at once, using your sub’s abilities to eliminate the weaknesses of your main job, or to further augment its strengths. You also get stat bonuses that are otherwise only obtainable through equipment and accessories. A subjob’s level can only be 50% of your main at maximum, but blending the two jobs together can allow a single character to do some amazing things.
And of course, different combinations will yield different results, so it is all up to you, no matter what anyone tells you about job combinations.
A character without a subjob after lv18 will not be too popular with other same-level outgoing parties. While others reap the benefits of their subs, you are selling yourself short by limiting your resources. In short, without a subjob you are a liability.
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Dhalmel hunting in Tahrongi is going well, and over a dozen members of TUF, split into several groups, are thriving off the giraffe-tipping experience. Apart from Sarutabaruta, there are 3 areas attatched to Tahrongi, further to the north; the Meriphataud Mountains *shiver*, a wasteland as equally barren as the Canyon, divided lengthways by the giant spine of a dead something. Under lv20’s probably won’t survive for too long up here without sufficient protection. The one reason you might want to visit before Dhalmel hunting is because there is a guard right at the entrance that will allow you to set that point as your home point, great for those cases where you happen to die and don’t feel like that 20 minute run from Windurst to Tahrongi. I had visited this area already when I "helped" a Mithra named Subaru, as well as her friends get Gausebit Grass for their chocobo quest. I got some for myself, too, remembering to set my new home point on my way out. ;3
Then there’s Buburimu Penninsula. Residents of Windurst will probably come here to do their subjob quest. It isn’t a friendly place for even lv20’s, and at this point I had only heard of it, and never thought of going. The third and final is the Maze of Shakrhami. Levels 15 to 19 would take place within this tricky cave.
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Tunnels and tunnels of enemies, few of which are safe to attack, even for a group of 12-15’s. Some of the underground areas are huge, with giant skeletons and stray bones decorating every room. A team NEEDS a designated look out or two here, seeing as agressive enemies spawn abundantly. Agressive (aggro) enemies attack on sight, sometimes even on sound, and are often the ONE thing you could do without fighting, especially alone.
We went through a million and one lengthy battles featuring as many close calls with Goblin Ambushers and Tinkerers and Maze Makers, with Typo hitting level 18 in a few earth days. What can I say, dying and leveling down more than once can disrupt anyone’s momentum. ":3 Roughly 3000 points are needed to level at this stage, and each battle yielded anywhere from 48-120 exp.
And now, having reached level 18 I am eligible to walk the last mile on the road to my beloved subjob. However, these plans would have to be delayed, since everyone else was either too high, or too low a level, and therefore already had a subjob, or were simply too weak to help. So I decided to attempt to reach the next level up landmark, 20.
Shakrhami is mage heaven. Meet the Maze Maker. It is a worm that pops its head up out of the sand, sticks in one spot, and casts until it, or its opponent dies. It is not aggro, meaning that it will not attack unless first provoked. Though stationary, small and frail-looking, the Maker is quite durable, and can pack quite a (magical) punch with Stonega, a lv15 black magic spell that attacks the main target, as well as a medium-sized area around it. It can Bind you in place for about 30 seconds, and also cast the infamous Rasp, which, similarly to poison, constantly drains HP, and disables resting for a rather long time. It is incurable, so you must wait for it to wear off.
At this point I am strong enough to exploit the Maker’s weakness–the fact that it cannot move. Using a certain strategy that involved me running out of the Maker’s casting range when I needed to heal, then returning in tip-top condition to finish things off, I would defeat Maze Makers of all strengths and gain 75-140 exp per battle.
Halfway through level 19 I have a dangerously close call with a Ghoul. It is a powerful aggro enemy that spawns in a select few places in the Maze. I must have been fighting a Maker when it appeared, since I didn’t notice its presence until it started attacking me. My escape was a stroke of luck. I first had to run outside the casting range of the Maker, so I could stop to cast Bind on the Ghoul. This is a feat that perhaps gets BLMs killed most of the time, as a spell can be interrupted by a single hit from an enemy, and higher-level enemies are very stubborn and cannot be enfeebled so easily.
I had to allow him to take a swing at me so I could start casting my spell, and he gladly did so, taking me to critical state immediately. My Bind spell works first time. 102 MP remaining. I turn to run away as the Ghoul takes a final desperation swing, missing me completely in my retreat, and with 100 MP I am able to cast Warp, and teleport the hell out of Shakrhami.
Since Warp only teleports you to your home point, I appeared in the Meriphataud Mountains seconds later.
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It seems that Shakrhami is either too slow, or too risky for Typo alone, so he heads back home to fish until his friends are ready for their subjobs. Having spent many days away, seeing Windurst and hearing that groovy jungley-plus-Irish-flutey-type music again gave me a warm and comforting feeling, as though it were my reward for eliminating beastmen for 7 levels before returning, doing my country proud. :3
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I’m going to check my image collection, and if I find any that I can use in this post, I’ll edit them in. I wasn’t playing the game at this point with sightseeing in mind…
:3 (
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Almost as many as the bad times.
Sleep.
A responsible group can easily gather 2 of the 3 quest items, by easily overwhelming Mighty Rarabs and Bull Dhalmels. Of course, each team member has to get an item, and since they’re rare, luck plays a large factor in how quickly the items are obtained. In the process, Typo reached level 20, recieving congratulations and huggies and kissies from all his adoring fans. 😉
The final item, however, requires one to kill Bogy. It ish basically a very powerful ghost that only appears at night. Imagine, sub jobs are available from level 18, yet the quest itself is too tough to be completed by mere level 18s. It is necessary to call for higher-level help, and unless you can find a buff US player, you’ll have to fidget around with the awful in-game ENG-JP translator to get help from a more experienced player.
Our team leader at the time just happens to know a lv30 monk (MNK), Kugetsu, who quickly makes his way over to the beach in Mhaura by chocobo, and it is with his assistance (ok, so he did all the work, and it was cool watching him >.>) that our group was able to obtain the final quest item! Our hero!
You take the 3 items back to Vera, who really didn’t need them, but was only teaching you some lesson or the other, figures. But she "teaches" you about subjobs, at which point you head back home to your mog house to try on your new subby-wubby. ^_^
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Some pictures from Buburimu and Mhaura:
Running through Buburimu Penninsula at night. Kinda lonely, eh. >.-
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"Goblin dodgeball" (
).
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Our group gathers somewhere in Buburimu to get those subjob quest items.
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Typo loves cats. ;3
Kitiara (thief/THF) and Lafiel (WHM) are Typo’s hunnies. ;3
Well, not really, but still…nyau!!! They are great players, and Kitiara makes quite the team leader.
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Sunrise. We’re off to lv up for the day, awaiting nightfall when Kugetsu will come to help us get a Bloody Robe (final, and toughest-to-obtain quest item) each, from Bogy.
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When he arrives, we all do our best to…stand and watch him wrestle with the Bogies, while Lafiel throws in the occasional cure~
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The next day…
Enter Typo, lv1 White Mage, lv1 Black Mage!
Hey, don’t look all surprised. My BLM job is still lv20, but since I changed it to my subjob, the game has limited the amount of BLM power I can use. A subjob can only be half the level of the main job, at max, level 1 being the only exception. Since subjobs do not gain experience points, the only way to level up your subjob is to change it to be your main. It really is not as confusing as it sounds. As I level WHM, BLM will automatically level up behind it, since its true level is 20. If I were to level WHM to 40, my BLM job would finally max out at 20.
In my previous post are a few images, and those images are just some of my worst experiences as a WHM. This job has some limitations that I just cannot put my finger on… Even with a few lower lv black magics to help me out, as well as a shield to block attacks, extra HP and defense, and of course the Cure spell, I still have more trouble defending myself as a WHM, than I did as a BLM.
Hmm… But as a white mage, I am wanted by any and everyone within a few levels of me. WHMs are rare on Cerberus.
For the past couple of weeks, Typo has been going through familiar routines in Sarutabaruta…
Tahrongi…
and Shakrhami…
I plan on getting to 20 before I continue to lv BLM.
Other activities would sidetrack me from this goal, however…
Apart from good ol’ fashioned footwork, boats and airships are two alternative forms of transportation in FFXI. Unfortunately, at such a low level, airships are pretty much inaccessible, and the only available boat at the time only has one destination…more on that soon. :3
Chocobos are a third, and most useful travel option, only you cannot own one, but instead rent one for 30 or so earth minutes from your local chocobo stable. But.. before you can even think of such a luxury, you must first reach level 20 (think of it as a legal driving age), and make your way to Jeuno, the "neutral" kingdom pretty much in the very center of the world map. There you will recieve your chocobo license, your ticket to near absolute freedom.
While relatively within walking distance of the other three kingdoms, the road to Jeuno is extremely tretcherous from all angles, even for a group of level 20 adventurers, and just plain scary for Typo, who made the trip all on his lonesome. >.>
For a couple days after reaching lv20, I tried to find others with whom I could travel…unfortunately my playing hours were apparently somewhat off on these days, since everyone I knew just happened to make the trip whenever I was offline! For once, Typo decided to take initiative and attempt the journey solo.
One thing you have to understand is the dangers that come from travelling alone. Knowing just how easy it is to die in this game is half of what makes these ‘trips’ so exciting. Running away from monsters is almost an impossibility… A THF can use flee and increase footspeed to their advantage, a BLM or RDM can bind an enemy in place, and run. Certain classes have their own ways and means, but when all else fails, you’re likely to be in a fight to the death with any monster that sees fit to aggro you. Aggro enemies exist in almost all areas, and some have a knack for camouflaging themselves, ready to ambush anyone below their level. Some attack you on sight, others if they hear your footsteps, and some can even smell you. This is where the whole "goblin dodgeball" concept comes into play. Goblins are the most common of aggressive enemies, and some can sense you from rather far away, which is why if you’re running from point A to point B, and there are goblins blocking, it is necessary to plan an alternate route going around them, sometimes going much further out of your way than you’d care to, maybe even getting yourself into more trouble. And of course if one Goblin aggros you, it is likely any others in the vecinity will follow. The Dodgeball rule applies to ALL aggros, and you will learn to be good at it, or hopefully always be able to travel in a group.
Now keep all that in mind, and imagine being alone in an area you know nothing about. All you can do at first is read your map (if you remember to buy one at the nearest town), and plan a route. The rest is dodgeball.
And I played that damn game for almost 3 hours before I could make it to Jeuno.
In summary, it all went something like this:
– Warp from Windurst to current homepoint, West Sarutabaruta. (10 seconds)
– Run to East Saruta, head north east to reach Tahrongi. (3 minutes)
– Head north to reach the opening in the canyon, run east to Buburimu. (5 minutes)
It gets a little tricky here.
– Play goblin dodgeball until Mhaura. (12 minutes)
See?
– Make Mhaura my new homepoint. Pay 100 gil to catch boat from Mhaura to Selbina (
). (10 minutes, had to wait for boat to arrive)
This was my first time ever on the boat, in fact, my first time ever leaving the Windurst area. But from all the storeis I’d heard from beta players and importers, as well as several friends who had already experienced the boat ride, I learned a few pointers:
1. Keep away from Japanese players who fish. Whatever they catch may end up eating you.
2. The boat is vulnerable to a pirate attack. Pray that doesn’t happen.
– Survive the boat trip. (15 minutes)
Thankfully the ride was uneventful. The only other person on the boat besides myself, a JP player, fished up a storm. Luckily none of the catches were sea monsters. >.> A Sea Crab and a Sea Pugil jumped onto the boat. Semi-dangerous, but nothing I couldn’t handle.
– Make Selbina my new home point. Buy maps of San d’Oria and Jeuno areas. Exit and head into Valkurm Dunes. (2 minutes)
Selbina ish a small port/fishing town near the San d’Oria area. It has great music, and that’s all that’s important.
– In Valkurm, dodgeball (
) north until La Theine Plateau. (19 minutes)
Valkurm Dunes…very white sands, no music, enemies everywhere… As far as I know, only the goblins out here aggro, but there were so many of them it was still a task getting to La Theine..
– Run around aimlessly in La Theine, and hope to find Jugner Forest. (18 minutes, plus encounter with an "easy prey" enemy that depleted 1/4 of my HP in 1 hit. It was an Orcish Mesmeriser, or another orc of some sort.)
La Theine ish beautiful. It’s a shame that a place so scenic could be filled with such evil… Just goes to show you that even an "easy prey" monster can be dangerous if you know nothing about that species.. I spent the rest of the time dodging other orcs, goblins and a water elemental that I swear was stalking me.
– Take a break, rest at the forest entrance and hope not to get jumped while getting a snack >.> (10 minutes)
– Jugner Forest. Run for dear life and reach the outpost. (26 minutes, after figuring out that I was running the complete opposite direction for 10 minutes)
Scared the living daylights out of me. My vision was regularly impaired by tree branches hanging everywhere, and one time, out of nowhere, there’s this (
). Yeah, don’t crucify me for being so far from it. I WAS right next to it and had to look closely to realize that that wasn’t any normal tree. >.> Ok so it looks obvious, but trust me, having never seen one of those before it wasn’t exactly expected. ;3
– Homepoint outpost which is in the middle of nowhere (
), head north east to Battalia Downs. (12 minutes)
– Straight run east. Dodge EVERYTHING, reach The Grand Dutchy of Jeuno! (17 minutes, the last of which I was chased to Jeuno entrance by a Sabertooth Tiger.)
– Total time, ’bout 2 1/2 hours. <.<
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After feeling a sense of great accomplishment for being able to overcome obstacles that not many dare to try, Typo still had the actual quest itself to begin. You are to talk to a man named Brutus, the head of the stables in Upper Jeuno about a chocobo license. But of course in typical RPG fashion you must first prove you are worthy enough, or in this case trustworthy enough, as your challenge is to gain the trust of a sickly chocobo nearby.
In an earlier entry I mentioned needing 4 clumps of gausebit wildgrass for this quest. This type of grass can heal chocobo wounds and cure illnesses, making it perfect for this occasion. The bird needs to be fed 6 times, once every earth hour. It won’t eat the first 2 times, but overtime it will begin to feel comfortable with you and accept your gift of healing grass. ;3
The quest takes no effort on your part, just some patience. Congraturation to Typo, because from then on Typo was a free taru!!!
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Piccies! :3 All images from here on will be uploaded onto good clean ffsspace, and none of that pooey geocities stuff anymore. Nyau! Click on ’em at will!
-Mhaura (
)~
Boat arrives, Typo hauls his tarubutt up in there.
Public enemy #1 (
)
That JP guy had no chance of getting me devoured. I went inside by the captain and trembled for the remainder of the trip. 15 earth minutes of potential pirate attack time? Teh horrorrr!
Strangely enough I have no Selbina pictures. Cry.
La Theine~
The trees are lovely, eh? Such a nifty place, until the orcs rear their oogly…rears.
Jugner~
Battalia Downs~
Derelict-y. Plenty of ruins that serve as goblin hide-aways. Not a very friendly place, BUT a stone’s throw from Jeuno! Better hussle through..
Jeuno~
Huge! A little intimidating at first. It’s a lot larger than Windurst, at least vertically anyway, AND an abundance of high-level characters (
) swarm every part of it.
There are always a bunch of scrubs waiting around at the stables for the next chocobo feeding time. ;3
Chocobo piccies~
Make one of these your wallpaper. Send one or all to someone for christmas. They are more beautiful than you. Do it do it.~
The bird and the beast~ ;3
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With chocobo power finally in Typo’s hands, he ish now able to travel between all 4 nations at will. All of Windurst, Bastok, San d’Oria and Jeuno r belong to Typo! Muah!
LV20 WHM LV20 BLM Typotaru~
Typo is at a loss for direction at the moment. Let’s see, got my subjob, got me yellow bird, leveled sub to 20, made lots of money fishing and bought some level 20 equipment for blm. There ish so much I could do at this point, now that I’ve accomplished all my goals so far..
Hmmm.
It’s funny that after all this time I still haven’t ever met up with Khyros. The least I could do is ride over to San d’O and watch him get picked on by lower-level stuff. ;3
Real update coming soon-y~!
Also, tis seems like you have no idea what to do now, well whats you’ve accomplished is like only 5/100 you could do. For now you could do guilding, do missions to follow up on the main plot, level of course, do quests and at lv.30 you can hunt for your RSE clothes that look like your n00b clothes only RED!! *gasp* that and they give mega stat boosts. Also at 30 you can do job quests, just imagine yourself as a taru dark knight, wouldn’t you like that? eh? eh? eh?!?!
^ Awwwwwwww
And after lv.30, well just stick around to find out. ^_~
Typo returned to Windurst after a lot of hard labour to find cheap lights and streamers littering the trees and corners all over town. Le sigh. In case I absolutley must, I’ve snapped 1 or 2 shots of how unhappy (
)San d’Oria is looking. It’s sad, but they tried (
), I guess. Wonder if Nick had anything to do with the mutilation of those poor trees.. :3
There’s most likely some special christmas-y themed quest (probably true), in which people swear you can obtain a "Santa Hat" item (most likely bs), but it doesn’t interest me right now.
What does interest me is getting cash for lv20 equipment, as well as updating my spells. Guess I’ll be fishing for a couple days to raise my level and earn some money-woney. I can’t stand seeing people wearing outdated clothes >.> Makes me not want to heal them. ;3
Typo’s fishing is now lv14.1. Typing /clock allows you to see the current Vana’diel time and date, as well as the current state/phase of the moon. These have alot to do with how successful you are in crafting, but for now only fishing concerns me. The phases change every Vana’diel day, and go from 0% up to 100, and back down to 0% in increments of 2-3% each time. As far as I’ve experienced, new moon (from 0-5%) and full moon (90-100%) are the best times to fish, with one or two instances in between where you’ll have a good spell. I accidentally slept through all of new moon today, so I’ll hopefully have some good spells until full moon, which will probably hit around Monday evening or early Tuesday or so. :/
I’m a little worried about how I’ll make fast money, seeing as everyone in Cerberus except for Typo seems to think that moat carp ish worth 3k gil per stack (12 items bunched together), instead of 4. >.> On a good fishing day I can catch 12 moat carp in 20-35 minutes, so I can make several thousand per hour, but since the price has dropped to 3k, it’ll take me a few more hours at the pond to catch 100k gil worth. Le sigh part 2.
I currently have 90,000gil, which should cover the rest of my equipment for whm and blm, but I’ll need more for spells, especially Drain, which comes to a mighty 19,000gil on its own. Le sigh cubed.
When I’m done with all this it’ll be time to head out to Qufim (an island, I think, just off Jeuno) where I’ll stay put until lv25. I’m not sure which job I’ll lv first…maybe whm, since I’ve grown accustomed to being in charge of people’s lives. ;D It’s actually been pretty fun, a lot more than blm…
—
Over the past few weeks Typo has been making new friends all over the place. Unless you specifically want a static team where you and the other members always breathe, eat, sleep, and play FFXI at the exact same time all the time, you’ll hardly team up with the same people everyday. So it’s inevitable that you’ll meet someone new almost everyday. Apart from Unorthodox Few and Windurst Special Forces, Typo is now a member of Spamorama, and his new favourite, The Chocobo Knights. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
It’s hard juggling between 4 linkshells (
). Nowadays I use them more like in-game chats as opposed to just simple communication devices where I can ask for help, for a team, or whatever.
Spamorama hasn’t ever really made it off the ground, but I’m not too surprised. The majority of the members are originally from TUF. No point in having 2 shells with the same people, but to be nice I accepted the linkpearl.
The Chocobo Knights…best. Linkshell. Colour. Ever, as well as plenty of good-natured players, nice and evenly spread out from low to higher levels. More ‘old friends’ from Aei’s group here, so Typo fit in perfectly. ^^
Windurst SpecForces is probably one I’ll frequent more often after I hit lv25. At that level you can join an expiditionary force (EF), where your group is assigned a designated area to fight in in an attempt to claim it in the name of your country. Or something like that. WSF is geared towards keeping Windurst ahead of the pack in terms of territory expansion and domination. I also hang out with them every now and then to eavesdrop on/ask about things I haven’t a clue about now, but will probably be important for later levels. ":3
TUF still seems like "home" to me, but the majority of people I was close with a few weeks ago have surpassed my level, and therefore I don’t get the chance to party with them. Still, they’re a great group and still as fun as always~
As long as you’ve got a good reputation and hang out with the right crowd, linkshells can increase the fun you’ll have with this game tenfold. I feel pretty well-known and popular now, to say the least…like a lil’ taru cheerleader omg!
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[20:34] <MogKnight> "Nick says Mithra’s don’t wear strapons" (
)
My kinda gal (
). The ONLY reason to visit Mhaura now. ;3
This is a Malboro (
). I saw it once on my way to Bastok via Passhow Marshlands from Jeuno. The good thing: it’s a Malboro. The bad thing, it’s a Malboro. It also looks just like an Ochu. I was on a chocobo, so it didn’t throw up on or eat me.
Wall this (
) or something. ;3
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I’ll see what I can do about getting some videos in here. *looks at Mog* They’d be short, of course, but some action > no action! ;3
PS: UW…Typo knows all that, silly-willy~ The problem was actually what to do FIRST! I’ve also heard plenty about bad Qufim teams…I’d better watch out. :/
"Happy holidays."
…hoping to be back online sometime next week.
…I wonder if I’ll remember how to cast spells…
It’s good to see some of the familiar faces again. In terms of levels, everyone isn’t as far ahead as Typo thought they would be. In the meantime, however, they’ve been completing quests and missions, as well as increasing crafting levels, so Typo’s still got plenty of catching up to do. Should be fun… o.o;
The UnorthodoxFew has become the UnorthodoxMANY. I was advised by a sexy cat not to join the new linkshell, as a few bad apples had given the previous one a miserable reputation. Still, out of curiosity I asked one of the leaders/an old friend for a pearl anyway. I’ll lurk around. Apparently all the familiar faces have now joined The Order. I’ll see about joining later tonight.
All that aside, the most important thing to note ish that Typotaru ish back!
Nyau! ^_^
…
Right, anyway, just to get my head out of the clouds, I need to sort myself out and get moving. I’ve been playing so much FFX-2 that certain things in this game seem so alien to me now. X3
I’ve decided to be a full-time white mage (20whm/10blm) until level 40 (40whm/20blm). This way I can cut down on fishing time since I only have to raise funds to support the one job. In addition to that, alot of the equipment I currently have will end up sorta paying for other things in future. Some of the rare lv15-20 gear ish more valuable than the 25-30 gear I was looking at. In other words, things look easy equipment wise for Typo and whm.
I currently have 35k gil, and all of it will go towards white magic scrolls. I still have a bit more to raise for the remaining important lv20-25 spells, and it shouldn’t take too long.
After suiting up, I’ll be in Qufim until around lv25.
And so begins the hustle!
I was in Jeuno yesterday trying to find/make a Qufim party, but everyone was either too high lv, too low, busy, or in a full team. *sigh*
Today is actually the first time I’ve been able to fight since returning. The exp rolls in quite nicely, and after just a couple hours I’ve gone from barely 20, to just about 22. I’ve been in 2 teams so far. The first stuck to hunting Land Worms (see Maze Makers), while the second spent time just outside a place called Delkfutt’s Tower, chaining Clippers and various Giants.
I’m remembering my old habits well enough. It’s almost as if I never took a break from the game at all!
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Some screens~
Busy Qufim. This part is a long, thin path leading from Port Jeuno into the open.
A good picture of the first team…minus our poor BLM, bless her soul~ ; ;
There’s a Giant thingy to the right. (
)
Today someone was hit for 217 points of damage right before cure II was about to heal them to full HP. Oh well! It isn’t very often they hit those high numbers, so even VT’s (very tough) are fairly easy with a good team.
Some shots outside the Tower. Typo forgot to actually take a picture OF the Tower. Oh well.
Please don’t swing Typo by his head, thank you~
I really should have taken a screenshot of that little scene that resulted in this (
).
Things went slowly tonight. Party (
) wanted to kill Giants and Pugils, while Clippers are far easier, and would have yielded almost the same exp. Anyway, level 23 WHM Typotaru.
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Random images from today…
Even busier Qufim~
Yes, someone ish dead, and Typo ish seemingly sitting down on the job!!
How curious!
At the lake (
). Smack dab in the middle of Qufim area, not too far from the Tower. Good for Clipper chaining– until sunset. Banshees come out at night, and they’ll kill you dead. This ish a safe(ish) spot in the middle of the lake.I took the liberty of carefully marking the banshees, as well as other important information.
Lake DDR. (
)
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A few pictures outside (and inside!) Delblaahwhatever’s Tower.
<3 FFXI translator tool. (
)
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I’d really like lv25 before the end of tomorrow, so Typo’s on the look-out for some good teams! (a miracle and a prayer, perhaps.) Make Typo proud!
). It’s a rare sight, apparently exclusive to Qufim, and also more beautiful than the picture illustrates, especially in motion.
—
20 days, 3 hours, 15 minutes~
LV25WHM/LV20BLM (ANON) Typotaru (
)~
And so begins the life of yet another whm post-scroll of Raise.
/anon ish now my best friend. It makes my level and job information unavailable for others to check, so they can’t beg for Raise every few seconds. Just so you know, seconds after I turned 25, 4 Raise requests, all within the space of 5 minutes came my way. I helped one of them since he was nearby. Keep in mind Typo was in a very well put-together party at the time. I am going to be very selective about who I do and don’t revive. After all, I’m a much busier Typotaru now. ;3
—
Lower Delkfutt’s (erm) Tower (
) isn’t too bad a level up spot, provided you can kill gobbys quickly, and, if you fight giants (
), keep your head on straight. Before following the rest of the party in, Typo sets anon (
) (blue name, yay) to prevent further distractions >.>
Unfortunately things can go wrong with a little bad luck, and a bout of lag. Lag doesn’t occur too often, but when it does, it’s at the most inconvenient of times. Typo Raises (
) his friend. X3
—
Another Qufim "landmark" is the cliffs (
). Good for Clipper and Greater Pugil chaining. This area was great from lv23-25, averaging 100exp per fight.
I love high level JP players. They will fish (
) up something, kill its ass DEAD, then fish it back up again to do the same. XD But I still worry about what might happen if the thing ever went out of control…
—
There’s something about the /sh (shout) command…ah yes, it ish annoying when abused. You generally shouldn’t shout when looking for a party…that’s why there ish a player search function built-in.
chatlog. ;3
Part 2 (
) of chatlog, and at the same time, a higher level Beastmaster (BST) impresses Typo with his command over a Kraken. Obviously he fished it up before taming it.
Seconds after Typo snapped that shot, he released the Kraken from his command and slaughtered it, before moving into the Tower. o.o;;;
—
It’s time for Typo to take a brief break from the battles, and stock up on some lv25-30 spells in Windurst. I may need to do some fishing…
/shudder
Kazham can only be reached by airship, and the airship can only be accessed if you have a pass. Here’s the catch: the pass costs 100,000 gil, OR, lots of time spent in a luck-driven quest.
Some fatass (one word, oh yeah) Galka wants you to get 3 keys for him, and of course each of them is located inconveniently to add to the fun. If that weren’t enough, each of these keys is obtained as a rare monster drop, and horror stories will tell you of the hours spent trying to get each drop, to no avail. Anyway, you get the keys, galky-fatty gives you the pass.
No horror story for Typo.
The 3 locations are Ghelsba Outpost (San d’Oria region), Palborough Mines (Bastok region), and Giddeus (remember the Yagudo? Windurst region), each of them maze-like in formation. The keys are held, and (oftentimes) rarely dropped by the 3 or so "toughest" enemies in each area.
Luckily, Galen and Kingky ("King Kai" ":3) from TheOrder (which is now pretty much my only active ls >.>) either felt the need to help me, or had some business of their own to tend to in those areas, and we formed a "group" (
) to go key huntin’.
An important detail about this quest is having a THF in the team, or at least someone with the Treasure Hunter job trait, obviously helpful for rare finds. The enemies are none too tough for level 25+ characters, unless they’re careless, so it’s pretty much a test of patience and, well… luck.
Some people (like Galen) return here after completing this quest to grab some more keys to get their race specific equipment (RSE), from locked chests that randomly spawn in the area. RSE is (expensive) level 30+ equipment that gives nifty stat bonuses and such, and each piece for each race has unique bonuses. Its appearance is basically a pallette swap of your race’s default gear. That’ll surely disappoint some, but their usefulness and rarity makes them well worth it. Typo ish definitely interested in getting more keys for his RSE, instead of buying.
Roughly 5 hours of travelling and hacking and slashing, would result in all 3 keys for Typo, and whomever else was lacking a key or two for RSE purposes. Now 5 hours ish a pretty long time, but I’ll still be able to laugh in the faces of those who actually took days to accomplish the same. ^^
Typo owes ya one, Galen/Ky!
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Ghelsba screenie-weenies~
Targets: Orcish Warchief, and damned if I remember the others o.o;; I’m thinking Cursemaker is one.
We didn’t take too long here. Actually, we were pretty much the only ones around, so this was a quick in, quick out
deal.
—
Palborough screenie-weenies~
Taking the elevator down (
) ;o
A Cure 2 (
) here…
A Raise (
) there~
Typoinabox! (
)
Old, Brass and Copper Quadavs (
) are what you’re looking for in here.
We joined up with a few more hunters i here. They had a thief as well, so we’d have extra Treasure Hunter power, and this way we wouldn’t step on each other’s toes, stealing Quadavs/potential drops.
This one didn’t stand much of a chance (
)…even Typo got into the thick of things~
Taking the boat to the outside (
) after the hunt.
—
Giddeus….
Was much like Ghelsba. We were done even before I could take many screenie-weenies!
Targets: Yagudo Votary/Priest
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Before heading out to Giddeus from Bastok, Typo met with old friend Nippon at the chocobo stables. Nippon tried to look cool (
) with his pumpkinhead, but the Fungus Hat just wouldn’t have any of it, and stripped him of whatever coolness factor he thought he had.
I’m going to start keeping records of silly/dumb names. (
)
Fish it. Love it. (
)
—
Yeah. So Typo is once again free to level up at any given time, and it just so happens that hitting level 30 is my main priority. I’d like to be able to do it within the next 2 days, and from what I’ve heard of Kazham, it seems that it may be possible…
Goals:
-purchase important lv25-30 scrolls.
-lv30whm Typotaru
-raise Jeuno fame (more on that later ;3)
-raise fishing lv
~
That being said, I’ve spent the weekend, along with yesterday tackling some of my shorter-term goals, saving the leveling up for last. I probably will not head to Khazam before this coming weekend.
—
As for fame and why it’s so important and coveted, in order to acquire some of the more rewarding quests, as well as some nifty items (not to mention artifact (AF) gear, some of the best unique weapons and armor available thus far) you’ll need fame–the more, the better.
Some spend as much as weeks doing multiple lengthy quests, one nation at a time to become more famous in those regions, but Selbina, the little port town between San d’Oria and Bastok, has a convenient solution (
) for that.
Old man Melyon will pay for a helping of one of 3 different items to feed his sheep. Either an ear of millioncorn (120g), La Theine cabbage (100g), or boyahda moss (600g). Your objective is to gather as many stacks of these items as possible through farming, or AH whoring, and trade them to him one at a time, for a small fame increase for each one.
With boyahda moss it’s possible to actually make a profit from this quest, based on its AH price. Singles sell for between 500-600gil, while stacks (bundles of 12) go for 6,900-7,200gil~ You do the math, Typo ish tired. :3 Just keep in mind that this method takes money to begin with, but you’ll end up either breaking even, or turning out a profit, like Typo. Typo spent roughly 77,000 gil on moss, and ended up with just over 84,000~.
Because of Selbina’s location, this quest helps with Selbina fame, as well as Bastok and San d’Oria, even Jeuno, since your Jeuno fame rating is dependent on that of the other 3 nations’.
Thanks to Allakhazam (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/), Typo knows that fame has 9 levels, in 6 different areas: Windy, Sandy, Bastok, Jeuno, Selbina, and Norg…somewhere Typo won’t soon be going. These levels can be checked by a certain NPC in each nation (2 in Windurst), who will have something different to tell you depending on your fame level.
So Typo spent some time yesterday saying "yay" to fame and gil…
…while having a laugh (
) and some fun (
) along the way~
)cat, that he’d head out with her from Windurst, to Bastok, to begin mission 6. Completing this mission will upgrade your rank to 3, something that Typo had been delaying for a good number of weeks now… Each nation has its own unique set of missions, but M6 arrives at a similar conclusion for all nations, which involves you battling a dragon.
You begin in your home nation, and are sent to either of the other nations to perform a task. Depending on which nation you choose to travel to first, your mission will change slightly. Typo heard from LS friends that the errand you must run in Bastok ish relatively short, and that the San d’Oria dragon ish a wussy-wuss. Being that the dragon part of the mission always comes last, Typo and Raynia decided to leave San d’O for last.
Bastok’s little errand involves mining. Mnyeh. In Palborough Mines you’re to dig up a certain type of ore, refine it, and return the results to some fatass galka in Bastok Metalworks’ kitchen. The "trick" is getting past the Quadavs without the threat of their annoyance. Luckily Typo ish a whm, and Sneak was the only "trick" we needed~. Report to the Windurst Consolate in Bastok, and get the hell out of there~
Come to San d’Oria~. Raynia, being the sexy and catty cat she is, was able to quickly assemble a regular rag-tag group of adventurers (
) to go to Ghelsba for some dragon tipping. The slightly higher level orcs deeper into Ghelsba still aren’t much of a challenge alone, but in rooms like this (
) you can easily find yourself or team up against a gang of ’em~, and that’s pretty iffy right there. Narsel ish also a whm, so it made things a lot easier to have backup, or to have her back. Keke, "have her back."
We reached the burning circle (
)~ Each of us had to stand on the thing and watch a cutscene, before confronting the boss. We had a brief tactics session before rushing in head-first, and barely avoided defeat just as we were about to finish off old Dread. It really wasn’t that hard, it’s just that the dragon’s Curse comes with a nasty surprise or two that could frustrate anyone, regardless of their HP. A word of advice: it’s helpful to have a blm on the team, particularly for Sleep. Typo’s team wasn’t fortunate enough to have a blm, but I’ve heard that Sleep makes things much easier.
Kekeke (
)~
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Typo? Lecherous??? Ni! (
) Just…very curious…
"Team Dragon"! < call5 >
M6 Burning Circle Cutscene
q. What have we learned so far?
a. Elvaans are tall, long-neck cowards, basically.
These are the real warriors! ;3
Rikku? (
)
No don’t be silly, it’s Lion, of course. (http://images.ffshrine.org/dlffxi/yeahiwasrightthelegsarealmostasniceascatlegsoknotr eally.jpg)
q. Lesson?
a. Lion = "Major" character in FFXI story = Rikku (X-2) wannabe = semi-cute < cats.
Victoly over the dragon takes you to the sprigs (
) near the battle area, after viewing the cutscene with Lion. Here, you can collect some spring water in a bottle for a San d’Oria quest~. No hint for you. Typo was waiting for the guys to know their role and vacate the area so Typo could *winky-winky* with the cats, hoho!
—
Someone stole Ender’s bird’s egg. (
)
Aaaaand…
For old-timer chatters, remember those good ole bIRC days?
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Typo has been in Kazham for the past few days, but it wasn’t quite what I expected, as far as, well, exp gain ish concerned…
Save it for next update, Typo >.>;
More frequent updates from now on, I pwomish. ;3
).
Arriving at another alien location, ready to take in the sights and spill some beastman blood, Typo sticks on his invite flag, and shortly afterwards joins his first Kazham death party! ^^
I’d heard horror stories about Qufim, but I sailed through there quite comfortably in comparison to the multiple tales Typo could tell about Yuhtunga and Yhoator Jungle…
The trend is to level in Yuhtunga, right outside Kazham from 25-27/28, then to hop on a chobo and get lost before finding Yhoator, much deeper into the wild (28-33). Goblin Smithys link here so bad, it’s as if people do it on purpose. Of my 270+ max HP at the time, a gobby could near destroy me with about 250+ damage from a bomb. The weapon skill Flat Blade (sword?/dagger?) can make gobbys drop their bombs for minimal damage, but the execution always seemed to be too slow.
You may be wondering why Typo was standing close enough to be affected by the blast? Apparently the majority of warriors out there would prefer to leave their position and chase the enemy when the tank loses aggro, rather than just provoke it right back. Typo does not always have ample space to move around (especially in areas like this where the "good spots" are cramped, and the open areas mean death), and as a caster I would like to be able to just find a single cozy spot where I can cast away comfortably for the majority of the time. Typo misses being a blm for the magic bursts… oh well!
From 25-30, 3-4 days’ worth of mostly shoddy teams, it never really improved, aside from the one or two actually nifty teams I had the great fortune to find myself a part of.
Note: 200 exp per battle vs 50-80 exp per battle–the former means nothing if it takes you 10 minutes just to take out one single enemy… Sometimes it’s best to go for the weaker ones for less, though quicker and safer exp. Why can’t some people understand this? ; ;
The effort paid off anyway, as I reached lv30 before the weekend was over, and was able to head back to Windurst to return to the fishing scene, hoping to return return to Yhoator with new gear and spells~
Piccies tomorrow. :3
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Typo’s Airship~
Kazham
And everyone zones back inside from the jungle to hide from a gobby. This happens far too often >.>
Nyau!
Map of route taken from Jeuno to Khazam.
Bunch of Hooligan Chocoriders on the way to Yhoator~
Yhoator–good luck finding your way back to Kazham from here. :3
Another gobby zone…this time it happened in Yhoator.
Meh.
Meh.
M–oooooooh! Singalong with Happygogo~ ^_^
Feisty. Yum.
The party needed a look-out, and the look-out found the perfect spot~
Instead of provoking the enemy when it turns to beat on Typo, they run to catch it and fight right beside Typo. >.>
Typo didn’t realize this until the journey was over, but he just joined a party including 3 whms. A party in Yhoator with 3whms can’t die, but chances are it probably can’t kill much either.
Saving up 90,000 gil for a Faerie Shield (+3 all elements), and considering how fishing’s been going lately, it won’t be too long now.
Crawler’s Nest, a dungeon in Rolanberry Fields (south of Jeuno) seems to be the level spot of choice for lv33+. I should be able to blend in at 32, being a whm and all, and hopefully gain some quick levels towards that all-important 40! Holy Breastplate, here I come…
– Raise money for new gear
– Head to Crawler’s Nest to continue level-spree~
But all that’ll come in a later update. :3
In the meantime I’ve been nagging people in the 3 active linkshells I’m in (Windurst Spec Forces, The Order, The Chocobo Knights (in which Typo ish now an Officer, so can make linkypearls for others, and boss people around ;3)) to help him with his RSE quest (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/quests.html?realm=&fquest=190). Huge HP bonuses, as well as some welcome defense is what taru RSE boasts. It basically caters towards the race’s weakness. I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s really nothing better for a 32+whm than Wonder Kaftan, Wonder Braccae, and Wonder Clomps. So Typo wants 3 of 4 pieces of RSE, the last being the Wonder Mitts. I’ll take Devotee’s Mitts anyday. For the sake of interest/clarification, Typo will take screens of weapons and armor, as well as their stats from now on.
Anyway, on Friday night Typo had Galen and Xrave (
) (Mr. My Character Didn’t Start Wearing Pants Until LV20 MNK) drag him around Shakrhami (
) to face the higher level foes within, in the hopes of gaining a Shakrhami Chest Key.
That out of the way, last night was Typo’s opportunity to head back to the Maze, Sneak around solo and get my treasure. Reaching a lower level, I came across Stumpy, flat on his face. I remember partying with him at some point in Qufim, a respectable RDM. I Raised him, /nod, then ran off without saying a word. I’m so cool. Typo puts on autorun, and checks the map to see if he’s approaching a chest spawn point. Meanwhile, Typo’s Sneak effect wears off without him noticing. 2 minutes later, a train consisting of at least 6 Goblins (Furriers and Pathfinders), 4 Ancient Bats, 2 Carnivorous Crawlers and 1 Caterchipillar, and 2 Labyrinth Scorpion brutally violated, bored, murdered, mutilated, slaughtered, wrote off, copy/cut/pasted Typo just as he reached the Penninsula side of the Maze.
Stumpy then conveniently /tells me, asking me if I’m here for RSE. ._.
Hah (
).
The fraud eventually Raises Typo for free, though it was still somewhat of a taunt as he did it as a Scorpion stood on my head.
Half an hour later I’m on my feet again, and in Stumpy’s supertaruteam+1cat&elvaan. From about 7PM until 1AM, we pranced around the place killing everything in order to get keys for those who needed. Typo felt a little impatient, seeing as he already had one, but didn’t want to risk death again, so he stuck with the team. In the 6 hours spent in Shakrhami, everyone got a key, but we never found a chest even though both Cornchild and Typo had printed out maps with info on chest spawn points.
We came to the conclusion that the chest had to be Canyon side. However, we also found that once you fall and land on the Penn side, the only way to get back to the top level is to go outside into Buburimu Penninsula, and run all the way back around, through Tahrongi Canyon, and re-enter the Maze through the Canyon entrance–about 10 minutes worth of bother >.>
Typo Sneak/Deodorize/Invisibles the entire top level, not noticing a single chest. According to the map (http://www.zebraflood.com/ninja/rse/maze.html), there are only 2 spawn points up there, and Typo found both to be empty. Again, as Typo drops to the lower level, Sneak begins to wear off. At this point, Typo needs only sneak to escape safely. I usually time it so that as soon as Sneak wears off, I re-cast it again just in time, but it just backfired this time, and I ate dirt again. /logout.
Better luck next time! In the meantime, it’s back to the fish.
Typo has met many fisherpeople, and the fishercats have been especially sexy and nice. Norange (
), a lv40 DRK gave Typo a free gold carp, and some orange juice the other day. How sweet of her~ She also offered to help Typo get a key for RSE, but he accidentally dragged her out at the wrong time >.> Sorry cat!
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Rayniacat (
).
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~80,000gil now from fishing. For the record, besides the quest this RSE ish free. Completing the quest all 4 times ensures me plenty of gil. The free pants and body armor will allow me to sell my Martial Slacks and Wool Robe for a combined total of 47k, while the Wonder Mitts (which I don’t want) can be sold for 20-25k. The gil ish well worth the time spent on the quest.
Typo will not be leveling until he gets new gear. I hate feeling gimped during lengthy leveling outings… >.>
Collect them all! (
)
Bought the Faerie Shield tonight, 85k~.
Typo ish going to attempt to raise fishing level a little before the weekend. The big bridge overlooking the waterfall in N. Gustaberg ish a good place to catch the occasional moat carp, AND skill up on Tricolour/Gold Carp~ Hopefully by the weekend I can make enough money to reequip myself, then resume the leveling~
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Apart from 1 or 2 minor details, last week was generally boring for Typo. It was spent mostly at home in Windurst, fishing and failing. I’m very suspicious of one of the recent updates made to the game, as it seems as if it’s suddenly become harder to even get a bite, let alone catch a moat carp unless it’s a new or full moon. My fishing level ish currently 23.6. For a long time Typo’s friends have considered him the fishertaru, even though some of them had surpassed his level during his absence earlier in the year. Lately it’s just been slow, and I have not made the profits I would have liked to in all the time I spent struggling in Windy last week. Well, the next time Typo goes on a fishing binge, it’ll be to raise his fishing level, rather than to make money. Time to start reeling in what the big(ger) boys catch.
Recently, Typo made a conscious effort to break out of the fishing trap, and head to Crawler’s Nest to level~
Practically empty.
I asked my linkyshell where I could locate Garlaige Citadel, and with little wasted motion, Typo waddled on over. See, this ish just one of the reasons it’s so nifty to have a ls~ You get first-hand, reliable information about the next best location(s) to continue your quest for lpower. Not to say that just consulting an FAQ ish unreliable, just that when your in the game, people are more willing to speak with you on their experiences in whichever area. The different perspectives you har can help you make your decision easier. At least if you think you’ve made the wrong decision, you’ve got others to ask, and more options to choose from. I hope at least something fromt that paragraph made sense. Typo ish sleepy. ._.
Anyways, located in th SW corner of Sauromugue Champaign, Garlaige Citadel ish…quite a fun underground ruin. A good team ran Typo from early 132/6000 in lv32, to 1000/6100 in lv33 in a couple hours. Very nice~
That’s just to give an idea of how much more constructive things have been today alone, than they’ve been in the past week!
At least Typo has the faerie shield. Also, some last minute shopping netted Typo some new equip (no more Fungus Hat?! Naa, it’s still in Typo’s inventory!), and a scroll of Reraise. I couldn’t bear to stay in town any longer, and had to jump into battle smi-gimped. ;3 I’m still better equipped and prepared than just about everyone else I’ve seen around my level. ":3
Thankie for the comment, Nightmare! Come to Cerberus. ;3 Keep creating/deleting a character until you end up here! Viva la Razaaaa….erm…yeah. ._.
…More to come tomorrow. X3
Sleepy.
Garlaige eh? I remember partying them, my helpless lv.33 party didn’t stand much of a chance to the Seige Bats and the horrors that people pulled from the last floor AAAALLLLL the way to entrence, the Fallen Mages. >.<; One of them took out half my party in out swoop. It was a nightmare, then people started linking bats and other skelentons and who knows what else. But i got out of there and went off to level my Paladin who is now lv.25! He can finally get out of the hell known as Qufim Island!
Oh, and i’m considering making a second character – a Taru! If i do, i’m going to name him Scooty. 😀 If not, then i’ll stick to my Elvaan.
It all started in Garlaige Citadel. At first, it was horrible. Typo found himself to be the only one capable of healing on the team. Typo could not keep the tank alive by himself, as Seige Bats can attack quicker than I can Cure II, and if I step it up with Cure III, I open myself up to death in a few swift hits, with or without Stoneskin/Blink. End of a bad day.
Once Typo started making his own teams, and finding teams with better job composition, it was like clockwork. ~1000 exp per 15 minutes ish none too shoddy. It went so well that Wyldcard, leader of ls We Stick Together invited Typo to join. Yay! Another helpful and experienced ls, with even a few level 75s (JP, of course) to help with the tougher missions and advanced job quests!
Typo took a break from Garlaige with Wyldcard and crew to help another whm from the same ls get Carbuncle’s Ruby to begin his summoner quest. The Ruby is a rare drop from Poison Leeches in Mhaura area. We split into 2 teams and hit different beaches just to speed up the process. In about 15 minutes, we found a ruby, and they were even kind enough to help Typo get one for himself afterwards!:3 Typo warps back to Jeuno and heads to Garlaige to wait for the others. We resume our 1k exp per 1/4 hour run, and Typo hits level 35 as if he never touched 34.
Goal of the Day = lv33-35
Achievement = lv33-35, New LS, Carbuncle’s Ruby
End of a great day.
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Back to the drama at Garlaige. Yesterday, Typo ish invited to a JP party. They only undeastand 1 or 2 words of English, so the translator is necessary most of the time. Typo has nothing at all against JP players, despite the bad reputation NAs seem to have with them, but the translator ish restricted to very, very useless terms, and it isn’t much fun to hang with people you can’t understand, and vice versa. Typo couldn’t even flirt with the team cat. >.>;;,
Apparently, before they were going to do any leveling this bunch was going to find their friend who, from what Typo was able to see on the map, had fallen into a hole and ended up on a lower, tougher level of Garlaige. Reiichi starts Sneaking everyone, so Typo follows suit and Sneaks the cat, then himself. The cat bows to Typo. Nyau ;3 Anyway, at this point everyone just splits up, and Typo has no idea who to follow. So he chases after the cat, who runs right in to a Borer Beetle, it aggros, Typo struggles to keep her HP at around 50% for a while, before someone from another PT shows up to pull the beetle away. Sheesh. Typo and the cat meet up with Klim, and head back to the entrance. Meanwhile, Upmoon manages to save Nirvana, the stupid elvaan that fell down the hole, and they meet with Reiichi, only to be killed before they can make it back to the entrance. They all go back to their home points in Jeuno.
At this point, Typo considers ditching, but ish too nice and just /sits and waits. The rest arrive about 10 minutes later, and we all head back down the same road with the long corridors with holes in the ground. Typo and Reiichi are the healers. Here is a nice little slideshow to sum up the end of a horrible session in Garlaige:
:3 (
)
:3 (
)
":3 (
)
😮 (
)
:O (
)
… (
)
>.> (
)
>.>;; (
)
Reraise is in effect. Waited until things were clear, got up, Warped to Jeuno, struggled with translator to make up an excuse, /logout.
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Came back later to find every single team in Garlaige full, as usual. Crawler’s Nest ish the same, and Altepa Desert ish too far away from tired Typo.. Wyldcard spots Typo and says there will soon be an opening on the team. Yaay. Unfortunately, there were a few other pts around hogging all the enemies.
A solid pt composition, as always with Wyldcard’s gang, but not much exp gain.
Yesterday’s Goal = lv35-37
Achievement = _____________
End of an awkward day.
Today’s Goal = lv35-37.
Wish Typo luck today. ._.
/waves to possible future Scootytaru. :3
Typey i love ur journal (^w^) plz keep it going
LV36 Typotaru.
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I may not like the translator, but I’ll try playing with ENG and JP players alike in future.
I do agree with the translator, it doesn’t have very useful options…
And, if you’re in quite a bit of pain, I can maybe help translate things for you, but not much x.x. Like, the Japanese in the second screenshot I pretty much understood….
The Magic Jug starts casting Fire III
"I was sorry! ; ;"
"Don’t worry"
"Its nothing"
-we are getting back the easy way
Typo casts Regen.
Nirvana gains the effect of Regen.
Typo neglected Crawler’s Nest (
) at first, after realizing it’s tougher to get a team there than in Garlaige. The lesson Typo missed there ish that persistance pays off. Typo was crawling along at 120-150 exp per battle in Garlaige, when the average team in Crawler’s would treat Typo to at least 180 exp per Crawler. Typo knows it’s more exp/hour that matters rather than exp/pop, but Worker Crawlers are far easier than Siege Bats…
I like Crawler’s Nest, especially when it’s not full of other PTs and laggy. The blues and flourescent greens (
) make for an interesting environment. The "scenery" never gets boring during long exp sessions, as they would in places like Yhoator, or Garlaige.
LV38 Typotaru. The weekend ish coming up, so I’m not going to push this. More Crawlers for Typo, and tomorrow, if not tonight, Typo’s first long-term goal will have been reached.
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Typo loves cats. Now that that’s out of the way, Typo had set plans to spend the bulk of yesterday buffing up in Crawler’s, when Sharpears, a cat, /tells Typo she’s making a PT to head to Kazham and do the Teleport-Yhoat scroll quest. Typo couldn’t refuse such an offer, and definitely not from a cat.
Original plans foiled, new plans in tact, Typo meets the cat in Port Jeuno, and we group together with 2 other cats, a taru blm and a hume drg.
It felt a little strange to be able to return to Yuhtunga Jungle (
) and take out enemies in seconds…especially gobbies. The same gobbies that 10 levels ago could have wiped out an entire PT, or at least made them flee, with or without a bomb. Actually…10 levels ish a lot, but for some reason it feels as if I just left this place at lv32 yesterday…
The objective in this quest ish to get an Elshimo Marble, a rare drop (yet again) from Ivory Lizards, one of the common enemies (though mostly inconveniently located near gobby camps) in Yuhtunga. It’s for some silly long-neck in Kazham who’s too lazy to go out and get it himself. We had 2 thieves, both with treasure hunter, of course, but not a single marble to be found after over 2 hours of lizard/gobby slaughter.
Oh well, it was lovely to once again be in the presence of the sexies, but everyone pretty much got bored after that and disbanded.
Crawlers later today, and after level 40 it’s time for me to take a break. Typo’s little body ish killing him. I’m looking at taking up cooking, as I think I mentioned a few entries back. I have a feeling I’m going to prefer this to fishing somehow…
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Yaaaay~shots.
Crawler’s Nest, and a couple battle shotties.
Stills to thrill! Typo doesn’t need to cast spells to kill!
kekekekekeke~ Club skill rose by like 30 while bonking lizzies, so at least Typo was still doing something constructive in the Jungle~
Catlovin’ (
).
Goodnight! ^_^;;, ;3 ;3
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Today…
1700 from lv40. (
)
~2100 from lv40. (
)
~2500 from lv40. (
)
RAGE.
)
LV40/20 since Sunday, Typo has been struting his stuff all over the place in full Holy Breastplate glory. It looks better on Typo than anyone else I’ve ever seen wearing it.
32 days, 4hours, 4 minutes.
It’s been a few days. Reaching lv40 was a long-term goal of Typo’s, and with all the other possibilities that are now open, he’s at a bit of a loss as to what to do next! Not being the world’s best long-term planner and all, I usually just think one or two steps ahead, then regroup and continue from there (just in case you’re wondering why Typo goes through such a phase every now and then). One thing’s for sure, however, Typo was glad to see home again as he greeted all the sexy mithracats, even the newbiecats! Windurst sure ish a special place. ;3
Future endeavours include:
-Raise money for and purchase lv40whm gear, spells included
-Complete Teleport Scroll quests
-Complete RSE quest and sell everything to make a nifty profit
-Level cooking craft skill, at least to the point where Typo can make insect paste for fishing
-Resume BLM leveling. Get to lv40
-Get an advanced job for goodness sake ;3
Whatever happens, the next week or two will deifnitely be a welcome refresher from all the battling in Crawler’s Nest. Typo’s little legs, not to mention his back are killing him.
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Tataru for nauru, Crawler’s Nest!
Fun ^^
Fun ;3
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Typo got a world pass for a few people. It has no more uses! If anyone still needs a pass, Typo can buy another, assuming there ish no restriction on buying another in quick succession after the last…
Typo gets to annoy Loki, Durendal, and other silly Shriners now! /grin < t >
‘Cuz Typo’s gonna sing today! (
)
Not too long ago it was when Typo lived to fight~
Chocobo to Crawler’s Nest and cull them left and right~
Day by day the same routine would catch the little shorty~
But one fine day through toil galore the taru hit level 40~
And home he chased to have a rest and gloat about his journey~
But something hit the little taru and made him learny-wearny~
That everytime a landmark ish reached he sits to take a breather~
Which leads to "uh, what Typo do next?!" a question that never helps either…
So Typo gears up and heads to Battalia Downs (
) feeling bold~
To try his hand at a treacherous quest for the Teleport-Mea scroll~ (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/quests.html?realm=&fquest=203)
The Eldieme Necropolis (
), the venue of the quest~
Sent chills and such and very much through Typo’s cute little chest~
Ghosts and Ghouls (
) and all undead (
) would rip the hat from Typo’s head~
"There must be a way to reach success, and still make it home to bed!~"
All the horror stories and myths he’d heard would give him uneasy feelings~
But under the ground he ish not to be found with his tricky Sneak spell dealings (
)~
Down in the depths ish Typo wading to find the candle of light that ish fading~
To Typo’s surprise right in front of his eyes ish the flame in question, waning~
Typo examines the candle stick and it seems to be getting lighter~
Maybe use the special incense and make it burn even brighter!~
The spirit incense (
) was the item of key that I was told to bring at first~
But its effect was null, the light was yet dull, guess it’s back to Windurst… (
)
Tears from his eyes like rain from the skies and nothing to show for all his tries~
He talks to the guest who gave him this quest and Typo was in for a big surprise!~
"Oh, I see, I was so sure it would work…" said Gainteneux (
), lookling sad~
But after all I tried to help and there was yet a reward to be had!~
He hands the taru a letter for Eperdur in San d’Oria~
Before he knew it the scroll was his, now there’s some gratitude for ya!
All in all Typo was pleased that his day was so productive (
)~
So he set out to make the rest of his days just as or more constructive!
End of dance first. Let’s us stepping again soon! ( )
Once you get them all, you can make a lot of money being the ferry-taru :P.
To which all other stories pale~
Want adventure? Do advance!~
Come join Typo in the dance~
Another day another quest~
To prove that Typo ish the best
To wield the power of ancient and old~
Held within the teleport scrolls~
Feeling great with Mea’s spell~
Typo knew that he’d do well
To seek the magic of Holla and Dem
And then Altep to add to them~
So off to Bastok Typo birded~
And as his "client" (
) clearly worded,~
"A favour to ask of Typo, we trust
You’ll run to Garlaige on errand for us~
Please fetch this divine bucket of paint~
Do this for me and I’ll make you a saint!"~
"Well", Typo thought, "as strange as it sounds
Might as well go and have me a browse~
And if I’m as good an explorer as a fisher~
Typo becomes one tele-scroll richer!"~
Into the fray goes Typo again~
To look for an item all the same~
Must delve through the corridors of darkness and death~
I’ll find that paint if it means my last breath >.>;;~
Sneak and Invisible are a little tricky~
If anything sees Typo it will get icky~
All the foes are so close together~
They’d toss me around like a tarutaru feather ._.~
Nothing to see here but dirt and rubble
And hoping to keep himself out of trouble~
Typo sneaks beyond the bones~
And finds the bucket (
) on the rump of a stone "X3~
Warp away and back to Bastok~
Everyone’s favourite tarumascot~
Typotaru with paint in hand~
Returns to find the mysterious man~
Even though Typo risked his neck~
The quest itself was easy as heck~
So don’t think that I’m angry at you~
Take the paint for your precious statue~
Talked to Eperdur (
) in Sandy~
He says my deeds are fine and dandy~
Typo smiled and held out his hand~
Now Teleport Dem was at his command~
Another song, another scroll~
Though this would not be Typo’s last stroll
Into the dangerous and fearsome unknown
The teleport scroll quests dare to call home~
But Typo ish now quite confidentaru~
That there ish no fetch quest that he cannot do!
With Invisi and Sneak and the mind of a devil
Typo can make any playing field level! ;3~
Let’s dancing again soon!~ ^^ (
)
There ish alot to tell, but the main thing is that Typo ish done with whm for a while, unless more questing/mission opportunities arise, or I want to make money from ‘ports.
After some difficulty (thanks to some awful, awful fishing periods), Typo managed to raise the money for level 20 blm gear, and key spells he’d need from 20-30.
Typo ish about ready for Qufim: Round 2.
Apart from that, Typo has attained Rank 4, which’ll be covered over the weekend with piccies n’ all!~
Sometimes it ish so hard to stop adventuring and update, damnit. "X3
Typo has grown alot lately! …Though the sexy cats are still much much taller. keke "X3
Typo completed the 2 missions necessary to obtain Rank 4. The first involved sneaking through Yagudo stronghold, Castle Oztroja, hidden away in the northern Meriphataud Mountains. It seems that sneaky little Ajido Marujido, the head of the Orastery (chief of magic research, really) in Windurst, ish on the brink of discovering-wovering something top-secretaru! The Yagudos supposedly have the answers Ajido ish searching for, but being as hostile as they are, the birdmen gave Ajido quite a run-in…good thing Typo showed up in time.
Previous Windurst missions show Ajido’s initial suspiscions about something being quite… off… with the state of magic lately, and that it could only be attributed to something that Typo probably shouldn’t speak about…at least not just yet >.>;;;
Typo has a bad feeling about his next mission (Mission 4-3, for Rank 5). Having finally met the Star Sybil (
) (leader of Windurst, and pretty much revered by the people like a goddess) in Heaven’s Tower, it appears as if Typo’s role in Vana’diel has suddenly become ten times more vital…
Remember Delkfutt’s Tower (
) in Qufim? Ah the memories of standing just outside there and struggling against crabs and Pugils as a less experienced white mage… Well this not-so-little tower would be the venue for Mission 3-3, a giantaru affair. kekeke.
The evil that has been simmering within the tower for years, has now reached a boiling point, giants of all kinds freely roam the land of Qufim, with the Tower right in the center as their stronghold.
However, the venture was more of a rescue mission than anything else, as the main objective was to save the head of the Windurstian consolate based in Jeuno. (the person you save will be of similar title, but native to your own homeland)
Braving the tower means either an alliance of lv30-40s, or higher level assistance, the latter of which Typo and his friends were lucky enough to have. ^^ You do not necessarily have to fight for the majority of the trip, but one aggroing goblin or giant can mean a swift end to your pt~ Sneak + Invis, anyone ?;3
Porphyrion, a notorious monster, a GIANT giant, ish the bearer of the Delkfutt Key, an item each pt member will need to be able to access the elevator which leads to the dungeon where you are to make your rescue. With our sexy and powerful Coberst over-powering the brute, Typo kicked back and rested his exhausted tarufeet–but what if Coberst did not agree to help…
In any case, the world ish now a safer place, thanks to Coberst Typo…?
The piccies tell the story~
(making our way through the tower, some random battles~)
"Battle" with Porphyrion!
Making the rescue and attaining Rank 4~
Mission Tales To Be Continue?
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Up next on TNN (Typo News Network)
* Qufim In A Day!
-lv20-24 Typotaru
-old friends reunite!
* Kazham Slam!
-Mere hours in Yuhtunga!
-Goblin dominion in Yhoator? ._.
* LV40blm in sight~!
-What then for Typo???
Typo ish not a big fan of pvp…Typo loves everybody >.>;;, …but I will try it sometime. I would like to get blm to lv40 first without any distractions getting in the way. ;o
Bah, you big carebear. =p
Bah, you big carebear. =p
Guilty. :-X
I too am not a big fan of PvP, but maybe when I’m a RNG and can kill the other people in 2 or 3 hits, it’ll be different >.>
Typo wasn’t expecting things to go so well from lv20. Being a whm for so long, a period of months, Typo thought he would have lost his touch with his darker (but still cute and friendly!) side, and that he’d be doing alot more wrong than otherwise..
Meeting up with Dragoonvengance, a guy from WindurstSpecForces whom I’ve known almost since the beginning, along with 4 others from the same ls (sexy whm cat Mirelle, nifty brd Kyoku, nuke-y blm Rehd, drag-on dragoon Boji) who all seemed to know Typo somehow (Typo’s fame factor "X3 , actually I knew 2 of them from waaay back when, before I even had a subjob), exposed Typo to one of the best teams he’s had in a long time. It was an ls party of old buddies tearing through Clippers and Land Worms for about 3k or more exp an hour.~ It was as if Typo had never missed a beat with blm~ Even Magic Bursts come easily. ^^~
Typo never used to use food before, but came to realize the value of Apple Pie (int +3, MP +25, and Melon Pie int +4, MP +25). They’re cheap, and they stack, and they last 30 mins….there really ish no excuse to be without them as a blm X3! Even though there’s always been a big hype with the more experienced players about using food, Typo never really understood it before he began munching during battle himself. Now Typo’s spells are noticeably superior to other blms of the same level, and it often results in people /checking him and wondering what kind of voodoo equipment I’m wearing. XD Typo would also use juices for a refresh effect (mana regen), but they don’t last very long, nor do they stack. I’ll wait until I gain a few levels in cooking before juices become a staple for Typo~.
Qufim didn’t last very long, as the team managed to race from 20-24 in mere hours. We never went near Delkfutt’s Tower, nor did we have to even touch a single Giant, or Greater Pugil. See that, my precious newbies? You do not need Giants/Pugils/deaths. Stay near the tunnel that connects to Jeuno at night (20:00 – 4:00) for lower level Clippers, and then make your way to the frozen lake in the middle of the map during the day to chain Land Worms, with the occasional Clipper. Leave the lake at around 19:30 to avoid death by the undead (Wights/Banshees) that spawn at night.
Ish baibai for Qufim now. "X3
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Before heading to Kazham, Typo needed some money to restock on pies, and a few spells he’d missed out on. I decided I could sell my Holy Breastplate, seeing as I have no plans to return to whm anytime soon. It didn’t take too long to sell, so being 40k richer, Typo went AH shopping for Burn, Drown, and Fire II, then bazaar hopping for pies. ^^
Who should call Typo in Kazham but none other than Dragoon~. He and the others were waiting for the aiship to return so they could continue the leveling spree in Yuhtunga!
Poor Yuhtunga. Typo really has no "exciting" tale to tell, or anything worthy of mention, maybe other than a few goblin spawns and deaths? Naa… People generally only stay in Yuhtunga until lv26 or 27, so unless you’re very unlucky, you’ll be out of there in 2 days, max. Of course, Dragoon being a blinky ninja, our sexy cat whm never really running out of MP, a brd keeping us fresh all the time, a dragoon …doing what he does, and 2 blms nuking (though sensibly!) evertyhing alive, it only took an afternoon for Typo’s team~.
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Chocobo to Yhoator. Nobody knows the way by heart, not surprisingly. Typo thought he did, but eh.
20 minutes later, we’re there. Why are gobbies all over the place? Safely on the golden bird, Typo trots around to find dead bodies littering the ground, a most interesting sight that Typo did not get to record in fraps since he had to turn it off due to lag, and for some reason I can’t seem to take screens with the in-game function anymore. Oh well.
Mirelle had alot of raising to do. Meanwhile, we kinda stepped over all the corpses, and found a spot suitable for us. Dragoon was not here, and finding a tank good enough to replace him was tough. We still did pretty well for ourselves with a decent war, but we kept having to take time out to dispatch goblins that other PTs managed to train to us, which sometimes resulted in deaths, or we ended up jumping in to save the day if someone called for /help on a gobby. ._. It has never been so bad out there. Typo sometimes wonders if gobbys aren’t really controlled by GMs, as they always seem to pop at just the right time to catch someone by surprise. Surely people cannot be that silly that they’d manage to aggro a goblin ever single time they turn a corner…
See this thread (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10&mid=1082321915213126840) from Allakhazam.
Level 26-31 in 3 days, anyway.
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Playing with Mirellecat~ (
) (Airship)
Tarusex~ (
) (Kazham)
Tarutarutaru! (
) (Yhoator)
Badass Cutie~ (
) (Kazham)
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Typo fell asleep last night in a PT on the way to lv32 in Yhoator. ._. Woke up at 6 this morning and found myself in Port Jeuno. Oh dear….Typo hopes his PT ish not sour at him…although I wouldn’t blame them.. ._.;; Typo will level @2000, so it will not be long before Typo hits Garlaige *shudder*.
It ish probably about time that Typo explores an advanced job. I was still thinking rdm next, just to have a grip on all 3 basic mage classes, and also bard, just because. But Typo’s interest in summoner ish taking over, and why not? New low level (lv20) quests to obtain avatars are available since the recent patch. Typo has done a little research on this: you can only cast Carbuncle, it is a duel between just you, and the avatar, and ish probably even more challenging than obtaining the summon using the normal process at lv60! There are many other details that are now beginning to make Typo excited about becoming a summoner, and since I’m close to completing the quest anyway, it’ll most likely be the path I take after lv40blm. Just maaaayyyyybe. ;3
Worse yet, there really are people out there above lv30 who hardly know much about skillchains at all. /cry.
Just 1 more level, Typo…you can do it, c’mon… "X(
Congratulations on your Qufim luck. Mine is about as good as… nothing. But my other luck has been good, oh yes… but you’ll have to veiw my journal to find out! ~evil maniacal laughter~
). <font size="1">(lv33 BLM)</font>Er, and SMN as sub is more useful for its huge MP boost than anything else. More MP as a WHM ish always nifty. ^^
I’m only a lvl 7smn/3whm now though.
Honestly, I think I would have leveled summoner to 20 even if it wasn’t a class I was interested in playing, because the lvl 20 avatar fights look like so much fun. Can’t wait to read your posts about them.
I send much catgirl love to you my fakjek hubby.
)
"X3 (
)
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LV 10 – 14, approximately a week in duration. ._.;
Even though Typo has not been as exp pt active as usual lately, Typo’s been leveling abnormally slow… Ish not surprising that SMN ish hardly anyone’s first pick when developing a team, but Typo never thought it’d be this awkward, especially at these low levels, to find someone who needs a supportaru class… Guess I should have known…ish the plighty-wighty of all lower-level RDM, and Typo used to laugh at all of them constantly because of it. Karma… ???X3
Perhaps Typo will reach lv 15 tonight…??? ._.
How are you faring, fakjeky Ndi? *licky*
On a good note, SMN has been a fun class to play as thus far, especially when soloing. You get to experimentaru against all kinds of foes, and if your avatar, or elemental spirit (if you have any "X3) can’t hanlde things, flee before they die! Unfortumately, Typo isn’t always able to have his minions hold aggro for him, which usually results in tarudirtdessert…
Still, it ish the refresher Typo was searching for. BLM and WHM simply turned boring after a whilel! With SMN, Typo can do a little of this, and some of that, healing and damage dealing hand-in-hand. Having Carbuncle activate Healing Ruby while Typo readies Cure during battle seems to impress people for no reason at all. "X3
SMN skill ish 37, and very slowly rising. Spirits tend to help more with raising SMN skill than Carby, though they cost more to cast, and drain approximately 10MP every 3 seconds ._.
Level 20 and beyond should be quite interesting, tarusay the least! "X3
Does Typo dare venture into Valkurm Dunes at lv15? Meeeeeeh?
I’m not really complaining, though. I did get to level 16.
But what I’m saying is that if I dared to go to Shakhrami at level 15 you could easily head to Valkurm at level 15 😉 Then I’d have a cute Tarutaru Summoner to help me hunt Damselflies lol I’m not dumb, though. I’m not saying we would hunt them with just the two of us. But what I mean is that your being a Tarutaru mage will make you quite popular in Valkurm. You wouldn’t have problems getting yourself in a party. Us Bastokans and even San d’Orians are always on the look out for mages…About as much as you guys must be in lack of tanks, I’d guess.
And that more or less makes sense, too. Most people who play in Windurst will go for Tarutarus and those are most suited to play as mages. Sure, I never said it’s always like that but it is a common trend.
Typo ish in a linkshell with a bunch of former Bastokians who changed their nationality as soon as they had the chance. "X3 Windurst ish beautiful~
Typo may give Valkurm a try, despite the millions of horror stories.
For the time being, here’s (
) a snippet of fun Evad and Typo had yesterday~
Fun fun.
Originally posted by MogKnight
STOP MOVING WHEN U CURE!@
That was not for Typo. ;3
For the time being, here’s () a snippet of fun Evad and Typo had yesterday~
Fun fun.
HA HA HA ! Oh my, yeah, those damn two goblins :p Good thing Typo was there to back me up, I tanked one of them but when I arrived to tank on the second , almost everyone had already died :p And since I was half-dead already, I barely survived and Typo and I saved one of them :p I had 6 HP left…:shock: But I was quite glad to have made it. Poor White Mage who had to do like 5 Raises…lol
Speaking of changing nationality, I haven’t gone in Windurst itself. I planned to the first time I came in the region but then I wanted to sell stuff at the AH in Bastok. The second time I came, I just wanted to solo a bit, and as I was about to leave, you guys invited me. However, I WILL have to go to Windurst eventually, that’s for sure, but if I ever change nationalities, I think I’ll go for San d’Oria once I become a Paladin. Somehow, I think it just "fits".
Anyway, Typo managed to gain lv20 summoner over the last week. Typo couldn’t believe it was time to take on an actual avatar, or that I was even skilled enough to do so…seemed so premature, which ish probably what most summoners felt after the recent patch. "X3 Typo promised a new catfriend he met in Valkurm, Sirena, that he’d valiently battle against the mighty deity of fire, Ifrit, and claim victoly in her name! Gee…what wouldn’t Typo do for a cat…? >.>
The avatar quests (Trial by Fire (or whichever-wever elementaru the avatar pertains to)), once you have acquired enough fame can be triggered by a particular NPC in a certain area. It ish necessary to speak to the NPC (a researcher from the Rhinostery in Windurst) to obtain a "mini-tuning fork of (element)" which will somehow allow you to enter the avatar’s domain. Typo really doesn’t understand how it all works, afteru all, Typo ish just a simple taru. But en route to Khazam via airship, I started believe in myself and Carbuncle, that Ifrit would be ours in a matter of minutes!
Surprisingly, the name Typo had written down on his Typopad was actually that of a Galka near to the Kazham HP crystal. It was he who would fork me and grant me access to Ifrit’s place of rest. Did Typo flinch when he was warned about the dangers of going it alone? Naa. So many summoners before him have walked this path, and Typo felt pretty confident in listening to their experiences, and learning from them.
Typo will check his notes:
-Since it ish you and carbuncle alone, come prepared with potions.
-Casting Cure will take too long, and waste valuable MP.
-Use normal potions and ethers, rather than Hi-‘s, since Hi-‘s have way too much activation delay (and besides, they cost a bunch more).
-Boiled crab, especially for tarucuties, will be needed for that extra boost in defense…20%, Typo thinks. Use in conjunction with Protect before battle.
-Juice! Forget yagudo drinks, too expensive. Melon Juice, while not as formidable, can do the job just fine, and will keep Carbuncle alive after Typo drains all his MP with Astral Flow + Searing Light (Carbuncle’s Special).
-Summon Carbuncle once within targetting range of the avatar, use a juice, and pull the avatar with Dia. Paralyze can work, but it ish very-wery risky risk.
-There ish a "slow" and "fast" method to victoly. Most summoners opt for the fast method, which involves an immediate Searing Light after pulling the avatar, running away to safety and waiting for Carby to die, so as to re-summon, and activate a second Searing Light. Run again, Potion in the case of the avatar using its 2 hour, re-summon Carby if necessary, and 3rd Searing Light for the win.
Obviously alot easier said than done, but nervousness would not overcome Typo, and if anything went wrong, Typo could just let Carbuncle suffer while he runs away to regroup! Right?! A brilliant plan! A perfect plan.
Typo signals that he ish ready to be teleported to Ifrit’s Cauldron.
Let’s go!
:O (
)
o_O (
)
Rule #1: Don’t forget to actually drink the juice before trying searing light. ._.
Typo felt hurt. Still does, actually. *rubs his back*
What really hurts, ish that you can only do this once per earth day, so the defeat must sink in before you get a chance at revenge. ._.
And when Typo got his chance at revenge, boy, let me tell you, there was no way Typo would be defeated so easily, nor would it be pretty!
:3 (
)
:3 :3 (
)
???._.? (
)
Rule #2: Forgot aquaveil in Typonotes. ._. Perhaps it could have saved me from spell interruption…
Rule #3: Always watch Carbuncle’s HP, and position yourself accordingly…if he dies when you don’t expect it, prepare to become a tank of some sort…
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While Typo spends the next week or so acquiring avatar trophies for his Typomantle in his moggyhouse, I’ll be fishing once again! After finding out that you can’t catch monsters on the ferry if you fish on the stairs, Typo gave it a go. Nemibonites, while slow to bite and a little tough to reel in at lv25 fishing, are great money (14,000/stack), and fairly good for skilling to 30, so Typo has read.
Failing ferry fishing, Typo can be found mostly in La Theine, or Jugner going after Red Terrapin. :3
See you later! "X3
Oh, found (
) him! And yup, one Sea Monk, some Pugils and Crabs, but Typo caught nothing but fish! Stair trick seems to work.
Revenge ish best served…by any means necessary.
Kekekekekekekekeke.
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Caught 40k worth of Nebimonite, and made 1.1 fishing skill points today, in addition to defeating Ifrit. The fishing will, for now, fund my avatar trials, while leveling my fishing skill up to around 30 (currently 26.7).
