2008 July « Red Mage Rules

Meet Ariees & Treborforever

July 21, 2008 at 1:05 pm | In Misc | 8 Comments

Apparently people do view my blog of their own free will. I know you think thats madness as I’ve probably forced you to read this update along with all of SM. But its true! There is one person out there who does! Man, that guy must rock.

Anyways, if you read the comments ya’ll know that Ariees decided to jump into the fast paced, high action world off FFXI!

There he is!

Hes from WoW, so excuse his dying all the time. (This is how mint I am at being a mentor, he died 3/4 times getting his magicked skull >_>;;;; now I remember why people make them wait at the entrance, seemed like no fun at the time tho XD) The important thing is; Ariees got his sub in the end ^^;

Ariees reviews games for a living so i’m always trying to get his opinion of ffxi. Its a 7.2 last time i checked :3

Compared to my experience as a newbie Ariees is very different, its been what? Just over a week? Hes level 20ish with a sub. Took me two weeks to get to level 10 I think, then me and Spen went on our epic San d’Oria quest. Its diffo for Ariees as hes played WoW so the whole thing isnt new, but I hope its still fun. For me, Spen and Livija it was our first online game so running around hitting the occasional Quadov was great fun. Just talking to other people on a game was great. Thats what gave FFXI most of its magic for us; everything was just so new and the world of Vanadiel massive.

In contrast to Ariees, meet Treborforever:

No, theres no picture. He hasnt been on enough. Trebor is an irl friend of mine whos no newbie to online games either, he started about a day after Ariees. Trebor picked a different race to Ariees but the same face type, nation and job. At the moment Trebor is level 3. When Trebor logged on and said ‘What can we do?’, i thought ‘Hmmm, well, we can hit some rabbits’. He basically decided he didnt want to play ffxi in the first 20 mins.

I think its amazing how different things are for people, logging on and hitting rabbits was great fun for me when I started but looking back I can see why its not fun. Pressing attack on a rabbit isnt that great I guess. But I liked it, why!?

Hmm, what am i getting at? idk.

I’m just wondering what there is to do thats fun for a newbie. I found everything great fun. I’m not sure what Ariees is finding fun, but he seems to enjoy ffxi ^^; and Trebor finds nothing fun. I’m confused! If hitting rabbits is only fun when your new to the mmorpg scene why can Ariees stand it?! lol.

I’d like everyone to have the experience myself, Spen and Livija had. I think thats the best way to start playing FFXI. But the games very different now if your new, I mean, Moogles in Selbina?!

Anyways, Nice to meet you Ariees. I hope you continue to play FFXI in our ‘lil LS Hopefully we can party together when you’re level 23!

PS: FFXI rocks.

Edit: For ze memories, heres a picture:

PL’d him (against my morals) today to see if he’d get abit more of a kick from the games. level 7 now :O seems to be having a lil more fun.

So long my sweet Republic…

July 19, 2008 at 12:47 pm | In General FFXI | 7 Comments

I lurve Bastok. It has been and will always be my favourite city, while my absolute favourite place is the arid yet beautiful Gustaburg that wraps its arms around the Republics borders.

I ended up in Bastok as it was the city Spen chose, left to my own devices Mill would have ended up being a Windurstian. However when Mill appeared in Bastok I loved it instantly; the music, the sights, the aggressive attitude, the power and the Galka slaves, everything a great nation needs. Mmmmm slaves….

Bastok educated and raised me to be proud of the blue flag attached to my name. In return for the wisdom the country bestowed upon me I made sure to always fight for Bastoks Conquest and slain any Quadov that crossed my path. GTFO OUR MINES! Protecting your eggs? STFU! *stab*

‘Course Bastok was always third in the Conquest rankings until the gil sellers decided to flock to Bastok, but thats not the point. I tried damn it!

One of the reasons I lurve the Republic is because its the underdog. We all know SE made Windy & Sandy first then ran out of steam, Bastok is noticeably shit when compared to them in terms of quality. Windy has NPCs around every corner and nearly all Sandys quest have CS’s. Where as Bastok has dodgy graphics and a half finished skyline. But the English love an underdog apparently so I love Basty! <3

However the sun is setting on my time in Bastok. After two and a half years its time to move on. I’ve saved Bastok from a freaky Galka rebellion and uncovered the mystery of the Shadowlord, truly an epic two years… By happy coincidence SE decided to alter OP wiped when you switch nation too, so woot! (glad I didnt change a week before like I was going too!)

