Goodbye Vana'Diel

Welp, I haven't written in quite some time, and after finally sneaking onto a computer super late at night, I can finally type some stuff up. My life right now has been pretty hectic. The transfering back to my college process has turned out to be much more of a hassle then I had hoped and my parents are terified about my future. With the economy in the crapper I am currently having trouble even finding a part time job. Luckily I have a gotten back in touch with a few old friends and my support network has helped me through it quite a bit.

But my real life escapades have never been the centerpiece of this blog. It has been about my FFXI adventures. I highly doubt a lotta people read this, but I'm writing this post as my formal goodbye to the world of Vana'Diel.

I have played FFXI for 6 years now...give or take a bit, and its a little sad to say goodbye to it. FFXI has given me many memories that I will always cherish, but also a few which I will be happy to forget. If someone told me as a little kid, that I would get to chat and become friends with people all across the US, and even a few people across the ocean over a video game, I would of thought them crazy and probrably would of punched them and then run away as fast as possible.

For better or for worse, FFXI has been dying. The server populations have been shrinking, the endgame content has been boring, and the only thing that kept me going for the last few months on it has been the amazing friends that I had on there. When I first took a break from FFXI a year ago or so, I honestly felt agitated and bored. As if I had something missing from my life that I really need. Now, however, I really don't miss it anymore.

When first starting to play the game, I treated many of my online friends as my "online buddies." I knew they were real people, but besides playing FFXI, I always considered them as "Miry's friends", not mine. But as time progressed, many of my friends online became much more then just random people on the internet that made me laugh. And I want to thank you all so much for making the game be amazing for such a long time.

I really don't know what else to write. I dont know what will happen to me, or Miry, or to all of Vana'Diel, but I want to just say thanks again. It was a great trip while it lasted.

-Yumi

Nyzule Isle and Limbus. Yay!

Oooph...Once again I haven't updated the blog in quite a while. Been busy with school and trying to find a job still. And usually my free time has been filled with either the game or me just trying to catch my breath. Anyways, story time! My nzule isle static has been going strong. We actually just finished lvl 40, so we've definitely worked our ways up the ladder quite a bit already. I'm a little frustrated with how SE made it work though. Sometimes it seems like you get a set of floors that you just cannot beat within the time limit. Clear all followed by 5 chariots followed by 4 flayers? Really SE!? At least our group is very well balanced and we're usually able to take care of most floors no problem. Here's hoping to the group getting to level 100~!

The Nyzule Isle Static did a lil merit pt after one of our runs to release some stress. I hadn't merited in quite some time and it was fun letting my thf just massacre birds again.

Limbus has been going very strong. I actually have enough ABC's to upgrade the three pieces of Bst AF that I want to. Although I still need the rare/ex drops from limbus also. As of right now, I believe we're three chips away from having three omega sets. Can't wait to use em! Hopefully I can at least get one piece of equipment when we do all those runs. XD

Ifrit! Arnor, Krystala, Okwaho, and Souel all joined in for some ifrit killing action. Poor prime when down with almost no trouble what so ever. And now I'm a happy owner of an Ifrit's blade. Once I get bst finished I will hopefully be able to level blu so I can use it.

My bst is level 74 now and I have been slowly upgrading it little by little. I even went out and killed the NM so I could have decimation. Sadly rampage does better damage but at least its a fancy lookin weapon skill. Except for two upgraded relic pieces, I'll actually one of the best possible charm sets out there. So I'm pretty happy about that.

I don't even remember how it happened but SoO gathered a few peeps and we killed Charby for Krys! I know its a pretty fancy sword and all and I'm sure she will enjoy it on her pld. She's definitely turning it into quite the buff job.

Thats my little update for now. Going back to bed now...I hope everyone has a good halloween ^^. Its coming up fast!

Swamped with stuff, but in a good way.

Ack! I finally noticed I haven't posted in a while. School, ffxi, and this awful on and off fever have kept me really busy. Luckily, even though I forgot about an adventure or two, I have pictures to remind me of em! But I don't need a picture to remind me of adventuring with Okwaho. We were going for a blu spell with him and I brought up the amazing idea to try the Arrapago Reef. However, a lil whiles in, Mr. Galka learned that soulflayers are true sight and everyone died. After Souel came and raised us, and running around the place looking for the correct mob, the group decided to go outside and just stick with those mobs. Sure enough, after a few fights Okwaho got Hysteric Barrage. I'll have to remember on blu to just stick with the mobs outside as well.

