Where War goes, Whm follows

BLM:75 WHM:75 SMN:49 THF:75 WAR:75 RNG:44 DRK:39

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There is a lack of trust sometimes when I speak to customers esp with ones that repeat my name several times like I am some sort of demon with some true name. It is interesting to note that though some people use "handles" that let them repeat it to their hearts content, and still others like to use their full names in every sentence like as if only their first name is not sufficient to identify them. These people tend to be rich.

On other fronts, playing WAR is becoming more possible. I find that many people love to get into merit parties now and have even found more mages to boot. I also find that THF is more playable now. I love to take him to Nyzul Isle and play him against birds but honestly with Haste he is WAY too good for words. I cant use his WS with SA or TA as often as I would like and that makes it tougher to decide when to ws.

I tried THF/RNG 2 nights ago and I was a little plastered and we went to Nyzul Isle with this one guy that all of a sudden pulls out a Mandau and proceeds to go to town with like 1400 dmg from Mercy Stroke. I had a lousy time with it. He was even pulling and making me look bad. I didnt do too badly but I had on AGI gear and the /rng belt but for some reason I thought I would try Meat Mithkabobs.

This was horrible. I was missing like crazy and ws were not hitting; more esp my ranged attack was not hitting which was the main benefit of /rng. I was rueing the day and pretty soon I find myself coincidentally not able to SA the mob cuz the other thf had found a new hobby which was to make me miss SA as often as possible by pulling hate. I had never met this guy before and I would have booted him if I wasn't such a gimp for using meat with ranged attack. Later I tried to pull hate to get the birds to eat my food but I was totally unable to. When the food wore off, I switched to squid sushi and I was in heaven but just then the other thf ses brb 5min. Well I was wiser than to wait for him to make us all suffer for 15+ minutes or more like I had made them so I immediately said [disbanding party].

Next night I resolved to go with my /war since I had 2 merits in double attack and was all set to max out my DEX for max dmg. To my delight I found a BRD and RDM willing to pt. This is like the optimal pt for birds cuz BRD can sleep and RDM can Haste and that leaves all melee earning TP super fast without a lot of pull time in between. But then RDM ditched and we got SCH. This was fine since I had checked him out first for healing and he sed he was good. We had THF THF RNG NIN BRD SCH. We had been sitting there for a good hour with thf thf thf brd and could not find a nin and that is why rdm left, but eventually the thf changed to nin and just like that we were good and going to exp. One of the thf wanted me to get rid of brd so I told him w/e and sent him on his way but then he agreed to pt so I added him. He seemed a little weird and later that night he pulled a ridiculous mess of mamool ja and I wonder if it wasn't intentional.

I was totally doggin him with dmg tho. The Brd had put dual attack-up songs on us and with Berserk up and Warcry I was doing just as much dmg as the guy with Mandau. It was really just ridiculous. 1400 was one of them but I didn't record the top. As a matter of fact I think Mandau guy was hitting 1000+ far less consistently than I was, but that is thanks to the BRD.

I found myself loving /war and now I think I am just going to use /war from now on and forget about /rng for a while. It sucks since I earned the Shark Gun (using Imperial Points) for the sole purpose of using /rng with it but I will give it a rest for a while.

We got like 30k exp that night and I have about 1k left to get my 7th GSD merit for WAR after which I might start upping my double-attack merits to 5 and then maxing out my Savagery merits. Savagery has 2 merits on it now but the next one will cost 5 pts. Ouch.

I still have to max out Freeze II again since they upped the max recently but that also costs 5pts and I am slow to do it since I like using WAR.

I am thinking of using my WHM as a tank since I often find that one detail missing from my late night merit selection. Since I can Haste myself and heal myself and noone is probably going to take too many hits if I take them all, I find that the most important thing to that end is to find items for WHM without too much -enmity and spell interruption gear. I don't want to sound crazy but WHM/WAR works pretty good against Lesser Colibri esp with Flash and Provoke but it seems like overkill and since I haven't done 75 levels of tanking, I just know I am missing something important. I can't decide if Blink or Stoneskin is more important but I know I can't quick cast those spells during the fight while healing. I also wonder if /WAR provoke is more hate than WAR/ provoke. If it is less, then WAR/WHM will prob work better esp with all the +enmity gear out there. Sadly, the buttersheep doesn't get to use Flash which would really make him stand out and grab hate back from the rest of the hate pullers.

The hard part of /war tank is going to be to teach people to let me get into yellow so I can heal myself. The next hard thing is to get club up to max which is not TOO far off since it is at 210 or so but it is not going to hit very often without acc gear and without food against birds. I love to invent things and this is just another of my ideas since I think I know so much. I have that if I go with another war/nin and tank as war/whm, that it would be better for the sake of the party since I have so much skill with GSD that I would still hit enuf to keep +enmity effective and I could still use blink at the end of the round for at least a couple of shadows. Still I wonder if I should use evasion gear since it would useful due to have thf at 75 my evasion is maxed.

