Oh what a night!!

Oh what a night!

Late Eorzea back in Beta III
What a very special time for me
Sweet D.W. what a night

Oh what a night
Even though I didn’t know Urth’s Founts way
I would never ever be the same
Sweet D.W. what a night

Oh I, I got a funny feelin’ as I ran like a loon
Yeah my, as I recall a raise came for me very soon.

Oh, what a night
Hypnotizin’, mesmerizing me
Urth’s Fount was ev’rything I dreamed it’d be
Sweet D.W., what a night.

I felt a rush like a rollin’ ball of thunder
Spinnin’ my head around as the Ked sent my body under
Oh what a night.

Oh I, I got a funny feelin’ when we made it to Odin’s roost
Yeah my, as I recall it ended much too soon.

Oh what a night, why’d it take so long to see the crystal’s light
Seemed so long, but now it seems so right
What an adventure, what a night.

Oh, I felt a rush to visit the land of plunder
Spinnin’ my head around ‘n’ walkin’ to Costa Del Sol like thunder
Oh what a night (do do do do do, do do do do do)

Oh what a night (do do do do do, do do do do do)
Oh what a night (do do do do do, do do do do do)
Oh what a night (do do do do do

adapted from “Oh What a Night” by The Four Seasons

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Had an amazing time with Distant World at our last hurrah at the end of beta phase III. We gathered on Masamune in Gridania at Carline Canopy. Here’s Nicos, Me, and Merik all standing guard over the festivities.

Once we had finished disturbing the peace there, we took a picture outside before we headed out.

Then we headed out to Urth’s Fount! We wanted to show some of the members an area they wouldn’t ordinarily be able to get to. We know in the future that Odin may pop up there, so it was neat to take them as a group now!

There were some deaths on the way, quickly got them back up and continued on. Once we got there we took lots of pictures. 🙂

Once people got their pictures and messed around a bit there, the party disbursed and we had heard that the FATE with the Giant Crab known as Cancer was up. Some of us headed there for some seafood!

Bittersweet as we realized this was the last time a few of our members would be together on Masamune. Okazaki (in the choco gear) is heading to Hyperion with another group, as is Sounsyy Calliope. We will miss them dearly!

Did get to meet up however with Sounsyy’s possible Masamune alt character, here is Ladykria and I welcoming Sounsyy Mirke! Jynx, Rainie, Cutie, Sunny and others standing guard to protect our level 1 friend from the crabs!

Thank you all for such a grand end to Beta III. Simply cannot wait to play with you all again!

Week.. or so.. in pictures

Saturday had the opportunity to witness a sweet exchange between Cozmos & Bobbyk

Later went key hunting for Bobbyk’s RDM AF in Eldieme, didn’t hurt as much as the last time I went key hunting here.. lol.

Participated in the Blazing Saddles Event.. lol Got a belt that gives me a chigoe costume…

Before that spent most of the week duoing with Kauri on her Dragoon, and a short time duoing with Angelulu as well. Kauri & I are having a great time with the DRG/WAR & DNC/PUP combo… so much that I think we are going to have to find new hunting ground.. lol. Kauri is now at 26 and my dancer is now 25.

Maybe too much fun….. lol

Recent Pics

Real Life exhausted me, so wasn’t able to login, but decided to put a few of the pics I took the other day when I logged in.

Level Sync Pics – Blindrage (52 PLD) & Katella (73 WHM -> 52 WHM)

Skilling up w/ Dark Eden LS

My first Hexa-Strike!!

 

Katella DNC/PUP – because fun is what its all about. I like the combo its fun to solo on!

Jilliana update

So Jilliana’s stay in Jeuno was short-lived. I headed back to San d’Oria to go get exp in Yughotto Grotto again. I really-really want to get Jilliana to 30 so she can pick up the dancer job. Luckily Rainer was available and came and duo’d with me. It is so much more fun to be able to hang out with a friend! That and I actually get to use Sneak Attack.. lol. Rainer was on his Paladin.

I am about 300 till 21. We are going to try and duo on Tuesday nights, which is nice, because its progress. In talking with my husband, as well as the people in my CelticKnot LS, I think it will be just be a matter of time before Katella and family goes back to Ramuh.

