The part where I level WHM

BLM:75 WHM:66 SMN:43 THF:75 WAR:61 RNG:43

I got my level back for my BLM and even dabbled in SMN for a bit. It is surprising to have such a low amt of exp to go through to level up. I miss that with my WHM. I am leveling WHM now mainly but I have to say I suck as WHM atm. You have to be quick with the Na spells and Erase and Haste and honestly, I don't like using those spells. I like to Cure. I like to Curaga. I like to Divine Seal > Curaga 3 and watch the monster go "You !!! Come here!!"

But in reality, if I play my WHM a lot I become great at it. It's just been a while and I could tell this last time as I was partying with a bunch of 65s that had probably never played a second job that their opinion of my WHM was not good. Even MY opinion of WHM is not good. Oh well, that's what you get when you level a little SMN, go farm with THF, and play Dynamis with BLM.

The picture shows what I use for my WHM which is the Black Cotehardie, Crow's Gaiters, Crow Beret and some other stuff. That -enmity gear is VERY useful for WHM and even though people look at me like a red-headed stepchild, I am sure they go HUH! when I Benediction and a simple Provoke pulls the mob off.

I met this fantastically good-looking girl(FGlGwB) last night that works in one of the biggest clubs in the city. She was so fantastic looking that perhaps she might be THE ONE! Heh, joke. /snort Sometimes I feel like such a "Renfield". Anyways, we talked about wine which I know nothing about and she mentioned she had to leave soon and I ran out of things to say and coudn't think of any sane way to ask her for her number without just hitting her in the face with the question so I didn't. Still, I had just got done talking to this guy that was trying to unsettle me with his jokes about masturbation and all of the pussycats that come to the bar etc. He just laughed and slammed his hands on the bar thinking he was getting my goat. Then I went and talked to this girl and I didn't see him again. Hah! That monkey-looking rumpster would have had NO chance with that girl and he knows it.

I guess I know that too but at least I talked to her.

I scored full hits at cards last night too. It was so uncanny how lucky I was. I must have been tuned to the fate gods. We all had a good time at poker and it was funny me thinking for a moment that I would be happier working at the bar with these guys and be broke than to have my job with the rat-trap people that work there and piss me off all the time.

But, I do have friends there. I know one girl that makes like 100k, another guy that was an asssociate with me that it like a Senior Project Manager. I know another woman that is actually good looking and would probably date me if I asked her that used to run the whole department I worked in. I never told anyone cuz that would be a conflict of interest so I have to make sure not to involve too many of my old friends when I have my "conflicts". I know that they think that I am lazy and have not applied myself like I should have at work, but I am still there, and I am still well thought of by many people even if I don't see many of them anymore.

Yeaya, sushi-time!

BLM:74 WHM:65 SMN:42 THF:75 WAR:61 RNG:43

Yep, I washed out of my 14k bufffer into 75 and have finally deleveled to 74. This happened yesterday after I spent all hours of the night trying to finally beat Diabolos for his coveted earring that adds that little bit of Magic Accuracy +2 during Dark weather.

This of course is for the sake of Dynamis that I am doing this. All Dynamises have double Dark weather in effect throughtout the expedition, so items that use the Dark ability, like the Dark Staff, the Anrin Obi and even spells that are Dark-based, have a higher effectiveness in this area. The main drawback however is that sometimes the areas have a high resistance to magic. I have found this to be true of Dynamis-Xarcabard. I get reisisted all of the time there and though I try to keep my Elemental Skill maxed as much as possible when casting, I have to say that I get resisted at least 50% about 70% of the time.

This morning I finally got my coveted Fish Handling ability. Problem is I have only 10k to my name. Meh. I am gonna have to put the game down for a while I guess. More than that, the price of Squid Sushi has hit an all-time low of 10k per stack, which would be great if I hadn't spent all of my money getting this stupid skill to make it. I guess I could go out and make some Melon Pies for some cash but people has begun crowding that market too and now those are down to 2k a stack which is close to what it cost to make them.