There is no hope from ash

BLM:75 WHM:75 SMN:49 THF:75 WAR:75 RNG:44 DRK:45

Ever since I can remember I have wanted to have a more successful experience online but I have found myself often outdone by people with more will. I am ever so rudimentarily taken sometimes by simple selfishness that I lose track of what really offensive behavior is. But I am old now. I no longer find anything so right or so wrong that I will complain endlessly. ` I think I understand that the greater good is not always my version of good.

I have taken some time to level DRK and I find myself very happy with my choice of subs. People are so taken aback by my choice of subs in my other jobs but I like the fact that I find it useful to do my thing my way.

Yesterday I was partying with a bunch of people and we literally were thre all day. I have my DRK now to level 45 and I wonder if that might be the next job to level to 75. I like SMN tho and since RNG is not too far off, I am half considering leveling all 3 jobs in 10 level increments.

Getting their AF for all 3 jobs could prove quite a bit of fun since there is so much of it to get. Matter of fact, I have yet to get any of the level 40 weapons for them and that might prove fun too.

I use DRK/BLM as my job for him. It sounds stupid until you realize that I have maxed merits in Elemental Magic. The skill therefore surpasses regular BLMs in elemental magic. I could basically sit there and nuke and do a better job. That is all fine and dandy too but I also have maxed GSD merits. So I usually take hate and tank most times towards the end of the fight. I like to get hate cuz it shows Im doin that right thing. I don't have +enmity or voke so if I am just nuking or doing ws and trashing the mob, then I know my sub ain't gimp. It's funny tho, cuz noone will invite me but when they do, hah! they all end up bowing.

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What is LOVE?

BLM:75 WHM:75 SMN:49 THF:75 WAR:75 RNG:44 DRK:39

Well I had a great time in Las Vegas but I managed to not sleep very much and drink a whole lot several days in a row which put me in bed for like a week. I have to say that I won't be doing that too soon.

The really best part of the trip was the Burlesque show. It was top-notch. I also got a kick out of this one place with a theater up on the sky that looked like it was showing on the sky or something but it has been a while since I went so now I forgot the name.

I have started to play SMN more now and it is nice to use it esp with Level sync parties and such but I still kind of miss WAR. I have him at 5 merits for GSD and I want to get him with 7 so that he will be up with my THF. I also think it is only right that I merit to max his double attack ability but I really don't play that much anymore. Most of the time I can't find mages when I search for ppl to merit with which is usually after 2am.

I have really dodged Dynamis of late because of various things but hopefully I can go Tuesday coming up. Friday I can't make it cuz I work until 2am.

I haven't played Campaign for a while and I just know my medal has expired. Darnit.

I have started playing The Last Remnant and it is a nice game but it is taking too long. The battle sequences are a bit chaotic. Sometimes you are involved and other times you are not. The commands don't include the majority of things you can do and you really have to play it for a long time to get a knack for what works and then it's good to start over. I am still on the first disk but since I haven't played it in the last couple of days I think I might put it down for a while. My XBOX overheated or something and now I have to send it back and have it repaired. I think it overheated but the tech staff probably don't like to use that word. I know it was terribly dusty. The fan that I bought for it was filthy. I think instead of voiding the warranty when you open it, there should an optional cleaning device sold because that or overheating, I think, are probably the major causes of breakdowns,

I have started to build a bar at my house and learn how to make drinks on my own. It works better than trying to learn piano again. I am oh so not musical nowadays. No piano and no karaoke has made me a very dull person but I find also that I am not so spastic either. I sometimes wonder if women were meant to be musical and men not so.

I am going to buy the new campaigns when they come out but I still haven't done all of the WOTG missions and I think it is just pointless to have more missions come out when the previous ones aren't finished yet.

I find myself in tough times with my bar friends. I really can't see them that much anymore and sometimes I wonder about their disposition towards me. Are they jealous that I have more money? Do they think that I think I am "too good" for them? Do they talk about me? Since I have only one person I want to be my rank 1 friend, aka my girlfriend, I have purposely not hooked up with my friends for days on end. I know how it will be and I will just be doing them a favor by not shafting them for my girl when the time comes. As it is, I see them once a week, my best friend once a week, and my sister once a week. I think that's useful without asking too much of them. Still, I sometimes shaft them just to play games.

I sometimes wonder if the games are what keep me sedated or if it's my friends or if it's my sister. They are all very exciting people. My bar friends can play poker till the sun comes up and we still would go on if it wasn't obvious ( aka. the SUN) we should stop. My best friend can talk forever about everything and we really chew the fat about everything. Sometimes I literally have to force him to hang up the phone cuz we will just keep on talking. My sister has like this huge house that I could get lost in and she often has parties with many people there that makes hanging out with her a whole lot of fun. FFXI takes forever to do anything and while we do stuff we talk about things to no end as long as noone offensive is chewing on someone else's "gimpness" which makes the game totally engrossing even if it is just to check the AH prices or to farm of to synth stuff. I even campaign sometimes and enjoy myself.

So what do I need a girl for?