Souel has been wanting a Dark Pact for a while so I've been helping him try to farm it a few times. Thank's to Arnor's super sam, the farming went like...2000 times smoother. Amazingly, it was getting pretty late and I told the both of them that I was gonna have to call it a night after the next demon. Right before the mob died I yelled at it and told it to drop the scroll and sure enough, it did! Wooo!

Been doing the mammet ENM with Arnor and it's been pretty easy so far. In fact, we even do another quest along the way for an extra exp scroll. You never knoew when ya need an extra exp scroll! I haven't gotten anything fancy from the ENM yet, but I know sooner or later, something big is gonna drop.

A random NM me and Cyp Cyp ran into when running to the Brothers NM. We jumped on it when we saw it was a NM hoping it would drop something good. Once we realized it dropped only junk, Cyp slept it and we went on our merry way.

A better picture of the giant dragon gaurding the super rare snow up there. I know that dragon is hiding something important, I just gotta find out what.

Salvage! Um...its exactly like I remember it honestly. You get a bunch of cells, you work your way up to the boss, and then you win some, you lose some. I kind of messed up scheduling my classes and lab around salvage...but I'm hoping once my work schedule settles down, I can make the runs more frequently.

Got to exp in an imp exp party consisting of two bst and two smn. It was actually really fun! And unlike the last party, it was actually super efficient! I also got to become a duo partner with the other bst. Although my schedule has been super busy, I hopefully can duo with him and get some decent exp....hopefully.

And here is a random picture of a besieged group visiting me while I was soloing some colibri on bst. Bst has been super duper awesome lately and I'm enjoying the job immensely. I leveled it to 70 and I'm really hoping to get it to 75 before the end of the year. There is still a few pieces of equipment that I need to hunt down but it's coming along very nicely.

Thats a little post for now. Here's hoping to more awesome pictures and hopefully a less sneezing person!

Summer Blitz!

Oh gosh. I haven't posted in quite a while again @_@. Been super busy both online and off. School has started and I'm on campus for most of the day. And when I am not, I'm usually busy now doing stuff with people. Which is totally super fun and awesome! Mr. Beard totally had a great idea to get more involved with the community and I am trying my best to. Campaign isn't really one of them, but I thought a picture showing everyone who died from a 2K AoE from a yagudo bard was pretty funny. Stupid birds...

My beastmaster is now comfortably sitting at 68! I'm really hoping to get it up to 75 before the end of the year. I know there are many awesome things I can do with the job and I have my fingers crossed that the good bst solo camps are not taken all too much. Come on beastmaster! You can do it! Anyhoo, with the help of Souel and Cyp, I was able to get me some rutter sabatons! My bst's ws set is now sitting above 40 str at 68 so I'm pretty happy with it. The slow on the boots kind of stink, but the added damage is nice. I'm still wondering what most bsts use for feet when it comes to TP though. I'll have to do more research!

Cyp cyp and me have added another ENM to our rotation! The brothers one! Although the trip to get the item to get in is definitely a pain, it is always nice to see the resident dragon just lazying around. I mean...what kind of dragon just gaurds...a bunch of snow? ;>_>

Although we had trouble the first time with the fight, Cyprias and me have been able to duo the ENM twice with little problems. I'm sure once we get more acustomed to the mobs and what not, we will definitely kick a super ton of butt. Here's hoping for some major gil!

Arnor wanted some healing insurance on the mammet ENM fight so I agreed to help him out! We had done the fight a few times in the past and getting to the darn fight was harder then the fight itself. Sheesh! Neither of us got anything fancy from the fight but we both know stuff is just around the corner @_@;. And we will get it. On a super lucky note, Arnor spoted the NM bat outside of the zone and we totally jumped on it. We got both the cloak and the earring to boot! So super good job to Arnor for spotting the bat, because I embarassingly ran by it without even noticing. orz...and I call myself a thief.