I really want to be able to participate in actually doing things as a group again. That isn’t happening on Ifrit at the moment, which I’m sure is mostly my fault.  I’m going to have to tell Audessa, Cozmos, and Ninjax, which right now are the only people left on Ifrit that I really know.  It’ll be a month or so before I can financially be able to do it I think.  The only other thing I should really take into consideration before finally deciding,  is that I am a little afraid that the people on Ramuh are so far ahead of me in terms of missions etc, that there won’t really be people needing the same missions, or wanting to revisit old “fights” to help me get caught up. Ramuh I think must be an older server, because it just seems like most of the people have “been there / done that” where I haven’t.  Ifrit has a  little more in terms of “younger characters” if you will. There are still people working on missions that I need or that are even before the ones I’m on. 

On a different note… Here is a picture I took at a Campaign I was in, just because the little Katella taru look-alike had on dancer AF. It was fun to see. I was thinking that the AF wouldn’t be as cute on Taru’s, but after seeing it, I still think its cute. Dancer is a job I think I will probably play on both Jilliana & Katella.

Busy Weekend – NM hunt, NPC, Statics,Craft

Friday night, I logged in and went to Carpenter’s Landing with Squeekers to get his Bard’s level. We went there, I went as my 19 PLD, and  pulled out my NPC Gunnar to help.  Squeekers attained  level 20!

After that Aerie had logged in, and was offering to help with something, so we decided to go to Ordelle Caves and see if we could find the NM there that Squeekers needed for his Monk belt quest. We killed a few slimes, goblins and bombs etc, and then decided to try the other NM in B. Glacier.  That one is an NM called Nue.  There was one other person there camping it as well, and when it popped, they ended up getting the claim, so we cheered them on. They didn’t end up getting the item to drop either. It was late, so we decided to call it a night.  Not as productive as we had hoped, however we had fun hanging out with Aerie and getting to know her.

Saturday Morning, I helped Blindrage and Pitbull get thier NPC’s. I was nervous, because long ago when I had went to get mine, it didn’t go well, however I was trying to solo it as a clumsy still pretty new level 30 whm.  We went to Eldieme, Blindrage popped his Skeleton NM, and I did a Cure V on it, a couple hits, and it was done for. He spoke to his NPC pal – a small taru with grey hair named Burg-Ladarg.  Then we did it again so that Pitbull could get his NPC, also a small taru, only with blue-ish hair named Balu-Falu. 

We then ended up in Ghelsba Outpost at the hut, so they could fight the Carrion Dragon.  Now everything I’ve read on this has said that they could go in at the same time, but they would have their own dragons to fight, and couldn’t help each other, but this is not what happened.  They went in, and only one Dragon appeared, and so they fought the one dragon, both their NPC’s came out to help, and they defeated the single dragon, and both got their quest finished. After that we went to Qufim to try out their NPC’s, it was fun. 🙂

When Squeeker’s and Jedafu & Velsol logged in, we went to Kazham to party.  Here’s a picture of us waiting for Jeda & Vel in Kazham^^

Jeda was RDM, I was BRD, Blind was PLD, Pitbull on DRK, Squeeks on BST, and Vel on BST. It was fun.. and in the process I got my Brd to 26.

Sunday Morning, Blindrage, Pitbull & I all met up again to party some more. We trio’d in Qufim and I ended up getting Brd to 27. Both Blind & Pit got to 28, so Blindrage was happy that he could now use his Kite Shield.

When people started logging in for our 60’s static, I headed to Bibiki Bay. We got there and noticed that the birds are getting alot easier, so I think we are going to need to look again for another place to party.  In the process of this static, both Kauri & Squeekers leveled. Kauri got 64 rdm, and Squeeks got 65 on his monk.  He also got his long-awaited weaponskill “Dragon kick”. I took a picture of his first use of the new WS, but being a mage in the back, I really didn’t get to see it that well. I guess he does a somersault of some kind, and its cool looking. I mostly just saw rocks coming up from the ground… maybe its dirt..  Here is the picture I got though.

After that we went and helped Talishe do her Mission 3 dragon fight. Kauri went as bluemage, and actually was able to sleep the dragon with sheep song.. lol.  It was a pretty quick fight.

Then we headed out to work on our 20’s. It was getting late, so we didn’t get to stay long, but a few of us leveled.  Squeeks stayed behind after we disbanded and helped Fuddy and I get our levels. 

After that, we ended up on another Rank 3 Dragon fight, this time for Amras. We headed to Palborough mines this time, and defeated his dragon.  By this time.. I was tired.. lol  so I logged for the night.