One avatar down, on with the war.
Just curious, how do you plan on raising fame for Trial-Sized Trial by Water?
Or is it not like the normal one where Norg fame is needed? 😡
|Congratulations!|
Just curious, how do you plan on raising fame for Trial-Sized Trial by Water?
Or is it not like the normal one where Norg fame is needed? 😡
Not a clue. :3
Not a clue. :3
Darn ><. I’m strill trying to decide if Yag necklaces or Zinc would be better…
Curse you, Utsusemi and Tonko! Curse you!
Curse you, Utsusemi and Tonko! Cure you!
You just cursed, then cured.
You are one confutaru!
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There was something about the mythical beings that drew Typo into risking his life (many, many times) to acquire their power.
Perhaps it was the prospect of gaining that very power that drove Typo into his sudden pilgrimage, or, perhaps being able to travel to otherwise inaccessible, picturesque high-level areas (Boyahda Tree, Fei’Yin (
) etc.) that sparked his curiosity… In any case, it wasn’t just about impressing the lovely catladies anymore. Typo’s abilities and experiences as a summoner were being tested and stretched to their utmost point by the presence of (or in his case, lack of) elemental deities. Each defeat (
) would only bring him closer to bictoly …er, victory (
), and each success would become a monumental occasion in his life, never to be forgotten (
). For once, the little taru was serious and focused.
Learning from his latest accomplishment in Ifrit, Typo would proceed to challenge (
) the remaining avatars based on his own methods and experience, rather than seeking further outside help. While the advice from the more experienced, wiser summoners was much appreciated, Typo figured he’d never learn how to truly be resourceful if he didn’t learn to be his own source of survival.
Which tools to use and where (
), bringing extra supplies as a precautionary method, how to position himself on the battlefield to prepare for the death and revival of his small companion… The entire process ish so much easier said than done, until you get it all right in a single battle.
As for the rest? They should all fall to the same strategy, and they did, with varying difficulty due to their tendancy to use their 2-hrs at different times, some not at all.
Now if you will excuse Typo, I have a Titan to acquire, and the rest…ish silence~
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The End.
Oh, wait, the Norg fame issue with Leviathan really wasn’t an issue at all, since only Fame 2 ish needed. Typo did the zinc ore (
) quest about 15 times, and the yagudo neclace quest around 10. The yag neclaces are probably better, especially before 12 noon EST, since the JP have plenty plenty of them in stock in the AH for about 100-200 each. Typo just happened to have alot of gil at the time, and for some reason didn’t care what he did with it, so it was mostly dumped into zinc ore, about 40k worth of the stuff. "X3
After Titan, Typo will concentrate on raising Tenshodo fame further for Utsusemi: Ichi, and AH it for a cool 115k. :3
The End???.
The second time, I had plenty of items, but things didn’t go as smoothly. I was advised to cast Dia on Shiva after I had Carbie attack her, and that resulted in me getting all the hate instead of my little blue friend. Shiva pwned me pretty good once she took Carbie out.. I’m pretty confident I’ll get her next time though.
Good luck with Titan, my dearest fakjek hubby.
) ha (
) ha (
) ha (
) ha (
) ha (
). Not sure what happened to the pictures of me delivering the finishing touches, but whatever. Definitely the toughest and closest solo victory for Typo, even though Titan, by popular opinion, ish the easiest. He hits hard and fast, rarely misses, and if you’re not careful, he can stun you. Nasty. Typo’s Hat must come off to you, Mighty-Tity.
Originally posted by Ndi
Congratulations on your avatars! I just hit lvl 20 yesterday and hope to have a nice collection myself soon. So far, I’ve only braved Shiva. I was doing really well, had her down to maybe a third of her life, when I realized I didn’t bring enough melon drinks. My mp was wiped from my last searing light, so I couldn’t summon Carbie, so even though my life was pretty much full, I gave up and let Shiva slay me, so as not to waste my potions.
The second time, I had plenty of items, but things didn’t go as smoothly. I was advised to cast Dia on Shiva after I had Carbie attack her, and that resulted in me getting all the hate instead of my little blue friend. Shiva pwned me pretty good once she took Carbie out.. I’m pretty confident I’ll get her next time though.
Good luck with Titan, my dearest fakjek hubby.
Thankie Ndi, and your good luck was put to good use! Kekeke.
Typo prefered to cast dia on the avatar, JUST within casting range. Then I’d back off immediately so that the blood pact ability that they will ALWAYS begin with misses Typo, and in most cases, Carby. Then Typo rushes forward, and does a point-blank AF + SL.
Typo hopes Ndi does just as well as Typo in her pursuit of the ancient creatures of myth! ^^
Anyway, after mass posing (
) and showing off (
) in public, Typo returned to his age-old fishing hobby, hitting up nebimonites on the ferry (
) (notice a lv72 BST with his Courier Carrie familiar in the background, soloing (
) a Sea Horror (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/bestiary.html?fmob=623) for crying out loud), and red terrapins, dark bass, and giant catfish in La Theine (
), from lv26-32. Typo’s fishing research led him to Bastok next, where he’d struggle to lv33. The air ish so polluted (
) out there, Typo thinks it causes the smarter, more valuable fishies to head farther south. >.>
I had to know if I had any alternatives for raising me fishing skill besides Bastok cliffs and the cliffs in East/West Sarutabaruta, so Typo opened up his Allakhazam directory and had a looky-see. At that point, Typo remembered about the new Guild Contracts (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=24&mid=1082596813902318052), along with the guild-exclusive items (http://mysterytour.web.infoseek.co.jp/ffxi/us/guild/001item0422.htm) that were recently patched in, and did some reading up on some of the goodies (
) in the other guilds besides fishing. I remember seeing a galka fishing on the ferry wearing these spectacles, and thought they looked nifty. At the same time Typo came across some shades in the item list. That’s right, shades (
). And now Typo ish obsessed with getting them. I need those shades, just because.
Typo dropped fishing immediately to become a member of the goldsmithing guild, which ish where Typo can one day trade in 70,000 guild points to claim those glorious shades (
) (bottom right ish chef’s hat)…
So far Typo has reached lv8 (in 1 day and about 30k gil), and am beginning to see one or two places where I can make some minor profits, which beats losing mass amounts of gil. ._. I’m not sure if I will go into detail about me goldsmithing exploits, since, at least for now, it’s only temporary until 48, where I’ll pick up my shades and run. If there ish a synthesis-recipe around there that Typo can profit from, however, he’ll find it!
Conveniently I was in Bastok the whole time, so I was able to do the zinc ore quest 5 more times, which boosted Typo’s Tenshodo fame enough to be able to do all 5 Ninjitsu Scroll quests, all of which were way too too easy. "X3
As for the shades…it will take some time, and hundreds of thousands of gil. Just want to get that out of the way for anyone who thinks Typo expects to breeze through goldsmithing to lv48. Also, since you have to be lv28 or above (novice) to sign a contract, and since you can only accumulate a certain amount of guild points per day, it could be another few weeks or so before Typo ish wearing those shades–but as long as Typo can finance his way through 48 levels of this new trade, then I’m happy.
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SUCCESSFUL MONEY MAKER TYPOTARU</U>
1. In my effort to cash-in, Typo jumped on a suggestion made by a ls friendtaru of mine that we do the whm Teleport-Yhoat scroll quest. I knew it’d probably be an all day job (and wasn’t surprised that it literally was, especially since about 5 people wanted that ever-elusive Elshimo marble) since I tried it before with a few catfriends to no avail, but there were no complaints from Typo, since a marble for him meant +35,000 gil, thankie please.
After 6 hours (heh >.>), the marble was mine, and the scroll now sits in Jeuno’s own auction house, ready to transform into 35,000 any minute now.
We may do Teleport-Vazhl (a further 60k) tonight or tomorrow, but we’d need TH2 for the key drop…
As a whm, Typo could use those scrolls, but since I rarely (if ever) find myself in that area of Yhoator, or anywhere near Xarcabard (typo I bet), those scrolls are going baibai until much, much later.
2. Immediately following the above, I found myself shifting in and out of Norg last night, as I sneaked my way through the scroll quests, and closer to the fortune the scrolls would award to me.
Hojo: Ichi = 30,000g
Utsusemi: Ichi = 125,000g
Typo can’t remember the rest, but that right there ish some serious bling already. ._.;,
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<U>FAILURE. TEARS FROM THE LONELY BANK ACCOUNT</U>
As payment for putting her through the Tele-Yhoat hassle yesterday, Cania (noncat ls humefriend) insisted that we help her with "Garrison".
Until yesterday, all Typo knew about Garrison was that it ish an event where you (lv20 capped) attempt to save some NPCs from a surprise attack on an outpost. And that’s pretty much what it ish, like a mini-game with nifty prizes hanging in the balance. Since the Garrison items are pretty new, their actual market value ish really up in the air. The gear sells anywhere from 10-100k on Cerberus, so we were hoping to do some Garrison runs and take advantage of the still ignorant market.
What Typo did not know, was how hard it would be.
The NPCs known as "Candidates", will try to fend off their outpost from the enemy. Of course they stink, and die quickly, so you must control the hate well so that they take minimal damage, while at the same time preventing your own team from collapsing.
The more you bring, the more the enemies bring, and we headed to the outpost in W. Saruta this evening with 9 and 7 on our first and second tries respectively to face 3rd-tier Yagudos: Priests, Theologists, Votaries.
They came in 3 waves, with about 7 or 8 Yags in each wave. Typo came as a smn, accompanied by a war, war, brd, whm, whm, blm, pld. The lag generated by all the simultaneous characters and animations on screen confused me the whole time, and I pretty much flaked out and kept Ifrit out, draining all my MP.
It didn’t go well, we had 4 casualties, and each and every last candidate croaked. I figured I’d be this teams saviour if I used my 2 hour to destroy each and every wave of Yagudo that appeared!
….But as powerful as the avatar’s specials are, they have to be so horribly close to the enemy if it’s going to work, so on our second attempt I ended up using Inferno 3 times, one-shotting single targets instead of heavily damaging the entire group of birdmen.
2 of us survived, all candidates gone.
Better luck (and a better plan!) next try.. ._.
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With that, it ish back to the goldgrind!~
Until next time, journaly! "X3 (
)
Those shades look really cool! I hope to one day get a pair of shades aswell.
But if you ever manage to do it, by all means feel free to share with us your experience. This could be interesting.
Following that epiphany, it also occurred to Typo that he ish a BLM, just hanging there at lv33 (reached lv36 since then). What sense does that make when he could constructively build it into a powerful tool to help him travel more safely, farm and craft? Not to mention the fact that the majority of his old friendsies, the ones he came up with as a wee BLM, have breached lv50, some 60, and one of them 75 (hau Altruist!), and now boast at least some of the AF set for their profession..
Typo ish all about progress these days. It ish new motto. "X3 It ish also about time that Typo raised at least one job to that "high" level, at least to the point where full AF gear can be obtained and worn (which would be 60). It ish a lengthy challenge, but less of a silly gamble like goldsmithing, and has long-term rewards.
So, Typo has chosen to return to his roots, the Black Mage. Abandoning SMN and WHM for now, since my shiny new avatars, as groundbreaking as it was for me to have battled, defeated and obtained them all, really can’t do anything for Typo for the time-being other than allow him to show off. It was a much-needed refresher from the routine that ish WHM, and sometimes BLM, and after this marathon of dark magic, I may need it again. "X3
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Originally posted by Evad D’Aragon
I’ve heard how horribly hard those Garrison Quests are. I think I’ll stay away from them now. I just became a Paladin and so I’d rather level that first.
Horribly hard and confusing! I can only imagine the horror that ish Dynamis. Even Cania seems to have backed down from Garrison, at least for now. We’ll have to conquer it one day, though. ._.
Congratulations on sucessfully attaining Paladin! Typo ish proud of you~! /bow
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Tidbits
Red Terrapin fishing seems to be more rewarding than moat carp fishing if you’re below that level where you can pluck those carps almost every bite, especially on a bad moon like First Quarter (40-whatever%+ moon), where you still catch a fair amount of them. The turtles sell for at least 625g each to the fishing guild, and if you’re lucky to get a sale, 20-30k/stack at Windurst AH. Lv35.5 fishing for Typo.
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Lizzy! (
)
BAD Lizzy! (
)
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This ish Tarubambu (
), an old tarucutiefriendy of Typo’s, wearing her AF sabots, gloves, robe and hat. In a matter of weeks, Typo will be just like her… ; ;
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Bai!
I just can’t wait to get my Paladin AF armor, won’t be in a while, though. Almost everytime I see someone with their AF Armor, I HAVE to look at them lol They almost all look awesome in their AF.
So you came back to your old, dark and powerful self I can see. That’s sad, I thought I could catch up with your Summoner as Paladin and that we’d go party together…oh well. :p
And as for Dynamis…I won’t even THINK about it before level 75 lol
Fast-forward to Crawler’s Nest, and everything ish disastrous. Linking crawlers are satan.
I’ve been considering putting together a set party for a long time, and also creating a linkshell mainly for us, as well as a few friends. Perhaps this will be TheShrine ls?
Just throwing out some thoughts before going back to the grind~ "X3
hope it plays well :-\ dont wanna waste the 120$ or so…. so yeah 😛 well till then i dont think ill be playing much :-\
/me waits for another month….
I’ve been considering putting together a set party for a long time, and also creating a linkshell mainly for us, as well as a few friends. Perhaps this will be TheShrine ls?
Well, if my Paladin ever catches up with your Summoner (could be very soon, considering you’re not working on it for a while) and you need a tank, leave me a tell lol
As for the Linkshell, I already am in one full of Quebecers like me…But I guess I could make an exception and actually join a second one. Not promising anything, though. We’d need to be more on Cerberus for it to actually work.
Typo got an interesting invite from JP humegirly Momiji. She planned to take Typo to Eldieme Necropolis, one place that most NA players seem to dread. Typo ish not completely unfamiliar with the location, as his teleport Mea quest took him right in there.
Having been through most of the various entrances from Battalia Downs, and having a good look down the throat of this dungeon filled with such a disturbing overpopulation of undeads, Typo would have never even considered this as a place fit for leveling for anyone, let alone a pt of minus 40s…
A friend of mine had a good laugh at me for even being there in the first place, but little did he know (hell, not even Typo knew) that we’d be good enough to chain 4 and 5 Lost Souls and Gazers for roughly 4k exp an hour !:3 LV38 in no time, then we disbanded soon after the 3rd hour.
I did feel somewhat inadequate being down there with Fire being my one and only Fire elemental spell. Improvising with Water II and Aero II (a last-minute AH purchase) kept things moving quickly, and with a good old scattering bard around for ballad, MP never looked sparse.
JP players, or should Typo say…being in a team with JP players ish a little intimidating for me. 99% of the time they are rank 10, seem to have an unlimited supply of expensive foods such as vampire drinks and at the very least, Rolanberry Pies (while Typo reaches for his precious budget apple/melon pies), HQ equipment, no less, and SCs for every occasion. Yes, there are not-so-good JP players out there, too, but the ones Typo ends up with (not that I’m complaining at all X3) are the scary pin-point accurate, lightning-quick, until-death-do-us-part dedicated players. ":3
Wonder if they were talking about me.
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Not too long ago Typo was in a silly dead-end party in Gustav Tunnel. Started by a JPtaru. Never been there before today.
After taking 2 hours to accumulate a measly 2k exp for level 39, Typo has to question how this could possibly be a viable alternative for pre-40 leveling. Everything takes forever to die, meaning extra downtime for mages, which in turn makes it hard to chain. What a sorry place. Don’t ever invite Typo there again!
Oh, welcome back, Moggie. ;3
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Linking (
) Crawlers (
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Originally posted by dijasom
hmmmm i hav a character… a lvl 3 thief… not much to bragg about… but the game didnt play well on my compuyter… so im just gonna buy the ps2 version when i get a chance :-\
hope it plays well :-\ dont wanna waste the 120$ or so…. so yeah 😛 well till then i dont think ill be playing much :-\
/me waits for another month….
Poor Dijasom… Ish the same reason why many needed to wait for the PS2 version in the first place. Mehopes you find yourself playing again soon. ^^
Originally posted by Evad D’Aragon
Well, if my Paladin ever catches up with your Summoner (could be very soon, considering you’re not working on it for a while) and you need a tank, leave me a tell lol
As for the Linkshell, I already am in one full of Quebecers like me…But I guess I could make an exception and actually join a second one. Not promising anything, though. We’d need to be more on Cerberus for it to actually work.
Not a FFShrine ls–Typo has given up on that idea, seeing as it’d almost always be empty. Instead, an ls simply named "TheShrine". It sounds nifty to Typo. "X3 Nothing wrong with being a part of more than 1 ls, as long as you think you can divide your time between them well.. I think I can safely say I’ll definitely create it, but when, now, depends on financing, really. LV40-50 spells and equips take priority over an 8k linkshell.
I have a feeling your PLD will be near or at lv40 by the time Typo ish between 50 and 60 with his BLM. Perhaps then Typo will join you from time-to-time as a WHM. Until then, good luck and have fun with your progress!
You are right, it’s always a little intimidating to play with a JP players…most of them are REAL GOOD lol Two days ago, we had a Bard named Senpaku (Or Senzaku ? lol) that a was Rank 10 Windurstian Tarutaru Bard in Valkurm Dunes…Needless to say, we didn’t HAVE to bother with the auto-translate feature, he always knew EXACTLY what to do. Man , he rocked.
Man, do those crawlers looked nasty :p I’m shivering to think I’ll ever have to fight those :p
And, actually, I know a few members of that party you had in Gustav Tunnel, I’m a little surprised it didn’t go well. As far as I remember, Viperkc was a decent Black Mage but he probably was playing another role in that party.
I highly doubt I’d want to share my time between 2 linkshells, to be honest. I would rather simply answer each other’s tells, should we need each other’s help or just to have a chat 😉 And besides, if I’d started to join every linkshell I get invited to…Man, why is it that I got so many invitations this week ? No, could it be because I became a Paladin and Mentor ? Nah…:p
Speaking of that, I need to learn how to dose the hate…Man, I’m too greedy.
We also had a Ninja/Warrior who could ease my job (Do I REALLY need to explain why ?), but no matter what he did, the damned Snippers would simply ignore him lol But once it was too much, nobody else had MP, the Snipper was almost dead and so was I but it simply would not get off me. Problem is, I already had used my 2 hour a bit earlier to save our Party from that stupid Warrior who thought letting the Ninja pull a IT Snipper wasn’t enough and pulled a second one…DAMN IDIOT ! His stupidity cost us our Red Mage and himself. I was disappointed that I couldn’t save the Red Mage but as for the Warrior, he DESERVED to die :p When he told us his HP was in San d’Oria, it was too much. The Red Mage kicked him, after the Ninja and I gave him a few pointers about the many mistakes he just made. I hope he does learn for his own good. But anyway, as I was saying, that Snipper was almost getting me…And so, the Ninja said : "Man, you might be one of the best Paladins I ever partied with…And so here is my gratitude."
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Then he used his 2 hour, blowing himself up and dying (without losing XP), killing the Snipper and saving my life. Man, I was SO moved…sniff…sniff…Since when do you see a Ninja saving a Paladin by mere respect ? 🙂
And so, in the end, the Ninja and the White Mage became two additions to my friend list 🙂 I guess that was a good enough party 😉
Yeah, my Paladin is going along nicely. It was the job I’ve wanted to do ever since I started playing and I just plain love it. What more can I ask ? And so, I should be able tor reach about level 40 in a matter of weeks. Then we can go party together again and hope to have about as much fun as we had in the Maze of Shakhrami, minus the Goblins 😉 lol
That Gustav pt Typo was in was silly not because of the members, but because the creatures we fought there (hell bats, and various forms of goblins) are extremely stubborn. They seem to have a tremendous amount of hp, and the ability to resist spells as though they have no elemental weakness. It took several minutes per battle, which ish highly inefficient, but since it’s so hard to find a pt anywhere at this lv, I couldn’t afford to drop out.
Viperkc ish a pretty neat rich guy. Partied with him several times in Garlaige, and once in Crawler’s, and no complaints from Typo~
Anyway, new ls or not, we’ll definitely party again someday. Maybe then Typo can see your awesome tanking ability! ":3
Typo ish pissed.
I’ve ordered the PS2 version, which will arrive next week sometime. Like today, I’ll be able to update here every now and then on my friend’s computer. Yay.
MogKnight and I talked a bit about you this afternoon, as I helped him with a Mission this afternoon. We went to the Maze of Shakhrami and a scorpion got in our way, but we managed.
What happened to your PC isn’t fun.
But hey, at least I can catch up with you lol
I am now a level 30 Paladin, by the way. 😉 Planning to get to level 35 and getting Rank 4 in a week. Then work starts and so it will slow down a bit, but I plan on being level 60 in full AF before the end of the summer. 🙂 Hope I can make it lol
Anywayk, give news a soon as you can !
"Sea Horror hits Partymember for -large number- damage. Partymember is defeated."
I’ve been reading too much about these ships. >.> So now I’m stranded. XD I’m sorry for writing an essay, for this _is_ your diary, but it’s just what I do. (I’ve just deleted about a paragraph of babble below this, too.) I think I should have summed this post up more. But I can’t. You’re just too damned awesome to describe in less than a several page essay. ^_^ Good luck with the computer trouble. ^^;
Nu, Typo ish not gobbiefood. Ish just that once again my computer found it appropriate to explode itself right when I’m in the middle of a progressfest. Probably needs a new motherboard and processor, which I haven’t the money for right now.
Typo ish pissed.
I’ve ordered the PS2 version, which will arrive next week sometime. Like today, I’ll be able to update here every now and then on my friend’s computer. Yay.
Hope you like the PS2 version… the low res hurts the eyes. 🙁
I loved reading this. >.< I was searching Google to give my friends some screenshots of a Pirate Attack when I saw this journal. Being on a different server, I won’t get to see you. 🙁 But I’m simply far too cheap to have two characters and far too lazy to start all over. I, myself, am a totally untalented WHM at a mere level 16 or 17 (since entering Valkrum about 14 things went so fast I lost track, which I think is a good sign) And after reading the majority of the first page of your journal (My laptop’s batteries died) I got it in my head to get a Fungus hat. 4 stacks of crystals later I bought the 4 more Silk Threads I needed for a stack. I got my 10k after wandering Windy, speaking to NPCs and lvling my THF for my subjob quest, and just for kicks. I used the full 10k for the hat. So then I was dead broke in the middle of Windy. The Goblins made me lunch on the way to Mhaura, and since Buburimu is not under Windy’s control, I couldn’t afford to set homepoint. I finally made it into Mhaura I spent the entire boat ride, in which nothing but a pugil came on deck, according to my party member, quivering in fear of Sea Horrors and the like thinking that any moment I’d see
"Sea Horror hits Partymember for -large number- damage. Partymember is defeated."
I’ve been reading too much about these ships. >.> So now I’m stranded. XD I’m sorry for writing an essay, for this _is_ your diary, but it’s just what I do. (I’ve just deleted about a paragraph of babble below this, too.) I think I should have summed this post up more. But I can’t. You’re just too damned awesome to describe in less than a several page essay. ^_^ Good luck with the computer trouble. ^^;
Kekeke, Typo’s journal shows up on google. "XD~~~
Typo thinks Uschi ish neat for commenting—even neater for getting the Fungus "XD Bonus points to you if you’re a taru! And no worries, long posts are nifty, and thankies for the comments !:3 Glad I can entertain somebody~ ;3
The PS2 version along with adapter/keyboard will be arriving tomorrow (could have had it a week ago if I wasn’t living on a silly island ._.), so Typo will be back in the running shortly. Very luckily for me, a cousin of mine was able to help me out with my computer problems, and I can expect it back by Saturday.
Typo ish not so pissed anymore. :3
I hope to have little chat with you soon.
LV48 Typotaru. Nothing much to report except I plan to quest for Warp II soon, and make enough money to purchase necessary spells up to lv55 over the weekend, before I get back to leveling.
Not looking forward to the level 50 cap quest. ._.
I’ve always only played the PS2 version, and I have no complaints from it. I happen to crash a lot less often than PC players lol The thing is that you have to get used to the gameplay particularities of the game. You can’t really help it for graphics, though.
Typo has successfully acquired one of the items for the lv50 cap quest–Bomb Coal from Explosures in Garlaige Citadel. Ish the easiest of the 3 items to obtain, so Typo ish still in for a bit of a ride.
Today was a 2nd unsuccessful attempt to obtain Ancient Papyrus from Liches in Eldieme Necropolis. Maybe later. :/
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Typo’s schedule:
Main Priority
1). LV50 Cap Items: Bomb Coal – Ancient Papyrus – Exoray Mold
2). If anyone ish doing Mission 4 (1-3) for Rank 5, Typo will tag along.
Free Time Activity
Fishing in La Theine for gil. Typo can make roughly 10-12k per hour, which ish good enough for me right now.
Quests for the scrolls Warp II (to use), Aspir (to sell), Warp (sell), Drain (sell).
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Etc
Explored Beaucedine Glacier and Xarcabard thoroughly for the first time last night, and again earlier today en route to the north entrance to Eldieme in Battalia. We first made a pit stop in Xarcabard for the Vazhl Gate Crystal, and saw a Shadow Dragon right in our path. How nifty~ ^^
2). If anyone ish doing Mission 4 (1-3) for Rank 5, Typo will tag along.
I am. But I’m a little too much on Fairy ; ;
I am doing it VERY soon, Typo. I’m now level 35, I’m doing it on level 40. Should take me about a week. I just lead another successful Expeditonary Force in Aragoneu…It SHALL BELONG TO BASTOK !!! YES !!! 🙂
Typo can’t remember what Aragoneu or wherever consists of, but in terms of overall conquest standings, don’t even think of seeing 1st place anytime soon. Windurst has been first for nearly two months running, owning almost the entire world throught that period, and will continue our streak simply because we are just that good! ;3 ;3 ;3
But seriously, Typo ish now rank 5, almost completely soloing the mission except for the first part in Beadeaux. 2 sexy cats and a thf/nin tarufriend were gracious enough to help Typo with the nm quadavs~. What an excellent mission, especially the cutscenes in between. The story of Vana’diel ish really kicking into gear at this point !:3
SoOoOoOooo….
Main Priority
1). LV50 Cap Items: Bomb Coal – Ancient Papyrus – Exoray Mold
2). If anyone ish doing Mission 4 (1-3) for Rank 5, Typo will tag along.
Free Time Activity
Fishing in La Theine for gil. Typo can make roughly 10-12k per hour, which ish good enough for me right now.
Quests for the scrolls Warp II (to use), Aspir (to sell), Warp (sell), Drain (sell).
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As ye can see, Typo had a very productive past two days, perhaps the most progress Typo has made in such a short space of time, besides leveling so quickly. I managed to gather enough gil to purchase almost every single blm spell from 1-50, barring Aspir, since I sold it–don’t need it for a while ":3
I’ll make anther update tomorrow after I get the computer back~
Congratulations on reaching Rank 5 ! I won’t be working on it for a few days because I have a few quests to do first …
I need to finish the mannequin, Ninja, and Stone Monuments quests. All three of those are nearly finished. Maybe I’ll start on the RSE too.
I expect to reach near level 40 for the week-end (I’m near level 37), then I have to update my armor and I will attack Rank 5, probably with the help of my LS. Can’t wait to get my Airship Pass.
Good luck with nin/rank 5. Kinda interesting you’ll be going for nin, since I expected ya to continue with pld forever and ever and ever and ever~ "X3
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Main Priority
1). LV50 Cap Items: Bomb Coal – Ancient Papyrus – Exoray Mold
2). Fishing in La Theine for gil. Typo can make roughly 10-12k per hour, which ish good enough for me right now.
– Tactician Magician’s Hat +1 / 49,000G
– Sloth Wand / 25,000G
– Nymph Shield / 120,000G
– Mage’s Slacks / 50,000G
– ??? Tathlum (throwing/INT +1) / 45,000G
– Pyro Robe / 7,000G
– Total / 296,000G
30 intense hours of fishing spread over 3 days. 2 hour-long sessions 5 times a day at 20k per session.
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I dare you to say Typo can’t do it. ;3
Kekeke, everyone’s going nutsy over mannequins "X3 They won’t distract Typo, though ":3
Good luck with nin/rank 5. Kinda interesting you’ll be going for nin, since I expected ya to continue with pld forever and ever and ever and ever~ "X3
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Oh, I finished the Ninja quest…I didn’t do it because I wanted to play as Ninja, I AM continuing with Paladin forever and ever and ever and ever 🙂 Why would I change jobs when I am so love for being a Paladin ? lol I did it just for fun, to unlock as many jobs as I can. Only Dark Knight, Samurai, Ranger and Summoner are left.
As for the mannequins, that’s put on hold since I learned that to get the legs part, you get it as a drop in Garrison…Now do I want to do Garrison ? HELL NO !
I dare you you CAN do it :p Not much of a choice… I can’t believe how expensive things are getting…I went to check what I’d need to have good equipment until level 45 , here’s what I got :
Shell II 10k
Battle Bow 10k
Scorpion Arrows 2k per 99 stack
Heater Shield 8.5k
Iron Musketeer’s Armet 21k
Breastplate 12k
Iron Musketeer’s Gauntlets 20k
Oracle’s Belt 10k
Cuisses 7.5k
Iron Musketeer’s Sabatons 21k
Earth Mantle 17.5k
And I will also get my AF Sword, the Honor Sword.
My collar and Earrings are good for a while ( I have a Medieval Collar and 2 Wing Earrings, they can last until level 50, at which point they’ll be replaced by a Temple Knight Army Collar and 2 Mana Earrings. Ouch to my wallet :p ).
With this gear, I’m good to go until level 45 🙂 I’ll only need a slight update at this level and that is a Brigandine Armor…then I’m set until level 50. Level 50 will be another costly update : Iron Musketeer’s Cuirass and Cuisses, Temple Knight Army Sword, Shield and Collar, War Bow, and finally, 2 Mana Earrings.
When I checked it all, I was, like, oh my god…:p
It won’t be too bad, though, I can sell both my Centurion and Silver chainmail sets ( together they should net near 100k ), can also sell my old earrings and Collar ( Esquire`s Earring and Singer’s Earring, plus Royal Squire’s Collar ) and by the time I reach level 40 I should have about 16k conquest points, which will net two of the Iron Musketeer items ( WHY do you think I do Expeditionary Forces ? 😉 ) And while I wait for all of that to sell, I can farm Tigers and Trees in Jugner Forest, Worms in Dangruf Wadi or Dhalmels in Buburimu Peninsula…I really have many options lol So whenever I complete a stack in a place, I can change places to make sure I don’t get bored killing the same stuff again and again :p
That’s how I make my money as Paladin, and it has worked like a charm for me so far… I’ll have to find even better farming spots later on, especially at level 50.
All in all, I expect it to take roughly 3 days of intensive farming and selling :p But I already started (got the Breastplate and shoudl get at least Shell II when I finish the Stone Monuments quest), so in the meantime I can also do quests and even level until 41…at that point I’ll attack Rank 5.
Yeah, I’m going to be a busy and well-armored Paladin lol
Ish the norm for Typo to head to La Theine and make 10k/hr, catching mostly catfish, red terrapin, and the occasional rusty cap. But after taking a look at the earnings from all of this, Typo realized that the only reason the gil accumulates so quickly is the 1, maybe 2 or 3 caps that appear every now and then to help put Typo over the top.
Many people are aware of the fortune that caps can bring in if you fish in the right spots and with the proper set up, but Typo never really paid much mind to it since I’ve always been patient enough to sit back and catch moat carp for hours and hours to make a mere 20-30k or so, and call it a day. More recently, the 10k/hr has been satisfactory…but what if there really were a way for Typo to catch more caps than anything else in the pond, and make even more than he ish currently making ?:O
Moghancement: Fishing? Never considered using it before, since I wasn’t keen on catching more rusty leggings than carps, or more buckets than terrapin, but yesterday the urge overwhelmed Typo as he stared at his gilpool, realizing he had plenty, plenty to spare, and enough patience to make up the loss on furniture if it cost alot. So it was back to Windurst, where Typo would purchase a simple bed, a few chests, cabinet, armor box, among other things, totalling around 70k on water-based furniture. These items, along with 10 or so rusty buckets Typo had saved, are the reason for Typo’s moggiehouse now being "aglow with powerful water energy, kupo!"
Back at the pond, Typo began to wonder if all that was really even worth it, seeing as this time ’round I wasn’t even catching any fish, let alone rusties. In fact, for about 10 minutes straight there was no bite at all. About to consider re-strategizing, Typo caught his first goody for the session: a rusty cap. Encouraging! A rusty cap in the first 10 minutes ish always good, for in order to make 10k/hr Typo would need about 2.5k every 15 minutes, and caps are 1.9-2k alone. The next few minutes would bring in nothing but a rusty bucket, and then at the 15 minute mark came another cap…followed by another one…and then a third… 8k in 15 minutes.
Was it luck? Typo hoped not, and really didn’t believe it could be luck, since Typo has never caught so many rusties in such quick succession before…4 caps per 2 hours ish pretty much the norm, but the same number in 15 minutes???? Skipping right to the end of the second hour, combined with the terrapins and catfish, Typo had made more than double his usual quota. Could it be luck if it happened 3 times in a row? 120k in 6 hours? If so, Typo ish the luckiest taru in Vana’diel.
The only problem ish having to rely on the AH, or rather, people, to grab Typo’s caps, and fairly quickly, since I catch so many of them now, apparently. Bastok, home of alchemy, where caps are important for something, has been very slow with cap sales as of the 8-hour patch a few days ago. Jeuno’s sales are average, selling quicker than anywhere else in the world, but the 104G fee….eh, who cares. I just hope I can depend on the good people in Jeuno to continue to fund Typo so that he can make his first million. ;3
I’m probably being serious, too. There ish a Pluto’s Staff in Jeuno with T?????????P???O engraved on that large, shiny black pearl…
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Hey Dave, good luck with your own quest for gil! Smart move doing EFs for CP. Typo has trouble getting people together for those, and when people actually do go, Typo ish busy with something else, or just not available.
Maybe you should look into fishing. ;3 ;3 ;3 ;3
Wow, maybe I should devote time to become a skilled fisherman…I don’t know if my ways of making gil will last me forever…Or I seriously need to consider finding better farming prey…
Battle Bow 10k
Scorpion Arrows 2k per 99 stack
curious…..
why?
and good luckaru, Typo!
Bows are more useful to Paladins than you would realize. Why are we allowed to use them if people believe they’re useless to us ? That’s because some of us are smart enough to know what to do with them :p
When soloing in a slightly dangerous area, it helps you avoid linking without wasting MP (Before you ask, I don’t solo for exp, I solo for money :p And for any reason, sometimes you’d rather not have monsters link, there comes my Bow.). And in parties, it allows me to claim a pop at camp without having to move and waste a Provoke right away. It’s that simple 🙂 Sure, my Archery skill suck and I rarely hit but hitting them is not the point, making them go after you is. It’s just like when I heal, I’m not meant to be a healer but using it not only heals, it also makes the hate stay on me. There is always more than meets the eye 😉
Got up early this morning and checked the log.
Apparently, almost as soon as Typo sat his little self down to rest, his rusties disappeared while his pockets grew fat and jingly.
Guess that problem’s solved. :3
Hmm, I suppose that’s true Evad, but PLDs shouldn’t be pulling :P. And it doesn’t make sense to use the most expensive arrows availible when farming o.O
Oh, those arrows actually aren’t that expensive, really. Those level 40 arrows are 2k per stack. It’s not that bad. And as I said, I rarely fire them, only to avoid linking ( Not in an area where I would farm, but more like one where I’m only passing by but have no way to pass without fighting with monsters that are Easy Prey in groups of 2 or 3, if you know what I mean… ) or claim a pop near camp. I almost never empty a stack before I upgrade so it’s not really expensive ( And before you say it’s a waste of gil, it might be, yeah, but not as much a waste as bringing and eating food but having huge downtimes or deaths, then eat another one even if your first barely came in handy for a fight, if you ask me. ).
In short, just think of it as an extra option that can sometimes come in handy 😉 And that’s most likely the reason why Paladins are allowed to use bows. Else, it would make no sense at all to be able to use them. Oh, sure, we can use others weapons than the Sword but we aren’t when in a party, not to hurt them by sacrificing our defense and shield skill…But where exactly is my use of Archery hurting my parties in any way ? So as much as I keep hate on me and protect them, they have no right to say anything about it, don’t they ? lol That’s pretty much how I see it.
Typo ish pleased.
The only problem is that selling rusty caps still isn’t as simple as parking my tarubutt in Bastok and hoping for the best. I’m not sure why, but people seem to not need rusty caps anymore. Check the AHs and you’ll often see yesterday’s date in the price history–that ish highly abnormal for caps. Luckily for Typo, I can count on an old friend of mine to buy around 40-50 from me every night for the next couple nights, so I should have no problems fulfiling me wishlist~ X3
Typo’s Fishyshopping Spree ish almost over. Friday or Saturday will be supreme victory time, according to Typo’s fishing schedule. I can be a very indecisive taru sometimes, or maybe fickle, to be more fair. Once Typo realized he could make close to 200k per day, he updated his equipment wishlist to feature a more expensive, more impressive selection..
Weapons
Ice Staff (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=2997) – 240,000G
Dark Staff (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=2985) – 285,000G
Pluto’s Staff (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=2986) would have been a great show-off item, but a friend recommended that Typo get a combination of Ice and Dark Staff instead. I can see why, too, since Typo could use his Ice Staff offensively as it has more +INT and elemental power than even a Pluto’s Staff. The Dark Staff, which gives the same +10MP while resting as Pluto’s, can be used interchangeably with casting and resting. Typo’s gonna make a rest macro which will have him automatically switch to Dark Staff while he sits to recharge~ The final advantage being that this staff combo costs less than the 650,000G Pluto’s Staff, while being more effective in combat.
A shield is not possible with this combo, but Typo can see himself in the future sometime getting a wand with a nice fat INT bonus, and using it along with a Nymph Shield (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=1997)~
Body
Tactician Magician’s Coat (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=1614) – 30,000G BOUGHT!
Because it costs 27,000 below a Mage’s Robe (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=1388), and has additional stat bonuses to top the INT+1. Typo was crafty and bought a Pyro Robe (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=1618) for a measely 5k to hold him over to lv50. The hat (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=5083) will go nicely with this at 51.
Feet
Tactician Magician’s Pigaches (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=1502) – 25,000G BOUGHT!
Keeping me Kingdom Clogs (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=3748) on until lv50.
Back
Red Cape + 1 – 100,000G BOUGHT!
INT+3, MND+3. Best possible cape for quite a while…
Earrings
Morion Earring (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=3048) (x2) – 90,000 (x2)
Powerful, show-offy earrings, if only because ish a rarity to see anyone with ’em. Typo will be fishing for these after maintenance today. Should be able to get ’em before sleepytime~ "X3
Rings
Wisdom Ring (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=3912) (x2) – 80,000 (x2) BOUGHT!
See above, really. Additional +INT, and will finally set Typo apart from all the common Eremite’s (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=2243) blms out there~ "X3
Ammo
Morion Tathlum (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=2856) – 35,000G BOUGHT!
Much better than a Fortune Egg! …Although Typo misses his eggy… Threw it at a Worker Crawler in CN just to see if I would get it back ._. *mourn*
Other pieces include: Black Silk Neckerchief (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=673), Mage’s Mitts (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=1561), Shaman’s Belt (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=716), Mage’s Slacks (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=409),
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There’s your Typoquip update~ Looking forward to breaking away from fishing after the next few days. After this, Papyrus/Mold hunting might actually seem interesting… ._.;;;
Typo hasn’t gone crazy, ish just that new and improved ways to gil myself keep presenting themselves to me, taru. Tekkub, me old friend that has been my Rusty Cap "client" over the past few days let me in on his "secret" (ish one of the main reasons so many people fish out Rabao day in and day out). Instead of just fishing the rusties and selling them raw, why not synth them into padded caps, and make even more profit?
Typo immediately jumped on this idea, not even phased to hear that it would take a Smithing level of 26 to be able to take advantage of. Actually, the 160,000 I had at the time was enough to PL me smithing from 0.0 to 14.0 in a few short hours, yesterday. With 20k in tact, Typo will break for now, and take tomorrow out to fish for another 150k or so, going beddy-byes with near 200k, and Monday will be the day where Typo reaches his lv26 smithing goal.
At the end of all of this, Typo’s Smithing will be 26, Fishing 43.6 (from all the La Theine fishing ;3), Goldsmithing 28, Woodworking 3 (from making hatchets at lv2 smithing). Not bad! Typo’s new reputation ish that of a handy-dandy craftertaru. I am almost flattered. ;3
AH by the by: Dark Staff = 190,000G, Ice Staff = 160,000G. Heavily in stock.
^ Did Typo miss something here, or are these no longer "rare" and "special" items to have :/
Typo likes to pride himself on having something that others don’t, even if it ish an insignificant little something… Oh well, Typo will make do with those. Not everyone will own both of them. Probably. ":3
Fished for 30 minutes in Rabao just now and made 18k "X3
It may seem to some that Typo has just been letting distraction after distraction…distract him. However, this move has allowed Typo to finally be his own provider, and never have to rely on AH sales to make money.
Fishing may be snoresome, but once you reach the stage where a few hours can net you 100k+ comfortably, you’ll suddenly be motivated to go on a binge~. ;3
In other Typonews, sexy Thornn cat from Crescent Moon (Typo’s main ls…somehow Chocobo Knights isn’t as appealing anymore ?:/ ) helped Typo get his ancient papyrus for the level 50 cap quest. We got it on lucky lich number 11~ Took about half an hour. Immediately following this, we went looking for the ??? torch for the tele-Mea quest for cat, and found it in the first entrance we tried within 5 minutes. Lucky times! ^^
All that ish left now is exoray mold, which I may have help for tomorrow. Speaking of which, a solid 8 hours in Rabao tomorrow should translate to 200k in funds, meaning Typo gets a staff. ^^
Isn’t fishing great ?;3
4:05PM – 5:40PM – 50,464G
6:50PM – 7:55PM – 21,248G
10:15PM – 11:33PM – 31,872G
12:45AM – 2:00AM – 31,872G
3:10AM – 5:10AM – 47,808G
Bought Ice Staff in Jeuno for a stealy 119,000G. Bought a Nymph Shield for 80,000G, ‘cuz I could.
Tomorrow’s (technically today’s) target ish 220,000G for Dark Staff. Saturday will be final fishing day, making money to do the 2 remaining gobbiebag quests.
How ambitious~
I wish I could make 50k from sleeping. *dies*
lmao i found this while googleing for something else…something bout linkshells, cant remember…anyway i read the entire thing cause its typo! its funny taht i can follow my own FFXI experience through those journals and screens…lol…thats how long ive know you typo…i remember when you said on linkshell that you beat ifrit with your staff!! LOL and you got .3 staff skill too…ahh good times, good times…i did notice that you made fun of taru drks early on in the journal…that was befre you knew me im sure 😛 ah the days of the order, i wasnt in TUF, joined theorder just after the split…though ive never ever seen you on wsf..no wait, thats a lie…/slaps self…tis been a long night of yet again not getting my af pants…oh well…anyway, typotarukat…have fun, perhaps ill pop in…see what you’re saying bout us
nicomo
/em pulls Typo’s tail.
BAD TYPO! bad…
lmao i found this while googleing for something else…something bout linkshells, cant remember…anyway i read the entire thing cause its typo! its funny taht i can follow my own FFXI experience through those journals and screens…lol…thats how long ive know you typo…i remember when you said on linkshell that you beat ifrit with your staff!! LOL and you got .3 staff skill too…ahh good times, good times…i did notice that you made fun of taru drks early on in the journal…that was befre you knew me im sure 😛 ah the days of the order, i wasnt in TUF, joined theorder just after the split…though ive never ever seen you on wsf..no wait, thats a lie…/slaps self…tis been a long night of yet again not getting my af pants…oh well…anyway, typotarukat…have fun, perhaps ill pop in…see what you’re saying bout us
nicomo
/em pulls Typo’s tail.
<font size="1">!:3 Curses! Now Typo hastaru actually watch what he says about ls people, or he might get reported and Derutaru will turn on him!!!!!!!! Why didn’t Saboak warn Typo earlier! Or was it Sarevok…their names are the same!</font>
One of these days I’m goingtaru grow a tail, just to rip that silly huge helmet off your tiny head! Heee, actually, Typo never knew you were a DRK until that dreadful day with the lizzies/elshimo marble in Yuhtunga. Typo doesn’t recall bashing tarudrks! …But even if I did, in Typodefense, I wasn’t very aware of what DRKs were all about back then, unfortunately, but I know better now. ;3 Tell you what, give Typo another 8-10 levels, and I’ll help with AF, too! keke.
Haven’t been on WSF for a long time since I’ve gotten used to being a regular in chocoknights and crescentmoon. Typo will pop up eventually. "X3
Glad to see you enjoyed reading this thing. That’s what it ish mainly for! Memories~ :3
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Fishing.
5:10PM – 6:00PM (first quarter moon 43%, 45%) – 15,936G
7:05PM – 9:05PM (fqm48%, 50%) – 50,464G
10:25PM – 12:25AM (fqm48%, waxing gibbous 57%) – 39,840G
1:05AM – 2:00AM (waxgib62%, 64%) – 29,216G
2:10AM – 2:35AM (waxgib64%, 67%) – 10,624G
Originally planned for 220k, but the mediocre moon phase in fqm pretty much stunted that. Typo spent more time doing other things since it would have been a waste of time to fish for the whole day.
That staff ish Typo’s tomorrow…
today…
*die*
Typo ish leaning more towards mog house space. Typo used to like having his inventory full of silly useless things, like beetle shells, jaws, bird feathers, assorted ‘shrooms, and all sorts of other things obtained from battling the usuals while on a level up campaign. This helped make a little while gaining levels. The fact that Typo can now fish for approximately 25k/hr on average pretty much renders the above obsolete, so, since pies and crystals stack, and those are the only things Typo ish likely to have around besides equipment, ish pretty safe to say that Typo can delay the last 2 gobbiebags even further. 40 spaces ish plenty plenty.
The reason for wanting to put gobbiebag aside ish because Typo did a little reading on Alla today, and found out that each piece of furniture actually gives a set amount of "points" towards your moghancement. The amount of points you have from the furniture in your mog house layout determines the strength of the moghancement.
There are 3 moghancement levels, and their point ranges go like this:
1-50 ??? faint [element] energy
51-100 ??? powerful [element] energy
101+ ??? overwhelming [element] energy
Typo has had "overwhelming water energy" for a long time, so all those water jugs, 4 chests, 3 armor boxes etc. must add up to at least 101. In fact, Typo removed 2 water jugs as an experiment today, and the energy faded from "overwhelming", to "powerful".
The plan ish to be able to have the highest MH level, using only a few pieces of furniture.
From the furniture list (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/guides.html?guide=210) it seems that commodes have the highest +water stat at +16. Armoires have the same effect, but will cost more since they can hold an extra item. Commodes go for 28k on Cerberus, and 6 of them net me 96 points. That’s 168,000G. It makes me giggle to be able to say something like this, but that’s pretty damn cheap. ;3
And that’s what I will be fishing for, tomorrow. ^^
Since the weekend was a pretty busy one for Typo, he could not accomplish much fishing, but I was able to get me Dark Staff todey for 240,000G (silly fluctuating prices), which means Typo’s list of this and thats ish complete!
Speaking of "complete", Primalcat, who ish purple because of its silly DRG AF, helped Typo with exoray mold last night. So basically Typo has no distractions from lv48-55~. The lv50 cap quest ish no longer an issue!
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Fishy-wishy~
Saturday~
1:10AM – 3:10AM – (waning gibbous 79%, 76%, 74%) – 53,612G
Sunday~
6:10PM – 7:53PM – (waning crescent 36%, 33%) – 42,496G
9:55PM – 10:40PM – (wancres26%, 24%) – 29,216G
Tomorrow will be me last day of intensive fishing, which ish a relief after 3 weeks of nothing but smelly lake water and wet rain hair.
Can’t wait to get back to the good ol’ conquest campaign! It’s been too long since Typo’s been involved in some serious beastman blasting! >.-
But does that mean that if you had Moghancment: Experience, and you had more then one bed, you’d lose even less xp if you died?
I’m really sorry if this is a stupid question. . .
But does that mean that if you had Moghancment: Experience, and you had more then one bed, you’d lose even less xp if you died?
Typo ish assuming such. Also assuming you can afford and store all of those beds.
On a similar note, the moggiehouse now contains 6 commodes, a simple bed and an armor box. That’s 101 water points, and tons and tons of space recovered. ^^
Typo isn’t hanging up his fishing gear just yet, either. It just so happens that taru male RSE ish tomorrow from 1:52PM – 9:33PM EST, at Ordelle’s Cave. A small expedition from CrescentMoon will be heading out to perform various rapage tomorrow. Typo has offered to help. That time frame leaves little time for proper exping, so I’ll fish before and after the event, just to be constructive.
The real fun begins Thursday "X3~
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Fishingforcaps.
Monday~
4:30PM – 5:50PM – (waxing crescent 19%, 21%) – 53,120G
6:45PM – 8:55PM – (wcres 26%, 29%, 31%) – 50,464G
11:30PM – 1:30AM – (wcres 36% – fqm 43%) – 61,088G
2:50AM – 4:50AM – (fqm 45% – 50%) – 45,152G
Tuesday~
2:00PM – 4:00PM – (waxgib 74% – 79%) – 58,924G
4:50PM – 6:50PM – (waxgib 81% – 86%) – 50,464G
7:55PM – 9:55PM – (waxgib 88% – full moon 93%) – 50,464G
10:30PM – 11:30PM & 12:05AM – 1:05AM – (full 93% – 100%) – 37,676G
Fishing has become pretty consistant. Ish common for Typo to make around 50k per 2hrs, so money-making for me, while it may be boring, ish pretty much a sure-fire routine.
The only thing that makes me wonder right now, is why full moon always tends to be among the worst of fishing phases for Typo–slow bite rates, when it’s supposed to be the absolute opposite. Maybe rusties have their own separate rules in that area…
Maybe I’ll try messing around with me vid card again tonight. Typo would like to take piccies of him Freeze MBing in Kuftal Tunnel~ "X3
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Typo’s fishing exploits have more than paid off. In addition to the positive comments and other forms of praise from the masses of envious lower life-form nontarucats, Typo has seen a noticable increase in the accuracy of his spells–that is, enemies resist them much less, much thanks to his auxiliary heavy-duty +INT gear, and the elemental skill +10 on ice staff ^ ^. Blizzard II and Stone III are heavy-hitters on just about everything 9 out of 10 times (300+ dmg without MB). Typo’s max int ish 65+29 with apple pie +1 in effect.
Successfully MB’d Freeze in a Distortion chain in Garlaige for 1150. That was the second time I had ever cast that spell. Even have a macro for it for both stage 1 and 2 SCs~ "X3
I even make myself shiver >,>~
But I’d really like to be able to use Typocam again, just to let me piccies do the boasting talking! ;3
I haven’t played because of Tales of Symphonia…and I already couldn’t stand fishing…
I guess I’ll try Mining once I get back on a regular basis, but that’s about it.
Now that I’ve taken my distances from FFXI I realized I’ve spent too much time on it…I don’t know if I want to keep going, especially if it’s to make money a month, level a week, make money 2 months…you know…
FFXI pc downtime strikes again…
At about 3AM if Kuftal Tunnel, this (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/bestiary.html?fmob=1519) happened during a robber crab session.
Guivre, a lv80ish HNM wyvern spawned near the goal point right in the heart of the tunnel, and took out practically everyone (Typo counted 17 dead people on his chat log). Moving at an almost insane pace, it patrols pretty much the entire zone, save for the winding path up to the Altepa entrance.
Our pt was more excited than afraid, but for safe-keeping, Typo escaped.
…Then we proceeded to run straight back in to take a peek at him from around the corner…
What we did not know, ish that he has a tendancy to de-spawn, or at least disappear, and reappear randomly to cheap-shot anyone silly enough to run back into the main chamber…like Typo, for example. Never mind the sillies who say he does not see through sneak/invis…getting smacked for 574 after he re-appeared behind me pretty much destroys that "observation".
Our pld, who went even further than Typo, wound up dead the minute he ran into the chamber. He was aggroed from all the way across the room and didn’t even know it >.>;;
After 10 minutes of de-spawn time, our rdm braved the main chamber and tractor/raised us. Typo escaped again.
Me head ish still pounding even after multiple Cure IIIs. >.>;;;
Lv53 Typotaru @12,400>>54…
Originally posted by Evad D’Aragon
Woah…all that money-making makes me envious…
I haven’t played because of Tales of Symphonia…and I already couldn’t stand fishing…
I guess I’ll try Mining once I get back on a regular basis, but that’s about it.
Now that I’ve taken my distances from FFXI I realized I’ve spent too much time on it…I don’t know if I want to keep going, especially if it’s to make money a month, level a week, make money 2 months…you know…
I can completely understand where you’re coming from, Dave~ FFXI ish a drug, and it only takes the tiniest quantity of it to make ya high "X3 It would be a shame to see you go, though, especially since you are such a hard-working and dedicated PLD! Cerberus needs more people like you!
Anyway, Typo hopes you are enjoying Tales of Symphonia. If you do return to playing FFXI on a regular basis, mehopes you can find your niche with mining~
. Never mind the sillies who say he does not see through sneak/invis…getting smacked for 574 after he re-appeared behind me pretty much destroys that "observation".
While he may see through normal sneak/invis, he does not see through Summerfest induced Sneak/invis. I wish I had taken a screen, but he was being mean and sitting on the goalpoint, and turned and stared right at me and didn’t aggro, and instead went tromping off.
I dropped invis and got my item, and then I hear and see him stomping towards me and go "oh shit" as I fumbled for my gate glyph….
He hit me for ~ the same as he hit you for o.O.
While he may see through normal sneak/invis, he does not see through Summerfest induced Sneak/invis. I wish I had taken a screen, but he was being mean and sitting on the goalpoint, and turned and stared right at me and didn’t aggro, and instead went tromping off.
I dropped invis and got my item, and then I hear and see him stomping towards me and go "oh shit" as I fumbled for my gate glyph….
He hit me for ~ the same as he hit you for o.O.
Interesting~ Maybe most of these people had this special summerfest sneak/invis. Typo wouldn’t know, not being the slightest bit interested in participating~ "X3
Methinks SE did this on purpose, making Guivre pop right in the middle of this summerfestfest. It was fun watching participants get crushed upon removing their invis. ^ ^
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Tonight wasn’t a very good night for PTing…I had a team where the members were doing the best they could, except maybe the budget rdm who hated using refresh, for some reason. Mitri, a lv51 pld from CM was tanking robber crabs comfortably, proving me dead wrong when I say that you need to be at least 53 to tank there without fumbling the hate. Good going!
The kicker was that we had no distortion skill chain, so we had to improvise with Liquification, since we only had sword/dagger available. Typo could MB Firaga II for 600+ unresisted, but most of the time the crab laughed at Typo and only took 2-3k.
Typo ish still lv53, with 8k to go until 54, and no intention of stopping until lv55, where I will then begin collecting AF.
Keepin’ on truckin’~
I can completely understand where you’re coming from, Dave~ FFXI ish a drug, and it only takes the tiniest quantity of it to make ya high "X3 It would be a shame to see you go, though, especially since you are such a hard-working and dedicated PLD! Cerberus needs more people like you!
Anyway, Typo hopes you are enjoying Tales of Symphonia. If you do return to playing FFXI on a regular basis, mehopes you can find your niche with mining~
lol
You sound as if I’m important or something lol But I like the compliment.
Well, as you know, I did log yesterday, mainly to chat with the LS and check the conquest update…Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised, even if it’s because of Summerfest, but Bastok was FIRST ! I didn’t think I’d have the chance to see this again lol It goes to show you Windurstians aren’t much when your JP players aren’t participating in Conquest…Just kidding.
I also got my level 44.
But my unpleasant experience was partying with the INfamous Yscar… I heard what he did as party leader in a BCNM fight but since he wasn’t leader I gave him a chance, but he’s everybit a jerk as I’ve heard, swearing, acting like a godly leader, bossing us around and blaming us for things we haven’t done wrong and annoying all his party members. Then he pretends he’s a victim, leaves, joins another party and makes them steal our camp…How much more of an asshole can he get ? Luckily, the other members of his party accepted to give our camp back…But any people of Cerberus, I’m warning you, steer clear of this Yscar guy, he’s an asshole, no less.
…
And as Paladin that’s respected by almost all people who I partied with, you don’t hear me say that often, I swear. I can count on the fingers of one hand the people I dislike on Cerberus, but this one was something else. Oh well.
Is this the same guy?
These "reports" have been made by people about Yscar all week. Constant /shouting about him in Jeuno, especially… He ish in CM. It’s been hard to take in, though, since I’ve never partied with him, and Typo has never seen him be disrespectful or act up in any way to people on the ls, and he is nice to Typo. ._.; If this stuff ish true, then talk about people and their personality masks. >.>
I’ll have to study him more closely.
Meanwhile, yesh, Bastok ish first, Windurst, last. Typo finds it hard to comment on impossible things. Next week, this illusion will vanish, and all will be normal with the world once again.
So it would seem it is the same guy.
@Typo :
Well, look, it so happens it didn’t go well with him this time, but that doesn’t mean I said he’s like that to everyone. Maybe he has been annoyed by all that talk about what he would have done on that BCNM…all I can say is that he pissed our party quite a bit, myself included, although I rarely get mad at someone in this game and didn’t trash talk him as much as the others.
I mean, I did want to give him a chance, regardless of the warnings my LS members told me, as they heard about the story…but since he wasn’t leader, I said "at least he can’t do it again, if he indeed has done it", you know ?
But, he was just plain annoying, blaming me for supposedly not provoking at the right time (To which I answered to just look at the log window and blame the Dark Knight who overuses Last Resort instead as well as the Thief who wasn’t doing his SATA fast enough lol Because, actually, when I did Provoke and used Cure III it was to save his pathetic, ungrateful life. ).
Then after that he was trying to boss us around, which I find annoying when you are not party leader ( I mean, know your place in a party, give orders only if you are leader, if you are not, ask politely…Or just listen. That is what I always do, and I think it’s not asking too much for others to do it. )
Anyway, the worst was when he left just like that after a fight, saying "I’m leaving, nobody likes me.", then joining another party and stealing our camp. That was it. At this point our party got mad, they ( Unless I’m party leader, I rarely get myself involved in inter-party conflicts, so I just stood behind and answered "Yes, please" when they asked us if we wanted our camp back. ) first asked him to go somewhere else and he said no, but when they asked the rest of his party, they agreed to go.
Anyway, as I said, maybe that story about his BCNM theft isn’t true and maybe the fact that his reputation got a big drop has been making him act less nicely than before. But the fact remains he conducted himself poorly in that party I had with him yesterday, which makes me want not to party again with him. It’s that simple.
As for Bastok being first…You know, it might keep going like that for all Summerfest. It’s more or less true, you owe your first place in great part thanks to the JP players. They’re the ones that get involved the most in the Summerfest, yet strangely since it started Windurst has been plummeting down to third, for the simple fact that those guys no longer do any Expeditionnary Force… Most Japanese players avoid Bastok ( Just to avoid Americans ), but not most newer players ( read : Americans and soon Europeans ) And since Japanese players have much better social skills and politeness than Americans, it’s always easier for them to do Expeditionnary Forces…
I guess we know now who truly controls Vana D’iel :p Although, we kind of already knew it heh ? However, since it is a fact that being in the best country is more profitable…Maybe switching to Windurst might be a good idea right now :p But it so happens I like Bastok lol Plus I’d have to get rid of Mission 5-1, something I probably can’t do at my level anyway…
Besides, I’m Hume, so becoming a Windurstian will feel…unnatural lol
So you are saying that only us westerners count? Typo couldn’t care less whether it ish the NA or JP who have the greatest influence on conquest! The fact still remains that Windurst has been champion of conquest longer than the other two nations, which, for the purpose of good-old-fashioned blind patriotic zeal, ish all that needs to be known. ^ ^
I didn’t mean to say we were bad or anything…It’s just to that you know as well as I do that Japanese players had a much too unfair advantage by getting to play the game much more in advance, therefore no matter what we do, we look like rookies compared to them. They get to the newest stuff first and them get to sell it to ridiculous prices and when WE get our hands on them, the prices drop…
Come on, you know it’s true. Japanese players are controlling this game, it’s a fact. Sure, you might not care, and most of the time I don’t either, but sometimes when you are reminded at the worst of times that just because you’re North American you’ll always be some kind of second-class citizen in the game, it’s kind of annoying, you know ?
I’m not saying that all Japanese are all some elitist bastards by acting this way, because all of them will act nice to you IF you are nice to them ( Can’t say that for all Americans but that’s another story. ), but the fact remains that they had a much too unfair advantage, that is not going to be corrected entirely, no matter that now all updates are coming at the same time… I mean, the servers are in Japan, so the time frame is always more appropriate for them :p Have you ever noticed how it is that maintenance happens for them at late hours ( Like the first hours of the morning ) yet they happen smack in the afternoon for us ? What’s the result ? They get to log back at more appropriate times than us, therefore if a new item got added, they have the advantage of having more time to get it…It is ALWAYS like that.
Anyway, this is not for the purpose of arguing with you, but more to vent up my frustration a bit regarding this, and I’m sure you’ve realized it as well at some point.
As for Windurst having been first most of the time, that may have been true on Cerberus ever since you bought the game. But I have heard at quite a few places that it was in fact Bastok that was usually first on most servers…that is, until the American players came into place. It was at that time that Japanese, seeing as most Americans were also choosing Bastok but being annoyed by their lack of politeness ( It’s about cultural differences here, and nothing else, I’m not going to blame Americans for that. ), wanted to flee as far as possible. As far as I know, the furthest country from Bastok is…Windurst, isn’t it ?
Well, if you are a proud Windurstian, I have nothing against it ( I have a very strong blind patriotic zeal as well 😉 ), and I never wanted to question your good feelings. I know that YOU had good feelings. What is dislike, however, is people that started in another country change countries simply for the fact that it’s the better one, all the while saying "(Random Nation) rocks !!!" yet changing nationalities nearly every month. Just for kicks, if Windurst would remain second or third for a month, I can bet that quite a lot of Windurstians would simply move…
And that sucks really, Bastok lost many people because of that, and if Bastok would remain first for a month or two like Windurst did ( Yeah, I know, it’s unlikely, but whatever ), then a lot of supposeddly proud Windurstians and San d’Orians would come to Bastok, then leave again as soon as another country was first. I hate people who keeps betraying like that. That might be just me though. Sure, I have thought many times about changing nationalities, but the reason why I just can’t make the move is…well…because my loyalty goes far beyond a little gil and some conquest results ( Which none of us can change on our own, by the way. ).
Anyway, I suppose it makes things a bit better, maybe I didn’t express myself correctly so anyway, it was not to offend you Typo…or anyone else for that matter.
Typo doesn’t see himself as "Second-class" in any way. Of course it helps that there are both NA and JP players out there who remember this little black mage from past pts, and try to grab him for their current pt before someone else does. I have a reputation for being well-outfitted and up-to-date on spells, as well as handy with skill chain suggestions and enemy aggro/weakness info. Just in case I can’t remember all the details meself, I have printed notes right in front of me at all times.
This ish just my way of saying that although there ish this stigma attatched to us NA, there are all sorts of little things you can do to separate yourself from the real mediocre players, or at the very least, prevent you from feeling as if you are second-rate in the eyes of others. ;3
And I’m sure it does happen, but Typo has never heard of people switching nations simply because of conquest standings… Shallow for some, strategic for others, I guess "X3
Typo ish a little stumped on the Yscar issue, but ish not really something that will bother me if I don’t see it myself. He ish part of Crescent Moon, a large, well-established and responsible ls. To us, he ish innocent until proven guilty, and I’m sure if he were ever caught in the midst of one of these antics by an ls member, he’d be cut off right away. That’s pretty much all Typo’s got on that one.
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Today was completely unproductive. Last night’s pt were all too tired to stay for the extra hour or so it would have taken for Typo to get his 4k exp to lv55. Understandable. But that leaves Typo with a lil’ problem, in that being invited into a pt now would mean having to leave as soon as I reach lv55’s cap. So here are me options:
1) AF quests. The fact that the Caster’s Wand ish useless beyond explaination kinda turned me off. Too bad AF needs to be done in order, and that ish AF1.
Typo knows what will be required of him to obtain every single AF piece…the hard part will be getting assistance. Maybe it ish time to join Leli’s new lv50+ ls, ‘Queens of Vanadiel’. It was made for the purpose of helping with AF, and various NM. Thing is, ever since it was made, I never heard anyone say a thing about it, so I wonder if it ish doing well at all ?:O Anyway, apart from its name, it sounds like a first class idea, and can actually benefit Typo to be able to help and recieve help from people of a similar level.. It sure sounds more reliable than standing in Lower Jeuno and /sh spamming auto-translator messages. ; ;
2) LV55 Cap quest/Genkai 2. After reading about what this entails I’m wondering how I’ll ever be able to come up with a full 18-man alliance, ready and willing to go through with this. Whataru the odds that 18 people who need this quest will be available to do it all at the same time ?:3 If they don’t need it, what are the odds of getting them to help ?X3
Maybe Typo needs to have more confidence in people. "X3
Hopefully I will be able to produce a plan of action tomorrow, and do something constructive, unlike today..
As for the second-class thing, it’s more about how the game was released and is maintained that it makes it look that way, at least far more than by the japanese player’s attitude. It’s not the players that were the problem, because as I said, they’re usually very, very, very , nice . All of the japanese I joined with that could speak a little english were EXTREMELY nice.
I never felt second-rate in the eyes of other players ( how many times have you heard me say how proud am I of being a well-reputated Paladin, one that almost never lets hate go away from him ? 😉 ), I felt being treated as second-rate by how Square Enix manages the game…BIG DIFFERENCE 😉
I have heard how difficult and unrewarding the AF1 quest for Black Mages was lol Boy, am I glad the Honor Sword is the Paladin’s best weapon from levels 42 to 50 ? 🙂 Plus it’s a much easier quest, that is, with proper help of course.
That’s strange…I have heard that Genkai II was less troublesome than Genkai I, which already looks a huge pain in the neck to me…Oh well, good luck anyway.
Oh, and by the way, I’ve almost already beaten Tales of Symphonia ( lol ! ), I guess you know what that means huh… :p
[B]As for the second-class thing, it’s more about how the game was released and is maintained that it makes it look that way, at least far more than by the japanese player’s attitude. It’s not the players that were the problem, because as I said, they’re usually very, very, very , nice . All of the japanese I joined with that could speak a little english were EXTREMELY nice.
I never felt second-rate in the eyes of other players ( how many times have you heard me say how proud am I of being a well-reputated Paladin, one that almost never lets hate go away from him ? 😉 ), I felt being treated as second-rate by how Square Enix manages the game…BIG DIFFERENCE 😉
I still can’t see how this ish translated into SE treating NA as second-rate. Your argument ish one made by many NA over and over and over, but I guess since it just doesn’t phase me, I just don’t get it, is all.
I have heard how difficult and unrewarding the AF1 quest for Black Mages was lol Boy, am I glad the Honor Sword is the Paladin’s best weapon from levels 42 to 50 ? 🙂 Plus it’s a much easier quest, that is, with proper help of course.
That’s strange…I have heard that Genkai II was less troublesome than Genkai I, which already looks a huge pain in the neck to me…Oh well, good luck anyway.
AF1 and genkai2 completed. Typo can now collect his AF2 (boots), and level to 60. Genkai 2 was fun. I’m very disappointed that my graphic card still doesn’t function for some reason, and I had to be on PS2 yet again, with no way to properly record the excitement experienced at the time.
Speaking of AF, allakhazam conveniently leave out of their guide that you must complete AF2 before getting 3. Actually it lead me to believing that I could get a Garlaige Coffer key, which I did, with the help of some very, very generous ls members (thankie), and open the coffer to obtain my key item.
Instead, Typo spends 5 hours key hunting, dying, and coffer camping, only to find the coffer at long last, and be rewarded with 10,900gil, and another death.
Ish a pity such a productive day had to end on such a sour note. Feeling very bitter right now.
I want AF 2 and AF 3 tomorrow.
And don’t tell Typo to look on the "bright side" of anything.
You didn’t know about the coffers ? Damn…
It’s true that it wasn’t mentionned on Allakhazam…that’s why GameFAQs can come in help sometimes 😉
Oh, so it doesn’t phase you…Well, as I said, it doesn’t bother me this much and it hardly seems that is SE’s real intent…but it’s just like that, and seems like that. That’s annoying me.
And about the coffers, yeah, you need AF2 first, but after that you can get AF3,4 and 5 in any order, heck, even get them after AF6 ( but that requires your level 60 so…)
Good luck with your AF adventures, mine aren’t going to be before a while, might not even get the chance before going to the Bar…oh well. The highest levels in my LS ( they’re about half a dozen ) are in the late 50s now so they’re all doing it.
2 days of no-go.
Typo ish not getting trapped in the 50’s like so many before him.
I am convinced now (as if I weren’t already) that finding the help for AF ish more difficult than the actual quests. If Typo can’t find help, Typo will exp. No more waiting around on others besides the usual, *logon* /inv *wait in Jeuno for an hour or 2 for pt invite*.
Yay.
On a more positive note, it seems that me good reputation grows daily. People apparently "hear about Typo" and invite him into linkyshells, or offer him a generous donation of catsex in exchange for me skills in a pt.
Boo.
Speaking of pting, my good friend Guivre showed up again tonight in Kuftal, after Typo made a last-minute decision to exp instead of wasting time rain-dancing in Crawler’s. Maryanne and Meowse, 2 sexy catfriends of Typo’s invite me to pt in Cape Terrigan, a zone which ish best described as "Valkurm Dunes: Part 2", via Kuftal Tunnel.
A few minutes later, Typo and pt are in Jeuno, waiting for one last member to arrive so that we can all tele-altep together. BSTman Sarevok from CM ish already messing around in Kuftal at this point, when he suddenly loses his head to the angry wyvern god. He begins with the running commentary in the linkyshell. Basically he ish saying: "People are dying. Whoop, there goes another!", as he lay lifeless in the sand.
Typo alerts the pt to the situation. Having seen Guivre in action first-hand (or first-gigantic-claw, even >.>), I knew that if we went in there and reached a certain point, chances were we weren’t getting back out. Despite me warnings, the rest figured, "eh, we’ll be ok, Typo", and continued to Rabao.
Okie, fine. After worrying them (but not deterring them in any way) by letting them in on the fact that sneak/invis would not work, Typo sped ahead of the group to Rabao, and bird’d it to Kuftal to survey the situation. Since me buddy was still eating dirt somewhere in the middle of the zone, he was able to give Typo the approximate location of the monster, and I was able to navigate safely through half of the zone. Unfortunately, Ness, a whm also from CM came to Sarevok’s rescue a tad too early, and he tractored and raised Typo’s best chance of guiding the entire team through the area.
Okie, fine, I guess. The others make it, and Typo ish standing in probably the final stretch of "safe zone" as far as it concerns that thing prancing around the cave. I can see movement in the distance, and can identify what looks to be people shifting around. Typo sneaks himself (in order to pass the robber crabs and tunnel worms), and our group pld, who has caught Typo. We sprint towards the main chamber.
Before reaching said chamber there ish a fork in the path. Chamber ish to the right, and a path leading into darkness, left. The worst things seem to happen when you’re just minding your own business, at least in my life experience, and right there and then as Typo swings right, the poor soul who was following closely behind Typo was yanked right out of sight, into darkness.
It was hilarious, but petrifying, Typo thought, as I put on the auto-run and swung the camera around to reveal you-know-who trampling all over our pld, peering right down the path at everyone’s favorite taru blm. He then turns his back to me, and heads up to where Typo came from–the entrance. But I thought he couldn’t go up there??? "X3
Meowse ish gladly met up the path with a smiting right-hook to her little catchin before she could even realize what was coming at her. There goes our whm, and for that short moment, it seemed as if everyone would just get the idea, leave, and set a course for Boyahda or something. :3
Naa. A few minutes later, Typo safely awaits the arrival of the pt in Cape Terrigan, whilst chaos continues to ensue inside.
You are probably wondering by now why Typo hadn’t yet disbanded? Simple answer, silly:
pt + cats + Typo = stick around
Typo zones back into Kuftal just to watch everyone’s movements on the map. Well apparently the coast had cleared, so Meowse gets back up with reraise. She raises our pld and makes for the main room with the pld, war and rdm following behind her. Somehow our drk had gotten stranded in the middle of the zone, surrounded by worms and crabs, and unable to move without any form of sneak available. You generally don’t hear "Typo told you so." very often, but it happened as soon as the inseperable group of 4 inside the main chamber were picked off one after the other by the distinguished host of this lengthy variety show.
Meowse warps before she gets raped again.
Ifcent, silly subligar’d drk ish finally mauled by an angry crab who was sick and tired of hearing his pantsless legs tremble in fear.
Typo stands at the zone shaking his cute little adorable head.
Guivre ish still hungry.
Everyone else ish dead.
Fortunately? Okie, "fortunately", Typo notices that Ifcent died pretty close to Terrigan. So, without knowing where on earth the starving stalwart could be, I fearlessly track down our drk and raise him as thought it were, you know, common procedure, or something.
But he wouldn’t get up. This led to a short taunting session, as Typo threw his best threats at the fallen underwear’d one in an attempt to make him sit up for gawd’s sakes.
Well that got old quickly, and I figured he went afk for some odd reason. turning the cam I couldn’t see anything in the main chamber, so I headed in that direction to renew sneak. Isn’t it funny that as Typo ran, I just happened to turn the camera to check on Ifcent, only to see the grand fossil himself, Guivre soaring over the point where Typo just stood.
Don’t ever do this in such a situation:
Typo panics and actually types /ma Warp < me > [ENTER] instead of simply hitting me macro, and ish just barely able to make it out, avoiding certain one-hit-KO from Guivre, who was practically tripping over himself just to get to me.
I reach Port Jeuno and am disconnected for absolutely no reason.
*logon* This ish about 5 minutes later, and during the break, Ifcent had been raised, then dropped again, and our war actually had the presence of mind to go back to HP. Meowse gives up and warps, forcing the others to HP.
Well that was fun.
We tried accessing Terrigan from Gustav next, but there’s nothing but manticores and one big fat dead end from that side. Not good.
Our onry alternative was Boyahda, which would have been Typo’s first-choice location anyway. On our way to camp, a water elemental thought it would have been funny to ignore all the surrounding pts with mages blasting spells left and right, and cheapshot poor little Typo, who tried to sneak a pt member.
-1000 exp.
