Extended Blog Vacation Catch Up

I've been off work sick for almost a week, and haven't really been in the mood to write anything, so I guess I have a lot to catch up, but it probably won't be too detailed, Four to five days worth of being home sick = lots of FFXI play time = too much to write before my hands fall off.

Since my last entry, we went to Dynamis on Saturday, nothing too exciting dropped though (Still no WHM AF2 body!! I swear, its a myth *shakes fist at SE*) This was on Saturday afternoon after my last entry~ It's now Wednesday, so forgive me for not remembering finer details.

We did (yet) another Dune Boots NM run, and it took three hours for the little bastard to spawn, our longest camp session yet, poor Bluvion he gets the short end of the stick every time ; ;

But!!! We kirred it good. We had a few people switch in and out as we were there a while, but we ended up with enough to kill it so Congratulations Bluv! We are going for Sonnia's boots on Sunday, so hopefully it doesn't take that long. Can you tell I hate camping NMs?? haha.

The things I do for my LS lol.

Hmm... what else did we do ? I levelled Paladin with Bluv's white mage for a bit, got to LV20 and he LV19, might be going to level that a bit tonight if no one needs anything.

Umm.... Oh yeah! We did a bunch of Promyvion runs (I think I'm the only person that actually likes them). I took the LS through Promyvion Mea two times and did Promyvion Dem once. We did Mea twice because a couple of them missed the first run, so we did Mea one night, then did Mea and Dem the next night. We kirred it good. We did the ENM too, we raped Mea, no supercool item though, but a tasty 3000exp was nice. We lost the Dem ENM @1%HP we were a bit sad, but it wasn't really important, we tend to use them as practise runs for the mission, especially for those that have not done it before. It's a nice warm up, and if we win, bonus exp and possible prize. I did it once and got a Timorous Vision, which I think ended up as a Wind Earring =900k, which was nice. Congratulations Shaunmc and Ruska {Lufaise Meadows} {All right!} Planning the last Promyvion Holla for Thursday evening (my time) so hopefully we do as well as we did last time.

Hmm what else did we do ? Forgive me, I've been ill, the days blur together a bit when you fall asleep in the middle of the day, you tend to lose track of what day it is and what you've done.

Oh that's right~ non LS stuff I did on Saturday night, I went to Sky with Ingram's LS, we fought Byakko the tiger and Genbu the turtle. Byakko dropped Aquarian abjuration for the Zenith crown, which I already have (Urora got it woo!) and Genbu dropped his shield. I want it, but I wanted the hands Abj. more, so I chose the hands. /cry. Oh well, next time.

Oooh and the LS did Garrison on Sunday night too, it was so much fun. We did four runs in. West Ronfaure LV20 cap and got 2 Tunics, 3 Hands, 2 Boots and 2 Helms. We did it firstly as a test run, we decided to see if it was at all profitable and try to sell the Garrison gear and split the earnings. So far about half of it has sold, but because we have 10-15 people each run, it only works out to be about 15-25k each per run. Although that's not at all bad for a free to enter event (just have to farm the key item~drops very easily) which is a ton of fun to do anyway, even if theres no reward.

(zomg I nearly died just now, my stupidly long acrylic nails stumbled over the keyboard and hit the back button the browser, after going forward my entire post disappeared~~ *heart stops for a moment until I realise blogger autosaves drafts*) Phew.

So I have til next Sunday to try and move the rest of the gear, it doesn't sell as fast as I would hope, and I'm worried I will flood the market and it will be worthless... We'll see. If pooling it doesn't work, I can set up a lot system where everyone can lot on the gear and obtain a piece each if wanted. Still have to work out what we will do. So far we decided to let Mannequin parts free lot to those that are doing the quest. Thanks to Braidertom for helping me with working out the best way to do it, and thank you to Ataka for suggesting we try it! Lots of fun to be had.

Before Dynamis last night, Draako mentioned she was going to take Mjgone to do 3-3 Promathia mission (you know, the one where you have to fight the thing, and run up the mountain?). I have fought the NM but didn't have time to run the jewel up the mountain so I was going to do it later. If I had known better, I would have just set my hard drive on fire and saved myself the stress. I hate SE so much after that. So much. I just wanted to jump off the mountain to my bloody death below. We didn't have a map of Attowa Chasm, but we found the NM easy enough, we kirred it in about 30seconds, then had to grab the jewel and run up the mountain to the top in under 1hour.

An hour seems like a long time, right?

Wrong.

It took so long to find the part where we can actually get on the path up the mountain, we wasted a lot of time. The map is useless anyway, as there's smoke barriers all over the place. So. We get on the path. It's really tricky, you have to climb up and fall down certain places to get over obstacles and get to the top, but if you fall to the ground you have to start over again. So we got about half way up, we were a bit lost, but trying to work it out, when ZOMG DISCONNECTED. So that meant I lost my jewel when i logged back in. Back to the start. Get the jewel. Kick the computer. Run back around the mountain to the path entrance. And we couldn't find the way up we wasted like 30mins before the beautiful Chanel came out to give us a hand. I love you Nel!! <3>

Went to Dynamis Jeuno last night after slitting my virtual writs over the 3-3 mission and swearing at Promathia, Shaunmc came along even though he had to work so early, but Congrats! Dynamis Beaudecine here you come~ We had RNGx2 SAM NIN MNK and a 100 drop on the run, Mj missed out on MNK gloves as Yoyosendak was in front of him in the queue, but I believe he is up for it next. Fingers crossed that we actually go back to Jeuno at some point soon. I still need my stupid clown pants!! 6months Ive been waiting for them to drop... (haha yeah very funny, I know what youre thinking when I say that) But seriously SE, you suck.

After Dynamis last night we went to Einherjar, we were better prepared this time and came so close, the NM was @5-10%HP and we ran out of time. The thing that was annoying was they pulled before everyone got inside, so Mjgone and Darkscythe got locked out (MNK and RNG fyi) so we missed out on their DD skills. I still reckon we would have won if they had gotten inside. Its hard though, we all have to rush in or we waste time to fight it. Its only 30min after all.

I'm sure we will win next time, we had more people too, i think about 30 went in this time as opposed to last time we had 22.

Anyway, shortly therafter I fell asleep and decided I was feeling better so I went to work. Turns out I still feel like crap but hey, got to pay my rent some how. :\

Thanks for reading, tonight I hope to fiddle around and add in some pictures to make my ramblings more interesting. I have a bunch of Screen shots that I want to add into past posts. I have to clear my folder, I cant take any more until I do, I think i maxed out my space for screenies.

Keep posted for further photo edits and further updates.

Love you all <3