And at somepoint during the weekend, I got Alchemy to 27 ^^

Blue Mage spells / The Jack of Coins

So off and on this past week a few of us have been running around on our Blue Mages, collecting spells. It has been fun, and aggrivating at times to say the least, lol. Mostly been working helping people get spells that I actually already have, but last night we actually was worked on one that I needed.  Squeekers, Jedafu, Velsol, and I took a trip to Outer Horratio Ruins to learn Bludgeon. I actually learned it on the very first Cardigan that used the spell, so that was cool. We pulled some more while we were there to try and help Jedafu learn the spell.  While we were there, Some high level Monk/Ninja kept running through and zoning all the cardigans, which was very annoying. As they would pop, we’d pull them for Jedafu as soon as we could before the guy would run through again.  It was a couple times of that that we ended up getting a hint as to what was actually happening, when we saw the Jack of Coins NM.  At the time we thought he was being a jerk and despawning everything to spawn this NM, however as I look up info on this particular NM, it appears that maybe he was just trying to complete a Windurst mission and was zoning for his life.. lol.  Both Squeekers and I felt the wrathe of Jack of Coins and were sent back to our homepoints.  He defeated Katella with Thunder II for 249 points, when I only had around 120 to begin with.. lol. I ran but there was no hiding, and no use. 

 

It turns out he is a level 62  NM that is specifically spawned for Windurst Mission 6-1: Full Moon Fountain  see here for details: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Windurst_Mission_6-1

After the NM moved on – not sure if someone else defeated him, or if he left the area we were at. We ended up getting Jedafu’s Bludgeon, and headed off towards Giddeus. There are so many different rumors and ideas floating around, if you have to have hate on you to learn it, if you don’t, etc… I’m not sure that it really says for sure anywhere, mostly I go by what it says on http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Main_Page , but everyone has thier ideas, so I spent the rest of the night farming Giddeus Bees while they tried to get thier spell.

 I think tonight if we do this again, I may head over to Konstat Highlands  with my NPC while they are trying to learn Head Butt, as it didn’t appear I was actually helping that much. Maybe with my NPC, I could get Healing Breeze before they want to head back to Sandy for Blood Drain and Blastbomb (Which I also already have).

Powerleveling Epidemic >

Warning.. Rant incoming..  

Grrr.. So last night, I login, and Blindrage had just gotten a party invite on his 20 pld,  and they need a couple more people, so I brought out my 22 rdm and we headed out to Quifim.  I won’t go into details, or names or any of that, but it is becoming quite obvious that a lot of people don’t know how to play unless they have a “powerleveler”, Not only that but they don’t want to do thier jobs when they have one.

 What was even more ridiculious that it was painfully obvious that the whm pl’r either :

1. really didn’t want to be there and was coerced by their “friend”, so was doing the bare minimum (as they wouldn’t even throw a cure on thier own “friend” until they were in the red)

 or

2. The “Friend” had “hi-jacked” the powerleveler’s character, and was trying to play both.. or have thier 4 year old play the “powerleveler’s” char….

or

3. that this particular person just had no clue.  

 We are running out to the tower and someone gets aggro, so we stop to fight it. We all die exept for our whm who didn’t get there till the end (wasn’t his fault). 

It was amazing though that simply because there was a “powerleveler” around people get amnesia and forget to do things.. blinded by the AF gear I guess ><  .. they forgot little things like the importance of provoking off of dying members, or bouncing hate, etc. Blindrage was the only one keeping up with provoke, but  that didn’t help him, and he was the lowest level in the party.. ><.

This particular “powerleveler” wasn’t doing anything… they moved, so I knew they weren’t afk, but they just stood there while everyone went down. Then after we died.. they took on the Giant and killed it and raised us.  People wanted to take a break there, but I cautioned them that it most likely wasn’t a good idea to stay in the corridor as the “undead” would be spawning soon, and they would all have low hp from weaknened state.  The leader was like “Oh ya.. ” So they got up and ran to the tower. 

