Questing and Merits

Thursday, I mostly did quests since a lot of people were seeking for merit parties. I did Bastok quests, and I think I said this before on another post but like Sandy I did most of the quests in Bastok. All that's left are the quests that you need parties for, or requires lots of travel time. I also did Aht Urhgan quests, like the new quest where you find out more about the background on the serpent generals. I'll add pictures of quests later.

Bastok quests, mostly a love story.

Ode to the Serpents quest.

This part is about Najelith the Galeserpent General.

This part is about Zazarg the Stonserpent General.

This morning I got a nice merit party. Looked like a nice setup with 2wars, nin, brd, cor, rdm. I got a total of 3 merits. Was fun to do some meriting again. Warriors still out dmg me! Probably need to look at my gear setup, I'm still missing some TP gear for it. I'll add pictures for merit party later too. I'll edit this if I get another merit party later tonight.

3 merits in this party, chain ended at #116 which I did not get >.>

I got a night merit party and it was pretty good. Was surprised because there were a lot of people seeking and was about to quit for the night when I got a /tell from a THF asking for a party. I'm not picky about parties just as long as I get exp/limit points. Overall it was pretty good. I got a total of 2 merits in the party, so not a bad day with 5 merits total which brings my grand total to 213 merits gained. More to come!

Leveling and Back to Dynamis

I finished leveling RDM at 41, going to stop for now until I decide I want to pick it up again. I also did some leveling on my WHM just got one level to 39. On Sunday I did Dynamis with VanadielsFinest, seemed the best choose with my current schedule as it is. It started off slow with the gathering time with us being short. After awhile though more people start to show and we got ready to enter. I also saw a few people I knew in the LS probably because the time is around the time when they usually do their Dynamis. Dynamis is the same as I remembered it, and it reminded me why I carry reraise pins with me with 4 deaths in Jeuno. Still not the record of 10 deaths I had in Windy.

I'll try to get the pictures up I took from yesterday on soon. Until then.

Red Mage Leveling

Well more leveling on my RDM has turned productive and is currently 39. Leveling turned out to be much quicker than I thought, I was lucky to get some good parties. I guess mages do get parties quicker. On Wednesday I got from 31 to 35 and Thursday I got from 36 to 39. I hope to get 40 tomorrow and stop, then maybe start on SAM or level WHM to 42 for some taxi service.

More to come later, thats all for now for my quick report.

Nice Trip and Leveling RDM

Got back from my trip yesterday and the first thing I did was order some Chinese food because after a week of crappy food I needed something good. After that the second thing I did was play FFXI. Not sure if I said this before but leveling between 20-40 is hell these days. Not many people looking to level around these levels. However, still I mange to get some leveling done usually a 1 or 2 levels during my limited playtime. Right now my RDM is 29 hope to get it to 37 soon.

Anyways the trip was fun because I spent it with friends I haven't seen since I was in high school. Mostly what we did was drive around during the day and partying at a night club at night. I was kinda sad when it was over because mostly of them live out of state now. Overall was a great trip, but there is no place like home.

I hope to balance out some playtime with work, but it gets hard. However, I told some people that my brother plays my character more because he is getting bored with WoW. He was the first owner of Jediknight when FFXI first came out for PC. However he quit, and I took over after a few months when he bought the game. In fact I didn't like the character so I deleted it and remodeled him. But, he said he may join a LS so he can do more stuff than leveling. Not sure which kind of ls he wants to join but I suggested to stay with people I know in game. But, if you see Jediknight running around give a poke could be my brother or me.

lolWoW

Ok... so I flaked and I got hooked on WoW. I was wondering how the game play was so I did the 14 days free trial and got hooked. I have a 40 NE Druid and 40 NE Warrior, I was planning to level them more until I heard of the new updates to FFXI and a new expansion coming soon. I then decided to get back on FFXI to catch up on things. But before I can play more I have a to Canada then its playtime. However, there is another problem I got a job so I won't be playing my hardcore hours, but my brother is playing my characters mostly my mules so you may see Jediknight on but it could be my brother.

Anyways a quick update is my RDM is lvl 23 right now got about 3 lvls tonight. I'm going to try for 24 soon before turning in for the night. I also got to see an old friend online in FFXI land Jobe who is a Bigfun ls mate who was sucked into WoW. I also got caught up with a few friends I haven't see in a month when I was WoWing.