After being raised, and still in a weakened state, Typo runs in the direction of camp, which ish pretty close by, and ish wiped out a second time by the impossibly ranged area attack of a fucking-wucking rabbit.
-1000 exp.
Long story short, tonight was a tragicomedy. Of some sort.
We couldn’t fight crabs due to a multitude of pts being crowded in one room, so we went back near the entrance to chain spiders for lousy exp, and not a single spider web (7k each).
*sigh* Really, Typo likes M&M cats. They are fun, and sexy. Like cats. They’re supposed to be. They also do their jobs well. They are fun, efficient, sexy cats (FES cats, keke). But due to some freaky twist of fate, or poor humor on the part of a "playful" gm, everytime Typo ish near one of them, something outrageous happens. Long ago, it was lizards in Yhoator… Last week it was Aquarius, a crab nm in Boyahda… And then there was tonight…
I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry, seeing as the urge to pass out ish defeating both right now.
{See you again!}
Leveling in Cape Terrigan (it seems the only safe camp is in the tunnel near the end of the zone leading into the Valley of Sorrows) ish nice if there are only 2 pts at max. Typo doesn’t experience much lag on ps2, but even some of the JPs in Typo’s latest pt were being severely affected by the lag-inducing effects of 3 parties battling in close proximity. Our sc’s were being thrown-off some, but we were still making 3.5k an hour. Not bad~
But why do people insist on suddenly getting sleepy when Typo ish about to lv?
Stupid people.
Interesting thingy: Typo’s new dmg record: Freeze MB – 1250 – Robber Crab – Iceday
Interesting thingy: Guivre ish still around in Kuftal Tunnel. He ish just spawning, despawning and respawning, making random appearances and going on whimsical genocidal sprees daily.
What does it take to kill him ?:3
Windurst and San d’Oria are tied for first position, once again displaying the great staying-power of the ever bottom-feeding Bastokans! Kekeke, no offense, Typo doesn’t like elvaans either, but I can’t find anything nasty to say about their country. C’est la vie! ;3 They taught me a little about smithing, which ish what funds Typo right now. Silly giraffe-neck gillionaires.
/doze
Windurst and San d’Oria are tied for first position, once again displaying the great staying-power of the ever bottom-feeding Bastokans! Kekeke, no offense, Typo doesn’t like elvaans either, but I can’t find anything nasty to say about their country. C’est la vie! ;3 They taught me a little about smithing, which ish what funds Typo right now. Silly giraffe-neck gillionaires.
/doze
Bleh, if you took a look closely at the map, you would have seen that Bastok only has one region less than either other nation…It’s not like either of you are totally dominating right now.
As for me, I had to go to bed for work when I was 400 to level 46. These things tend to happen though. But the Black Mage that was in my party seriously need to learn how to dose her nuking…it was batshit insane. Good thing I had a refresher, because I had to spam Cure II between EVERY strike with Flash with my Provokes, while almost all the time just spamming Provoke with Flash at the beginning and just a few Cures suffice…In her case, I had to literally burn through my MP…even had to resort to Cover once in a while…that doesn’t happen often, I tell you :p
And don’t say it was because I’m not good enough…Most Paladins can’t protect a Tarutaru who burns through 700 MP like that….Man, it was hardly believable. Everyone in the party would tell her to slow down a bit. There is no need to nuke like that when you also have a Dark Knight and Dragoon. No wonder she said that she dies often and that most Paladins can’t protect her. She’s by far the biggest nuker I ever partied with. In fact, she even died once, at the very last fight when my replacement arrived. No wonder, she used up all her MP in this fight ( Do I need to remind you that she had about 700 MP ? ) while I was out of MP and neither Provoke, Cover,Flash or Invincible were available…She said she wanted to show off a bit…There went my "perfect" score for the evening lol
Tis strange, it seems like Bastok is generally in last place on every server. Wonder what the reason for that is.
Bleh, if you took a look closely at the map, you would have seen that Bastok only has one region less than either other nation…It’s not like either of you are totally dominating right now.
Ranking ish ranking. ;3
BTW, do you remember the name of that tarunuker?
Also, in the 50’s you may find yourself routinely burning through MP to keep that hate, and this time that’s even when everyone else ish doing their job properly. Even with 741 MP, Typo can be expected to end battles with around 300 normally, and around 150 – 200 at the end of chain 3 or 4, and practically running on empty if we try for chain 5~.
One of the pld’s saving graces in these levels ish the WS Spirit’s Within, which’ll shave a good 450+ off an enemy once you have full TP and most – all HP. Also also, thieves are neat. :3
700 mp in one fight is insane. ; ;
Tis strange, it seems like Bastok is generally in last place on every server. Wonder what the reason for that is.
My server, well, I haven’t been on since Saturday so I don’t know the current rankings, but Sandy was in last last time I checked. Windy stays in a nearly constant first now ^^
As for Bastok being last on most servers, I more or less talked about it with Typo earlier in this journal, there is no need to repeat the story.
Ah…yeah, I guess there was no Thief doing SATA on me, which would have helped…but I usually still don’t need that to keep hate on me…oh well.
As for Bastok being last on most servers, I more or less talked about it with Typo earlier in this journal, there is no need to repeat the story.
Fairy’s "n00b" city is Sandy =\
so your story is flawed in some ways! :O
Fairy’s "n00b" city is Sandy =\
so your story is flawed in some ways! :O
lol I did say "most" and not "all" so it is actually your statement that is flawed 😉
After going through the nothing that was yesterday (since Typo practically got nothing done), Typo enters Jeuno early this morning to be invited to pt in Teriggan, even before I could turn on me invite flaggy! Typo began his adventure today at lv57 (5,000/20,000), and along with a 58pld/war, 58rng/nin, 57brd/whm, 58drk/thf and 58whm/blm, chained his way all the way up to lv58 (5,500/20,000) in time for dinner. ^^
Typo disbands and logs, guiltless, since a replacement blm was provided. Pity all blms can’t be Typo though. "X3
I logged on several later in the same zone to be gobbled up immediately by pretty much the same pt, once again in need of Typomagic. What were these guys on? Typo does not know, but they didn’t seem as if they had slowed down a step from earlier "X3
In 3 hours, we gained approximately 12,000 exp, putting Typo @2,500>>59~!
32,500exp in one day…now that’s progress~! Enough to net Typo 1 level (and then some) per day throughout the 60’s! {Hmmm…}
Also, something told Typo to head back to the armor shop in Upper Jeuno, and talk to the galka who initiates the BLM AF3 quest. This time, he gives me the quest. The only thing that has changed about Typo since last time, ish that he has gone from lv54-58. Apparently you just need to be a certain level to get those AF gloves. Tomorrow (technically later today ._.) I will be helping ls friends who are going coffer key-hunting in Garlaige. Typo will get one for himself, again, and try the coffer…again, to test this theory.
Guivre ish still in Kuftal Tunnel.
/doze
Since reaching the mid-50s, gaining experience in travel, strength and wisdom, Typo has been thinking alot about what will happen once the next milestone ish reached. Originally I would have taken a hiatus on blm for a while, rest me mind for a bit, and dabble a bit in Beastmastery. After hearing of some of the adventures my buddly-wuddlys have been through, bst has become quite the curiously tempting job in Typo’s book. But something else has been gnawing on me mind that may prevent that from happening, at least for a while..
Once upon a time, I used to invision myself running around in full black mage atifact armour, performing good deeds for newbies, and even not-so-newbies, but weaklings nonetheless, and justaru feeling powerful. That vision ish close to becoming a reality, but suddenly, it just isn’t enough for Typo.
Typo was recently asked to join a HNM ls. Typo did not give a straight answer, but the offer ish still open. Lv 60 ish not enough for Typo to be able to perish at the jaws of death that are the Behemoth, and King Behemoth themselves, knowing that he and his alliance had a shot at victory.. What of Serket, Adamantois, Fafnir… I would at least like to be one step closer to being able to participate in such a gargantuan battle frenzy! "X3 Speaking of which…
What of Dynamis? Even after hearing so much of what it entails, and detail upon detail in battle strategy, Typo ish still very much in the dark about it. I want to experience it for myself.
What about Tu’lia, the dwelling of the Gods themselves.. What would Typo find in such a *largely unexplored* territory (*given that the vast minority of NA players even know what or where that is)?
I have come a long way, the clich???d rags-to-riches, taru, and worked hard to earn the respect of many taru, nontaru, cats and noncats, sillies and weaklings who look up to Typo for being unweak, all as a black mage. Typo ish not quite ready to put his preferred job on hold.
Rather than complain about what I will or may have to do before I can continue me journey to further my knowledge in the art of black magic, Typo will just list.
1* AF. First priority. At level 60 I will have more time to devote to things like key hunts, zone run-throughs and NM battling. Not to mention Typo’s enhanced usefullness, being at a higher level, and all. Typo ish still at the same stage as before. AF1 = yay, 2-6 = n/a.
2* Genkai 3 (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/quests.html?realm=&fquest=282)
3* Missions 5-1 (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/quests.html?realm=&fquest=152) and 5-2 (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/quests.html?realm=&fquest=153), perhaps.
4* Fish. Gil will be needed for optimal equipment, and new toys spells in the 60s.
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After all of this, Typo feels the need to impart some wisdom, or ‘wisdow’, as it were, and give my fellow Cerberus bretheren a, how you humes say…"heads up":
"Fishing" ish to "makes big money"
as
"Go to Kuftal" ish to "eat by Guivre."
I’m looking forward to seeing you in full artifact armour. I never seem to run into any black mages in AF on my server, let alone Typos in black mage artifact armour!
As for me, I’m kind of stuck right now, still need roughly 320k…at level 47, and no Genkai I items…Oh well 🙁
I’ve heard that beastmasters can solo the lvl 30 BCNM, which makes leveling beastmaster somewhat tempting- I for one would most certainly like a Magician’s earring
Not only that, a group of a mere 3 or 4 bsts can gather all their AF. BSTs for the most part can solo enemies that drop coffer keys in most areas. Sweet.
I’m looking forward to seeing you in full artifact armour. I never seem to run into any black mages in AF on my server, let alone Typos in black mage artifact armour!
Typo too ;3 Let’s hope Typo can figure out someway to get Typocam working again. ; ;
Originally posted by Evad D’Aragon
I hope you do know that mission 5-1 has a level cap of 50, Typo…
Not a problem.
As for me, I’m kind of stuck right now, still need roughly 320k…at level 47, and no Genkai I items…Oh well 🙁
At some point, everyone ish going to have to stop what they’re doing, and just find a way to make money. Hopefully fishing or mining or something can net you that 300k :3 As for genkai, do give Typo a shout when you’re ready to go. If I’m not doing anything, I’ll help.
Congratulate Typo.
Still 20,000 exp max from 60 >> 61 = good.
AF = bad. Typo got his coffer key in Garlaige Citadel last night, and with some friends, and some *trouble, made it behind gate #3 again.
From this side of Garlaige, there ish a zone leading outdoors to Sauromugue. You can bring your clay here to collecty one of the stone monumentarus for the quest. I fell asleep while standing outside, and woke up 4 hours later to find the entire #3 area to meself. Shortly afterwards, 7 lv60+’ers, along with a lv53 catmage strolled in, and just camped every last coffer spawn point.
Going to try again later. -.-
*Please, please, when you are travelling as a group, at least with Typo, and you need sneak/invisible recast, you need to AND WILL tell Typo that they are wearing off the VERY SECOND the first of the 3 warning messages shows itself. Don’t allow message number 2 or 3 to appear before alerting Typo, because chances are it won’t give us enough time to get to a safe spot to fix you up again. You get aggroed for this reason, Typo will kill you himself. >.>
Some people just let sneak/invis wear completely without a word, and then I see, "Idiot’s sneak effect wears off". Well, Idiot, you just got aggro and linked–Typo sits back and watches you die. Please use your common sense around Typo. I, as well as any other mage will appreciate it, taru. >.>
Originally posted by MogKnight
Fishie fishie fishie fishie…. I’m still at level 10 fishing. 🙁
._.
I’m not, on the other hand. Turns out mining might be less boring in itself, but having to wait for others to buy your ores is plain annoying , plus ores can’t stack, so you’re stuck with countless copper, tin and other not so worth it ore…Plus I realized I can’t really go mine quietly in Gusgen Mines unless I hit level 50 beforehand…
In short, money making sucks big time, having to raise money takes about the same time I could take to beat just about any other RPG. It is R-I-D-I-C-U-L-O-U-S. :p I know this is an MMORPG and that it is slow-paced, but still…
So off to Palborough Mines I go, I’ll try to raise money to about 30k to afford enough boiled crab to last me until that level 50.
At that point, unless Gusgen Mines proves as rewarding in mining as they said, I’m starting to be very tempted not to renew payment at the end of the month…Between the Bar that starts next week and the upcoming Star Ocean (which will go way second after the Bar, actually), I won’t have time for FFXI AT ALL. It truly sucks that my character would disappear 3 months after I suspend my account…damn it, all that work would go to waste but thing is, FFXI is not something I have enough time for in the coming months, that would only be the case when I’m done with all six exams and am on job training.
Anyway, I’ll see but…it’s really starting to smell like the end of the road for this Paladin here…:(
Well, I see you are having some…hum…"fun" :p
That was just…one of those days. They occur every now and then, just to break your momentum, forcing you to snatch it back and return to a life of productivity.
While Friday was silly, yesterday was positively sexy. Typo managed to kill two very large birds with one masterfully aimed stone.
Shortly after Typo made that vent-y post yesterday, I take to the coffer area again to find it more packed than before. Yet, when I sneak meself, and run down the long hall and back to the banishing gate, right before my very eyes ish a treasure coffer, hiding in the shadow of a wraith. There were at least 8 people in this area, and 2 of them had just come from this spot. Either the coffer spawned just as they turned their backs, or they just completely missed it!
With blink and stoneskin as my protectors, Typo makes a b-line for the coffer, opens it with haste, recieves the key item "Old Gauntlets" (!), gets aggroed, but ish still comfortably able to cast warp and escape the wrath of the wraith. Keke. Now, the only thing standing between Typo and AF gloves was Dark Spark, the nm bomb in Castle Zvahl Baileys. This means going to Xarcabard with a few high levels, or an alliance.
I knew it would be convenient for me to find my coffer early in the day, since I knew of at least 2 alliances planning on raiding Castle Zvahl on that same very day. It then occurred to Typo that he’d have to come back to Zvahl another time, in order to get another item, a Whine Celler Key for my AF2 (boots). How nifty would it be if Typo could grab it now?! Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to convince anyone from the alliance I joined later on to help. After all, it took long enough to plan everything, and as we would find later, even longer to fight our way through the entrance to make it to Dark Spark.
On our second attempt to cross the bridge to make it to the iron gate where DS spawns, we made it without aggroing the demons down below, and from there on our plan ran like clockwork. The key item "Shadow Flame" was an easy steal from poor Sparky.
After Typo handed out various Warp IIs, Primalcat shows up out of the blue. After letting her know that I still needed that key, she agreed to let Typo join her group and lot for the key, if it dropped. A few minutes later, Typo was sent an invite to cat’s alliance, and was delighted to lot for his key~ ^^ Good thing I was the only one who needed it…Typolot was 44 >.>
After all of this, I had all the items I needed, and required no further help from anyone to be able to complete my two AF quests! Later on I would stealthily make me own way through Castle Zvahl, and into the keep. The music ish scary, and again, I wish Typocam were functional, because even with PS2’s lower resolution, every inch of the Castle, the atmosphere, even the monsters themselves just screams "SCREENSHOTTY!" >.>
Typo returns to Jeuno, and then Windurst to obtain his Wizard’s Gloves and AF2, Wizard’s Sabots~!
Three pieces down, three to go.
I’m not sure how things will turn out for you, Dave, but I do hope that it won’t have to come down to you quitting, even though that seems like the most probable outcome..you’re such a busy guy!
Calling this game a "time sink" would really be an understatement, eh ?;3
My 2 cents on the mining bit for Evad… level blacksmith and goldsmith, bring a couple stacks of fire crystals, and synth ingots on site. 😉 Not only are ingots worth more, but they also stack, and that should reduce your raw ore load, meaning more time spent in the field mining, and more money per trip! 😀
3 Copper Ore + 1 Tin Ore + Fire Crystal = Bronze Ingot
(Blacksmith… skill caps at 2 if you use it to level the skill)
3 Copper Ore + 1 Zinc Ore + Fire Crystal = Brass Ingot
(Goldsmith.. skill caps at 9 i think if you use that recipe to level)
4 Iron Ore + Fire Crystal = Iron Ingot
(Blacksmith, skill caps at 20)
Any excess Tin or Zinc Ores you get you can buy copper for synthing real cheap in Bastok, from the guilds. (As in >20 gil per Copper Ore) 0.o 😀
And if you knew that already, sorry for preachin’… 🙁
Hope you can put that to a test before you have to go Evad 🙁
I look forward to the further adventures of Typotaru! 😀
Out of FFXI for a month. ; ;
Erci – Hume – Garuda Server
Level 25 WHM / 20 RDM / 13 BLM
Goldsmith 11? / Blacksmith 2
Evad, I understand where you’re coming from. I’ve been toying with quitting lately too. It seems like I never have time to do the fun things in the game, because I’m always busy with the boring ones (like farming). Something’s always managed to suck me back in though. I hope you stick with it though.
A LS buddy gave me an url where I found the map of all mining points for all mines…
With this in hand, I headed for Gusgen Mines, avoiding the third level, the only place where I still get aggroed… And going back and forth between the dozen of mining points on the other two levels…
The result ? 2 trips, 2 hours and a half…and about 45k richer 😉 Not too shabby for a first evening, if I say so myself. Just make sure those Darksteel and Gold ores keep on coming, and I’ll be fine lol
The bad part ? It still doesn’t change the fact that I’m stuck with Genkai I, and the Bar starts in less than 2 weeks. At that point, I might be so broke than even not having to pay the monthly fee might sound good…But I’ll see about that when the time comes.
And, Typo…if you want to show this much screenshots, do as I do :
Take your screenshot
Use your POL e-mail account to attach the files from your PS2 PlayOnline Navigator and send them to your PC e-mail address.
Et voil??? ! Not the best, but it works in the meantime.
I want to see Typo in AF armor, although I might get to live instead of by screenshots 🙂
*notes to himself* Bringing a Scroll of Instant Warp to Gusgen Mines is a very good idea…it so appears that you can actually get LOCKED in the Gusgen Mines…Having to log there because no one can open you the door is quite unpleasant…
On the bright side…I made 30k in 2 hours…Still not bad 🙂 Getting that 320k now seems very possible 🙂
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Enjoy the piccies taken with a crappy non-Typocam.
Casters Wand (not included in piccies), Wizard’s Sabots, Wizard’s Gloves, Wizard’s Robe. Four down, two to go~!
Typo’s luck has turned for the better in recent times, as the legendary artifact pieces are quickly being added to my standard attire, as though they were commonplace in the AH, or something. "X3
AF has been a different experience for Typo, compared to the many other landmarks and goals that I have set for myself. Although it was always on the cards to one day be decked out in full AF, it has never seemed that "special" to me, besides the looks, of course. But from the time I first stepped into me shiny new sabots, slipped on the gloves, and threw back me jerse…er, robey, Typo began to feel more and more like an actual bona fide wizard. ^^
Since reaching lv60, Typo has become quite the busy taru. /tells have gone through the roof…sometimes ish more than poor Typo can handle, but I have actually found it fun to be able to help out when I am needed. I feel powerful. :3
I was invited into Sairyu’s HNM ls, Mystic Knights, as well as AFalliance, whom Typo has to thank for me new gloves and robe.~ As I’m now a member of 5 active linkshells (Crescent Moon, AFalliance, Mystic Knights, We Stick Together, Windurst Spec Forces), none of which I wish to leave, Typo must try to divide his time somewhat evenly between them. Ish quite a happy-but-busy something to have alot of friends in multiple linkshells.
GMs are funny. Today, Typo got stuck in a pool in Yuhtunga. I called a GM, and had to wait in a line 140 calls long. Typo was able to solve his problem by hopping off his chocobo and Warping.
2 hours later, Mr. Friendly GM /tells me. In fact, he continues to insist he help Typo even after I say that everything ish okie. ._. I guess they really want to make sure that any issues with any one player are resolved before leaving their presence…
Friendly, though.
Ni ni~!
Fishie fishie fishie fishie…. I’m still at level 10 fishing. 🙁
damn you,i’m on level 9
They tried to get me bad side first. (
)
But what the hay, even me bad side ish adorable~ (
)!
Finally, some crazed tarutwin sisters couldn’t helpthemselves any longer. They threw down their cams, grabbed the nearest sexycats and demanded a Typohug, "or else the cats would getaru it!" As kinky as that looked and sounded, Typo decided not to take any chances, and treated them to a double Typohug (
) before retreating back to his moggiehouse, away from all the psychos…
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The following ish a collection of snaps (pre-full AF) taken with another cheap cam. Jeuno sells shitty cams. Had to modify most of them (including the ones above) in photoshop just to make them clear.
Typo spent a few hours in Qufim leveling his staff skill against Dancing Weapons, Giants, and Wights. Ish at 94 right now.
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Toraimarai Canal (
) ish an area very hidden away from the rest of the world. It ish actually very close to Windurst, deep inside the InHorutoto Ruins. The piccie ish of the very entrance to Toraimarai, at the three mage door.
Typo didn’t know for a long time that this place existed… In fact, not many people today even know it exists. This ish where the battle for BLM AF3 takes place. Apart from that, Typo can’t see many reasons why anyone would want to come here. Ever.
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The Shaman’s Cloak. Typo was recenelty able to round up some friends to help Typo banish the notorious antican monster Centurio X-I (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/bestiary.html?fmob=1608), and steal his cloak for me own use. It ish a very good alternative to me Wizard’s Coat and Petasos.
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Typo’s luck has been fluctuating from yay to omgshite! during the past week, but I have now accomplished almost everything I wanted to do before continuing on the road to level 70 BLM.
Complete Genkai 3 – check!
It was easy, but it took a long while. It ish basically a test of mental endurance, and how stealthy you can be. Sneak/invis silent oils/prism powders are a must for the majority of the quest, but if you’re good at it, you win. Sky Breaker. ^^
Complete AF Set – check!
There was nothing easy about any of this, well, except maybe getting the Wizard’s Coat (lv58). Davoi is a wonderful place. For some reason, Typo takes to the Orcish stronghold and rarely minds taking a trip there, even if it ish to keyhunt. Davoi coffer keys aren’t that rare–or perhaps they are, Typo was just lucky each and every time he’s been there.
The Monastic Cavern ish so small, you can’t miss a coffer pop there. The map is a cinch to navigate, and in the almost impossible case of aggro, you should be able to reach at least one of the 3 zones before the angry mob manages to lob off your head.
Typo’s trip for his coat was a fluke in the making, but in progress it was a quick in, quick out operation. I was literally just standing around in Jeuno contemplating logging, when Xrave sends me a /tell. Typo just couldn’t see himself keyhunting at that late hour, but he seemed desparate, and I didn’t want to turn a good old friend down. I agreed to go, throwing in the fact that Typo could use a key there too, but he would have the second one. (I really didn’t think we would get any, anyway)
We headed for Davoi, where Typo saw the Monastic Cavern for the first time since the mission: Magicite. But this part was different. This entrance would take us into the heart of Davoi, where the stronger breed of Orc can be found.
We set up camp on the north side of the bridge, and 3 orcs into our session, Xrave got his key. Typocutie was jealous, but optimistic, seeing as the key drop was easy. Thirty minutes later, no key, and our rdm suddenly has to leave. The team ish convinced they can’t win without a healer, even though none of the orcs can do any REAL damage to our higher-level JP allies. They contemplated disbanding before finally, Xrave found a whm replacement.
Three orcs into session, Typo gets his key.
One hour later, Typo gets his coffer.
That was easy, unlike the Tonban (pants). The Eldieme Necropolis ish honestly not as bad as people think. What makes it so "tough" is careless people. Typo has never been aggroed in here before, because I am smart, and very, very, very very careful. This is perhaps what blm seeking AF should fear the most. As easy as the following sounds, it actually took alot more effort than I thought it should, mostly due to incompetence on the part of others, and how difficult is is to get people to form such a group in the first place, unless they too need a key.
You must enter Eldieme from the southernmost entrance in Batallia (H-10 I think). There are several sets of gates/doors in this area, that form somewhat of a puzzle: Shiva’s gate, Leviathan’s and Titan’s are the ones Typo has encountered. Only one of these gates can be opened at a time, so you need to have a friend with you, or at least someone else in the area pull a switch for you if you want to cross into a different section.
The five coffer key parties I’ve participated in were mostly slow, except for one of them that actually set up renkei combinations and could kill Spriggans exceedingly fast with Fusion. Last night was Typo’s time to be lucky, lotting 993 on the second key of five that dropped for the session. Later on when I went for my coffer, I had to wait at Leviathan’s Gate, hoping someone would pull the right switch and open the door for me.
A few minutes later Typo as able to cross into the north section of the zone, and found the treasure coffer at the very last spawn point. The bomb that guards the coffer apparently detects magic, as well as sight, so while Typo was trying to renew a wearing invisible (casting it while it was still on, since it overlaps), I got aggro for the first time. Stoneskin allowed me to open the coffer without a problem, and I was forced to use manafont to Warp without interruption.
The Eldieme coffer ish probably the most difficult to get, seeing as there are several different zones, all split up throughout Batallia, and one of them in Beaucedine. It would be a much smarter move to camp one zone, rather than move from one to the next, as the latter could potentially take you hours.
For AF3 (Wizard’s Petasos, the hat) an alliance of at least 12 strong needs to form, to take on a Dark Elemental NM in Toraimarai Canal. The challenging parts of this quest include persuading people to help (even Typocutie has problems with this), and getting the entire alliance safely to the NM spawn point.
The blm ready for this battle must first examine two ???s to receive a couple quest-related cutscenes, then proceed to the NM spawn point and examine the third ??? to begin. The battle ish not worth mentioning, although the NM does have a ton of HP.
Too bad Typo had to do this twice, since the first time I was missing a key item.. ; ;
Obtain Shaman’s Cloak – check!
Recently, Typo was able to round up some friends to help Typo banish the notorious antican monster: Centurio X-I, and steal his cloak for me own use.
Obtain Moldavite Earring – still trying
Because Mysticmaker Profblix (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/bestiary.html?fmob=1554) ish so heavilly camped, and people usually have better things to do than help a taru. ; ; Good thing Typo just needs someone to tank it for him.
Rank 6 – still trying
Today was me opportunity to join my linkshell on their expedition, but Typo overslept by about 8 hours. :3
As you know, I just moved, and I don’t have Internet at my appartment, yet. Besides, the Bar really seems as time-consuming as it gets, I’m afraid progress will be very slow on my part.
Actually, I did know where the Toraimarai Canal is…I happened to bump into its entrance in the Horutoto ruins when I went to protect Mogknight and Balzac (LS member) on their quest for the Aspir scroll…
As for me, I’ve said it, I’m stuck at the same place, level 47, still need roughly 160k or so and still don’t have any genkai I items…Oh well 🙁 My goals will be very sparce now, just making at level 50 with all the planned upgrades for, say, mid-october, will actually be good :p I probably will have that little time to play lol But I won’t complain, I’m just going to enjoy the little I have even more, that’s all.
Typo likes to think that he can surface from his rented Moggiehouse in Jeuno every morning, and proceed to live a productive day, everyday. Unfortunately, we’re all familiar by now with how even the most thought-out plans can be de-railed easily by a number of simple unforseen factor factors… >.>
Mystic Knights, an HNM ls in the making, has been me ls of choice lately. It ish the most productive ls Typo has ever been a part of, and the community aspect of it isn’t lacking, either–neat, friendly people. The leaders are anxious to ‘roid everyone through the Zilart missions in order to give us all access to Tu’lia, also known as "Sky".
How exciting!
But our expeditions aren’t planned as thoroughly as they should be. Because of this, Typo has kept the last few days free per request of Sairyu, but very little has been done due to there being no scheduled time or place to meet.
In the last 5 days, we have infiltrated Castle Zvahl Baileys and defeated the Shadow Lord menace, and have only begun with the Zilarts, starting with the Temple of Ugilablahblahblah. Typo could have been making steps towards lvl70, but the distraction of missions has kept me at 62 for quite some time..
Seeing as the next 2 weeks will be the last of my ridiculously long vacation, the exp grind to 70 has become my priority. After all, Typo will still have time for Dynamis and HNMrape along with coursework, but definitely neither the time nor the patience to level from 6X-70 at 30k+ per level with university stepping into my life. At that level, Typo can contribute more to MK, anyway.
I’ll have to see what kind of a compromise I can make between missions and exp..
The leaders are anxious to ‘roid everyone through the Zilart missions in order to give us all access to Tu’lia, also known as "Sky".
I always assumed that the "Sky Acess" HNM LSs would request for before recruiting meant Rank 5 airship access…
this way makes slightly more sense.
I always assumed that the "Sky Acess" HNM LSs would request for before recruiting meant Rank 5 airship access…
this way makes slightly more sense.
Tu’lia is a floating island, so they call it "sky". Ish even in the auto-translater. "X3
At the moment, Typo has nothing more to say other than never, EVER again ask me to assist with mission 5-2 if you plan on taking more than 6 people.
LVL64 Typotaru.
Sometimes things just aren’t supposed to go your way. Ate 2 Raise IIs, a Raise, and a HP/XP loss today.
At the moment, Typo has nothing more to say other than never, EVER again ask me to assist with mission 5-2 if you plan on taking more than 6 people.
LVL64 Typotaru.
Heh, one would expect the others to have taken info on the missions to avoid problems such as these… In fact, one should have taken the info HIMSELF prior to starting the mission…anyway.
– 3000 EXP
64 >> @9,800 >> 65
Since I wanted to take a break from mining ( I only need my Belt and Collar for level 50 now 🙂 ) , I wanted to try to reach level 49.
However, my last two days of leveling were bad. Sure, I progressed, but so insanely slowly it’s almost crazy. We’re talking about roughly 1k exp per hour…:( Oh, well, I’m 2k into level 48 now.
Not only that, but I’m starting to grow quite less fond of my LS.
Apparently, it is asking too much to get help for Genkai I at level 48, at least according to them. They still refuse to lend me a hand until I reach 50. What’s a LS used for if you never get help from them ? "The time is not right", they say. Right, weren’t you just boring yourselves 30 minutes ago and come to Quicksand Caves just to raise your skills and parade in front of me ? Weren’t you saying how nice it is to have a LS that helps each other when you get help yet aren’t helping me "because the time is not right and/or I’m being impatient" ?
Not only that, but apparently it’s fun to keep bashing at me for my misadventures with the doors at Gusgen Mines. Apparently, the door system is not stupid and I’m complaining for nothing. Yeah, sure. A door system that locks players in and that makes you depend on others to get out is perfectly well-thought, yeah right.
And so a Bard in my LS keeps bashing at me with that and for fun, and when I answer back, those other High Levels defend HIM :p
*Sigh* I think my Pearlsack’s going straight into my Mog Safe for a while. I have better things to do than being a punching bag while I mine.
No further explaination necessary.
Originally posted by Evad D’Aragon
At least I’m not the only one with a stroke of bad luck.
Not exactly bad luck, Typo was, yet again, just a victim of someone else’s mistake. "X3
Originally posted by Evad D’Aragon Since I wanted to take a break from mining ( I only need my Belt and Collar for level 50 now 🙂 ) , I wanted to try to reach level 49.
However, my last two days of leveling were bad. Sure, I progressed, but so insanely slowly it’s almost crazy. We’re talking about roughly 1k exp per hour…:( Oh, well, I’m 2k into level 48 now.
You’d be surprised that even above lvl60, there are quite a few teams who can’t manage 3,000exp an hour. Typo knows he’s in for a long day when his first team ish a DRG + DRK SC, 2k/hr special. Not that Typo really has anything against those classes alone, ish just that that particular combination tends to make for slow DD overall. DRG are weak, DRK are blind, and they tend to make SCs in which the MB is the only damaging part. (Distortion is everyone’s favourite SC, but Skewer + Vorpal Scythe = pooey Distortion, followed by wonderfully impactful MB) X3
Originally posted by Evad D’Aragon Not only that, but I’m starting to grow quite less fond of my LS.
Apparently, it is asking too much to get help for Genkai I at level 48, at least according to them. They still refuse to lend me a hand until I reach 50. What’s a LS used for if you never get help from them ? "The time is not right", they say. Right, weren’t you just boring yourselves 30 minutes ago and come to Quicksand Caves just to raise your skills and parade in front of me ? Weren’t you saying how nice it is to have a LS that helps each other when you get help yet aren’t helping me "because the time is not right and/or I’m being impatient" ?
Sometimes, I’m glad I belong to more linkshells than I can handle. "X3
Originally posted by Evad D’Aragon Not only that, but apparently it’s fun to keep bashing at me for my misadventures with the doors at Gusgen Mines. Apparently, the door system is not stupid and I’m complaining for nothing. Yeah, sure. A door system that locks players in and that makes you depend on others to get out is perfectly well-thought, yeah right.
And so a Bard in my LS keeps bashing at me with that and for fun, and when I answer back, those other High Levels defend HIM :p
*Sigh* I think my Pearlsack’s going straight into my Mog Safe for a while. I have better things to do than being a punching bag while I mine.
Typo can’t help seeing this as them just ribbing you in the spirit of good fun~! But then, I don’t know the exact words they use, so ish just a guess. "X3
Meanwhile, as Typo continues his crafty catlicking capers, and peers into the palms of multiple paws and protruding claws poised to slap, pierce, and puncture me precious taruface, I finally reach level 65, and now need some kind of buffer to prevent myself from falling back a level….
It looks like Boyahda Tree may be me only option at this point. Exp in Onzozo has been severely cut for Typo from the time he hit 65, and I’m not sure where else could work.
I just hope the next pt ish not a bunch of nervous nellies~ :3
Typo can’t help seeing this as them just ribbing you in the spirit of good fun~! But then, I don’t know the exact words they use, so ish just a guess. "X3
Well, at first I was laughing too…but in time it gets a bit old you know. Especially when you die because some prick spawned Jugger Hecatomb in your face and you can’t run…BECAUSE OF THE DAMNED DOORS 🙁 Me and another Paladin bit the dust because of that Benb’s stupidity…But a White Mage from the other Paladin’s LS was already here and cast Raise II on us…-400 exp, thanks to mogenhancement as well.
Well, I did more or less settle my differences regarding this. I’m still disappointed they don’t seem to want to help me with Genkai though… But that may be the saddest part about being a Paladin. Not all are like us, jumping into helping others without so much as a second thought :p
But on the posivite things, I’m finally DONE with getting my upgrades for level 50. Well, technically I still owe 50k to someone ( My friendly Paladin Rival from San d’Oria, Daison )but can easily get that back. And I didn’t get Raise either…because, well, the patch is only Sept. 21th and the scroll costs only 6k at Selbina…Figures I can simply go get it by then :p
So I guess I’m back into full-time leveling for two levels…I’ll try getting myself ahead into the cap, just in case…Because, you know, I heard Genkai I is a pain :p That greatly explains why my LS doesn’t want to help me until I hit 50 🙁
After that, well, it’s another big break…I’m getting nearer to an exam and so the only week I can devote to gaming this month, I’ll devote it to Star Ocean : Till the End of Time 😉
As for you, good luck trying to get as far as you can before University. It IS as time consuming as it gets, trust me here 😉
HNM’s by definition are NM’s that have a job and a subjob and typically use a 2 hour (or more than one 2 hour). Also, after killing them they give you some sort of title.
Tu’lia gods however, give you no title. They only use one 2 hour and have an enspel that can’t be dispelled by normal means. Thier 2 hour is also typically potentially a lot more dectructive than any HNM.
HNM are also timed where as God’s are spawned by gathering items and trading them to a ???. Some HNM also have a second form that spawns randomly in the place of the normal HNM, God’s do not have any second form.
Anyway, looks like you are doing pretty well DL, keep it up. 😮
A few things, the HNM’s in Tu’lia arent really considered HNM, they are gods.
HNM’s by definition are NM’s that have a job and a subjob and typically use a 2 hour (or more than one 2 hour). Also, after killing them they give you some sort of title.
Tu’lia gods however, give you no title. They only use one 2 hour and have an enspel that can’t be dispelled by normal means. Thier 2 hour is also typically potentially a lot more dectructive than any HNM.
HNM are also timed where as God’s are spawned by gathering items and trading them to a ???. Some HNM also have a second form that spawns randomly in the place of the normal HNM, God’s do not have any second form.
Anyway, looks like you are doing pretty well DL, keep it up. 😮
Alot of people tend to just group all named monsters above a certain level (probably 70) into the HNM category, simply because they’re tougher than the run-of-the-mill NM.
Do you play this game ?:3
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Shiaara – Carbuncle
Job Levels: 74 WHM, 60 SMN, 40 BLM, other ones at various levels below 40.
Now we know ._.;
@_@;
?:3
Ish such a hassle to maintain piccies using the cruddy in-game camera, not to mention that they’re inherently of awful quality. Inspiration comes more easily with something to look at. Without Typocam, this journal ish often nothing more than a list of to-do’s and have-dones.
/sigh
Anyway, 13,000 into lvl67. Typo ish in a sour mood because of some stupid fuckass flies in Boyahda, who would wander off into the distance while Typo rested, and then SWARM BACK IN AND SIT RIGHT NEXT TO MY TARGET WHEN I WAS READY TO MAGIC BURST (WatergaIII >> Distortion / StonegaIII >> Darkness). Because of this, Typo was forced to stick with second-rate MBs such as BlizzardIII (650-700 dmg as opposed to 950 with WgaIII), and StoneIII, which ish just hilarious. The difference in damage could make or break chains 4 and 5. I would still try to fit in the ‘agas when the coast was clear.
Eventually they tricked me in such a way that they were out of range when Typo began chanting his StgaIII, but managed to race back towards us and be just within its casting range when it was too late to interrupt the spell.
Linked, death.
That battle was also planned to be the final battle of our exp session. I guess those flies were GMs playing a trick on Typo.
Fuck you.
Agh, situations like this are so embarrassing. I like to think that I’m beyond the stage of nonsense like this happening to me. Typo ish always the first one to caution others in the PT as to ANYTHING that could go wrong. I’m always in control of every situation, unless it ish just something that no one my level could handle without the occurrence of some inevitable mishap. When something like this happens, Typo’s good reputation gets a swift kick in the backside…at least, that’s how Typo feels. Meh.
Nothing more to say tonight. >.>;;;;;;;
Anyway, 13,000 into lvl67. Typo ish in a sour mood because of some stupid fuckass flies in Boyahda, who would wander off into the distance while Typo rested, and then SWARM BACK IN AND SIT RIGHT NEXT TO MY TARGET WHEN I WAS READY TO MAGIC BURST (WatergaIII >> Distortion / StonegaIII >> Darkness).
That sounded like me when some newb kept asking me questions. ;_;
*Makes many Insect Balls and bazaars them!*
Newbie>>>: What do Insect Balls do?
>>>Newbie: They’re used for fishing
Newbie>>>: How do you fish?
>>>Newbie: You get a rod and some bait like these insect balls
Newbie>>>: Do you have any money? I’m new to this
>>>Newbie: Yeah I do have money
Newbie>>>: How can you give me money?
>>>Newbie: I never said I’d give you money
Newbie>>>: Well, where can I get the rod and stuff?
>>>Newbie: At the auction house
Newbie>>>: How do you use the auction house?
>>>Newbie: Talk to some NPC over there, he’ll tell you
Newbie runs off…. tells me from over there
Newbie>>>: Hey, this is complicated, can you buy me a rod, I’ll pay you back later
There is where Moggie "idles"
Newbie>>>: Hey are you there?
Newbie>>>: Hello?
Newbie>>>: Talk dammit
Newbie>>>: Fuck you
Then moggie flies to San d’Oria with his nice Airship Pass!
Newbie>>>: Hey, did you buy that rod?
>>>Newbie: No, I never said I’d buy it
Newbie>>>: Oh, well some nice guy got me some money so I can buy it
>>>Newbie: Groovy.
Moggie gets off of airship
Newbie>>>: How do I fish?
>>>Newbie: Type /fish
Newbie>>>: /fish
>>>Newbie: No, just type /fish
Newbie>>>: It’s not working
>>>Newbie: Do you have bait?
Newbie>>>: No, I’ll buy some
Moggie goes to Sandy AH to get Flylure and walks to West Ron
Newbie>>>: Where can I get a bot?
>>>Newbie: Don’t be lazy
No responses, Moggies hits level 15 fishing then warps back to Windurst to do cooking stuff… until he walks by Windurst Woods
Newbie: echo Cast 1
Newbie: echo Cast 1
Newbie: echo Cast 1
Newbie: echo Cast 1
Newbie: echo Cast 1
Newbie: echo Cast 1
Newbie: echo Cast 1
Moggie sits and thinks… Moggie figured the Japanese will report him, Moggie goes to Typo’s journal and reads about fuckass or something… then Moggie types this all out.
My day yesterday was quite…weird. Had a lot a ups and downs.
In the past 2 days, I got into 2 japanese parties, both of them were rolling in the exp, but both of them disbanded rather abruptly, the second time leaving me at 1k from level 50…
Needless to say, I felt into quite a bind, who’d want to invite a Paladin that’s only 1k from level 50 with no Genkai items ?
So I sat, raised the flag, put up a nice comment saying I welcome both ENG and JPN parties…
After an hour, no invite. I like to think I have a good reputation that garantees me fast invites when I’m available but recently only Japanese players seems to invite me in under a minute…oh well..
So, that’s when the luck turned up. For some odd reason, the very same Samurai in my LS who systematically refused to help me with Genkai when I was just ONE level lower apparently wanted to help. Apparently, "the time was right now". And so he (Level 62 Samurai named Jago) and another LS member (Level 62 White Mage named Laurewen) came to my help. Thinking I’d just start with the mold, Jago said "Let’s have some fun with Liches"…so we went to Eldieme Necropolis.
Apparently, getting the Papyrus is the hardest, but this time luck was with me, I got it in 15 minutes. But since we agreed to team up with another 3 persons , with only one of them needing the Papyrus, we kept fighting Liches. However 3 hours later, no drop (Boy was I glad I rolled a 991 on it 😛 ) and Jago, Laurewen and I were too hungry, so we bid farewell.
An hour later, when I logged, I still wasn’t getting invites. 30 minutes later, two guys send me a tell, one looking for the mold, the other for the coal. Since the one for the coal talked to me earlier, I joined a party of four in which we all needed it. So, I recruited my old friend Cayo (Level 52 WHM), the very first person I met in the game and with who I share many adventures, as well as Thrillagorilla ( Level 60+ Dark Knight ) who’s marrying our LS leader soon. With Thrillagorilla’s help, we made quick work of the Explosures, and so merely 15 minutes later we got 4 bomb coals. 2 items down, one to go.
That’s when luck turned to the worst, though. Cayo agreed to help me get my mold, but trying to form a party for it proved painful, as it took nearly 45 minutes just to get a DRK and BLM. And then we realized we couldn’t chain them after fighting one, so luckily a newly met RDM friend just got available and also needed the mold. So while we were fighting I finally got level 50 and put on my beautiful Irom Musketeer Armor, boy do I look awesome now.
However, tanking Exorays is a Paladin’s nightmare. Being both paralyzed and silenced is crippling, no less. You can’t cast Flash, and your Provoke will fail half the time but still leave you with the 30 second recast time. Plus they have a special attack that can still hit me for around 650 HP, resulting in an abrupt death if you’re even slightly careless, which can and WILL happen.
So, the result ? 4 hours later, I built a party that got 4 molds ( The BLM was replaced by a THF later on ) but I lost ALL the lots, I died 3 times, so I didn’t get the mold but everyone in the party that I took AN HOUR to build got it…
So I put an nice /lsmes about it. Very sarcastic one.
Man, I HATE Genkai I.
lol It seems that both of you have been busy this week-end, taking favor of the long week-end huh…
My day yesterday was quite…weird. Had a lot a ups and downs.
In the past 2 days, I got into 2 japanese parties, both of them were rolling in the exp, but both of them disbanded rather abruptly, the second time leaving me at 1k from level 50…
Needless to say, I felt into quite a bind, who’d want to invite a Paladin that’s only 1k from level 50 with no Genkai items ?
So I sat, raised the flag, put up a nice comment saying I welcome both ENG and JPN parties…
After an hour, no invite. I like to think I have a good reputation that garantees me fast invites when I’m available but recently only Japanese players seems to invite me in under a minute…oh well..
So, that’s when the luck turned up. For some odd reason, the very same Samurai in my LS who systematically refused to help me with Genkai when I was just ONE level lower apparently wanted to help. Apparently, "the time was right now". And so he (Level 62 Samurai named Jago) and another LS member (Level 62 White Mage named Laurewen) came to my help. Thinking I’d just start with the mold, Jago said "Let’s have some fun with Liches"…so we went to Eldieme Necropolis.
Apparently, getting the Papyrus is the hardest, but this time luck was with me, I got it in 15 minutes. But since we agreed to team up with another 3 persons , with only one of them needing the Papyrus, we kept fighting Liches. However 3 hours later, no drop (Boy was I glad I rolled a 991 on it 😛 ) and Jago, Laurewen and I were too hungry, so we bid farewell.
An hour later, when I logged, I still wasn’t getting invites. 30 minutes later, two guys send me a tell, one looking for the mold, the other for the coal. Since the one for the coal talked to me earlier, I joined a party of four in which we all needed it. So, I recruited my old friend Cayo (Level 52 WHM), the very first person I met in the game and with who I share many adventures, as well as Thrillagorilla ( Level 60+ Dark Knight ) who’s marrying our LS leader soon. With Thrillagorilla’s help, we made quick work of the Explosures, and so merely 15 minutes later we got 4 bomb coals. 2 items down, one to go.
That’s when luck turned to the worst, though. Cayo agreed to help me get my mold, but trying to form a party for it proved painful, as it took nearly 45 minutes just to get a DRK and BLM. And then we realized we couldn’t chain them after fighting one, so luckily a newly met RDM friend just got available and also needed the mold. So while we were fighting I finally got level 50 and put on my beautiful Irom Musketeer Armor, boy do I look awesome now.
However, tanking Exorays is a Paladin’s nightmare. Being both paralyzed and silenced is crippling, no less. You can’t cast Flash, and your Provoke will fail half the time but still leave you with the 30 second recast time. Plus they have a special attack that can still hit me for around 650 HP, resulting in an abrupt death if you’re even slightly careless, which can and WILL happen.
So, the result ? 4 hours later, I built a party that got 4 molds ( The BLM was replaced by a THF later on ) but I lost ALL the lots, I died 3 times, so I didn’t get the mold but everyone in the party that I took AN HOUR to build got it…
So I put an nice /lsmes about it. Very sarcastic one.
Man, I HATE Genkai I.
You "hate" Genkai 1 ?:3 That ish probably one of the most tame stories Typo has ever heard about that quest. You know there are people out there who wait for weeks (I even know one who waited almost a month for papyrus) just to get the infamously elusive ancient papyrus. Typo’s papyrus hunt took a couple weeks in total.
This sort of thing happens because so few people are willing to help that most of the time, the only way you’ll find yourself in the hunt for these items is if you’re in a PT (or alliance) FULL of people who need the same thing. Oftentimes people invite their friends to join in on these alliances after a few hours have passed, and sometimes they’ll end up with their reward before you do, since they were given the privilege of lotting on the all-important drop with you, despite the fact that you’ve been there times longer.
As frustrating as it was for Typo, I can still understand why so many people backed out of helping me–the quest ish just annoying. Most people know that they won’t be seeing any drop before several hours of mob gutting (except for coal, which ish an easy, common drop), and they have better things to do with their time than waste it fighting lower level enemies endlessly without reward. Typo himself ish perfectly capable of helping with g1, but for reasons stated above, good luck getting a positive answer, unless it’s coal. >.> I’m not selfish, and I love to help people, but it’s really, really too much. It only gets worse with AF, and good luck with that, too.
Typo ish happy for your good luck, and thinks you better pray to your Altana that it continues. :3
You "hate" Genkai 1 ?:3 That ish probably one of the most tame stories Typo has ever heard about that quest. You know there are people out there who wait for weeks (I even know one who waited almost a month for papyrus) just to get the infamously elusive ancient papyrus. Typo’s papyrus hunt took a couple weeks in total.
This sort of thing happens because so few people are willing to help that most of the time, the only way you’ll find yourself in the hunt for these items is if you’re in a PT (or alliance) FULL of people who need the same thing. Oftentimes people invite their friends to join in on these alliances after a few hours have passed, and sometimes they’ll end up with their reward before you do, since they were given the privilege of lotting on the all-important drop with you, despite the fact that you’ve been there times longer.
As frustrating as it was for Typo, I can still understand why so many people backed out of helping me–the quest ish just annoying. Most people know that they won’t be seeing any drop before several hours of mob gutting (except for coal, which ish an easy, common drop), and they have better things to do with their time than waste it fighting lower level enemies endlessly without reward. Typo himself ish perfectly capable of helping with g1, but for reasons stated above, good luck getting a positive answer, unless it’s coal. >.> I’m not selfish, and I love to help people, but it’s really, really too much. It only gets worse with AF, and good luck with that, too.
Typo ish happy for your good luck, and thinks you better pray to your Altana that it continues. :3
lol Sorry that you didn’t like my story.
But I perfectly agree on the annoying part, so far the only quest I hated that much was the chocobo quest. And what you said about why it’s annoying is very true. No one wants to help you with that, and then you end up having to do it with a party and/or alliance. It’s true I got lucky with the Papyrus, I admit. Just for that most people will tell me not to complain. When I was in Eldieme Necropolis I told Jago I understood why he didn’t want to help me when I was 48 :p
I’m hoping my LS will give me a hand with AF as well, but of course I won’t be asking them like 4 levels too early, I’ll ask them when I’m eligible to equip the items, not before that, for sure. Or I’ll try shouting in Jeuno. We’ll see. Anyhow, I can level until 54 without much problem, as it is at this point I need to upgrade part of my equipment again. But of course first I’ll need the mold. So as much as I don’t have to tank them it’s easy, just long. But that probably won’t happen, unless I’m getting lucky again.
And, well, now I know who NOT to ask help for the mold :p At least you’re warning me in advance lol
http://www.softpicks.net/software/Clipper-6758.htm
It basically just takes over your print screen button and let’s you take high quality screenshots of whatevers on the screen at the time. It’s really good, I think.. there are other programs but this one is about the most easy, clean, simple ones you can get.
Cheers.
For taking decent screenshots I just use Clipper
http://www.softpicks.net/software/Clipper-6758.htm
It basically just takes over your print screen button and let’s you take high quality screenshots of whatevers on the screen at the time. It’s really good, I think.. there are other programs but this one is about the most easy, clean, simple ones you can get.
Cheers.
Typo uses Fraps (http://fraps.com). Well, at least I used to. Heard about Clipper and a few others, but I’m already familiar with Fraps, so I stick with it~ Maybe Typo will try something new once PC becomes unfrigged.
I haven’t been able to play PC version in several months now. I’ve been on PS2 all this time.
BTW where have you been?
Typo-taru!~ Minime told me about your journal I came as soon as I could and read the whole thing is one night. I loved it! <(^_^)^ I found some pictures in my screenshots that made me think of you. I’ll try to send them to you but I’m not too computery <(>.>)> Typo ish so cool. And spend some more time in CM Typo! We love you the most (>^-^)> Hope to hear more Typo Tails soon. Oh, I almost forgot, that Divine Breastplate does look better on you than anyone else <(^_~)<
Typo ish being discovered. "X3 I hope things went well for you with Dark Spark~! Congrats again on genkai 2.
And ja, Typo looks sexy in everything. ;o
Hey Typo, I didn’t know you have such an interesting post here until Krisof told me…
BTW where have you been?
All over the place ._. Typo ish really in more linkyshells than he can keep up with. There was a time when I would be able to keep up with 4 or 5, but the 7 of today are simply too much. Typo will not leave CM, so don’t worry. :3
LOL I guess it’s hard to keep up with LSs when ur popular ^^
Curiously. People like licking, no matter how much they deny it. :3
Typo needs to make more frequent updates. Hold me to that promise, and give Typo a nudge if I ever ever lag from posting here again without good reason. :3
Ish 4:30AM so no ‘real’ update here, Typojournal. Tomorrow, after me Advanced Magic for Class AAA Mid-High-Tier Wizards class will be the ‘real’ one. I miss you, Typocam!
I’ve read the whole thing and God does it bring back memories 😉 I felt like crying when I saw that old pic of Kitiara (my old Thiefy mentor). People long gone, immortalized by the, erm… IMMORTAL Typotaru! So odd reading this and knowing exactly what you’re talking about and who (I got a mention :D). Felt like I was wandering around in that story, somewhere in the shadow of the greataru taru.
Well anyway, thanx for the journal its been the only thing that has made these multiple server maintinences bareable. Hope to see ya soon Typo 😉
Typo has been up to so much lately, that it actually feels as if I’ve been on the move doing one big quest all this time…if that makes any sense. This taru-waru-taru-taru has been a beastman mass-murderer for quite a while…beginning to smell like it, too >.> …or ish that the smell of fishy cattail? {Excitement}!
You may notaru have noticed from reading Typojournal, but I have managed to pace meself through the 60’s fairly well. Apparently abnormally well, according to the reactions of anyone who actually monitored my progress throughout the weeks. After reaching 60, Typo would not stick on any one level for any longer than 2 days. That ish to say, Typo would gain a level every two days. Even more specifically, an average day would see me gain around 30,000 exp comfortably. That not normal ?:3 I guess not, since Typo has caught up to, and now have a good level or 3 on a few people who have been exping as frantically, just not as quickly as moi. ;3
The best of me parties was a 5 BLM PT in King Ramperre’s Tomb. Mithra /spank me if I spelled that wrong. It was the first time Typo ever saw 7k exp an hour, and the only reason it wasn’t 8 or 9k was because our refresher was a RDM rather than a BRD, who would have been able to keep us under constant refresh.
Firaga III (lvl69) ish not only aesthetically explosive candy, but simililarly satisfying in terms of damage…that thing ish an easy 800-900 standard on any given form of undead. Resists happen every now and again for around 370-500, but usually, one cast from each BLM equals an almost dead mob, leaving one of us the pleasure of finishing it off with a simple dose of Fire III. 200+ exp for every 20 second fight, chain 6ing for 300 exp.
Typo love you, black magic…if only you were a kitty… ; ;
So ja, exp has been speedy, and for the general balance actually enjoyable, since most of me PTs have been able to show and maintain the sort of competence that you’d expect from people of this level.
LS-wise, MK has taken to Simurgh, our starter HNM, if you will, taru. Typo was unable to participate in the first couple Simurgh sessions, but last week after maintenance was me first taste of HNM bloodrush. It soon wore off after the initial rush to Rolanberry Fields through CN (especially racing against other LS’s to beat them to the punch), only to find that, as big a bird as it ish, Big Bird himself could probably prove more threatening. :3
The fact that we had no problems dealing with him ish a good thing. We’re no Kirin Captivators, but we have graduated to a higher level, at least, and that’s what ish important. All HNM LS’s will have gone through this stage, and surely they all felt the same excitement knowing that they’re capable of this kind of organization and "skill", and that they’ll only improve from here. Good job, MK~! /praise
But what confuses me ish our Zilart Mission "schedule", because it seems that lately we’ve been doing ZM’X’ whenever, instead of at the specified time. Oh well, another 26k exp, and Typo will be 12k into lvl70, which ish me goal before I put an end to exp for a few weeks. Maybe then Typo can concentrate more on ZMs and gain sky access in the process.
I do plan to be available to help everyone that I can, taru, once Typo reaches that 12k lvl70 saftey zone, so don’t be afraid to ask for anything after that time.
Huge picture update tomorrow ._.;;;
Boy, I hate when the game decides that I won’t be able to log anymore, smack when your new High Level LS decided to help you with AF2 (Hey, they offered, I wasn’t even going to ask until level 52, and my normal LS was going to help me with it anyway).
So you bloodport in Sandy to meet them faster in Jeuno after doing the first part…but then, when you want to return to Home Point,you see "Downloading date" for minutes…then connection lost.
So, I tried to get back,would always refuse with my main but only allowed my mule in. So I had to send an apologizing message for making them wait.
Makes you give them a very nice first impression…sheesh.
Anything, as in coffer hunts ? lol
Oui. Anything.
But as it has been for the past several days, lvl69 (and what a number to be stuck on ._.;;) just will not go away! So many distractions…so many people able to sweet-talk Typo into focusing his attention elsewhere… AF quests, NM fights, even a desperate request today for Typo to help with BC40. I explained how it has been a long while since Typo has been active as a white mage, and it may not be in the best interest of the group to put their lives in my hands in such a critical situation. Also, seeing as I long since gave up on leveling whm beyond 40, Typo decided not to bother with Haste, or Shellra II, or Erase, and a few other key spells. Also also, the only equipment I own ish blm exclusive.
Still, I was encouraged to come along, and was even lent some clothes to sport during the disaster. I mean BCNM. We failed twice, because each time the brd was having trouble sleeping mandies, and it didn’t help that Typo was admittedly drawing hate from excessive cures.
There’s no doubt now that whm just isn’t my style ._. There ish no aggression, no flair, little control over emergency situations other than a big fat panic button called Benediction. Typo needs to be firmly in control…not by making everyone’s boo-boos better, but by taking the enemy off their feet before they can do the same to us. That ish what Typo feels comfortable doing. "X3
Anyway, 19k exp before me goal ish reached, so perhaps the exp grind will end tomorrow. Z5 completed, so no more worries about missing headstones.
I wanted a nifty piccy update today, but it’s just too many images this time to dump into imageshack… Need to get FFS’s image server back up! ;3
And if I need you for something, I’ll try asking, but I know you’re a busy Taru.
My leveling luck has been quite disastrous recently. Either I wait on an invite for hours and end up helping others instead ( Like when I escorted Heather to Bastok ) or when I finally get a party, exp sucks either because the party is short-lived or one member leaves without notice all the time, which gives a result of not even 2k exp in over 2 hours…damn. I guess this is the "payback" for supposedly having better luck with Genkai I than others :p lol
And, actually, my LS recruited me for a future BCNM40 session, but we still need a BLM, so far there’s me, a SAM,BRD and WHM. Maybe you’d be interested ?
The anticans of Zilart mission 6, however, think the 70’s are a stinky, hippy-clad weedfest, and prefer the even more retro, black and white era that ish the 60’s.
Fortunately one of the sexycat whm was able to supply Raise III…all 4 times, so I only need 800 exp to recover me precious level.
And for the record, when on ZM6, if someone asks, "Which one is the ranger?", the response, "The one with the bow on its back." ish so not kosher. ;3
Dave, Typo would like to be included in BC40 in the form of a blm, but I just can’t see my functionality in such a battle…I could only see myself grabbing hate easily, and if I didn’t, I’d probably be holding back, not doing adequate damage anyway. "X3
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Here ish a piccie journal of the past few weeks. Some of them came out crappy and dark, but that’s because it was the crappy SEcam, and not Typocam. /sulk
Jeunofun
Lvl1 job + poison potion = big crowd, hours of fun~!
Catsex
Noncatsex
/sit Party~
Fungus Hatties~
Kristof had some piccies to share~ He has good hattaste!
Korrigan
And you thought all mandragoras were "cute".
Shadow Dragon
He’s really the only entertainment in Xarcabard when you’re bored…
Simurgh
Typo had to get a little closer to the action than he normally would in a serious battle. Such ish the life of a cameraman, taru!
Zilart Mission 4: Temple of Uggalepih
Everyone’s nightmare mission. Z1-3 consist of nothing but conversation, and take a total of 20 minutes to complete. Then they throw this at you.
{Death} {Can I have it?} {Yes please}
Castle Zvahl
The highest level, just outside the throne room. We were preparing to mug the Shadow Lord, and take all his expensive paintings to auction off in Jeuno.
Tarusquad: The BLM (+1 RDM) PT~
An excellent PT. The best. 7,000 experience points an hour doesn’t lie.
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Typo’s current exp goal: 12,800
I’m off~!
I even know a few of these guys, like Mingto and Loualie, they’re Quebecers and sometimes drop by LaCasteOubliee, my main LS.
Actually, you’d still help a bit with BC40, Typo. Just in case the Bard can’t sleep, you can still Elemental Seal/Sleep as well, which can make us gain some time and even your holding back in nuking greatly contributes to damage. I mean, so far we only have PLD,SAM,WHM and BRD, so we need more offense, in which case a BLM is always welcome. We’d probably need a DRK,THF or RNG to complete the party, however. But I trust all the others that are already in. They know what they have to do, and so we should have no problem winning.
As for me, I have some good and bad news. The good news is that I got my Gallant Leggings (AF boots), the bad news is that I still CAN’T get some invite to a party that lasts more than an half an hour before someone logs and then everything goes wrong. Will I ever hit level 52 and wear those marvelous boots ? :p
Perhaps this made us lose our focus, causing us to also lose the pull to a rival LS.
I’m sorry, MK. I still can’t get that image out of my head. I never would have imagined Typo as being the cause of such a disaster, but it happened, as these things sometimes do. If it ever does occur again, Typo will not be the culprit.
After sulking over this for the remainder of the day, Typo realized that he ish financially ruined, what with fishing being unjustly nerfed.
Alot to think about, and alot to do.
Another big piccie update coming tomorrow, including some easter eggs from {Sky}. Please to forgive Typo’s lack of enthusiasm at this point in time.
In the meantime, a handful of snaps from Dragon’s Aery.
You made …HALF your LS die …simply because you dropped your controller ???
…
*Notes to himself* I will TAPE that damn controller on my hands, then :p
Wow, I’m so sorry it happened to you, I guess that explained why you totally ignored me yesterday.
And here I was hoping to ask you to help me with a certain hellish task in Eldieme Necropolis lol…Forget it, then, I’d rather not 🙁 I’ll just get enough money to afford my 2 Chrysoberyl Rings first, then try hitting 54 and maybe even do Genkai II…as for the AF gloves, I just have to hope I get the appropriate help.
Adamantoise ish one lousy turtle, and times easier than Simurgh. Was it even attacking at all? Can Typo even consider what took place as a "battle" ._.? Actarully, it took as few as 6 people to win. Typo wasn’t really needed there at all, but I enjoyed trying taru race through Kuftal and Cape Terrigan before Sairyu and the others finished dismantling it. It was actually harder taking care of the Peryton and Velociraptor links than it was to defeat the turtle. Poor baby.
No drop, just adaman ore, which was free lotted, and of course Typo never had a chance in hell of winning. -.-
Serket, like Fafnir the other night, was designed to be a test for our budding HNM pioneers. The cheeky scorpy waited until the very last, and Typo literally means the very last minute of the 3-hr window to pop, and we pulled him easily.
It was cake. Here’s probably one of the game’s most recognized HNMs (due to the fact that newbies and vets alike are familiar with it), and one with a prominent reputation of being "feared". The old days where it was frantically printed all over the web that ONLY very well-disciplined, lvl70+ alliances could triumph over the mammoth scorpion, are…
…okie, well Typo was going to finish that with "dead", but the factaru ish, there are still some people who fervently believe this, and I was one of them, until our inexperienced alliance, based mostly on lvl65- took him apart with great ease. Not taking anything away from us–for only our 4th ever HNM (I think, and not counting the multiple scrimages with Simurgh), we did a masterful job in keeping everyone as healthy as possible, despite Serket’s desparate area spams.
Our problem came from a few knuckleheadtarus who thought it would be clever to train some undead to the middle and watch them take us out one-by-one. We all have a good idea of who it was, and you know who you are. Typo would just like you to know that our Venomous Claw and Serket Shield are doing quite nicely, thankie. Next time, we’ll get the ring, just to further spite you.
We’re taking small steps forward, and day by day we’re improving. There’s still alot for us to learn, and experience will teach us exactly what it taughtaru the more established HNM LS’s of today that came before us.
Aside from HNM, our Zilarts have been going fairly smoothly, with, methinks ish the majority of the LS now able to access Tu’lia. :3 I don’taru want to spoil the story for anyone reading, so I’ll just say this: knowing what I know about FFXI’s major plot up to this point, you can’t tell me that an MMORPG cannot have a non-linear and deep storyline, with several underlaying sub-plots that help to guide it through to the ‘epic’ scale. The world of Vana’diel could be a book, and from some of the theories Typo has read, it already ish. "X3
Meanwhile, Typo ish still broke, and still thinking about where his next meal will come from. Hmm. Yesh, still thinking. *belly grumble*
Well, {you can have this}. Ish not food, but it still taste good, Typo promise~!
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?: Zi’tah
Travel north, and you arrive at:
Something New~: Ru’Avitau Shrine
At this point, you taru en route to…
Hall of the Gods
Which ish the eventual stairway to…
Tu’lia
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In other news:
Tarusquad: Part Deux~
Too bad the duration of this party didn’t exceed the staying time of your average pie.
Oooooh, pie… *belly grumble*
I did some of my own, as I went into Movalpolos for about 30 minutes. I now know where to enter it from 2 places, one in North Gustaberg, the other into Gusgen Mines…in fact, if I’d written some marker in my excitement I could now use Movalpolos as a shortcut to get into the Gusgen Mines.
And so I had my first meeting with Moblins and Bugbears…
I strongly advise you don’t go alone, though. Even the weakest mobs in Oldton Movalpolos can compare to the strongest mobs in Gusgen Mines…so that means even a 53 PLD is in danger there on his own.
However, Typo could probably venture a bit in Newton Movalpolos…So if you need to know how to get there, send me a tell, I’ll tell you 😉
I also got enough money for my 2 Chrysoberyl Rings…now if I could only get my AF gloves…:(
nico-wico
And since Friday, Typo’s only actions have been to help Evad with part of his AF, and seek and destroy Mysticmaker Profblix for me moldavite earring. 7 kills and no drop. Fun.
Sadly, this ish all Typo will be up to until I claim my prize. >.-;;
Hau Nicotaru~! ^^ Typo ish glad taru see you still around! I will gladly let CM know that Nico ish still pulling tails when I get the chance tomorrow. ^^
I owe big time for the Gallant Gauntlets, thanks again !
I would have liked to maybe get my Coronet in Garlaige as well, but that will have to wait next week.
Indeed, I’m taking a week off FFXI, I’m preparing for an exam.
Sigh…
And here I wanted to do Genkai II as well lol Oh well.
Typo ??? 0
Typo grows tired of this silly gobbygame.
Best of luck on exams, Dave~
He made Typo work for it. I almost soloed him before Sairyu made it down to finish it. "X3 Of course, I was almost completely spent for MP.
Profblix seemingly can’t cast ancient magic if he uses Manafont. Not that I have any evidence to back that theory, it’s just a trend I’ve noticed through all the 8763578643536 times we’ve collided.
Now I’m no longer a gimp. Thanks for reminding Typo, Kyrin. "X3
It would be nice to have me BLM testimony by tomorrow. I believe I can handle Maat now, with a much higher enfeebling skill, elemental torque, and Typo’s newly acquired moldavite earringy~.
I believe I can handle Maat now, with a much higher enfeebling skill, elemental torque, and Typo’s newly acquired moldavite earringy~.
Ah, all the physical tools in toe, and yet, when it happened Typo realized he wasn’t fully mentarully prepared. Last thing I expected from Maat was for him to run right in and punch me to death after I made me first move >.> … and by "run", Typo means, "move so quickly towards me you could practically call it teleporting into my face." Not even a chance to use elemental seal. I froze out of sheer surprise and got KO’ed.
I still wonder what I could have done, if anything. Probably nothing. ._. In any case, Typo ish not haunted by visions of his own tarublood being spilled at the hands of the Geriatric Warrior of Death himself.
Instead, I think taking a rest from my current self will do me alot of good. Continuous use of magic isn’taru healthy for one’s physical state. The amount of mental concentration required to even prepare a spell with the complexity and force of your average tier III elemental ish draining. But this can be remedied with a simple good night’s rest. However, the impact said force has on one’s body ish brutally unforgiving. Even the largest galka feels the long-term effects of being a full-time mage in his later years~
The final test for Typo as a black mage ish to defeat Maat, and although I know that my persistance will win in the end…I’m just not that interested. But it would be nice to get the MaatMonkey off me back before I start charming and taming the very creatures of Vana’diel, eh ?:3
We’ll see what happens in the next few days. :3
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Left-over screenies from SEcam. Some had to be Typoshopped for clarity. Die SEcam.
Ifrit’s Cauldron
Pretty volcano~ Not even Quake could shake the earth with the same determined fury of Ifrit’s Cauldron. How do you mine here without stabbing your own foot ?X3
Our quest was actually to seek and eliminate the Bomb Queen for her ring, a coveted treasure, especially for those who protect us in the front lines~.
Bomb Queen
Typo will admitaru, the drop (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=3768)
ish quite the prize. A treasure indeed!
But how does one go about defeating the Queen, when the young royal siblings can self-destruct in endless encore until the very death of an entire alliance ?:3 Someone help me here, or Saisai and others will never getaru their ringsies!
Serket
…
Dear Scorpy-worpy,
You always pop at the very end of your window.
Ex: Window = 3:00PM EST – 6:00PM EST. You always show up at 5:58PM.
Mr. Serket, we have a problem.
Much Hate and Indignation,
Yours (In a "worst-nightmare" sense) Sincerely,
Typotaru~
A Tribute to a Kitty Who Thought She Would Never See the Light
Thornn has AF!!!!!! (
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Well, this image a couple weeks late, but better late than never. ;o ;o
Kawaiiiiii~ (
)
Anxious to beat the settling boredom, Typo went shopping for some basic hunting gear (
), and quickly learned how to be elegantly effective with something as primitive and barbaric as an axe (
). After all, a good mage doesn’t only study the magics, does s/he ?:3
It didn’t take long to see a major difference between lowbie mage mashing, and lowbie melee maiming. As a mage, you struggle to beat something to death with a stick, occasionally using a basic spell to rally along the slow process. As melee…you slice (
) things and kill them quickly! You could provide fresh goods and meats for your local butcher, or fast-food chain~
Typo can already almost taste the satisfaction of victimizing (
) the lab experiments wild of Sarutabaruta. Strangely enough, as a Beastmaster it ish Typo’s duty to both befriend AND destroy the local fauna. The irony of it all makes BST quite the curious job, and although Typo was too sleepy to do much, I at least gained some proficientarucy in a new weapon, and made me first successful charm! I will also add that I so cutsie, I can even make subligars (
) look neat >.>;;
Saruta (
) ish so peaceful and familiar… I can’t help but level every new job in the vecinity of me home land because of the memories it brings back of me earlier days as an inexperienced adventurer. Tiny mandragoras and bumblebees turn rag-tag fighters into budding warriors. Lately, savanna crabs (
) have been showing up along the coast, driving away all the botter…er, fishermen! Typo tried to take one on, but me axe just couldn’t penetrate this thing’s armor. It took a while to remember my new ability, but it came to me that all I needed to do to get out of this predictarument was to charm a skinny onion head and sic it on the crabby! Although there ish no screenie of it, it happened, worked, and provided enough excitement for this taru for one short night of adventure~
Can’t wait until tomorrow! "X3
At a humble lvl 8, Typo can already tell that he was made for this job. As you play and gamble with nature, your own natural instinct ish your key to survival. No, I’m notaru claiming the title of Grandmaster Beastmaster (yet! ;3), it just that for some reason, Typo feels right at home with this new style and pace of life. It’ll seem a little…off at first, venturing into Tahrongi and beyond without seeking assistance from 5 like-minded allies, but I’m very excited with the notion of culling random beasts from their natural habitat, and forcing them taru eliminate their own. I can’t wait! X3
Raging Axe
The most basic axe WS. This has quickly helped Typo taru get over this crazy foreign feeling I’d often encounter from TP building as a BLM. So far, TP accumulation ish good, although I tend to start missing alot more when the enemy ish down to that proverbial last sliver of life. Typo may well have to invest in some +DEX gear soon, but as a taru, +STR should be a focus as well. We’ll see. :3
Pear au lait has been Typo’s best friend, allowing comfortable dispatching of T mobs solo from lvl 3-6! 800gil a pop, however…guess I’ll have to use ’em in moderation. Apart from that I prefer boiled crab over mithkabobs, at least for now, seeing as I so fragile. "X3
BST Deathtoll: 1 ??? Yagudo Initiate
Pear au lait has been Typo’s best friend, allowing comfortable dispatching of T mobs solo from lvl 3-6! 800gil a pop, however…guess I’ll have to use ’em in moderation. Apart from that I prefer boiled crab over mithkabobs, at least for now, seeing as I so fragile. "X3
Pre-capped Sword, Shield, Parry and Evasion skills from my Warrior days were my best friends when I started leveling Paladin. They allowed a comfortable CHAINING of T mobs from level 1 to…well…10 lol In fact, levels 1-5 took me 45 minutes back then lol But it’s to be expected your training as Beastmaster wouldn’t go as smoothly, after all, you’ve been a Mage for so long, I really wouldn’t have expected your combat skills to even be that good (although your WHM sub-job really must be just fine 😉 )
Yeah, I did notice how Tarus surprisingly make even subligars look good…but not nearly as well as female Humes, Elvaans or Mithras :p
Anyhow, good luck with your training as BST. And, who knows, in the coming days I might beg you to temporarily come out of "retirement" to help me with a certain task in Garlaige Citadel lol
That sounded pretty arrogant. So far, Beastmaster has been the very definition of "smoothly", and as I alluded to before, I feel as if it’s something I’ve already been doing for a while. There are 1 or 2 things about the job that are a little strange to Typo, like not resting to conserve TP, but I have adapted so quickly that survival as a melee ish pretty much second-nature now. Typo has also gotten a few chain 2s (and 1 #3) himself. ;3
The next barrier for me to overcome will be to shrug off the chill (could be fear, could be anxiety) down my spine that occurs whenever Typo thinks of pushing forward into Tahrongi to solo. I mean, I could PT now, but then, that’d only spoil me and make me less prepared for the levels to come. Typo’s solo-training ish still just beginning!
FFXI, as well as POL seem to be down right now, only adding to an annoying list of thingies taking away from my BST fun time >.> Can’t wait to get back to it~ In the meantime–*thinks about kitties…*
The next barrier for me to overcome will be to shrug off the chill (could be fear, could be anxiety) down my spine that occurs whenever Typo thinks of pushing forward into Tahrongi to solo. I mean, I could PT now, but then, that’d only spoil me and make me less prepared for the levels to come. Typo’s solo-training ish still just beginning!
FFXI, as well as POL seem to be down right now, only adding to an annoying list of thingies taking away from my BST fun time >.> Can’t wait to get back to it~ In the meantime–*thinks about kitties…*
lol "Arrogant" ? Oh, please, you know me better than that. Besides, weren’t you the one who said you could easily take T mobs in the first place ? 😉
But what I meant by your "combat skills" wasn’t your player skills, but your character`s combat skills themselves. You want to make me believe your axe and shield were already capped when you started BST while you played BLM for so long ? That’s what I meant. If you’d have been a melee more than a Mage you’d have noticed the difference while fighting with capped skills, trust me here.