Multiple people have told my ranger is pretty helpful in endgame stuff so I decided to try to put together a mediocre TP and WS set. I think my TP set is pretty good but my WS is definitely lacking many spots. Anyhoo, hearing a bunch of shouts for Nyzul Isle, I decided to join a few runs. And with super duper luck, one of my runs had 5 people going for Askar or Goliard and only me going after Denali. I crossed my fingers and my tail, and amazingly the Denali Jacket dropped! I know it's no Kirin's Osode, but I'm hoping it acts as a decent substitute for my ranger's weapon skill set. It definitely does more then the ranger's AF. I'm not really too sure what I should hunt down now, but I'm sure farther down the road I can get my ranger looking decently spiffy. Its no super decked out ranger, but hopefully the damage delt by it will be sufficient.

I hadn't been to dynamis in a while due to time conflicts with school and family, but I did get to go to a Dynamis Xarcabard and a Dynamis Beau.! And with more luck I got the ranger boots! Sorry Bane, I know you wanted them but I'm working on my ranger also D:. Besides, you're ranger is already better then mine so stop staring at it! I'm still quite a whiles away from getting my thf gloves...but at least I'm slowly progressing.

The final picture for tonight is a picture of a 6 beastmaster experience point party I joined. Sadly the party was more novelty then efficient and I think with the tabs we were only getting about 4k an hour. Even worse, the taru leader turned out to have an attitude problem and just walked away from the party. It wasn't our fault the experience was awful. Anyways...I still thought the idea of one monster having to fight against 12 different oppenents was funny. Those poor raptors didn't even stand a chance. I'm most likely going to have to solo myself to 75.

Thats my big update for now. I'm actually gonna be out of town for a while so I hope everyone starts out their September really well. Don't forget people, smiles!

- Miry

Scribbling down some thoughts

Another little update for now. I haven't really been accomplishing all too much lately. Mainly just been lazying around and talking to people. Like Yoda and Hen! I hadn't seen those two in quite some time so it was nice to catch up with them a lil during an assault run. Always nice to catch up with old friends. Speaking of old friends, a good friend of mine named Kihre appeared out of nooo where. I think she was gone for like...3 years? It was a really really long time, but randomly I saw her in qufim and she is back! Its always nice to see good people return to the game.

I've been pretty bored lately online, so been trying to do stuff to make it more interesting. Fought Draketrader with Cyp cyp. The fight was really easy though. I was actually looking up bst information while I wasn't kiting or nuking. No luck on the item for gil. Oh wells. I actually sold the cuch. mantle since I really wasn't using it and the AH price went up 400k.

Using the gil I finally got my first HQ staff. Apollo's price was going up but I decided to buy it anyway. Playing a solo job really doesn't allow you to be cheap on your equipment. With the staff and a few other upgrades though, I noticed my bst was doing a lot better. With some help from Souel, I was also able to reach 66! Maybe, I will have another 75 before the end of the year...bwahaha...who am I kidding...probrably not.

Been doing limbus a lil bit with Cyp's linkshell. Its been alrighty. I dunno...I have never won the fight against proto-omega before but I didn't find it all too exciting. The linkshell did do a great job taking it down, even with the deaths.

I've been in a little funk lately. It's like no matter what I do, I just can't find something to get me excited about the game. Hopefully I can get out of it...we'll see. Thats my little update for now. Hopefully I can enjoy the last few days of summer break.

Slowly trucking along. . .

Blearg...still trying to work myself into the habit of posting again. I really want to make sure I'm able keep this lil blog going. Its always nice to look back at fun times that you may or may not remember. @_@;; Anyhoo, nothing all too fancy has happened to me. The biggest thing to happen is I finally got blu to 60 and can finally wear the hat! Yay! I definitely need to look up more info on blu since I'm not too sure what equipment I'm supposed to be going for. . . str or int for spells? Magic attack or accuracy? Stuff like that. I suppose I'll have to put on my research hat on and find out! XD Anyways, onward to the adventures!

One night I wasn't feeling all too good and was pretty bored. Souel, aka gramps, however, knew exactly what I needed. Fighting tough mobs on thief! Our first prey was Zoraal Ja's Pkuucha. The first time him and me duo'ed, we ran into a little bit of trouble and wiped. However! We came back with a vengenge and killed the bird twice in two nights, netting the earring both times! Yay!