So that's all for now, I'll report back in a week after my trip. I'll see you all when I see you.

More Questing

I'm finishing up my questing today. I feel like doing some leveling soon so I'm going to stop questing for a bit. But, I did do all the quests I could do solo for Sandy which I'm almost done with all the quests for that nation. I'm also done with all the easy quests for Bastok, and all that's left are those long series quests and quests that require lots of travel time. In Jeuno its the same deal as Bastok, I just have those long series quests left and quests that take travel time. Overall this week of questing was fun.

Like I said I'll be leveling my RDM to 37 and after maybe level SAM to 37. I'll add more pictures later on the quests I did. Some of the quests had an interesting story, mostly the new quests that came out with CoP and ToAU expansion.

Questing

The pass few days I have been questing in Whitegate, Sandy, and Bastok. Also, I must say I ran across a very strange and disturbing quest in Whitegate. Its one where three men fall in love with each other... But its a long story so you have to do the quest to get the details.

This is the end of that weird quest "Three Men and a Closet"

Basically all three of those guys were in love because of a potion.

Anyways, a quick recap on my pass two or three days is I got level 20 on RDM first before I started my questing. The reason being for my questing is that I wanted to catch up with my quests for some time, and since I'm not in any end game ls now it seemed the time to catch up is now. So, I started off doing the new quests in Sandy first, and also did a check list on any quests I missed there.

The quest "A Timely Visit"

The ending for "A Timely Visit" a nice story behind the quest.

After doing quests in Sandy, I stopped by Al Zahbi and Whitegate to catch up on the quests there. I flagged and did all the easy quests, and saved the harder ones where I need a 70+ job or a party of people to complete it for later. I than stopped in Bastok to do quests there. I first stopped by all the zones to flag all the quests I could, and than I started doing the easy quests. I'm currently still doing them because most of them require traveling.

Quest in how the Skyserpent General came to be. Nice quest on the background of him.

The General asking for MY NAME! (I'm a nerd >.>)

I think after I'm done with Bastok's quests I'll stop by Jeuno to catch up on those quests, and than I'll stop for now and level some. I'll save Windy for last because the nation is just so big. I'm probably going to continue RDM until 37, then work on my SAM after I finish with quests for Jeuno. I'll upload some pictures of quests I did later on tonight. Till next update.

Breeding Chocobo and Leveling Red Mage

I'm trying fraps on another computer to see if I can get some pictures. Anyways the pass few days I've been playing my Red Mage, working on my Chocobo, and doing some fishing. Right now my Red Mage is 17 hope to get it close to 19 by tomorrow. I also Breeded my two chocobos for a new egg. My male Black Chocobo and Yellow female Chocobo. I hope to get a Green or Red Chocobo female, but I understand it is only 30% chance for a color Chocobo. Anyways I'll upload the pictures of my Chocobo and me leveling soon if fraps works on this computer.

Working with chocobo.

Playing Red Mage leveled 18

Playing Red Mage leveled 19

Slow Days

Nothing new and no pictures yet. I just check my folder where I store pictures but it looks like fraps didn't take any pictures at all. So I'm stuck with nothing. Anyways I got 2 merits on Wed and Thursday I got another 2merits. My total is currently 206, and with another merit I will add another upgrade to Tool Experise for my Ninja.

I'll probably level some low level jobs after that final merit for my Ninja like RDM or SAM. Until next post and I'll try to get some pictures up next time.

My Chocobo is Still Alive! and Merits

I took a few days to focus on my chocobo because he was pissed at me for not looking after it for like 2 months. After a few days he got a little better so I decided to get a party and see if I was rusty after awhile. It took like 2hours of seeking total to finally get a merit party. It was fun since I haven't played in awhile. I got 2 merits out of it and the party was pretty good with 7k of experience points an hour or so. That would bring my total merits at 202 I think.

I hope to party some more and maybe join a linkshell to do some end game stuff like dynamis, limbus, sea or sky. Anyways pictures to come later.

Woot Post!

Well after a 3 month break mostly because I burnt myself out on FFXI and also I got hooked on other games Vanguard, CC3, and Supreme Commander. I reactivated my account to check out FFXI again. Not sure I'll be playing as much, probably just wander around nude or something... o.O;

Anyways, updates are going to take an hour right now so I'll see you when I see you.