Too bad for them though cuz unlike other people, I am not getting out of the market just cuz there is no profit in it. I am gonna sell my Pies at 3k and if they don't sell I will just use em for my BLM. My Squid Sushi is going to go the same way. My only problem now is getting some gil together to make a couple of bunches of the stuff.

We finally got some people together to farm some organs for my Anrin Obi and can you believe it, the tank had to go as soon as he got his stuff and BEFORE I got my one remaining tissue that I needed to complete my set. I was tired from doing it all afternoon so I didn't mind him quitting at the time but I went back there the other day to try and solo one of them maybe and it was almost impossible. I almost died. This means I have to stay throguh a whole farming session again with someone even though all I need is ONE little tissue. Oh well, the session was also useful to help unlock my Heart Snatcher which I used the entire time to end the skillchain to Fragmentation. I need a total of 500 points and I believe I am getting close now. When I hit the cap I will have +6% Critical hits from a weapon that does 30 dmg. That's a cutting edge weapon and you didn't have to break an arm and a leg to get it. Well, sort of.

Well, in rl news, I have found myself once again facing enemies in the work area. They torment me to no end with their little interruptions during my calls and the madder I get the more people jump in to help. I honestly don't know what these people are thinking. Why would someone WANT to torment another person? What's in it for them? There is nothing they are gonna see except me flying off the handle. Hmmm. That's what they want, I guess. I wish I knew how to stop that. For now I have begun moving to a different area when the pressure gets to be too much but I fear this cycle of pain is just going to get more complicated.

It's funny though, the distractions aren't nearly as bad when there are supervisors nearby.

No love. Yep, this week I was unlucky in love but I got ALL the cash at poker Sunday. I finally told my friends about the incident I had with another guy there but sometimes I wonder if they thnk that I am just paranoid. The truth is, it could have been just my lack of responsibility and one too many Jaeger shots that caused me to pass out. I guess so. For now I will try not to bring it up again.

Tonight I am going out with an old friend of mine and we will probably talk about how all girls are stupid or something along those lines. I realize only now that I haven't been his close friend for a while that I was deluding myself all those years into accepting that being without a woman was ok and that I was better than that... as if being without a woman makes you a better man... heh, NO. I hope I meet someone tonight cuz it's about time for some loving soon.

After going out with that last chick that ws as close to dating your aunt as I ever want to get, going out with this friend will be a relief and dating even the FATTEST woman will come in with points above dating that other good looking woman that made me FEEL unkissable.

Where's the love?

You lose all your materials.

BLM:75 WHM:65 SMN:42 THF:75 WAR:61 RNG:43


This is me doing one of my many synths in Windurst. I have got my cooking skills up to 60 and was pleasantly surprisied to find all my pies gone from the AH which left me a nice profit. Unfortunately, the fate gods are a fickle bunch. Today nothing has sold and the price has gone down.

That's how the cookie crumbles. The good news is that I am almost to my goal of getting the Fish Handling skill from the guild at which point I will be able to make my own pies for my BLM and my own sushi for my THF.

As for making money of the craft, I believe this will probably not be the way for me. BCNMs and KSNMs have paid off nicely in the past and I would rather just depend on them for my mega-money. This will also motivate me to level my other jobs.

Tonight is darts night and tho I am planning to see Ms. too-engaged-to-call-her, I don't plan on her being particularly turned on to the fact that I haven't called her.

Ah well, maybe she broke up?

AS you can see from this nasty format, upgrading to the new google account option has proven to be a disaster for my blog. Please forgive the crappy presentation as I am unsure of how to improve it at this point.

..then furthest from him is best!

BLM:75 WHM:65 SMN:42 THF:75 WAR:61 RNG:43

This is the picture of us helping someone get their NM killed. We worked our way all through the dungeon and did stuff but never got to kill the NM. I like partying with these guys a lot.

Recently however I got invited to join another ls from someone in the Dynamis ls. It's just a social ls and is geared to help ppl get their stuff like aern organs and Diabolos Earring, to name a few. It's full of 75s and so it's got the right people but I am reticent to leave the Dynamis ls for long. People are starting to show up during off hours and hang out there more. I would like to think that I have been helping that some by always being there.

Moreover, I don't like the idea of not talking to the one group of people that I have been hanging on to for the last 6 months, even if they don't talk back to me.