Once everyone was alive and no longer weakened, I pulled just a tough crab, and we took it with little issues, although people’s provoke buttons still appeared to be broken. I pulled a bat, and same thing, however we defeated it.  But then they wanted a pugil. I suggested that might not be a good idea just yet. They said “We have a powerleveler.. we should be doing Pugs”…

Despite the fact that I did not agree, as this “powerleveler” person obviously wasn’t really here to powerlevel, I finally pulled a Pug to appease them. I asked if people were ready, they indicated, so I ran out to scout.  I announced I was pulling a pug, cast Dia and ran back towards camp. I got half way there before my hp was in the  Red, shortly after and it killed me. Blind had run out to try and get it, but it was too late, then about a minute later the leader says.. “Wut got u” ….. …..   ….     (sorry, bad spelling bugs me too.. )            ….. ><   hmm..  either they weren’t paying attention to the logs at all, or afk or something. 

It was at that time that some of my LS members logged in and were out doing stuff and wanting to do things, so for the very first time, I actually left a party.  I let them know that I was going to leave to go with my LS, and I encouraged Blind to follow.  I have never left a party before just because it “sucked” lol.. I’m usually the one sticking it out, but I didn’t feel I was up to this.  2 deaths in less than a half an hour, and just the fact that really without the “Powerleveler”  we definately could have taken all the crabs and bats around and we could have chained them and gotten some decent exp…. but thats not what they wanted… 

They had a “Powerleveler” and wanted to fight high-end stuff, which ordinarily would have been alright…. Had they had a “powerleveler” there to who would actually cure. 

I’m not bad mouthing powerlevelers mind you.. every once in awhile its ok to have one, in the right situation, and if they want to be there, its helpful. I powerlevel my friends everyonce in awhile to get their level back or something like that, so I can’t really say anything, otherwise I’d be a hypocrit. All I’m saying is that the attitude that so many have now, where they won’t party unless there is a “powerleveler”, or that because they have a “powerleveler” that means they can be lazy and not concentrate on playing thier best is plain stupid.

/rant off

After leaving the above party, I joined my LS friends, and got my thf to level 21..  so least the night ended on a good note..  Flee.. here I come 🙂

Weekend – Helping w/GK3 & leveling

Friday night we farmed anima’s to try and do a Dem run on Saturday. We ended up getting everyone that came out thier anima. Saturday we had some time before everyone that wanted to go on the Dem run was able to log in, so we joined Squeekers in helping Jedafu & Velsol get thier GK3. 

Alot of reading on the other computer, and trying to keep everyone alive, lol. Both Kinkykitty and Kauri both sacrificed themselves at different parts of the run for the cause.  For the Yagudo Crest, Kinky ran in, aggroed everything and died so they could get to the platform safely. The Davoi part went off pretty well, except that Kauri had fallen into a hole, and despite trying to get close enough to the edge, Teleporting us out didn’t work, but Kinky had jumped down there with her, and they found their way out the other side.  Kauri ended up dying in Beadeaux trying to keep the others alive as they started getting attacked when I guess thier snk must have fell or something..  in the end, they got all three crests, and are now able to level to 65.  /cheer.. congrats guys!   I will definately be more excited about helping them do GK4!  hehe.. so much easier..

After our other member came back on, we quickly tried to get things together to try Dem. In hindsight, I don’t think it was a good idea to try and cram two stressful activities (least to me.. lol – I’m such a wimp) into one day. We weren’t as ready as I wanted to be, but we went ahead and attempted it. We got to the third level before madness ensued and we ended up just homepointing.  Mostly it was an issue of being lost, and aggroing stuff. I think before we try it again, we need to see if we can get a ranger to come along.

*Also – I learned that while you do not lose exp in the boss fight, you do lose exp if you die on the way up there. – note for anyone that was wondering.. lol.

Afterwards, some of us from the LS went out to just play on lower jobs in La Theine. I got my pld to 16 in the process.

This is a cute shot I got when we were out leveling.. Here is one with our names.

Sunday I was late getting back from real life duties so I felt bad when I logged in (about 10 minutes late for static) but it ended up being ok since one of our members couldn’t come at all.  Felt bad for Kinky who had actually turned down a party on her 70 WHM because we thought we were going to have static. She had surprisingly been having trouble getting invites this past week.

So instead after people got things figured out.. we again took some lower levels and partied in the Dunes and in Qufim for a while before we logged.  I actually got my rdm to 22 in the process as well. ^^

 

I was also able to craft a bit more, (still cleaning out my inventory and my mule’s inventory.. lol) I finished out the ingredients I had bought a while back and got my cooking skill to level 54.  I actually synthed my very first Yagudo Drink as well so I was excited. (Sandy happened to have control of  Kol…. (tab) Region, so I was able to buy the Yag Cherries & the B. grapes.  Made three broke three, so not ready to try these quite yet I think.