FFXI and POL were down ? No maintenance ? That’s weird. Oh well, I’m having this exam this afternoon, so I’ll probably log in the evening. I know that there’s a party and all, but I got a cold and so I’d rather rest than getting drunk :p
But what I meant by your "combat skills" wasn’t your player skills, but your character`s combat skills themselves. You want to make me believe your axe and shield were already capped when you started BST while you played BLM for so long ? That’s what I meant. If you’d have been a melee more than a Mage you’d have noticed the difference while fighting with capped skills, trust me here.
Typo knows this, but the way you worded it at first made it sound arrogant. No matter! I know what you mean now, after your explaination~
I was informed that tonosama rice balls are a BSTs best friend. HP15, Vit3, Dex3, Chr3, 30 min duration, 6k/stack in Jeuno. This blows boiled crab right out of the water, especially since the crab lowers Dex >.>
BST Deathtoll: 2 ??? Goblin Butcher (VT)
Sent 2 EM pets at him, and they did well to lower him to 1/2 health. With 150 TP, I figured I could take him from there, and would have done so, too, if I hadn’t run out of pamama au lait… ; ;
) the enemy and allow my pet to steal a few hits to re-establish its hate.
This continues until Typopet go baibai, and usually I’m good to solo the T mob from there.
Alternatively I’ll allow the DC to fight by itself if I know I won’t be able to take much punishment from the mob. So most gobbies, and definitely dhalmels (
) are battles Typo would rather watch that participate in. X3 Incidentally, that piccie was taken when Typo was lvl12, and charmed a T to battle a VT. I had to run to Buburimu zone to save meself. "X3 After a few more attempts, I win. ^^ [/uselessFYI]
Anyway, DC pets generally need to be fed with Reward to survive against a T, but Typo only resorts to that if there are no other charmable DCs around.
Once the pet has done its job (take the enemy almost down to that last sliver of life), I’ll get out of hate range (which ish basically far enough from the battle so you can’t see your pet’s HP bar) and use Heel, which triggers Typopet to stop attacking and return to him. The enemy will finish its battle against the DC, before sufferring one final clubbing blow with me axe~! Keke (
)~
Tahrongi Canyon taught me alot in the ways of hate management, and I’m generally able to apply the "last sliver" method without a problem in most cases. Akbabas (
) turned out to be great sparring partners, despite being told that they’re an unusual target. They only spawn in dangerous areas, namely the bone structures where the undead roam by night, and they also link, so it forced Typo to be more disciplined when choosing a battle venue, dragging things to a safe "camp" if the enemy ish linkable.
La Theine is steady, comfortable leveling from 12 – 14. Grass Funguars (
) are so, so easy ish not even funny, and 2 DCs against a T crab nets you an easy 120 – 140 exp. Solo the dumb gobby fisher and build TP on him, and the surrounding wormies, then let that crabby have it when you’re ready to finish it~ Metallic body (like Stoneskin) doesn’t really phase me much, since pear au lait keeps me going long enough to penetrate the barrier and kill ’em. ;3
Of course I still learning, and silly mistakes are still made… in fact, all 5 KO’s I’ve experienced as BST have been a result of:
a). a risky experiment to see how much Typo can handle, intentionally putting myself in a silly situation to see if I’m good enough to escape–most of the time I do. ^-^/
or
b). a silly (
), silly (
) mistake.
That being said, I’m still convinced that this ish a very safe job for responsible hunters, even with the obvious risks involved. At least at these lower levels, if you can think fast enough and don’t botch up, you can’t die. This coming from a taru. Typo have no HP! ;3
And now, something sexy (
)~
Now, for something really sexay~
They not very well organized, but that’s whatcha get without Typocam. "X3
And why Banigaru still follow Typo around >.> No more running! If Typo get headbutt, Banihead (
) get CHOP! It always so big, no matter the job! >.>;;;;
BST Deathtoll: 5 ??? Akbaba (LVL11, got distracted by a /tell while fighting, didn’t realize the link, got owned >.>), Water Elemental (LVL12, didn’t check to see how close it was, got aggroed while casting Dia), Poison Funguar + Bat train (LVL12, assumed all Funguars were non-aggro, then got aggroed. Tried to charm one of the bats but failed, resulting in ouchies.)
So why does seemingly the majority up-and-coming BSTies have so many problems surviving?
Ja, I carry around at least 8 pear au laitarus with me at all times for emergencies, and wear +1 gear pretty much all over, but all of that ish only a bonus…it can obviously be done with normal equips and maybe no regen. So equipment shouldn’t be the problem, huh..
So what it could be ?._.
Typo tried a BST duo with a friend in Valkurm the other day. We were both lvl15. It didn’t go very well because he (who was wounded pretty badly at the time >.>) charmed a T bunny to fight another T bunny, then it turned on him and killed him before Typo could cure.. Had to charm one of them, set it on the other and high-tail it back to La Theine. Been a long time since Typo’s played Gobby Dodgeball.. I mean, ish not like he did much wrong, but it would have helped to have full HP (him being a taru also) before battle, and of course /checking before engaging in battle to make sure the mob ish EM or lower.
Speaking of engaging in battle, assisting your pet might be a potential problem for BSTies.. The idea ish not for you to kill the enemy for the sake of your pet’s survival, you actually want your pet to die so you can claim full exp from the battle. If you’re assisting your pet, it’s only to give it a hand if it ish in a losing battle. You’re only looking to score maybe 1 or 2 hits to even things up a bit, then turn around (or disengage) so you don’t make things too easy for your friend, and especially so you don’t take much hate. When both pet and enemy creatures are in critical condition, make sure you are a fair distance from the battle () and use /pet Heel <me>, to command your ally to stop attacking, and come to you. Heel generates mass hate, and when used close to the battle will usually make it hard for you to let your pet die.
I think some hunters also make the mistake of changing spots prematurely. Ish a mistake that Typo has also made, trying Ordelle’s Cave and Maze of Shakrhami at lvl15, when most every mob was a T or VT, with the very occasional EM. Once you’ve made that observation then you have all the proof you need that you don’t belong in this area yet.
Blahblah! Just a little rambling session for Typo X3 I really wantaru figure out why so many BSTs experience so many deaths so early in their career…everyone I’ve asked can’t seem to put their finger on it, so Typo needs to do some detective work! Maybe I will duo with different people to get a feel for how others operate, and if necessary, give pointers… Hopefully I can learn new thingies this way, too.
Levels 18 and 19 (so far) have been nothing short of a FFXI action movie.
Typo has engaged in epic battles with Damselflies (VT) in Valkurm, barely managing to emerge victorious with 200 exp in pocket~!
Typo has encountered many tricky Goblins, tough Ambushers, Leechers, Gamblers, Muggers, who took Typo to his limits and made him use each and every resource just to live to tell the tale!
Typo has and will continue to handle links and aggro calmy. Even 4 akbabas, or 2 gobbies and a T sheep that wouldn’t stay charmed could take me off my feet!
At this point, the only thing that can possibly kill me ish me own confidence. X3
I hope to amuse with some piccies tomorrow~
Level 75 after completing everything
btw that wasn’t supposed to be as un-humorous or jovial as it might. :'(
Shush.
Okay. :'(
Anyway, I solo Beastmaster to 20, and am feeling very accomplished with my beginnings as a "solo artist". Typo has made a smooth transition from mageling, to fighter, and, like many other successful BSTs before me, I have taken the general essence of BST, and created me own little style that ish constantaruly improving with experience.
There isish a concensus that death is a BST’s closest ally. In fact, there’s a saying floating around, and many variations of it that goes something like,
"A BST learns to walk hand-in-hand with death. It comes with the job."
Fair enough, I guess, taru… Typo’s personal experience ish quite the contrary. Many near-death experiences, ja, but as I’ve said many times before there are usually tons of resources at my disposal, ranging from other enemies, to nearby exp PTs and zones, all of which can be played with to your advantage. I don’t disturb others while I at work, but if I actually do happen to be in trouble, and my abuser ish non-aggro/linking, it can’t hurt to pass by someone or a PT and see if they help out. Typo usually gets help even when he doesn’t want/need it. I guess that too comes with the job, taru. ;3
You should also always be prepared before you leave town. Have pet food, and some more pet food, have au laits for emergencies (or at least an alternative counter to Poison rather than using Poisona), always keep Protect running and your belly full. If Jeuno doesn’taru have it, go to Windy, Bastok and San d’alala until you have your damn supplies. Typo usually carries at least 8 pear au laits (~7000 gil) and a stack of pet food delta (~2500). C’mon, BST can easily farm in Tahrongi and Konschtat to make money for that stuff. >.>;;;; You farm while you level.
Okie, enough silly lectures The challenge of BST has been exhilarating for me, far from discouraging, and I hope to help other aspiring BSTies to have just as much fun as me, instead of quitting at somewhere in the ‘teens. "X3
Typo dislikes drama, especially of the inter-LS variety. It is petty. Mystic Knights split up and a new LS, Requiem, was born. All those in possession of a Requiem pearl are enemies of Sairyu. All those still in MK aren’t good enough to be "one of us" … until they join. I was given a pearl (apparently rather reluctantly, but it doesn’taru matter) and I saw it as a good opportunity to be a mediator between LS’s. I have friends in both, and didn’t want to lose the easy contact between us that a linkshell provides. Someone over in MK didn’t care, however, and booted Typo quite candidly. What a way to part with your first HNM LS, huh.
This ish what you can expect from HNM linkyshells, regardless of your server, I’m sure. Having friends in other HNM LS’s? Ha. Being caught dead in a PT with people from a "rival" LS? Nyeh. Taking every opportunity to harass members of "rival" linkshells in public, stealing HNM when they go unclaimed, and laughing and geering about it with your consorts whilst bad-mouthing your competition without having to take responsibility for it as you hide behind the safe confines of your own LS? Bingo.
They are at war with each other, sometimes silently, other times blatantly. It sometimes makes me sick of being that level. Typo ish above that kind of behaviour, but I have no power to do anything about it. You’re a "noob" of some sort if you’re sensible enough to not get involved in childish squabblings. Only the "elite" lose sleep over having allowined another LS to capture KB or Fafnir today.
Typo made sure to wrap up his agendas (save for beating Maat), and retired BLM until…well, whenever. I will not be dusting off me robe or hat for anyone other than very close friends, and if you’re going to ask me for help, make sure I am needed. Most of the time it ish over before I’m done debuffing.
HNM can be fun, the thought of Dynamis still mystifies me, and the power of being level 70 ish always nifty. That’s the good side of quasi-end-game life (seeing as Typo really hasn’t reached "end-game" level yet). But I needed a break from the nonsense that comes with it, and there’s BST for that. ^^, It allows me to have some quality Typotime, and not have to worry about anyone but me.
I’ve been spending nearly all me LS time in CM lately. Whatever you do, guys, don’t ever become an HNM LS. X3
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I make around 2000 exp/hr as a Beastmaster. Typo ish not sure if that is good or not – but it definitely works for me~ ;3
What isn’t good is multiple defeats…losing as a result of being overzealous…
I knew my little artificial barrier of invincibility created by my unrelenting flow of confidence would do me in one of these days ._.;;;; Ah, but it was good while it lasted. ^^
My aggressive approach to hunting has only improved after getting used to a slightly new style that allows Typo taru consistantly achieve exp chain #2 and #3…at least, in Buburimu. I’ve grown used to that zone over the past 4 levels, making it much easier for me to work faster. It’s time to change areas now, but I not sure where to go ._.
A sexy cat says she will duo with Typo when I reach 30. I predict lvl 27 by tomorrow. :3 Maybe then I will unlazy meself, and upload the piccies~?
I think those guys forgot that FFXI is just a GAME…O_o
I am also still wondering about money. My BLM gear ish still providing sufficient funds for now, and is still good for another 150k or so. I’ve heard BCNM 30/40 ish great for BST, so I’ll have to research them some more taru see how exactly we take advantage of them. Apart from that, the only other money prospect Typo sees for himself, ish leveling beyond 30, and farming Spiders in Altepa.
Having tossed me high level liaison and being without a money maker, I can’t help but wonder if (besides becoming proficient in another job) I’ve just taken a step backwards. I seem to have gone from rags to riches, tripped over and fallen back into the ragpile. "X3
Lvl 25 BST Typotaru. Ja, I was looking to be about 28 by now, but I’ve hit one of those odd levels for BST where exp will be perpetually slow. In fact, finding a spot to work with in itself has proven to be quite the challenge…
??? Buburimu Penninsula? Lots of EP and DC. Only gobbies reach EM or T, and both are extremely rare. It’ll be safe exping, but painfully slow.
??? Passhow Marshlands? Similar story to above. Not very attractive…
??? Jugner Forest? Eh, see above. :/
??? Rolanberry Fields? Well, we’re getting somewhere, but methinks it’ll be too dangerous. Ochus are certainly a menace, and any possible camp will be light years away from a zone. Nu, I have not tried here yet, but there just has to be a better alternative.
??? Valkurm Dunes. Typo doesn’t hate the zone, Typo hates the trainers, the zoners, the helpless and pathetic. Ideally, Typo would work up by the "secret beach", but everytime I’ve attempted this, my peaceful slaughter of amorphs and aquans ish interrupted by those who would see it fit to save their own lives by putting others’ in danger. You train on Typo, Typo remember your name and MPK you a few levels down the road! You have been warned, taru!
??? Qufim Island. The next step for pretty much any BST, although I sure that most wait until lvl 26…after all, everything ish T, with a few EM here and there. Ish quite challenging, especially when it comes to chaining. I’ve killed 2 Giants, 2 Worms, 2 Clippers, and met another KO at the snappers of a 3rd Clipper. Exp chains just aren’t happening at this lvl >.>;;; , however, each victory ish met with 120 – 200 exp, and ish fairly close to Jeuno.
Typo will keep trying Qufim. Perhaps struggling to 26 will open up some more even matches, as well as exp chains, and a quicker road to lvl 30. ;3
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I guess you can have these piccies of the Life and Times of Typotaru the BeaSTmaster, Volume :3! Some from Bubu, some Jugner and Ordelle’s~ Also, Maze of Shakrhami, Tahrongi, Valkurm and La Theine. Wowie, I’ve been around. X3 This was all around lvl19ish – 23ish.
Not Typotrain…
:/
A Typofan takes it too far… I’m glad you can’t change hair colour, face and height! >.-
I’ve been chilling between Windy and Jeuno lvling both WHM and BLM. Dave says I should focus on my sub and and stuff when I just go out and be adventurous. XD
I’ve been chilling between Windy and Jeuno lvling both WHM and BLM. Dave says I should focus on my sub and and stuff when I just go out and be adventurous. XD
Aww, thankie mami! *licks the kitty~* Sillycat, sneaking in a post while Typo edits his~
I hope you are having fun with WHM, and especially BLM. ;3
I’ve been chilling between Windy and Jeuno lvling both WHM and BLM. Dave says I should focus on my sub and and stuff when I just go out and be adventurous. XD
By "adventurous" you mean "suicidal", AKA going to Attohwa Chasm at your level lol
And I never said you couldn’t have fun, I said it’s best for you to level your sub BEFORE you level your main.
As much as I prefer Paladin over Warrior, there will be a time when I’ll have to level it, and it’s getting quite nearer, as I am now level 55, going to 60 and finally becoming a Paragon of Paladin’s Excellence 🙂 (Typo KNOWS what that title means, now don’t you ? 😉 )
And I never said you couldn’t have fun, I said it’s best for you to level your sub BEFORE you level your main.
As much as I prefer Paladin over Warrior, there will be a time when I’ll have to level it, and it’s getting quite nearer, as I am now level 55, going to 60 and finally becoming a Paragon of Paladin’s Excellence 🙂 (Typo KNOWS what that title means, now don’t you ? 😉 )
Hey! Theres nothing like a good adventure! Besides, I had a lvl 53 RDM with me. XD
And I’m now a lvl 23 WHM/lvl 10 BLM. 😉 My goal is to get to 25 first learn Raise and then go bring BLM up a couple lvls. ^^
I’m sportin new threads too. ^_~
And I’m now a lvl 23 WHM/lvl 10 BLM. 😉 My goal is to get to 25 first learn Raise and then go bring BLM up a couple lvls. ^^
I’m sportin new threads too. ^_~
lol But what you STILL don’t understand is that it would have been easier for your to get WHM to 25 if you’d have leveled BLM first. But hey, if you want to take the longest, most painful road…
) in Qufim last night. Ish just too hard for me at this time..
Bats make swell pets, being above worms and crabs on the hierarchy and all, but also being nocturnal creatures makes them of little use to me ._.
Land Worms are of course silly as pets, although out of desperation Typo would sometimes Diadrag some unsuspecting crab over and let the worm go to town on it. But even if I chose to target worms, there aren’t enough of them between me, soloing RNGs and BLMs, and PTs.
Crabs… there are very few EMs around, meaning I must pit the occasional EM against T. But crabbies just don’t last long enough, and make Typo do too much work! Crabs hit me for 30-40 per hit (over 50 for critical >.>;;;;) despite me having some of the best possible defensive gear all over..
I’d try getting some amber rings and eat steamed crab or something defensive instead, but it just seems like so much of a long-shot that it’d actually improve me performance out there.
So unless I shell out the gil to carry out the above plan, I’ll just have to find another Typospot to reach 26. How depressing ._.;
Where’s the fun now ?X3
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Leftovers :3
I really have a scorpypet here…I really do! >.>;
okie no I don’t… I uploaded the wrong piccie and deleted the right one ; ;
) in Qufim last night. Ish just too hard for me at this time..
Somehow, I was SURE this would be a pic of some Taru kissing the floor lol
I think next time I pass by Jeuno and see you in Qufim, I’ll send a tell that goes like this : (Raise) (Do you need it ?) …Just kidding lol
And on a side-note : Who’s the moron that decided that Royal Knight’s Chainmail now goes for 110k ? And the Breeches for 90k ? They were 70k just seven days ago ! Sheesh… I’ll do have the money once everything sells but… Waiting on stuff to sell is the worst part of raising funds ; ;
Sexy mithra mama spent most of afternoon/night in Qufim partying and got up to 25! Also did my first Raise too. 😀
Mama back home in Windy to lvl sub. XD
People shall speak of me someday.. 😀
…and for Typo, for discovering the secret to digging a hole through the same lvl25 as BST! Fight Land Worms, but never charm them, fight Seeker Bats, Dark Bats and even Glow Bats, which are all neat pets to boot. Clippers make the best pets, but stay away from clippers vs clipper.. >.> Okie, so some of this ish quasi-common sense, since it’s well-known how ‘weak’ wormies are, and that bats tend to make good pets against lots of things, and lastly, how crabs are far too armoured, and have attack power to back themselves up.
It’s pretty hard sometimes to resist the temptation of charming an EM crab and sending it after a T crab, since they’re too bloody common to miss. But for the most part, you’ll catch Typo playing it safe and sending a Clipper after a worm – regardless of how long it takes to find an even match crab. :/
Another well-known fact ish that Jet Steam is no joke. Todey, Typo was whacktarued for 130 (!) when Dark Bats attempted to finish me off with it… Fortunately I was left with all of…3HP (!), which allowed me to seize the final blow with me last gasp of energy!
(Excitement)!
Qufim has started a nasty train (oh dear…a nasty word in itself as it pertains to FFXI, taru >.>) of thought in my mind that, no matter how careful or how good I am, links, aggro, and unthinkable means of death will happen.
It ish this elementaru of luck, or in my case, bad luck that does it taru me every time, I swear! How can an enemy get so lucky as taru hit Typo for 4 criticals in a row, then just happen to use an offensive TP maneuver, which also just happens to be an HP drain move, instead of one of its many other useless status effect ones, THEN begin to cast a tier II BLM spell which would finish me off if I didn’t score a lucky critical of me own ?:/ Silly Wight. Faaaak yoo and all like yoo!!!
Because of instances like this, it’s getting harder to exp chain, and therefore exp in general. Now I understand more accurately the magnitude of importance ‘Release’ possesses at 35. Typo ish going to kill, and kill frantically for that precious level… At least then I’ll be one step closer to catching up with Lunarcat so we can duo. She needs taru stop levelling so fast >.>;;;
Admittedly I slacked off from leveling a bit, because Typo was getting frustrated at foolishness occurring in the battlefield, and general slowness. I bought some nifty fireworks and use them to impress kitties all over the world~^^.
Methinks maybe it’ll get me some catlicks, too. The Kongou Inahou looks like a lightsaber, and makes for a flashy finish when used in conjunction with a WS~ kekeke.
??? Go behind mithracat~
??? /item "Kongou Inahou" <me>
??? /toss motion
??? Typosaber’d catass! \ (* ` – ‘ ) /
I also got a stack (99) of Brilliant Snow in addition to the Typosabers (99), and 25 comets. Came to about 50k in fireworks. "X3
Then came halloweeny event, which I wasn’t really so keen on at first, as most events are a waste of time. :/ But the prospect of owning the original Treat Staff with its infinite free warpies, as well as a silly Pumpkin Head to make Typo even cuter persuaded me to head to Windurst and participate. My old hometown… As I look around I see far more long-necks, fatties and humes among the sexies and cuties than I remember! Eh, it’s no wonder why so many would want to come to Windurst for halloween or any other time of the year – the most scenic and people-friendly city in the world! And *sigh*, I’d forgotten just how relaxing it is taru be home.. Too bad I haven’t the time for a vacation. >.-
After about 10,000 gil in saruta oranges, I came out with a Trick Staff II, a Pumpkin Head, Pumpkin Head II, a Horror Head, and 3 jack-o-lanterns.
Still need that Treat Staff! >.>
A BST can probably use the Treat Staff more safely than anyone else since we can charm something "weak" or use ‘Call Beast’ to distract another enemy, whilst we attempt to Warp via repeated hits. This will be especially useful in situations where you’re surrounded by aggro, or in higher level areas needing to rely on luck, hoping that some kindly creature will walk in another direction and open up a safe path for you. Now Typo can summon something, throw it at one of the mobs, and be able to wail away safely until I gone! Hopefully the staves will be functional even after the event concludes.
Sexy mamicat sent Typo a Flowerpot Bill prezzie, but I haven’t gotten around to using it yet. I’ll save him for an extra-special occasion. =P
Anyway, I am level 29 (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?7063), with intentions of becoming 31 before bed time – but we all know how it goes by now. 😐
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Here are me SEcam cookies from lvl25+~!
Typo readies Typosaber aka Typotorch!
I used a Brilliant Snow to make it extra-yay!
Borealis…brings back memories of leveling here with BLM and WHM. :3
She wants me ^^
…to duo. :3 I said "okie, but get your hand out of me ear!"
._.
Trick (
)
or (
)
Treat! (
)
Anyhow, it has at least saved my butt yesterday in Beadeaux, so just for that reason alone it was alredy worth it, all I bought were San d’Orian Grapes ( 800 a stack in…well.. San d’Oria ) and with 2 stacks, I can safely say I didn’t spend much on it.
Well anyways, I’m am officially done w/ FFXI ; ; I’ll miss you bunches Typo <(v.v)> I’ll still keep up w/ reading your journal though~! You can’t quit FFXI cold turkey now can you? <(o.O)> Tell the guys in CM that I miss them, hope they are having fun~ Dont let the legend of Kristofaru die though!!! <(^_~)> hehe, well {See you again!}
PS. Typo ish Typo~! kekeke
But ja, I understand, and it was going to happen sooner or later, so, Typo bids you a tearful farewell. I will lick even more cats than usual in your memory~.
Oooh ooh, and, in addition to reading Typojournal, Kristaru must post here every now and then, too! If Typo miss you too much, rusty subligars fly at your head! There. Typo and CM miss you bunches already..
See you around, Kristof, and good luck taru you! \( * ‘ . ‘ )/
X_x
Thursday ish Typo’s 1 year adventarurer anniversary!! I, ahm, don’t have anything special planned.. Probably just attempt taru get BST to lvl 40, celebrate that, and then kick back and reflect on just how far I’ve come in the past year…
Speaking of anniversaries, Warf recently reached his 1 year mark. Even though Typo may not have mentioned him in Typojournal before, we do have quite a long history dating back to…wow, back in the day before we even got our subjobs! It was a shock taru hear he was quitting, although it took him forever to do it. ;3 Typo miss him already, and I know CM feels the same. We held a farewell party for him last night on the ferry, and of course, Typo took some piccies~^^ Tonight, however, since ish late, I only post a few.
Some of the CrescentMoon gang:
Cania (
) (noncat)
She ish a cute-for-a-hume angry thief who wants taru eat you. ^^
Hitokirin (
)
He ish too tall.
Ravan (
)
He will never get a PT invite~
Samaliel (
)
He ish camerashy.
Sarevok (
)
He ish AFK.
Cat (
)
She ish sexy (
).
Thrillagorilla (
)
He sank the ship…
Typo (
)
But then Typo made it cutsie and floatable again~!
Cania could be a cat. Maybe.
But finally, and most importantly:
Warf (
)
He ish the man…er…galka. ;3
Maybe we meet again another day, Warfy! Good luck taru you~
Thursday ish Typo’s 1 year adventarurer anniversary!! I, ahm, don’t have anything special planned.. Probably just attempt taru get BST to lvl 40, celebrate that, and then kick back and reflect on just how far I’ve come in the past year…
Speaking of anniversaries, Warf recently reached his 1 year mark. Even though Typo may not have mentioned him in Typojournal before, we do have quite a long history dating back to…wow, back in the day before we even got our subjobs! It was a shock taru hear he was quitting, although it took him forever to do it. ;3 Typo miss him already, and I know CM feels the same. We held a farewell party for him last night on the ferry, and of course, Typo took some piccies~^^ Tonight, however, since ish late, I only post a few.
Some of the CrescentMoon gang:
Cania () (noncat)
She ish a cute-for-a-hume angry thief who wants taru eat you. ^^
Hitokirin ()
He ish too tall.
Ravan ()
He will never get a PT invite~
Samaliel ()
He ish camerashy.
Sarevok ()
He ish AFK.
Cat ()
She ish sexy ().
Thrillagorilla ()
He sank the ship…
Typo ()
But then Typo made it cutsie and floatable again~!
Cania could be a cat. Maybe.
But finally, and most importantly:
Warf ()
He ish the man…er…galka. ;3
Maybe we meet again another day, Warfy! Good luck taru you~
Lacasteoubliee also celebrated last week-end on the ferry, they even got a Sea Horror on the menu, which they killed with a full party of levels 34-67. Two of them were KOed, since none of them was a tank ( I think the 67BRD, Cocabongo, tanked lol ), though, and when I logged , I was told "Man, where were you ? You’d have been useful" lol
I’ve met a few of those people, especially Thrillagorilla. He is getting married to Mihmendra, Lacasteoubliee’s leader. They sent their 6th appication though, they still can’t win the lottery :p Mihmendra personnally invited me, so whenever it happens, I shall attend.
I’m most likely invited to Jago and Laurewen’s wedding, too. And I am the chaperone for William and Littleyuuki’s wedding.
Also, a Quebec-France wedding is planned between Egros from our LS and Sourisduloiret from the France LS (Heraclescrusaders). Considering I’m known to both of them, I can assume I’ll recieve an invitation to this one as well :p
Whew…that’s a lot of weddings :p
Oh, and on a side-note, I just reached 58 yesterday. 57 went so bad, glad I’m past it now…and I’m wearing the Gallant Leggings,Gauntlets,Coronet and Breeches now…only the Surcoat remains. I am flagged to go get the coffer in Castle Zvahl Bailey’s , but that can wait until I’m 59.
But, what I’m really interested in right now is fighting the Shadow Lord and getting Rank 6. I want to buy my Republican Army Mantle and become a Musketeer Commander 🙂 Typo, are you available sometime this week, pretty please ? 🙂
I…er, care nothing for politics (unless it involves PresidenTypo and vice-president SexyCat going to handle some business in an undisclosed location ;o ;o), but I so glad to see you pop up! ^^ Your prezzie for popping up ish some pumpkin (
) flavour () catass shenanigans! (
)
And here taru the rest of piccies from Warfy’s baibaibash. For some unfathomable reason, they came out awfully. Anyway, did Typo mention our main purpose that night was to defeat Sea Horror ?;3
It was over before I could do much X3 Typo so small, I couldn’t even get Sea Horror’s name in there >.>;;;;
Here ish everyone posing at the end~ I really wish me had Typocam.. ; ;
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I helped Bloodust with his AF coffer key in Beadeaux last night. Nuking felt refreshing for the first time in months. :3
I once again found meself in awe of my own black magic, although it hasn’t swayed Typo from Beastmaster one bit.
As I’ve read and also reasoned out to myself taru encourage me to never give up (!), Leave ish great. Just the mere fact that I don’taru have to wait for the enemy to clean up my pet speeds things up, and I’m back to me usual average of 2k exp/hr. Now, to (finally) catch up to Lunareis, and try to make our duo work!
Honestly, I’m afraid to PT as a BST, despite knowing how much we can bring to the table. My gear (which, in case you didn’t know can be checked by clicking "BST" in me sig X3) focuses on mostly HP and DEF, making PTypo a fairly weak and sometimes inaccurate little bugger. ;3 SoloTypo ish very functional and efficient, but in a PT I doubt very much that I’d cut it, and I have no intention of altering me setup to accommodate anyone else.
I recently capped my axe skill, which ish something I was told wouldn’t happen if I just soloed. Hmm. Maybe Typo went around sleep-chopping monsters (
), or something. Avalanche Axe (100) doesn’t seem very useful, at least, not moreso than Raging Axe. This may only seem so because I’ve been out in Altepa fighting mostly Beetles, which are armoured, and ish hard to guage your strength on such mobs. This (http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47276) ish a very interesting thread on WS data, although Typo hasn’t fully comprehended the info there yet..
Anywaaay, Altepa (
) has slowly become tolerable, and playing caveman with Anticans ish dangerously fun.
Cavemen?
Typo think so! And there will be much more of those exhilerating rumbles from the jungle…desert…for days taru come.
Alexielmama, your prezzie saved Typo from an aggro Dancing Weapon in Qufim about…7 levels ago X3 I just found the piccie (
). Thankies again~!
Lastly, cats are kinky. But what ish going on here (
)? And here (
)?
Ah, I see (
). (Fantasy) (excitement)!
(See you again!)
Mama ish HAPPY pressie came into use for Typo! ^_____________^
I still haven’t found a husband yet. 🙁 Typo needs a daddy! Just look at that cute taru face! ^^
I’ve met a few of those people, especially Thrillagorilla. He is getting married to Mihmendra, Lacasteoubliee’s leader. They sent their 6th appication though, they still can’t win the lottery :p Mihmendra personnally invited me, so whenever it happens, I shall attend.
I’m most likely invited to Jago and Laurewen’s wedding, too. And I am the chaperone for William and Littleyuuki’s wedding.
Also, a Quebec-France wedding is planned between Egros from our LS and Sourisduloiret from the France LS (Heraclescrusaders). Considering I’m known to both of them, I can assume I’ll recieve an invitation to this one as well :p
Whew…that’s a lot of weddings :p
Oh, and on a side-note, I just reached 58 yesterday. 57 went so bad, glad I’m past it now…and I’m wearing the Gallant Leggings,Gauntlets,Coronet and Breeches now…only the Surcoat remains. I am flagged to go get the coffer in Castle Zvahl Bailey’s , but that can wait until I’m 59.
But, what I’m really interested in right now is fighting the Shadow Lord and getting Rank 6. I want to buy my Republican Army Mantle and become a Musketeer Commander 🙂 Typo, are you available sometime this week, pretty please ? 🙂
Silly Dave, sneaking up that post on me! Congrats on your recent acheivements. :3
Let Typo know when you’re ready for Shadow Lord. I’ll be busy in Altepa for a while, but if I’m keeping up well with me exp schedule, I’ll come along.
All that talk about weddings makes me feel guilty of missing out on Tlaren’s >.> I really thought someone would remind me – there’s no reminder, so make sure you remember the date. X3
*smiles at mamacat~*
Basically, I’m ALWAYS ready for the Shadow Lord, now. Heck, my search comment now says : (Experience points) or (Mission) 5-2 : (I’m interested.)
Last monday, none of the people from Lacasteoubliee ever showed up, at least among the ones that need it ( I know of 2 BSTs, one THF and one WHM ).
So, basically, if I get an invite for it, I’ll go…if I’m not in an exp party already.
Lunareis ? Wait a minute, isn’t she also a level 50+ THF ? If so, I think she knows of Daison, my friendly Paladin rival. Oh well.
@Alexiel
STILL looking for a husband ? You should stop looking. Be a good WHM and act nice and charmy to everyone. Someone’s BOUND to ask you in due time. Mithras always get proposed to sooner or later, so don’t worry.
And besides, don’t go saying you’ve got a kid (Typo), it scares us singles guys, at least it scared this Paladin here. I mean, having Typo for son ? Gee, I wouldn’t be able to tell him to sit down and be quiet if he’s being noisy, he’d literally ROAST me 😛
STILL looking for a husband ? You should stop looking. Be a good WHM and act nice and charmy to everyone. Someone’s BOUND to ask you in due time. Mithras always get proposed to sooner or later, so don’t worry.
And besides, don’t go saying you’ve got a kid (Typo), it scares us singles guys, at least it scared this Paladin here. I mean, having Typo for son ? Gee, I wouldn’t be able to tell him to sit down and be quiet if he’s being noisy, he’d literally ROAST me 😛
I’ve stopped on the hubby search. Someone will ask this White Mage in time. 😉 And I certainly dun run around in game saying Typo is my son. 😛 It would just be nice for Typo to have a big strong daddy! ^^
Ja~
And besides, don’t go saying you’ve got a kid (Typo), it scares us singles guys, at least it scared this Paladin here. I mean, having Typo for son ? Gee, I wouldn’t be able to tell him to sit down and be quiet if he’s being noisy, he’d literally ROAST me 😛
Ja !;3
The roadrunner goes "meep meep"~
Hmm, this time last year I was a small-town fishertaru with little direction other than a vision of having 2 jobs at level 40, Black Mage and White Mage, and becoming a real live mid-level "pure mage"! Now, me casting tendancies are few, and I’m swaying towards the side of melee, armor-clad barbarians and heavy-artillery. Ish about time the world of hack-and-slash experienced some class, Typo style. ;3 What would me old professors at the Aurastery think…
But Typo likes this new life. I love Vana’diel, its sights, its sounds and funny smells, particularly its fishy race of feisty felines! And there’s something about being a Beastmaster that makes everything seem more down-to-earth and less intimidating, allowing me to enjoy these elements in a way I never knew I could as a mage. Yes, you learn more about each region, spawn points, safe-zones and all the like. But what Typo ish talking about is this sense of self-sufficiency that comes from the exhilerating experience of being out on the hunt. If you are determined enough and stand your ground against the wild of Vana’diel, this job will automatically teach you how to really explore places and thereby develop a sense of confidence and security that ish uncommon to others until they reach a higher level.
It comes with its fair share of frustrations, upwards and downwards cycles, but the freedom of travel, time, and the fact that everything revolves around you and a possible partner makes BST easier to bear when you’re on the downward cycle.
Despite my advanced knowledge of the dark arts and being a black magic adeptaru, there still really isn’t much that Typo can do without the assistance of an entire PT or alliance. Such "power" seems rather wasteful when it’s no use as the one and only stand-alone tool for self-defense or destruction, ne??? As a mage you hide behind sturdy meatshields or bouncing shadows and pray that nothing can penetrate their defense, an extention of your own very life. Your weakness is exposed and your own mortality glares back at you, reminding you that if you even try to use your powers to their fullest potential, the next spell you’ll hear is the droplets of Raise dew being spilled over your heap. Maybe I’m being too dramatic, but I feel as if I’m getting old and must tell tales rather than be as simple and blunt as always. X3
I so silly~ But at least I know that this world still has much to offer Typo for a long time taru come.
LVL38 BST, awaiting Lunareis’ return on Sunday so we can duo again. ^^;,
Geez, a little more and soon I’ll recieve a request from you to help you with your BST AF1 lol
As for me, well, I’m 59 now, and planning to go for my Gallant Surcoat anytime soon. I’m in luck, my LS buddy Backus (THF56) also has a coffer to get in Castle Zvahl Bailey’s. His Treasure Hunter II will probably help. We’ll just have to find others, and then, I’ll have to find an alliance for the NM fight in Davoi…"fun" :p
This evening, we’re going to go for a BCNM40 run…I swore to myself I’d never go into this deathtrap again, yet this time it is party formed by Jago, with only members from my LS. I have full trust in the members that are in our party, that’s why I agreed to do it. Besides, I don’t want to mine for 600k and get a Gluttony Sword. So we’ll see how that one goes. If it fails, screw the sword, I have enough money to finance myself until 61 and my armor and accessories are perfectly up to date, which are more important than your weapon, at least in a Paladin’s case.
Good luck taru you with your BCNM runs and final AF piece, and safe journey to 60! ;3
Typo needed something taru do whilst awaiting the return of the sexy. I figured it would be most constructive to start saving (read: camping something) for the 700k worth of Brigandine +1, which I’ll want at 45. Not wanting to waste any further time with Lizzie or Empy, I decide to try me hand at Mr. The Torrent for the Signa, in Giddeus. And what a good decision it was!
Between last evening and 27 minutes ago I camped him 10 times, winning the pull with /ja "Charm" 6 times thanks to widescan, me handy-dandy reflexes, and equally handy-dandy /target < stnpc > macro. I’d love to see the looks on people’s faces when the BLM they thought would have a disadvantage in using Stun (having to stand still and be in range to cast) completely kafuffled all logic and conveniently whips out the fastest pulling tool in the game. Kekekeeee~!
I only managed to score Mitts, Mitts, Scroll, Mitts, Mitts and Scroll, but Typo remains enthusiastic because 1). I have a knack for winning the pull most of the time, even against the all-botting, all-training scumrapists of our era, and 2). being able to capture him just a few times a day ish bound to net me a Signa or two within a week. That’s good moolah-woolah~!
I’ll make a habit out of this until it gets tiresome, or I score 3 Signas. Whichever come first. Chances are it’ll be the latter. Typo gets a kick out of being accused of botting because I win too often. :3
I suppose luck was not on my side. Good luck, though!
Typo needed something taru do whilst awaiting the return of the sexy. I figured it would be most constructive to start saving (read: camping something) for the 700k worth of Brigandine +1, which I’ll want at 45. Not wanting to waste any further time with Lizzie or Empy, I decide to try me hand at Mr. The Torrent for the Signa, in Giddeus. And what a good decision it was!
Between last evening and 27 minutes ago I camped him 10 times, winning the pull with /ja "Charm" 6 times thanks to widescan, me handy-dandy reflexes, and equally handy-dandy /target < stnpc > macro. I’d love to see the looks on people’s faces when the BLM they thought would have a disadvantage in using Stun (having to stand still and be in range to cast) completely kafuffled all logic and conveniently whips out the fastest pulling tool in the game. Kekekeeee~!
I only managed to score Mitts, Mitts, Scroll, Mitts, Mitts and Scroll, but Typo remains enthusiastic because 1). I have a knack for winning the pull most of the time, even against the all-botting, all-training scumrapists of our era, and 2). being able to capture him just a few times a day ish bound to net me a Signa or two within a week. That’s good moolah-woolah~!
I’ll make a habit out of this until it gets tiresome, or I score 3 Signas. Whichever come first. Chances are it’ll be the latter. Typo gets a kick out of being accused of botting because I win too often. :3
; ; So that’s WHY you totally ignored my desperate calls to help me with the coffer in Castle Zvahl Bailey’s. Both Jago and Laurewen were willing to help me for once (63 SAM and WHM) but your help would have ensured our safety.
So, in short, I waited for your reply, which never came. ; ; That was very disappointing of you, Typo. That you are busy with whatever reason, fine. But at least answer to tells you’re being sent, that’s not fair you know. Oh well.
The BCNM run totally failed as well. And I’m not even talking about the Japanese RDM who was in our exp party I formed with Mihmendra a few hours later…the party lasted 20 minutes…boy, was she AWFUL :p
So, in short, I waited for your reply, which never came. ; ; That was very disappointing of you, Typo. That you are busy with whatever reason, fine. But at least answer to tells you’re being sent, that’s not fair you know. Oh well.
The BCNM run totally failed as well. And I’m not even talking about the Japanese RDM who was in our exp party I formed with Mihmendra a few hours later…the party lasted 20 minutes…boy, was she AWFUL :p
Sawwy about your BCNM run~ I just want taru clear one thing, though: Typo got no tells at all whatsoever from you, so they must not have reached me somehow. :3 But, there are times when you, as well as others try taru message me, and are met with no response because I am AFK. I don’t ignore people. Thanks.
Typo was actually invited about a month ago, coincidentally on the very same day Tlaren invited Typo to hers. You’d think I’d be jealous of all the cats being swept off their feet by long-necks and humes, but I happy for them and whatever good occurs to them in their future. They’ll all still get licked every once in a while, and Gorgeous ish no exception! Congratarulations taru Gorgeous and Ratix, and all the best in your shared life. ^^;,
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Our waiting room (
), a bar in Port Bastok…the something turkey? Silly Bastok, I dun remember >.>;;;;; Friends of the bride and groom, as well as invited sexies (
) sat with anticipation for the upcoming magical event~
Forming of the aisle, and procession~
Standing next to me ish sexy Lunareis, in the hot white catpants. Nyaaauu~
Everyone \^^;/
The ceremony itself was quite formal, and even the silliest of the silly behaved for the most part. It was a very special and beautiful evening (Desdemonacat did a great job co-ordinating things, far better than Typo could ever do), if you’ll pardon that clich??? of a wedding description. For once, I genuinely enjoyed myself in doing something other than level or make money.
The defining moment of the night was that undeterminable moment sometime after the event when I became aware of a certain fact about meself… Although Typo has his fun with the cats and ish generally known and liked within certain small circles, I’m not really attatched to or belong to anything. After all, this night was about a celebration of two people coming together, of individuals becoming a couple and creating a new identity for themselves. Change and growth had taken place in their lives, and we witnessed a part of it. No single job, LS (HNM or otherwise), not even any cat ish actually "mine", or "has" me. You can associate Typo with silly antics and cats and hats – intangibles. My nature is to drift from one thing taru another, to isolate myself from others with relentlessly addictive leveling, to not settle down with just one cat and call it a dream. ;3
I’ve been a Black Mage for the majority of me adventuring career, but I don’t consider myself one now. I not as accurate or as powerful as I used to be, although this is in part due to the fact that most of my once-prized casting attire ish no more. Typo has instead chosen the unlikely road of Beastmastaru, a job with the freedoms and challenges that someone like me needs; it would be accurate taru say that it’s now one of the few reasons I still consider myself an adventurer. Perhaps one day I will make myself famous for being a BST, and in that you’ll be able to define Typo by something worthwhile. Maybe.
The moral? It ish strange, the things a wedding can do taru you! [/notamoral!]
If I recall right, Ratix is a fellow Paladin.
On a personal note, tonight was the first ever I switched jobs in a loooong time. Indeed, since no one wants to help with my last AF, I figured I’d get on leveling a new job, one that I intend to sub to Warrior when I go level it up to 37, namely, Samura???.
I got it up to 8 in one evening (about 4 hours), and to be honest, it is a great job, still not as fun as Paladin, in my humble opinion, but pleasant nonetheless. All I have to do is get it to 18 then it’s off to Warrior for 7 levels, but before I do that, I need to correct my biggest newbie mistake as a Warrior, namely, leveling Great Axe. None of this should be too hard, it’s just a matter of getting the appropriate invites…and taking time.
Although, I’d really prefer to just get my last AF and reach 60, but it appears it is asking too much and/or it’s never the right time…oh well. I’m used to it by now, and it has always been my biggest gripe with this game, we depend WAY TOO MUCH on others, and man, maybe it’s because I’m a Paladin and it’s in my nature to help, but why do I feel like others are always less willing than me to help ? Sigh.
EDIT : Oh, one last thing. Skype owns us all in Lacastoubliee. And if you don’t know what it is : http://www.skype.com Being able to voice chat in parties is quite convenient. And before you ask, yes I’m on PS2, but my PC is conveniently placed, so…
soon Typotaru~
Edit: Oh yeahs, I forgot to ask if you know what happened with CM’s formus? They weren’t working forever and now when I go there the site is gone and it has some disclaimer in Japanese. <(O.o)>
I’d have times more fun (
) being with kitty (
), but she has more important things taru do than level all day.. I’m so sawwy, kitty. *licks her cheek*
We can still talk on linkyshell and BCNM and all sortsa other nifty stuff~!
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Now taru put smile back on face!
Torrent Hoo Mjuu, the ??? 19 – Typomaster, taru ??? 1
O-K! 2 more signas needed for long-lasting prosperity for TypoBST.
Also, the Wedding post has been updated with piccies~! Go back a page and see the wedding of Gorgeouscat and Ratix. ^^
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Kristof: I can’t even remember the addy for CM ._. But I’d be glad taru help you with Mr. The Torrent, and running some BCNMs with ya!
Dave: Hang in there with PLD! I know I know, you probably hear that all the time, but in the meantime you can maybe enjoy Samurai, and happen to bump intaru help for your PLD along the way? I’m rooting for ya! ^^
Desdemona was the chaperone ? My, I haven’t heard from him and his girfriend Kiera in such a long time, we used to always be together in Kazham, when I was leveling Paladin. Unless you mean DeZdemona ? Which is yet another one whom I’ve partied with before, a Dragoon in this case.
And I realized I know quite a few of those people that were there as well. Yeah, sure, I’m not friends with either the broom or bride but I know quite a few of the invited people.
Hang it there ? Meh, yeah, I heard that one…a lot. And all I get from my "friends" when I ask for help is "sometime". That’s shitty. Yesterday, again, I was going to just level Samurai an extra level ( I got on a bit late yesterday because I went to play hockey cosom with a friend, then stayed at his place, drink a beer, chat, watch TV, usual male bonding :p ) but then my friend Cayo asks me if I want to help his friend with the SAM quest, so I did that instead. Kicking the butt of that tree with a 59 PLD and a 62 WHM sure goes smoothly.
Maybe I should start saying no…nah, I’ll just say "sometime". :p Maybe it’s just me, but when a friend asks me for help with something, if I can’t help him/her right now, AT LEAST I tell them a precise time when I could and we arrange something. I don’t go saying "I’ll help you sometime", I believe it’s being unrespectful of people that you consider "friends". Seems like I’m quite the exception in believing that, though. I mean, instead of telling me "We’ll help you when it’s time" , why not simply say "Okay, let’s arrange that in X days at X hour". Is it so @???$"/%$/" complicated to manage your time ? Oh well.
Seriously, though, you’d think this makes me mad…but not as much as it seems so. I’ve always been very disgusted with human stupidity. It does disappoint me though. This is just a game, I’m fully aware of that, but it’s quite ironic that for all the freedom and the non-linearity it has to offer, you’re always stuck to not do the one thing you’d really want to unless you get some people to help you…Not mentionning you’ll never really know WHEN you’ll actually get help doing it.
You took my job of hunting Hoo Mjuu the Torrent. ;_;
This brings 2 things to mind. With the break of a Linkshell people that I am used to seeing will slowly fade away, join new LS, it makes me sad. But than on the other side, I am almost happy that this happened <(@_@)> I have been playing on and off for over a year now and I have what?, maybe 20 really good friends, out of the huge amounts of people on the LS. I think that I have maybe actually stuck around this LS and its familiar faces for too long perhaps. I know it sounds selfish but, I want to be known. I want people to know of Kristof the great brd/smn/whm/blm <(^_~)> I have never had a single person not know Typo when I mention him and allthough I know I will never be as famous as the great Typotaru^^ I do want to make more friends and get to know as many people as I can.
Well, now I think that I am at the point of blabbering <(>.>)> But basically, Goodbye CresentMoon, it was a good run but all must things must come to an end <(; . ;)> And if You go to a new linkyshell I hope we never drift apart. I would miss your "ish"es your ":3" and your Sexy cat stories too much^^ But we will always have here I guess <(^_^)^ and sorry in advance is my post is a big incohierant rant, I haven’t been sleeping good the last week^^;
Edit: arg, I must remember to disable smilies =P It ruins my Kirbys <(>.<)>
Seriously though, the breakup of CM is total. I think Ihsan even took away all the pearlsacks to make it a final (or at least mine). Here I’ve been on the gil making grind with only my fellow linkshellians to keep me cheerful and then my pride and joy breaks up 🙁 . I’ve been on that LS group since day 2 when it was TheOrder, I feel like my kitties died or something.
For the time being I shall be hanging out with the WindurstianSpecialForces if anyone desperatly needs my comany. However, as much as I like these guys it means I shan’t be able to poke fun at the silly Glorfindel elf or Sarevok ninja, or any of the other unfortunataru non-Windurstains that I have come to love that were with Crescent Moon.
So I propose a simple solution to the dillema, elect Typotaru as supreme dictator of Vana’deil. It might be the 1am talking, but I can’taru think of any other person in a better position to reform we hopelessly lost Linkshellians. As contrary as it might be to the Typoish’s solitary nature, I think he might be the perfect Taru to form a new LS, he has the overwhelming Charisma (ya! Signa camping Taru!), he has the fame, and the love of an entire race of kitties :D.
So what say ye oh greataru? I’m certain if you raillied us under your flag that Vana’deil would know the might of a Typo led LS. I suppose it may be wishful thinking and a bitaru of loneliness on my part that demands this suggestion. However, I’d like the general Typo~fan communtity to voice thier opinion as to wether or not a new LS should be formed, under Typo’s guidance. Shall it be the 4th generation since the game started in North America that this particular LS group should endure? All I can say, is that if Typo were to form an LS I’d follow our leader even to the depths of hell (or even worse Valkrum).
Well now ish the time for me to shut up and sleep.
(By the way, never leave for two months. Not a single person in my level range knows who I am and I have been LFG for 2 days straight >.< Unless you are a ranger, or any other non-monk type of job. As a monk you are doooomed )
And that’s pretty much all that will happen this week, since I’ll be pretty busy with yucky uni coursework.
Typo joined the new linkyshell, so I see you all later~
Maybe I go solo BST later. At least if it ish only Typo I’m guaranteed to be spending time with someone that doesn’t irritate me.
"They are at war with us, so we must war with them!" Reading my reactions taru failed relations with such LS’s in the past months should indicate that I’ve had a hunch about this for a while. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, I don’taru know yet) ‘Your Fantasy’ proved Typotheory once again. All HNM linkyshells taru the same. They are all competetive, determined, dedicated and devoted to their own respective exclusive groups. That much ish elementary and expected, however, they are also children. They bicker, even amongst each other. They whine when they fail. They blame everyone but themselves. They have no sense of etiquette and support HNM stealing and MPK, attempting taru justify their behaviour by putting a positive spin on the situation (eg: as though MPKing gilsellers ish any different from doing the same to any other LS), they bad-talk and disrespect other linkyshells within the closed, protected environment of their own, where their victims cannot defend themselves. Cowards. Immature.
And all for gil.
You will not convince Typo that you are "just having fun" when your nature is taru better yourself at the expense of others. Quite frankly, none of my former "leaders" ish that good of a liar. Anyone claiming that their incessant pillaging of rotting HNM carcass ish merely for "fun" is either a newbie to this scene, or trying taru BS you something hardcore.
All HNM linkshells are the same. They will enter the high level scene as humble, eager new potential talent, and become big-headed and arrogant enough to outright berate others, some of them will do it despite the fact that the best they can do ish Serket. "Serket Breaker". Heh. What an accomplishment. Are there even as many as a literal handful of NA linkyshells who can do better ?:/ Doubtful. How many linkyshells of this nature actually stick together long enough to be able taru climb the ranks???
Yesterday, someone Typo used to respect told me that becasue other LS’s commit such crimes as MPK and NM stealing, that ish perfectly fine for her and the gang taru follow suit. I suppose if someone murdered a family member of yours it’d be completely within your right taru return the favour. Two wrongs make a right, and you are a "pussy" to just "sit there and take it". Another "friend" made it clear that if her immaturity (although she did not admit it as such) and that of her friends’ wasn’t acceptable, she could always be b-listed. The bulk of HNM linkshells are composed of people like this, and your leader will instigate and encourage more such behaviour.
Being of higher convention, Typo cannot exist in such an environment. I don’t practise elevating my name above others’, but in this case, how could I not ?._. I’m ashamed of ever having been a part of such riff-raff, and that goes for all 4 of my former HNM LS’s. Worse yet, because of my lack of experience and interest at this point, I could do no better. -.-
Is the concept of a body of people at or nearing the end-game stages, allying and forming a linkyshell which actually promotes decorum so impractical that no one even tries anymore?
I feel too bitter to even equip a regular linkshell right now.
One more thing. There are some who would read this and react in a "Welcome to reality! Get over it!" fashion. You try getting over losing friends and community spirit to others’ greedy, power-hungry impulses, then perhaps you can come to Typo with your talk.
"They are at war with us, so we must war with them!" Reading my reactions taru failed relations with such LS’s in the past months should indicate that I’ve had a hunch about this for a while. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, I don’taru know yet) ‘Your Fantasy’ proved Typotheory once again. All HNM linkyshells taru the same. They are all competetive, determined, dedicated and devoted to their own respective exclusive groups. That much ish elementary and expected, however, they are also children. They bicker, even amongst each other. They whine when they fail. They blame everyone but themselves. They have no sense of etiquette and support HNM stealing and MPK, attempting taru justify their behaviour by putting a positive spin on the situation (eg: as though MPKing gilsellers ish any different from doing the same to any other LS), they bad-talk and disrespect other linkyshells within the closed, protected environment of their own, where their victims cannot defend themselves. Cowards. Immature.
And all for gil.
You will not convince Typo that you are "just having fun" when your nature is taru better yourself at the expense of others. Quite frankly, none of my former "leaders" ish that good of a liar. Anyone claiming that their incessant pillaging of rotting HNM carcass ish merely for "fun" is either a newbie to this scene, or trying taru BS you something hardcore.
All HNM linkshells are the same. They will enter the high level scene as humble, eager new potential talent, and become big-headed and arrogant enough to outright berate others, some of them will do it despite the fact that the best they can do ish Serket. "Serket Breaker". Heh. What an accomplishment. Are there even as many as a literal handful of NA linkyshells who can do better ?:/ Doubtful. How many linkyshells of this nature actually stick together long enough to be able taru climb the ranks???
Yesterday, someone Typo used to respect told me that becasue other LS’s commit such crimes as MPK and NM stealing, that ish perfectly fine for her and the gang taru follow suit. I suppose if someone murdered a family member of yours it’d be completely within your right taru return the favour. Two wrongs make a right, and you are a "pussy" to just "sit there and take it". Another "friend" made it clear that if her immaturity (although she did not admit it as such) and that of her friends’ wasn’t acceptable, she could always be b-listed. The bulk of HNM linkshells are composed of people like this, and your leader will instigate and encourage more such behaviour.
Being of higher convention, Typo cannot exist in such an environment. I don’t practise elevating my name above others’, but in this case, how could I not ?._. I’m ashamed of ever having been a part of such riff-raff, and that goes for all 4 of my former HNM LS’s. Worse yet, because of my lack of experience and interest at this point, I could do no better. -.-
Is the concept of a body of people at or nearing the end-game stages, allying and forming a linkyshell which actually promotes decorum so impractical that no one even tries anymore?
I feel too bitter to even equip a regular linkshell right now.
One more thing. There are some who would read this and react in a "Welcome to reality! Get over it!" fashion. You try getting over losing friends and community spirit to others’ greedy, power-hungry impulses, then perhaps you can come to Typo with your talk.
I WAS kind of surprised when you told me yesterday that you were going after Serket… Especially since I know how you feel about such LSes already…
Ayko also seems to be feeling the same about it, she often talks about how high-level players tend to become arrogant and unrespectful about pretty much anything…
Sometimes I wonder if I even WANT to go past level 60…Meh.
I know that when I was mining in Gusgen Mines, I would never steal from anyone , even the gil-sellers that were stealing from me… And in time, I even saved them from aggro and with the passing days, from seeing me again and again, they progressively stopped stealing from me… One of the Lucks, Luckstar, even sent me a tell in Engrish saying " We no steal from you because you’re good people "
I don’t know if that makes me a better person than those guys, and frankly speaking, I don’t really care, but I guess that what I’m trying to tell you, Typo, is that if you and I won’t partake in such madness, then there HAS GOT to be others on Cerberus as well. The thing is, we just didn’t meet them yet. And besides, do we REALLY need to hunt HNMs ? Oh, maybe for a few drops…Well, that’s something we’ll deal it when we ACTUALLY NEED those drops, and as far as I know, it’s nowhere anytime soon, and for both of us.
Oh, that reminds me, apparently you know of my friendly PLD rival, Daison. He sent me a tell, being surprised that we knew each other, that one made me chuckle a bit 🙂
And speaking of PLD… I FINALLY managed, after 2 weeks and begging and pleading (God I hate pleading for help, but it’s not like I can actually do coffer key hunting on my own ; ;), to have help with my last coffer…Darn key dropped after 4 hours of bashing Demons and Ahrimans, but it went much easier than what my LS friends said it would. I kept telling them they were VT at best for me but for some odd reason, they seemed reluctant…Maybe it’s because it was in the dreaded Castle Zvahl Bailey’s, who knows ? Anyhow, at first I wasn’t able to get my coffer because I couldn’t figure out how to reach 2 of the spawn points (For those who don’t know, Castle Zvahl is a maze that’s built like a mirror, it’s very confusing at first, but once you understand how it’s built, finding your way is a snap ), so I spent 2 stacks of Powders and Oils without finding it, but when I came back after restocking, I figured out how to cover all 8 spawn points, so it was just of matter of time to get it, and 30 minutes later, there it was. Yes, AT LAST, NO MORE FRIGGIN’ COFFERS FOR ME !!! Boy, does it feel good. Sure, I will still have to help many friends with their keys, but that won’t bother me, and for 2 reasons :
1- I’m always willing to help my friends.
2- It’s an excellent way to do some skill-up…My Shield, Parry and Healing can ALWAYS take profit from that.
Anyway, now "all" I have to do is the NM fight in Davoi…which requires an alliance *sigh*. That means a few more hours of shouting and begging in Jeuno …Grrr… Oh well, I’m so close now, I can only hope I’ll manage to do it. With luck, maybe I’ll get it done this week-end…that would be SO GREAT *sigh* …
If Kristof or Thornn are reading or anyone else that I may have missed for that matter. I’ve posted what the contests intail on the Alakazam Cerbreus forums and my reasons for leaving in a big old (and marked so you can avoid it) rant. I still need to get people thier pearls so help me help you and find me 😉
Yeah, Typo neglected taru mention anywhere that he’d been trying to get back into the HNM game by occasionally going on Simurgh hunts with YF. I desperately needed (still do) a hefty sum, and so I dusted off the mage robes and donned me old wizard’s hat once again.
Ayko also seems to be feeling the same about it, she often talks about how high-level players tend to become arrogant and unrespectful about pretty much anything…
Sometimes I wonder if I even WANT to go past level 60…Meh.
A certain circle of high-levels, not all of them, just a moderataruly sized group of them have these arrogant tendancies – ish just that when the good guys enter into their realm they get spoiled and convert to bigotry. That has been Typo’s experience, anyway, watching friends slip away into a state of intolerance for anyone or thing below level 65. -.-
The process of leveling beyond level 60 was fun at times for Typo. Most of the time you’ll see recurring characters in your PTs and form bonds with them that can lead to meeting their friends and entering another linkyshell community/social circle. It isn’t all bad, until you get taru HNM.
I guess that what I’m trying to tell you, Typo, is that if you and I won’t partake in such madness, then there HAS GOT to be others on Cerberus as well. The thing is, we just didn’t meet them yet. And besides, do we REALLY need to hunt HNMs ? Oh, maybe for a few drops…Well, that’s something we’ll deal it when we ACTUALLY NEED those drops, and as far as I know, it’s nowhere anytime soon, and for both of us.
Yesh, many cutthroat HNMers are on the hunt for coveted drops that aren’t otherwise or easily obtainable, but the majority are after gil. Typo falls intaru the latter for now. Ish an "easy" way taru fill the bank. I’m sure that most would rather partake in epic battles with powerful creatures in a strong alliance, and possibly make a few hundred thousand or more per run, than sit on their asses all day camping Lizzy, Emperor, or in Typo’s case Hoo Mjuu the Snoozer. I gave up after becoming 2/35.
An alliance of 10 at level 65 could effortlessly dismantle Simurgh. Strider Boots are now between 6 – 7 million, netting each member at least 600k for a real non-issue of a battle. He isn’t very heavily camped, either. Before these high-level communities start to rot, HNM ish a fun and interesting experience. ‘Course, once you realize how good you have it, you may get greedy.
I often wonder how it is with Dynamis.
Oh, that reminds me, apparently you know of my friendly PLD rival, Daison. He sent me a tell, being surprised that we knew each other, that one made me chuckle a bit 🙂
Nice guy. Calls Typo (Tonberry). I consider it a compliment, considering he ish elvaan and therefore easily mistakened for a (dhalmel). I met him when I joined Lunacat’s linkyshell. Small world, eh ?:3
And speaking of PLD… I FINALLY managed, after 2 weeks and begging and pleading (God I hate pleading for help, but it’s not like I can actually do coffer key hunting on my own ; ;), to have help with my last coffer…
AT LAST, NO MORE FRIGGIN’ COFFERS FOR ME !!! Boy, does it feel good.
Anyway, now "all" I have to do is the NM fight in Davoi…which requires an alliance *sigh*. That means a few more hours of shouting and begging in Jeuno …Grrr… Oh well, I’m so close now, I can only hope I’ll manage to do it. With luck, maybe I’ll get it done this week-end…that would be SO GREAT *sigh* …
Congratarulations, and you can count on Typo taru help you with AF3, provided I’m awake/not working at the time. ;3
Cania, things won’taru be the same without you. Me miss you already. ._. Typo can come to Jeuno at anytime, so when you ready I can meet you there~
And as far as HNM are concerned to me…Well…once I reach level 61, I must go back to SAM to get it to 18 (at 14 now) then WAR at 37. That will take a little while on its own, considering the unpopularity of Warriors. Meh. But I suppose that once I get around 65 or so I’ll end up fighting some of them.
Cania’s leaving has been making me feel so very depressed in particular. I can’t even really explain it. I mean, I have known Cania for a while and I’ve always enjoyed her company on the LS but we have never been *very* close. But something about her leaving is just erking me beyond imagination and this whole "win a million gil" contest thing she’s doing is just making me want to rip my hair out, and I dont know why at all, I can’t describe it.
Plus out of all the people I know that are Up in the 65+, you are the only one I know that I can still really count on. I know requests for help can be rather annoying, but at least you will respond. Many people that I know, and thought I was rather good friends with wouldn’t even respond if I asked them if they wanted to go on a Temple of Uggalepih coffer key hunt. That just hurts, makes me want to cry. I have no problems with people that do not want to help for one reason or another, but if you dont even have the decency to respond to a tell (and I know they aren’t AFK) than that is just depressing. Thanks again for the AF2 help Typo, it really brightened my day.
Sorry if I’m ranting or whatever but its like I can’t even describe the way I’m really feeling, I just know I’m not feeling right about the game, and I dont know what to do to fix it.
And on a side note, Congratumalations on AF3 Eva^^ Wow was that quest annoying though. <(^_~)> hehe
I mined for ore yestaruday~
Ifrit’s doesn’t seem so bad
But ish luck going to go me way..
I want a Lu Shang’s Rod
I want it more than kitty
If Typo no get a Lu Shang’s Rod
Things will look real shi- a cat!
*licks it*
tee-hee.
For added excitememnt there is imminent death waiting around every corner in the volcano!
As for Cania, very sorry to hear you’re calling it quits. I’m just getting over a real bitter streak myself (and so sorry if some of it brushed off on you or anyone else this last week or two). This is a very trying time for the FFXI community and the usual fun and sillyness you hear in LS chatter has turned to talk of gil sellers and jumping ship. I personally cannot wait till december for this period of uncertainty to end. WoW will have claimed its victims and the gil sellers will have a new world to exploit. Only now they’ll be called "gold coin seller guys" or whatever the new currency is over there >.>
And Kristof I truly hope I wasnt one of the people you had contacted for help and not get a reply… If I was in jeuno and LFG I am very unreliable to contact. Those LFG sessions have gone on for hours.. days lol.
I mined for ore yestaruday~
Ifrit’s doesn’t seem so bad
But ish luck going to go me way..
I want a Lu Shang’s Rod
I want it more than kitty
If Typo no get a Lu Shang’s Rod
Things will look real shi- a cat!
*licks it*
tee-hee.
Now I understand why your LS mates replied "Typo, please hide the Mithra…" when we went to Davoi 🙂
Thanks again, Kristof. Annoying ? Heh, you’ve only seen ONE PART of it…It took me 2 weeks just to be able to get help with the coffer part, and it took 4 hours of demon and ahriman killing…
It wasn’t even over after the 2 NMs fights ( Bloodust actually invited me because of you, Typo, that means I’m supposed to thank you lol ). And boy, what a fight it is :p The first one was almost chaotic, because we didn’t concentrate on the RNG first, and then other orcs spawned and linked. However, the second time, we timed the clearing of the area and we concentrated on the RNG while one tank and a healer kept the PLD busy. Those 2 NMs really are as they say : The RNG hits hard ( I got hate after a fully-powered Spirits Within and it was easily hitting me for 250 :p ) but actually goes down easily while the PLD doesn’t really hit hard but man, won’t he ever go down ? He even can and WILL use Invincible ; ; You’d almost think it is immortal…
Anyway, after that I was to San d’Oria, Jugner Forest, then San d’Oria again. Seeing 2 very good cutscenes that once again reminded me of why I am a PLD ( Quoting an NPC from the quest : " No, the strong doesn’t win fights…the righteous does ! " ) , I became a Paragon of Paladin Excellence and was awarded my Gallant Surcoat.
…
It may be because those quests annoyed me so much, but even though the Surcoat is in my inventory and ready to be equipped in 10k exp, I can hardly believe I’m actually DONE with AFs … Yeah, as I said, I’ll have to go key hunting and such to help friends that will eventually need it, but just knowing that I won’t need it for myself anymore…is such a freedom.
Heh, what’s next ? Getting to 60, doing Genkai III and leveling WAR…
Todey: 3 adaman ores, 1 orihalcum ore, 2 darksteel ores + other goodies = 400,000 + in 6 hours.
Current gil count: 1,250,000
Ifrit’s > Fishing ;o
Still going taru get that rod when I can afford it, though. X3
Todey: 3 adaman ores, 1 orihalcum ore, 2 darksteel ores + other goodies = 400,000 + in 6 hours.
Current gil count: 1,250,000
Ifrit’s > Fishing ;o
Still going taru get that rod when I can afford it, though. X3
lol Was about time you realize that mining is better than fishing.
I wish I was a mage though, because I can’t mine in Ifrit`s Cauldron.
But hey, it’s not that bad, still.
I finished Genkai III yesterday, I ended with a small alliance for the Oztroja part but the Davoi and Beadeaux parts were a joke to do alone. So I’m going up to 61 then PLD gets a well-deserved rest. Indeed, I’ll have to work on SAM and WAR. That will take a while, and I’ll miss PLD though ; ;
0. Unless you’re some kinda resourceful high-level PLD/RDM/BST/THF, you’ll most likely get 1-shotted by a Volcanic Gas anyway. Typo as WHM gets clobbered for over 400 HP in a normal hit. Field gear makes you weak. ;3
And the main reason I’ve never tried Ifrit’s mining before ish that I never knew that any level adventarurer could safely do it, provided they can sneak/invis/tonko. Definitely beats cap fishing, but can it beat Lu Shang’s? Typo shall find out next week probably. \(*’-‘)/
Todey: 3 adaman ores, 1 orihalcum ore, 2 darksteel ores + other goodies = 400,000 + in 6 hours.
Current gil count: 1,250,000
Ifrit’s > Fishing ;o
Still going taru get that rod when I can afford it, though. X3
You should share some of that with mama. 😉 :p
I probably spent a good amount of time today working on missions cuz Evad kept pushing me to do them. :p And where has it gotten me? Stuck. Alexiel mama dun do missions for that reason. After I get back from the Inner Horutoto Ruins, who am I supposed to talk to? I tried talking to the guards, the cat burgular and the taru in Windy Waters and NOTHING! I asked 4 people including my dear Typo-son and nothing.. I sent two shouts out and nothing. So I said screw it and went to watch TV. If anyone knows, please lemme know. 😉
Ooooh. I might have to try it out. But I heard the bombs aggro on magic… is Tonko still an option? >.>
You’ll have plenty of safe spots and not-so-safe-but-adequate spots taru recast your stealth spells. Only thing ish healthy mining points (points that allow for more than 3 axe swings) that are close to bombs.. You’ll need to swing twice or 3 times, then find a place to run to recast invis. Typo carries a stack of silent oils (6k) and prism powders (5k) for emergencies, but usually I just keep behind the bombs and avoid aggro without having to use too many. Bombs don’t aggro Tonko, so ish useful in that respect. Typo too impatient to level NIN for it, though, and I also wouldn’t have any Warp as WHM/NIN. Not buying instant warp scrolls, either. ":3
…Although, Mijin Gakure could work… hmm. ;3
[EDIT] oh wait, you can’t use subjob’s 2hr. How Typo forget ?:3
Oh,
for mining there ish a "3 swings rule" that people will refer to that says "bombs always stay still long enough for you to mine 3 times". That’s a pretty bogus rule. While it is the case most of the time, alot of bombies will turn on ya as soon as you begin the 3rd swing and laugh at your face kissing the mud. 2 ish the safest number. ;3
Todey in 3 hours of mining Typo found 1 adaman and 1 orihalcum.
Add 220,000 to me current gil count~
EXACTLY !
But not only that, there is no reason NOT to have a higher Rank on its own.
1- The higher your Rank, the longer signet lasts.
2- Longer signet = less recasting it, more crystals, more conquest points, more of regional influence your home country has, more things available to buy from NPCs in your home country, and bragging rights for currently being first in conquest.
3- Higher Rank = Better items available to buy with CP, some of them REALLY being worth it, depending on your job and/or your home country. For example, I sure like my current mantle, the Republican Army Mantle. A great mantle that will last almost until the end of my PLD career. Also, by buying higher level items, you rise in "unofficial rank" in your home country’s army. For example, buying the mantle made me become a "Musketeer Commander". That’s not that much useful but hey, how’s that for a cool title ? :p
4- Rank 3 = Ability to join Expeditionary Forces. These are a BLAST. Basically, you get into an alliance, get into a territory, and fight for your country to reclaim a specific region. What does it give you ? Personal glory for succeeding it but most importantly, 3000 conquest points if you manage to give the region back to your country at the next tally.
5- Rank 3 = Able to get a Ballista License. I’ve yet to try that one ( I have my license but haven’t taken part in an actual match yet ), but I’ll definitely do it sometime.
6- Rank 5 = Airship Pass. What’s there to say ? To get it, you have 2 options : Get rank 5, or pay 500k…your choice, but I believe it’s a no-brainer.
7- Rank 6 = Ability to do the Rise of the Zilart Missions, which will in time enable you to go to Tu’Lia, the land of the gods, and where most level 70+ go for exp. Not only that, but the story of the game ( Yeah, there actually IS one. ) starts taking shape when you get Rank 3 and really gets interesting as you get Rank 5 and 6 and do the Zilart missions. Rank 7 to 10 were added later, as a side thing to do, but still they shoud be done, for reasons stated above. And trust me, you WANT to go fight the Shadow Lord, it’s one of the coolest fights ever you’ll have in this game. Isn’t that right, Typo ?
This isn’t only for you, Heather, it’s for everyone that gets behind in their Rank. Having an up-to-date rank is no less important than leveling your sub-job. And you REALLY, REALLY, should get Rank 3 NOW before anything else. Why ? The Dragon boss fight at the end of the final mission caps you at 25. Now is the time to do it, while most, if not all, of your gear is compatible.
As for your current mission :
After you went to a Mahogany door, located in G-8 and get a cutscene, you have to follow Ajido-Marujido to the House of the Hero which is…somewhere in Windurst (Hey, that’s your home country, not mine, so you should know where it is.) After that, go back to the Optistery and talk to Tosuka-Porika. That should be it for this mission. ( How come a Bastokan like me has to tell a Windurstian missions I’m not even supposed to know…go figure. )
After that, trade 3 or 4 stacks of crystals. You can skip the "A testing time" mission, what you want is to go straight for "The Three Kingdoms". That mission will require you to go to both San d’Oria and Bastok, and the order in which you choose to go will affect what you have to do. I’d suggest, since you are level 27 now and shouldn’t get aggro doing that part, that you go to Bastok first. I know I told Mogknight to do the opposite back then, but then he was around level 22 or 23 when he did it. Since you won’t get aggro while refining sand ( and at worst if you see some EPs, just cast sneak, Quadavs are blind ), it should be easier for you. However, I believe getting a party to fight the Dragon in San d’Oria is usually harder than in Bastok. So, your choice.
Subbing ninja is optional and much safer, but it is also cost effective compared to prism poweder. Actually of equal importance is their "stealth" passive trait which makes hostile enemies less likely to notice you. Best off all, you get these important traits by level 9. Thats it!
Cheap non-magical invis, and a form of "presence mask" that will let you get off that 3rd or 4th swing in there more often. All from a level 9 subjob!
And Sneak is only a L20 rdm/whm spell, so a L20 rdm/nin is all it takes to get maximum return from cauldron mining. Plus at 20 you can take the chocobo deep into the jungle to get there in the first place. And if you die, L20 only loses a trivial amount of exp. Never mine with your real job, where 2k exp loss due to a slip up is a tragedy. Agro in there is usually death for any level and you usually wont get time to warp, so go in with the minimum.
Taking a mage to 20 is pretty painless, but be sure to pad it with exp. If you die too much, a 5 minute trip from kazham gets you back to Qufim, where a low 20’s whm will get an invite in ohhh, say about 8 seconds…
So go and enjoy, but please dont bring your entire LS… lol. Typo doesnt need the competition.
Now back to Windy to finish the mission so I can continue on my way.
Now back to Windy to finish the mission so I can continue on my way.
See ? It wasn’t that painful :p And congrats on your Rank 3.
Don’t worry, I won’t bug for rank 4 until a few more levels, but if you want a good reference :
Level 35-40 = You should go get Rank 4.
Level 40+ = Rank 5
Level 50 = Do Mission 5-1 (level cap 50)
Level 55= Go fight the Shadow Lord and get Rank 6.