But Souel is not one to do something lightly. He always wants a challange. So after killing the bird one night we headed for Jaded Jody and had some crazy Malboro action. So long as utsu stays up to prevent vampiric spikes or whatever its called, the fight isn't too bad. Then again, Souel's enfeebles are what really allowed me to survive the tanking @_@;. But hey, we got the pants and we earned a little bit of gil that night. I really should thank him again...it was totally fun~!

Souel really wants some kind of cape from Sea. I dunno what the dealio is about the place since I really dont know stuff about it. But after farming for a few hours with Souel and Arnor, we finally got the mob to drop what he needed. Not the cape, but the pop item. Hopefully he gets that cape D:

Me and Cyp Cyp wanted to do something together so we decided to farm in Sea Serpent's Grotto. In reality...the gil wasn't really all that good ^^;. But it was nice to see Cyp's thief going at stuff. Still needs to work on a few things but I know he will be stronger and probrably better equiped then me in almost no time.

Actually did two sets of BCNMs but I only took pictures from the BCNM 40. Belen and Maroku were both super nice ^^. I didn't remember the fight plan on blm and I was worried I was gonna scare them off by asking all sorts of questions. However, with all the questions out of the way we safely (I think?) beat all three runs. And the group totally got lucky with both Belen and Maroku getting a utsu scroll! Although I didn't get anything I felt I at least contributed towards their's.

Also did the Kraken bcnm fight with Cyprias and...Shiu? I always mispell that poor taru's name. With rdm, blm, and cor that fight is easier then easy. I believe I was in fact reading a book and drinking tea while partaking in the fight. That poor kraken just got it's butt kicked. But I guess the fight is easy for a reason...because once again the club didn't drop. I suppose SE made the fight easy since the drop rate is only like..5%? lulz...you so crazy SE.

Well those are my adventures for the week or so. Hopefully there will be this month. This is my last month before school starts up again and I would really like to do more. Here's hoping to a good month. Oh oh, and if anyone needs a blue mage for a exp party (even level sync, I just need the exp D:) for the love of my tail, please invite me! I gotta get to 75 before Krystala does and she levels way too fast @_@;.

Bringing Back Memories

Hi hi blog. Another post, another set of stories to talk about. Strife has been going at it again in sky and sea. When we have the numbers, it definitely reminds me of the old times when we used to kick butt. One night we actually took out Mother Globe, Steam Cleaner, and the Olla triplets. Was a very fun night ^^.

Sea is something I'm still very new to. I never really got into it so I totally don't know the layout of the area or the aggro ways of the mobs. Despite my lack of knowledge, I still had a great time. We killed that Ix'Drk mob and a Jailer! Super exciting! Great job linkshell @_@b

I was in the need of gil so I tried out the bcnm50. Sadly I only walked away with 17k. However, after farming for about a week, and selling off thief equipment that I wasn't really using, I was finally able to get a cuch. mantle! The piece is definitely an endgame piece, since the str, dex, and acc are more useful during those times. I tried the mantle on EP birds and sadly the mantle preformed worse compared to amet. +1. I tried it over and over, but amazingly, the numbers stood where they were. Hopefully I'll get the chance to see them shine on some IT mobs.

I'm more ashamed then proud of this last fact...but I actually finished my corsair relic armor (not including the accessory). I mean, everything just kept going to free lots, and no one had a corsair higher then mine. I'm super shocked and humble for the set. I honestly thought I was gonna finish bst first. I hope I can continue to give my best to my dynamis linkshell, even if its red mage. @_@;

My computer has been acting up so I might be on even less. I hope everyone is able to finish their July on a happy note. I'm sorry if I'm a lil negative or quiet to anyone...I've just been dealing with a lot of stuff. Stay strong peeps.

Game Face. This time, its cereal...I mean serious.

Once again it has been a while. A whirlwind of stuff happened to me at the end of the year and it took a while for it all to clear up. I won't dwell into it, but changes have been made. If anyone wants to know more I'll be happy to discuss it in person. Anyways, I'm in the middle of changing the blog somewhat. Trying to find a better way to list the relic armor I'm getting as well as formatting the other stuff. Nothing personal, but I removed a few people off the list of blogs. I hadn't talked to most of people I removed in months. There will be other changes as well sooner or later so we'll see what happens @_@.