I do that myself tho. I am slow to open up to people.

I guess I am gonna go buy some carp and make some Roast Carp and turn them in for Guild Points. I blew it with Pebble Soup yesterday and didnt turn the max in for those but there were no flint stones being sold in any of the AHs. I should have just farmed them from worms or something. It was only like 1000 max and the synth was ez but now I feel stupid for not having done it.

I spent a lot of time farming organs last night but I have to say that it was very slow getting them for 6 people. The more people you have more people you have to spread it around with.

I still need 3 Lumin Tissues and 6 more Aern Organs and then I can get my Anrin Obi. It just occurred to me last night tho that even though I have my Armlets, without my Thief's Knife I am just as blah blah as any other THF with 150k to spend on Thief's Knife. This will not do!

My next expenditure will be for this knife I think or if I can get my lazy butt motivated, I will go out there and get my knife with the help of some peeps from the other ls.

Hey, I just realized, it IS nice to have a social linkshell after all.

It's cold up in them thar hills

BLM:75 WHM:65 SMN:42 THF:75 WAR:61 RNG:43

I had a good time last night getting some merits with my Thief. You had to have the sixth Runic Portal accessed to get to the Nyzul Isel area. You had to cross through the ruins to get to another area of Bhauflau Thickets. I had planned to go to Caederva Mire but there were 6 parties already there. It's lucky someone else had a better plan for us.

Last Friday, me and my Dynamis ls went to Xarcabard and started farming. Since we had been unsuccessful in getting the win against the Dynamis Lord, we wanted to have melee that could take him down in the time period allotted but a couple of the key players didn't show.

Fortunately, I did show and I got my Assassin's Armlets from lockup. I had to save 30 points to get them locked and I didn't want to waste my points on something else first and then bury-worry about what how long ago I could have gotten my Armlets.

This is the same thing I have going on with cooking guild points at the moment. I would rather wait till I have my full 30,000 points than to get my 8000 pts, sell some stuff and then start over again but with an added ability to make points.

This is how I am with girls also. I would rather wait a very long while to get with a great girl than to be with an ok girl first and then hope that situations allow me later to hit up the first girl much later on.

This strategy worked in the first case and is working in the second but I doubt that it will in the third. I still have a "little" faith though.

There is a great spot out in Bhauflau Thickets where we partied against Greater Collibris and Wivres. The Wivres are very difficult to put down so don't add them to your chain at the 3rd or 4th spot. We had a SMN RDM NIN THF THF and a RNG who then left and then I got us a SAM who was consistently using ws for 1000k dmg. RNG was also great and me and the other THF were pouring out the damage also. I was using THF/RNG and I must say that I think I did a great job at throwing money at the mob, lol. I went through 3 stacks of Acid Bolts in that sitting and eventually had to just stop using Sharpshot altogether along with using up about 7 Squid Sushi.

The linkshell is fun and since I got my XBOX 360 with the game, I have been able to synth using the XBOX and then use the computer to access Allahkazam. I makes playing a whole lot more fun especially for farming sessions and stuff. The drawback however is the graphics. The graphics on the 360 are really great but get a little lagged out if I am near other people. Even synthing in Windy with like 2 or 3 people nearby slows me down a lot. I could turn down some of the effects like I do on my computer but I would rather keep the picture full since it's so rich and neat looking.

I called this new girl this week to see if she wanted to go shoot some pool but I am gathering from her lack of response that her "you haven't called me" statement may have been really a "please don't call me but I am being nice by saying 'you haven't called me' to you, at the bar" statement.

I am not even gonna give her a nickname, I am just not gonna call her.

In other news I think people are starting to think that I am full of myself again. People just love to say wow you are great and good at karaoke blah blah blah but let me say one buzzied thing about women that I have dated and poof, I must think I am all that!

I really need to learn how to keep my mouth shut even when I don't want to.

So I skipped poker. Ya, it was late and I was having too much fun playing online. The people that do Dynamis also do Limbus runs on Sunday but since I go out to poker, I usually can't make it, never mind the 50k that it costs to get in there. I didn't have that gil and wonder how it is that people like this can make 50k per week to keep going to these events twice a week. I am lucky to even make 100k from a BCNM or KSNM run never mind make 100k per week for Limbus.