That’s pretty much it, really. So now you can go back to getting WHM to 30 for now, happy ? lol
Todey it’s time taru start buying carpies and trading them to the silly dhalmel fisherelf in Port San d’Oria. With 2.6 million (me original target), paired with the return of 1200 per moat carp stack, the required 834 stacks are affordable. Since I a little richer than that though, the rod shall comfortably belong taru ME in a matter of days. ^^;,
Ta taru~!
PS – Hau Gorgeouskitty~! *licky*
Todey it’s time taru start buying carpies and trading them to the silly dhalmel fisherelf in Port San d’Oria. With 2.6 million (me original target), paired with the return of 1200 per moat carp stack, the required 834 stacks are affordable. Since I a little richer than that though, the rod shall comfortably belong taru ME in a matter of days. ^^;,
Ta taru~!
PS – Hau Gorgeouskitty~! *licky*
Ugh…he ACTUALLY dit it…Wow. lol Congrats Typo !
you going to look so good fishing with new fishing rod soon ^ ^ Typo rich and loved taru taru ^ ^
if typo need help from kitty please let kitty know ^^
xoxo gorgeous kitty
licks typos kawaii face
you going to look so good fishing with new fishing rod soon ^ ^ Typo rich and loved taru taru ^ ^
if typo need help from kitty please let kitty know ^^
xoxo gorgeous kitty
licks typos kawaii face
Thankies sommuch, kittycat~!^^ Typo will post some piccies from yestaruday later! :3 I think maybe I should getaru some sleep now before I –
*passes out*
Anyway, I’m taking a week off FFXI, for my coming exam on next Wednesday.
I finished leveling SAM to sub to WAR and I worked on Great Axe, too, so I started working on my real sub. I got it midway into level 33 now. I’m glad to see the combo works well though. I’m even surprised at how well I can "tank" even with Berserk on O_o I mean, sure I can’t take damage as well but since I do more damage I actually can hold hate surprisingly well for a post-30, 2H weapon wielding ( I use both Great Axe and Great Sword, depending on the members we have and the aimed SC. ) and non-tanking WAR. Sure, the mob still sometimes goes after the mages but a temporary voke from anyone else works too. Therefore, two WARs that work together usually can be all the tanking a party needs. I’ve played PLD for so long that I forgot how much a GOOD Warrior can actually be good. I was starting to recently remember it after having a WAR/NIN named Batosia in some of my parties, though. He would hit so hard with his Dual Wield Axes that, combined with +enmity AF, he would sometimes steal hate from me but simply temporarily blink tank to allow me to reclaim hate ( Never took more than a few seconds, but still ).
In short, I recently rediscovered how much I loved Warrior…but make no mistake, I’m a Paladin through thick and thin, and will always prefer that job over any other. I actually enjoyed Samura??? while I leveled it to 18, too.
Anyway, 3 and a half levels then I can take Paladin all the way to the top. But after I’m done with Warrior, I might actually devote myself to a craft. Indeed, it’s about time I try to explore that for real and I’ve decided that maybe I’ll give cooking a go. Being able to cook my own food could be good. I’m aiming at making my own Boiled Crab, specifically. That means that if I do decide to work on cooking, I’ll try raising it at around 30. But we’ll see about that, maybe I’ll try hitting 65 as Paladin first, once I’m done with Warrior. All of that will be decided in only a week though.
Me estimates were quite off. Carpies are worth 5-6k/stack nowadays, which would have been considered a crime in the old days… Ish typical that such things appreciate in value when Typo ish not trying taru profit from them >.>;;
Anyway, without having to go intaru too much of an explaination I’ll just say that I’ll need to do some more mining to reach me target of – 540k – and I actually looking forward to going back taru the volcano! I missed it dearly these past few days… ; ;
Typo’sh aiming to be a legendary Lu Shang fisher in the next 3 days at the very worst, making me one of few who can claim to have "picked up" the coveted ultimate rod in a mere fortnight~!
lol Does the Lu Shang really looks different when you’re fishing or you can only tell when we /check you ?
You’d have taru check Typo to know I have it. ;3
Congratarulations on your progress with WAR and SAM! Reading your post brings back memories of decent PTs with 2 WAR mains sharing the hate and making life fairly easy for Typo, the WHM. "X3 I think maybe I miss those mid levels where leveling isn’t such a chore. I dunno. ":3
Good luck with your exam. ^^
Gorgeous! Typo found this:
We PTed together when we were leveling our earlier jobs! This was almost a year ago, taken in January. To think Typo and kitty go back that far! Digging up old piccies ish neato. ^^;
Speaking of Typokitty piccies, we met in Jeuno the other night to take some piccies in Ru’lude! I too sleepy right now though, so I get them up tomorrow and get working on kitty’s siggy. Typo promise! ; ; *licky*
My second party took place in Eastern Altepa Desert. It would have been awesome if it weren’t of people’s stupidity ( long story… ) but instead I ended up with barely average exp. Anyway, as I said, I’m midway into 33, and the goal is 37.
Speaking of piccies, I realized I haven’t taken any pictures of you, Typo. I need to remedy to that sometime.
Some sillycat started following us around…she was licking Gorgeouscat all the time. Typo had to take a time out from all the kinkyness before taking more piccies. "X3
double catass ;3 ;3
Kitty in her uniform!
And then she slipped intaru something more sexy comfy~ ^^;
Had alot of fun in Ru’Lude that nighty~^^ Kitty ish such a sweety~! *licky*
) :3licks Typo Rice
xoxo gorgeous
and my sig ^ ^ aiyah your the best ^^
Ash Dragon (
). A very far shot, but Typo couldn’taru be bothered to get closer. ":3 A mining point ish to my right, and incidentally marks the spot where I died tonight because of some silly girl trying taru grab it before me. Bleh.
And for kitty, Hurricane Wyvern (
).
Glad you like the customs, Gorgeous~^^
Typo sleep now.
licks typo goodnight
gorgeous
I want a custom avatar and sig, too. Will you make me one, Typo ?
Thing is, we won’t have the chance to see each other until later this week-end or the next week.
Not only was I going to stop for a week because of my exam, but now I might have something that’ll keep me away from my PS2 for a couple more days. We have learned this morning that my cousin, who was my age, died in a car accident. Depending on when the funeral is, I might simply pass by Sherbrooke where my "toys" are for a few hours 😛 Anyhow, we’ll see.
I want a custom avatar and sig, too. Will you make me one, Typo ?
Thing is, we won’t have the chance to see each other until later this week-end or the next week.
Not only was I going to stop for a week because of my exam, but now I might have something that’ll keep me away from my PS2 for a couple more days. We have learned this morning that my cousin, who was my age, died in a car accident. Depending on when the funeral is, I might simply pass by Sherbrooke where my "toys" are for a few hours 😛 Anyhow, we’ll see.
Sorry to hear about your cousin, Dave..
Whenever it ish you’re able taru get back on I’ll take some piccies and get ya those new customs~
I been searching for that heat thingy I need to finish up getting summoner for the last couple days now and STILL nothing.. X_X
Valkrum dunes will have it every so often, but Altepa Desert is the real one, it has heat about every few hours. Check with the NPC on which day it will appear and just wait for it or fish in Rabao until the day comes up, just stay around the zone and nab fire when it comes up.
Typo is a taru too rich for his own good, now I miss the volcano in which I mined my first good ores. To bad they are nearly worthless compared to the pre-summerfest event, orichalcum ore was over 280k a piece then, and Adaman was 220k.
I want a custom avatar and sig, too. Will you make me one, Typo ?
Thing is, we won’t have the chance to see each other until later this week-end or the next week.
Not only was I going to stop for a week because of my exam, but now I might have something that’ll keep me away from my PS2 for a couple more days. We have learned this morning that my cousin, who was my age, died in a car accident. Depending on when the funeral is, I might simply pass by Sherbrooke where my "toys" are for a few hours 😛 Anyhow, we’ll see.
Kitty so sorry to hear that Eva ; ; Kitty wish you and your family best wishes.. and i know you will over come this tragic loss ^ ^ Be brave sweetie
Kitty Sis Heather…. Typo try giving kitty pearl but no can do ; ; I meet up with you soon to get pearl ja ^ ^
Typo yum yum taste like cherry sweet rice ^ ^
Kitty licks Typo :3
I wasn’t paying attention…which event ?:3 And which server ?:o
And from the other thread~:
Lol ya I was….you are too rich, every time I go there some idiot steals my point or I have to Chainspell out. Volcanic Bombs have killed me as I chainspelled out before, which is very odd considering they are only VT.
There is better money in digging anyways though, I know people who have dug up several elemental ores in minutes in the right areas at the right time and in the right spot. Still three light elemental ores yield 600k+ while all the other stuff she got added up to a million easy.
You say Typo ish too rich, then you tell me there ish even more to be made in digging. "X3 Personally, I believe I deserved to come into this kind of money a very, very long time ago, so any comments about me about being rich ish met with me response, "it’s about time." :3
Also, it seems to me that digging ish more trouble than it’s worth to begin with, especially with having a chocobo digging level to raise. Since Typo will be busy with taking fishing and woodworking skills to higher levels soon, the last thing I need ish to have another skill to worry about leveling, especially when digging, like mining revolves around a certain degree of luck anyway. So me stick to mining for now~ 200 – 500k per day (usually 6 hours at max, sometimes give or take a couple) suits Typo quite nicely for now. ;3
Typo won the lucky roll last night. ;3 10k + Light Cluster. Speaking of which, mama, how did Rabao treat you last night ?;3
It waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark when I got to that place and there were like at least 6 ghosts hanging around. But I got my questy and carby!
Chocobo Digging is a 3 month affair….but can be well worth it.
Well Summerfest took place in around July, must have been before you joined. It was a killer for the mining economy on all servers. Espically Pandemonium which Adaman ore prices sunk lower then 70k a piece and Orichalcum was commonly around 90k. Lvl 1’s were mining with equip in Ifrit with no exp loss, infinite sneak and invis and since it was infinite sneak they could avoid the bombs and mine up to hundreds of points if at full, then the next hour or whenever could get back in and then mine mine mine…..it killed the mining industry, over 5 months the prices are steadily climbing back up, about 1k a week. Though hundred of ores are consumed a month, the prices are pretty constant….
Nu "X3 Typo wasn’t paying attention as in, I didn’t waste me time with summerfest, and didn’t know how mining came intaru the equation. I’ve been around since the NA release of FFXI. :3
It was a killer for the mining economy on all servers. Espically Pandemonium which Adaman ore prices sunk lower then 70k a piece and Orichalcum was commonly around 90k. Lvl 1’s were mining with equip in Ifrit with no exp loss, infinite sneak and invis and since it was infinite sneak they could avoid the bombs and mine up to hundreds of points if at full, then the next hour or whenever could get back in and then mine mine mine…..it killed the mining industry, over 5 months the prices are steadily climbing back up, about 1k a week. Though hundred of ores are consumed a month, the prices are pretty constant….
Not sure if adaman and orichalcum ores were ever as valuable on Cerberus as they seem taru be on your server, but nowadays both are around 120k in Jeuno~
Mamacat, congratarulations on officially becoming a SMN! *bites her nose~*
New deadline for quest completion ish Thursday.
Typo ish terminally burned out when it comes to mining. I can’t do this much longer, but even after Lu Shang I’ll still need taru make some cash before I can do something "constructive". "X3 Although I missed the actual volcano setting, I realized during a brief mining session todey that I really really need to get out of these smelly oily greens and return taru the shiny-armoured fray of battle. Sadly, after having taken such an extensive hiatus from me latest discipline, I’ve actually lost some of that passion I once possessed for BST. It also doesn’taru help that me Lunakitty has disappeared and I miss her so…
Fortunately there’s some good in all of this. For once I actarully feel enthusiastic about venturing into other job disciplines…THF, NIN, RNG, WAR, MNK… There has been a sudden resurgence of motivation within me lately. Perhaps me newly-found fortune was the pick-me-up this little tarutaru needed all this time, or could this just be a passing phase ???:O
Whatever it is, Typo hope it lasts..
But there are many benefits to the lonely life of mnk. Monk activities include sweeping your sidewalk while waiting for invite, doing dishes while waiting for invite, and processing tax forms on those quiet days in lower jeuno. ^^
Rangers seem like much happier people, their downfall being poverty. You solved that problem recently so go shoot stuff. Be a taru gunslinger ^^ Maybe you could keep the fungus hat? It would go with the mysterytaru gunslinger theme. Cats around the world will love you for it. (more so)
But there are many benefits to the lonely life of mnk. Monk activities include sweeping your sidewalk while waiting for invite, doing dishes while waiting for invite, and processing tax forms on those quiet days in lower jeuno. ^^
Rangers seem like much happier people, their downfall being poverty. You solved that problem recently so go shoot stuff. Be a taru gunslinger ^^ Maybe you could keep the fungus hat? It would go with the mysterytaru gunslinger theme. Cats around the world will love you for it. (more so)
MNK’s main sexiness factor ish me backflip! But of course that doesn’t come until later on in tarumnk’s career ; ;
Honestly Typo ish leaning more towards NIN (may surprise some, seeing as BLM tend to be pro-PLD ;3), RNG, THF, WAR, possibly in that order. :3 They also compliment each other nicely, job/sub-wise.
Whatever I choose, nobody knows until I stick it in here !;3
…
Why am I spending so much time staring at my avatar (
). Could it be the light in which I captured Typo…no, the lighting effect I created for him, that just so happens to produce such a cheeky, almost sinister aura about him? I love that expression he’s wearing. He somehow reminds me of SNK’s Rugal Bernstein.
How dashing!
I think this edit is just an excuse to say: tarus are awesome. Especially mine. "X3
Gorgeous licks Typo… night night Typo Rice
Gorgeous licks Typo… night night Typo Rice
*huggles kitty* That’s been happening to everyone alot lately…close friends leaving for various reasons.. >.>; Typo ish sawwy.. But you can bet Typo will always be here for you, kitty!
I’m glad you’re liking BLM! Maybe Typo come watch over you sometime and see how you do~ *licky*
and if dumb orc try to kill Kitty …. TYpo blow him up ^^
http://home.nycap.rr.com/mike23/asuran/tarumasuran.gif
Sadly this 8-hit wonder is only available at L71+ >.<
….YAAAY! Hi everyone! ^_^ *does the I still exist dance*
Yeah so anyway….Typo, I didn’t tell you why I’m gone?
Thank YOu Kitty Mama for ls pearl ^^
Kitty liks Typo ^^
gorgeous
xoxo
….YAAAY! Hi everyone! ^_^ *does the I still exist dance*
Yeah so anyway….Typo, I didn’t tell you why I’m gone?
Lunacat! Lunacat! *Typotackle~* I so happy taru see you! Ja you did say a while ago that you might have had to stop playing, but then one day you kinda just vanished. Bad kitty! :3 Now you owe Typo extra licks for missing me bday, AND for christmas !;3
Sillycat, welcome~ *licks her face*
—
So I woke up not too long ago and read this (http://www.playonline.com/updateus/041209we8yu0.html). Kinda wondering about what effect this will have on mining, and if it’ll help congestion in Ifrit’s at all. After all, ish not hard taru just zone out and then back in again after a lap around the volcano…
Also, thieves are so owned in Oz. ;3
The buying price for the following items has been adjusted:
Black Sole/Silver Shark/Bastore Bream
In the history of FFXI updates, the word "adjusted" has always meant something horribly morbid for legitimate players. Keep in mind that botters and gilsellers continue to thrive after these "fixes" (read: NERFS).
It is now possible that after all my time, effort, and nearly 3 million gil, the Lu Shang instrument is now worthless.
But we’ll see what really transpires after the update. I’m completely nonplused.
I just came back from my exam, and downloading the update. Thanks for putting up the link, Typo, it prevents me from having to search for it 🙂
I’m mainly interested in the changes made to the Promyvions… I guess that means I’ll get to try them again during the holidays. My previous attempts at both Promyvions-Holla and Promyvion-Dem ended in failure.
Tried to d/l the FFXI update, but constant errors make it pointless to try now.
Guess Typo will have to wait another few hours before realising his fate.
Tried to d/l the FFXI update, but constant errors make it pointless to try now.
Guess Typo will have to wait another few hours before realising his fate.
POL update took 5 minutes. The FFXI update keeps crashing, so I’ll try later this evening or when I come back in a few days.
Typo hope fishycat will be able taru stay! It’ll be a much needed plus amidst a plethora or blahs for Typo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I saw them in the model viewer and they look good.
http://tune.ache-bang.com/~vg/outitem/up/img/2623.jpg
But I found something that a "cat fancier" such as yourself will appreciate even more then silly hats.
All I can say is "femina sugligar" + Mithra = happy taru and trouble ^^
And stop trying taru make Typo happy when I’m busy feeling all angry grr and depressed. ":3
…but still, catpanties. Pic of them in use, by mithra. knini!
I love kitty for her fishysmell~
PS: {Christmas Cap} {Can I have it?} {Please}
I guess even Typo panicattacks (see what me do there? I give cookie if you guess!) like everyone else sometimes too. After holding a proper rest, something I haven’t experienced for a while contrary taru what you might think, I’ve mellowed a bit.
I won’t address much of the update at all, aside from the fact that I’m liking the drastic new food changes (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10&mid=1102622010167366648&num=53), especially varying durations and levels of effectiveness (food "caps" (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=24&mid=1102609202136207345&num=0), essentially) depending on one’s job, level, and stats. Releasing meself from mining and taking to Sarutabaruta once again as a humble lowbie might prove taru be more entertaining than I anticipated~! Typo gets to visit his old friends back home in Windy. "X3
Riding the post-update aftershock, Lu Shang fishers are holding ontaru their rods and monitoring unfolding developments in the market due to the culinary guild’s apparent hiring of new chefs. :3 So far one or two prospects (the meal sole sushi being one of them) are promising positive results for fishypeople, black sole fishers in this case. Perhaps the instrument of everyone’s desire will be restored to its former prosperitaruty in due time. For now, Typo will hold ontaru his gil rather than complete me former objective, and dedicate a fair amount to trying something new.
I’ve realized that in order for me to keep wanting to stick around I need to diversify me life a little. :3 There ish no real story behind the decision I’ve made, just a feeling that me next job choices (yesh, plural) will be plenty refreshing for everyone’s favourite Typo~.
I’m still a BSTaru, I have not quit. However, until me silly tarupal (and formerly that silly BSThume Saboak!) Inigo reaches 39 BST and can duo, Typo will be practicing on his punchingbags in moggiehouse by night, and taking it to the innocent wildlife out in the fields after breakkies~!
Heya Typo~ Justaru let you know I have decided to study in the skills of the beastymaster~ Lately I have been very annoyed by many of the people that I lvl with lol~ So I think some nice time alone will do me good. So far I’m only lvl 10 but I’m having a blast, if you have any tips feel free to share~!^^
Glad taru hear you’re enjoying the dance! Advice? If you’re having trouble. ;3
Meguess the only thing I have for you for nau ish some words of encouragement! You will meet lots of stray kitties in your adventures! Be nice taru them and maybe you get private licky behind tree or on back of crab.
???Hora le! ???Viva mi rrrazaaa~! [/TypoGuerrero]
PS: {Christmas Cap} {Can I have it?} {Please}
Nu. ;3
<3 Cat~
Had a catdream about super fun happy things. Typo stay in bed a little longer than usual. Happy nau ?:3
Instead of awkwardly jumping to NIN at this very moment, I plan taru experience the pain thrill of both MNK and THF, each of which Typo will take all the way up to Qufim and level 25~. Seriously I’m very excited, especially as this marks a departure from what I’ve been used to for the past year: Typo + melee/tank + PT = SKY FALL + PIG FLY (an equation for Lunacat to solve ^^).
These will be me 2 fully-leveled subs for WAR, and it will provide me PTs from 30 – 50 with the handy choice between TypoDD and Typotank~ At least, that’s what I think. "X3 If nothing else, at least I’ll be able taru add 2 more jobs to me steadily growing resume, and at 50 WAR I can freely fade to shadow and go tenchu on beastman-butt! (How cheesy~!) \(*’-‘)/
Tomorrow I go to Ifrit’s Belly and try taru fund meself for the next few weeks of leveling. Hopefully me make the usual 200k so I can get the Leaping Boots out of the way quickly. After that, ish time to put on the gloves!
— — —
When Typo /attacks and /ranged at the same time, I try to throw me g.axe like a javolin, only taru end up stabbing me cutsie Typoface…
That’s better. :3
Come taru think of it, these g.axes are a real kupo to hold… >.>;;;
But after a while I get used to it~ Shield break workss. :3
— — —
…
Cats. They are out there and they are still sexy. What me do about all of them… *sigh* make a piccie tribute, that’s what.. ._.;;
Bastokcats~
Not bad! …For a nation of ho-hum humes and fatties.
"Rrrrr pet me Typo! Stroke me gently nyau nyauuu~!!" (
) ; ;
…
Tailpulling Cha Chalco (
).
>.>;;;;;;;;;; (
)
Prettycat ^^
What other race could possibly be so perfect from silly catears, to fishytail ?:3
Ah, and then Gorgeous (
)~ One of the prettiest, tastiest sillycats ever!
Typo was just checking for any dusty crystal dust on the nifty dress, I swear. ^^;
Okiebai! \(*`.’)/
Oh, and Dave, sawwy to say but, the piccies I took the other day didn’taru come out too well… I didn’t have SEcam zoomed-in enough. >.> Typo sawwy! We’ll have to meet again another day. Send me a /tell when ready! ^^
/think….
/think….
/think….
I GET IT~! Typo fighting stuff is the end of the world! ^_^
Typo hits like a little girltaru too, he’s the only one that can melee along with his pet on BST =P I still pull hate at 40 >_<
I really really hope I can come back soon, this is killing me to be away from all of you guys so long >_< I actually want to get back to leveling, I have a whole bunch of jobs in the teens and 20’s I wanna work on…
Monk! Bash things in the face! And not much else! Wheee!
White Mage! FEAR MAH HAMMA! (Oops, was I supposed to be curing? >.>)
Ranger! NIN sub! THF sub! Plus, I just look plain cool!
Ninja! Freakish gun-weilding shield Ninja!
Dragoon! /poke was never this much fun!
Yeah…then there’s me other two mains, THF and BST…Thiefiness being a fairly high priority…and now that Oztroja will be empty thanks to the update, I can get me AF relatively easy ^_^ BST will be nice to get back to…I’m such a bum with it, I just hitch parties and make myself a DD >.> (BST/NIN dual weild AF Axe and a Great Club+1)
But yes, all my babbling and ranting really just amounts to how I want to play again =)
How ironic that your cam seemed to work perfectly fine on the Mithra, though… :p Darn, come on, what’s all that fetichism about them ? I prefer female humes all the way. I kind of like female elvaans too, but Mithra ? Sure, they dress up sexy and all, but their purring prevents me from sleeping after we’ve had s… I mean, yeah, I still prefer humes :p
Yeah, yeah, I’ll drop you a tell when I get back on, should be this evening. I’ve gotten WAR to 37 in 2 days of non-stop leveling, and by non-stop, that’s about what it is, one party of 6 hours and one of 4 hours :p And to celebrate that, I bought myself a nice gift : SAVE THE QUEEN ! And at a nice "discount" price, a "mere" 100k :p What am I going to do now ? What else, level up to 65 so that I may equip this legendary sword of course :p
EDIT : Oh, yeah, Typo, next time you call my home nation a "ho-hume and fatties" city, I’ll pin you little tonberry in the middle of a wall like some poster, then call in a Mithra who will slowly strip-tease in front of you, wear a whipped-cream "bikini", gets close to licking range and then…LEAVE YOU THERE, PINNED ON THE WALL, WHILE "I" GET TO LICK HER ! That’ll show ya ^^
*Runs off with Lunacat, forgiving her for the "girlytaru" remark~*
*Runs off with Lunacat, forgiving her for the "girlytaru" remark~*
lol No, we have 3 cats at home and let me tell you, catpurring does NOT make you sleep, you’re the one that obviously knows nothing about cats ^^
You still don’t get it :
Bastok is the proud mining republic of us humes and galka. While not as "green" as Windurst or San d’Oria, the town is extremely well laid-out, making it easy to navigate for first-timers. It’s also the smithing and goldsmithing haven. Yeah, I know, a lot of humes don’t respect the galka and enslave them in the mines, but this Paladin here respects them as his equal, Bastok would NEVER be what it is now without them. We had to adapt to the harsh climate and conditions of the barren mountains of Gustaberg to survive and flourish into the powerful nation that we are now. That’s quite a feat. And don’t talk to me about conquest here, we may be last right now but recently we were first half the time. And historically speaking, you owe the airship to Jeuno’s wealth and Bastok’s technology. Remember that. HAIL THE REPUBLIC !
San d’Oria is the dhal… I mean, Elvaan kingdom, surrounded by the beautiful forests of Ronfaure. Standard medieval kingdom, populated by tall people who abandoned the humes from the Tavanazian archipelago that was under their rule back during the crystal war. I sure wouldn’t be proud about that. But hey, can’t really blame them, the allied forces tried to help them and we failed as well… The Shadow Lord is that powerful you know :p
And then you got Windurst, hovel to tonberries and purring kitties that give insomnia… Yeah, you heard me right, hovel. I mean, come on, houses made of WOOD, surrounded by GRASS. Ever wondered what would happen if a mage that passes by accidentally casts Firaga on the wrong target ? :p Your town is so badly laid out and unnecessary spaced that you place tonberries to TELEPORT you around and avoid the hassle of working your little legs too much. What more do you need ? ^^ Oh yeah, so you’re near the sea and fish a lot…But about only cats really like fish, I am FORCED to eat crab ONLY because it boosts my defense. If it were me, I’d go for poultry anytime :p
*Note to any offended dhalmel or tonberry or purring kitty : If you can’t tell I’m playing with Typotonberry here ( even though Bastok still is the best nation by far ) and can’t take humorous posts, please go roll over in the grass of Sarutabaruta or sleep in the shadows of Ronfaure’s trees. Otherwise, if you wish to play along, feel free to reply, because it’s plain fun to play with Typotonberry, since apparently his Typocam only works on Mithra ^^. Thank you.*
Actarully, am I also the only one that notices that Windy ish the easiest city to navigate ?:3 It may take silly lowbies a while to discover the teleporters, but using them can take you anywhere quickly. Running from North Sandy to Port Sandy AH ish annoying. Running from Port Bastok to any AH ish annoying.. Where are your teleporters, Mr. Humetech! :O
Actarully, am I also the only one that notices that Windy ish the easiest city to navigate ?:3 It may take silly lowbies a while to discover the teleporters, but using them can take you anywhere quickly. Running from North Sandy to Port Sandy AH ish annoying. Running from Port Bastok to any AH ish annoying.. Where are your teleporters, Mr. Humetech! :O
Our teleporters are busy casting Firaga on your hovel, tonberry ^^ Seriously, why would WE need teleporters in a well built city ? Walk a bit, you’re getting so fat, all you tarus do is getting teleported and eating pies…no wonder you need a break and switch to melee jobs, but thing is, you’re so fat you can barely swing your axe once ^^
Oh, Bastok has tradition and fun, example : Dances with the Quadav ( Best Vana d’iel movie EVER ^^ ), mining, smithing, doing the Bernie run, climbing moutains, etc. Unlike Windurst, though, we have tradition, fun AND technology.
Catpurring is catpurring, period. A cat purrs, a Mithra purrs. That’s the same. Mithras are far more enjoyable, but real kitties are far cuter to just hold and hug ^^
Well-built cities always offer alternative methods of travel within their boundaries. Excepting Jeuno. Not even the lushness and vibrance of Windy can beat that kind of mastaruful architecture. Still, no better place taru cool off and relax after that awful Valkurm PT, or better place taru party day or night after a frighteningly monsterous BLM PT than that same very humble "hovel"~^^
Walk a bit, you’re getting so fat, all you tarus do is getting teleported and eating pies.
Kekeke, while you’re calling us tarutaru "fat", remember the majority of those who have kept you alive for all this time, Paladin! Remember the ones who accentuate battles in more ways one can mention with varying forms of magic, and where this magic comes from! Of course any race and any nation can learn magic, but think of how far under you would be without us ?:3
Although not the most important topic, technology falls in various places where magic prevails. Airships vs tele-spells and warps, for one. Keke "X3
And have you been talking to Daison? He likes the word "tonberry" alot, too. You know the destruction that tonberries have always been capable of, as well as the fear the very mention of their name injects into the hearts of more than half the population of Vana’diel, yesh? *^^ Thankies very much for the compliment!
..no wonder you need a break and switch to melee jobs
/nodnod, indeed, just one example of the versatility of our nation and its people! Think of why it ish universally more accepted for tarus to melee, as opposed to non-tarus as casters. ;3
Oh, Bastok has tradition and fun, example : Dances with the Quadav ( Best Vana d’iel movie EVER ^^ ), mining, smithing, doing the Bernie run, climbing moutains, etc. Unlike Windurst, though, we have tradition, fun AND technology.
"Tradition" as in getting yourselves dirty, and "fun" as in killing. I see ^^
Typo cannot expect a hume taru understand the importance of carefreeness and emotion over physical labour, violence, and worldly things such as technology…but I still forgive you!
Catpurring is catpurring, period. A cat purrs, a Mithra purrs. That’s the same. Mithras are far more enjoyable, but real kitties are far cuter to just hold and hug ^^
I apologize taru all me Typofans who had to read that. It can switfly be removed if you are offended, or just grossly bewildered by the absurdity of that statement. ;3
The majority of people that kept me alive were White Mages, other healers, and myself. Not all of them were Tarutarus, and considering I actually save others more often than I do get saved, it’s only natural for me to be rescued. You Tarutarus weren’t the ones who invented magic, the Zilart were. And guess what ? They look more like Humes than they do Tarutaru, don’t they ?
And have you been talking to Daison? He likes the word "tonberry" alot, too. You know the destruction that tonberries have always been capable of, as well as the fear the very mention of their name injects on more than half the population of Vana’diel, yesh? *^^ Thankies very much for the compliment!
Of course I know Daison, he’s my friendly dhalmel paladin rival. I’ve known him since a lot longer than you do, and my calling you tonberry was a direct reference to him. I thought you’d catch on faster, but hey, better late than never. Speaking of Daison, have you seen him recently ? Anyway, considering I’m powerful enough to actually FARM some tonberries now, I don’t really understand your reference to them, but to clear things up, let’s call you "sapling" from now on ^^
/nodnod, indeed, just one example of the versatility of our nation and its people!
VersaWHAT ? You’ve got the STR of a Hume child :p US HUMES REALLY are versatile, statistically speaking.
"Tradition" as in getting yourselves dirty, and "fun" as in killing. I see ^^
Typo cannot expect a hume taru understand the importance of carefreeness and emotion over physical labour, violence, and worldly things such as technology…but I still forgive you!
Oh, come on, what is better than getting dirty ( in all senses of the term, of course ) ? Nothing. And we don’t "kill" the Quadav, we protect Bastok from them.
*spoiler*Yeah, yeah, ONE Bastokan killed their eggs in Beadeaux, but Ulrich was zealous of Raogrimm and unworthy of his position as leader of the Mythril Musketeers. */spoiler*
Don’t go telling me there aren’t any bad and selfish Tarus around ( I have Shantotto in mind, for starters. ) I’m not responsible for that, you’re putting all of us Humes on the same level, yet the Quadav still are invading our land. It is up to me, as noble Paladin, to take arms and protect my fellow Bastokans.
I apologize taru all me Typofans who had to read that. It can switfly be removed if you are offeneed. ;3
If anyone is offended by this, I guess it only shows that truth hurts huh… 😉
EDIT : Darn you, sapling ! Why’d you go and edit your post while I reply ? :p It is acceptable to see Tarus melee but non-tarus as casters ? No, not really. Either isn’t good statistically speaking but compensable with superior player skill and gear. Also, Jeuno is a symetric city built by someone with superior knowledge … you know what I mean, but can’t tell in front of people who aren’t Rank 6 at least. So Jeuno doesn’t count, besides it isn’t even one of the starting cities. And the reason why Windurst placed teleporters is not because it’s well-built, it’s the total opposite. It was to compensate for its badly built hovel, no less ^^
Typo never stated us taru created magic, instead I acknowledge us as the superior practitioners of all forms of the art in this day and age. You like to talk statistically and you know that "statistically" and irregardless of "skill", this cannot be debated.
Of course I know Daison, he’s my friendly dhalmel paladin rival. I’ve known him since a lot longer than you do, and my calling you tonberry was a direct reference to him. I thought you’d catch on faster, but hey, better late than never. Speaking of Daison, have you seen him recently ? Anyway, considering I’m powerful enough to actually FARM some tonberries now, I don’t really understand your reference to them, but to clear things up, let’s call you "sapling" from now on ^^
Caught the reference immediately, and I’d think you’d know of his whereabouts, being such long-time close friends and rivals and all!
"Sapling" has no meaning in reference to taru, unless it’s another size "joke", which have become so last year, among other things like tarupunting, tarudancing and such.
VersaWHAT ? You’ve got the STR of a Hume child :p US HUMES REALLY are versatile, statistically speaking.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking the difference ish so massive, despite what the stats read. You’ll find out once you experience further high-level PTing, and later on, HNM.
Don’t go telling me there aren’t any bad and selfish Tarus around ( I have Shantotto in mind, for starters. ) I’m not responsible for that, you’re putting all of us Humes on the same level, yet the Quadav still are invading our land. It is up to me, as noble Paladin, to take arms and protect my fellow Bastokans.
Typo thought he had acknowledged in me last entry the fact that we taru aren’t perfect! Well, I do it here~ Typo ish not arrogant, unlike some…!
If anyone is offended by this, I guess it only shows that truth hurts huh… 😉
The truth hurts only when there ish presence of truth. Otherwise, rumors and personal bias stated as fact simply get snuffed.
It is acceptable to see Tarus melee but non-tarus as casters ? No, not really.
Not simply "acceptable", but regarded as more acceptable. Any race for any job ish acceptable, but from Typo’s conversations and readings, people would prefer a taru MNK than a hume BLM. Read more FFXI forums, and experience countless LS debates on the said same topic to arrive at the same conclusion. "X3 Typo’s personal experience leads me taru agree, also.
And the reason why Windurst placed teleporters is not because it’s well-built, it’s the total opposite. It was to compensate for its badly built hovel, no less ^^
Teleporters were placed in Windy taru offer an alternate means of travel within its walls, a luxury given to those who complain about the size of our nation. Keke, a large city does not equal something badly built! How ironic it ish that you big people love such enclosed areas, and that we are being called "lazy" and "fat" by someone who can’t stand taru walk the distance!
Anyway, this silly back-and-forth thingy ends here. Typo likes the fun, but after a while it begins to get more violent, and it might actarully get people to believe in things other than the truth, something that’s being distorted here.
Nah, I took a week-off, and Daison hasn’t been on since I came back. Just because I said I’ve know him for longer than you’ve known him never meant he’s my super close bud :p If he didn’t tell me where he was going, then I don’t know where he is, that simple.
Besides, buddy, if the difference in stats wasn’t so massive, then by all means try arguing with your future parties that won’t want a Galka WHM in their party. I’ve tried making them understand that player skill *is superior than race, but not everyone wants to understand, and I was thinking you’d know that fact as well. What I stated was a fact, Humes are more versatile than Tarus statistically speaking. The difference might not be massive, but it’s still there. You can’t deny that. And NO, I won’t prefer a Tarutaru MNK over a Hume BLM, BLMs are more useful in parties than Monk pre-60, and even if I’d have the choice, I’d take the one that plays his job correctly and isn’t a dick. Anyone who starts really arguing about that wastes their time, really.
Woah, woah, you’re not arrogant, "unlike some" ? Geez, I’m not sure if you’re aiming at me or not, pal. Geez, you’ve know me for years and you actually can’t tell when I’m joking or not ? I’ve pointed it in a previous post, therefore I’ll say it again : If you can’t take a joke, go roll in the grass of Sarutabaruta. O_o
I’ll repeat it again, Mithra purring = Cat purring. Both aren’t going to let you sleep, they’ll wake you up. Real kitties are way more fun to hold and hug. Mithras aren’t real, you can’t hold and hug them, just virtually flirt with them. It’s a fact, get over it ^^
Finally, you obviously was starting to get irritated by my jokes, and for that, I can apologize, but not for simply trying to have fun with you. Calling me arrogant without good reason and saying you’re ending the debate without giving the other party a chance to explain himself is low, Typo, and you know it.
Literally, and in an exp PT setting, a PLD ish saved more than he saves. Without a healer, a brilliant PLD can only sustain himself for a small period of time with very limited MP + Invincible before falling. A brilliant NIN has the resources to at least stay alive longer, and possibly emerge victorious without needing to be healed. You cannot kill what you can’t touch.
This has nothing to do with NIN supposed to or not supposed to be tanks, they just are, that’s how it is.
Next. Referring to taru melee over a non-taru mage, I explained how it seems that across all servers, it is widely more accepted to have the former over the latter. Whether or not you have come to see that does not concern me. It doesn’t matter that you would prefer a hume BLM to a taru MNK because BLM are more useful – I’ve never asked for that opinion, I’m simply trying to point out that despite taru’s lower STR and ATK, the difference in performance between taru melee and other races in melee form is less noticeable than that of taru mage and, using the example you gave, a galka WHM.
Next. "If you can’t take a joke, go roll in the grass of Sarutabaruta. O_o" How benevolent of you, buddy. I will use that philosophy against you as you struggle with me calling you "arrogant" for the second time in this journal. It’s the same principle – I believe I have a great sense of humor, only this isn’t fun or funny to me anymore, and do not appreciate even the smallest insinuation of me not being able to take a joke. Similarly, you were just having fun and believed I was also, and are now sore that you came off as something totally different.
Joking around is good if the other party is having fun with your joking. To me your wording can be strong and harsh, and not necessarily identifiable as humorous for the most part. This is not an issue with how others interpret your words, but more an issue of how you address different people, joke or not. I called you "arrogant" because that is how you are coming off as to me. You may not have intended it that way, but that ish how I’m percieving it. I’m not being spiteful, I’m just letting you know how I, the host of this very journal feels about this attitude you can sometimes display, and if I don’t like it I don’t need to go anywhere.
You calling me "low" for wanting to restore peace to this journal is the pot calling the kettle black. Of course I know you well enough, but I’m not a debater like I know you are, and as this is my corner of FFS, I will end any argument as I see fit. I didn’t ask for this.
So please, I’m asking again not to continue, as I don’t like to argue. PM me about it if you must, because I won’t address, nor accept the presence anything else of this nature in here.
Here, since it’s almost christmas time, I’ll even give you a present for peace : A Hume-compatible Typocam ^^
I’m writing to Santa as we speak, I want him to reduce the price of boiled crab and fish mithkabob back the way they were ; ; My food’s price didn’t go up as fast as the meat mithkabobs but now it has ; ; I want to cry ; ; I’m thinking of looking into the 3 hour duration food, but that’s unfair for us PLDs to rely on that kind of food. We’re the ones at higher risk of dying, so also the ones at higher risk of actually wasting the darn meals ; ; How UNFAIR ; ; What the hell was Square-Enix thinking ? Raising the price is one thing, but they even NERFED my favorite boiled crab ; ; GRAAAAAAAAGH …. !!!
i also dont like the new food update, im poor as it is. i now have a grand total of 4k so no money anymore for food.
being low lv. about 36. i find it hard to see the true point in this updates food price increase other than to make life harder. hmm i seem to have forgot. im also a pld.
can anyone recoment a way for me to get cash? damnd food. thx.
Typo…… Kitty loves you … .Licks Typo’s Nose ^ ^
i also dont like the new food update, im poor as it is. i now have a grand total of 4k so no money anymore for food.
being low lv. about 36. i find it hard to see the true point in this updates food price increase other than to make life harder. hmm i seem to have forgot. im also a pld.
can anyone recoment a way for me to get cash? damnd food. thx.
If you have a thief sub, try farming Forest Tigers and Beetles in Jugner Forest. Stack of Tiger Fangs go for 8k and Beetles Jaw go for 11k or so. Otherwise, try mining in the Palborough Mines or the Yughutt Grotto.
Typo…… Kitty loves you … .Licks Typo’s Nose ^ ^
*hugs Aracat* Typo miss you too! I’ve been a busybee taru as usual. X3 But don’t forget about CoP! Once I’m all set up Typo and sexykitty can spend time together and do nifties in Bibiki Bay /nodnod!
Hau Hawthorne~! Sawwy to hear of your situation. Aside from what Evad has said, Typo can only recommend fishing, but the drawback of having taru take a few days out to raise your level to something worthwhile might discourage you. :3 Perhaps cooking, which you’re not so enthusiastic about post-update can now make you some gil ?:3 *shrugs in uncertainty*
The update has now diversified the usage of foods and has made the craft something more viable for those who have put their time in.
Ja this (http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnews/news3456.shtml) was sudden. Guess Typo spend tonight getting santa hat, mine all day tomorrow, begin monk on Thursday.
At least, that’s what Typo wants…
…as well as some catass, nyau Luna~
I wanted to level yesterday, but my party barely lasted 2 hours, oh well. I’m 10k to level 61 now.Then I offered to help Mihmendra with either her PLD AF2 or Rank 5, and then Thrillagorilla and I ended up helping her with both. Oh well, took a while to complete both but she was quite happy at the end.
SANTA HAT! How are you supposed to get it! Mama want Santa Hat! ;_;
Ja Typo Kitty cant wait to you get CoP ^ ^ Kitty Happy now
Mama KItty, Typo and Kitty must take pices soon ^^ in santa hats ^ ^
Ja Typo Kitty cant wait to you get CoP ^ ^ Kitty Happy now
Mama KItty, Typo and Kitty must take pices soon ^^ in santa hats ^ ^
^^ Piccies good!
Typo need to get CoP so Typo son can help mama on her missions XD
Typo need to get CoP so Typo son can help mama on her missions XD
Er…I..ah…yeah…missions…ja… ^^;;;
Typo ish still not sure about santa hat – ish all speculation for nau~
Missions as in… Promyvion ? Ugh. ; ;
I’m still supposed to do that, but PLDs aren’t popular with those, that sucks. I have to level NIN to 15 just for that. Meh.
I’m still supposed to do that, but PLDs aren’t popular with those, that sucks. I have to level NIN to 15 just for that. Meh.
Well I plan on going back in soon to try again with Promyvion-Holla… Plan going FULL alliance and try to prepare myself the best I can.. I dun wanna give up.
Typo thanks for Escort back to town….. Licks Typo’s Nose ^ ^
We go back in about 4 hours.
Aaaand for once, an event that intaruested me, if only for a brief momentaru~
The Dream Hats are actually possible to snag quickly, you know, without having to take a whole day taru play a boring game of fetch for some worthless nobody in town! Once the hat’s obtained you are able to warp from town-to-town. Ish neat, but having access to Warp and Teleport-World ish already good enough for Typo. Dunno how all you silly people make it without handy transportation spells. ;3
Apparently the gifties you give to the children power your warps to each city. The more "joy" you spread, the more you can warp? At least that’s how it seems.
Rumor has it that there ish a +1 hatty. Guess we’ll find out later on when it’s plastered all over alla or something. ;3
Really, this post ish just an excuse to say, I still prefer me Fungus Hatty-Watty. \^_^/
*licks Gorgeous’ face~*
That’s pretty much why I do supply quests and carried around a Trick Staff. Also, it’s handy to have many mage friends 😉
Orichalcum ore hasn’t sold anywhere since the 10th?
Adaman ore ish down to 70k?
Wha?
Orichalcum ore hasn’t sold anywhere since the 10th?
Adaman ore ish down to 70k?
Wha?
Hmmm. Maybe it’s a consequence of the patch that diminishes mining results when you stay longer in a given area ? I hope it isn’t that, though. I was about to go mine a bit in the coming days ; ;
Naa. Banihead tells Typo that BCNM 70 now regularly yields Adamans and Orichalcums. Typo was expecting that.
So much for mining.
Typo has nothing else taru post for a while.
Licks Typo’s Nose
xoxox
arakitty
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Oh my God, this should be in a M rated forum?
^^; Good luck will all the Promyvion 😉
Typo, anyways, I loved your Journal, and enjoyed the pics of Fungus Hat Cute Tarutaru, please take care ^^
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???Horale! ???Miran las gatas locas enfrente de mi, ese! Viva mi mithraaaaaaa! ()
Cual es la razon que Typo se gusta las mithras mucho ? Yo no comprendo :p
And besides, where are my pics ? Don’t tell me they "came off bad", again ? :p
Licks Typo
Scary AH fees and low demand are making it difficult to painlessly sell me Lu Shang’s… I’ll try advertising on Alla or something so I can set up a tax-free bazaar or trade. I can’t help but think of how ironic it ish that this item that was once so significant to me ish now the first thing that I want taru rid myself of.
A bomb knocked me out-cold, and I still managed to swing me pickaxe with me last gasp of energy (0HP). This has happened once before with no result, only this time, Typo struck a little blue adaman. "X3
So I’ve been mining. Adaman 60 – 70k (fallen from 100k), Orichalcum 80 – 90k (fallen from 140k). They’re in demand again, but for how long? Typo hates this uncertainty, but at least I know that for now I can still turn to my volcano for me daily bread.
An old friend of mine had a little talk with me the other day. It was only a brief …well, you couldn’t call it a conversation, as Typo really couldn’t find the words to respond. By the time we parted ways, he’d changed me somehow.
I joined Crusader. Not taru be confused with Crusaders, this ish yet another up-and-coming HNM linkyshell amidst a sea of such creatures, only this time with a more experienced roster, including some old faces from MK. I plan taru be an asset to them.
*Rests his great axe at his feet.*
*Removes his gloves and puts them away.*
Things are looking up, though… Ish just that there’s always this empty feeling inside me, and it’s been there for weeks. Typo thought that mebbe it had to do with money, or fishing, or something elsethat I’d been feeling bitter about… until I realized that I just miss my cat. Lunareis is gone.
Everything would somehow just be peachy again if she were taru show up at me moggiehouse as usual and pounce me and I lick her face… And then she’d go, "Whacha wanna do?"…and then we’d have fun "X3~ But I guess those are just memories now. You need taru keep yourself alive in me journal at least, okie kitty? Okie~
Aracat, your prezzie ish here! Typo will have it tomorrow, but me compy ish still not ready. >.>
Evad, Christmas ish 2 days away. ;3
I bought myself a nice gift for Christmas : A Gluttony Sword :p Yeah, so it cost me half a million. Frankly speaking, it IS a good sword and I do see a difference in damage I take now, but truly, it’s about just like any over-priced item… It helps, but seeing the price of admission, you really could have done your job perfectly fine without it. Daison even gave me a dish of Shallops Tropicale, my current favorite food. :p
I got spoiled in real life, too, but that’s of another concern. Anyhow, I’ll make about another 200k with sales then I go back to leveling, my current objective is level 65.
Oh, and I have gathered a fine alliance in my LS for the Promyvions. I decided to take things in charge. If no one in our LS does, then it will never be done :p We’ll go once everyone is ready.
Merry Christmas! ^^
I only got one pressie this year o.o
I wanna do the Promyvions! Take me with you!!!!!! 😀
A shot from Bastoky~ (
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San d’Oria’s sights are much improved over last year’s pitiful attempts ()! They have eye-candy now~ ^^
Windy ^_^
Season’s greetings from Typocat and Typosantaa~!
Warm wishes and happy feeling taru everyone from Typo~! *Typocuddlessssss*
I have to take a breaky-weaky from the game for a while~ Too complicated to explain >.> Tell everyone I’ll miss them~ and can’taru wait to see them again soon.
~Kristaru
Typo pass on the message tomorrow, Kristaru~ Take care, enjoy the holidays (!), and I hope taru see you again soon ^^
here are kitties pics of mama and i and me with my white knights of the relm ^^ they so sweet to pose with kitty ^^ make me feel ohhh so special… and my favorite pic… Me and my Typo Rice ^^
xoxo
kitty gorgeous
Ooohohoho~! A cheesy (but fitting!) title for me latest entry. Most of me Christmas was spent digging up a storm in Ifrit’s, but I still made time to relax and enjoy the starlight celebration activities all across the world. ^^ Besides, a little extra pocket change never hurt anytaru~!
The time I spent in my volcano was originally in order to fund me recent hobbies, MNK and THF, as I tried taru push them to 25 for WAR main. But as I am known to do from time to time, Typo, reaching some unknown and unwritten agreement with himself, decided taru have a change of plan and mine my way to something more substantial before undertaking the melee experiment.
It wasn’t long until I had me Lu Shang’s and was ready to put it to some use. However, I just couldn’t fathom putting the legendary rod to practical use, as I’d have taru invest several hundred thousand to raise woodworking, as well as reserve a few weeks for fishing skill ups. That ish what’s needed to justify even completing that quest, and Carp Diem… But nu, and bah humbugtaru too, that not how Typo planned to spend the next few months.
Jeuno. It took 4 days and 140,000 gil in AH fees, but me rod finally sold to a happy (maybe?) fisherman (although I not care whether he happy or not, just gimmie the money "X3) for a cool 3.5 (that what I’m talkin’ ’boutaru!).
And then I was set.
I suppose what influenced me to take the next step more than anything else, was the feeling of jealousy and resentarument that came over me whenever I saw someone who came long after me accomplish something I did not or could not, their levels higher, their black cloaks pass???, their techniques more advanced… From the moment I was invited intaru Crusader, an HNM LS after all this time, Typo felt as though it was about time I finished what I started.
Every last cent was poured into restoring myself to my former "glory", only this time Typo would get over the fear of me own mortalitaruty, and expose myself to my own power. I feel as if I haven’t missed a beat. As nervous as I was to jump back into the real world and proclaim myself a "black mage" once again, everything naturally came back to me. I suppose ish just like riding a chocobo – once you learn you never forgettaru! "X3 Speaking of which, I hadn’t forgotten about Maat, either…
Twice before Typo had gotten unlucky, as Maat refused taru cast anything and just ran up and clobbered me for the win. ; ; I took the opportunity to ask for help after defeating Adamant King with the LS, and a BLM and WHM were able to assist me in getting a Testimony. Impatientaruly, I whipped up a quick scheme involving me strongest spells, Flare and Firaga III, and challenged Maat immediately. He must have had less than 100 HP left when he punched me out. Had I gone on Firesday I may have won first time, seeing as Flare was brutally resisted when I hastily challenged him on Windsday…
Swallowing me pride, I asked another BLM, WHM and PLD to help with testimony this time, and properly constructed a solid strategy whilst awaiting Firesday. Rustysummoner lent Typo a blink band, which would later on save me life against the Geriatric Jackhammer o.o;; And yet it still wasn’t easy… He resisted ES + Sleep (enfeebling 172 ; ;), Stun lasted on him for about half a second, and he had 1/2 life left after Flare. All Typo could do was curse him with Bio II before falling to the ground. Miraculously, the poison did JUST enough to him for me taru Reraise and finish the battle with Fire III~!
Post-Maat Celebration (
) ;3
Relieved of all stress, I just took it easy in the hot spring, knowing that as a BLM there are no more hurdles to overcome, only the sky, and Typo, with no limits. ^^;
And this would be me home from 70 – 75~ Ru’Aun Gardens. Typo’d only been here once before, and never had the guts taru venture inside the ominous yet somehow glorious Shrine of Ru’Avitau, towering in the distant background without hiding its face as though it were begging taru be discovered…
…I wonder what it feels like to kill a God…
In the past few days I’ve litarully lived here, and yet I still can’t get over the scenery. Typo could snappy snappy screenies here all day, even with crappy SEcam.
Ru’Avitau: Typo intimidates a Decorative Weapon!</center>
PTs here can potentially out-do BLM PTs in KRT! Common knowledge to some, amazing to me. The worst PT experience I’ve had here thus far still yielded 5k exp/hr, whereas regular groups score around 8-10. Weapons seem to have no defense, HP, or intelligence, and Typo not mean the INT stat. 70 – 75 are cake, and while Typo ish still halfway through the final stretch, I can tell that I’ll reach the finish in mere days. ^.^/
Windurst Mission 6-1</center>
So much for invincible Typomage. In my defense, it was 6AM and Typo was half-unconscious after an intense exp session, when suddenly I was abducted from me moggiehouse and forced to work by…THATTARU! *points at Tar*
Tartaros and I ended up duoing the Cardians in a seesaw battle of attrition against the retards *cough* cards. Originally we entered the ruins and thought we’d breeze through with one of us abusing Sleepga II while the other would Bind and Nuke. Reminded me of me first days as a BLM…"Bind, Blind, Bio, NUKE~!" "X3 And that’s really what it was, until both of us were resisted unexpectedly, and couldn’t think fast enough to prevent our eventual flop.
We call in a WHM/SMN for Raise IIIs, and assistance with pulling a single Cardian. We’d drop it quickly, and wait for the others taru despawn before touching the magical gizmo. As promising as it seemed at the time, we got nothing from that plan, so we had to return to our Sleep/Bind/Nuke method which, alas, worked! …after what seemed like an eternity of balancing enfeebles, nukes, and support.
The next day Tar had a group ready for Giddeus. M6-2 ish supposedly the Star Sibyl’s idea of punishmentaru, entering us in a silly contest against weakling Yagudobirds in Balgas Dais. Well, the contest was no contest, and after running yet another insignificant errand we were awarded our Rank 7 badges, along with a not-so-bad 40k.
In addition taru all this excitement, Typo had the privilege of dying multiple times in the uncapped 30 kindred’s seal BCNM (
)! That’s right, the same very BC that single-handedly nerfed Ifrit’s mining! No revenge for me…yet.
The group figured it all boiled down to our levels being too low, with most of us barely 70, not taru mention that this was before I officially returned to BLM, so my equipment was sub par, at best. Still, those scorpies were far more menacing than we all had anticipated. Bettaru luck next time "X3
Welp, this took a long time to update, but methinks I’ve summarized all me holiday shennanigans adequataruly~. ^^ Ah, things are exciting again, Typo missed this feeling! *cherishes*
Typo must spend some time licking his kitties, Gorgeous, kittymama, Fuzzycat ":3~, and almostcats, Hanahana and Maddycat! Typo have piccie gallery for you all to browse through, since I can’t be bothered to post all piccies in journal anymore. "X3 The gallery will continue to expand, probably daily, so keep eyes on mee~! /wave
Enjoy~! (http://photobucket.com/albums/v203/bakadl/?start=0)
Shoot, and just when I was starting to get in grasp of catching up. My plan was to reach 70 and convince you to get out of retirement. After 8 months now, I wanted to finally be able to have some real adventures with the one person that made me want to come on Cerberus :p
And apparently you know Tartaros very well :p Oh well, 5k for learning about how Dynamis works is a fair enough price. And who knows, I’m most likely setting foot there myself eventually.
Oh, but just you wait. If all goes well, I’ll be 70 by the end of the month. I may yet be able to join forces with you, just you see lol But for now, Promyvion comes first. We’re starting with Holla tomorrow evening. If that goes well too, I’m going to level up like mad, just to reach that 70.
Genkai IV is out the way, all my gear is good until 70, I even got a General’s Shield ahead of time and will also get my final spell, Protect IV, ahead of time too.
All that remains, is the leveling itself. lol Just you wait, Typo, just you wait :p
Past 70 is where I don’t know much, though. All those gear upgrades will cost me… a lot. I am not part of any "powerful and famous" Linkshells nor do I have the ressources to pay the about the 5 millions worth of upgrades for my PLD between 70-75. And then there’s Maat, too…
Those are all things I’ll have to answer to, in due time. But I’ve managed to reach where I am now, no way I’m giving up yet.
After a week of planning and many schedule conflicts, we decided to split the alliance I gathered in the two teams we had formed. Too many schedule conflicts meant we’d never get started, and Jago and I truly believed that our team had the potential to achieve these perilous but oh-so exciting missions.
And so we gathered our forces :
Evaddaragon : (Bastok, Male Hume, Paladin/Warrior)
You know me already :p
Jago : (Bastok, Male Hume, Ranger/Ninja, but Samurai/Warrior as his main )
Jago is the "other strong-minded guy" in our Quebec LS, Lacasteoubliee. The other one being, you guessed it, me :p That sounds stupid to say, but when you look at our main jobs, it’s not that much a surprise why the two of us are natural leaders, we have devoted ourselves to a job in the game that is geared toward this aspect of teamwork. Jago and I probably are the "unofficial leaders" in the LS. Mihmendra created our LS, and she’s great at leading exp parties and organizing some social stuff. However, when it comes to special missions, quests, Expeditionary Forces or NM fights that we plan in that LS, you can rest assured that it’s either Jago or I that’s behind it. Our ordeals in Promyvion would prove no different, as I’m the one who gathered the people and calls the shots in the fights, while Jago leads us through the dastardly mazes of Promyvion, navigating us and spotting the memory receptacles.
Backus : (Bastok, Mithra (he’s a guy in real life, so don’t lick him Typo lol), Ranger/Ninja, but Thief/Ninja as his main)
Backus is our LS’ best THF. And he acts like one in every way when playing FFXI. You’d ask him for help with a quest, and then he’d say "Hmmm, I don’t really have the time, but then I could steal Gold Beastcoin from those Quadavs…fine, I’m in" lol He’s a quite capable Ranger as well. He and Jago make a fantastic pair that wroke some serious havoc in past BCNM40 fights.
Laurewen : (San d’Oria, Female Elvaan, White Mage/Black Mage)
If Backus acts in every way like a THF when playing FFXI, the same could be said about Laurewen being a White Mage. She cares for us, heals us, is a high-level cook that would randomly let us sample her latest recipes, gives us free teleports all around Vanad’iel, etc. You’d think it’s some kind of maternal love, and you wouldn’t be far off, either. She is slightly older than us in real life, and is indeed a mother too. You can clearly see that in the way she acts when playing FFXI. She is engaged with Jago for a Vanad’iel wedding in Jeuno that will take place when…well, they win the lottery ? :p
William : (Bastok, Male Hume, Red Mage/Summoner)
Ah, Will, proud Red Mage from (Bastard Sword)…I mean, (Bastok). I was but a mere squire ( WAR/MNK ) when I met him in the LS, and at the time we shared a few adventure that got us acquainted to each other, such as Eco-Warrior Bastok, our Kazham key hunt, and so on. Although I have gotten quite ahead of him now ( About 20 levels to be exact ), we still share some adventures from time to time. Strangely enough, Lacasteoubliee has quite a few WHMs and BLMs, but William is the only dedicated RDM. If only he could try to catch up, he’d be so high on demands for our recent skill-up/coffer key hunting sessions that I have with Jago, Laurewen and the others. He’s engaged with Littleyuuki, and the two of them honored me by asking me to be their chaperone. They will marry in the Chateau d’Oraguille in San d’Oria when…well, they win the lottery 😛 I’ve sent a SIXTH application this week.
Littleyuuki : (San d’Oria, Mithra (and a real girl :p ), Summoner/White Mage)
Yuuki, the always laughing, always go-happy Summoner of the LS. My personnal cook, she always cooks me Boiled Crab when I bring her meat I’d get from crab hunts. She is a VERY skilled summoner, she effortlessly got all her avatars…except Fenrir, of course.She has recently achieved the 50s, and is now struggling through the AFs. With her determination, we can only assume she’ll become a Paragon of Summoner Excellence in a matter of weeks.
So, placing ourselves in a video-chatting conference over Skype ( We at Lacasteoubliee use voice-chatting whenever we can, it helps a lot with communication. ) gathering our items, gear, and courage, knowing full well how dangerous these missions would be ( Jago and I failed Holla 3 times and Dem once, Laure failed Holla twice and Dem once, Backus failed Mea once and Yuuki failed Holla and Dem once, William was going for his very first Promyvion. ) we set foot into Promyvion-Holla…You’d think we’d be crazy to still try to attempt Holla first, but somehow I kept thinking to myself that, should we be victorious at Holla, the supposedly very hardest of the three, we would be able to win with our current team at Dem and Mea as well. Another thing to note is that a few months ago, when Chains of Promathia just got released, we would NEVER have tried this mission with a single party as this would have been pure suicide. However, the December update has weakened some ennemies and changed the movement patterns of the regular ennemies, making it very possible to reach the spire without having to rely on a full alliance.
For those unfamiliar with Promyvion, here’s a quick run-down of how it goes :
There are 4 floors, each of them connected by a Memory Receptacle that must be defeated in order to be allowed to reach the next floor. At first, the ennemies con anywhere between EP and T to level 30 adventurers, but as you go higher, they get stronger, becoming nothing but VTs and ITs. Once you reach a receptacle, it is surrounded by Strays that will attack whoever gets too close. Not only that, the Memory Receptacle uses a powerful AoE attack that will knock back anyone who’s too close to it, giving some serious damage. While you deplete the Receptacle’s HP, you must also take care of the Strays as they will attack the defenceless mages. Therefore, it was up to me and William to protect Yuuki and Laure while Jago and Backus would keep firing at the receptacle. Yuuki would also assist by summoning Ifrit and sending it at the receptacle. Once you reach the 4th floor, you must zone into the spire of Promyvion, in which there is a an arena that encloses a very powerful Boss. Getting to that Boss proves an ordeal on its own, but defeating the Boss is the true challenge, especially at Holla. Another thing that the patch in December has changed : The Bosses are still as hard as they ever were, but the AoE from the Receptacles does a lot less damage, and the Strays die much quicker too. A Ranger can kill them with one arrow, while even us Paladins can fell them with 2 or 3 quick sword strikes.
The first floor went like a breeze, it took us only 10 minutes, we didn’t get aggroed, and we wiped the floor with the Receptacle. So we were on the 2nd floor…
On the second floor, in Promyvion-Holla, there is a place where you must pass between fences and where it is impossible NOT to aggro. Therefore, considering we were only six in all of Promyvion-Holla at the time ( Promyvion isn’t crowded, and with good reason. Unlike Dynamis, you can’t get much in that level 30-capped hellish territory. ), we pulled the empty one at a time, and fought them one at a time, clearing us a path through the fences. As we kept on our way towards another Memory Receptacle, William would aggro a Weeper, but a quick voke on my part and an appropriate retreat in an empty corner, as suggested by Jago, allowed us to make short work of it. We finally made it to the Receptacle, located in a corner where being not too close for the AoE proved hard, but we still prevailed.
As we reached the 3rd floor, anxiety would start to get on us. Memories of past failures in Holla were starting to haunt me back, but I tried not to think too hard about it. Navigation proved harder, too. Many Empty would not allow us to have more than a very narrow passage that lasted a few seconds for us to get past and avoid aggro. Backus ended aggroing a Thinker where our current position truly wasn’t ideal. We had no choice but to lean on a edge, kill the empty, and quickly move aside to a safer spot. Jago quickly located the third Memory Receptacle, and there we fought our way to the final floor.
When we reached the final floor, familiar scenery was upon Jago, Laurewen and I , as we came to Promyvion-Holla a few weeks ago, when we failed to defeat the boss twice in the same afternoon. However, that familiarity allowed Jago to quickly remember where the Spire was, and so we made haste and headed there. However, as we neared the zone, 2 Thinkers were so dangerously close that we had to carefully slip by them, thanks to Jago’s great navigating skills, and so we made a quick dash to the Spire, avoiding any aggro at all.
For those unfamiliar with Promyvion, when you reach the Spire, your level restriction is temporarily removed. Recovering our true strenght for a brief moment, we take a breather, rest up, and discuss our strategy. We were to win as a team…or fail as a team.
Anyhow, we decided we were to "kite" the Boss. Here’s how it works :
As PLD, I get to constantly provoke the monster, and keep running in half-circles while having it chase me. Backus and Jago, as RNGs, would place themselves on each side of the arena constantly firing arrows at the Boss. William would throw every enfeebling spell he could think of, while Laure and Yuuki would alternate healing me and whoever would temporarily steal hate from me. William and I are expected to throw in an additionnal Cure spell, should things go worse. Slowly but surely, we would weaken the boss down to his last 25% of health, where Laure would hit Benediction to replenish us, while I hit Invincible followed by Berserk to get hate back on me. Jago and Backus would hit Eagle Eye Shot, while William now resorts to nuking thanks to Chainspell and Yuuki lets out her all-powerful Astral Flow, allowing us to make a final, powerful offensive assault.
Making appropriate preparations such as eating food and drinking a poison potion to avoid the boss’ sleep attack, we charged forward.
And so the fierce battle began…
We were struggling , but slowly enough the Wreaker’s life was lingering away. When it reached about 33%, I ended up at only 4 HP, but a quick Barrage from Jago allowed us healers to quickly fill me back, hit another Provoke and a Cure II on Jago, making the Wreaker chase after me again. At this time I gave the go, telling Laure to hit Benediction. As soon as she did, I hit Invincible, and the others hit their 2 hours, thinking we were about to end the fight…
Or so we thought.
Dramatically, Jago, Backus and I made a mistake that could have cost us the fight. We didn’t realize our poison potion’s effect wore off, thus no longer protecting us from the Wreaker’s sleep attack. Just a few seconds after Yuuki managed to pull off Ifrit’s Inferno, doing an insage amount of damage, the Wreaker slept Jago, Backus, Ifrit and I. Yuuki and Will got slept as well, but Laure still had her poison on and was kept awake. She would only have the time to wake Yuuki and Will up, though, as the Wreaker turned his attention on… Backus. Tearing apart Backus’ shadowy protection ( Utsusemi is not as effective against the Promyvion bosses, as they tear apart 2 shadows at once. ), Backus fell, despite Laure’s best efforts to save him.
With Backus down, and our 3 Mages down to their last MP and potions and the Wreaker down to a sliver of his health left, Jago and I finally awoke from our sleep after what seemed an eternity of watching our friends struggle and being powerless about it. Quickly drinking a poison potion to avoid being promptly slept again, Jago resumed firing arrows while I reached for my bottle of Hysteroanima I had acquired from my last trip in Promyvion-Holla. For those who don’t know, some empty in Promyvion dropped recollections of certain feelings of their past lives, which allows a NPC in Ru’Lude Gardens at Jeuno to synthesize into a concentred form called Anima. With this, once used against an empty, it temporarily weakens them in a form that varies with the Anima and the type of Empty it is used against.
It was then that the unthinkable happened…
As soon as I threw my Anima at it, the Wreaker turned to me…and stood there, totally immobile. It would reamin totally paralyzed for about 30 minutes, allowing us healers to drink some juices and replenish about half our MP and most of our HP. With renewed vigor, Jago and I made one final desperate charge at the Wreaker.
And then, it happened :
"Evaddaragon hits the Wreaker for 15 points of damage"
"Evaddaragon defeats the Wreaker."
The Wreaker crumbles without as much as a sound, and then Backus recovers from what seemed a fatal wound. We end in front of the Mother Crystal of Holla, and are thus bestowed upon us the Light of Holla, which reflects one’s inner courage.
After our resounding victory, Jago, Laure and I returned to Promyvion-Holla, farming empty in order to acquire the necessary items to get a few bottles of Anima, because we realize it most likely saved our lives. Having gathered two bottles each, we are now preparing our next perilous adventure in Promyvion-Dem. Dem is apparently the easiest of the three, and so with renewed confidence in ourselves, extra anima, and a will to finally conquer all three Promyvions in order to get access to the Tavnazian Archipelago, we will set foot in Promyvion-Dem tomorrow evening.
*Spoilers ahead*
Once you clear at least one Promyvion, you are treated to a cutscene that most likely varies according to which Promyvion you hit next. In our case, after our valiant fight at the San d’Orian crag of Holla yesterday, we left for the Bastokan crag of Dem. There, we got a cutscene involving Wolfgang, captain of the Ducal Guards of Jeuno and a team of researchers from Bastok, led by Cid, chief engineer of Bastok, Ayame and Naji of the Mythril Musketeers, Bastok’s highest elite force. Before they could argue for long in front of us, our party was swallowed by the shattered telepoint, and we entered Promyvion-Dem.
I guess I’d like to tell a lot of things about what happened there, but thing is, there truly isn’t much to say. Simply put, we breezed through Promyvion-Dem.
We didn’t even bother navigation on the first floor, we simply fought our way through and reached the Receptacle in no time.
The second floor merely took a little more time. Backus aggroed once, but that was quickly dealt with. We fought a few more empties that made the passage too narrow for us to avoid them by pulling them to "safer" places. The only little problem is that we had to fight 2 Receptacles instead of 1, as the first one turned out to be fake once we defeated it. Other than that, truly nothing much to say. Perhaps it was due to our sudden renewal of confidence, but we all were a lot less nervous this time, we even were joking around all the time through skype, as if somehow we weren’t even scared of Promyvion anymore.
Once we reached the 3rd floor, realizing we ARE in Promyvion, after all, I quickly reminded my party that having fun and all is nice, but one mistake from one of us is all it takes for us to fail, and we certainly don’t want that.
Taking a slightly more serious approach, we stopped goofing around and got our act together. The Receptacle, luckily this time, was placed near us, and wasn’t a fake, so the 3rd floor went by even faster by the first, much to our amazement. By this time a mere 25 minutes had passed and we reached the fourth floor, while Promyvion-Holla took us nearly 90 minutes to reach the spire.
Reaching the fourth floor was were it got slightly complicated. Unlike Holla, Jago and I weren’t familiar at with the place, and unlike previous floors, you don’t have to find a memory receptacle with the Ranger’s Widescan, but to zone to the spire. Easier said than done when you don’t know where the spire is…
Along the way, Laurewen ended up aggroing once, but a quick voke on my part and another safe retreat to a less crowded corner ensured our WHM’s security.
As the spire was in sight, the ways was block by 3 powerful empty. Yuuki then summoned Carbuncle to distract them, allowing us to make a mad dash towards the spire. As we neared the zone, Yuuki released Carbuncle, and we simply entered the spire.
We didn’t change much in our strategy this time around, really. The only difference is that Laure subbed SMN this time. That gave her extra MP and allowed her to send a Carbuncle to contribute in fighting the Receptacles. As for me, unlike the other members of my party, I no longer bothered staying at a distance. The AoE barely scratches me, so I literally brace myself and go in the middle of the action, slashing at the receptacle and voking any Strays that are close. William is more than enough to cover any loose Stray that would make it to Laure and Yuuki. Whenever I would have TP for Flat Blade, I’d use it to stun the Receptacle and prevent it from using its AoE.
And so we braced ourselves to face the boss , the …
Darn, I forgot its name.
That tells you how well it went. Jago and Laure came close to die once , but nothing major happened. Only Yuuki used a Psychoanima, and Laure used both a Psychoanima and Hysteroanima near the end of the fight. It was a flawless victory. All I ever got to use during the fight was one poison potion and one Yagudo Drink. The Boss at Dem doesn’t even use any AoEs whatsoever. Its only little problem is that it tends to spawn Offsprings which Jago and Backus must quickly deal with, but once it was down to about 10% HP, we didn’t bother and gave one final offensive wave, which ended with Jago’s Barrage.
And so we ended in front of the Mother Crystal of Dem, and were bestowed upon us the Light of Dem, which reflects one’s inner sense of justice, while having visions about what’s to come. Total time needed to beat Promyvion-Dem : 45 minutes. It took us 2 hours for Holla. We really went from worst to easiest. Staying behind another hour, Jago, Yuuki, Laure and I got 3 other bottles of Anima, just in case. We plan to use them all and go all out against the final Boss at Mea, no use holding back since it shall our final epic battle in chapter one of Chains of Promathia.
Our party won’t end his adventure with Promyvion, though. Realizing the missions in chapter II ( Are you starting to see the partern now ? ) will cap us at 40, and since all of us happen to have according gear, we will also do the mission in Phomiuna Aqueducts with the exact party ( except Laure and Will will sub BLM and Backus will be a THF instead of a RNG ) and perhaps even brave Promyvion-Vahzl. However, only time will tell how we’ll fare in there.
On a side-note, I need to correct something about my previous post : There are 3 types of Anima, and unlike stated above, they each a very specific effect when used on a empty.
Terroanima : Makes the empty panic and move around randomly and doing nothing else for 30 seconds.
Psychoanima : Makes all physical attacks being intimidated for 30 seconds, resulting in no attacks.
Hysteroanima : Prevents the empty from using any special attacks that consumes TP, such as AoEs, and other powerful attacks. Lasts 30 seconds as well.
Congrats, though. ;3
But I don’t usually tell that much about me in here, because, as you pointed out, it’s your journal, not mine, but since Promyvion is still pretty much unkown territory for a good part of the posters here, I thought telling the story would give good info on it.
By the way, I like your new avatar, Typo.
xoxoxoxox
Gorgeous AraKItty
Typo in Igqira Weskit (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=5789)</center>
We have an LS fund, basically a bank where all the money from HNM goes, instead of distributing it equally among the members who attended the event. Not sure if I quite like this system, since BLM gain VERY little from HNM drops, but it is the reason I’m wearing this 1.5 million anomaly of luxury warlock attire… Still having trouble calling it "mine", though, but as long as ish in me possession, I’m one step closer taru having the ideal end-game equipment~ Come taru think of it, compared to other classes, BLM has it relatively easy when it comes to obtaining our "best" gear, or at least something close to it… Alot of it can be purchased, see.
Typo would like to continue with Zilart Mission 14, "Divine Might", a battle against the Ark Angels, with an Abyssal Earring (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=5219) as me material reward. This’ll save Typo from having taru buy a morion/phantom earring +1, or something silly like that. X3
Aura Statue Slumber Party</center>
PLD, WHM, RDM, BLM, RNG, RNG, Ve’lugannon Palace, 1st EXP Chain, Chain #2
RNG: *pulls Aura Statue link*
Statues: "S’ALL OVA NOW, YO."
PT: ._.;
BLM/RDM: *Waits for second Statue to come into view*
BLM/RDM: *Elemental Seal, Sleepga II, both/Elemental Seal, Sleep II, Statue #2*
Aura Statue #1: "RESIST’d!"
Aura Statue #2: "RESIST’d AND RESISTED, FOO!"
RDM: @_@;;; *JP symbols.* *Runs up to PLD, Chainspell, Escape*
BLM/RNG who got left behind: >.<
Aura Statue #1: "DIBS ON THE CAT."
Aura Statue #2: "DIBS ON THE MIDGET."
RNGcat: "Nuh uh!" *Pulls instant warp scroll out of her ass.*
Aura Statue #1: "D’OH! THWARTED."
Aura Statue #2: "LUNCH!"
BLM: "Nuh uh!" *Manafont, Warp*
Aura Statue #1: "KILL."
Aura Statue #2: "STFU, I’M WORKING ON IT."
BLM: "Ohoho! Ish hopeless! Spell ish at 80% completion, can’t intarrupt me now! Keke!"
Aura Statue #2: "Nigga please." *Critical hit.*
BLM: "D’oh!" *dies*
PT regroups in about 25 minutes, Typo recovers from R3 weakness, PT disbands after Chain 5. Total PT time, ~90 mins, total EXP time, ~10 mins.
And somehow in all of that, Typo was enjoying himself. Hmm. It seems like parties get crappier the closer you are to your next level. X3 Here we have a super party that can take apart any given EXP mob within seconds, SC or not, yet the addition of just one enemy ish enough taru cause disaster. From Typo’s vantage point, these Statues are highly resistant to magic, resisting Sleep from all angles, and resisting many of me offensive spells that aren’t magic bursted.