As the title states it, I will be getting serious again about the game. My dynamis linkshell has been nothing but amazing and I will continue to do my best on red mage for them. Strife has been reformed and although the future is hazy, I will try my best to help out the linkshell as much as possible. I was young when I first joined the ls and I don't think I realized how lucky I was to be in that linkshell until now. I hope I can help Strife in it's future, whatever it holds.

My blue mage has reached 58, thanks to a exp party and a lotta help from Arnor. It has continued to keep me interested and I look foward to exploring more and more of its capabilities as I continue to level it.

Thats my little update for now. Sorry for the seriousness of the post. I'm a little edgy as of writing this. @_@;

My Apologies.

May was the full first month in which I only updated once. Wow. School has been kicking my butt lately with me finishing two project that each clocked in 15+ hours of work on top of my homework and studying. Despite sleeping less and working more, I still had time to do a few things~.

Like a K-Club run with Korbon and Shylo! I haven't been able to do the static with Fraggles and Arnor in quite a while so I decided to try my luck on the kraken club fight. Like last time I had no luck but it was really nice doing something with the two. Thanks for inviting me guys! Once I get more seals I'll totally send a tell your way. :O

Even though my linkshell does dynamis every four days, I have only been able to make it to 2 of the...past...8. @_@;;; I feel really bad that I miss out on it because the linkshell has been nothing but awesome. The two runs I went to were both Dynamis-Beau. and I was able to get the red mage body as well as the corsair body pieces from the area (Both as free lots to boot!). My little collection of armor has grown a bajillion times faster then I expected and I'm running out of space fast. I'm hoping I can finish a set or two so I can store it @_@;. Hopefully when I have more time I can put more time into the linkshell to repay the generosity that they have shown.

Hunting blu spells! Special thanks to Cyprias, Arnor, Coejus, and Sallys here for hunting down blue mage spells lately. Besides one super duper good party with Cyprias, my blue mage solo'ed from 41 to 49 using Fields of Valor. I'm a lil torn over the idea of leveling that way. Although the exp is decent (3K or higher an hour), I'm worried I will have to practice using burst affinity and chain affinity in a party set up. Using them solo is one thing but I really wanna get the job down in a party set up as well. I guess there will always be chances in the future.

With blue mage at 52, I have hunted down most of the AF pieces. I must admit I was very dissapointed with the AF quests for blue mage. Red mage and rangers both had interesting stories revolving around their AF with thief having (in my opinion) an amazing storyline that involved *spoilers!!* lost Tavnazian treasure, the Tenshodo, and a famous band of thieves that were believed to have disbanded long ago. I still need to get the AF hat for blue mage, but the first quest was mediocre at best. And three pieces are simply just bought. I mean...thats even worse then coffers! Sure, you don't gotta spend an hour or two farming up keys and hunting them down, but I really didn't feel I accomplished or earned the armor by just walking over to the AH and buying the materials that I needed to have them made. Hopefully the corsair AF storyline will be better.

It's already June. Time has been flying by super duper fast. Best of luck to everyone and I hope I can have more adventures to tell in the future~!

Frazzled Brain

Wow. I haven't updated in a super long time. School has been demanding a super lot from me and what little time I've had I have been wanting to adventure. I've busy leveling corsair and blue mage when I could but I also have been able to do a little item hunting. So onward to stories!

First off equipment. I actually only did one run of Dynamis since last time I wrote but it was Dynamis-Beaucedine. And I actually didn't d/c this time! So it was actually like doing the Dynamis area for my first time! And as a little bonus, I also got a nice pair of Monster Gaiters! My fourth piece of AF for bst. Maybe its because I'm not going after equipment that a lot of people want, but I have definitely been super lucky with drops. Anyways, I realized that I have actually accumulated quite a lot of relic pieces so I plan on charting them on my blog to keep track. I have trouble realizing what I have even when I'm looking straight at the list so hopefully it will help me remember what I have. The list I have isn't working though so I'm gonna try to think of a way to better say exactly what piece I have.