It was fun to go though and since I now have cooking getting up to where I can make Squid Sushi, I am probably going to be able to afford it soon. The real problem is making it to their runs on Sunday and Thursday nights which are the nights I see my bar pals, Sunday for Poker and Thursday for karaoke.

I get along with them ok as long as I don't sit too close to "their" women, if you know what I mean.

I miss using my arrows though. I like using Fire Arrows but I am so in the hole with money right now that I can barely afford the 2k for Acid Bolts. And that's a good price for a stack of Acid Bolts too! But It just goes to show you, you have to have money to make money.

I wonder if that applies to girlfriends?

Looking for a little tail

BLM:75 WHM:65 SMN:42 THF:75 WAR:60 RNG:43

I just had this great idea from seeing someone wearing a Diabolos Earring.

Also, I wonder where my next merit should go. I need 3 merits if I want to up my Elemental Skill again and I DO want to do that but also I just noticed the my Magic Accuracy on Freeze II would go up by 6 if I upped that spell. I REALLY want to do that cuz I use Freeze II a lot in Dynamis.

Last night I got this girl's numbr though she is engaged.

Today, I tried to max out my guild points by making Iron Bread and then suddenly it occurred to me that I could make a killing by selling the stuff next to the Guild Person in my bazaar which sucks cuz the price of the bread is lower than the cost of making it so I am screwed now.

I wonder what I should try next I wonder?

Also known as Hohito

BLM:75 WHM:65 SMN:42 THF:75 WAR:61 RNG:43

Well nothing happening too much at the bar on Sunday. The other black fella left well enough alone and so did I and so I guess DEFCON5 on my car is gonna have to wait until the next guy. I did manage to talk to this hugely-nothing-but-eyes(HNBE) girl and almost convinced her to come out to play poke with the group but she was reticent to go. She said she didn't know any of the people and now after some thought I guess it's better not to take new people out to poker until I get to know them a bit and me likewise.

OMG, I am such a dullard. She sed she wouldn't mind if the party was happening at my house and I was so struck by the refusal to come out that I didn't realize she was angling towards US ditching POker! Oh well. That's probably not what she meant anyways though.

I can't believe I didn't even get her number, ugh!

Well, at poker I really managed to lose all my money. That goes hand in hand with meeting that great looking chic too, so that's all right. I bought them all some tequila coffee stuff that I found out about at another sitting and it was ok to have one but after 3 of em I was rather toasted. It's funny cuz this one guy that leads the whole thing usually will be the one to bring the stuff and this time he didn't even drink with me.

In Vana'diel, I am having sort of a good time getting used to crafting. I have my cooking up close to 60 now which puts me at the craftsman's level. I plan to keep cooking as my main craft along with using THF and BCNMs for other income. I like the idea of being able to make my own juices and pies. As soon as I can I am going to get the Patissier ability and start making Icecap Rolanberry pies to use in Dynamis. I might even go so far as to stash some melon juices in storage.

As it is now I have still a ways to go to get my BLM in Xarcabard form. You really need to have maxed merits in Elemental Skill to get your spells to land on those monsters. You also should have pretty good gear and honestly I gotta tell ya just between you and me. If I had spent 5 million on the stupid Weskit gear, I would be shooting myself now. That gear is such crap! I am lucky to land my spells as it is in Beaucedine and the other cities but to take out weskit in Xarcabard is like asking for somebody to slap you with a resist rag. You think I would trade my Elemental Torque for the Uggalepih Pendant?

Like hell.

After I max out Elemental Skill merits MAYBE I will pull out weskit again. For now, it's in storage FAR out of the way of stuff I use everyday. I have done some serious soul-searching with my gear also. I totally dumped my level 20 gear I was saving for Garrison. I have never been in a Garrison event but all that stuff had to go. I also dumped a bunch of possible EX stuff that could be used for quests. The next stuff to go is gonna be a slew of keys I have been saving for my THF to use in dungeons cuz I have to seriously believe that I will never get around to spending the time it takes to open all those chests for whatever it is they drop.