I wonder if links are easily handled in there, or if links just don’t happen to others, or if we were just sloppy in our escape. I can’t help feeling just a little disappointed in our RDM who acted without warning…at least to the non-JP PT members. Oh well, @8k >> 74, and expect 74+ buffer tonight. Typo really could have swept through to 75 in 6 days or less, but events such as Serket, Byakko, Missions, WSNM, and Fafnir have been distracting me…
Speaking of Byakko, me first encounter with a God…can I say I was a little disappointed at first by his appearance (
) ?:3 You mean he not a giant tiger? ‘Course, disappointment was magnified by how quickly our entire alliance was taken out. We have a lot taru learn before another encounter. We aren’t ready. Next. ;3
Scouting Fafnir</center>
KoN beat us to it, and repeated deaths from just watching them fight, due to aggro and AoE caused alot of *drum roll* drama! Nu, Typo wasn’t just standing there all that time, I was just getting in range for a screenie before warping out. :3
It looks like FF ish our next target, but it’s obvious we’ll have alot of trouble dealing with KoN, and possibly BehemothHNMLS. I’m quite sure that Crusader isn’t really being taken seriously by the aforementioned, more successful LSes. Typo meself isn’t really sure if ish going taru be any different to Mystic Knights circa summer ’04, or Requiem, or Valiance, but I am still going to stick with them and try and do my part as we try to prove ourselves, especially once I have gotten leveling black mage out of the way. Merit points…not currently a priority, but Typo will pursue them at some stage.
Glad you like Typo new look, Evad! I feel like something from out of Vagrant Story, if you’re familiar with it "X3
*licks his kittycat~* Typo come play with kitty soon, Aracat~!
And I’m not sure about that "bank system", either. But as long as it’s being used for both the collectivity and the individuals of the LS, and not just for "certain key members" while even others helped, I guess it can work.
Some drama happened in our LS, so right now I don’t really know when exactly I’m off for Promyvion-Mea ; ; If that one is canned, then off to mining I go for a day or two. I want an armoire to get Protect IV for free, then maybe I’ll work for a Knightly Mantle. As I expected, the prices have dropped ( they were at 350k a few weeks ago, when I got my Gluttony Sword instead ), and I expect them to stay at around 200k to 250k. That mantle is THE mantle for us PLDs, so I have to get it eventually.
Getting my high-end gear is purchasable for the most part as well…it’s just that it’s super costly. Sure, you can talk about Relic stuff, but that’s overkill. Getting Adaman set, Durandal, Koenig Shield, 2 Topaz rings and Warwolf Belt are the absolute musts I have to get during my 70s. Rosenbogen, or any other Relic, is just luxury. Still, that will set me back about 3 millions ; ;
Most commonly when an HNMLS succeeds in collectaruing a valuable drop from their target, the item(s) ish sold either on AH or bazzar, and the earnings split evenly among those who were in attendance for the battle, Rare/Ex items are lotted on by those who can use them immediataruly, or in the near future, and when necessary, venomous claws are reserved for those in need of a scorpion harness. As per Crusader policy, however, while Serket Rings and claws etc. still go taru those who need them, no money from salables ever reaches the members. Instead, ish deposited intaru an invisible bank known as the LS fund.
It’s no secret that LS funds and other forms of stashes exist in other linkyshells, but unlike Crusader, the others will give back to their members from time to time, rewarding them using the more popular gil distribution method on HNM. Long story short, Crusader ish bank only – you make your own money, and herein lies the source of todey’s dose of drama extraordinaire~.
A fellow BLM voiced his opinion on the subject of the fund, and made it clear that he felt it wasn’t being used taru its full potential. Echoing my own silent sentiments, he instead believes it to be a waste of time and effort, as the majority of people who attend each run literally get nothing to show for it. This consequentaruly stirred up a rather heated debate on the pros and cons of the current system, with half the participating LS being satisfied, confident that no changes should be made, while the other half was adamant that the system ish broken.
Predictably, the member count dropped a little after that round of animated discussion.
Now not get Typo wrong, as I mentioned before this fund ish the very reason the Weskitaru adorns me body, and I’m very grateful for the generous gift and for the money I’ve saved. But what about the other areas that have yet taru be covered? Snow rings (700k each)? HQ staves (300k+ each)? Hierarch belt (400k? Not checked in a few days)? Understand that for the amount of time that ish required of Typo in this LS, I not have time taru spend hours a day in me volcano anymore. When I not leveling I’m wanted for HNM, Zilarts, WSNM, Avatar battles, Ro’Maeve water hunts, Optical Hat runs… – the list goes on, and while it does my pockets are still empty, and I’ve long since been feeling awfully guilty about repeatedly turning down calls and pleas for help from members of not only Crusader, but old friends from other linkyshells as well.
Typo ish not greedy, I hope you all can see that, but I, as well as anyone else in an LS like this would just like taru feel and know that they aren’taru wasting their time aimlessly "helping" for little to nothing in return. That word "help" ish used so loosely nowadays, but Typo digress.
So far this has been all about me, but in light of the tens in millions we’ve accumulated thus far, how many people have really benefited? Have any of our NINs ever recieved a SH? Well, one never will, she’s gone for good. A Krakken Club which, to my knowledge has never been put taru use…what’s it doing now? What about those who can’t really farm because their job isn’taru suited for it, or because of time constraints due to having to spend so much time on LS business? Contrary to what you’re thinking I’m really not complaining, just listing some of the innate flaws within this system. The fund itself ish used for 2 purposes, really:
1. to bolster those with the most useful jobs and improve performance in LS battles, regardless of whether or not they’ve "earned" it. BLM automatically get Igqira Weskit at 73. :3 What about that WHM who wants that Noble’s? That SAM who’d love a Haubergeon +1? Come taru think of it, how many people below level 70 get anything out of this in the first place ?X3
2. for those who have "truly earned" it. But how do you measure this ?:3 If you were to list the names of those who have been faithfully participating for the past few weeks running, you’d come up with half the entire LS on a sheet. Would a couple mil be spent on everyone? Methinks not, and therein lies the imbalance… X3
So, the simple solution would be to keep the bank, but not stockpile the gil forever. Give the bank a limit, cap it, then proceed with the money runs, as these runs will benefit the vast majoritaruty of the members, as opposed to the few who are "worthy" enough to touch the fund. We’re so used to playing with babies, Simurgh, Serket…well, a few hundred thousand per participant every few days from each of those will lead to millions in a couple weeks. Everyone will now have the FREEDOM taru use their newly acquired wealth in any way they choose, gear, crafting, catlapdances, as opposed taru having something handed to them one time only that they still can’t even call their own. Only use the fund when ish really needed… I can’t give example, and also can’t find anything else to say, other than the fact that being Rank 8 (
) feels alot like being Rank 7. X3
Rank 8 mission was fun (aside from having taru wait 15 minutes for each respawn of Bonze Marberry (
), a tonberry NM we had to kill 3 times for keys), putting a new spin on our story and making things really intarusting as we delve deeper into past events.. Rank 9 missions are planned for tomorrow, and level 75 ish a possibility that makes me smile, away from all the nonsense LS drama.
There ish a small buzz in Crusader about "party mining". You form a PT, you camp various mining points and bounce them off each other. Doesn’taru sound like such a bad idea, except for the fact that in large numbers you’re monopolizing the MPs in that zone and completaruly shutting out anyone else’s chances of earning a living. Even a seemingly small PT of 6 ish enough to cause a disruption in others’ work schedules in a place like Ifrit’s.
There is a mining etiquette followed by miners in general, and ish something Typo learned from reading Allakhazam and KI forums several months ago. Governed by a chief unwritten rule, and for those who may not have known, when someone approaches a mining point, poised to strike their pickaxe intaru the ground, just move along – it is theirs.
The rule exists because multiple people working the same MP generally get nothing out of it, since they’re both pulling from the same pool of random garbage. In addition, most MPs only last for 1 – 3 swings, making it meaningless for people taru "share" MPs in this way. Now, PT mining has been around before, and in fact, gilsellers can occasionally be seen still doing this todey in My Volcano, but in small numbers.
Typo tried discussing this seriously and in civil manner with the select few who approve of the practise, and predictably *sigh* somehow managed taru get their knickers in a twist for having a separate opinion from their own, even being called "selfish" in the process. Pot > Kettle > Black? I think one of them left the LS, but that not my problem, while the others kept up a smug "if you can’t beat us, you’ll have to join us – deal with it!" defense. X3
In any case, as they only plan on working Ifrit’s once a week, or whatever, they will not be a threat to me or many others (unless they only have that one day put aside for mining…), and I won’t have taru make that ever-futile GM call on ’em for closing off the zone for themselves alone. Typo can make 200-300k solo in 6-8 hours of mining a day, and can guarantee their results won’t be so fruitful. I not need people forcing me to PT with them just so I can mine where I always have, only for less money. *scratches his head in near-frustration*
And apparentaruly, Mystic Knights and Crusader will be merging in the recent future. Apart from being able to see kawaii Gorgeouscat more often *pet pet* and being happy about it, I not sure how taru feel about the merge itself. Meguess as usual, all Typo can do ish wait for the outcome…
Oh well.
Tomorrow.
{Good night!}
However, I know this isn’t my journal, but yesterday was so awesome I just HAVE to talk about it :p
I guess it’s about time I go back leveling, now that I’m done with all 3 Promyvions. I still need Protect IV and Knightly Mantle, but anyway… Mea may have beaten us last Sunday, but this time we totallly TOYED with the boss. I mean, besides one attack that got me at 10% we NEVER, EVER, even came close to dying, heck, besides me, no one even got in the yellow 🙂 Yesterday I spend the whole evening in the Tavanazian Archipelago. All I really explored were the Tavnazian Stronghold and Lufaise Meadows, which, by the way, is quite beautiful. My party and I did a few quests, including the one for the map of the stronghold, Lufaise Meadows and Misareaux Coast. After we all came back to the mainland, I went to do some research about what ressources could be gained in Lufaise Meadows.
This area can be profitable in 2 ways : Logging, and farming. There is one room that has a crapload of treants called Leshy. They do not aggro, they do not link, yet they drop Ebony logs (10k) and Misletoes (5k a piece, 65k or so per stack) like crazy, if you happen to have a THF with you of course. However, even a level 70+ can’t kill them very fast on his own, so the best way to do this is gather 3 or 4 people ( Say, a tank, 2 DDs and a healer ) and simply go all out against them. There are so many of them that it’s impossible to kill them all before the first ones respawn, so you’re pretty much always fighting. Also, since they con as EP to us 62-64s, they also drop a few Beastmen’s Seals.
There are also about 10 logging points there. While what you get may not give you much more in terms of gil per hour compared to mining in Gusgen Mines and Oldton Movalpolos, the thing is that hatchets seem to break far less often than pickaxes, so it’s less costly. And, best of all, it’s a new area, and the gil-sellers and other players still haven’t, for the most part, done their Promyvions, meaning that you’re pretty much always alone. There never were more than 8 people in Lufaise Meadows at all times for the whole evening.
It’s also almost always the Thunder weather, so you can also farm Thunder Elementals.
Finally, while anyone over 50 won’t aggro on the way from the swirling vortex which takes you back to Valkurm Dunes to the Tavnazian Stronghold, there is one corner of the zone where there are monsters that con as VT to 70+. That means there is a possibility of leveling for anyone over 66 there. However, don’t expect many parties there, because setting foot there means complete your Promyvions, something not everyone has done.
Oh, and I bumped into a NM that even a Level 73+ PLD couldn’t solo… :p Since he zoned it, I aggroed him while zoning as well, and it got me at 50% in 5 hits :p Okay, so I had nothing but my field gear on, but still…
Yesterday was quite the exciting evening, to say the least.
Kitty is a little sad though…. i try to take friend to pretty beach where i play to take TYpo…. but for some strange reason…. boat took us right back to shore ; ; kitty no understand it………..
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75 catlicks – I demand them now! Ohohoho~!
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*SIGH!* And it only took a year and some. ;3 The real celebration on my part comes from the fact that if I not want to, I not have taru level this job anymore – unless Typo do Gods, or Dynamis… "X3 But ya know, I do feel like I could stand a few more days of Weapons and Statues and hidden surprises (
) to cap off 75, and gain a few merits. ^^ Whatever I do, the burden of reaching here will remain behind Typotaru. Muah~! (http://photobucket.com/albums/v203/bakadl/)
Ah, on a side-note, I just went to take a look at your Alla profile…I think you’re due for an update regarding your skills… Elemental 54 at level 75 ? lol
/em pounces Typo and licks him 75 times ^^ Kitty so proud of you typo ^^ And i am glad you got comp to work ^ ^ ……Ohhhh Eva i hope you right about boat….. <,< cause kitty got so upset <,< >,> she yell at the person selling tickets in /shout lol cause i really want to take typo on boat trip to that pretty island.
Kitty had a bad night, SP wasnt being fair and was very rude to kitty so kitty leave SP.. I lvl on my own ^^ and try to catch Typo ^^ Also stupid Lord of Onzozo kill me T T but i got r3 so sok…… no drop though but we will get him later ^^ Congrats my Typo Taru Rice…. We need to take new pixes so i can post them of us ^^ me in somewhat buff armor… and Typo in ohhh so IT armor ^^
/em licks Typo 75 more times ^^
Ah, on a side-note, I just went to take a look at your Alla profile…I think you’re due for an update regarding your skills… Elemental 54 at level 75 ? lol
Hope you weren’t serious about that – I don’t update any page but equipment, too much work to maintain the rest X3
*Takes Gorgeouscat away someplace quiet and licks her 151 time~! Comfort lickies from Lord of Onzozo, and thankies for delicious catlicks~^^*
*Takes Gorgeouscat away someplace quiet and licks her 151 time~! Comfort lickies from Lord of Onzozo, and thankies for delicious catlicks~^^*
Well I may have been serious about the "due" part, but that never meant you ever were in any obliged to do it lol I admit it’s a bit of work to maintain it, that’s pretty much why I do it only every , oh, five levels ? :p So I’ll update it at 65, not before. @3k to Level 63, by the way.
I’m really not sure about the boat, Gorgeous, but I think I heard something like that somewhere. In any case, I’ll be leveling almost every evening this week, perhaps we’ll join forces, who knows ? I’m not as anti-DRG as some are 😉 I’m aiming at 65 for this week.
But speaking of Onzozo… I hate that place. Who the hell decided to fight Toramas ? Certainly not a PLD, I’ll tell you that much. Paralyze + Silence half the time ? Ugh.
Congratulations Typo, to think I knew you way back when….
Any plans now that you are the mightyisht of Tarus?
/em lights the fireworks
/em explodes with joy
Aww thank you Typo… your licks make Kitty feel better ^ ^
Eva Kitty would love to Party with you ^^ i am on everyday/ afternoon And Kitty just turn lvl 63 ^^ I am now using bloodylance which is hp drain ^^ Hopefully Eva can protect Kitty…. cause i usually get beat up lol.
Goal…….. lvl 65 this week as well ^^ COmeon Eva lets see if you and Kitty can make it !!!!! ^ ^
Aww thank you Typo… your licks make Kitty feel better ^ ^
Eva Kitty would love to Party with you ^^ i am on everyday/ afternoon And Kitty just turn lvl 63 ^^ I am now using bloodylance which is hp drain ^^ Hopefully Eva can protect Kitty…. cause i usually get beat up lol.
Goal…….. lvl 65 this week as well ^^ COmeon Eva lets see if you and Kitty can make it !!!!! ^ ^
Well, I’ll be mainly leveling in the evenings…
Protecting you souldn’t be really hard though, unless you’re really way too gun-gho with your HP drain and offensive abilities…Oh well.
WHOO! I’m back from holiday break! almost a month with just dial-up…eeeewwwww. Oh! Good news all! While my account cancellation expires February, dad said he’s willing to re-activate the account for a while to extend the time so I can come back as Luna in a few months! Hu-freakin’za! (First good news in a while, joy.)
), as well as stealing from gilsellers, so I went back taru where the REAL action (
) ish and made a profit (
) that was enough taru make Typo high enough to share some of his secret catnip stash with other unsuspecting sexies. The result (
).
I was planning taru acquire Jupiter’s Staff (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=4521), Aquilo’s Staff (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=2996) and Vulcan’s Staff (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=3685) for the extra 5% bonus taru each of those important elementarus, as well as a pair of Snow Rings (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=5065) for the best available INT bonus. However, instead of going for those right away, that money may be used to activate Typrogram: "Job Change" – Tarumission: "Exp", according to my active whim~. :3
I recentaruly told someone that I’ve been so choppy-changy nowadays that not even Typo know what he’ll want taru do tomorrow! So, no hints, clues, or predictions as to what the next update will bring – I just not know…maybe I even surprise myself~! /blush "X3
BC40: Part II
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Why did Typo agree to go after me last experience?
I was under the impression that healing would not be my job – Typo was in BLM form~ However, I was informed that while the RDM healed the NIN, Typo would be the BRDyguard (<— see what me do there? Kekekukuhaa! Such the clevererer~). A WHM in wizard’s clothing.. "X3
The good
We all had plenty of seals – enough between us for about 15 runs.
Good drop on first victory.
Typoinabox. (
)
The bad
Only 1 good drop in 5 runs…
BRD disconnects and ish not heard from again after the 5th run…
Only made ~150,000 all day. :3
The surprise
It was easy, and we gelled from the start, every battle going like clockwork.
The Irony
The same very thing which long ago scared Typo out of performing the art of white magic on a full-time basis, ish the very thing that rekindled me confidence in being a white mage.
We’re to finish our BC40 marathon sometime in the near future. Hopefully we’ll be luckier next time!
I <3 Typocam. Ish been so long, good buddy-buddy! And what better time for Typocam to be back online than the day when the airship refuses taru appear on my screen and everyone just floats above the water~!
Speaking of airship, I snap shots of sexy RDMcat on airship, and she purr at Typo and takes off her shoes, exposing her sillyfunny teeny-weenie catfeet (
).
…
So we find a nice spot taru stand and Typo ask nicely that she put them back on – they look so nice on her! So she does. I lick again, and here she goes with her purring, followed by more catfeet (
). I mean, she had nice feet, but Typo not have mithranfootfetish, or any other kinda fetish at all! Really (
)! Really (
)… What? Really.. (
) For real (
)…
Anyway, while messing around in Bastok trying to pawn off fake ores on the black market, I apparentaruly took a rather curious snappy with Typocam. So what’s going on here:
a). The mithran con artist teaches Typo the ways of overpricing, and gives him a sweet smile in the hopes of suckering him in taru the swindle of a lifetime.
b). Typo forgot taru shave that morning.
c). Nothing out of the ordinary.
Typoguess maybe all of the above… Oh well. You know, that galka just stands there all day and does nothing. Typo would love a job like that. Maybe Lunacat can lend Typo a hand when she returns! Typo can’taru wait !;3
How ya doin’, Caniacat! ;3
nicomo
With how Utsusemi: Ni and Erase just suddenly jutted up in price (around 400k each now), now would be a good time to do BCNM40.
However… with the lost of my valuable Mary’s Horn, I’m not so confidentaru any more…
I just wanted to say good job typo! quite a long journey for you and i’m glad that you made it!! i’d pull your tail but i’ve been informed that tarus don’t actually have tails…..who knew?? grats again man
nicomo
Same old Nicotaru ^.^ As far as you’re concerned, Typo just might have tail! Or maybe not, I ‘unno. X3
However, I decided to give the RP (Role Playing) server a chance and have been rewarded with sweet gooey joy 😀 Most everyone on the Cenarion Circle (my new home) is more interested in enjoying the game rather than level grinding and meta-game bickering (ex. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO PLAY IT YOU n00b!). Those rare fools that dare enter our world to make it uninhabitable for people having fun are met with the swift and harsh policies surrounding the RP worlds. It is rather empowering to know that you can remove the jerks for something as simple as having a non medival/fantasy name, such as KillerXXX, Gdawghomey, ect should thier behavior equal their naming ignorance of how the residents of the RP worlds function. It isn’t as though there are RP nazis running around making sure you stay in character, its that there is incentive to keep the world fun. Its like speeding, a lot of us go 5-10 MPH over the limit, however go too fast and you are going to get slapped with the law.
What strikes my FFXI sensiblities most is the generosity. The ettiquite in parties is generally to only lot on that which you need (and I do mean NEED). Not the best economica approach but ceratianly it beats the "everyone can and will lot no matter what because we’re all poor". My guild for expample, Crossbone Vanguards, will always ASK if some one needs an item or items. We just give each other stuff that we don’t need along the way, no matter what the value. Even with my old greedy gil gaining tactics ( such as making scorp arrows at cost and in large quantities to discourage that market, which in turn encourages the beetle arrow market where I’m also selling >:) stuff like that, you get the idea) its hard not to accept generosity and not return it. I find myself giving away shineys and it makes the heart of this ex-thief all warm and fuzzy. Currently I’m raising my Blacksmithing not primarily to make money, but to be the guild Blacksmith and arm my worthy brethern.
Anyway, my character Percivale on the Cenarion Circle needs a bit of TLC at the moment for my RPing skills are a little thin. Ergo I step up to the fountain of Typotaruwisdom and humbly ask for aid in being tactically energetic. I’ve been trying play my character as a simplistic goofball Paladin (ex. The light shall always triumph! … Well until I run out of mana and then we need to run screaming like scared forest elves guys…) However, I’ve been developing a bit of an interesting backstory which might be too heavy for the character. Instead of being a typical Paladin of the Light, I’m going with Paladin of Moonlight.
Story Time! Former Warrior, Percivale lived quite well in Pyrewood village with his elivsh wife {ToBeNamed} (I think that’s elvish right?), Priestess of Elune (for those not in the know, Elune is the chief Elf diety and also the Goddess of the moon) untill the coming of the undead. Sadly, {ToBeNamed} caught the plauge of undeath and became one of the mindless Scourge. Unable to kill her and unable to live with his grief Percivale, set off to join the climactic fighting in Kalimdor seeking his own death in battle. Yet his grief fed his ferocity, and he did not die but earned strength and honor in war. At the battle of Mt.Hyjal where Orc and Human and Elf untied against an army of demons, he became wounded with an otherworldy posion which slowly drained his body of its strength (why yes I am writing myself back into a level 1 character).
After the battle he was taken with the wounded to the Temple of Elune where he struggled with the poison daily. Despite the best effort of the Night Elf preists he began to lose his life to the crippling poison. In the moment he felt his life slipping away he cried out to his wife’s Goddess, "Elune! Grant, not that I should die in your house, while your servant {ToBeNamed} remains outside of it! Grant her my death, and let slip to me Undeath. While I suffer so knowing her fate, I already am in a living death, which I will carry with me through the eternity after the world so long as she remains in it, as a prison. In that moment Elune appeared, speaking: Great has been your suffering Percivale, and that for the sake those whom I love as well. However, what you have asked for is not within my power, nor any other for the plauge is an abomination of evil, those who hold power over it, never shall yeild it for the sake of any living creature. "Is there no hope at all then?" spoke Percivale. No hope? Hope, is my dominion Percivale, for it is I who am always on guard against the night. It is I who guide the weary through darkness, I who bring light where there is none. I come to you with hope if you are brave enough to accept it. And the Goddess drew nearer to him so that even as he faded from the world he knew the way back, his spirit began to take that way. "I have many servants, the night wind, the silver lining of shadows, the dreamer’s sleep. My servants have reproted that there is a rumor, that the undead have found a cure though they are unable or unwilling to use it. Serve me, and I shall grant you a portion of my power, so that you can go where I am forbbiden. You shall become my Paladin, and whereas your brethern will exponge the undead with the light, you shall guide them out of darkness with it. And so Percivale accepted, and his search began…
Sorry to ramble on for so long, this is your journal after all. I just wanted an educatarued opinion of the story. Too heavy for the character? I was thinking of throwing in a change of residence at the beginning of story becaue the whole elf/night elf thing isn’t 100% accurate. I’ve also been thinkning about keeping my Windurstain accentaru, just because I got semi-good at it and there just don’t seem to be enough dialectarus these days. Well time for me to shut up, any adivce you’re willing to dole out would be gratefully accepted as I’ve always respected the intelligence of your writing. Ta, taru for now Typo. 😉
I’m not sure if I’m the right person to be evaluating your story, but in my humble opinion your RP skills are far from being "thin". :3
Percivale (Elvish/elvin, not sure. The former sounds like Typo trying to say "Elvis".), as a simple Paladin of Light, might find himself being somewhat overwhelmed by such a darkly detailed and spiritual backstory, but I figure you are going to deepen Percivale a bit anyway, as he is now a Paladin of Moonlight~^^ Your story outline reads well: it’s coherent, interesting, and believable within its context, and I like how you explained your return to level 1 under the guise of this otherworldly poison – clever like a taruthf. Speaking of which, you might turn a few heads commanding the Windurstian taru accent n’ stuff, but then I couldn’taru imagine you not trying-wying taru be a tarutaru like Typotaru and Nicotaru and Kristaru! "X3
Now stop making Typo blush with complimentarus, and go do homeworkies. :3
Tataru~!
Well anyways, I’m glad that you are having fun with blm again Typo even though I found out today your starting a new job again~! All I can say is G’luck to you and hope you have a better expierience then I have had lately.
On another side note Kristaru love love LOVES barding. Being adorded by JP PTs and being spoony is my true calling^^ I’ve had so much fun lately and I’m flying through the levels. I’m planning to go the distance with bard because although it is a fun job, leveling is becoming a little boring. I want to do Zilart missions and Windy Missions and I’m at the point that I can’t do them with my current lvl jobs. Also 90% of the people on my friend’s list are about 10-20 lvls higher than me and I fear they are getting very bored with my /tells for help with the ever annoying AF. I need to get a job up there in teh end game lvls so I can actually do things with them, even though I fear that by that time they will have allready done all the things that I will need to do at that time <(;’ . ‘;)>
At least I have gotten many things done today. I finnaly defeated that nastly old Shadow Lord, Sarevoky-ninja-man basically solo’d him for me but Derutarufin, Ermy, and my identical bard twin Sotaka helped. After that I did what anyone would do, I ran to Norg to see the infamous cut-scene that starts off your Zilart missions^^ I wont say anything cause I dont want to ruin it for others but it was GOOD! lol so Zilart 1-3 complete, eagerly awaiting 4 but I think I need a few lvls before I can do that, even though I do have an unlit lantern allready if anyone sees someone doing it. (I want to go to <sky>! lol) Then after being in Norg I started the SAM quest which is the only job I still have to unluck, and on my way back to Kazham I decided to skill up because I have been obsessed with getting the Spirits Within WS for my barding pleasure hehe <(^_~)> and on my 7th lizzie killed what should drop buy the rare Elshimo Marble, so I finally have all Teleport quests done, and at a very good time cause it seems as though Yhoat scroll is increasing in value at a nice rate^^ Oh yeah, and I forgot that after 5-2 we also got me my Zvhal Coffer key, and we found the coffer and I snagged me some Old Guantlets! Whataru a great day for Kristaru!!!
Hehe, sorry for the huge post Typo lol~ maybe I should get my own journal, but then I be a sad Taru cause no one would read it <(;’ . ‘;)> See you around Vana’diel soon Typo as well as the rest of you!^^
Yeah, I won’t say much in this pots, but all I can say right now, is that I’m leveling like mad. I missed my goal, I wanted to be 65 before today, but I missed it by 10.5k :p Oh well, I should get it today if all goes well.
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Beetlemating for exp in Altepa.
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Preparing for me preciouscat’s return, Typo spend todey on BST until I reach lvl40~ It took a while and two silly k.o’s taru find me rhythm again, but everything ran smoooothly once I got back on track^^. Actarully with cooking skill now at 40, and plenty of ingredients for melon juice on hand, MP was always abundant, and chain 3’s easy on EM/T, occasionally scoring a c4 on a EM~! I also had with me a slightly outdated weapon, a Warrior’s Axe, and although marginally gimped in terms of attack power, it allowed Typo to melee alongside his pets for pretty much the entire duration of every battle! Gahaha, the freedom of multiple hunting techniques, only with Beastmaster! ^^.
The hard work ish over now. Altepa was far too busy for me, and in my rusty state I felt intimidated by the silly dhalmel I could seldom charm, so I fled taru Sea Serpent Grotto where I reminded bats and ghasts of just how much of an annoyance Typotaru can be!
Only 600 away from 40, so it’s soon time to put me axe away once again, perhaps taru fall back on old robes and other remnants of magery come back to sit with me~.
Oie Kristaru, ish good taru know you’re actually happy with something now ^.^ BRD really is you, and mehopes you can stick to it. ;3 You can ask Typo for help if ya want. After reaching 75 I sometimes find meself sitting around doing nothing every now and again; it’s just hard taru know when I will and won’t be busy.. X3 Here’s hoping that you and Evad can fulfill your short-term goals, goodness knows Typo has some new ones taru reach for~!
Fuzzums. I like to pull her tail. (
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Oie Kristaru, ish good taru know you’re actually happy with something now ^.^ BRD really is you, and mehopes you can stick to it. ;3 You can ask Typo for help if ya want. After reaching 75 I sometimes find meself sitting around doing nothing every now and again; it’s just hard taru know when I will and won’t be busy.. X3 Here’s hoping that you and Evad can fulfill your short-term goals, goodness knows Typo has some new ones taru reach for~!
Oh, actually, I did. I just reached 65. Going to go level the entire evening again. I’ll acquire Swift Blade in about an hour, them Jago and I will spam Swift Blade + Tachi:Gekko for Darkness like mad. Oh, and I’m also testing Save the Queen. If the Cover bonus does allow to hit a lot more, meaning more TP, meaning more mobs die faster, so less hits in the same amount of time, and at the same time more exp per hour, I’m selling Gluttony for a Knightly Mantle and gobbies III-IV-V. But first I got to test it if it actually works. If it doesn’t I’ll hold on Gluttony until 66 instead.
Thank You Eva for Partying with Kitty the other day ^^ Was so much fun
Huggles Typo~~~~~~~~~~Licks Typo~~~~~~~~~~~ ^ ^
I guess its not that bad considering I have like 350+ levels all together with my constant job switching <(^_~)> hehe, but at least now I’m starting to get somewhere.
Lots of luck with SMN Typo, and you know, I’ll say it again, I’m up for a Fenrir Battle any time^^
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As Evad, Kristof and others watch in pure horror as their /sea all Typo shows "Typo, Rank 8, SMN/WHM", Typo jack-of-all-trades his way through the forgotten newbieland leveling territories of Qufim Island, and Yuhtunga and Yhoator Jungles, with his personal deities always watching over him and his incidental company.
Not since my return taru Summoner have I ever used the likes of Shiva, Titan, Ifrit, Garuda, Leviathan, and Ramuh in a PT, and this fact made Typo more nervous than the day he lifted the hiatus on BLM. Despite doing me research, reading up on and listening taru the opinions and methods of familiar summoners, as well as those of far and away, I wasn’t confident that I’d know my role when the time came… Spending almost an entire hour one day fidgeting around with me macros and wondering when I’d have the time for juice-making in the middle of hectic chain scuffle, it didn’t look like Typo would ever make it out intaru the winter wonderisland. Fortunately to curb me obsessive-compulsive planning disorder, a good ol’-fashioned wake-up call (read: a swift kick in the Typobum) ish usually enough taru get me into action. A MNK/Dhalmel /tells me, and immediately puts me on the spot as he unknowingly invites this rusty summoner (pardon the pun, Rusty ;3) into his first active role as such in almost a full year. Typo accepts without having even completed his first macro set, and I give meself a head-start outside to do just that.
And it figures that for the most part, Typo would play WHM, but the satisfaction of being able taru also deal damage with Thunderspark, Rock Buster or Burning Strike made the Qufim experience manageable. In fact, at this point I realized what people meant by SMN being both enjoyable while at the same time, frustrating. From my experience so far, Typo role changes ever so slightly in every party, healing, buffing, debuffing, magic bursting, skillchain starter or finisher, though not always all at once; finding a niche taru fit into in each PT can be both fun and rewarding, as well as downright annoying.
I’d rather there not be a WHM alongside TypoSMN in the same PT "X3 I’d rather be busy to the point of not even being able to sit down and rest MP, than just standing there waiting for the bloodpact timer taru reset…
Now aftaru all that, I was going to have a long-winded paragraph dealing with the general incompetence of low-levels and their PTs nowadays, but since everyone else knew of this already, Typo just sum it all up with a single brief Q & A session instead:
Q~
Where have 99% of all the skilled low-level adventurers gone?
A~
Anywhere except here~!
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Ja, I okay now, just don’t expect Typo taru be doing as much travelling over the next few days. "X3 Revenge sure does come at a price, but at least it felt sweet taru finally topple the perpetual wyvern menace. Thankies for the evasion lesson, punk!
More piccies (http://photobucket.com/albums/v203/bakadl/), some of which’ll give you a clue as to how the HNM scene ish looking. I not feel like talking about that right now.
This week was mostly devoted to CoP on my part. Namely, I completed the Phomiuna Aqueducts mission, and am ready for Riverne Site A01. I also completed a few Tavnazian quests. Also, I did a big BCNM40 run, and kept one last orb for the BCNM60 fight, Celery. Jago, Laure and I are going to give it a shot, in hope I’ll snatch myself a Knightly Mantle, and we’ll share whatever else drops. Our BCNM40 marathon went very well… How so ? I just may have earned my very first million :p
Once my next exam on Monday is done with, back to leveling I go. I’m still aiming for 70 for March at the latest. Currently, I’m 5.5k into level 65.
Just you wait, Typo, soon enough I’ll be in the "big leagues" with you :p lol
kekekek Eva i beating you… ^ ^ Kitty tags Eva…. your turn to catch up
Mama did not get party in Crawler’s Nest so, I logged off and watched Fruits Basket instead. o.o
KITTY gave mama pressie too last night!
kekekek Eva i beating you… ^ ^ Kitty tags Eva…. your turn to catch up
lol Fine. Catching up with you shouldn’t too hard…that is, If I do spend most of the week leveling. However, it so happens I have a whole bunch of things to do. Like, going back to Phomiuna Aqueducts, a few quests and even one more BCNM fight. Either way, as I said, I’ll get 70 before the end of the month for sure.
Kitty see you at the Top Eva ^ ^ I work a lot too so game time is slim…. but i will get there ^ ^
MAMA ^^ Kitty still collecting crystals for you … when i am in pts… so kitty send to you soon.
Typo~~~~~~~~ /em pounces TYpo and licks his face…..
I have also been told that I will be recruited into PaiMei once I hit 70. I still don’t know if I’ll enjoy that HNM LS stuff, but not much else I can do besides trying.
Welcome taru a very complex and hostile environment~ When you join, that ish.
I not really know what to post except I’m HNMLSless for now. Typo have a love/hate relationship with HNM at best, especially since the ones I end up in are of the run-of-the-mill dime-a-dozen reject class.
Good luck, I s’pose.
I not really know what to post except I’m HNMLSless for now. Typo have a love/hate relationship with HNM at best, especially since the ones I end up in are of the run-of-the-mill dime-a-dozen reject class.
Good luck, I s’pose.
Quite frankly speaking, this isn’t at all the thing I’m looking forward the most. Hitting 70 and advancing through missions is where most of my interest lies, really. I want to go further in both Zilart and CoP. Getting Rank 10 is interesting to me as well.
Ding…. lvl 67 ^ ^ /dances Kitty try to lvl fast for Z missions… but KItty very worried about Maat Y Y
Kittys Goal~~~~~~~ 2-3days= 1 lvl
Licks Typo
Been feeling a little down lately, which ish usually the cause for such sporadic updates. I guess I’m mainly just disappointed (again) that reaching that pinnacle, becoming level 75, and being in an HNMLS really isn’t doing anything for me at all. It doesn’t cure viruses, or work miracles, yet without a decent high level stable to belong to, being "up here" just isn’t that special. Typo sometimes wonders what it would be like to sit at the top with the likes of KoN…or at least someone more established like Nothx or PaiMei..
Probably no different, I s’pose. :/
Typo left Crusader a few days ago. Quite frankly the state of that linkshell became something pathetic, and no longer worth my time. The LS fund was a waste, and people used the LS as a forum for all their whining and bitchfests, something Typotaru can do without. Since then, I’ve heard the linky has been reduced to almost half its original member count, and they’re now trying to rebuild, under new stipulations: Focusing on sky :: No more LS fund :: Ground HNM are money onry. Enticing, except I’m not sure why some aim for Gods before they’ve even conquered regular HNM… Oh well, Typo ish considering making a return, but no guarantees. For now I’d prefer to move without an LS altogether. I’ll pop into NE every once in a while to say hau to me friendies.
Anyway, I can at least pat meself on the back now that Typo has secured level 40 in both SMN and WHM~ I’m going to pull a bit of a Kristof here and start job-hopping, since Typo not seem to be able to keep his interest in one thing at a time nowadays. I was thinking that it’d be nice to level a variety of jobs up to level 40, just to have the experience of playing different roles in PTs up to that mid-level area. I can’t decide on what I want taru do just by thinking about it, so the only alternative ish to suit up and test drive all me options. :3 If Typo find a job I’d like taru sticky with, then that ish what I will do, and first on me list ish RDM.
RDM will be my new permanent sub to BLM for more INT, Fast Cast, Gravity, Phalanx and Dispel. It’ll make a much better mining job at 41 than WHM too, with Phalanx, Refresh, and of course the energency Chainspell/Warp. Death very rarely ever happen to Typo in me volcano, so using that 2hour as a means of hasty escape while me shadows and added defense protect me will not be a problem. Added taru that, /NIN will allow for a much cheaper and safer means of Invis as well, so NIN (at least up to level 10) may be next.
I’m still up for avatar runs. Typo won’t organize anything, since I’m no longer focusing on SMN, and I really have little idea as to who to take and/or what to expect from the level 70 avatar primes. If me can tag along with someone, that’d be yay.
Rank10 makes me mouth water, but only for the "status" of being Rank10, really. ":3
Valentine’s ish approaching, and I’m a lonley taru. -.- I not think about this too much, so I don’t really mention it at all. If only Typo could round up the world’s population of mithracats for a big happyfun party.. ":3
Meh, I’m just silly, but then if Typo were silly I couldn’t be Typo anymore… ._.
You could also start working on CoP. If you need advice regarding the Promyvions, just ask, I’ll be happy to help you with that.
I’m taking a few days off from FFXI, thanks to school, Mom’s birthday and the Super Bowl lol Unless tomorrow’s Super Bowl evening gets canned, I’ll resume leveling I guess… @4k towards level 66.
As for the HNMs… I don’t know, besides for bragging rights of having defeated them once I really don’t give that much of a damn. I’m actually more interested in the Avatars, if only for both their weapons and for my SMN, which I might eventually level if I ever get bored enough. I’m really far more interested in missions and quests. So I’m guessing Dynamis will be interesting, too, if only for beating it…My dream would be to be decked in full Relic PLD armor (Valor Set), but I’m well aware that it’s not happening anytime soon, if ever at all.
Oh yeah, Gorgeous, don’t fret too much about Maat. Just look around and ask other DRGs for advice. If other DRGs beat it, there is no reason that you can’t as well. The worst thing you can do is lose your cool and not prepare accordingly…that’s when you lose.
Sawwycaat "X3 Typo was…so overcome with happiness from fighting alongside you that me forget~! ;3 ;3 ;3 *hugs his mamacat*
TYpo and Eva… thank you for your support ^^ KItty really appreciate it… i cant wait till i hit lvl 70 then the fun begin… Kitty is now 67… and working her way to 68 which i hope to have in two days or less…. ^ ^
Everyone enjoy super bowl weekend… and take care… Kitty Luv you
… LOL ! Redoing the Promyvions ? Ugh…well, if it’s both you and Typo…MAYBE I will, just maybe.
I know Daison also needs to do them. I’d rather tell you everything I know about Promyvion and let you guys do them with him, because if I’d go with the same party than Daison, 2 Paladins in the same party won’t work.
Me been in a slump lately. Dun wanna party, pain the butt for me to get money. Log on for a few moments then just log off. 🙁
Me been in a slump lately. Dun wanna party, pain the butt for me to get money. Log on for a few moments then just log off. 🙁
lol Woah, woah, woah ! I said maybe I’d redo them. Frankly speaking, about the only thing I want to have to do with Promyvion right now is going there and kill the NMs for the maps…
Promyvion takes preparation, so if I’d want to redo them, no way I’d do them with just anyone…Anyway.
So I dunno, if Mr. Noble Evad doesn’t want to do it, Mr. Mini Noble Mog will research :3
Gorgeous, Typo, and Lunareis, holding Typo with one hand. Me rather powerful kitty…
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Alotsa news~^^ Good news~! Typo will forever highlight this day as a happy day, for Lunacat ish back where she belongs…Luna ish home! I’d not too long ago awoken when she call Typo and tell me to wait for her in Jeuno o.o;;;
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Sleepy-sleepy, I make me way to airport with flower and pretty papillion for cat, and following the arrival of the very next flight in from Bastok… there (
) she was~!
The poor kitty was just so excited, she not even know what taru do first~! So Typo just let her run me around – wasn’t gonna leave her side after all this time, no matter how half-conscious I might have been.. She so energetic and move so fast, I couldn’t help but perk up, chasing (
) around after her "X3 We played around with Gorgeouscat for a bit, but she had to go soon, so we take piccies:
After Gorgiekitty’s farewell, the duo of Lunacat and Typohat hot-footed the way to Castle Oztroja, where we’d invade the birds’ domain, and steal a Rogue’s Culotte from one of their precious coffers. {Good job!} and congratarulations once again, micat~! Mehopes this ish just the beginning of more cat n’ hat adventures, ja ?^.^
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Well now, after that high I can’t help but notice me have lots of money just laying around, and ish time to put it to some use! I not know yet "X3 Mining has been its most pleasant in recent months, as me volcano has been alot less crowded than usual.
While re-stocking in Jeuno, Littlebeartaru happens across Typo, and invites me into his LS, Whirling Wind, after a little talk~ For the past week I’ve been battling between rejoining Crusader, or continuing taru fly solo until I’m "ready" again. …But WW ish already very established and well-respected, they did, after all defeat Nidhogg a couple nights ago, and I’d get to be with more of me old friends, including some of the other former Crusaders, as well as others from long ago.. So me happily accept the offer. I didn’t join for items or money, although at some point I’d be hopeful for abjurations.. For now, Typo just want taru see what it ish like to be amongst those who actarully know what they’re doing. For me, the real adventure and joy from HNM comes from being a part of a well-oiled machine that never quits until it succeeds in driving that final stake through the heart of its foe. There’s only so many times I can handle beating up yutzies like poor Serket and Adamant King, before they become yet another trivial encounter. Farewell, and good luck taru you, Crusader~
Lillietaru invited Typo taru her LS. I’m in it for the catsex (
), though. There’s a much more…intaruesting piccie, but this journal ish ‘G’ rated. Or supposed taru be. ;3
I mean, not that Typo being naughty (
) or anything! Just watching…pwomise! *nod nod!* Just checking (
) for fleas and milkstain, you know how you cats are…
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I’m thinking I will begin my red mage training sometime tonight, but it depends on what kitty might want to do, or WW, for that matter. I volunteered taru give that hopeless (but wuvable!) Moggie (
) a tour through Ifrit’s in about 2 hours from now, so I’m pretty much playing by ear. "X3
In any case, I happy nau, and hopeful that it stays that way for a long time.
Keep it there as a reminder of how seemingly even the best days can turn on you and become a living hell. I suppose it’s my fault, really, believing in something that I thought could come to light. Sure.
That’s all I have tonight.
So I dunno, if Mr. Noble Evad doesn’t want to do it, Mr. Mini Noble Mog will research :3
lol Flattery won’t really get you anywhere, Moggie :p
And, frankly speaking, taking matters in your own hands is probably what you could do best. Why is that so ? Because that’s exactly what I did. I’m the leader of my CoP party, and because we work as a team, we were successful so far. Also, while I’d be willing to take you for the ride, what job would you bring ? PLD ? I’m already one. BRD ? Hmm. I don’t know, Ballad does come in handy but… WAR ? Well, unless you sub NIN…Anyway. Ask for anything I know about Promyvion, I can give you guys at least that much, and trust me, I know enough about it to be worthwile.
Another reason why I don’t really want to go back to Promyvion is, that, well, I’m already busy on my own… Just got 67, and finishing Zilart 5 tomorrow evening. Balzac ( former member from LaCasteOubliee, now with PaiMei ) has already confirmed to me , Jago and Laurewen that PaiMei is inviting us ( Yeah, all 3 of us will be recruited once we reach 70, but it seems they are willing to help us already. Don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing yet, but at least I get to advance in Rise in the Zilart. ) for both Zilart 5 and 6, so I can’t miss the boat. Zilart 4 went like a charm. We totally owned the Tonberries. After that, Jago, Laurewen and I went and did the first half of Zilart 5, the one that doesn’t require any NM fights. So tomorrow evening, we’ll get the four other fragments.
It’s a great thing that Lunareis is back. Welcome back !
Looking at your previous post, Typo, I’m guessing something happened already with Whirlwind Wind , huh ? ; ;
Congratulations on Byakko, I guess. lol
That’s fine, it’s just for me.
Anyway, I just read something you may be happy to hear since you used to be such a dedicated fishertaru. The last patch brought new life to the cooking guild… this time it is going to be the fishermans turn for a revamp.
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/information/0210.html
Interactive fishing! Not only will this will finally finish off fishbotting once and for all, they are rewarding honest fisherman with double the rate of skillups and more chances at higher level fish.
Hopefully they will leave you with some valuable fish to go after, or it will all be a waste. (I just hope the market floods with reduced priced sole sushi because of this ^^ )
Typo! Been a while… I’ve been offline for a few weeks now due to severe instability problems. SOmehow some of my model files got corrupted, and I had to re-install the game. (Actually, the uninstall program couldnt even delete the corrupted files. It was hell).
Anyway, I just read something you may be happy to hear since you used to be such a dedicated fishertaru. The last patch brought new life to the cooking guild… this time it is going to be the fishermans turn for a revamp.
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/information/0210.html
Interactive fishing! Not only will this will finally finish off fishbotting once and for all, they are rewarding honest fisherman with double the rate of skillups and more chances at higher level fish.
Hopefully they will leave you with some valuable fish to go after, or it will all be a waste. (I just hope the market floods with reduced priced sole sushi because of this ^^ )
Welcome back.
Yeah, I have heard of the new fishing update, but any passion I may have had for fishing is pretty much dead right now. It will be interesting to see how the new system once implemented really works, but I’ll probably leave it to these new-age fishers after all, as I highly doubt it can compare to mining in terms of raking in those nifty gold coins. I’d really like to be proven wrong here, actually.
*glimmer of optimism*
In other news, our old buddy Ihsan returned a few days ago, and Crescent Moon is back online. We need more positives like this to get away from all the…drama.
I dont have very much to say as of now, but congratulations on beating Byakko. WW is a good LS and LB is a good friend of mine and a very good player. Sometimes i wish he had not left KoN ; ; but some people just move on. The new fishing system looks awesome too, I am only but level 14 though.
That is pretty much all to say for now, maybe I make big post lataru and introduce myself, although everyone pretty much knows me 🙂 And I will remember to take off Banihat when i post ^^; only Banihair for Typotaru !
You’re just saying that because I not destroy your hat. ":3
Typo needs to do something that’s worth posting about.. Ish been a rather awkward past few days, so I’ve not exactly been motivated to do much.
Lemmie see…
Oh! Well, me join Ooweegoowee’s CoP Mission LS todey, and we were going to go Promyvion Holla (Typo as SMN) before the world blew up..
And then there’s this:
From:FINAL FANTASY XI
Feb. 14, 2005 19:30 [PST]
Actions Taken Due to Member Agreement Violations
On February 14, over 800 accounts which repeatedly violated the PlayOnline
Member Agreement were permanently banned from PlayOnline.
The users of these accounts would form groups to monopolize the hunting
spots of notorious monsters (NM). They also repeatedly performed harassment and MPK actions against other players.
Grief tactics, including harassment, are listed in the PlayOnline Member
Agreement as violations and are not allowed for any reason. Also,
interfering other players’ game play in order to monopolize monsters which spawn in hunting spots is not allowed.
Based on the above, we have taken strict actions against players who have
violated the PlayOnline Member Agreement.
If you become a victim of harrasment, please make a GM Call and report the issue directly to a Game Master.
Your understanding and cooperation will help us provide the best experience possible to our players.
If this means me volcano will be empty more often, I’m gonna kill people if they continue to boycottaru ori prices like this. "X3 Mind you, even with oris selling badly, and adamans at their present continuous lousy 50k, Typo can still make a respectaruble 200k+ a day in there. Gogo mee!
Eh. Mebbe I have something better taru talk about tomorrow~!
Hard to say, but not entirely impossible.
AMERICA!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!
)~! The events of the past 24 hours were going taru be recorded over 3 separate posts, but things went so much better and quicker than expected, me only need one nau! "X3 And a note taru any future Promyvion runners – not write about it right after! It wipes your memory temporarily after you touch the light…
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Cerberus’ own struggling low-budget tv mini-series~!
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By now, everyone has heard the stories. Typo ish speaking of the horror stories with vague yet terrible description of the evils lurking within our local telecrags. Darkess, the emptiness phenomenon, the empty themselves, all have made an existance out of injecting fear intaru the very foundation of bravery and hope which fuels us to continue our fight against evil every day.. Tales, slowly becoming legend among the weary adventarurers of Vana’diel have prevented and corruptarued many a possible successful investigation of the interior of each of the towering structures… All of this cause by… a mysterious boy?
The few among us who have tried have witnessed something truly otherworldly, something other than just another monster… And sadly, even fewer have succeeded, some taru never make it out alive to tell their tale…
From the shattered telecrystal and intaru the unknown, from the depths of the unknown up to the spire of the crag; thus shall we uncover the mystery and put a rest to the deadman’s frolic of the Empty. Or will we?
Many before have tried, many have cleared the likes of Holla, Dem, and even Mea, and the phenomenon has carried them to Tavnazia…it feels strange to even write about… Ish Typo’s turn taru experience and clear "Promyvion", and see the new…old land for me own little eyes.
Intaru the Unknown…
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On its maiden voyage into Holla, Unbelievable were: Mrbandit, a firey Ranger to lead the way, Mogknight, a determined Paladin, our protector, Aick, a capable Dark Knight ready to charge into battle, Altruist, the stoic White Mage sheepman, Eldarion, a driven Black Mage, and a very cutely dressed, well-prepped Summoner Typotaru, with avatars at the ready and seemingly unlimited MP pool.
It was the first time for most of us, the stories we heard in the outside world were coming to life in front our very eyes. Strays and Wanderers and Thinkers and Seethers…so many of these…"creatures" were labled off-limits – untouchable, as any links or unnecessary fighting could very well hamper our expedition, if not cause our demise. We had taru tread carefully.
With the experience of Bandit and Alt, we were able taru make our way through multiple levels of safely locating and defeating our targets: the Memory Receptacles, keepers of the portal to the next area. We often found ourselves having taru pick out and clear away some of the stray Empty, if nya pardon me punnery, and rest up in the middle of nowhere so as to stand up strongly against our next foe. Our leader’s direction made things seem easy, and soon our party had established a nifty rhythm in clearing a path taru the top. It was only after a short while when Typo felt comfortable inside the dark abyss, and in his role as a Summoner, even knowing that 3 Astral Flows would be expected of me once it was time to take on Holla’s final guardian.
When Typo look back at it, it all happen so fast…2, maybe 3 Receptacles went down, and we had reached the top floor unscathed. Things would change from here… Bandit mentioned something about a "run". While exercising ish good for you and all, Typo not think it was an appropriate time taru be thinking about taking a jog through the dark ._.;; After that me realized we’d be making a dash for the spire, and so with Carby out taru take care of any nosey Emptys, we weaved through Promyvion Holla’s final wave of oddities, diving into the portarul that would lead us to…
…a congregation of dark matter, a vortex of darkness.
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A mysterious entity which Typocom identified as "Wreaker", would emerge from out of the dark energy and become the one thing standing between us, and our goal… A battle that the storybooks would laud as an "epic" would ensue, the line between life and death very nearly crossed at many points during our struggle. Drinking me juices and ethers to maintain me MP for a 3rd and final Diamond Dust, Typo would soon command Shiva to unleash her power once more, a gesture which would prove taru be me final act in this battle…
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So close, yet so far… our hate management and PT formation somehow fell apart at the very end, our black magic contribution somehow doing less and less each shot.. Typo not understand up taru now..
Our team would make numerous attempts at the Wreaker, and undergo several modifications, each time being defeated by some stroke of awful luck, including this (
), which happened twice in 2 consecutive battles -.- They never let me live that down nau… >.<;; On one occasion we brought in a second SMN to wipe the floor with the Wreaker with 6 Astral Flows… Everything went according to plan until our second wave of AF…both Diamond Dust attacks missed, out tank relinquishing hate taru the RNG at the most inconvenient of moments.. We never bothered with any form of anima to weaken the guardian. If it weren’t for our luck, it wouldn’t have been necessary. But even the most stubborn minds give into the obvious at some point: we weren’t winning, might as well give it a shot.
Our next encounter with BigUgly would result in sweetaru success~! With the Wreaker unable to spam drain attacks like no tomorrow, we were able to win by doing absolutely nothing special at all. Go Typoteam go~!
…
And as the excitement reached its climax, a foreboding feeling comes over Typo as we stand face-taru-face with the mothercrystal (
). "It contains the light that keeps the planet alive", insists Nag???Molada, chief envoy of Jeuno. With the impossible occurring so frequently after the birth of this phenomenon, Typo would believe anything right now… We are accused of leading the mysterious boy to the crystal, and it ish Nag???Molada’s belief that he will release the darkness to engulf the mothercrystal and thus inflict chaos upon Vana’diel.
At this point Typo had to wonder if it was worth coming here.. I not watch the news or read the tribune, Typo not so concerned with all these big evil world issues >.> Monster hunting, sure! Someone gottaru clean up the place sometime, and as long as it keep Typoskills in tune I’m all for it! X3 But now I felt like I was being dragged into something far deeper than I ever anticipated. Not wanting to back down from challenge, or let down the innocents all over the world, Typo will see this through to the end!
Huh, sounds like a typically contrived standard RPG plot to me!
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A good night’s rest later and a few hours of cleaning up and around me Jeuno moggiehouse after Typo and Kattcat make happymess all over place, it was time taru regroup and take on Dem and Mea. Typo would travel this time in a WHM capacity, and quite frankly I missed being able taru command me avatars to do something useful to the point of being downright bored. Amazing how something so intimidating yesterday could suddenly seem so banal.
But it was… last night’s experience was apparentaruly all we needed to prep us for both Dem and Mea.. What can Typo say, although, Holla ish said to be the hardest, and after todey me can’t help but agree. WHM, RNG, RNG, WAR, DRK, PLD wins the day~ /nod
Had a dream where I was seeing the world through someone else’s eyes… visions of some girl I not know, not even a misura *shudders*.
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I open me eyes and am standing in Lufaise Meadows. So tranquil… it’s been a long time since I’ve been somewhere new and not feared for me life. Instantaruly reminded of La Theine and how taken aback I was by the beauty of simple nature.. With the light of Holla, Dem and Mea in me possession, Typo somehow made it here.. I ran with one of me comrades through this new land, at least, new to us, and was met with a rather convincing reason to break into a sprint across the bridge (
) and into the Tavnazian Safehold~!
/salute
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Not worry, with Typocharm being so irresistable, they will accept us in no time ^.^ Typo will help Moggie and mama with Holla, and make sure Alexielmama also makes it across the skies and into the new world.. Let’s think of summink’, Moggie, Evad~! :3
Me leave Typocam (http://photobucket.com/albums/v203/bakadl) on over night so all can see nifty piccies~ Typo too sleepy taru proofread long posty, so maybe some Typotypos along the way. Not wake me and tell me if you find any, or I’m gonna eat you.
Katt can sing (
) now, she’s a BRD. Typo paint piccie for Kattcat~ Muah (
)!
This just reminded me of that plan I had to level RDM from scratch. You guessed it – no longer intaruested. Time for Typo to once again shock world and give fans heart attack over me next job decision…
Congrats on reaching the Safehold.
Now you most likely understand a lot of the things I said in my story 😉
… we failed at Riverne Site-A01 yesterday. Reaching the boss was a snap, but we just couldn’t win. Fear not, it was only a few minor details we weren’t really aware of. Now that we know, we’ll prepare accordingly.
However, CoP is on hold for a good 2 weeks. My current objectives are getting to 71 ( so that I may equip Durandal and Warwolf Belt, but I know that also means dealing with Maat… ) and reaching Tu’Lia. I am at Zilart 6 now, but Jago didn’t get one fragment from Zilart 5 and so I have to help him with the NM at Sanctuary of Zi’tah. Once I’m 71 and both Jago and Laurewen are at least 70, we’ll also recruit Kinsen, my RDM pal, who’s 65 right now. Our old friend from LaCasteoubliee, Balzac ( now with PaiMei ) should join us to help us reach Tu’Lia. From there, all we need is another damage dealer, and we are set to do Zilarts 6-13.
Once I finally gain access to Tu’Lia, our party will resume CoP. We’ll first get our revenge on those Mammet, then we’ll move with the chapter 3 missions. Once that’s done, Jago and Backus intend to level their RNGs to 50, so that we can do the chapter 4 missions. By that time, William, our RDM, should be level 50+ as well. And that’s pretty much the only time when I could be available to help with Promyvions…and I believe that will happen in a good month at least. I’m sorry ; ;
And that brings me to another thing… Remember that I’m the chaperone for William and Littleyuuki ( our CoP SMN ) ? Well, when I logged on yesterday I saw that a time slot got cancelled at the last minute, so I applied for it and… got it.
William and Littleyuuki are to be wed today, at 5 PM PST at the Chateau d’Oraguille in San d’Oria. Considering I barely had 24 hours to prepare everything, it went really well. Needless to say, both were full of joy when I annonced the good news to them. It will be the first wedding in Lacasteoubliee, but probably not the last, as Jago and Laurewen want to get married as well. However in this case, Mihmendra is the chaperone.
EDIT : And so it took place. However, as I was the chaperone and organizing the wedding ( I even hosted a Teamspeak session to which nearly 10 persons attended to 🙂 ), I could only take a single picture at the end of the ceremony, with the couple and their attendees :
However, Jago recorded a video using FRAPS. So, maybe later on I will also post it. Anyway, should we ever see either William ( RDM, Bastok ) or Littleyuuki ( SMN, San d’Oria ), please congratulate them on my behalf. 🙂
If not, so sawwy taru see you really go.. Typo won’t ever forget you, you can count on that! Not be a stranger to me journal now! /licks~
lol kitty is now lvl 71 and catching up fast ^^ and kitty have O hat. Sorry kitty missing in action here… been trying to catch typo ^^ Congrats on Promy Typo ^^ Mama and Kitty need Promy still ; ; Well time for nap….. NiNi..
/em licks everyone NiNi
Yesterday’s 7-1 ended in complete failure… Oh well, trust me, Ro’Maeve won’t toy around with me again. I shall have my Rank 8 this evening, oh yeah.
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I am now not only Rank 8, but Rank 9 ! ^^
I posted a thread about Jago and I’s adventures on Lacasteoubli???e’s board. I’m too lazy to recap everything, but at least you can take a look at the pics. So, don’t mind the French lol
http://lacasteoubliee.forumactif.com/viewtopic.forum?t=77
There you go.
I have an exam tomorrow, so this evening I’ll most likely only download the update. I’ll resume leveling after that, a few deaths during the missions set me back a bit, so now I’m 10k to level 68. Either way, next week is my week-off, so I should be able to hit 70 if I give it best.
lol Yeah, no Banish III for you either , Moggie.
They chose to remove it from Paladins. Bah, it’s not a big loss, if you ask me.
Either way, I’m stoaked about fishing, I’m doing that all day >:O
Either way, I’m stoaked about fishing, I’m doing that all day >:O
Hyping ? Intriguated was a better word for it. Anyway…
Typo tried fishing yet?
Fishing? Typo like that everyone can now see whatcha fish up. I’ll probably get back into it just to see if the new fishing system can even hope to match the perfection of Breath of Fire III’s, but since I highly doubt fishing can make any more money than mining, I’m likely to only use fishing to make a "quick" 50k if I need it to restock on food or something. Dunno when I’ll try it out, I’m busy with leveling stuff. More on that later. :3
ENMs are sounding too tasty taru resist. It doesn’t seem like they’ll be abuseable with the 5-day cool-down period, but who really believed it’d be that easy to get "free exp" anyway ?:3
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Unbelievable explored Phomiuna Aqueducts (I love typing/saying that and will type it in full each and every time) for the first time last week, and also completed Mr. Nag’s "little" challenge (
). We did some subligar hunting which provided some memorable moments of {fun} (
) and {/joy} (
) (poor kittyless Aickhume) while we were at it~
Riverne Site A01 ish scheduled for Friday evening. Prishe promises even more adventure (
), and Typo ish looking ahead, all-smiles~!
Over the weekend, Typo answered a random shout for a group to go avatar hunting. I’m 2/6 on whispers as we managed to defeat Ifrit and Titan, but lost to Garuda and Ramuh ._. Never would have thought Garuda would pose a challenge, but Whispering Wind spam kinda sucks. Kinda. Anyway, nu, I not intend taru continue SMN at this point in time, but I’ll take any chance that arises to collect more whispers. We’re gonna meet again this weekend to hopefully proceed a few steps closer taru obtaining Fenrir~
Phomiuna.
Before me go, just a couple thoughts:
Can SE or anyone for that matter possibly do anything at all to make me even remotely care about the existance of Ballista ?:3
Aqueducts.
And what’s with the whole step-up-ladder-to-zone cutscene in Phomiuna Aqueducts? Reminds me of Resident Evil. :3
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Typocam (http://photobucket.com/albums/v203/bakadl)
…Phomiuna.
Already have plenty though. Next?
LOL ! That’s EXACTLY what we ALL said the first time we saw it… :p
Yeah, subligar hunting can make you hate Phomiuna Aqueducts. I got mine, but that’s also we found a lone Fomor Paladin. Laure and Yuuki got theirs too, since they’re WHM and SMN, and there’s a lone SMN near the entrance. Jago, William and Backus weren’t so lucky. :p
So you’re going for Riverne Site-A01 ? Good luck, getting to the NM is cake. We couldn’t beat it last time though. But next time will be different. I wish I could go with you, but I’ll most likely need to help Jago with the NM in Sanctuary of Zi’Tah for Z5, because PaiMei is taking us to do Z6 on Saturday.
I still need to make myself an avatar and sig for here. In due time.
Congrats on everything, Typo and Ev.
Anyway, remember what I said about PaiMei taking us to Z6 ? Well, that was canned. Big time. As in " we make you wait for 7 hours for NOTHING " big time, then they go to Riverne Site B-01 and Dynamis-Windurst instead. As in " we take idiots like Dargonis, who gets lost and dies multiple times in mission, plus is a extremely bad tank, right away in our LS but we make dedicated and skilled players like Evaddaragon, Jago and Laurewen wait until they reach level 70 to recruit them".
Screw PaiMei. We don’t need them to do the Zilarts. We’ll reach our level 70-71, then go get Sky OURSELVES, like everything else we’ve done before. 😛
Screw PaiMei. We don’t need them to do the Zilarts. We’ll reach our level 70-71, then go get Sky OURSELVES, like everything else we’ve done before. 😛
I probably never mentioned it directly, but that’s another of the wonderful traits of an HNM/Dynamis/Mission-based LS – the waiting, late arrivals, and cancellations sans warning. Boy ish Typo feeling pessimistic todey, but there’s more truth than bitterness in what I said back there, trust meh. "X3 Good on you for deciding once again taru take things into your own hands, Dave.
I’m a bit perturbed at the fact that now that I’m in WW, a very stable, very successful LS, I just haven’t been feeling BLM or any high-level activity at all, though Typo must later mention the outcome of the avatar hunts I’ve been going on over the last two weekends. Promised LB I’d be active with FF and God-smacking, but only managed to let the guy down a hundred times already. -.- Not intarusted in anything abjuration-related either… but I do want taru make meself useful sometime, whenever I get over my new fetish…
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Back in meleeland, Typo has been going through basic tankonimcs and getting some much needed pulling practice at the same time. I throw the word "refreshing" in here again because it describes just how it feels for a seasoned mage taru lay down his robes and pull out the axe. Nu not that axe.
Being in the front line can be confusing, and old habits die hard… Typo remember telling Moggie the other day that in me first PT as a WAR, when I met the party at camp I ran right past the MNK and THF and stood in the back with the RDM and BLM "X3~~ Been adjusting gradually, and I can feel myself finding me groove with WAR too. ^.^
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Yet, it’s taken a week to get from 12-18, though Typo not been leveling every night. Still, I’m not used to being in consistantly weak PTs with the rare stray good PT in every single exp session… Meguess Valkurm really has gotten worse since me time with SMN last May… *shudder* It ish hard sometimes to tell whether I’m doing me job well or not. Most of the time people invite Typo to be main tank, while at the same time being the lowest-level in the PT. Huh. Keeping hate in this kind of PT situation with just Provoke and Boost (along with the occasional Berserk for WS or emergencies) can be tedious when I’m level 14 and missing most of me swings against Damselflies, while the other DDs are 16 and 17 with few accuracy issues, and the BLM casts without delay. You’ve heard it all before, Typo need not continue ._.;;
I’m sure someone ish itching taru ask: "So Typo, why you stay in PT after you see everybady higher than you!?"
And Typosay: "’Cause it rude to leave, and guaranteed if me seek PT again I’ll be invited back into the same PT, or a different PT with same smelly setup. :3"
Valkurm nubs have become so lazy, you hear questions like this:
"ware’s teh PL???"
Excuse the spelling, that not Typofault, but when the presence of a PL is expected in each and every party before level 20, you have to wonder what levels 30-50 will become in future… I don’t bother trying to explain to people anymore that "that’s not how we did things in the old days!". In fact, Typo ish looking for a personal PL with the abilities "MakeEXP" and "GiveEXP"; the sooner you can hook a taru up with level 33-ish exp, just taru get me out of the more notorious nubzones, the better! Prefer mithracat (kinky ones like CoP’s new "Sweetcheeks (
)" cat here. A feisty one indeed!).
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Weekends have been avatarfests with much dying and waiting involved. Typo’s reward for the hard work of our semi-static ish a nice shiny Moon Bauble that I’m hoping taru use on Saturday to obtain a certain flourescent blue doggy…
Anywhoo, nini, piccies (http://photobucket.com/albums/v203/bakadl/), and welcome, Dhalmel~! Enjoy your stay. ;3
For this week, intensive leveling is on the program.
Yesterday, I ended up with my own private harem. Here’s pics for all to see :
http://lacasteoubliee.forumactif.com/viewtopic.forum?t=86
After talking with Daison, we came to the conclusion that this was due to the PLD AF. When all five pieces are combined, it triggers a latent effect called Female Charm. This constantly produced this message in my log :
The female is attracted by Evaddaragon’s presence.
Yeah, makes perfect sense, doesn’t it ? Whether japanese, american, quebecer, Mithra, Hume, Taru or Elvaan, all fall under my charm. God, I feel special. 😛
Also, Daison’s a dhalmel an elv. Talking about "charm" with one of those ish like…well it’s like talking to Typo about being totally ignored and hated by misura everywhere – the two just not relate at all ._.;;;
Next~!
Elvaan have a lot more charm than Tarus, although they usually are more self-centered.
Also, besides your friends, all Mithras in my LS are annoyed by your licking, so it actually relates a lot more than you would think.
Next !
{No thanks.} X3 Mithra only!
Elvaan have a lot more charm than Tarus, although they usually are more self-centered.
What elvaan have isn’t charm. "X3 Here’s that word again – arrogance!
Also, besides your friends, all Mithras in my LS are annoyed by your licking, so it actually relates a lot more than you would think.
Typo highly doubt this, even Littleyuuki herself like Typo and licks too "X3 There ish also a whole world of kittycats outside your little linkyshell… oooh so many catlicks…
Ah, I shouldn’t have expecting anything else from a narrow-minded Tarutaru. ^^ Cats or nothing, huh.
What elvaan have isn’t charm. "X3 Here’s that word again – arrogance!
I didn’t want to say it this way, but oh well, you did. 😛
Typo highly doubt this, even Littleyuuki herself like Typo and licks too "X3 There ish also a whole world of kittycats outside your little linkyshell… oooh so many catlicks…
Yuuki plays along with you SOLELY because I told her you were my friend. She was annoyed at you at first. And so was Mihmendra. That’s quite the tendency to prove my point. Your licking IS annoying, Typo. Face it. The only thing for you here is that with time, they get to know you, realize you’re actually a nice but pervert Taru, and play along, but from the start, it’s plain annoying.
Ah, such a crime these days taru have a preference. It okie, Dave, you’ll learn someday that these things can happen without the notions of narrow-mindedness and discrimination being involved.
Yuuki plays along with you SOLELY because I told her you were my friend. She was annoyed at you at first. And so was Mihmendra. That’s quite the tendency to prove my point. Your licking IS annoying, Typo. Face it. The only thing for you here is that with time, they get to know you, realize you’re actually a nice but pervert Taru, and play along, but from the start, it’s plain annoying.
If you were Typo, this would have some kind of validity, but since Typo ish already Typo, meaning you aren’t Typo, and since your kitty "sample" consists of a mere handful out of thousands of kitties everywhere, you’re sadly restricted to a very narrow, biased opinion based on your own jealousy of Typolove and fan base ^.^/ It okie Dave, you have friend too! /comfort
Typofact: Many cats already know about Typo before we even meet and lick me first! Face that. :3
You’d learn that if you had studied in Law, discrimination IS involved as soon as one treats somebody differently for a trivial reason, as in, liking Mithras and no other races. Although it isn’t of a lot of harmful consequence, it remains a fact. Willingly ignoring it is in fact narrow-mindedness. ^^
Typofact: Many cats already know about Typo before we even meet and lick me first! Face that. :3
lol Thing is, that isn’t called LOVE. That is called being NOTORIOUS. ^^
But yeah, it’s okay, that’s what makes Typo… Typo. 😀
This isn’t law, this isn’t discrimination… ish like saying I’m discriminating against pineapple juice because I’d rather drink apple, which me find tastier. Let’s see some real "discrimination" happen as a result of that .-. It’s simply about who Typo would rather lick~ /nod
lol Thing is, that isn’t called LOVE. That is called being NOTORIOUS. ^^
Notoriously popular. ;3
But yeah, it’s okay, that’s what makes Typo… Typo. 😀
Well, we agree on one thing!
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And finally, after… well, after too long, Typo has finally hit the level 20 plateau with WAR~! No alls me need to do ish get 1 more level on pugil fishies so ‘Typoplan: Phase II (MNK 10 – 25)’ can commence. ^.^/
And besides, while I’ll admit a Taru looks quite cute in PLD AF, there’s nothing that females can’t resist more than a tall Elvaan or Hume in our shining white armor ^_~
) occurred as I attempted to zone in. I couldn’t log back on as Typo.
My mules were fine, but when I took Typocat from Windurst to InHorutoto, the same error occurred and once again I’m kicked back onto POL.
Made my second ever GM call, where I was told it was most likely a corrupt file, and the only way I could really fix that was through re-installation. I went through hours worth of ordeals trying to fix the problem, some of which you can see here (http://ffxi.killvoid.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=34197), and finally I was able to uninstall the game, and re-install. Currently downloading the updates, so I’ll be back (and macroless ; 😉 after a nice long sleep.
Did you guys still go on without Typo? I could have been back on tonight on PS2, but I was too focused on fixing my immediate problem on PC. "X3
I also experienced problems yesterday. Apparently, my PS2 HDD was crippled with many errors. After many unsuccesful tries, I had to diagnose and repair the HDD. Then, it wouldn’t let me log into POL. I had to reinstall POL, but luckily, didn’t have to reinstall FFXI and CoP, so my macros and markers were left intact.
As soon as I logged yesterday, Derufin sent me a tell, asking me if I had a moon bauble because their tank abandonned them. lol Well, seeing as I haven’t done Avatar battles yet, I had no idea what it was, of course.
I hope your problems, like mine, are over and done with. I still need your help this evening, remember ? ^^
Derutarufin!! Nice to see you!!!!!!!!!!
Congratarulations (Maybe) on Fenrir! (Almost makes me wantaru come back but not quite) <(@.@)> I’m glad your all having fun though!
Well Anaways~ I hope MNK goes good for you Typo, although I still think Melee Typo is unatural lol~ Until next time! <(^_~)>
Below is a zipped file of the screens I took during the missions. Thanks again, Typo. ^^
EDIT : Stupid netfirms. Doesn’t want to work. I’ll need to upload it somewhere else. 😛
Lvl 25 TypoWAR / Lvl 19 TypoMNK
As I tell Evad already, I’ve been planning taru once again sell me black mage gear, only this time it’s not because I’m short on cash…With adaman ores back up to 90k each, Typo could probably make near 400-500k daily in me hot summer home. There’s just no point having it all just lying around when I have no intention to use it…all 5.5 million of it. ???.???
A month and a bit ago I joined Whirling Wind, and this was at a time where I didn’taru really know what to do with myself. I was in the process of TypoSMN, deciding if this was "the" next lvl75 job for me, and didn’t really want to take the time away from that to devote meself exclusively taru HNM and Gods and other such high-level activity.
Weeks went by where I’d just turn down invites for Behemoth or Fenrir or {insert God here}, or just plain stay quiet in LS so Typo could keep exping on me low level job. I felt so guilty after a while for just being there, but never helping, I just plain didn’t equip the LS at all for about 2-3 weeks. It dawned on me at some point that I’d never really get into it anytime soon, even though I’ve wanted in an LS like this for so long. My interest in high-level work seems to occur on a seasonal basis, and this just happens to be a season of new beginnings for Typo right nau.
Typo and LB did talk about it recently. ^.^ I’ve already sent me BLM semi-ubergear to the afterlife, and am carrying enough gil to make TypoWAR or TypoMNK extremely happy and well-kept until perhaps level 60… I dunno if I wanna put him out like this, but he did say Typo could borrow his gear, which ish much shinier than what Typo had ("X3), if needed~^^. Now that ish generous and just plain awesome of Bearbear. \(*’-‘)/ I couldn’t, nor wouldn’t leave WW anyway! Of all the existing HNMLS’s out there that Typo know of, it’s my favourite. It’s got the right balance of everything, really, and doesn’t have a notorious reputation like, well, KoN, even though there’s plenty good taru say about KoN too. WW also has lots of Typofriends to keep in touch with, and from now on Typo will visit more often to do just that. /nod nod
And so with BLM dormant once again, I’m left with all me time to give taru me growing melee skills~! Now, Typo may take shots at NIN sometimes because of me BLM instinctaru prefer a PLD for run-of-the-mill EXP sessions, but I’ve always greatly admired their style and hyper work-rate in battle. They have to be one of the busiest, most intense jobs to actually -be-, and is quite clearly not an everyman job that the masses could master. Similarly ish WAR/NIN, with their good damage potential to add to their nifty blinks and dual-wielding of axes. NIN/WAR and its inverse are all about finesse and stylish aggression. And so, Typo has always secretaruly wondered what life would be like as a NIN main, until one day I decided to actarully live as a WAR, and soon afterwards, a MNK, in preparation for me blink tanking days.