Corsair~! Partying in the past is always nice, but gosh...since when the heck were ladybugs so effing strong!?! I find it very scary that a little bug killed over half our party. I know they are strong but it's just embarassing to go down from something super tiny. Anyways, thanks to Cyprias making the parties, I was able to get a few levels. Corsair might be on a break for a while though, because blue mage has been super exciting lately.

Not a fancy post, but just a little something so I don't forget the little adventures I have. Now I could totally go for a nap...before more homework @_@;.

Blue Magic - Its like an abusive friendship

Oh blue magic. Sure, every spell is free. But why must it be so difficult to get spells from time to time? I don't go for spells that are 10 levels above me. Oh no. I'm going for spells that are just 1 to 3 levels above me. Heck, usually I solo my spells. But when a mob has too many TP moves, you really don't need to make it a lower percentage.

I had a free night the other day and I was able to get blue mage to 40. Blue mage is definitely a fun job. But getting the spells from time to time can be annoying. It's like having a really good friend who has that one annoying thing about them but you ignore it anyway because you still find the person to be nice. @_@; I dunno. I'll see where the the job takes me. I must admit I didn't find the idea that the two blue mages that were girls seemed the weakest of the five for the AF weapon quest. I mean come on...if one of those was a mithra npc, I'm sure she would of been the toughest of the bunch. I'm probrably just overreacting but I just thought it as a little silly.

Something else I have picked up since the last update. Nyzul Isle Investigation Static Group! Gramps, aka Souel came out of the woodwork and asked if I wanted to join a Nyzul Static group. After a little discussion I decided to join up. It is pretty hard to turn down an offer from the "Lord of Dance". Don't hide it Souel, I saw you in those tights...they definitely fit ya quite well. Anyhoo, our first day we had a little trouble with lamps, but our second day the group was able to farm up two denali hats. Thank ya Henita, Lilyoda, Milie, Rifuburade, and Souel. My blu and cor will definitely use the hat ^^b. And as a little bonus, after the group disbanded I realized I accidently still had a ??? hat on me so I got it examined. And what do you know! It turned out to be a spelunker's hat! Thats right peeps, I finally got the famous negative O-hat! XD

April is definitely ending on a good note. My workload is still increasing as my classes continue, but I will still be able to do a few things here and there hopefully. I'm sorry again about the sporadic posts. Have a wonderful day everyone~!

Blue. The other other colored magic.

Its been quite a while since my last post. I have been super busy with homework and other stuff. An average of three to five hours of homework a night does not give me much time to do stuff. However, with the little time that I have I try my best to do stuff. With corsair kind of stagnating due to complications with Cyprias as well as gil issues, I have decided to level blue mage some more. With Arnor helping me getting spells here and there, my alchemy giving me nice HQ'ed swords, and level sync making parties nice and simple, blue mage has been relatively easy.

However! There are still situations here and there in which people act a little rudely. I had a party in Yhoator jungle. The puller was a japanese bard. We had actually moved camps and he didn't know he was going to be puller so he came /whm. Anyhoo, the pld didn't have his provoke ready and the bard died since the tank couldnt pull it off of him quickly enough. In his broken english, the taru asked why there was no provoke. Even though we all knew the taru was japanese, the pld began to yell at the taru defensively, blaming him for dying. I was able to explain to the taru that the pld didn't have voke ready yet, but by the time I had finished explaining the situation the pld and his two friends had left the party without a single word or explination. Wonderful job you three. Its because of idiots like you that make japanese players dislike americans.

I just do not understand why people have to be so agressive against each other. If people could just take a deep breath and relook at the situation, I'm sure many problems would be solved quicker and easier.

Last but not least. Dynamis! Sadly, dynamis is one of the few things that has taken a hit from all the extra school work that I'm doing. However! I did get to go to my first Dynamis-Xarcabard! We didn't really get any drops, and I died quit a bit. But it was super interesting. Hopefully someday I can get those fancy thief gloves out of the area.

Thats my little post for now. Sorry about the sporadic writing but its quite late and I need some sleepy.

Working Overtime

Well I just finished the last of my calculations for one of my classes and I am semi energetic on tea. It's pretty late and I'm having trouble sleeping so I thought...what better way to put yourself to sleep then to write a little confession. Those always require some form of energy.