Small Update

Woot update! I'm taking a break right now. So I haven't played FFXI in like 2 weeks. I also sampled Vanguard and I'm hooked currently... o.O/

I'll probably pop on FFXI for a bit later on when new content comes on. Till then. (y o.o)y

Bad News

Well, I was in a good mood this week because of Kirin x2 and my chance to get a Osode. However things happened and we couldn't do Kirin and did Minis instead. Currently we have half our leadership inactive and half our members busy with real life. I'm pretty sure we won't be doing Kirin for awhile. We may even not be a LS with whats happening.

However, whatever happens it was a fun ride and I own a lot to the LS that helped me with getting items, Final WSs, missions, and money. Ironically this month marks the 1 year anniversary for me being a CK member. I was hoping for this month to be a happy one to mark my anniversary, unfortunately it could mark the end.

Late Night Merits, Ulli Again

Late night on Thursday I was too excited with Kirin next Thursday that I couldn't sleep so I got a late night merit party, which ended up with 3 merits for me putting my total to 199. I passed out when the party ended.

Friday because of the merit party last night I didn't play much cause I woke up in the afternoon, and I was busy with the baby mostly. Also when the baby was gone I overslept again during my nap and missed Dynamis... I was pissed about that because I wanted to try my luck on lotting for a 100coin.

Saturday I had a doctor's appointment so I missed half of sky farming. When I did log on, I headed over to Ulli to help with camping. After about a hour and a half he popped and we got claim! That's another Ulli for us and 2 more Kirins. After farming Rimmy setup a KS99 which turned out pretty nice. We killed the Behemoth version in KS99 twice, but we only got to open 1 of the chests out of the 2 runs because we ran out of time. It sucked because the first run we killed him but right when we did about 5 seconds later we were kicked out. The second run we killed him and it was smoother, but the drops were crap.

Sunday I got limbus, and tomorrow sea. Report back later.

Back to Sky

Nothing much went on this week for me because of real life stuff: work, baby sitting, and school. I haven't had much time for FFXI, but I did do some stuff. Mostly I have been catching up on merits before I start leveling on SAM. I got 9 merits this week so far, and I also got a Sorcerer's Ring from soloing bcnm 50s, I got 2m out of it which I needed for SAM stuff.

Today, Thursday was sky and I was excited because its been about a month. We kill one of each of the 4 minis, I didn't even know we got Ulli, but we got nice drops overall. Suzaku, dropped Suzaku's Sune-Ate[Deja], A.legs[Dao]. Seiryu dropped V.claw[Bank], W.hands[True], Seiryu's Sword[Soul]. Genbu dropped Genbu's Kabuto[Auto-Drop], A.head[Zylia]. Byakko dropped Byakko's Axe[forgot], Byakko's Haidate[Mori], D.haidate[Kyp]. I only wish I got my D.head or S.kote because it will be another month before I get a shot at them again. Anyways my merit total is at 195, I'm thinking of getting 10 more merits for NIN and 19 merits for RNG before starting on SAM.

Tomorrow is Dynamis in Xarcabard and Saturday is sky farming and a KS 99 if all goes well.

Almost Back to College

This week is the last week before going back to college, so I didn't do much. Wednesday was Limbus and because Aeron quit I don't have an Assault static on Wednesdays anymore. I'll probably look for a LS to do it with. Anyways Limbus was fun, but we got 21 people to show up so 3 people couldn't go.

Thursday we were to do Jorm if he was up or Minis, however we had a lack of people showing up and only 1 officer on so we went to camp Ulli instead with like 5 other groups/LSs. I on the other hand took the night off with fishing.

Friday was Dynamis with Limitless at Beaucedine. But before that I got a merit party and got 2 merits out of it bring my total of merits to 188. The Dynamis run was pretty good, we got decent drops with RDM, RNG, WHM, and a 100 coin drop. However the boss was pretty hairy, kinda shocked that we almost lost it.

Today was sky farming, however no officers and very few members were on at start of farming. However, they did a good job on going to sky and do some farming anyways. They got a SC and BBx2. I did fishing instead of sky while waiting for my brother to come and drop off the baby to babysit, then when the get back I'm going back to their place to help with the baby's room again. Anyways, tomorrow is Dynamis for PinCKs and Limbus for me. Monday I head back to college so I won't be playing much. Till next post.