More leveling etc..

So this week/weekend I ended up gaining a few levels across a few different jobs. My War is now 14, RDM is now 21 (again – yay.. I got Gravity back.. lol),  My Bard is now 19, and last but not least, my static Pup is now 23! (now I can wear my Great Doublet) /cheer ^^

My cooking skill hit 52, almost to where I can start making my own yag drinks, but not quite. If I read correctly, I need to be 55 before I attempt those as they are capped at 60. Before I reach 60 I also need to start leveling a different craft (most likely Alchemy since its the next highest) so that I will actually get other levels … or something like that.. I’m not sure I understand it all.. guess I’ll look it up some more.. lol.

Saturday I had a new experience, I went with my friend’s Eliktro, Kundala & Lathander to their LS’s Garrison Event. It was in West Ronfaure, and I ended up going as thf/nin. That is quite the lag they have going on during one of those.. hehe. It was fun, I ended up getting a manniquin feet out of the deal. I’d like to “Collect all 5” and get my own manniquin for my mog house, but I also hear that it costs alot. It would be nice to put a set of armor on one though..  I’ve always thought they should let you group your armor a little better.. we’ll see how it goes.

We started our static this week on our 60’s got 5k+ and then switched to our 20’s group.  With the 60’s we are now 63-64 range, and party in Bibiki Bay. With our 20’s we are 22-24, and party In Qufim at the tower. I’m kind of anxious to get to 70 on my whm, but it is a nice break to work on pup too, and I do enjoy pup. I want to fight Maat as crazy as that sounds.. lol. I think its more of a validation thing, that I want to know I can accomplish something, and that I did something without having to have someone do it for me.. ><. It would also be nice to learn the spells sitting in my Mog House. I have all but three that I would need to finish out whm to 75.  I think I’m missing Protect IV (I bought the -ra version first), Banish III, and Curaga IV, and then I’d have them all waiting for me to use.  Gil is as always an issue.. (funny how much it can be like real life.. hehe) so I’m holding off until I actually can afford & use them.

sorry no pictures this week, I didn’t seem to remember, with everything going on, and with real life stuff like taxes etc.. lol. 

My little Tortuga linkshell seems to be growing, which is cool but makes me a little nervous too.. lol.  My core people I absolutely adore, and we mostly only give pearls out to friends and friends-of-my core people. We do have a few that we didn’t know very well, people we’ve met while partying and so on, and so far so good. Last night for the first time we actually had someone out of the blue ask for one, so we gave them one. I’ve seen LS’s totally destroyed in the growth process, as well as totally poisoned by a single added individual, so I’m hoping that it won’t happen to this one. Should I be worried, maybe I worry too much over nothing.  

I helped one of our LS mates camp the Hoo.. something Yagudo in Giddeus yesterday. When it finally did pop, they were able to get the claim, but it only dropped Zealot’s mitts, and they were hoping for the Monster Signa. It took awhile, and I wasn’t even out there near half as long as my LS member had been there. Made me wish that more NM’s were forced pop’s instead of claimed.. lol.

Treasure Hunting / Friends ^^

Made this banner out of a screenshot I got this past week. Click on it to see full view, I thought it turned out cute !!

 Mostly this past week, I’ve been leveling lower level jobs with my wonderful friends in the Tortuga Linkshell. It’s been fun. I’ve gotten a level on my war, monk, pld, and almost on my bard.  /cheer

Other thing that has taken some of my time is dealing with my constant inventory issue. So two things occured this week because of that. First was that I took my Ordelle Chest key out of my Safe with the intention of finally using it. The picture above is actually of that. I timed it just right and ended up with a magical pattern to which I promptly took to Jeuno and turned in for the Wonder clomps, which I then placed on the Auction House since I have some already. Mostly chose those because there was none in stock. Hasn’t sold, but hopefully…

The second was that I realized that if I bought a couple items, I could actually synth some things and relieve some MH space that way. I ended up getting my cooking to 51.6  with a combination of Orange Au Lait and Crayfish balls.  Opened up a few spaces, but I still have a long way to go.. lol.  I am always running around with about 2 to 5 spaces open if I’m lucky, and that fills up pretty fast.