FFXI stuff

Well its about damn time for a dedicated FFXI update, being that the major subject of my blog is supposed to be about FFXI and all. I haven't been doing a whole hell of a lot but I'll recap whats been going on lately.

As I have talked about recently I have been leveling BLM a lot lately. The main reason I took the job back up from level 42 (where it had been sitting for like 2 years) was because Shay asked me to duo with her BLM. I had always liked BLM before when I leveled it, and since I had so much fun leveling BST with her, I didn't hesitate to agree and to catch up as fast as possible. So I did just that, and even though we've only actually duoed twice so far (I'm 57 she is 56), I had fun doing it.

I also finally did a full sky run the other day for the first time ever I think. We farmed a bit and did a Kirin. I enjoyed the Kirin fight even though all I do is Boost and Chi Blast. To be completely honest I don't even remember what else we did besides kill Olla Grande once.

Lastly I finally got off my ass and started doing some Aht Urghan missions. I should have done them ages ago but I got lazy and fell behind and never got caught up. First we started out on mission 29 which was a fight against a Mamool riding a Wivre in Jade Sepulcher. The thing had some pretty insane defense and spammed a Fire based AoE but was easily dispatched of.

The next fight was mission 31 where we had to go to Arrapago Reef and kill some Lamia. It took us over an hour to build the party and we finished the fight in about 3 minutes, very anti-climactic.

Finally we did mission 35 and boy what a disaster that whole experience was. For starters it took us 5 hours, yes FIVE FUCKING HOURS from starting to shout for people before we actually went into the BC. Some of the problems we ran into were lack of people interested in it, people that didn't do the prep work leading up to the BC, and one particularly retarded member who took 3 tries to manage to zone into the correct entrance. Once we finally managed to do the fight we won (thank God) and now I'm up to mission 38.

The story so far isn't too bad, its definitely starting to pick up thats for sure. It started out soooooo slowwwwww and I was pretty disappointed up until about 35, but it is getting better now. I've read that it has a very epic ending (can't imagine anything being more epic than CoP ending though) so I'm hoping it makes up for the lack of enjoyable fights and long and mostly uninteresting cutscenes I've endured so far.

Well thats it for now, looking forward to leveling some BLM this week when I can, even though its probably gonna be a busy one for me in real life. See you all soon.