So here it goes. Ahem...*cough*. The confession that I have to make is that I enjoy watching other people react and eat dirt in campaign. Now hear me out before you throw rocks at me. Nine out of 10 times in campaign I am often disgruntled with the other peeps around me. Either you have white mages who whack away with their clubs and don't cure the person who is tanking the mob, or you have some lousy DD or tank who can't turn the mob for crap but is killing your monster anyway. Don't get me wrong, I realize its campaign so we all have to share mobs...but it wouldn't hurt if you could from time to time grab hate so the thief who has been tanking for 4 minutes can catch a quick breath and use some bolts to regain life or get her utsu timers back up.

There are however, indeed those moments in which I feel blessed and lucky to be fighting along sides people who know what they are doing. Although it is always nice to do campaign with friends, I always get that little smile when some stranger is actually kind enough to throw a cure my way. I feel like saying..."thank you and great job being awesome." In fact, there was a taru rdm who I campaigned next to for over two hours and he kept me alive over and over, making sure my hp never dipped too low. Despite thanking him over and over, I never got a reply. But thank you Onimoon. You definitely got a gold star in my book. A second one for being one robust little taru rdm.

Anyhoo, back to what started this. Like I said before, from time to time I get disgruntled with some fellow adventurers who are fighting besides me and I'm admiting to finding pleasure in watching them run away from a NM or a mob they somehow "magically" got aggro from. That brings me to a little trick I learned a long time ago which can only be done with thief. Should you have hate from a mob that aggro's from sight and use hide, the monster will then go after the next person who has more hate. But what should happen if the thief uses hide and was the only one to touch the mob? Ah, the monster then insteads aggro's the first player it sees. Whenever a group of people either don't cure at all or are just not pulling their weight, I often grab a mob (NM if there is one avaliable) and run it into the crowd and then use hide. As I stand there invisible and out of harms way, I cannot help but laugh like Shantotto as I watch people scatter as quickly as possible to the new threat, and people falling one by one as the NM chases down as many victims as possible.

Is what I do considered mean and rude? Probrably. Have I ever been yelled at for doing it? Amazingly no. Although Ichrius wasn't too happy when I took him down with me that one time. Will I continue to show strangers the wrath of my mischievous ways? Of course! I mean all thieves gotta have their revenge one way or another. Oh ho ho ho~.

I can't believe. . .

How aweful my bst was in a exp pt. Maybe it was because I didn't have a pet jug that was strong against the current mob. Or maybe it was because my armor was super weakened by level sync. I honestly have no clue, but pting on my bst was pretty awkward turtle. Until I ate sushi, I had trouble hitting the darn mobs, and my pets couldn't hit the darn colibri's if their lives depended on it (and it did!). Bleh...either way, I gotta thank Cyp cyp for inviting me. Although I didn't carry my weight, at least I got to 65. There is supposedly a very good duo camp at this level. A fellow bst friend of mine won't show it to me until I pt with him there...lol ~.~;.

I hope everyone had a wonderful March. I have finally unlocked Dynamis Beaucedine & Xarcabard. Sadly I dc'ed for most of Beaucedine...so I didn't really earn that either...bleh. But thats ok! It gives me more of a reason to keep giving 150% in Dynamis. Amazingly, I find it quite fun to go to dynamis as a rdm. Maybe because I rarely have to look over a pt and cure. I just need to sleep mobs and protect the blms...and occasionally watch a few blms hit the ground ^^;. I never thought I would hear myself say it, but Dynamis is really one of the few things keeping me on now a days.

Which brings me up to another point. Despite the best intentions, I believe I'm gonna shut down KoalaPandas. Besides 2 other people...no one really uses it. Everyone is just so busy ^^;. But thats alright! Everyone can still keep in touch with tells and messages. And I'm sure the spirit of the KoalaPandas will continue to live on.

Its already April, and time still hasn't listened to my polite request to slow down. Due to my large classload this quarter, I probrably won't be on consistently. However, that won't stop me from adventuring. Should anyone need help with something. Send a tell my way or leave a message. I'll get back to ya ^^/.

Thats my little post to start out April. Now time to rock out with a little Sum 41. Go go crazy dance time!