Nothing Much

Nothing much happened the past few days because I haven't had much time to play. Friday I ran with Limitless for a bit, but I left after a hour because of my sister's birthday party. Saturday was sky farming but again it was more like Ulli farming, which he did not pop for us. Also it was a pretty low turnout again for sky farming, reason why I don't show up on time now a days. Sunday we skipped Limbus again and I didn't play much either because I capped EXP on RNG. I'm probably going to work on merits until I decided what to do for the majority of my free time on FFXI. Right now I'm think of either RDM, BLM, or SAM as the next job to 75 for me. Right now its SAM, but BLM would be interesting as my first mage job to 75.

Tomorrow is Limbus and Thursday I think is mini gods. Also college is coming up again for the spring semester, can't believe how fast winter break was because it seems like it only just started. Anyways, till next post.

Jormungand DEAD! World Serpent Slayers for CK. Ranger to 75!

WOOT! On Thursday we killed Jormungand! The days before though we pretty uneventful. We skipped sea/jailers on Monday, Tuesday though I hit 75 for Ranger, and Wednesday I didn't play much but I heard we skipped Limbus. This whole week though we have been camping Fafnir, we did mange to get a claim but wiped pretty quickly.

Anyways on to Thursday, the day we killed Jormungand. It took about an 1 hour to gather and set everyone up. We had some new people so the officers explained how we fight this and we were all psyched up for the fight. It took 2 tries to kill Jormungand, but at least we finally got the dragon down. The first try failed because we couldn't establish hate fast enough for our tanks. We were going through all the WHMs. Having them log on and off like crazy kinda messed us up. And we wiped around 90% however when we regrouped for a second try we got it down with more people that logged on (Dao, Pau, and Gun).

We slowly chip away the HP and balanced out the hate nicely with the tanks. I was pretty nervous and excited because I got to tank with Eulore setting down at his new place. It was fun though and it was a team effort. Soul and True did a great job with Nin/Drk, also the Mages (RDMs, SMNs, WHMs) in the main alliance did a great job on keep everyone alive, doing dmg to Jorm, keeping jorm debuffed, and keeping us buff. The CC alliance also did a wonderful job on keeping the mobs away from the main alliance. With the new position of the CC alliance the pulls were nice and quick. The fight took about 2 hours and it was well worth it with a new cool title and pride given to the entire linkshell for becoming World Serpent Slayers!

Tomorrow I don't think I'll be on much to play with my sister's birthday. But I'm sure Limitless with win Xarcabard again, and on Saturday we have sky farming. I'll add pictures when I get the chance. Good job CK!

Sunday

When the day started people gathered for the Bomb Queen event, I on the other hand took the time to do a back to back Besieged because I rarely get an EXP party on RNG. I'm now 32k to 75. After that I took a break before Limbus, but the others did Dynamis-Beaucedine restarting hope into giving PinCKs a new beginning. The welcome back to Dynamis was encouraging too with several AF dropping (RDM, THF, MNK, WAR, PLD, DRK) and 2 100coins. They all did that with 20 people all the way to the boss, but they didn't take out the boss.

Limbus started after Dynamis and we did Central Temenos 1st Floor with the Enchanted Dragon. It was fast as usual, and we got 2 coins each. I'm now at 38 coins total and need 37 coins for 75 coins for my brutal earring. After Limbus I did Assault with Sin and Soul. We did Counting Sheep 3 times getting 4k in assault points it was a nice day overall.

Tomorrow is Sea/Jailers, but I hope to get an EXP party before. Tuesday is free, but I may not be on. Till next post.

Sky, Ranger to 74, and Dynamis-Jeuno

Thursday we went up to sky to kill Olla x5 for our stock of Zippy drops we got. During that time we also got another water and we also had time to killed MG. After the small sky farming we killed Genbu x4 getting some nice items for our blms and melees alike. After sky we went to Behemoth for a few hours, but we didn't get claim.

Friday I got Ranger to 74 and 8k into 75 around 34k to 75. After that I headed to Jeuno to afk while to wait for Dynamis to start. We had a low turn out around 30 people, but I dont think we get many people during city runs. I could also tell why because not many people lotted for AF, most of the AF2 that dropped were for free lot. It was a good night for me though because I got RNG AF2 in free lot and MNK AF2 finally. I'm now 3/5 for MNK and 1/5 for RNG.

Today was sky farming, but it was Ulli farming really because we spent all the time at Ulli. And of course he didn't pop even when we had the entire area to ourselves for awhile. Later tonight is Fafnir and tomorrow is limbus. I'll cya you all later.