The Guild Item last night was a Bataquiche. It's made using an Ice Crystal, Danceshrooms, Black Pepper, and Selbina Milk; Stone Cheese, Batagreens Sautee, and Pie Dough round out the remaining items needed. There was a serious typo in Allah and both the NQ and HQ versions misprinted Selbina Butter as the ingredient. Had I not had Selbina Milk on standby to make the Butter and had I not read this one guys' post, I would have been ROYALLY screwed. Black Pepper only sells in Sandy so I had to go there. Selbina Milk was out so I had to go clear out to Selbina for that. The Batagreens were high priced in Windy so I was only able to get almost 2 stack of that for the Sautee which used up the butter that I had bought for the synth. Just in case, I bought extra Selbina Milk so that I could synth Butter if I was short since I would need 2 Butter for the Sautee and 2 for the Quiche. The synth requires Stone Cheese which is a level 61 synth. I felt sure that I could synth it at 52 but maybe just maybe I would not be able to get 2 full stacks of that so I bought 3 stacks of materials so that I could synth the cheese. And last but not least was the Pie Dough. Pie Dough is rather tough to make and I was rather lucky to find it in the AH for cheap. Honestly, if it was me this stuff would sell for 5k cuz Pie Dough is tough to get the materials together for.

I planned to check all of the AHs on the way but after checking them I found NO Danceshooms being sold and knew that I would have to go farm. I remember some low level Funguars being out in Ordelle's Cave and set out to go there after looking up the information online.

I recently got the game hooked up to my 360 and really enjoy doing stuff on my own and having the computer right there for internet access. The downside is that I can't type at all using the controller so using it during exp is out. The macros need work also but I was able to use them to solo and farm no problem in Ordelle's Caves.

I needed 2 stacks of the Danceshrooms and they were very slow to drop. I have to say that this stuff is probably worth every bit of the 16k it costs to get a stack of it from the AH. I might even farm these myself if I ever feel up to it, although I still haven't bought the map for that place yet. I know the place pretty well though cuz this is where I came to camp out the chests for my RSE gear. I only did the Wonder Mitts and the Wonder Clomps though. Those items make my RNG hit like a truck. I have half a mind to go /WHM and use my -enmity earring next time just to see if I am able to blow the mobs down still.

I fell asleep.

Yep, I was halfway through the killing fest (read boring farming seesion), and this morning I woke to find that my item was no longer the guild item and all my efforts were for nothing except for skillup.

That's typical for me though. Some part of my subconscious, I am convinced, always manages to keep me from truly accomplishing anything I really want. Later I went to go sell the MORASS of stuff I got from my labors and found that the Guild wouldn't buy it. When I went to go sell the food to NPC it sells for like less than 100 each.

It's not bad enough to screw yourself so it's often important to remember that people are just waiting to screw you ALSO.

Darts in the dark

BLM:75 WHM:65 SMN:42 THF:75 WAR:61 RNG:43

This is the closest I have come to "screwing like rabbits" recently. I have to thank my Dynamis buddies again for granting me the wonderful AF pieces in the picture. I truly love to play and farm with this gear on. I have even broke out my Heart Snatcher and started to skill up the ws to break out the latent effect. It's slow going tho. I have barely gone through 100 weaponskills and this after 2 full days of farming more or less.

I have leveled my WAR to 61. I use a Great Sword which is a B+ weapon for a WAR. If I melee with a skillchain partner that doesn't use Sushi or who has no Scorpion Harness etc. then I do alright. I get up to 100% before the end of the mob as long as I keep Aggressor at max etc. What happened this last time however was that I was partying with a JP who was Uber in gear and rather unforgiving with his demands for first provoke, etc. Our group was good and everything but trying to figure out what the the JP THF wanted to do was difficult to figure out through using the Auto-Translate function.