But in leveling MNK I found an even more fun, more powerful, easier, faster version of WAR in both soloing from 1-10, and PTing up to 19. MNK has so few responsibilities in battle compared to other jobs, and being able to be so laid-back all the time while still being able to do your job perfectly ish just a lazy chubbytaru’s wet dream. @_@ Although NIN now appeals to me in so many aspectarus, I not sure if I want that much responsibility in each and every PT I join. "X3 Typo has decided taru give Monk a go, and see what I can do to 40 and beyond. I would have made it to 20 in Valkurm if the locals weren’t so retarded, pardon me lack of Typotact here, so a frustrated me took to Qufim Island as TypoWAR to level his sub.
The past 5 levels have featured some exceptional PTs with promising talent blooming forth from a few members of our new generation of adventarus! ‘Course there’ve been far more bad PTs, and many stupid, just…stupid people (there goes me tact again ; 😉 to cause them. Yet ish always fun, at least for nau!
Ish fun to be a tarutaru with an axe that’s just your size. Ish also fun to have so much less HP than other melee, but take damage much better, and deal it out like a tremor ram~! I not know if it’s the extra +STR I have on me from me Cassie Earring, or that I eat mithkabobs for power instead of fish for DEF even when I’m tanking sometimes, but Typo has so far outdamaged everybody of all jobs and races I’ve partied with, without exception, even people with similar gear.. *_*
This one galka WAR in Qufim with the same level and +STR equipment as me, except for the Earring (+1 STR), and ate mithkabobs while at the time Typo was pumping meat jerky (kabobs have +2 STR +1 AGI advantage), had an average attack damage of 20-60/swing on pugils, while Typo massacred them for 40-80 ._. Yeah I know, Typo need more ATK. …Maybe his weapon skill wasn’t capped like Typo’s, but how far behind could it have been if that was the case ?._. Oh well! I not expectaru be such a monster forever, but I’m deifnitely enjoying it while it last!
I still need to get used to seeing me HP drop to orange/red/dead after Jet Streams and Screwdrivers and such… I’m still going into "Heart Attack Mode" when Typo get hit by stuff like that, criticals and all that hurtful stuff. ; ; But I do enjoy controlling the hate and making it easy for my mages, especially since most of the time all Typo have to do to keep hate ish Provoke at the beginning of battle and just swing… BLM/WHM/RNG go crazy and can’t rip hate at all because of my stupid damage and accuracy, as well as the occasional Boost, counter attack, and since Typo turned 25, double attack. In the event of Typo losing hate and have TP, Berserk > Boost > Sturmwind = 100-160 (
) dmg, and gives me enmity right back, perfect taru keep me through to the next ‘vokies. "X3 Me record on damage ish 162, but I not have clear screenshot. -.-
At one point I was thinking maybe Typo not bother taru level THF anymore, and just go WAR > 40, MNK > 40+, but seeing Sturmwind do so much glorious damage without sneak attack makes Typomouth water at the prospectaru of doing 300+ in the 30’s with THF sub. ._. It means that upon reaching lvl30 WAR, Typo gonna go back and level THF from scratch, at least to 20 before returning to me WAR. X3 I’m still MNK-crazy, but these subs are getting leveled first so I can TypoMNK non-stop~ ^.^/
??? ??? Time to get taru the jungles! ??? ??? ;o
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Some random Typosnaps~ ;o
??? ??? TypoMNKshots! ??? ???
??? ??? TypoWARshots! ??? ???
This ish me favourite catface (
). Her eyes are so… And her nosie… Fluffy hair… ???.??? … Even that dhalmel behind me can’t help but admire…
"Typo was defeated by the Fat Man (
)."
Painful (
).
Not-so-painful (
).
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I wanted to thank Typo for the precious he gave me yesterday, as I set foot on Tu’Lia for the first time.
Below is a zipped file of the screens I took during the missions. Thanks again, Typo. ^^
EDIT : Stupid netfirms. Doesn’t want to work. I’ll need to upload it somewhere else. 😛
Congratarulation again taru you and friends, Evad~! Enjoying the {sky}~? Typo have some piccies as well ^.^
There be spoilers here, for those who not want to know who tries to eat you in this battle! Not look if not want spoil OK/NP!
Well, I didn’taru say they were good piccies…! Hopefully you can get that zip up soon, unless ya just wanna email it to me~ bakadl@hotpopyahoo~.
Yesh, I still love your email addy, Mr. Taco! /salute!
Haloo Typo~! Its little ol’ me again. Just saying "Hi"
Derutarufin!! Nice to see you!!!!!!!!!!
Congratarulations (Maybe) on Fenrir! (Almost makes me wantaru come back but not quite) <(@.@)> I’m glad your all having fun though!
Well Anaways~ I hope MNK goes good for you Typo, although I still think Melee Typo is unatural lol~ Until next time! <(^_~)>
Allo Kristaru~! Nu, we not get Fenrir, but he will get his one day, as Deru so correctaruly said! Maybe the unnatural union of Typo and melee reaching high levels will make Kristaru come back ?;3
) ???
Mandragoras are plenty evasive. Typo ish thinking about more dex/accuracy gear I could be wearing, but there’s none I could switch to without losing another important stat – attack. :3 And so Typo ish struggling for TP, and seeing much smaller numbers more often, which I suspected in me last post would happen sometime soon. ._.
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Tonights PT wasn’t too happy… We started off well, but then people turned 27, which ish a bit too high for Yuhtunga unless it’s fairly empty and you can chain like crazy~ Later on we’d pick up a few replacements, who weren’t so bad themselves, but our PT setup was kinda sad:
WAR/MNK (Typo) – WAR/(underleveled)MNK – THF/MNK – THF/WAR – RDM/WHM – BLM/WHM
Ja, we had a BLM who had to heal more than nuke. Ay yai yai.
Well, I’m still up, and will be back in Yuhtunga shortly. Have some Typosnaps. :3
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??? ??? Yuhtunga ??? ???
??? ??? Beautiful, Wonderful Kazham ??? ???
I’m almost at 71 now (@14.5k), but I doubt I’ll get it this week-end.
On a side-note, my friend Zanji invited me to a trip in … Dynamis-Bastok. We’re to go this Sunday. This will be interesting yet extremely dangerous, to say the least.
I’ll send you the zip to your e-mail once I’m back in Sherbrooke.
nicomo
And Evaddaragon, although I don’t think I knew you in game, Congrats on {sky}!!
See yous again~!
/congrats Typo and Eva on your lvling /lick /lick
Sky is very pretty and dangerous lol…. no one tell me not to go to the pretty light that called to me LOL ; ; but i tele safely and didnt die. I havent seen mama…… where is she ><‘ /cheer Eva i knew you could do it /cheer Typo you buff taru taru with big heart ^^
However, unless I get some buffer ( I’m only 500 or so into the level ) this afternoon, you can rest assured I’ll lose it this evening, unless Dynamis-Bastok gets canned.
I also went and got the Sapara of Trials, to start the Savage Blade quest. Getting the latent effect to disappear isn’t hard, but time consuming. Getting to and killing the NM however will be a pain. *Sigh*
Hello Kitty ! I see you’re enjoying sky. ^^
I don’t particularly like the look of PLing, or rather how it looks to be in a team with a PL or two at your side. It feel kinda like being babysat in a condescending sorta way, and of course since PLs automatically relieve any PT of many responsibilitaruties, people (cough: newbies) start to get sloppy and develop certain bad/annoying habitarus. On the flippy side, quicker exp due to PLing makes Typo a happytaru, and for people like Typo (ahem: veterans!) who have already gone through the ranks the hard (read: proper) way, you could say there’s nothing wrong with us being PLed, as we’re less-likely taru develop long-term deficiencies in our tactics as a result. Nyeh, I dunno, I just worry about the state of todey’s generation as they go along thinking they’re so good, and all the while the hard work ish being eliminated or them…
But all that being said, PLing RDMs babysat a team I was in for 3 entire levels last night, boosting Typo from 28-31 in a few short hours, and it felt great.
??? The mandragora eats a Typo-flavoured Fragmentation ???
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Now that I’m living in the front-lines, ish alot easier taru recognize the jump in enemy difficulty that occurs at different stages as we progress in levels. As a mage you keep away and mutter obscenities under your breath as your spells get resisted, and curse the melee for being so blind that they probably couldn’taru hit the broad side of Jeuno with their sharpsies. TypoWAR wields a Neckchopper (ACC+5), wears Royal Squire’s Mufflers (Accuracy+2), 2???Balance Rings (Dex+4), Centurion’s Visor (Dex+1), Spike Necklace (Dex+3) and Leaping Boots (Dex+3) – for accuracy purposes, you can’t really get much bettaru than that at 32-, but enemies only become "easy" to hit when they’re IT on the brink (not the Engrish meaning) of becoming VT and under. An intarusting lesson learned for Typo, and only makes me even more happy taru have all this money. >.> Still can’t get a Peacock Charm, but I can live without that particular luxury item.
Nicotaru~! Typo will proudly follow in your footsteppies as the next great tarumelee~!
Kristaru~! Typo try taru contact Pirotess and shamelessly plug me journal, for your sake of course! ;3 ;o
Kitty~! Typo not see mama anywhere for a while, but I’m sure she ish still around, and not gone off to some far-away place >.> Not let the evil robots from {sky} eat your prettyface, Gorgeous.. Stay away from the ones in the walls, and remember taru take plenty of silent oils for every trip. Typo so proud of you, kittycat~! *snugs* ^.^/
Evad + Dynamis~! Did it come off? How’d it go ?:O Congratarulation on 71. ^.^/ I haven’t fought the NM for Savage Blade meself, but it shouldn’t be that hard…not even the silly Evisceration bat was that bad…
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And now, already nearing lvl33, Typo will attempt taru hitch a PT or two in Altepa tonight taru gain 34 before heading over to Garlaige Citadel…
TypoTHF? What about it ?;3
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??? ??? Typosnaps! ??? ???
Just a bunch of bullies picking on defenseless onion head… ; ;
Fusion/Fragmentation Effects~
Sturmwind~! Can’t help but love this WS.. :3
A strange but funny Chatlog~
And finally, the Kosshin (
). Typo has never heard mention of this wondrous new piece of headgear before. I discover it on AH yestaruday, and couldn’t buy it for 500k – I not try taru go any further. :3
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=8270
It’d be intereating taru see how this would work if Typo were to use it while tanking, and not for the MP of course, but for the 20 extra HP it’d grant me, plus a further 20 from me Earring. I’d prefer a big chunk of HP over a small amount of defense, but in this case I’d be losing 1 DEX point, so I dunno. ;o
Anywhoo, ta-taru for nau~! Be good, kiddies.
*Is now a Dynamis-Bastok Interloper*
Only one Valor Coronet dropped, and Kenjis won the lot. Oh well.
Also, I went down to level 70. Died twice. First time saving Zanji (75 PLD) from a MNK Quadav that used Hundred Fists on me. Second time we were all wiped out by the Boss and its minions, and had to swallow a Raise I. Now at 1.1k tnl. But it was well worth the price. Had some of us not accepted a Raise I, we would have ran out of time and never would have won on the second try.
Anyway, tomorrow is Riverne Site-A01, so getting 71 back will wait one more day.
Hey, if you think that the Savage Blade NM isn’t all that bad, I’ll try and remember to invite you to help me once I’m done removing the latent effect of the Sapara of Trials. I’m about 1/3 done I’d say.
Well Typotaru, if Banihead may offer some advice. I somewhat recently brought my Warrior up to 37, pretty much tanking the whole way. War/Nin is very nice for that, but perhaps not so great against mandies. Taru RSE gear is insane for Warrior, the +str is better than any +dex equip in my opinion. The best thing you can do till 40 for Weapon Acc is keep your skill capped for each weapon, which i found rather difficult to do at times. Once you get out of the jungle, you might want to start eating defense food when you tank because you can get hit for 70-80 + :/ but I was 37 with almost 600 HP so its not that bad. And Peacock charm is way overrated I used one from 33- on and it didn’t really make a big difference, Spike necklace was much better. If you want, BaniBLM is lvl 38. I’m pretty bad, at least I was in my last pt, I attacked a caveberry twice ;; but it’s been a long time since i’ve XPed there. I’m tyring to get my NIN up to 37 as well, it’s 19ish so i’d love to party with teh typotaru ^^/
The HP and STR gains on taru RSE always did look appealing to me, but lack of defense worries me at the same time. Typo give the full set a shot if I still get hit too hard and need more HP taru compensate. As of now, I carry 2 sets of gear to be able taru cover DD and tanking performance when needed: STR+DEX/ACC gear for the former, HQ Eisenset mixed with pieces of RSE for tanking, a blend of HP and VIT.
Todey in Altepa, Beetles were enjoying batting Typo around for 50-70-somethings, and it wasn’t fun. Fishkabobs definitaruly helped after me mithkabob effect wore off, so I have a couple stacks of both mithkies and fishkies on me nau.
BaniBLM hit Caveberry too? Huh, Typo too, waaay back in the day. Maybe your head was in the way then too >.> Maybe we PT sometime when I go back to MNK~! /nod
How did it go ? WE WON !!! Woot !
*Is now a Dynamis-Bastok Interloper*
Only one Valor Coronet dropped, and Kenjis won the lot. Oh well.
Also, I went down to level 70. Died twice. First time saving Zanji (75 PLD) from a MNK Quadav that used Hundred Fists on me. Second time we were all wiped out by the Boss and its minions, and had to swallow a Raise I. Now at 1.1k tnl. But it was well worth the price. Had some of us not accepted a Raise I, we would have ran out of time and never would have won on the second try.
Anyway, tomorrow is Riverne Site-A01, so getting 71 back will wait one more day.
Hey, if you think that the Savage Blade NM isn’t all that bad, I’ll try and remember to invite you to help me once I’m done removing the latent effect of the Sapara of Trials. I’m about 1/3 done I’d say.
Congratarulation on your first Dynamis, and being on a winning expedition at that~! Must have been some laggy good-time fun~! Can’t say if I’ll be going with you on WSNM, but if I do, I just solo it for ya! BLM/WAR, {Yes, Please.}! Good ruck taru you on A01~! Hope it goes better than last time~.
Also, that Kosshin sold (
). Ja, the buyer must have taken it out when they realized no one was buying, and put it back in for pocket change when Typo wasn’t around taru try again… go figure. -.-
Nah, just kidding. I know Zanji also needs Savage Blade, so I’ll try to get him and form a 12 people alliance. The real problem is not the NM itself, it’s getting there that’s hard.
Lvl40 TypoWAR / Gimp (
)!
Tarutaru Power~! TypotaruWAR ??? 750HP TaruMONSTER! (
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It not last as long as Typo thought it would, but me WAR run has come taru end~ The plan was always to reach 40, but it was quicker and more fun than Typo first anticipate. ^^
As if the Mandies and Gobbies in Elshimo didn’t already teach Typo enough, I would once again learn just how tough it can be to move from one area fighting VT and IT, to another area where IT++ are the dominant species…
Swing…
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Swing…
….
Swing…
….
Clink! "The Typo finally hits something! Typo barely scratches the Borer Beetle for kiddy damage!"
And this not help very much with hate manage… Typo used to be able to rely on damage mostly to keep hate – Provoke, Berserk, and other enmity-grabbing JAs are just the bare skeleton of what it ish taru be a WAR/MNK tank. For that reason it was tough from the time I stepped into Garlaige Citadel, difficult for me taru be consistant each battle, and hard taru feel confident in meself. I realized at one point that a DRG in one of me PTs was constantaruly owning my damage, and hardly ever missed. "X3 I’ve never been one to condemn DRG…at least, not since I PTed with a few above BLM 60 and learned just how neat they can be to have around, but this just surprised Typo.
What helped to alleviate the problem, even more than the Venerer/Archer Rings I tried on, was gaining a level or two and capping gaxe for that level. At this point, it seems that no amount of accuracy/dex gear will really help you that much x.x;; Banihead was right…guess there really ish something up there in that bigBanibubble! ^.^/
Speaking of Bani, she did break into Typohouse (
) in Crawler’s Nest, and demanded we PT, and so we had fun making silly Reverberation SCs and Banibursting Water II! ^.^ It was fun~ X3
Crawlers and Beetles never posed a problem to Typo, as I started me run in CN as WAR from 35 or 36, and could take damage pretty well with fishkies in use, 2 Verve Rings and full RSE, giving Typo more HP than any normal WAR out there. :3
Unfortunately for Typo, my poor connection (ghetto ADSL) gets stupid lag at some point every night, and that of course negatively affects my performance. It lasts for several hours (usually from 6PM – midnight -.-) and there’s absolutely nothing I can do about it. You don’t want to be a tank when you’re lagging badly, people! Yet, it happens during my personal prime time, so I’m stuck playing all laggy-like. ; ; This problem started about 3 weeks ago., and my ISP declares it’s not a problem with them. -.- At least no tragedies have occurred as a result, but I do have less control over things when this happens. -.-
Anyweys, TypoWAR from 20-40 in 7 days~^.^
Vana’diel, I have set a satisfactory damage record (
), and have enjoyed the experience of being your smallest ever meat shield (but with the biggest heart!) for 28 levels. Now, it ish time for Typo taru make you -my- punching bag! Ehhhhhehehehehehehh~!
Time for TypoMNK taru Resurface~!
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??? ??? Typosnaps! ??? ???
Garlaige~
Crawler’s~
Dienamis-Garlaige (
)
Cats! (
)
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/farewell!
That’s the face you had when you saw I was invited in your LS. What is it, disappointed I joined ? lol Just teasing you.
Ok time for work… everyone take care… Typo keep punching and kicking and Eva keep protecting and sheild bashing ^^ /jana
I’m hoping I’ll get my Valor Leggings in Dynamis-Windurst this Sunday, that would be a nice gift considering I had to give up on the key item in Dynamis-Jeuno last Sunday, sacrificing myself for 61 other players, most of them not even giving as much as a crap for it. ; ; I really think that action alone would make me worthy of getting them, but I’m not in charge of the Dynamis LS, so …
In other news, I’ve decided to start leathercrafting again and i’m still lvl 4. I need all the materials I can get. X_x
Mama Kitty has missed you so ^^ i am glad you are ok
Eva congrats on promys and dynamis ^^
TYpo congrats on lvling mnk so fast that kitty cant keep track ^^
ok nini time ^^ Happy Easter
Also, there are Zilart and CoP to work on.
Sure, I might work on another job, and actually, it most likely will be DRG.
/em Licks Typo Eva, Mama
Kitty Love you ^^ …………now time for easter egg hunt ^_^
Hau, Mamacat! So good taru see you’re still here~^^ Mehopes you can find a means of steady income to fund your catmage needs.. The economy nowadays ish so harsh on lower-mid level adventurers who just want to be able to afford decent equips, Typo sometimes wonder how people make it through. x.x But I know you can make it work, keep trying! *Typocuddle~^^*
Gorgiecat, I so happy taru hear of your successful run to 75! Typo know you work long and hard for it! All those late nights of Bibiki Bay raiding, and all the trouble you went through with Vouivre have all paid off~ Ish all behind you nau, and so you can concentrate on maximizing your potential by taking your job taru another level with merit points~! Congratarulation, the fun ish just beginning~! *huggles ^^*
Speaking of turning 75, alot of me friends at this level have been making new job changes that were unexpected, to say the least. Mages going melee, melee turning mage, people playing jobs which they once couldn’t stand to see. x.x Typo meself shocked the world by converting to MNK, of all things, from BLM. "X3 Seeing Evad as anything but a PLD would be odd at the very least, but a little mixing it up ish always a good thing! So, what makes DRG so appealing taru you, Dave ?:3
As for me own new job, well, not so new anymore "X3, Typo attained level 43 last night in West Altepa, and ish still having the most fun I’ve had in a long time just MNKing things up~! However, it seems like the MNK curse ish preparing taru settle in, as invites become progressively slower and slower for each level Typo get. ._. I haven’t yet experienced waiting hours for a PT, but until recently I’d get invites just as quickly as I did as a BLM~
Wanna make sure Typo’s equipment list (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?83732) ish always up-to-date and above average. I can afford it, so I want those over-the-top-priced items, even if they alone don’t make a huge impact on me performance. I’ll buy sole sushi even though it only last 30 mins and cost 32k/stack. Since switching from meaties to fishies, I’ve been regularly making 100TP, soloing WS, and then making at least 60% back again before the end of each battle. Ish such a godsend of a meal, although some say it’s not worth it until 50+…I dunno. :3 The downside is that I lose the ATK+ from the mithkies, and so the numbers I hit are more random than usual. Need to balance out somehow, but I do want taru focus more on STR now that me accuracy issues are slim to none.
Experienced Monks have their own views on the sort of equipment they consider "optimal" in the mid-high range of 50-75, but two such views stand out from the rest. Some go STR rings (Puissance +3 STR each, ~80k each), Life Belt (+10 ACC, ~100k) and sushi, while others opt for Sniper’s (+5 ACC each, ~600k each), Brown Belt (+5 STR, 8% Haste, ~700k), and meaty food, the former combination being far cheaper than the latter. Right now I’m thinking of taking the latter route at 50+.
I hear ATK ish still nifty at higher levels, but becomes less important at that stage, as MNKs need as much STR and ACC taru be able to smash in those crab shells, and trump the evasion levels of Toramas and such. But maybe I will strike a better balance with things like Coeurl Sautee and Yellow Curry giving me that 20% ATK, while accuracy ish kept in check with Sniper’s and AF body (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=2285). It’ll cost millions, and require that I spend a few days in me volcano, especially considering I feel I must have those Cross-Counters at 50, but I think I’m soon due a break from leveling anyway, so I won’t mind the change of pace as I rake in some gil for about a week or so. :3 Typo will say that Spartan Cesti (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=2428) impress me more than the ‘Counters for the damage and delay, but you know me by now… Once I have me mind set on something…
So, I’ve sold me Emperor Hairpin in favour of the +1 STR from the Mrc. Cpt. Headgear, want to get back me Wonder Clomps because +2 STR > +4 ATK on the Kyahan. *exhales* It still feels a little odd taru be talking about strength and accuracy, instead of intelligence and elemental skill. ^^;;
Typo have so many piccies I wanna show off, so make yourselves comfy here, or go to Typogallery (http://photobucket.com/albums/v203/bakadl) if you please~! Taaa~!
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Pantyshot ^.^/
Playfulcat~
Haven’t posted one of these in a while :3
And finally, really great dialogue for anyone who gets the reference! This won’t include ANY regular to this journal. ;3 lol..
Baibai until next time~! X3
I became a PLD because of Cecil Harvey, my first FF’s Hero. And ever since I’ve always like Paladins.
If I’m not going for DRG, it’s either SAM or WAR. But as I said, before I do that, I’ll most likely bring PLD to its full potential with Merit Points. I just plain love the job, I’m STILL not fed up with it. ^^
I actually started levelling DRG on the side, and once I get PLD to 75, I was going to try and take it to at least 60 for AF. >.> I wanted to be DRG when I first started playing, but I don’t know what happened, Altana called me one day, and bam, I was a Paladin.
I also hope to have Sky soon. I already have a 75 RNG who can help, now I just need a WHM, RDM, BLM(Still gotta do Z6, but I’m hoping I can do Z8 and possibly 12 with the same party, if it works), and then, at your advice, Evad, someone with TA. Hmm. Ah well, it’s worth it. I just want to step into Tu’Lia. ^^
Also: Hi Deru. ^^
<,< where is mama…. i no see mama in a long time ; ;
Don’t really do much since I’m burnt out at the moment again. X_x Last night, an LS I belong to decided to hunt for Emp. I snagged it and got the drop, but moggie not happy with me. 🙁
And still I continue enjoying what I do, as long as I’m in action punching me way to victoly, rather than standing idle in Jeuno with me flag up. I turned 50 MNK todey, thus beginning the long, hard crawl to the wonderful world of 60+.
Typo know the 50’s will be tough, with AF to do and the ever-increasing challenge of even getting into a PT until 60.
For those who may be wondering why MNK have such a hard time at this stage:
1. We can’t make Distortion SC. We just can’t, until Howling Fist at level 60, and ish well-known by now how popular this SC is at higher levels. The best we can do ish Impaction, methinks, which isn’t a very impressive alternative…
Nyeh, depends on the PT setup and enemy (crabs, haha).
2. Armoured enemies: beetles and crabs. These mobbies dominate the exp tables from 45-60, and we MNKs have problems getting through their shells with our fisties. Boo for blunts. >.>
So that’s what Typo ish faced with – convincing people that I’m good enough taru have again and again and again until 60. Heh…I’ll do it somehow, because Typo refuse taru get stuck like so many others before me.
I will find a way~.
Don’t worry about your MNK AF, either. Just in case that you forgot, you only need to be MNK to TRIGGER the quests, and to OPEN COFFERS. That means you can fight NMs and farm for keys with your BLM. It’s a joke, isn’t it ? ^^
I can understand where you’re coming from with the MNK problems, one of my LS buddies, Egros, is a MNK himself, and he had a hell of problems leveling between 50 and 60. Now it’s getting slightly better, and will be fine after he gets Dragon Kick.
That’s exactly the plan for AF, and I shouldn’t have problems finding assistance for those long, boring key hunts.
Congrats on your first {Light} {Skillchain}! Typo have taru wait until Dragon Kick "X3
Back to work for me ^^
Take Care everyone ^^
/licks TYpo,Mama,Eva
TypoMNK Phase 3: "Bumblebee"</center>
Garuda ish okie…for a birdlady.
Not very often you get to do this in exp PT~ ^.^/
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Welcome to {sky}, Dhalmel! Enjoy it while ya can. ;3 Good luck taru you, kitty, and thankies again for helping Typo get behind Gate #3 in Garlaige, twas very gracious of you~! *huggles*
Many thanks also taru Jojojo, Heitai, Grumm, Sukiteki, and Deejay who’ve all be a great help with coffers, and of course, DS. ;3
So, Typo has decided to slow down. This particular slow down ish not the kind that the…"common monk" is forced to go through in the 50’s. Aside from the elusive Spartan Cesti that are never in stock at the AH, Typo have all the noteworthy essentials:
TM Hooks, Sniper’s x2, AF Gloves/Boots/Crown, Master’s Gi, Master’s Sitabaki, Spike Earrings, Brown/Life Belt
Recently, Typo PT with humunk and munkat, and although I went toe-to-toe with them on regular punch damage, they would sometimes best me on Raging Fists damage by a healthy amount. There are so many factarus to consider that include, but not limit taru: TypoSTR versus mobVIT, buffs the enemy may have had on, and debuffs on Typo and the other MNKs… Their base STR and VIT will have been a few points above mine, a problem I think Typo can alleviate by eating meatyfood for STR and ATK, instead of sushi for STR and ACC…
Using Chiefkabobs (and soon Coeurl Sautee) will hurt me accuracy much, even with all me gear, though that may be balanced out by the presence of let’s say… Scorpion Harness and/or Spectacles on me person ?:3
I am thinking of making some money…lots of money, seeing as that’s the only way Typo ever get taru wear the big red.. Ish a prospect I’m willing taru explore, as I’m no stranger to spending weeks in that volcano of mine to get whatever it is I want. ":3 Hmm, take a break at level 60 maybe…
So, 6.5mil, anyone? And could Typo possibly be lucky enough taru (a) find a willing few to do BC60 with Typo for the spectacles, and (b) actually get me preferred drop with enough seals for 3 runs ?:3
Stay tuuuuuuuned~
I have 63 beastmen’s seals. If you need a PLD, I’m in. All I need is a shield to have compatible gear, really. So I’d guess a RK or TK Shield will do.
Ooh that ish good to know ^.^ Typo have 198 seals, allowing me to do this (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/quests.html?realm=&fquest=344) 3 times, and hopefully the group I put together will win each attempt, and are lucky enough to get the Specs on at least one of them. I’d hate taru have other people use their own seals when I intend to keep a drop worth over 4 mil to meself! "X3
Yeah, I’ll be honest with you. I won’t mind if you keep the Specs if it’s one of YOUR orbs, considering you’d be putting the group together and all, but don’t expect me to let a 4 million item go for free if it would drop from mine. As much as I’d like to help you, I’m also in need of money for items I can’t afford myself… ; ;
Either way, as long as you’re planning that BCNM next Tuesday at the earliest, I can make myself available. As I said, I can use my AF, Knightly Mantle, Happy Egg, 2 Drone Earrings and Chrysoberyl Rings that I already have, plus Dragvandil ( Which actually drops from that BCNM, what a coincidence. ) and Warrior’s Belt +1 I have on my mule. All I need is a shield and I’m set, really.
*Reminds himself he may not have any jobs besides Paladin over 40, but that he has sets for PLD at level 30,40 and 60, and could easily invest about 200-300k for a basic level 50 set.*
Hmmm. Yeah, thank CoP for THAT. :p
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While spelunking through the lair of those evil villains in a half-shell for me coffer key, this (
) happen!
I’m having fun~! Ish time to run to 60, where Typo shall set some new plans in motion.
Well, I just got 72, I think my Dynamis LS is falling apart, and I’ll attempt Rank 10 tomorrow evening. Oh yeah, I bought a TK shield. Just drop a line when you’re doing BCNM60. :p
And speaking of priorities, I have 2 battles coming up that I’ll need help for. The first should not be too difficult – this will be the fight with Huu Xalmo the Savage (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/bestiary.html?fmob=1512) in the upper level of Castle O, for me final piece of AF! Typo would like taru put together a full party for this, even though I’ve been told that won’t be necessary… Better safe than sorry.
Next, wanna do 1-3 BC60 runs unsing my own seals, and hopefully grab a pair of spectacles at least once. I know I have Evad’s help here, but I haven’t asked anyone else yet. I’ll see what everyone’s schedules are like over the weekend~
Rank 10. The highest rank.
Bastokan Flag. A beautiful Bastokan flag that dons the wall of my Mog House.
Mogenhancement : Bastokan Conquest. Gives me more Conquest points now.
Republic Signet Staff. Bought it for 5k. Listed under common items, but only available for Rank 10s.
I got all of those as new privileges for my newly achieved status. ^^
Thanks again to NE for their help. Jago, Kinsen, Fatimah, Lilmongrel, Maxemus, Garet and Riddley all thank each and everyone of you. Thanks goes to Lacasteoubliee as well, who also helped us with 9-1. ^^
After that, I went to Jeuno, heading to Eldieme Necropolis, while I bumped into the Chocobo Knights. Apparently, they were raiding the Necropolis to get 2 Tavnazian Bells and one Papyrus. I tagged along. We got the Papyrus, one Bell, and Moggie’s coffer key. I also found my ??? to complete my quest. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get to his coffer in time. ; ;
I’ll be questin for Teleport-Mea and Warp II tomorrow, all that money, combined with my current funds, will be used to get a Titanis Earring and Mercenary’s Earring. That will set me back 600k. ; ;
I did that MNK AF NM for Egros already, it’s no biggie. If I’m online when you have to go, I’ll be more than happy to help you.
I also have enough seals to try the BCNM one more time. As I told you, I have level 60 ready gear for my PLD. In fact, I now have level 30, 40, 50 AND 60 ready gear for my PLD. ^^
I just read about the "welcome back" eventaru thingy and I’m not sure but if i’m eligable I will get Kristaru back^^; its not until June though I thinkies. So anyways, I’m glad your having fun with MNK Typo and I justaru wanted you know I still think about all you guys and I hope the same is true for you too^^ Bai Bai for nows.
Our original formation was pld/mnk/war/blm/blm/rdm. By now I’ve memorized the majority of the SC chart, but somehow still managed to think that Rampage could be followed by Raging Fists to make Fusion… I was thinking Spinning Axe. X3 Well, much to the chagrin of the WAR/NIN, that ish what we ended up doing, and to our surprise it came off alot better than we expected!
Things were going well until we attempted to take on a Peryton (
) (piccy from different PT, but that’s the offending bird subject in the flesh feathers)… twice, a mistake which cost us alot of downtime in our first hour. Our PLD and RDM joined the PT on limited time, and soon had to leave.. Ish always the most crucial jobs, isn’t it ?.-. The WAR/NIN agreed to take over tanking, allowing Typo to grab a WHM in place of the PLD, and a BRD to replace the RDM, and from there, we went on to make 24,000 exp in the next 6 hours. X3
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Raging Fists (
), Typo shall miss you, but we had some good times…good times together. Hellu {Distortion}~!^.^ From now on, uppercutting enemies in the neck (
) will never be the same~! The road to 75 should be much smoother, but with the people we have floating around our exp playgrounds these days, ya never know… At least things will be quicker (though most likely minutely) with the new exp update.
Anywey! Level 60 achieved, and I’m very happy right now, even though ddos attacks on pol are keeping half the world from waking up! Admittedly I have burned myself out and am tired of leveling, and that’s exactly why I’m so enthusiastic about spending 3-4 weeks in me volcano for money and shiny thing~ After this I probably won’t need any more cash for a very long time.
*slips into something more comfy* Ah, been a long time since I put on me field clothes! I’ve had all the money a taruMNK could possibly need for several months nau, but my (greedy?) ambition has kicked in again, and Typo ish in want of more more. I plan to feed myself with a Scorpion Harness, Victory Rings, Amemit +1, and brand new MND and VIT gear for chi blast/WS damage. :3
adaman ore/80-90k orichalcum ore/160-170k
Back when adamans were 50k, I could make 300k daily ("daily" would be 6-8 hours of digging). Excuse me for feeling all tingly when I think of mining now… I’ve never been one to fret over competition…Typo has run gilsellers out of there before simply because I can play their dirty games better than them. .-.
Gilsellers are the final boss for any aspiring millionaire. Defeat them, defeat poverty! Let’s hope the whole world hasn’t caught on yet. ;3
I’m planning me BC60 runs for Friday of this week. Evad and Derufin will be with me so far, and perhaps if me can get another BLM (you know, a current full-time BLM with proper gear and enfeebling, unlike Typo X3), I can attend as MNK. Perhaps we do AF on the same day?
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The Return of Kristaru: Part5 ?;3
You get a free month with that too, right? If so, it sounds good to me! *huggles*^.^
Banihead, your people are too rich. Gimmie some! (gil or Banipie, it all good ;o ;o ;o)
Typo wasn’t able to get out there at all todey, but hopefully tomorrow I’ll have a full list of names to post~^.^
Typo wasn’t able to get out there at all todey, but hopefully tomorrow I’ll have a full list of names to post~^.^
Sounds perfect to me. As I said, I’d like to try one run with my own orb as well, if you don’t ming. Not like I’m not in need of money myself ; ;
That combo sounds great as well.
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Now after Wednesday’s debacle, not being able to get online, and the absence of pretty much everyone I had in mind to gather even as I type, I’m going to have to postpone the BC60, as it’ll be rude of me to ask on such short notice.
Evad, Saturday or Sunday evening good for you?
It is Evad’s birthday today… ; ; A year already, wow.
Monday evening sounds good then. Deru said he could make it, and so could Minime, so we have PLD, MNK, BLM, WHM so far, and need a BRD and RNG.
It is Evad’s birthday today… ; ; A year already, wow.
And happy Vana’birthday, Eva! Where’s the party ?:3
I’m guessing it will be in one of the Dynamises, most likely Bastok. A Valor Coronet would make a nice gift huh ? ; ; Wishful thinking.
Also, my PLD friend Zanji is quitting the game. ; ; lol I’ve tried to bribe him into giving me his Adaman Cuirass. :p Shame on me.
Monday at 7 PM is perfect, but I must be at San d’Oria for 10 PM at the very latest.
Minime/Deru WHM/BLM are good for tonight at 7. I’ll be after RDM or BRD and RNG or SAM for the final two. Typo will keep ya updated~
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Banihead will be our BRD~ Things are looking nifty nau!
Yessir! Typo even went a step further than that~ I wanted taru do more than just say "thank you", so…
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Thank you taru all of you, Evad, Derufin, Minime, Kinsen, and Sotaka~! *’-‘)
Ja, and now mining will be me #1 priority once again~^^ 5 million onry until me harness… "Onry"???? Typo have lotsa work to do!
Ta-taru~!
While I am disappointed that my orb gave me the crappiest of drops, at least the goal for the BCNM was achieved.
And those pictures are so nice ! Wow. I’ll post them on Lacasteoubliee’s board.
And I think I’ve found my new desktop wallpaper as well.
Do you think it would be possible the do the white version with the names ? This is the one I liked better. ^^
While I am disappointed that my orb gave me the crappiest of drops, at least the goal for the BCNM was achieved.
And those pictures are so nice ! Wow. I’ll post them on Lacasteoubliee’s board.
And I think I’ve found my new desktop wallpaper as well.
Do you think it would be possible the do the white version with the names ? This is the one I liked better. ^^
Thar ya go, Dave~ I’m glad you like!
Todey: Hopefully something equally monstrous. :3
Thankies for the comments, Minitaru! Your gallery ish starting off nifty already! Now to get this place ready for me cats. ;3 ;3 ;3
Yesterday, I went to Dynamis-Bastok, a Valor Coronet dropped and… I lotted 140 ; ; *Sigh* Oh well, plans for tonight are getting 73, donning my Barney costu… I mean, Adaman armor and then finishing CoP 3-3.
1 mil in approximataruly 8 hours of digging~^.^
Yesterday, I went to Dynamis-Bastok, a Valor Coronet dropped and… I lotted 140 ; ; *Sigh* Oh well, plans for tonight are getting 73, donning my Barney costu… I mean, Adaman armor and then finishing CoP 3-3.
Your lotting luck was as bad as Typo’s at that time…poor ya. ^^ Ah well, you still have the dino costume taru look forward to! Gogo!
There’s luck in mining, ja, but also much consistency involved in what you get, and when.
Speaking of mining, Typo make new friend (
)! Actarully, this supposed new gilseller-type person (level 36 whm, rank 1, Chinese/JP, mines 24/7, is rude and steals MPs whenever he can) just doesn’taru go away. Since last week when I returned to me volcano, that little cockroach has been hanging around the entire time. He sees Typo, he follows Typo, he annoys Typo. I did once get the better of him by leading him out to Vouivre and making him get eaten. I picked up that he didn’t know the place like I do, and let him follow me to that area before changing equip so he could no longer track me. What a scholar.
He has a friend (
) of his own who let me know just how much he love me too~!
I’d like to think that people like this really DO play this game to sell gil and feed their families in their poor little run-down back-water 3rd world village, as I would take much pleasure in seeing to it that they starve.
*brushes his hair back* No matter. After tonight’s sales, I will be 2.5m from SH. Typo want a pair of victory rings (1.4), Typo want me Ochiudo’s Kote back (1.5), and an Amemit Mantle +1 (1.6), and what Typo want, Typo get.
Hmph!
I farm elementals in… Behemoth’s Dominion. :p Lightning and Light Clusters sell much faster, and I earn 15-40k per hour, depending on weather and cluster prices, without breaking a sweat. Nobody ever goes there, so I’m all alone. No annoying mining point stealer, no expenses to do ( no pickaxes, no crystals for synthesizing, etc. ) and clusters sell faster than ores. I guess I’ve got a winner for soloing fund-raising now. Last time I spent four hours and made 65k, and that was with extremely good weather compared to usual and Lightning Clusters prices going down to 2k, so elementals were sparce. Otherwise I probably would’ve made 100k.
Oh, sure, it still doesn’t beat your volcano, but trust me, it beats Gusgen Mines and Oldton Movalpolos hands down.
But even that didn’t make me afford my Adaman. Skill-up/exping/farming Million Eyes and Doom Toads in Den of Rancor did lol It’s a quite dangerous place, with no real safe camp, so nobody ever goes there. We have to constantly sleep linking Tonberries and Eyes, but it’s nothing we can’t handle.
They drop Wooden Hakutaku Eyes, which we sell for 245k a piece with Jago’s mule, Tania, over her bazaar, and scrolls of Flare, which sell for 300k. We usually go in a small group of four, Jago, Laure, me and someone else, so everything goes smoothly. Eyes don’t like our Hexa Strike-Swift Blade-Tachi:Gekko combo ^^ And the surrounding Tonberries and Doom Toads don’t like our Swift Blade-Black Halo-Tachi:Kasha or Savage Blade-Tachi:Kasha combos either. 😉 That’s how I could afford Adaman, over about 2 weeks. ^^ And we didn’t go every evening, too. Not only that, but because most of them are T or VT at our level, we made about 1.5k-2k exp per hour, all the while skilling up. Healing is capped, and shield is one level from cap. ^^
Good to hear you’re making good progress on the SH fund. Unlike specs, the SH is something I gave up on completely. The only way I would ever go for one now would be if pallas hit 8 mil gil (like they are doing on some servers) and I would then downgrade to kote + SH ^^
And Evad! I don’t want to sound like a mooch, but if you are doing another wooden eye farming run, would it be possible for m to tag along with my 70 mnk? I won’t be going in any XP parties until I get an O-hat, so I’ll be toiling away on either getting gil for a wooden eye, or preferably farming it personally ^^.
Sadly I think I’ll be able to log maybe a total of 4 evenings in FFXI for the month of May ; ;
And typo!!!! All I have to say is John Cena + Mr.T + Gary Coleman + A-Team music video = best idea in the history of western civilization. This will change the world…
I don’t think anyone here aside from typo knows what I’m talking about ; ;
hmm what do u mean about it yes they are in John Cena new video >> i think so whats so big about it?
is it that typo and or u like them all? and think its cooool ?
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Gee, there really ish not much to talk about when you’re a hermit minertaru all holed up in your old dusty volcano money-box, wondering when the next good dig will come your way and boost you towards your goal…
Typo not like to multitask very often. I’m a firm believer in doing one thing at a time, putting all me focus and energy into what I’m doing, and being the best I can be. While I make exceptions in certain situations, you are more likely taru see me stick to one job over a period of months, for example, as opposed to more frequent job-hopping which more people seem to do. In this case, I have devoted meself entirely taru mining in order to make my millions as fast as possible~.
Sadly, much like the fishing binge of last year, Ifrit’s Cauldron has become much more of a chore as of late, especially with Magicl (
), weirdo#1 (
) running around, and countless other obstacles in and out of the world of Vana’diel that have suddenly homed in on me.
There is some kind of curse looming over me – an anomaly of bad luck that is hampering my progress with such relentless persistance that it surpasses coincidence and borderlines the supernatural. From rewards seemingly becoming more rare with each passing day, to inexplicably strange connection issues in general, to extraodrinary lag spikes and "convenient" R0’s which ONLY occur in the presence of bats (getting disconnected next to sound aggro means guaranteed problems on your return, yet sight-detecting enemies don’t pick up on you immediately as you login, and you can /ma Invisible or /item "Prism Powder" before they do), this phenomenon has put Typo a whole 4 days behind his Scorpion Harness schedule! Add to this that I’ve been trying to find ways taru maximize me time in that volcano, testing new methods and routes every day, timing myself to check for consistencies and patterns and such, but the only thing that ish clear to me from all of this is that luck is still THE major player in mining.
When you can make 1,000,000 on Monday, but only 300,000 on Tuesday (for example) in the same amount of hours, you know luck’s a rebel~. It sometimes seems like my results mirror my confidence-level, as one good day makes me believe that everyday ish a million day, but all it takes is one bad day to send me spiraling into oblivion, wondering if Typo will ever see another blue or golden shiney ever again. Since when did mining become so dramatic ?.-.
So, a little cranky, very sleepy, but somewhere deep down inside grateful that
I can even say this, barring further inflation, SH will belong to Typo in another 700k. I will post up a list of exactly what it is I’m after, but I want exact prices first. It shouldn’t take any longer than another week, but with my luck I’ll be forced to give up right after I don me big red. ":3
And typo!!!! All I have to say is John Cena + Mr.T + Gary Coleman + A-Team music video = best idea in the history of western civilization. This will change the world…
hmm what do u mean about it yes they are in John Cena new video >> i think so whats so big about it?
is it that typo and or u like them all? and think its cooool ?
Thornn the cat ish huge Mr.T fan!
The video itself is like all the WM Trailers put together in terms of entertainment value, and I’m glad for Cena that he’s come this far, even though I can’t stand his now stale "goody-two-shoes" persona, and the fact that the more popular he gets, the more ability he seems to lose in the ring. JBL for champ??? at Judgment Day please~
lmao i had told a friend that u made 1 mill in like 8 hours he said well i bet he wont do it again thats sh*t luck lol >> i disagreed but now to see u getting less i am unsure
i also heard there is some sort or skill ups that are unseen for mining , logging , harvesting and stuff is that true?
lmao i had told a friend that u made 1 mill in like 8 hours he said well i bet he wont do it again thats sh*t luck lol >> i disagreed but now to see u getting less i am unsure
i also heard there is some sort or skill ups that are unseen for mining , logging , harvesting and stuff is that true? Typo admit, I thought my earnings would be alot more consistant after switching to the +1 mining gear (the Worker’s set), and using me new "technique", but alas, I was sorely mistaken. :/ At least I can still make 300k+ on my slow days. :3 Although it still gets frustrating at times, things definitely are better now than they were before. ;3
And as far as me know, there are no "skills" or skill ups available for HELM activities. There have been rumours circulating the populous, but nothing that has been confirmed.
I think alot of people, myself included, would like to think that there’s more to mining than is presented to us up front, but it’s hard to keep such a belief when there are no real solid theories to go by, even 3 years after the game’s release. Oh well~.-.
Oh, and in case anyone’s wondering, Typo will be absent until after tomorrow’s maintenance. I’ve had it up to here *struggles to get his little hand up above his big silver head* with server lag. -.-
Now maybe you can get to "work" with my "little request" while I’m on break from FFXI ? lol
Yeah, besides for my scheduled Dynamis run on Sunday I’m taking a break from FFXI until next Thursday ( not this week, the next one :p ) . I’ve got exams at the Bar to retake, plus a thing or two to do outside of FFXI.
Like this evening I had a great supper at the restaurant with my two of my long-time pals I hadn’t seen in months because I was out in Sherbrooke doing the bar, and one in Montreal finishing his Bachelor’s, and the other busy with his work and troupe ( He’s getting into show-business, and slowly getting is troupe know across our area. ). And I plan on visiting my grandpa once or twice during the next week. His lung cancer has gotten worse… I’m pretty sure it’s only a matter of months now, not years… ; ;
Either way, I hope you won’t forget about me once you’re done with your digging. ^^
Say hi to NE for me. ^^
Now maybe you can get to "work" with my "little request" while I’m on break from FFXI ? lol
Yeah, besides for my scheduled Dynamis run on Sunday I’m taking a break from FFXI until next Thursday ( not this week, the next one :p ) . I’ve got exams at the Bar to retake, plus a thing or two to do outside of FFXI.
Like this evening I had a great supper at the restaurant with my two of my long-time pals I hadn’t seen in months because I was out in Sherbrooke doing the bar, and one in Montreal finishing his Bachelor’s, and the other busy with his work and troupe ( He’s getting into show-business, and slowly getting is troupe know across our area. ). And I plan on visiting my grandpa once or twice during the next week. His lung cancer has gotten worse… I’m pretty sure it’s only a matter of months now, not years… ; ;
Either way, I hope you won’t forget about me once you’re done with your digging. ^^
Say hi to NE for me. ^^
Sneak-poster! >O The dig ish far from over, and ideally I’d rack up another 5.2mil before I cease… After this, I should very well never have to make money for any job or other reason again! >O That’s me main motivation to keep on going. And not to worry, while you’re doing your busy-busys, I’ll sneak in your request somewhere. ;3
I’m sorry to hear about your grandfather, and even though my words won’t change things, I wish him all the best. Take care, Dave~!
Red @100k???
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Ish still the ugliest thing Typo has ever seen in me life, but I love it to pieces anyway~ I am itching taru put me spectacles, and now my BIG RED to good use, and so before any more mining happens, I shall do just that !:x *frolics around happily~*
That harness alone is worth more than my whole gear, which is about a "mere" 4.5 millions :p
Speaking of colors, have you forgotten about the BIG PURPLE MACHINE ? I still want my new siggy, pretty please. ; ;
Although since I’ve now seen the value of Adaman in Dynamis ( not that big a difference, but it helps a bit, although every piece of Adaman will be replaced by AF2, should I ever gain some ; ; ), I sold back the Pigeon Earrings and got the Barbuta back. :p So if you started working on it, please put Evad in full Adaman, with the rest just like I asked. ^^
EDIT : As promised, Typo, here are the photos I took of you.
First, with his trademark "Fungus Hat-look-alike", which gave birth to his journal :
Missing his former orange self, Typo managed to recover half of his "former glory" while retaining his current self :
And then finally, he came back to reason, going for the best of both worlds :
I’m sorry, but all I have is the crappy SE-PS2 model cam, Typo. ^^
Anyway, that ish actarully the original Fungus Hatty, the same very one I’ve had since the beginning. ^^ Won’t have me Optical Hat until 70, keke.
Good thing I didn’t start your siggy yet, or else I’d have to go into model viewer all over again! Since I’m giving mining a break for the next few days, I’ll finish your siggy sometime in between. ^^ Congrats taru both of us for changing colour!!!
We reached the final boss, but a bad pull cost us victory…
However, I already have the key item for Dynamis-Bastok.
It may have been the presence of 2 Thieves and the Full Moon, but many AFs dropped this time, including TWO of these :
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=5019
And… I LOTTED 939 ON THE FIRST ONE !!! ^^
Therefore, I’m now the proud owner of a Valor Coronet. ^^ And the first one in Lacasteoubliee to have a piece of AF2. Woot !
Taru’s lower str stat compared to other races doesn’t hamper their performance much as it relates to mnk, and in fact, the only noteworthy difference will come from ws damage, as str and vit, two of our weakest stats are the big damage modifiers for mnk weapon skills. To make up for that minor weakness, I want to be able to load up on acc (SH, specs, sniper’s, life belt) and atk (kote, earrings, amemit+1, eat mithkies for +22%) while building tp, and swap in str and vit gear for use in ws only.
The problem is that Toramas aren’t your average enemy on their feet, sporting unreasonable evasion that makes it tough to feel useful without the aid of sushi. Since Big Red I’ve had one single exp party, and my partner dd for most of its duration was war/nin. He’d have around 170 or so tp by the time Typo hit 100. Popped a sushi afterwards, and the problem was instantly corrected. Thanks to the fishy food, I’ve become used to accumulating tp faster than anyone, excluding ranger of course, but on Processionaires and beyond I’m pretty sure I can eat miths, maintain an above-average hit-rate, and enjoy much more consistant punch damage to put the icing on the cake~
Now I’ve spent so much time in the dark, that silly volcano, that I’m not sure I have it in me to spend another 3-4 days in there for an amemit +1. Honestly, I’m more likely taru just buy a nq amemit and level to 64 or so, head to Boyahda and see how I do.
Each money-making time-out I take tends to either put things into perspective for me, or just make me incredibly impatient, and I’m kinda feeling the latter right now. This taru just wants to come out fighting~!
Taking a break from mnk and leveling rng has crossed my mind many times already, and I’m almost certain that that’s what Typo will do next. The only drawback would be having to first level nin as sub, and I’m not really feeling that job right nau.
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Helped friends from linkyshell on Windy 6-1. Boy are Cardians stubborn. I was able taru raise guarding skill a bit though, so at least they’re good for something!
Congrats to you all. :3
Q. Ish Typo still having fun?
A. We’ll have to wait and see how things go in Onzozo. ":3 It was definitely fun outdamaging a rng on ws once, though! ;o (
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Oie, Nico! Not get any ideas nau…Typo might have a tail, but I’m notacat.. .-.;;;; And Evad, many Congrats taru you! Your first AF2, it must feel great! I got your message, but decided to congratarulate here instead. :3
A timely R0. Gee, talk about getting catslapped…
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61 TypoMNK (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?83732). If I so desire, I’m free to bully my way to 70 without having to worry about excessive hours within the black hole I sometimes call home.
Really, with mithkies Typo accuracy isn’t so bad on those evilcats, but like I said before I’m used to being consistantly quick with TP, and not having those odd sets of battles full of whiff-fests.
Apparently Boyahda ish doable at this level. In fact, Littleyuuki the cat invited Typo there earlier, but her tank happened to d/c and the pt disbanded before I arrived. ; ; Tough luck, but anywey, here’s hoping I get more PT invites across the Zi’tah way, and maybe I can find my niche with the help of those loveable wormy school buses we call "Crawlers"~.
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For Typo it was yet another adventure, one of those rare occasions where I break away from me normal routine and apply what I’ve learned to something far greater than any Big Red or exp party~
Jojo had told me sometime ago that he would be planning an LS mission run soon, but little did I know yesterday would be the day~! Typo decide taru drop his MNKattack, and join in on 8-1 with our mostly-NEx alliance to fight the good fight!
Our journey took us from good ole Windy to Ro’Maeve, to Davoi, to Altepa and Quicksands – all over~ Sometimes Missions dealing with even the most dire of situations can make you feel like a common errand-runner, like back in the old days with gyshal greens and such, but knowing the bigger picture and what that entails puts things back intaru perspective…
Who would have thought that our leader, our Star Sibyl, as well as our very nation was really in such grave danger? Typo tries to stay calm and…let us say "professional" about these things, but between the return of the Shadow Lord, to the living, breathing, scheming evil brothers of a long-lost ancient race, to the sudden appearance of this Bearer of Darkness in me homeland, it sometimes makes me wonder if an adventurer’s work ish ever done ?:3 Great Galloping Gigas (
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I had Typocam record some of the day’s events, but it freaked on me and not capture properly! Fortunataruly it still remembered to take piccies as usual, so while I fix the kinks, have some snaps (http://photobucket.com/albums/v203/bakadl/Vestal%20Chamberlain/), and if you not like spoilers, don’t look, and come back next time~! ;3
Typo, you look cute in red ~
Ahm…thankie, I do, don’t I~? ^.^;;
Speaking of missions, I oh-so want the Knight’s Earring, and Jago wants the Divine Might Earring as well. We could bring in Laurewen and Kinsen, so I think it’s about time I talk with NE to organise a Divine Might event. :p
As for me, I’m level 74, 36k tnl. Level 75 is for this week, garanteed. Two days ago I won for the second time in Dynamis-San d’Oria, but no gauntlets dropped yet, all I ever saw there was one SMN AF2 legs and 2 MNK AF2 legs. It sucks that NE does Dynamis on Fridays, if it were on Wednesdays I’d love to go :p And yesterday we went to farm subligars in Phomiuna Aqueducts for the rest of my CoP team. So now I have the PLD JSE, Laure has the WHM JSE ( we both had it since a long time ago already ), William has the RDM JSE and Rock has the NIN JSE. Those will come in handy for our next missions, which are capped at 50. We couldn’t find Fomors Rangers that wouldn’t link with others so Jago and Backus got screwed, Backus had to content himself with the THF JSE. Rock also got the BST subligar.
When I’m on with flag up I’m usually afk, and sometimes don’t bother responding to invites even if I’m there due to last-minute second thoughts. But it’d be such a shame to give up on MNK nau, being this close to the end, a 2nd lvl75 job, Asuran TypoFists (ATF ;o), and the satisfaction of doing what I set out to do in the first place – be one of those few taru taru make it to the "top" as a MNK~
While Typo can’t control the competence of those around me, there should be ways I can make even the dullest of PTs seem intaruesting to me, and I’ve been thinking… Melikes the Scorpy Harness~ It’s hideously-shaped, obnoxiously bright-red, and makes everyone in Vana’diel /check Typo just because I’m wearing it. But I’m selling it, as I don’t think I really need it. :3
Last night I came taru conclusion that I just don’t like me new equipment setup. Using mithkabobs for extra atk while concentrating gear on acc ish by all means a viable strat… but what if that gives you a strength deficiency? For the first time I saw myself hitting the same number over and over, like I couldn’taru get any stronger. Looking at Typocam I noticed one particular sequence:
…47…47…miss…41…36…47…28…miss…47. ..29…47
I once hit 49. :3 This was with Berserk on, fighting IT Onzozo Toramacats~. I take off me Life Belt and switch to Brown Belt for 5+ str, and lo and behold there are now 50’s in the next sequence of hits, and the loss of 10 accuracy points didn’t hurt anything once I tried the same with sushi in effect. Not sure why Typo not notice this before, but I wanna try something new once again.
Pallas Bracelets (+9str), O. Kote (+20atk) I would like to juggle around to see if I need both, Kotes for dot, and Pallas for WS effectiveness, or if I could sell back the Kotes and permenently keep +9 str. Amemit +1 and Creek Clomps, as they’re pretty much the best items to have sitting in those slots~ At 70, Typo will set up a squad taru go get Dune Boots (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=4125), but kick attacks don’t concern me right now. They’re random and usually too sparse to be worth something to me. O. Hat ish a given~
I’ll be snacking on sushi full-time once again, unless Typo find the acc not too important in a particular PT.
*sigh*, I feel tired.
Oh and Dave, due to the restrictions here, I wouldn’t be able to make your new sig exactly the way you wanted it without your character model being tiny. Any other suggestions? Congrats on the JSE, btw~! It’s been a week, maybe you 75 by nau ?:O
I haven’t been all that active since though, besides a win in Dynamis-Jeuno, which is now my third Dynamis completed. All I need is Windurst to get to Beaucedine. I also got the Relic Shield, which I added to my collection, along the Relic Sword and Valor Coronet.
The reason why I haven’t done a lot of other stuff is because Grandpa died Sunday, we buried in this afternoon.
Either way, I wanted to contact you about joining us on a KSNM marathon sometime this week. If I catch you in-game, I’ll tell you more about it.
As for my sig… well, frankly speaking, I don’t really have any other idea, plus considering that I’m removing Adaman pieces for every AF2 piece I’ll eventually win ( I mean, I only need the gauntlets in Sandy and boots in Windy, then I sell Adaman. Beaucedine and Xarcabard will be prioritized in our Dynamis LS, and since I’m the Paladin that came the most often, I’m on top of the list for PLD AF2 in Beaucedine and Xarcabard lol All we need is actually getting there. 😛 )… I just don’t know, really. lol
/comfort
When I can get around to it, I’ll see what I can come up with for a sig. Also, Congratarulations on climbing the exp mountain to the summit! The journey’s just beginning, eh? This KSNM sounds interesting, but I don’t have any of those seals of me own. Will you be doing the Desert Swarm with the scorpions? That seems to be the one everyone does.
I’m starting to REALLY have my cup filled with them.
All I answer to the question from a newbie in the LS " Is a NIN a tank ? " is " PLD hold hate better but NIN are able to take less damage " and what do I get ?
"Stop making your job look better and bashing on NINs, Evad".
WHAT THE HELL ???
FACT : Tanking is HOLDING HATE FIRST, THEN TAKING AS LITTLE HATE AS POSSIBLE.
FACT : PLD/WAR has MORE tools at his disposal to keep hate better. PLD/WAR has more tools at his disposal to protect others ( such as Cover and Invincible ) WHICH IS WHAT TANKING IS ALL ABOUT. However, some monsters simply hit too hard, so Paladins need proper healing to back them up.
FACT : NIN/WAR, when skilled, are able to take no damage at all thanks to Utsusemi, but aren’t designed to hold hate as well, so it requires a different approach that requires the entire party to work together better than with a Paladin. Therefore, having a NIN is situational, while having a PLD is common.
FACT : Paladins and Ninjas CAN and SHOULD work together. Combining the Paladin’s hate management and the Ninja’s abitility to take no damage is a winning combination, no doubt.
THIS IS WHAT I ALWAYS SAY WHEN ASKED THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO. HOW IN THE HECK IS THIS BASHING ON NINs ???
I’m starting to have my cup filled with a few members in Lacasteoubliee.
Jago thinks he can start bashing on things I’ve said like 30 MINUTES AFTER I SAID THEM because that darn idiot doesn’t even LOOK at what is said on time yet he thinks he can comment on them half an hour later. So he starts saying things I never said because since he hasn’t looked at them properly, he thinks he can have an argument about tanking when HE ISN’T A TANK HIMSELF.
Backus thinks he can tell me that I don’t know anything about Ninjas since my Ninja is level 1 so my arguments don’t make sense. Well, perhaps he’d have any kind of logic, that is, if he ever leveled his Paladin beyond level 1…He’s been seriously falling on my nerves recently, provocating me into arguments whenever he gets the chance. Mihmendra wanted him to be one of the sackholders with me and Jago "because he has ideas that are different than yours" yet so far all I’ve seen from him is provocation and personal insults towards me. Nice going from a guy who basically slows us down while doing CoP because he’s the only one who never does his required cutscenes ahead.
And look who’s even DARING to make a comment against me… Rockfist ! Yup, that same guy who’s girlfriend ( Gentlytaruu ) is so jealous at me because apparently he spends too much time playing with me ( Which is bollocks, but hey, I guess we don’t see eye to eye. ), to the point where she even sends me tells telling me I should go out with him, or that he should have given a ring to ME instead of her ( I swear I’m not kidding on this one. )… Geez, I don’t know, that guy can’t even keep his girl happy and off my back, so should I pay attention to his argument about how to do things ? I think not.
Then there’s Ratatapa… His "NOOBellency". He keeps asking stupid questions half the time, such as " How much MP do you have as a level 75 PLD, Evad ? " LIKE IT "/$/"$/"$ MATTERS !!! Then he goes about doing something like sitting in the middle of a dozen Quadavs in Palborough Mines as a 36WHM, getting killed in the process, then black-listing me for laughing about it, calling me an arrogant Mr.Perfect bastard or what-not.
Oh, and let’s not forget that because of me, the HeraclesCrusaders ( the LS from France ) thinks our whole LS are a bunch of racists and that if they ever created a common French-speaking LS, then there’s no way I’d be one of the leaders, I’m WAY too troublesome, racist, elitist for that. What is it did already to get this reputation ? Ah yes, I kicked one Heracles from Lacaste for being dumb and annoying to everyone else, heck Jago was about to do it himself. Had I known better, I’d have let him become the racist bastard in my stead. Basically, do your job as a moderator, then get labeled a racist. Welcome to HeraclesCrusaders, where we base our opinion on an individual that most of us NEVER met,and that the others got helped by him when they met him, by one single action. Marvelous.
In short, this is what this LS is giving me recently for having :
1- Formed and leaded a CoP party and allowed our LS acces to Tavnazia. I even RE-did the Promyvions to allow a few others to gain access as well, and what did I get ? Flaming tells from a few members saying that I suck because I didn’t take a time schedule fitting with THEIRS.
2- Helped others with keys, quests, and what-not. Strange how it is that a high-level Paladin can be useful ONLY when it’s CONVENIENT for you. Yet it’s way too complicated to actually use your head and buy a STACK of powders and oils instead of a SINGLE one, making me waste THREE TIMES MORE TIME THAN WHAT I SHOULD HAVE. Before you ask, yes that’s what happened last time I helped someone with Rank 5. Oh, and I’m such an elitist bastard for losing patience when you : 1- Attack a different mob than the one I’m fighting, putting yourself in danger, and 2- Going AWAY when you aggro, aggroing MORE MOBS in the process, and 3- Plain not listen to what I say, and basically laugh in my face.
3- Inviting about a dozen person in my Dynamis LS. Then 90% of them don’t come back, because : 1- My AF doesn’t drop there, 2- I die too much… blah,blah,blah.
4- Basically taken the time to answer most of the questions I get asked when I don’t even know WHY it is I get asked. Like why should you ask me if it’s safe to cast Cure V in a party ? DO I LOOK LIKE A WHITE MAGE TO YOU ? Why should you ask me how to get to Dynamis when you’re level 30 ? Don’t you have a DOZEN OF THINGS TO DO BEFORE EVEN THINKING ABOUT DYNAMIS ?
So, yeah, this is what I have to bear with since a couple of weeks.
I’m fed up with it. I play this game for fun, not to get pissed on.
I think NorthernExposure will become the LS I’ll spend the most time on in the coming days, and I think I’ll leave my sack from Lacasteoubliee in my Mog Safe for a couple days. Goddamnit am I fed up with them.
God, while I pretty much think all I’ve said, it’s hardly believable how I lost my cool. Sorry Typo, it’s your journal, I shouldn’t be venting my rage off like that. Sorry buddy.
Either way, I think I’ll need a few more days to vent off, I’m so irritable…
I should take your advice, Moggie, but thing is, I’ve got nothing else to do… :p
Doesn’t help that I learned today that I will get the results from my Bar retakes ( I failed 3 exams, two of them by a single point ; ; ) 2 weeks in advance, 36 hours from now. Ever since I read that e-mail, I’ve been getting nervous. If I passed them, all I need is finding a job training and finally become a lawyer, however if I failed one or more retakes, I’ll have to repass them in July, with 245$ in fees per retake…
And should I still fail in July, it’s over. I have to restart from scratch.
Therefore my short-term future will all depend on those 3 numbers I’ll see on the Bar’s website friday afternoon… as if I didn’t have enough pressure for this week already… *sigh*.
We got Promyvion-Mea done for a few of us tonight. Once I get Promyvion-Holla, we’ll be working on Chapter 2. Drange is working on points for Savage Blade, Ermachko and I are working on points for Black Halo. Derufin, Sarevok, and myself got Fenrir last night. That was so friggin awesome. I wish I had fraps of that you shoulda seen it. Fenrir was down to 5% and the DRK got one hit then the NIN tank, Sarevok, got one hit and the BLM, Derufin, got hate and I started getting panicky, but I saw Fenrir had only a sliver left after Deru’s nuke, and the kill looked like this:
Minime casts Holy on Fenrir
Fenrir takes 205 damage
Minime defeats Fenrir.
Needless to say I ran around Jueno shouting OMFG I GOT FENRIR!!!!!
We ate his 2-hour as well, Sare kept hate through a Divine Seal Curaga 2 and a straight Curaga 3. I was thouroughly impressed.
#1 reason we won though; Light weather on Lightsday + 74 BRD sings double CHR so he can land Elegy at the start, followed by constant Dark Carol.
Damage: yay
Summary: I am a monster, used parser, out-damage BLM and RNG and everyone else, blah blah.
I’ve lost my faith in Japanese players. The vast majority haven’t grown up yet and embraced this thing called "community" we have going on in the game. Stop being selfish/afraid/prejucide, whichever one of those applies, and PT with people from other places.
Dead horse of an issue, but it’s disgusting, and leaving me with nothing to do at the moment. I guess Japan wins.
That’s the 1st Wonder of Vana’diel~! *Ahem* Anywey…
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So, if I hadn’taru said before, departing with Big Red and embracing the Orange was definitely the best thing for me to do. Realising I could be placing better things in certain slots, Typo made use of all those zeroes and gathered all of the following:
Federation Headgear (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=5123), Minuet Earring (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=8902), Merman’s Earring (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=4197), Victory Ring x2 (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=3141), Enkelados’s Bracelets (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=1353), Amemit Mantle +1 (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=4300), Creek M Clomps (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=4858).
Some of those items were hard to come by, since they’re pretty rarely stocked. Now, with a STR rating of 54+37, Typo has gone from doing a measly average of 30ish per punch, to 50ish per punch, even hitting non-criticals of 70 from time-to-time on IT Toramas and Processionaires with Berserk on. ^.^ It has made a colossal difference, and sometimes Typo can still have a decent hit rate with just sushi, and no accuracy gear at all besides AF. Of course, me Howling Fist WS has benefited (http://photobucket.com/albums/v203/bakadl/Chat%20Logs/?action=view¤t=howling829.jpg) nicely (http://photobucket.com/albums/v203/bakadl/Chat%20Logs/?action=view¤t=howling890.jpg) from it as well. \n(*`.’)n/ <- *Typoflex*
And so I have been punching knees and guts and such using Parser (http://www.frontiernet.net/~Spyle/FFXI/ffxi.html) all the while, beating everyone in sight, a feat that makes me smil- gah, rhyme. >.> I’ve only been running it for a couple days nau, but from the stats I’ve gathered thus far, Typo ish only out-damaged by Rangers (not even BLM), and that’s due to their consistantly superior WS damage. >.< I’m excited about Dragon Kick (and making Light!) and am hoping it delivers solid damage every time from 65 n’ up~!
Between PTs comes relaxing (http://photobucket.com/albums/v203/bakadl/?action=view¤t=kittymilk.jpg) n’ posing (http://photobucket.com/albums/v203/bakadl/?action=view¤t=munchiefood.jpg) with kitties (http://photobucket.com/albums/v203/bakadl/?action=view¤t=catsandwhich.jpg), and wondering whatcha get when you taste a gilsellercat (http://photobucket.com/albums/v203/bakadl/Chat%20Logs/?action=view¤t=benblove.jpg). Mmkay, guess I had that coming…
Minitaru, Ermahume, congratarulations on Black Halo!
I don’t have much else to say, I haven’t played as much as the other weeks. About all I did were a few quests, including the Sand Charm one. Pirates attack so rarely I ended up killing the Sea Horror four times, including two all on my own. ^^
Oh yeah, we won in Dynamis-Bastok yesterday… was the second time for me. :p
Don’t get your hopes TOO high for Dragon Kick, Typo. It’s not much stronger than Howling Fist from what I’ve seen, unless you sub /thief and SATA it. Same thing for Asuran Fists. But since you’ve stuck so much on STR, who knows ? But I can tell you that without a thief sub, I’ve rarely seen monks impress me on their WS.
Typo was somehow expecting that. Can’t remember seeing too many big hitting Dragon Kicks meself back in the day… 😡
Too bad /THF gimps your dot too much to be worth the extra WS damage, unless that changes by 70+. Typo outdamages MNK/THF at this level by a tremendous amount. -.-
What ish more important than hitting huge numbers, though, ish getting a CONSISTANTARU number, rather than sometimes making an impressive 500+ Howling Fisty, and other times only seeing 180. I’m sick of that.
That’s EXACTLY what I ALWAYS tried to make Jago understand ever since he switched his main sub to Thief. I should show him THAT. lol
EDIT : I’m not really sure if it really changes after 70 though, Jago can probably tell you better because he started using /thf at 68. Try having a chat with him.
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Several days ago I happened across a thread on Allakhazamzy where it was being determined whether an extremely rare and elusive weapon, Tactician Magician’s Hooks +2, is actually more efficient DOT-wise than the much-whoredlauded Spartan Cesti. A series of experiments were conducted using parser, even throwing the #1-rated Cross-Counters into the mix, and surprise surprise, not only did the Hooks out-damage the Spartans, but they came close to being exactly on par with the CCs~! This information was far too curious for Typo taru just sit and read and marvel over, and so I have been making it a point taru get me little handsies on those Hooksies and see this for meself~ Pretty discouraging to note ish that these things are only put on sale perhaps once only per month, and being an HQ of an HQ for crying out loud, it must be an interesting mix of hell and luck to even craft in the first place.
After a few hours of PT seeking + AH camping yesterday afternoon, T.M. Hooks POP! Typo must look up the name of the seller today out of sheer interest… My next PT took to Boyahda for the usual crawler-tipping fun, and I would alternate between weapons every 15 minutes, expecting to see a difference. Nyeh, but there was no obvious change to observe in the switch, and even though WS damage ought to be lower on the Hooks because of lower weapon damage, that certainly wasn’taru showing at all.
After 2 hours I was already convinced that I might as well sell the Cesti and be happy with the profit, even though the new weapon’s pretty much the same…well, except nothing sounds cooler than a piercing hand-to-hand weapon stabbing and scraping away at enemy body! Then at some point afterwards, as though Typo had just woken up and opened me eyes for the first time for the day, I realised that my attack intervals were just plain abnormal, even with Haste. With T.M. Hooks +2 equipped, Haste in effect and Brown Belt for teh win, Typo would strike approximately every 4 seconds. I use TP and switch immediataruly to Spartans, where the interval became ~5 seconds.
As a result, I gain several more rounds of attacks per battle for what seems to be identical damage to what the Cesti are capable of, not to mention 1.8M for the sale of the now redundant purple ‘knucks! Keke~!
Dragon Kick DMG -> Looks like another Howling Fist
Dragon Kick looks -> Boring!
Typo’s incoming RNG days will make up for this. ;3
My computer has also decided to pack up again, making it the 2nd time in the last 3 weeks it’s taken a break. I guess I should have known. The beginning of my vacations are always cursed, and so I expect at least one more blunder to occur sometime this week – only then can I start enjoying myself!
Typo ish mnk66 nau, and have been considering /thf for 70+. I’ve heard alot of good cases for and against it, and figure I’ll never know if it’s really worth it unless I try it myself. I’m dreading losing double attack and Berserk, but am intersted in how me damage holds up, and liking the idea of 600-900 Dragon Kicks.
I’ve already gotten some strange reactions from people when Typo tell them that I’m not planning taru stick with mnk after I hit 75. I’m still leveling this job for a few very simple reasons:
1. MNK started as an experiment, and happened to be a fun one at that. Typo kept practicing the discipline, and suddenly I was level 60+~. Just because it’s this high already, might as well continue to the top. There isn’t anyone I know with more playtime than me, so I guess it’s hard to understand why I’m ok with "wasting" all this time. Until September 12th, I have nothing at all to do. 😡
2. It’s a personally preferred "help job" alternative to blm. Yesh blm ish one of the most in-demand jobs there is, and you’d expect someone with a 75 job to use it – but I’m tired of casting…well at least tired of black magic, anyway, and since it’s been such a long time since Typo has performed as blm in a serious battle situation, I don’t feel I can be of much use in that capacity, especially with nothing but AF. I’d rather put on me gloves, lace up me boots, and help you in a more direct and violentaru fashion. If you MUST have TypoBLM, I’ll do it if you beg. :3
3. Tarutaru Asuran Fists? Kekekekeke.
4. Just to be able to say I’ve conquered the challenge of leveling mnk, and as a taru at that. Ish not something you see everyday.
We’ll see what happens. Hopefully this pain will go away so Typo can pick up the pace again.
I’ve been accumulating guild points in goldsmithing, after Shiinacat told me she was going for shades. Typo remembers at one point being crazy for those things, and just like that, decided it’d be great to have them taru go with me Temple Cyclas and baggy rasetsu pants when I get them. So far I have 35.somethingk, and will be just over 40k GP tonight. It should take less than 2 weeks for Typo to reach the required 70k GP, but will need to do some mining to make enough cash to level GS from 43.9 – 48 for Journeyman rank.
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/index.shtml
Check out the gobbie and yagudohats! Typo must have!!! >.>
I was hoping this next update would include a nice big piccy of Typoshades… but nyeh. Even though I will have enough GP in the next 2-3 days, goldsmithing ish 44.4, and I need 48.0.
