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!