Orz

If you don't like reading long ass rants, stop here and go read some other blog today......OK you are still reading so I guess you are curious to hear what I think.

"Orz" for me as I understand it, is a picture of a person on hands and knees in distress, despair, frustration etc. Its depicts how any situation in which it is used is just silly, stupid, retarded, dumb, annoying, frustrating, sad etc.

Well this "picture" describes my thoughts and feelings to the recent goings on in our linkshell more than adequately.

It all started with a couple of core linkshell members deciding they were going to head for greener pastures on another server. Orz, okay, fine. If thats what it takes for you to enjoy this game we pay $20 a month for, then fine. Do what you have to do to make the game fun for you. Its a GAME after all.
But in saying that, it is a game in which you have to interact with other people and therefore have a bearing on how much they in turn enjoy the game. This game really shows some interesting characteristics people have. On one hand, the internet allows people to slag each other relentlessly and mercilessly on forums, in game etc without consequence due to the annonimity (is that a word? blogger doesn't think so) the interwebs provide but if that person had the same beef in real life, face to face with the other person, GUARANTEED 99% of those people would be far more polite about it. On the other hand, you might notice the selfishness that I'd put money on the fact that these people are so inclined in real life.

The biggest thing I notice more than anything is the level of common courtesy that people lack in this game. If it is something that is a pain for you to do in this game, you just don't do it regardless if it would only take you 2 minutes and help someone else out immensely. Especially if that someone has done things for you in the past. Lets use Infamouszero as our example...
I approached him to join our Nyzul group because I knew he was good at what he did and that he would like some of the Askar gear especially the body. I bring him into the group, try to make his life (as I do for the other members) as easy as possible for the runs and make it an enjoyable and successful event each week. The group exceeds so well that we reach floor 80 quite easily and start farming some bodies for people. Now Zero has been with us for a couple of months at this time which is far less than 2 others that have been with me from either the start or soon thereafter. The 2nd Korazin drops (I took the first one after passing on a few other pieces earlier in the climbing) and I give it to Zero to show my appreciation for his help and dedication to the group making the other 2 who have been there far longer (but did get an item or 2 from lower floors) wait till the week after. No big deal right? Everyone is happy. So a week or so later, I hear THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE that Zero is leaving the Linkshell with some friends for another server. Say what?! OK, I guess I'll need to find ANOTHER person to fill a hole in the group. Orz. Just when we had things rolling smoothly. When I went to Zero for confirmation, all I get is "yeah", "I'm going with friends". No "Sorry man, sorry I couldn't find a good rep for you, sorry I couldn't give you more time, thanks for having me, I appreciate you and the group helping me to get my Korazin". Now I see why its so hard to lead LS's seeing people use the group to get something they want then bailing. I guess I should have known better as I reflect on how AS AN OFFICER, he never once that I saw passed on an item he wanted for someone else in the shell. Sure he earned everything he lotted on by being at all the sky events but I guess I just expect officers to be more mindful of the members in the shell and at least let a few crumbs fall to the floor right? Orz.

Anyway. So Piuriu and is group of friends decide they are leaving and effectively tearing the heart of the LS out. I will say that Piuriu handled most of the debacle with a lot of class as I would have expected him to, well from what I saw anyway. Others might disagree with me but I didn't see any of what they did and with all the deception that seems to have gone on, its hard to know who to believe. Anyway we had our last sky session last night with them all here. lol. It just turned into a childish load of BS. Some people bailed on the event claiming they didn't want to help those leaving us. Then there were "mis-tells" between other officers that came out in LS chat slagging those leaving, then the pearls of all but the officers were all broken by either one of the officers leaving or one of the ones staying trying to make someone look bad. The Kirin run was brutally slow. There was lots of talk about CFHing, lotting drops that weren't yours to lot, just generally assery from all directions. Orz. The drops were nice. N.body (Infamouszero), Osode (Xyv), shining cloth etc. It was announced that the gil in the bank would be distributed among those who stuck it out so I did. Would be nice to get SOMETHING from this shell. The money drops from the day were also being /randomed on. lol I found it equally annoying and funny to see that Zero lot the Shining cloth (which he won) after getting the N.body. You couldn't have just let someone else have it? (no I wasn't the next highest lot). Just one time? Orz.
So the shell is remaining in tact for now with the remaining members adamant they will revive the shell and keep events going. I have seen this before and as much as I hope they succeed, its usually just a matter of time. So I have made moves to join another shell. I just want to get in somewhere where they do things I want to do (remember the theory above about enjoying the game we pay for each month?), they know what are doing, do it well and are not going to fall apart in the next 6 months (hopefully longer). Somewhere where I can just be. Where I can meet new people, make good friends and feel the loyalty I felt when I was with good shells like Paragon and RogueRiceBalls.

Best of luck to Piuriu and friends on the other server. Hope it was all worth it and you find what is obviously lacking here on Carbuncle.

Orz.

Nyzul Update #7 - Its raining bodies!

Loving floor 80! We've been up there for 4 or 5 weeks now and every week we seem to knock off another desired body piece from the list. This week was the best yet! Last week, we were happy to see our 2nd Askar body drop (seeing that we had 4 of 6 members who wanted one) and Zero got his first drop that was on his initial list and to top it off, his most desired piece. Yay Zero!



