Quality has gone downhill

BLM:75 WHM:72 SMN:44 THF:75 WAR:61 RNG:44

Well, I got sent home again. I got more quality hits that are so incidental, you wonder that people haven't just straight up asked the Operations Manager if this is the FIRST time they have run a corrupt operation.

The procedures are the problem. The OM just pays for stuff but if the procedures are SO ambiguous that you can't tell if the rules are being followed, and if the decision as to whether the rules were followed or not lie with your manager, and if your manager doesn't like you, well on second thought I guess all that other stuff has nothing to do with it after all...

I'm on the last boat this time and trust me that there is no way, with all the little nitpicky stuff that is possible to hit me on during a call, that I can avoid it this time.

On a positive note though, I decided to go on a road trip and when I got sent home Friday I took the rest of the week to drive up to Niagara Falls and pay a visit. I was really quite proud of myself for doing it too. I almost turned around so many times before reaching the end, you have no idea. But that's my way, quit first, try it again later maybe... much later.

This has nothing to do with my job of course. My job is so ridiculously easy for someone with my experience and my wisdom that the only conclusion anyone of any intelligence could have about my situation is that they are TAKING my job away from me. I mean sure I have an attitude problem and maybe I am not the most positive of people when it comes to Mexicans getting money lent to them for stealing identities and trying to get me to just ignore it as they TALK to me and LIE to me and pretend my spanish isn't good enough and crap like that, but I AM able to do it.

Perhaps I am also a little too angry sometimes... that's possibly why people wanna throw stones at me too, who knows. I do know that I don't pick out people and attack them like they do me.

On the boat again

BLM:75 WHM:72 SMN:44 THF:75 WAR:61 RNG:44



On the way to the Black Coffin fight here. It's a boat to Nashmau but where exactly is that on the map? I am about to pass the 73 mark for my WHM and getting ready to lot on WHM gear for him. He has the relic hat already and though he looks better with a simple Noble's crown, I have to say that with the relic hat on, I can throw the FAT cures on just about anybody and not get hate. I mean in Besieged my WHM is like killing em softly with da cures.

I have to say I like using my Errant gear for WHM also since it helps heal mp. It makes the job more similar to BLM in that respect. But with my Blessed gear on my MP can come close and pass the 1200 mark. It's nice to have that much mp.

I wonder if I will eventually be moved to WHM status in Dynamis. I know that now that I have been there a while that I am becoming more acccustomed to how things work there but I have to admit that I am curious about other gear now. I kind of want that Morrigan's gear. I kind of need to try Limbus and Sky. I would really like to have those hands for my RNG if he ever gets up to level 70. I wish more of my friends would play FFXI.

I have been making asses of people at work by harassing them with the same antics they use to harass me. Oddly enough, the leaders aren't giving me crap about it. That's good cuz now I just hack and cough my ass off and people start to calm down when they realize how foolish I look doing it. It's kind of calming in a way. Maybe I will be able to keep my job after all.

OMG, it's your mother!

BLM:75 WHM:72 SMN:44 THF:75 WAR:61 RNG:44

Here he is! The only single job that is up to straight up tanking a level 8 Besieged Mega-Boss by himself. That's right it's a THF/WAR! Perfect Dodge > Provoke > Take that with my dagger!

So you're wondering what would you like to merit. I think that way some times too, but mostly what I want is to merit BLM. I really would like to merit Dagger some more though so that I could take him through the Besieged campaign more easily and even against the Notorious Monsters. However, I find that BLM is what I feel the need to improve.

With Elemental Skill maxed more, I would be able to wear the Weskit and hit more often and that would give me more satisfaction in nuking since the way the Weskit looks IS rather snazzy compared to the "doombringer" cloak that I usually wear. I think the cloak is superior mind you, but therein lies the dilemna, more ice potency and wear the cloak or more elemental skill and wear the weskit. Hard decision.

Right now I am forced to wear the cloak so of course what I want is to wear what I can't wear cuz it's stupid to wear it. That's perhaps the title of my favorite country song.

I am leveling my WHM with some few efforts and even though I can't abide hearing people with their comments in parties, I have to think that they ask me for stuff cuz I suck at the job so much. Who knows. I do know that I like the job more once people shut up.

Haste on mages is like using haste on Paladin. I have found it's not so necessary so even though I can tell the difference when I cast, I don't cast Haste on myself anymore. I also don't Haste Paladins. If they can't keep hate with the blob of MP and tools that they have, I just stop hasting everyone else too. Turns out that works better sometimes. Haste really does use up a lot of mp and hasting 4 is like a gob of mp. I just won't do it unless I have a lot of support for healing from others. I realize Paladins have problems with people that won't play along so those people that pull hate, they stop getting haste. Those tend to be the monks and darks and thfs sometimes. You have to wonder HOW can a thf pull hate knowing what I know. You'd just HAVE to do it on purpose for god-knows-what reason.

Today I worked on getting my Map for Caederva Mire. I have had the printout for a while and that's usually how I finally get out and get stuff done is when I have a whole lot of time to think about it. It was looking rather grim at first and since the printout sed that 3 75s could kill it, I was of the mindset that as WHM/WAR, I might could tank it if someone else could like 2 hr and kill it off quickly. But thankfully that didn't happen. In about an hour we had 8 people all 70+ raring to go and the kill was a rather simple one. We could have killed like the behemoth though with the mob we had. We had 4 BLMs 2 WHMs a WAR and a THF. Needless to say, I didn't have to tank. There was sort of a delay cuz the first person to read the cs came out early and the rest of us were still in cs while his hp turned yellow! But we caught up just fine.