Know how much cash it took to get the .4 in 44 ?:O
200k in mythril rings! ^-‘)b
Typo has always hated crafting, and this isn’t helping. All of this just to complete some personal goal, keke…
Ish no different from MNK – at this point, I really not feel like going back to it, but why quit at 67 ?_? My gear ish more than sufficient, and I needen’t spend any more on MNK at all – if only there were more competent parties out there, it woudn’t be such a chore. *shrug* At least me last PT was fun…Den of Rancor, my favourite spot at this level, ish sadly one of those places people are afraid to go because of whatever reason, whatever whatever whatever.
/THF would be fun for even more nifty highlights, but now I haven’taru the patience for that.
I’m mainly worried about the OptiHat, that I won’t be able taru find help getting eyes for a cluster, and that I’ll have to spend more hours of excrutiating mining just to buy one. Remember when they used to cost only 300k ?.-.
Things will continue to be quiet for a while, as I figure out exactly what I actually want to do during this "break" of mine. For a while Typo was set to pick up RNG right after MNK, but interest waned as time passed, and then the recent info on the changes being made to both RNG and NIN kind of pushed me further away.
If ya see Typo hangin’ around in me volcano, or Bastok, don’t be afraid taru say "Hau! What’s new, taru~!"
As you could have guessed from earlier posts, it’s really been a gradual change of heart over several months. MNK was fun – lots of fun up until 60. Typo always loved how in-your-face it ish, and yet it’s so laid back in execution. I’ve always had the higher-than-average-MNKie gear thanks to me volcano, and can confidently say I was a solid fighter from the beginning until now. However, as dear journal knows by nau, my extensive mining exploits lasting all of 23 consecutive days from late-April to mid-May unexpectedly took me out of things, expelled the rush I used to have, and I was never again able to recover and fully get back into the groove with MNK. The past 2 months have been an on-going effort to just "wrap things up", being that I’m "so close to the top". Keke…
Quitting before Asuran Fists wasn’t ever on the cards until recently, where Typo once again re-discovered the hardships of PT assembling; the waiting game at the start of the day and between parties, the uncertainty of even landing anything promising within the next several hours, and the near-impossibility of creating one of my own, due to lack of job resources, or the infamous "JP onry" issue. Typo has already proven that when he ish committed to something, everything goes into it, and differently, if I still cared as much about MNK, and the eventual WS reward I was previously excited about then those waits wouldn’t be an issue. But alas, it’s simply too hard to have the patience when you no longer possess that drive.
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After all the stories I’ve heard about him, more specifically how "impossible" he is without 70-this and 70-that… Nyeh! The "Legend" of Steelfleece ish now but a nursery rhyme, but to his credit his 3 minutes of Typo-tanked fame were certainly entertaining! It’s been a while since I stopped working so hard and simply hung out with me friends; help with this n’ that, hang out and chat. Typo has been so caught up in forcing himself through this job I’m struggling with, that perhaps I forgot what it was to just "take it easy"… Todey was fun, and I’d like more days like this, only with more resting and sleeping involved before the actual activities. *dozes off* "X3
I may one day return to Boyahda with fist poised to pummel, or debut in Gustav with intention to smash! Today, however, ish time taru put away the gloves and start having fun again. So I’ve been thinking it’s time Typo took it easy. Better a kinky foot-massage (
) than 6 hours of idle posing in Port Jeuno~^^
I do have a new character which is currently an experiment – an aspiring NIN at that! But don’taru anyone worry about Typotaru going anywhere! It ish yet still far from my time. ^-‘)b
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Where might Monk be in that entire list? I guess even the quiz realised Typo needed to do something new. ;3
You scored as Paladin.
Paladin. You fight for the light and what’s just, and you must trust your party as much as you trust your mighty blade. You can cure yourself like a white mage, and your designed to tank.
Paladin
100%
White Mage
50%
Black Mage
34%
Warrior
31%
Bard
31%
Samurai
31%
Ranger
28%
Summoner / Beastmaster
25%
Ninja
25%
Red Mage
22%
Dragoon
19%
Dark Knight
19%
Thief
3%
i’m sorry to see you giveing up MNK typo, you got so close. i’m sure you will make a great whatever job you go for next as you did with BLM and MNK.
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After the update, I tried to get an early start on the experience that is the mad rush for the new beastman headgear, and NPC buddy-buddy buddy.
Thing is, nowhere could I find all the information I needed in one convenient location. So I ended up spending most of my day researching until I was able to piece together just what I had to do to gather all the ingredients for my beloved Yagudo Headgear.
With my cool new beast hat I would run around Jeuno, Eldieme, and Ghelsba, securing my NPC buddy while taking out everything in me path, the world to mistake Typo for the most powerful midget-bird EVER! Here were my ingredientarus~
yagudo cutting: check! Rare/Ex item obtained from a quest which ends with you speaking to weirdo gobby (
) in the Altar Room, Castle Oztroja. You know, the same location as the rank 4 magicite mission. That brought back memories. ^^
yagudo feather x2: check! AH
cockatrice skin: check! AH
wool thread: check! AH
black pearl x2: check! bought for 100k each. Before the update, they were 10k. Hoho!
bugard tusk: … NOPE! None, none for sale anywhere.
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Furious, Typo took to chocobo and launched himself into the swirling vortex to kill every single Bugard in Lufaise Meadows and chip one of those teeth and have it, no matter what!
Spread throughout the day, I spent roughly 3 hours Bugard-tipping and managed to skin half of them. No visits from the monster tooth fairy for them anytime soon. There was even this anomaly (
) I’ve never seen before… terrifying! It was at this point that newly-goblin-headed Kanchi from linkshell proved a life saver, and I warped back to Jeuno to meet him and complete my list.
Now all Typo must do ish find someone with 100 clothcraft, 60 leather, 60 smithing…will Ulmo ever wake up ?:O
i’m sorry to see you giveing up MNK typo, you got so close. i’m sure you will make a great whatever job you go for next as you did with BLM and MNK.I’m sorry too. Typo did make it pretty close to the end, but my motivation was never really the same after the lengthy breaks I took. Incidentally, the same happened to me when I reached 70 with BLM. {Hmmm…}
Speaking of BLM, I’m looking for a "cheap" (without having to purchase and equip actual exp gear) and safe (easy/lazy) way to recover about 300 exp to re-level to 75. The new Chocobo Escort quest (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10&mid=1121800866597612034&num=36)
has a possible dragon chronicles (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=5124) page reward, which’d do the trick. I could get something similar from another escort quest, but those look boring.
Typo’s chocotime from Windy to Jeuno was around 13 mins…that seems really slow, now that I think about it. I was 35 seconds slower than the record. Reward: a bunch of greens. Methinks the prizes are random, because record breakers and slowpokes alike still get anything from chronicles back down to greens.
Summerf…"Sunbreeze" begins tomorrow, and with all the new goodies (http://photobucket.com/albums/v724/phabin/July%2019th%20Update/) coming out, there’s bound to be something in there (swimtrunks X3) that Typo and Aleste, my new kitty will want!
hume hooker? (
)
catwhore? (
)
It’s going taru be an exciting summer this year! ^-‘)b
Keep ’em comin’, Typocam!
do a ballista with new rules level 40 cap i get 350 ex per time i go and i think 70 is like 450 ex so that’s "(easy/lazy) way to recover about 300 exp to re-level to 75" and + its fun 😀
Anyways… uhh… since there isn’t a delete button, just want to say, nice journal entries?
/dunno, but I feel like an idiot for posting a message based off page 11. >_>
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do a ballista with new rules level 40 cap i get 350 ex per time i go and i think 70 is like 450 ex so that’s "(easy/lazy) way to recover about 300 exp to re-level to 75" and + its fun :DThankies for the suggestion, but Typo says "BOO" to ballista! I’ll get me exp on chocobo. I’ll take Sotaka with me and drop him into a Tahrongi Canyon canyon! *cackle* ;3
Well, I haven’t posted here in a long time. I guess I’ll try to summarize things up. Sorry if it’s a bit of a long post, Typo, but I figured you might have been curious as to what I’ve been doing recently.
I left both Lacasteoubliee and NorthernExposure, but for different reasons.
With Lacaste, I was tired of having to answer dozens and dozens of questions from others, as if the mere fact of being level 75 and Rank 10 meant I was some omnipotent god and knew everything about this darn game. Plus I was always arguing for god knows what with a few members ( You can go see the post I made earlier in this journal as an example. ). Also, being one of the few high levels meant there wasn’t much for me to do with them. Besides leveling, all that Jago, Laurewen and I could do was farm, skill-up, or fight avatars. Not having many options can get tiresome fast, so I got fed up.
As for NorthernExposure, as great as most of the people in the LS were, I just didn’t "feel at home". Maybe it had a lot to do with how fed up I was with La Caste and not really wanting to have anything to do with any LSes for awhile, who knows. I was also having enough shit as it is in life, what with my grandpa dying and my failures at the Bar.
Either way, the only pearl I kept was Lydya’s Dynamis LS. And because he was also with lostEXP, an HNMLS, I said what the heck, might as well try it.
Well, I stayed two weeks with them. lol Reason I left ? They didn’t like that I told them that since I was already with Lydya’s group for Dynamis, I’d keep going with him and not with lostEXP, and they basically said that I had no right to refuse doing activities with them because that’s what new members in a LS would do, etc. So I left. Nobody will force me to do things I don’t want to while playing a ***cking video game, dare I’d say.
For the short time I stayed with them, I realized a few things. Fighting HNMs is fun, but anything related to it isn’t. Camping for hours is boring, having a fair-and-square claimed King Behemoth ( I was the one to win the claim to boot. Not too shabby for a first HNM fight. 😉 But luck had a part in it, I have to admit. ) stolen by Cato’s LS isn’t fun either. Farming god items is utterly boring as well, especially when half your group doesn’t really know where and what to do ( that included me, I kept asking Acer what to do, and where to go ), meaning we take 3 times the time we should have taken. Ugh.
Either way, strangely enough, after I left lostEXP, many members left, including Lydya. Some of them because they didn’t like how I was treated and felt like unless we are shell-holder or sackholder, we can’t voice our opinion, others after a disastrous sky run that, strangely enough, took place the day after I left. lol Either way, lostEXP is still active, and I know most of the members that are still there are nice people. So no hard feelings for them on my part, and I wish them the best of luck. I only wish they remember that as addictive as FFXI is, it is just a game, and when you talk to the others, you’re dealing with real people. So please remember to have respect.
At that time, when I was still with lostEXP, Mihmendra asked Jago to take over as La Caste’s new leader because she felt like she had no time to be leader anymore, what with university and work. Little did she know, Jago and Laure had applied for lostEXP , for pretty much the same reasons I did. However, a few days later I left, and so because of that, Jago and Laure didn’t want to go to lostEXP anymore. So Jago accepted, on the condition that he’d create a new LS, and run it the way HE’d decide. Having no LS anymore, I told him I’d take a day or two to decide if I’d join or not once I’m done with my final retakes at the Bar.
Feeling like I more or less "forced" Jago to accept, as he had no more real choice anymore, I decided to join "Musketeers", the reborn Lacasteoubliee, and more or less became Jago’s right-hand man, and a sackholder. We have about the same members, but we enforced some rules, and our organization got improved tenfold. So because of that, now we know what to do, and when. So far we’ve been mainly doing coffer key hunts because we have half a dozen members nearing or at 60 ( It seems they’ve been leveling while I was gone. :p ) and even 3-4 new 70s. Our next task will probably be to help them with Zilarts or the Promys.
But at the same time, I kept doing Dynamis twice a week with Lydya’s group.
Speaking of that, our group has become very successful. We now have access to Xarcabard since two weeks, and won Beaucedine twice,giving access to Xarcabard to over 50 members, so we’re going to farm in Dynamis-Xarcabard this Sunday.
As far as AF2 goes, PLD AF2 drops well in Bastok, but dropped only once in Windurst many months ago, and I lost the lot back then, while it never dropped in Sandy or Beaucedine… Wednesday, we were in Dynamis-San d’Oria, and after we killed the boss, we had an extra 20 minutes of farming. Two PLDs out of five left already, along with about one quarter of the group, thinking no AF2 would drop. Then it happened :
"You find a pair of Valor Gauntlets on the (insert name of mob here)."
"Evaddaragon’s lot for the Valor Gauntlets : 924 points."
"Evaddaragon obtains a pari of Valor Gauntlets." ^^
Those gloves are godly, enough said. You want proof ? Have a look for yourself :
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=5021
Anyway, these are so good that, combined with my newly-bought Rosenbogen ( Got it for 1,050,000. ), I sold my Adaman. My AF Body and Boots are better than Adaman, and keeping just the cuisses would have looked weird, and were only slightly better than the AF legs, so… I’m back in White.
I’m 2/5 on AF2 now, with a Relic Sword and Relic Shield as trophies I’ll probably never get to upgrade. :p And according to our Dynamis schedule, we’re doing Xarcabard ( Valor Surcoat ) Sunday, Windurst Wednesday ( Valor Leggings ) and Beaucedine next Sunday ( Valor Breeches ) so if luck his on my side, I may snatch a third piece, or even more. lol But I’ll take it one at a time.
And then this morning, I had yet another good news, the result of my final retakes at the bar are in… It was make or break this time, either I pass both exams I had left to pass, or I have to redo the program all over. Therefore I spent the entire month of June studying at least 4 hours a minimum of 6 days per week, and then at the beginning of July I studied day and evening, playing FFXI solely for Dynamis. I had to pass on last Bastok run, because it was on the day I had one of the two exams. 😛 lol
…
And…
It was my best two grades from all the exams I passed at the Bar this year. ^^ I am officially done with Bar exams. All that’s left to do is find a job-training that will last 6 months, and after that I will be assermented, and become a full-fledged lawyer. ^^
I will be taking one week-off before I start looking for my job-training. I want to recieve the official grade sheet and the confirmation of my eligibility. I also believe I have earned this break. lol So starting in August, I’m looking for my job-training.
So, that’s about what happened in the past month. Sorry it was long, but I wanted to share it with Typo and the others. :p
I couldn’t agree more when you said:
Fighting HNMs is fun, but anything related to it isn’t.
It’s no joke how many times I’ve tried, but just can’t seem to stay interested in HNM activities. Not to mention the attitudes of some, like what you mentioned before are so unbelievably stubborn. Also, I never properly utilized either of my high-level jobs, and even before I could I lost all interest in continuing to level/build both. I also fear that I’ve lost any skill I used to possess with BLM, and avoid that job like the plague so as not to disgrace myself. Even if I wanted to take part in anything end-game related, something I do feel off and on, I’d have to level a new job for it, and still survive the drama that comes with it. ":3
There was a thread at KI about Cato stealing KB from you guys. Typo was so proud to see good ol’ Evad win the pull, but unfortunately, Cato will be Cato, and unless someone takes a gun to its head…
Anywho, congratarulations on your Dynamis exploits, especially receiving another AF2 piece, and becoming a "white knight" again! :3 Have you gone for an NPC, or beastman hat yet?
Typo spent about 45 minutes waiting in line (
) for the "Mirror Mirror" BCNM. Teamed up with a JPcat and an elf DRG for the quick win – I was barely able to engage the dragon before it was all over. ._. I took Raka the cat out for some training time, and after about 30 mins she was on her way. I’m not exactly sure why, but I had fun…that’s all that matters, I guess! X3
I did on the first day, and waited over 2 hours in Ghelsba, while we still were able to do it only one person at a time. I went there with Yuuki.
I got myself a shoulder-length brunette hume named Amerita.
I summonded her 3 times already.
First time was to show her to Jago and Laurewen. I made her fight about 4 Ants in Altepa, then talked to her and sent her on her way.
The second time I summonded her, I took her out farming Sabertooth Tigers in Batallia Downs.
And today I took her to fight EP weapons in Ro’Maeve, but she died by getting spammed with Whirl of Rage, and I had no MP to cure her.
Anyway, since the beginning she used to be wearing a Xiphos with Lauan Shield and Scale Mail set. Now she has change for Plate Leggings and Cuisses, and I have the option of changing her combat style. I can choose "Shield" ( she’ll provoke at the start of every fight and try to tank ), "Attacker" ( Just attacks and tells me when she uses a WS. ) or "Healer" ( Haven’t tried it yet… guessing she’ll cure me or something. )
So yeah, that’s about what there’s to say about my sweet Amerita. :p
Unfortunataruly, Amikiri the scorpionhead was ready for us this time. It seduced Bartman (model: tll1-2_66MNK version: "Spinning Attack" mode: ‘silly’) into wearing a sissy-pink LS fit for La Theine’s finest flower fields, and jumping right into the fray to get himself personally handled. It was the kind of scene you’d be used to if you like Chuck Norris, T.G. Cid, Batman, or Typotaru – a one-sided fight so brutal, you wonder just how many more butts there could possibly be left to kick!
In the end, the bad guys in pink managed to find some way to lay out our hero until the next episode, so until then, Amiscorp ish just lucky it wasn’t US that got him!
Yup, we’re currently making chop suey of Sotaka’s nerves!</center>
With about 2 and a half minutes of party time left, we took it to the undead. The KRT exp rate just wasn’t there. I figured that with a brd, and the fact that most of the PT was comprised of melee, we’d kill almost as quickly as manaburn, but with almost no downtime…
Oh well… The PTs were good nevertheless, and Typo had fun yesh yesh. I just regret that I can no longer show what a powerhouse I really can be, since I’ve had to pour most of me funds into my new character. I don’t exactaruly feel gimp, but the feeling that I could be doing so, so much better is kinda hard to shake.
Despite all that, I’ll continue to attend as long as I’m free. It’d be an honour taru one day obtain Asuran Fisties alongside my fellow MNKies. \n(*`.’)n/
Typo has been feeling that itch again – you know, the one where you feel your current millions just aren’taru enough, and ya just need more more more?! Well, due to mining almost driving me insane, and Magicl making me want to glide across the seas and personally Typokick him from China to Mars, I decided to find an alternative extra-curricular activity to help fund my future {insert job here} obsession…or at least to calm my paranoia (the fear of one day not being able to throw away a 50k item to free up space in me inventory because, well let’s face it, it’s 50k…) with the thought of having even more money…
I think alot of people out there already know the ins and outs of Mr. The Punisher – but I don’t think much of my competition does. If I’m wrong, they certainly have a great way of masking it. :3 I do believe I’m a pretty quick draw, lag notwithstanding, and if I’m one of the lucky ones to see him pop, I almost expect to snag ’em.
No drop yet. :X 0/1.
Typo would not be surprised if this only lasted about as long as Torrent, H.M. the, but I must admit that the 5 or so hours I’ve spent in Oztroja thus far have had a nifty kick to them. Ish time for the next fastest finger round, and a possible 2.5 biggies for the winner ain’t a bad prize, eh ?;3
In other news, I’ve been thinking about moving the journal. I’ve wanted to make my own layout and really personalize the whole thing for a long time, but I’ve been lazy. Though it may seem a bit too late for that right now, I know I still have quite a few months in me at the very least, and now that I’ve started a new character, now might be a good time to change things up a bit!
Aleste~ MNK19 > THF25</center>
Thing is, I don’t know exactly what kind of reaction this huge diary of Vana’diel experiences and memories actually gets, since not alot of people reply, and I don’t like to rely on the "views" stat alone. With my new kitty character, Aleste, and all of her upcoming adventures to be logged, this thread might soon start to feel a little cramped. Stay tuned !:X
I’m glad to see you had fun in the bone parties. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been up to par with my expectations, but I think it will be. It just takes some time to get in a "groove". With us changing bards, paladins, and whms, it makes it tougher.
I definitely had a lot of fun and we still got decent exp. We definitely should get to the no down time level once we get everyone settled in and get some of these crazy mages to mind their mana. LoL The Banish III burst was very nice, but the excessive use of Curaga III was a killer. It was a chain killer and a hate killer. We’ll get it!
EDIT: Can you tell I just got ModelViewer and don’t have Photoshop yet. ; ;
still pulling tails,
nicomo <(^.^)^
hehe i love it its great to hear what u do as a stronger player then myself 😀
if u do want your journal more out for everyone to see post links to it on other sites 😀
i remember sitting up nights a week before i got FFXI just reading this journal lol and now i have game i am still reading >.> i hope u continue to share your game history with us cause as long as u do i intend to read ^^
also u have been a great help in many things i have ever asked on this forum
keep up good work 😀
And you’ve given inspiration to some to start their own journals to mark their journies. ^_^
I got somethin to write about in mine! ^_^
You’ll have to get a pic of one of your 800+ dmg Dragon Kicks for your journal too. 😉
Spent some time camping Mee Deggi throughout the last few weeks, and thanks to those loveable gilsellers, I became a whole -0- gil richer! It didn’t take long for me to remember how it felt back when Hoo the Torrent was the hot thing on the street, as you youngins like Az like to say. NM camping is like one big gamble. You sacrifice your time for a mere chance at grabbing a creature, followed by a battle whose outcome may very well involve no reward what-so-ever… The other side ish big payoff that rarely happens. Still, that 3~triple-oh~triple-oh payoff from Deggi ‘Sam’ the Punisher far outweighs anything that volcano could give me.
I could obtain 1 single pair of o.kotes in 7 days of camping. That’s 3mil, with not much effort put in.
A good (realistic) day (6-10hr) in Ifrit’s is about 4-500k. Let’s Mining for 7 days in a row, at 500k each day. That’s 3.5mil, if I’m extremely lucky, and I’m almost pulling me hair out from post-dungeon stress…
I guess you’re used to hearing all this moneytalk coming from Typo, keke, but admittedly I’ve become obsessed with numbers and stats and things with +1 tagged ontaru them – I don’t feel at ease if I know I could do better, even if it’s ‘just +1 to a stat’ better. I suppose that comes from being spoiled from day 1 in Vana’diel, huh? Thanks alot, fishing. Soon I’ll be trying to understand the handful of complicated formulae you see being thrown around messageboards the ‘net over, even though I don’t understand many of them at this time. With Aleste, I planned to level Nin as new main, and found myself caught up in a ‘plan’, trying to calculate to the nearest 1k or so how much I’d be spending on -equipment- from 1-60. It was hard to estimate consumables until I realized how fast I’d be eating through shihei when utsusemi: ni came into play.
Quite an experience, I’ve always wondered what it was like to be "busy", and for those 2 weeks I knew, and it felt great. The only thing that half-ruined it for me was the fact that my main comp’s down, and I’m once again forced to play on PS2. The screen res honestly hurts my eyes, and even though I changed the font colors, I’d still sometimes miss shadows, and get messed up. 😡 I’m 2 weeks away from a brand new video card, good-as-new computer, and wonderfully detailed Typosnaps !;3 For now, the mediocre will have taru do, and I’m too sleepy to post those nau. ;3
Something I’ve probably only voiced to one person, is the fact that Nin had competition with one other particular job I’ve been curious about since my days as a Bst… that’d be Thf. Typo let Bst go, because as much as I liked the inherent independence, I was too much of a lone wolf – a party job that could also solo things if needed, ish more my style, and that’s how I got to thinking about Nin and Thf. Aleste has just had a chance to try them both, and because I’m busy, yet not too busy, because I feel happy and comfortable in the role, because I have enough money to get the "best" possible equips money can buy from now (29) until 57 (SH requires an o.kote to drop for meh), and because Hide is such a wonderful mpk tool for those gilsellers whenever I feel like "claiming" Mee Deggi, I’ve chosen Thf.
Aleste ish a sexy manthracat brought to you by Typo.
Any emanating speaking habits or actions made in similar tone or shade of a known Typoism may or may not be purely coincidental, or intentional, mew, nya, meow, raar, ?_?, ;o, :3.
Bought an LJ account ($7 for 2 months or something) so I could experiment with a nice layout and make that me new home, but LJ kinda makes it hard to code your own. Can anyone help ?:3
Updates will continue to be infrequent until my computer’s sorted out, but please to not worry, because I’m not going anywhere~ ^-‘)b
Ta-taru~!
I will be leveling my NIN (24) very soon to get it caught up so maybe we’ll get a chance to level together again. :-b
I went to Castle O to camp for Fuma Kyahan and it popped right behind me when I was running around the circle. I turned hitting voke, it turned purple, and the person who "won" the claim never attacked it. ; ; It is definitely frustrating losing to botters. I’ll get it one day. LoL
Aleste has made alot of progress behind the scenes. The problem is, it’s been quick, perhaps a little too quick. You zoom through 50 levels, able to tackle pretty much everything on your lonesome, only to hit the mid-levels, filled with roadblocks such as genkai, AF, and various other quests/missions that become available/necessary at this point. I can’t stand asking people for help, which may seem silly given the fact that this game is all about depending on others to make it through..
Here’s a list of things kitty would like to put behind her within the next few weeks:
AF
Rogue’s Armlets (http://www.bvvp.com/gaming/ffxi/thfhands.html)
Rogue’s Bonnet (http://www.bvvp.com/gaming/ffxi/thfhead.html)
Rogue’s Poulaines (http://www.bvvp.com/gaming/ffxi/thffeet.html)
The annoying step everyone needs to take… at least I can pick the coffers, a perk of being a THF, and should at least be more entertaining than dragging other people around for hours of coffer key no-shows.
Hornetneedle (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=2862)
I think by now most people have at least heard the horror stories about this item. It’s notsomuch the NM involved to end the quest, but the drop rate of the infamous bee larvae from Wespes. Perhaps I can be one of the lucky ones to be spared the days worth of honey pots and chips? They’re fatty. D:
4-3 Magicite (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/quests.html?realm=&fquest=151)
Beadeaux. Don’t want to be too far through the 50’s and still rank 4.
That’s just some of what I want to do pretty soon, and that’s a ton of assistance I’m going to need… Most of my "friends" I left in HNM circles, and you know how it is: we’re all usually busy with something, so much that sometimes there isn’t the time to chat with friends. Typo’s WW pearl remains inactive because I don’t favour BLM or MNK these days, and so I’ve nothing to contribute with them. Even when I used to pop in for a visit, there’d be too much activity going on to really keep up, or be noticed. I really don’t have as many connections as I used to, and I feel guilty asking the same few for help over and over. I have a thing against not talking to someone for a while, then suddenly popping up just to ask for help. ":X
It also doesn’t help that I’ve changed characters. I’ve noticed that alot of people just didn’t have a clue that I’m still here! I thought I told enough people. ":x Perhaps Typo should get a megaphone and make a world tour…
Anyway, you know me, I’m still on a money binge, and have been trying to compete with Bihlycat and Celesyhume for a while now. I’m thinking it’s not worth it at all, until the impossible happens, and they get banned for using every hack under the sun. Sure I can’t prove it to the GMs, but my eyes don’t deceive me when M.C. Deggi Fresh appears to the live crowd, only to get jumped from across the room by a teleporting cat. They do alot of other nonsense too, but save the extreme stuff for rare occasion in fear of getting caught, I s’pose. Anyone who’s even camped him for even an hour knows exactly how these 2 move. They need to be banned.
My gear and current funds amount to just over 9 million. I won’t divulge at this time how much more I’m currently looking for, buuuuuuuuuut, Typo did spend all his seals lately on the BC40 Under Observation (http://ffxi.somepage.com/bcnm/37). A peacock charm for use, and later on, for sale. Can’t go wrong, right? Unfortunately I allowed someone else to take my next turn with their seals, and what do you know?! Yeah, I’m happy for ’em, but worried about me. I couldn’t be more paranoid about my equipment, and what I have equipped in every slot.
Aleste has 99 seals, and 2 shots at this thing. Typo had it easy, as a trio of BLM are literally unbeatable here, but kitty now has the challenge of a less-guaranteed NIN/NIN/RDM formation. Drange has graciously offered to help on RDM, and even lent me his Charm for a while – thanks again. ; ; If I could find another NIN or a BST, I’ll be able to get this show on the road.
Hope I have good news next time!
Oh, and Leet, congratarulation! I take it you’ve already had elvaan neckloads of fun with Asuran Fisties! How’s life these days ?:3
Paladin. You fight for the light and what’s just, and you must trust your party as much as you trust your mighty blade. You can cure yourself like a white mage, and your designed to tank.
Paladin
88%
Samurai
63%
White Mage
59%
Summoner / Beastmaster
53%
Warrior
50%
Dragoon
47%
Red Mage
41%
Ninja
28%
Bard
25%
Ranger
22%
Black Mage
16%
Thief
16%
Dark Knight
3%
Never thought about trying it… then again, does the result surprise you ? lol
Anyway Typo, look, don’t hesitate to send a tell. I may be busy a lot with CoP and Dynamis, but CoP is soon coming to an end. All that’s standing between me and Sea is the infamous Airship BC and Tenzen. I do intend to go all the way and defeat Promathia, but at the rate I’m progressing, I believe it’s only a matter of weeks, not months before I finish CoP.
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AF
Rogue’s Armlets
Rogue’s Bonnet
Rogue’s Poulaines
Hornetneedle
4-3 Magicite
Thanks to everyone who offered to help kitty, and again to those who went out of their way to assist me for a couple days~ =^.^
As you can see, the list isn’t so intimidating anymore thanks to Drange-o-matic who graciously decided to be my guardian angel, and Erm, who just seems to really like anything that involves a good fight (
). 😛 WHM make interesting Trick partners…who’dathunkit ?:o
Coffer picking (
) is more fun than I thought, and you can expect there to be a KittyWorldTour coming up in future, where I’ll be scouring the globe to obtain maps from the treasure boxes of Vana’diel~! THF can be very indenepdant, and that’s the main thing that hooks me. Not having to rely on others for key hunts is the fun part, and the prospect of mimics and being able to handle myself in dire situations makes things more exciting for the growing catventurer. Soon they will call me Super Aleste! "The Coffercat", or something that is actually catchy and/or creative. X3
So last night I’m dinking around the AH with /inv flag up, and out of interest I decide to check some of the dear, dear merchandise I have my eyes on. SH 6.3, Flora Cotehardie 2.#, Harpe 4.#. My train of thought wandered over to our good friends in Castle O., and so I checked armor > hands, going straight for the O.Kotes – still at 2.9. "Oh.", I thought to myself, when I took a closer look at the sales transactions…
Sept 28th – Gilsellers sell 3 pairs
Sept 29th – Gilsellers sell 4 pairs
Sept 30th – …………….. 0
Well, well, well.
A /sea all Bihl and Celesyna revealed that they were MIA! The gilsellers are gone? Huh, it’s not surpising that this (
) would be the scene earlier today. First of many claims, I hope, and we’re all praying for the continued absence of aforementioned RMTscum.
Typo has added Catsnaps (http://photobucket.com/albums/v203/bakadl/Cat%20Snaps/) to the gallery for me cat to share some moments, including AF coffers, gobby NMs for AF hat and gloves, Darky Sparky, and the hilarious Death from Above beebee. Keke, silly bee. X3
Dave-o, good luck with the rest of your missions! I’m likely to follow much later on, but I’ll get there someday. I’m hoping the new expansion areas and content are highly-accessible without having access to Sea.
In total with Aleste, that’s 0/6. :3
I’m positive I’d be at least 6mil richer if I were running PC right now… Cousin of mine needs to hurry the hell up and install my new card before I flip.
This could be bad.
[editaru]
Latest news: According to a friend of mine who witnessed this last night, Theusiow tele-bots! Typical, one set of GS leave, another takes its place. It’s obvious they’re always going to be around, so I’ll probably have to find a new money-maker…or go back to mining *shudder*.
WTF does that mean, football head.
I decided not to take any pictures, but Bihlyqyehettii and Celesyna have returned. Apparently there’s no punishment at all for botting, and using this unfair advantage to make hundreds of millions more than the average player. Somehow I feel relieved, probably because I won’t have to worry about timers, botters and the millions of other NM-related issues that can really put the pressure on you if you do it long enough. I could grind to 60 on THF with what I have and find something to farm like goobbues, perhaps, but shockingly, my first choice is to go crawling back from whence I came, and hope to reap the rewards I know I can from my Volcano.
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What a nifty vacation! Valkurm can be fun when you’re not on the level grind~ Takin’ in the sun, the sea, the sexycats in their bikinis Brigandines camping the Emperor. The newbies are out in full swing, and Empy campers have no idea how to locate him! He ish a beast of hide-and-seek, but he can’taru hide from me~ Anywho! PC is go, and Typocam’s back; I missed you so! *huggles* Kitty got tired of camping her NM, so while she plays housewife in the moggie, your favouritetaru ish back on the job, out during the day and bringing home the mithkabobs~!
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Always ready and eager taru try something new as far as money-making concerns, Typo decided go out on limb as I did with mining, and try me hand (or chocobeak) at chocobo digging. It’s one of those mystery thingies that people always talk about, but never do. Fortunately for me a catfriend of mine convinced me taru give it a shot! It seems that I may have underestimated those goofy yellow birdies, and perhaps increasing my digging level over the next few weeks will prove as useful to me now, as mining did when I first set foot into me volcano almost a full year ago!
With a firm grasp on what Typo ish getting himself into, I’ll teach a chocobo to make me money if it’s the last thing I do!
Mama has harvesting to keep busy and still a couple mil to go til I get v.cloak. *purrs*
I think today I shall assemble a group and go after Dark Spark so I can have the rest of my AF ready to use when I get to the right lvls! 😛
4k to 56 and then I can wear my groovy pants!
Visiting me old home~ (
)Moonlight digger~ (
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What’s fun about the jungle? So many logs: rosewood, mahogany, ebony, petrified… A fairly low level digger like Typo can still reap rewards from this if there’s no competition – that’s a pretty big "if" at certain times of the day. Ah, the benefits of a "quick" 40 hours of digging, eh ?:3 Moving on.
Digventures in Valblurm
Ish not a typo, I just don’t respect the zone enough to call it by it’s proper name anymore. It’s only good for being me dig bitch nau!
So. You won’t find anything spectacular in Valkurm, but you’ll sure find alot of something! That’s why it’s me favourite leveling ground, also taking into consideration that because ish not a money zone, not many diggers ever bother with it. Successful digs seem to accumulataru more exp than digs on an empty spot. Failing to dig up an item still gives exp, as people have reportedly leveled on such digs; I not sure if I have, but I assume a failed dig gives less exp. The levels, 0-10, are determined by your /wait time between digs, and the amount of time that must elapse after zoning before you can begin digging (area /wait time (a)).
0 > /wait 16 > a60
1 > /wait 11 > a55
2 > /wait 6 > a50
3 > /wait 0 > a45 <<< Yoo are here!
4 > a40
5 > a35
6 > a30
7 > a25
8 > a20
9 > a15
10 > a10
You can find me mid-dig for at least 6 hours a day, and sometimes I try for 8-10. Another month (perhaps not all at once) of this should lead me to at least a15, and in the meantime I can make a respectable amount without the stress of VOLCANO TACTICS, or gilseller. ^.^
…Unless Cerberus has RMT chocodiggers…
Oh well, until next time this ish, Typotaru: Your local taru-you-THOUGHT-cried-wolf!
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The Emperor sits in wait for almost 15 minutes! Will anyone believe our brave herotaru?
Will he just hop off his bird and take it himself?
Will someone else try to claim it with a pet, only to have it voked from sight?
FIND OUT NEXT TIME FIND OUT NEXT TIME.
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…signing off nau, because something ish eating me up (
). Save me mamacat!!!
as for botting chocobo diggers ya there are some <>
as my A10 digging friend told me >.>
Amberlight (
)
How you like postcard? It was tough convincing Gobby Digger taru stick around for Typocam,
but he eventually saw things my way.
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Hallo! Todey Typo send greetings from the shifting sands of the south, the Antican Ambiance, the Cactuar Capitol, the Desert of Death itself! Chocodigging is making me see certain zones in a different light; I didn’t even know there was so much to Western Altepa Desert until I spent ~20 hours covering every inch of it. ":3
I didn’t believe I’d accomplish much by coming here at a40, but catfriend managed to talk me into it. Typo ish kinda glad, because now I know that even at this level there’s gold ore, darksteel ore and philosopher’s stones, among other things, just waiting for me! With Altepa I can now easily break even on the 300~450k I spend on greens per day, or make a lil’ profit of 100-200k if the coral fragments are feeling generous.
At this stage of me digging career I can safely say I’ve never been so interested in taking 80% of my day to hardly make any money at all. Such a funny thing taru say I bet you’re thinking, but I know my efforts will lead me to many prosperous days that never would have been, without this perpetually mysterious activity. ^.^ Typo won’t neglect Valkorn (remember, we’re not spelling that properly anymore) Dunes, as I’m still high on high %rates and the belief that one skills up faster with more successful digs. So, your favourite Typotaru will be keeping as busy as ever, digging up Vana’diel one world at a time~!
Someone Lit the TypoMNK Signal…
Miser Murphy (
)
Guardian Statue (
)
Well, if you’re gonna die, die happy (
)~!
Out of the frying pan and into the freezer!
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TheChocoboKnights (should be TheCatKnights with all the meowmeows around~) had a lil’ RDM AF3 run going in the wee hours of last night, and a sleepy Typotaru decided to put on orange superhero costume to go help. Ish good taru help friends, even if they’re friends of your friends that you not know so well. The feeling I get from it is yay, but I’m always so busy… I suppose I have become increasingly impatient with myself having been around for almost officially 2 years now, and have accomplished a great degree less than most people from my generation. That’s another thought for another time, though. It was good to be with them again, and will be carrying me old golden linkypearl with me from now on~
Congratarulations again, Chianna. \(*’-‘)/
Tomorrow, of course ish more digging, and most-likely a35! Happyjoy!
Ta-taru~!
<(~.~)>
I have so much reading to do to catch up on all your adventures! <(@.@)>
On a very random trip through the internet I came across news of a new expansion and it got me thinking of you and all my old friends, i miss all you guys soooo much! Send everyone my taru hugs and kisses (if anyone I knew is still playing <(-_-;;)> guess i’ll see tomorrow when i can commit time to reading through what i’ve missed)
Oh yeah and Kirby is still cool!
Now, Typokill Kirby !>O *Strangles Kristaru and eats Kirby*
Well, Typo could pull a Bani and headbutt me way into a35, but since I not know how to do it properly I’ll just settle for flinging as many stacks intaru me current level until it gives up and goes away. :X
No progress make Typo thirstytaru.
*ahem* Moving on!
Heya Typo! Nice to see you’re still a taru of action, hero to ladycats, and general entarupenuer. I like Kristof, saw the thing about the new expansion and suddenly got homesick for the smell of chocobos and Rolanberry pies. What’s all this theif business! 😀 I’ll definatly need to brush up on my Typo lore, but I’m glad you’re enjoying my old profession. All these thingys make me entertain thoughts of a return to Cerebrus, WoW Paladining became a little stagnant after a while despite all the shiney swords and other toys that landed in my lap. Though I’m not quite certain how long the FFXI account Gods would keep me in thier memory.
Still is it worth the effort? Have things changed so much in the past year (or more… memory is a bit fuzzy)? Are there any buddies I’d recall remaining from that early generation or are people of your age now considered to be an endaged species, much like the dinosaur (Typosaurus Rex! Rar!!)? Do the gil sellers now sell people like slaves and sit like kings in the throne of once proud San’d Oria or has thier kind been fed sacrafically to Guivre? In short would a return be advisable to all those of us wayward souls lost in distant lands?
Mostly I’ve missed you, Kristof and other such folk and the camradarie which I found to be superior in FFXI. And even if I do not make a triumphant return I thought it would be good for you to know that you are missed by at least one notacat and hope you can send a similar message to those who might barely recall me. Good luck with the ‘birding’, and theiving; it is liberating in more ways than one 😉
P.S. : Hey Kristof~taru if you’re reading, I’ll definatly make an attempt at account recovery, if you’re up for returning too. It’ll be like old times! You, me, Kirby <(^ ^)> and (nsert names here). I was thinking of going WHM this time, I understand those are in demand still somewhat 😀
…I did! Well, well, first Kristaru, now Caniahume! Ish great taru see ya! It’d be great to have ya back, and yeppo, me new kitty, Aleste, ish a THF extraordinaire in training. It’s a neat job that keeps me just as busy as I need to be in battle, but never feels overhwelming like NIN tends to every now and again. The independence it offers at pretty much any level range makes it generally more fun and exciting than most jobs I’ve tried. Though it’s pretty easy for others in a group to screw up and make a THF look bad, it’s just another one of those challenges I can sometimes appreciate. Maybe one day CaniaWHM can teach the cat some stuff about her old profession! ;3
Jojo left the game recently, so now we’re down a special tarumage. :< TheOrder/NE ish often quiet these days, but things tend to pick up in the evening when Deru turns on people, and Ermy starts pounding things with club. Drange eats cats.
As far as events such as missions, Typo has not been keeping up to date. Too much dig and catwork. CoP, beyond Promyvions and other early missions, is said to be tedious, and apparently finding help at particular points isn’t the easiest thing to do. D, Deru, and a few others have gotten access to Al’Teiu ({sea}), and if you look at ’em closely you can notice the bald patches where the trials pulled their hair out for them! Something that might persuade you to return would be the perk of more easily accessible content in the new expansion. In case nya haven’taru seen this interview (http://www.theorderls.com/bigkill_sundi.php) before, there’s some interesting things said by Sundi~
Anywho, I wrap up entry before I pass out – it’s been a long day. ;3 Good to hear from Cania again, and whether or not you do return, you’ll always be the best noncat~
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Despite the thunderstormy, ish a happy night for Typo! Obviously I was extremely lucky here, but a dig like that at my current level makes me giggle with greed, me mind fills with visions of gold, and the many Typotreats to come in future~ Gaha!
Content ID recativation: check
Plush Cactaur: check
POL Upadte: check
FFXI Update: Don’t even want to think about it…
So I expect to be back sometime tommorow, with any luck I won’t have to call customer support and beg for my levels and crafting skills and fame and such back. When you reactivate your content ID and it has your name still attached to it that’s a good thing right? If I can get what I had back in tow I’ll definatly be on the road to white magery. If not well I’ll just keep the game installed and wait to hear if the new expansion is any good and then re-create Cania. So the bad news is that if the original is gone for good, I am too for an indefinte number of months. Good news is that if I restart from scratch I could be Caniaforrealcat.
I was also thinking about starting up my own little journal as a measure to keep me from repeating any rash decisions like I did a year ago 😉 Something to firmly tie me back down to FFXI. That and I miss the RPing that went to hell after about the first 5 months in World of Warcraft. Anything special I need to know Typo? Do you just start a thread and keep adding entries or is there some sorta subscription and the sacrafice of a three-headed goat involved? And how do you get those lovely pictures?
Well congratulations on a new level of ‘birding’ ( Orichalcum!? *theif senses tingling*!) and I’ll hope to see you in-game real soon 😀
peace
Well, seems like you’ve been busy a-diggin’, Typo.
Work has cut down my play-time a lot in the past 2-3 weeks. I’ve been a busy lawyer-in-training. Anyhow, I managed to get to Al’Taieu. I’m on CoP 8-2 now. My original plan was to go all the way to Promathia with Jago, Laurewen, Drange, Jojojo and Derufin, but to reasons very similar as to why I never finished CoP with my original team, this is more or less canned. Either way, I hope I’ll get my Sattva Ring sooner than later, as CoP is the only storyline, mission-wise, that I haven’t completed yet. Basically, if I’d manage to find someone to replace Jojojo, and if we could just finally stop to have conficting schedules, we could get over and done with CoP.
Speaking of Jago and Laurewen… Lots of shit happened. Musketeers ended up, to me, to be nothing more than a renamed Lacasteoubliee, so I left yet again about 2 months ago already. However this time I posted the reasons for my departure… and let me tell you, they didn’t like it. I was called pompous, arrogant, dictator, mean, what have you. Whatever, I never expected any serious, logical or intelligent arguments of them. I’m also getting slowly less and less fond of Jago and Laurewen, because I made them read my post before I posted it, and they both said to me that they agreed with what I said, yet when came the time to rally to my side… they didn’t. In short, I’m the one who voiced our opinion, but am the only one who got trashed on for being honest. I’m the "vilain Evad", while they, who supposedly share my opinion, are still the "good guys". Same thing goes for a lot of the Musketeers, who I now consider to be nothing more than hypocrites, people who were acting all friendly while I was helping them, while in reality had no respect whatsoever towards me. I haven’t really rejoined any other LS, even though I did get a new NE pearl, but as you’ve seen yourself, I haven’t passed by often.
You may feel that CoP is tedious, Typo, but I feel that if they make Treasures of Aht Urhgan’s missions easier than CoP, the sense of accomplishment just won’t be the same. I guess it’s hard to understand my point of view when you never got interested in going through all the effort it required. Not saying that having some solo content, or at the very least, "easily" accessible content wouldn’t be a nice refresher after going through the challenge that CoP has been, but at the same time, achieving what I and others have done to get to Al’Taieu makes me very proud, a pride that just won’t be the same should Treasures of Aht Urhgan be any easier than Chains of Promathia.
Besides that, not much has changed, I’m doing Dynamis only on Sundays recently, not because I don’t want to go on Wednesdays, but because I always either get loaded with work, or get invitations to go out. lol I’ve also tried my hand at Limbus last Sunday, and got invited into what seems to be a small Limbus LS. I don’t exactly like some of the people I was with last Sunday, but as long as we have a common, refreshing and fun goal, I guess I can at least tolerate them.
So CoP, Dynamis and Limbus are what keeps me going right now, and it has been so for a good 2 months. Seeing as I only need 2 more pieces of AF2 ( I lost four times on the Valor Breeches and once on the Valor Surcoat ; ; ), that we’re nowhere near ready to take on the Dynamis Lord, that Limbus is nowhere near as complex as Dynamis and that I’m nearly done with CoP, it’s about time I start thinking about another activity… but for that, I’ll need money. Indeed, I’ll take up alchemy, which is currently at 20, and cooking to 60, not so much for making money, but for reducing expenses, and out of convenience. Indeed, at these levels I can craft all of my meds, and my own drinks. The only thing I’d often use that I wouldn’t be able to craft are my tasty Tavnazian Tacos, but you don’t make much of a profit off of those anyway, and the AH is always giving enough stock for me, so it isn’t worth it to level cooking that high. Either way, I’d need money for that, and I have about 160+ Kindred’s Seals waiting in my MH… How about we organise a run sometime, Typotaru ? :p
In any case congratarulations to ya, Typo sincerely means it! I’ll one day be joining yas over there in {sea} as either meself or with catfriend Aleste, but for now I’ll stick to once and for all putting my personal financial needs behind me before I commit to any more of CoP’s many trials.
Meanwhile, Typo’s chocolevel raised to 6~! That’s a30, and this occurred at a faster time than a35. I’m convinced now that more than anything else, a smart chocodigleveler will attempt taru focus more on dig% rather than simply burning through stacks, or attempting to make money in dug out zones. I have new dig route: W.Ronf > E.Ronf > LaTheine(tele-holla). Each zone is dug for 15 mins before I move to next, giving me a nice fresh zone to plough through since their almost worthless item pools makes ’em unpopular with other diggers. By the time Typo returns to the first zone it is already fully replenished, and that wave of around 20 or so items ish all mine~ (*’-‘) It looks like things are really starting taru come together here. ^.^
Caniacat, if you’d like to start a journal, go right ahead! There’s no prerequisites to follow, other than you give me a real cattymithracat to play with. Then Typo will sticky the thread for ya. ;3 *pulls Nicomo’s face*
A newly-turned a25 diggertaru receives reward for persistence!
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The Elemental ore "season" ish filled with digger-parasites – people who don’t dig, never ever, but show up at just the right moon phase to infest the world for the sake of their ritual eledig. Fortunataruly Typo ish now able taru take advantage at me new level, although the presence of so many diggers in each zone for the next few hours will make it tough for me to level any further tonight.
Guess I’ll just join in and have me an ore hunt. Typo not expect much, but at least if I can’t level effectively tonight, I try my chances at putting something back in me pocket. ":3
Hau Jordan, welcome~ Typo is on Cerberus server, but for more info on where most people from here come from, you can visit the Player/World server list (Thread 13212). baibai!
That didn’taru mean Typo couldn’t find some bread elsewhere !;3
Tomorrow at some point will be ele-ore season again, and this time Typo plan taru take full advantage! Likely to reach a20 within the next few hours, how many ores will it be for diggertaru this time?
Two whole years… To think this time back in ’03 I figured I wouldn’t last any longer than 2 months! Hoho!~
Not bad for 45 minutes of cut-throating it with 50 million JP digenthusiasts!
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I wonder what my return would have been like if I didn’t pass out in Jugner early todey… Oh well, this ensures Typo enough gil taru reach a10 without worry, and after that, success~!
Just stopping in to say hi, maybe after this month I might have a chance to play FFXI for a lil bit.
Cya.
Saboak – Sh33p of Doom
I’ve become ultra-picky over the past year, with my standards and expectations as to how I’m equipped rising to a level that I wasn’t sure I could afford… Typo can finally feed that part of me nau, with the only draw-back being that I’ll probably be doing this right down to Christmas. I’m a little embarrassed to say exactly how much I’m planning on earning, but you will all know once I have reached me target. ":3 I figure that 2006 will be Typo’s time to shine, and experience all that I’ve been missing out on for such a long time; it’s a little late, but better that than never, eh?
Ultra-sheep man Sarevok Saboak! Keke, you will definitely return. Everyone shows up here before they return, that means you too, Nico!
I need to find something to do now… CoP was a huge part of my interest in the game now. I have been invited for the fifth time to join Insurrection… I’m considering it this time… Oh well, I told Inque I’d take a few days to think about it, I guess I’ll give her an answer on our next Dynamis run.
I could exp now, as I’ve already made just about what I need for the time being, but it wouldn’t be good for me to commit to MNK again, only to be interrupted by 2 weeks overseas… I’d probably lose interest again. So Typo will be spending the next couple weeks chocodigging and making some extra Gs, and when I return from the UK, it’s time for TypoMNK to shine, baby!
Nyeh, only kidding, children. I had given up on mining, birdcamping, and all other former "farming" activities I could think of. It was time for a new activity, a new fishing pond, a new volcanic dome, a new something that’d fill me greedy little paws with something more than what Typo would consider chocofeed. My desperation reminded me so much of this one time, pretty much an entire year ago where I found myself in a similar position after rusty cap fishing to padded cap synthing took a dive. I gambled with my remaining funds and began mining. I’d never done any research on the subject before, but I had heard on a forum and from a friend or two that anything worth (my time) digging would be found within the hottest depths of Vana’diel, and since there seemed to be absolutaruly zero info on the ‘net about mining there at the time, Typo decided that the best way to find out would be to simply investigate for meself. Really, I had nothing to lose from trying!
Becoming intimate with those caves began an upward movement in my level of wealth, but at some point the economy turned on me, and I found that I was no longer making adequate funds taking into consideration the amount of time I’d spend daily inside that hole. After realizing that mining wasn’t for me anymore, Typo would go through a few phases of just surviving on what I already had. I’m pretty sure that many people, including a large portion of my friends would have enjoyed the kind of money I had were they in my position, but I just couldn’t stand knowing that I could do better- I just hadn’t yet found the right method.
Since that time long ago, the first time I’ve felt secure about what I was doing was when I first looked into digging. Maybe it was because a catfriend was the one to introduce me taru the real world of digging, and show me what high level diggers see in terms of profits over a period of time… catfriends can be so nice. ^.^;; Typo would read digger log after digger log and memorize certain do’ses and don’tarus, patterns and other valuable information on leveling, and then it was time to get to it. Still, after all the research Typo knew nothing about digging. Everything about it ish fickle, and nothing you could explain thoroughly in just a few sentences. You can dig using one method today and come up with gil flowing from your nostrils, and use the same method tomorrow and lose everything you made today. After learning a hard lesson in leveling the craft, I used me own method of leveling which would skyrocket me to the highest level, a10, in record time. Maybe Typo should make video informercials and sell taru the public ?;3
Right then~ Sometimes, even when you believe you have something good, you don’t really expect it to be "very" good, so in the same vein even though Typo knew I could make some gil through digging, I had no idea that real chocodigging could amount to this:
An average day at the auctions.
Boy, the chocodigging public sure ish loving me nau! *sweatdrop*
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Thanks again, Blue~ <3
Diggers are very secretive people. It’s like a clique, an exclusive insider society (mostly JP) who even withhold information from each other in order to get the better of their brethren in cutthroat fashion. Because I am a10, because I’m done making my 50million (Typo did promise I’d say it, yesh?), and because I’m on to Mr. orichalcum ore’s spawn pattern to the extent that extra "competition" in Rolanberry wouldn’t really affect me anyway, I feel safe posting that screenieshot~ Though I could have more, my patience has limited me. Not only that, but I’ve missed me friends and spending time with them, missed the grind, and everything else that goes on outside of my little world of dig. A SH+1 and HQ Snipers can wait. ";3 At least for now I can breathe a sigh of relief that Typo has finally found method numero quataru! (*’-‘)
Whenever the topic came up in conversation, or if I were asked a question about dig, Typo would usually give people an idea as to how much a yellow bird, backache and constant leg cramp (from constant digging, or course!) can do, and the natural (and understandable) reaction is, "bah gawd I think I’ll dig too!" For all these people, Typo will repeat here what I’ve said to a few others in the past: the reality of chocodigging is that time ish the major factor that will get you places. Being able to put in an extra hour or two per day over a rival digger can mean the difference of you making it to level ‘X’ weeks ahead of the competition. This is important since all diggers in the same zone share the same item pool, and having even 1 digger (usually Japanese- ret’s not forget, they’ve been digging way before us, and though you may not know it they still think they own the fields with their ruthless zonelining and other archaic practises!) besides yourself going for gold can often result in hours of digging for absolutaruly nada. The idea is to beat others to a level that can satisfy you financially, but I find that as these days go by, the number of active diggers running around per day increases exponentially. So, you want to dig ??? try to have around 6 hours a day to devote to it, unless you don’t mind spending the next 2-3 months trying to climb to a level where you can make more than your average crawler culler.
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Typo "The Power" Taru Tarutaru’s (wha? Everyone has a full name and in-quotes nickname! Mog "Hahn" Knight! Evad "I am a French-Canadian Paladin!" d’Aragon!) return taru the battlefield was interrupted at the request of a friend in need of my assistance on M5-1. Ja hoho, laugh nau, since all MNK at some point are called upon for this mission over and over. ":3 But in retrospect I’m glad it happened. "The Power" would get to help Rags and his group vanquish archlich boneheads before dinner, and head out to party later!
Off to Fei Yin~
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Very well then. Archlich Taber’quoan (
) would be the first victim of The Power. Well, not exactly the power since it’s a lv50 cap battle, and as such I wasn’t really able to bring out me full arsenal. Having spent every last penny on higher level goodies and run out of patience for more consecutive days of dig, Typo was lucky taru be able to afford a CCcloak and other such sorry remnants of some other monk’s auctioned off dirty laundry. Hundred fists and a few extra hooks here and there later, we put the bones to sleep and returned to Jeuno for some rest of our own- all except Typo, because I still wanted a pt!
…And so I waited.
You know those times when you’ve got nothing better taru do, you’re bored and hoping for some excitement like a meteor shower, a Bret Hart comeback, or maybe that pt invite, when all of a sudden you notice something completely out of the blue that has nothing to do with anything at all?
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Well, voila. Typo happened to spot her and couldn’t help thinking that perhaps in a certain light on a certain day, a certain moonphase, and maybe if she wore catears… she’d be cute.
By the way, she’s notacat.
I’m thinking sometime while I was trying to invision her as a kitty, Typo may have dozed off and missed a few invites. Oh well, I’d wake up to find another waiting for me, and like that, Typo was ready taru make his return!
If you’ve ever asked me, I’d have told you that I think MNK ish one of the (strongest) easiest jobs ever. How could it not be (themostpowerful)? What do we really do (damage), and how hard could it be (wemightaswelltankfull-time)? Ish just that, several weeks away from all civilization, not to mention that it’s been at least 6 months since Typo punched something, really brings the rust outta the ol’ veteran. I felt like I was going into battle with His Royal Dukedom again, as opposed to a simple Dragon’s Aery exp situation. Fortunately for me, after a couple battles I felt right at home. ^^ Everything was as it should have been…
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…and the thought of myself dealing more damage than my pre-dig self brought a haunting grin to the face of me temporarily rotting corpse. Just like when I returned to BLM for the last time, I didn’t care how the first few pts went- Typo was just happy to be back in action, which is what I really wanted to say in this whole post! Kekeke.
Now, stepping gingerly back intaru the end game, DynamisLordHNMLS ish me first event linkshell in quite a while. The latest update includes the new Dynamis areas, and as Evad pointed out yesterday, how ironic it’ll be that Typo’s first Dynamis will be in a brand new area! I am looking forward to whatever awaits me~!
please don’t hataru me typo but when i quit a year and a half-ago i sold 1.6 million gil for just under $300 (enough to buy me an iPod) and gave away about 900k in gil and gear. Now people can buy 2 millinon for like $20 bucks. I can’t possibly imigine what the AH prices are like anymore 🙁 Talk about inflation. Again, please don’t hate me typo, i’m sorry i sold gil >.< but i did give away 1/3 of my total assets, right?! anyways i am dumbfounded at your acomplishment in both the money and in the levels you’re aquired. so, what ‘s it feel like to be the best dressed taru in the land mr. SH+1?
anyways, congrats again on your amazing acomplishment!! peace,
nico
ps – evad, thanks for wishing me good luck… this first semester was insane!! but only two more tests to go! Pretrial and Torts, neither of which present much of a challange for this taru! I thought you passed the bar exam months ago (at least, i read that i think)… why 3 more months til you’re fully flegged? (i assume it is a difference between the canadian system and the US system?)
The reason is that because our civil laws originate from the Napoleon Code in France, whereas our criminal laws originate from Common Law, in England. The other provinces draw both civil and criminal laws from Common Law.
Either way, here’s how it works in Quebec :
The Bachelor’s degree is 3 years in Law School at University, without any job training. I did work at a lawyer’s firm during the summer between my second and third year, however. Completed it in april 2004.
The Bar is two semesters. Finished it in april 2005, but since I missed 3 exams out of 6 ( all of them by a mere question ; ; ), I had to retake them in may… I failed two out of three, one of them once again by a mere question… then I finally got the last two last July. If I would have failed any of those two I would have had to retake the entire bar. ; ; Luckily, I managed to pass them with above average grades in July. Talk about hard exams. Then I started the required 6-month internship in mid-august…
Now I’m four months into it, and love my job. Two more months and I’m a full fledged lawyer. My job training ends on February 10th and I will be assermented as a full-fledged lawyer on February 13th. ^^
Aww thankies, Nico^^, you know Typo could never hatearu you! The only thing I hate is that feeling of “if only I’d known about chocodigging earlier!” poping up unannounced and making me wantaru build a Typo time machine. “:3 Yesh the whole RMT situation is unfortunate, and I’m pretty sure there are alot more buyers out there these days than your regular working-class Vana’diel citizens. Oh wells.
How Typo feel? Well, as you can see from piccie, my neck and back are killing me. This is one of things which Typo, and all other taru for that mattaru should have against partying in Bibiki Bay! These giant giraffes will be the end of us, and you’d be surprised at how something so big and clumsy-looking can dodge a Typo bob and weave like it were coming from big fat galkaslow. :< Otherwise, it feels good to have this kind of money, not to show off, but just to feel comfortable when I’m out there in action. I like to know that in terms of equipment I can either only do slightly better, or no better at all for my current level range. For now as far as AH items are concerned, it’s all thumbs up. ^.^ The feeling ish the same as back in the old days when I was walking the road as a BLM in Fungus Hat and nomad gear! Hoho~
Good to hear from ya, as always~! Hope you’re doing well.
Meanwhile, it’s been a changing few days for Typo. What I mean ish that I’ve been in Dynamis training (
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)! ^O^ Sadly I found out at the last moment that I need to clear Pso’Ja and make it past Diabolos before I can enter a new Dyna-zone, and so Typo’s initial Dyna-run has been pushed back to Sunday, when DLHNMLS (DL, huh… where’ve I heard that before…) will run through San d’Oria. I am excited, but oh so sleepy it doesn’t translate too well to text. ;3
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Since the beginning of this "Typo Power" era, it only took a few pt experiences to convince me to go for broke on items. Sometime in the middle of next week, I will have upgraded me SH and Sniper’s. The +1 armor will be a great investment since it can be replaced when I eventually obtain an Osode, or Shura Togi~, making a welcome treat for me wallet when the time comes to sell.
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Mag’s a good PLD, bress his lil tarusoul! He couldn’taru stand up to the force or Mr.Yagudo, however, and ended up having to beg. Nyaha.
The dig continues, but with Riverne Site A01 tomorrow night, Dynamis on Sunday, and the final dig coming within the week, things are going to start heating up!
I highly recommended to Lydya that we do our first "real" run with one of the easiest Dynamises, so this is why we’re going to San d’Oria. Qufim is new for everyone, we just went there out of curiosity. We have many new members, so they need to get drilled.
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Even after two years of travels and adventures of all sorts, sometimes it can still amaze me to just stop and take in the picturesque environment where I stand, no matter how many times I’ve gazed upon it before~ Even a stormy evening sky can capture the eye~ And, on this continent would be the location of our next mission. We would head taru Riverne Site A01 along with old Tavnazian acquaintances, Ulmia and "the abhorrent one" and Tavnazian leader, Prishe. The Cape Riverne had been destroyed, engulfed in floating rocks being eerily held in place by a mysterious energy. It ish here that the wyrmking Bahamut was thought to be in rest, and where many beasts would gather, following the aura of the majestical dragon~. It was Typo’s first time going so far into the depths of the Tavnazian lands, and as excited as I was…
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…I was more nervous than anything, going back to the days of robes and spells. At this point I couldn’taru remember what spells I would or wouldn’t have! Yakk… In any case, Evad had come up with a plan earlier, that should we run into unexpected trouble would best involve me as a black mage, so Typo trusted his word and hoped to not give me former profession a bad name. Travelling through the Cape meant using these areas of light which Typocom identified as spacial displacements (
) to get around, and of course we would encounter creatures of all forms and masses, as well as a few wyverns that we destroyed on our way! They look much like the ones we have back home, but we would learn that those reflective scales of theirs contained the power to widen the displacements, allowing for passage through to another platform. Typowonder what it would feel like to punch intaru those dense scales… 
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After resting in the glare of a beautiful sunset, Evad and Lydya were able to quickly lead us taru the source of the Riverne disturbance, having taken this route before. Our team (
) had reached the summit, and prepared for possible ensuing battle! How exciting… maybe Typo would have been more comfortable in me kotes n’ hooks!
Entering the final displacement, Typo immediataruly caught eye of those 3 toublesome tarurascals, as well as that strange hooded man I remembered from last year. Nag’mable’spancakes or something. It’s remeniscent of something Zilart, or perhaps something else.. No doubt it was he who had summoned Bahamut, who appeared before us in an amazing flash of blinding light. Typocam was able to briefly swirl around behind and get this shot:
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Rally, Typocam!
As they conversed, an airship revealed itself from behind a nearby cliff and deployed several hooded ninja pirates. …Well the figures were at least hooded anyway. As quickly as they had appeared, they had encased Bahamut within a restricting rope of energy. Some of them surrounded Bahamut, 3 of them headed for us. Typocom scanned them all as "Mammet Epsilon" or something taru that effect, and before they could incur much harm, we put Evad’s plan into action and disposed (
) of them without much trouble. As Typocam got that very, very awful shot of a Mammet crumbling taru his death, I couldn’t help wondering that our MNK would have been quite the sexy as a kitty in that little number~
Before we could do any more, Prishe had found her way behind one of the remaining hooded men- knocked the bugger right out with a well-placed hook! Methinks she could be a MNK. As Bahamut broke free of his literal chains, Typo felt like I was going to collapse in a strange moment of cloudiness, and all I remember after the scirmish was his voice saying: "You will never break free from the chains of Promathia…"
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South Gustaberg near the lighthouse…apparentaruly we were taken in the airship and dropped off here. As the thought ran through me mind I fully came to, looked up and spotted Prishe running after what was perhaps that very same ship! Typoback ached after the mission, so I let the others go on ahead of me, while I rented this so-so moogleroom in Bastok to update me journal. I’ve heard that girl has been harrassing the townspeople about the airship, so methinks I’ll pay Cid a visit to investigate some more.
Ish been too long since Typo had a day like that! Something tells me there will be plenty more! rally~~
evad – interesting… as i’m sure you know a law degree here is 3 years as well, but it is not a bacholers, it is a doctorate, a juris doctorate (i’m not sure if this difference is one of vocab only). you have to have a bacholers degree (4 year) already to get into law school, is this the same in canada? so i graduated college this spring and will graduate law school in may of 2008 (woah long time 🙁 ) but i will not need any job trainging or any internships to become a "fully fledged lawer", all i need is to pass the bar, which is only a 2-3 day test in most states. each state has it’s own bar assocation but once you pass it in on jurisdiction, you’re a lawyer for that state and all federal courts. anyways i thought i would take this oppourtunity to become enlightened about the canadian law system… from a fully (almost!) fledged lawyer! also what you plan to do as a lawyer (me, i plan on entering criminal law, though not sure in what capacity) perhaps you could private message or email me as to avoid cramping typotaru’s style 🙂 but i’d love to learn more about our great neighbors to the north!
Statue Depicting the "Lord of Chaos", Promathia.
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I’ve always thought that FFXI’s story was stronger than that of your average RPG, and certainly much more so than all previous Final Fantasy titles. My problems with missions though are the fact that I personally don’t feel like my character is involved in much to do with the story. Silent heroes have that weakness of being given the kinds of fetch-quests and simple errand-boy tasks the likes of which compose most of XI’s mission base. Your name will be mentioned a few times, but where are the cutscenes with you striking the final blow in critical battle? Do we actually do anything besides talk to people? We seem like second-rate CSIs. ;3 The BCNMs we experience aren’t mentioned anywhere, and storyline names take all the credit for the victories. We in turn get a kindly hand-shake from our nation’s leader, "Thanks much! We’ll call again when next we could use you!" The commanding NPC is always the focal point of the story, pretty much making your character a mere inkblot in Vana’diel’s history, no matter how many times you’ve defeated the Gods in sky, or trumped the mighty Vrtra in his cave. In any case, what does happen for real is still quite incredible. I’ve read a fair way into the CoP story and know how alot of it goes already, and I’m dying to see some of those latter cutscenes~
The other problem goes back to my signature complaint about being forced to be 100% dependant on others to get things done. This isn’t a whiny complaint as in me wishing SE would change things, however. Instead I’m just pointing out what I think is a main contributing factor towards missions being executed in the rushed fashion that has become so common- a way that muzzles most of the fun and sometimes actually shuts out all of the significance of what you’re supposed to be doing. Unless you’re going with a group of people who are all experiencing it for the first time, this is how things are likely to be. That’s my experience, at least. The boss battles, unless something truly massive (and obviously a key plot element) like Ouryu seem so unimportant, and I am only really able to catch up to things after I /shutdown and read about what I just did in the "History of Vanadiel" FAQ from gamefaqs. It’s not always so bad, but it’s a shame that it does happen. This doesn’t stop me from looking forward to gathering with friends to run around and dominate, or sneak around in a seek-and-recover/destroy type mission, but it could be so much better still. Promyvion-Vahzl should be fun, and with that, it ish time taru get movin!
Piccies of the weekend’s events, as well as what transpires in tonight’s Promyvion will follow tomorrow~ (*’-‘)
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Our continuing investigation of the phenomenon known as "Emptiness" has uncovered many points in Vana’diel’s history, and led taru some unexpected twists. We have learned more about the Keeper of the Apocalypse, the Wyrmking Bahamut’s purpose, as well as what prompted his awakening in the first place. We have discovered that our "mysterious boy", Selh???teus, has been trailing us. Nag’molada has revealed more about the Zilart and the Kuluu…
"All Zilart were born into the world with the ability to communicate
telepathically, called the ???whisper of the soul???. After a time, the
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We have been through so much in just a few days. Ish amazing how you can sit in your own little corner in life, mind your own business, and all seems rightaru with the world. Yet, such dark unspoken secretarus exist in our world… makes me wonder if all this would be happening if I stuck to chocodigging… ^^;; Imagine, from chocobos, suddenly thrust intaru a ferocious world of interdimensional serpent slaying?
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In mere minutes from now, Typo will be joining in his first Dynamis expedition, an on-going tradition for hundreds of people over the last year or so in their attempt to curb the Emptiness. It’ll be a unique experience- scary, fun and exciting all at the same time! Meanwhile, our investigation will continue shortly after Dynamis-Sand’Oria, or tomorrow afternoon.
Typocam has been quite busy lately! Here are a few snaps from me weekend:
The steep and scary climb up a mountain in Attowha Chasm (
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The "Cradle of Rebirth" (
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The view at night (
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Tenzen communicates with the Wyrmking himself (
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Our group prepares for one of Bahamut’s minions (
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The battle rages on~! (
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Ouryu’s fury ish unleashed… (
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Quick snap during our encounter with Diabolos (
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Typo and…Promathia? (
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Next time Typo gets a chance, I’ll upload some shots straight from the Emptiness itself! Ta-taru~!
If ya haven’t already guessed I’m actually spending the holidays at home after all~ That means that Typo has been, and will be busier than expected! Today’s quite the busy day obviously, but soon I’ll be able to update everyone on our progress through CoP… at the rate we’re going, we could be the newest "sea: O" people in Vana’diel! o.o;
Haven’taru they learned by now not to just sit around all vulnerable like that ?_?
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My poor journal! I hate to leave it so quiet, but between CoP and Dynamis, trips to Bibiki Bay, King Ramperre’s Tomb and Ro’Maeve for more leveling, not taru mention all the Christmas cats who kept Typo well-exercised this holiday season, it’s been awful hard to make it here and update! Welp, nau things are beginning to simmer down following the jam-packed vacation, and finally I can get to typing again! (Well, that’ll be when FFS’s servers quit playing around and wasting my time.)
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Emptiness~Dynamis
From Promyvion-Vazhl to Dynamis, we’ve been spending plenty of time in limbo .-. From the time Dynamis came about Typo has had nothing but first impressions and second-hand information to go on. I missed the first couple runs since DynamisLordHNMLS got back up and running, firstly because I was finishing up me digging sessions, and also because I hadn’t yet defeated Diablos to allow me into the new Dynazones. When the group was ready for San d’Oria, however, Typo was ready to see what it was like to box around in the dark~
Laggy. :3
‘Course I was expecting that, although not quite at the magnitude of 1fps during battles ._. Once I take off enough settings and filter enough spam to make it more manageable, Dynamis is definitely something refreshing. Ish always interesting to see battle situations that aren’t simple EXP party situations, or typical one boss HNM-type deal that require rather cookie-cutter PT setups. With different battle formations for different areas, PLDs (usually) appointed as callers to direct traffic, Dynamis ish pretty much a war between the allied forces of cats and noncats, and the Empty~ For that, Typo can definitaruly see what all the hype has been about! I’m not going to lie though, or omit the fact that my attention span isn’t always the greatest X3 One hour’s fine, 90 minutes okey, but after 2+ hours I find myself asking how all these guys and gals have managed to do this for an entire year now x.o?
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After we defeat the boss I do usually stick around to help with af2 farming, speaking of which, Typo has picked up a pair of melee gloves (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=5016), and melee gaiters (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=5018) from Jeuno and Bastok. ^^ Wasn’t expecting to see af2 in me hands so quickly, but that’s what happens when there’s not much job competition for the pieces !:o This is usually where it gets to 1hr+, since we usually dispatch the boss pretty quickly and get to the farming afterwards.
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The End of the World~?
Every story’s gotta have a point where the world ish at stake, right? So now we’re not only trying to save Prishe, but we’re really really going to save Vana’diel from Divine Promathia itself! The Shadow Lord wishes he were still on the throne to witness this. :<
I wonder how and why it is that people feel compelled to simply rush through text as opposed to taking their time and actually reading? I wonder how many people actually have a firm grasp on what’s taking place as they go from mission to mission. :3 That beef aside, this portion of CoP’s been quite fun! I don’t usually approve of missions, but at least this time, especially with Snoll Tzar, SE have done something right. ;3 I actually had fun with that one, unlike most people. It took us a few tries, but we finally managed to slay the magicited bomb in rather hilarious fashion (
) a few nights ago! The piccie probably doesn’taru tell all, so just imagine Mr.Snoll (suffering from a little Requiem flu, kekeke) at 1%, then read our HP bars at the bottom of the shot~^.^
Here’s some random Typosnaps from here n’ there:~
First visit to Porungonugeonge island off of Bibiki Bay~ The manaclipper ride was relaxing. Got to talking with the cutsie misura tour guide- shared a fish with her too !^-‘)b
Dynamis in all it’s glory? Keke, it may seem like alot of deaths, but they tend to make the best screenies. ;3 This LS ish too experienced to really give justice to the name "Dienamis"~ There’s a Promy-V piccy at the end ftw.
Here ish me beating the marrow out of Bodach, the NM involved in me quest for Asuran Fists. Yesh, that means that Typo can now backflippy^.^/ Asuran Fists ish mine (
)! Boy has that been a long time coming- nu, you not get piccy until Typocam can get a decent image of the Typoflip. ._.
I also got me an OptiHat. I paid the BSTs of Bestienmeister their 2M fee to take me for a Hakusmash- *holds up a BMcard towards camera~* "Ish a no-hassle, reliable service for anyone who can afford it!" which is alot of people nowadays (if you know what I mean). ^-^ Maybe Typo should come up with his own business… I tried the whole kiss booth for cats onry thing in Jeuno, but they only want me in private (iykwim??? ;o), and I too innocentaru for that!
Anyways, good times. Three Paths has been defeated, and wouldn’t you know it, tonight we’re goin’ for a lil’ airship ride~ ;3
I didn’t really think my last day on XI would be the very last, but that’s how things happen sometimes. I ran into some problems with my junky computer (again), which helped lead to some money problems several months back. Unable to pay, I went without the game for about a month which affected my interest in pretty much everything Vana’diel-related in a big way. When I returned I focused mainly on Astral, a character that went unmentioned here, but was to go on to become 75 RNG someday. Upon reaching level 50-ish with her I came to a sudden realization that even if I did go all the way, I’d probably only be bored to death by end-game repetition (to make a long story short anyway). I guess for Typo, FFXI was all about the journey, the path to the top rather than the destination. I managed to make a mountain of gil, but that’s about it. :X
Still I am happy with the 2+ years I put in, grateful and appreciative towards all the friends I’ve made and other characters I’ve met in my time! I’ve always been fairly awkward with words and even worse with goodbyes, so I won’t really say anymore. :X
Nearly everday you can find me on AIM as chibiDL, and email is [email protected].
Thankies to everybody for the last 2 years~ Good luck to all still playing, and I hope you enjoy ToA and all future additions for me. ;P
Baibai! (*’-‘)
I would want some too.. If its still there. o.o
…I miss them old days. :E