Halfway to Haidate

I took today off work. Another "Nah" day, if you will. I did go in for about 30 minutes and accomplished everything I should have done for the day. Maybe you'll understand why I'm so bored at work now.

Anyway - Today I accomplished a few things. Pascale and I made an exp PT this morning together. It only lasted an hour and some, and wasn't very good exp coming in, but it was fun. Mowgul leeched on his 68SAM and him and Pascale had a witty banter about their SAMs. I dinged another merit!

Then I joined a skill up PT with Morgvenom, Kelari, Dantes and Zoerine. I went WHM/NIN which is always fun with my Prudence Rod. Too bad I can't get any virtue stones yet.... someday soon, I've promised Nya. I'm closer to 230 and once I get that, I'll go solo my WS points with Yoli. And probably Mowgul too, if it's in Kuftal Tunnel he'll never give up a chance of getting gill (Amemeeenentnet?)

After dying in the skill up PT (I was AFK) I went to work to put in my 30 minutes.

Came back and Mowgul, who lost a bet to me a few days ago, is still technically my slave. So I took him up to Ulli camp and we duo'd statues for awhile. It's great EXP and with my empress ring I was always a couple shy from 400/kill. Kelari wanted to join to gain skill ups, and once he zoned into the area a Diorite dropped! 1/2 to a pop for Byakko. I highly, highly, highly doubt Haidate will drop for me. People have been going 0/12 Byakko's for that lately on this server. I wonder what the joke is... some would blame SE on the gay droprate but I secretly believe there is some truth to the sky gods getting together in meetings and playing tricks on us. Or!! Every sky god you pop is really a GM and FFXi is more PvP than you can imagine! I'd love to have that job. I want to wipe cocky new linkshells!


Poor Kelari had to go back down to the entrance and while Mowgul warped back to Whitegate to change to PLD, Terror and Anberlin needed our help with Shiki. No one has been camping or keeping track of Shiki lately... so it was up and free for us. Today was Anberlin's lucky day! YYR dropped. 3rd time is the charm~

Necksnapper, Kelari, Mowgul and I fought Groundskeepers for a few hours. It was fun to watch Kel drop those dolls with Spinning Slash. But Despot never popped. DRF came that way and I was certain they'd try to overtake our camp, but Eugene <3 oh Eugene verred them the other way. Unfortunatly we gave up.

I noticed I was only a few exp from my 3rd merit, and Mowgul was only 3k away, so we duo'ed in the mire again. I was on SMN and he was on NIN. Bako joined us in our Vent channel and chatted with us. It was fun - after I realized that I was on EXP and not limits... Mowgul and I dinged at the same time.

Your cure casting time modification has risen to Level 3.

I'm starting to become a merited WHM! A few more pieces of gear and a few more merits and I'll actually be "done" with this job. It's a wonder that WHM will probably be my first done job. I plan on continually improving BRD.. whereas WHM seems to hit a cap. Once you have the favored AF2, there isn't much else out there that will significantly improve WHM. I'm sure there could be, to somone who takes the job seriously... but me? Nope. I have cure and mp. What more do you want?

Apparently Ciaran wants much, much more. We'll see how Amanada does at WHM in our next salvage. Maybe Ciaran will go easier on me.


Quote of the Day:


An example of Mowgul's sincere Britishness, and a very solid statement about our friendship.