{Paladin} {Nice to meet you} {Please}{Provoke}

I have never laughed so hard in my life. He was a real smartass, but at least he was funny. We just had a royal time learning who he wanted to provoke next. Eventually I told the WAR/NIN to provoke first and then have the Paladin provoke next so that he could have his pick but then we just agreed to have the PLD voke first and this really worked well. It wasted my attempt to SATA my Weaponskill but I just did it without SATA and used SATA to build TP. The WAR in our group was a much better DD with her dual axes and using Rampage. I will have to give some thought to raising my Axe skill one day. But I am not going to chg using WAR/THF at this juncture. I believe WAR/THF is a better job to use for two-handed weapons and to that effect I am leveling Scythe and Polearm to use with my WAR also since they are also B+ skill weapons. My Great Axe is coming along but slowly. It is at 132 but needs to be at 199 or more and that will take some time.

I have begun cooking again but the skill ups are really eating my funds alive now. At skill 53 and have gone through almost a whole stack of eggs without a skill up. I believe you guys are wrong out there the ones that think Egg Soup maxes at 55 cuz for me it maxed at 53. Still, using Bird eggs for a while hasn't helped and I expect it might have something to do with the day.

Well I called Door-Number-3 girl back and advised her through her voicemail that I would not be calling her to go out anymore. I realize that I was just using her to feel good about myself and had no romantic intentions towards her whatsover and was just hoping that through her I would find someone "really" exciting!

Ya think?!

Tonight, I go back to throwing darts with the experts.

...must be lucky in cards.

BLM:75 WHM:65 SMN:42 THF:75 WAR:60 RNG:43

Well I have been doing a lot of treks out here to Valkurm Dunes to get some Hare Meat and some Bat Wings, etc. I have been doing a lot of crafting lately and hope to get the Cooking skill up close to 60 soon. At that point I will switch to Alchemy and then maybe to Woodworking.

The main problem is money. I used up some Conquest Points and sold some gear for 35k but even that has run out and now I have to hope that more gear has sold or buy some and try to sell it for less. I made the mistake of trying to skill up on Egg Soup at level 49, when it was a level 55 synth. Moreover, I tried doing this with Fire Crystals in Xarcabard with Ice weather prevalent and without cooking imagery. This was before Dynamis where we spend half an hour to a full hour just sitting there waiting for people to all show up and then get them into parties.

Mistake.

I lost a whole lot of synths and got maybe one level out of 4 stacks of materials and crystals. I am so cocky sometimes it's ridiculous. I was showing off and what I did was show off how I could lose my ass in failed attempts.

I was even facing the wrong way several times just to see if there was some "secret" way to discount the Ice effect the weather was having. Bah. I just blew it. Even when I went back and got cooking imagery again I started facing the Water direction instead of the Ice direction(West) which is where you should be for Fire Crystal synths.

We lost to the Dynamis Lord for a second time this week. I guess the loss attests to many of our members not being there. For myself, I was being resisted all over the place and felt that perhaps next time I will need to have myself halfway up the elemental skill merit category if I plan to make any difference in Dynamis - Xarcabard. In other Dynamises I don't get resisted hardly at all if I have my usual elem skill gear on. But it is glaringly obvious in Dynamis - Xarcabard, the difference in skill requirement needed. If you are not level 74+, you don't belong in Dynamis - Xarcabard. You actually need to have some merits if you plan on people taking note of some of your hits as consequential.

This week Door-Number-3 girl has stood me up a total of 3 times and has yet to kiss me. My mother thinks she is perhaps the classiest girl there is and that that's why. I have to say she must the classiest secretary person EVER.

Frustration.

I should just accept that she is trying to get rid of me but she won't actually say the words. I can't say the words, cuz I still kinda wanna kiss her. Part of me thinks that she is giving me a chance to try harder and to be more impressive but at this point all I can possibly do to be more impressive is either spend more money(easy) or be more myself and come across as charming(unlikely). She's not even that good looking either. I have been kissed by goddesses on the lips and for free at the bar with intentions to be with me later and now I get this treatment from this ordinary girl after going on 4 dates now. Well, I guess that's what I get for messin with ordinary.

Ordinary is what you call someone who doesn't like you cuz if they are great then you must suck.

Next week, I'm paying for it, then I'm going to jail cuz that's the kind of luck I have with women. Tonight, I am skipping poker cuz, at this rate, I would just be taking ALL their money!