Hmmm, what contry to move to tho? Sandoria? BAH! Dont make me laugh, sandy scum.

Im gonna help the little taru scum instead! Windy was the lesser of two evils and I occasionally like windy (good story :3)

Gonna miss my crappy house ; ; with its cold stone floor and unpainted walls D: so homely.

After taking one last look around, I locked my Moogle in the empty house and set out to Windy, never to return…

Upon entering Windy I was treated as if I was a total n00b! Everyone insisted I’d never been here before and people we’re trying to mug me ; ;

Woah that’s weird (and horrible) to see!

After getting away from the freakish welcome party I got the keys to my brand new home

BAM!

Its taken me weeks to get used to this! Every time I zone in and see my stuff I’m confused >_<! Have to admit, its nice and cosy. Miss having a fireplace but at least I have my Bastokian flag <3

Yar, so welcome to the new Mill, the Windy Mill! I just hope I don’t develop a Taru accent >=\ Time to get some missions done :3 kinda staticing with Spankey and Amith.

See how it goes~

Other Stuff!

Me and Livija decided to get our one year world pass gift

TaaDaa! Its six propellers continually spin~ ooOOOooOOOoOOOOo

Did I mention Amith got 75 Rdm? Well, he did. We went along to help out Ozrox on a Sky run.

It was ok, nice to actually get some use out of my phalanx II. The first fight I died within about 10 seconds which was a tad embarrassing, but I made up for it I think, ended up being the Rdm in ze Tanking party and everything went very smooth

SIMURGH! ARG THAT BASTARD! 20% DROP RATE ON TROTTERS MY ASS!

Tyvm to the LS and everyone that helped me out on him. Especially Spen who showed up for every run. We must’a killed him about 6 or 7 times, and got the Ingot drop, which wiki says is 6% … Sold for 300k which is nice (I got the winning lot XD split it with LS tho) but I’d rather have had the more common drop damn it! Eventually the pop time became too early so we gave up. Also theres only so many times i can force my ls to wait for a three hour pop.

Interesting story from this, SM is madly short on tanks and one pop we couldn’t get one. So I asked Livija to log on as Garys 75 Pld/nin, shes never played PLD before. Livija managed to tank the fight and keep hate off all the DD, including spencer on her first try as PLD XD This shows that either Livija is full of amazing skill or PLD job is so easy anyone can pick up and play it. Also funny to note Oz couldn’t keep hate of Spen when he came to tank it, heehehe.

Again, hank you all for the help! Much appreciated. At leaast you all made quite a few K in Gil out of it

What else..

Ooo I had my second merit party and it was actually good! The first one I had was with Amith (drk), few other DD and a Bard on Colibri. It was… crap. The bard would pull and sleep the Colibri, they’d wake up and mirror the AOE sleep back at us. It was laughable! Anyways, this one was with a bunch of JPs and it was great

I know people get #198376 chains but that’s my highest so far

I wasnt sure I’d be able to keep up with all the curing so I bought a Vermy cloak and it really helped Wish i had more refresh items D: Yay for merits tho spent them on upping Phalanx II, it now stacks in with my refresh cycle >=D

I thought this was a funny convo. On our way to get Spankey a Bastok mission Ami mentioned the Shikigami weapon:

Soooo full of shit

And finally Mill and Nokkum can now venture into the past as a duo. What adventures await them?!

Red Mage Rules: *Ahem* Dont cure Bomb at the start of a fight, let the tank build up hate. If the tank is going to die from a God and NEEDS a cure bomb… leave it to the WHMs >.> They levelled their job for that kinda crap….

Playtime: 149 days, 21 hours, 2 minutes and 17 seconds.

Moar Mill Art

July 8, 2008 at 11:49 pm | In Art | 9 Comments

52 Rng! Hat sooooon! eee~ Clicky for full size:

If only I had a tablet ): Must do a real update sometime ^^;

Picture in progress~ Quiet Ranger

July 3, 2008 at 1:35 am | In Art, Misc | 8 Comments

Mill has spent hours looking for party now, those damn JPs wont invite him. Sat in the same spot for god knows how long he has become numb to the world around him, the LS chatter and people running by have faded into the background as he stares blankly into space, the rage inside him is slowly building…

*Still longing for full Ranger AF*

l’ll post the final version when its done :3 I imagine this is what I look like most of the time while LFP, only i’d be in my underwear with a laptop in front of me

Dinged level 46 Ranger today~ not that long now (i hope) till the AF. Gawd it looks sweet.