So this week, we were hoping for another piece maybe 2 from our 4 runs to see if we can really start paring down the list so we can farm other floors and start the push to 100.
Our first run was...you guessed it...another Askar body! Wheeee. Our good friend Cerberus who we all love for giving me my Askar Korazin was generous again. Loren and Aless got to lot together as they were in even standing for the next one. It was a close lot but Loren was rewarded with his new body piece. Grats man!



Second run. I think this was the floor where we got easy lamps, impossible to gauge normal mob, free floor before 79 turned out to be ToAU bosses (Chariots which I hate -.-). We got to Khimaira with like an hour to spare! Aless seemed to like dying last night so we waited for her to unweaken from her face tanking exercise before laying a beatdown on Khimmy. Drop? Hell yeah! ASKAR BODY! lol. Grats to Aless this time. Uncontested lot and well deserved acquisition.



Third run. Another easy run to 80 and another Cerberus. Its funny. We seem to get a lot of Cerberus just like we got a lot of Fafnir on the lower floors. I kinda hope we don't have the same "luck" heading into floor 100. Anyway, another kill and another drop.....Denali >.> Meh, I'm not complaing. Freelot that Aless scooped up. Prolly should have gone to Aj who is yet to get an item but I guess now, he has lot preference on ANY drop at floor 80 lol. Damn Aless, lootwhore much? :p



Fourth run no drop but hey, 3 drops from 4 runs? I'm certainly not gonna complain. In fact I'm gonna say thank you very much SE! ^__^b Don't our WAR's look spiffy?


I'm really happy with this group. Everyone knows exactly what their job is and adapts to situations as needed. Whats more, they really care about each other....right Loren?


In other news, I've decided when I grow up, I wanna be a mob. Mobs can hax. JP's have hax too but I'm trying to keep my dreams and aspirations realistic. I wanna be a mob so I can hax and defy the laws of Vana'diel.


SAM is coming along nicely now. Did my AF quests except for the body piece which turned out to be a royal pain in the ass and since I will NEVER use Domaruuuuuuu, I will leave it till I have more patience to go looking for coffer in the Temple of Uggalepih. Some nice panorama's while waiting for the 5 birrion "wait till JP midnight" parts of the quests.


I finally experienced how sexy polearm is against birds last night. My crappy 150ish Jinpu's turned into food losing 600+ (topped out at 707 last night) Penta thrusts...with 13 point lower skill level (lol uncapped weapons)! I have said this before and I will say it again. I frikkin LOVE PLD tanks. Even though I was doing these huge fun weaponskills, the JP PLD we had last night had little trouble holding hate or getting it back. <3 PLD ^^

Also been working on HQ aern organs for my Merciful cape. I'm at about 0/8 now? All with 3 organ pops. Nevertheless, I soldier on in the hopes it will one day drop for me. This means I get to play with my old friend Snoochybooch who I met way back in Paragon. Booch decided to google me for some reason and found my blog. He wasn't happy that he wasn't in it so here Booch. Stop your whining! ^__^


Aerns are fun mobs to solo/duo. They hit like a frikkin truck though. Check out this crit through my maxed out Stoneskin...


lol...me > j00 Aern! :p

Lastly, I like to think I keep a relatively low profile on the Carbuncle server. Its weird to think that others that you don't actually know recognize you on occasion. For those of you who read this, don't feel bad if this is the first time that this has occured for you as well :p


See you next time with MOAR NYZUL DORPS!

Orly?

So I came across a link to this personality quiz that I thought might be a hoot on a Friday afternoon while waiting to leave work for the week. So I jumped in and did the quick one and all I can say is WOW!

My Personality Quiz Results

Its actually very close to describing me well and that in turn is scary! lol

Some particular things to note. I do not feel ashamed of myself. Well maybe when I get caught picking my nose or something embarrassing like that but who doesn't??!! lol. Note the first sentence in the "Openness to experience" section. >.> NOWAI! Overall, a very accurate report as I read over it more thoroughly.

I think its good to take a look at ones self periodically so examine whether or not you ought to try and change small things in your character. I'm not talking a total character makeover that changes the very core of who you are but we all have to admit there are things in each of our lives that don't need to be there and can be detrimental not only to ones self but to the ones we care about and surround ourselves with. Its these things that I believe we can all at least consider changing to be better people and more enjoyable to be around.

Anyway, I'm freaking myself out over who philosophical I'm being on a Friday afternoon so I'm outta here! Happy long weekend Canadians!

Nyzul Update #6 - BAM!

Hmm, I remember a time not long ago when these updates were a little fewer and farther between. I guess that must mean we are having success there? HELL YEAH WE ARE! lol


Note the "MINE!" call at the top of the dialogue. A little embarrassing but you get the idea now that this was one of the reasons I started this group. Mucho thankies to my awesome Nyzul Isle static. It is a beautiful thing watching you guys tear that place apart. I'd like to complain about how crappy our drop rate is but right now, I'm just too stoked to be crabby about that. So stoked even that I go to floor 81 instead of taking us out at times. >.>


Can I just say, I look totally sexy in this piece, don't you agree? The helm and pants will cap it all off nicely but thats a few weeks away yet me thinks.
















It's kinda funny how when I was initially reading up on how to do this thing, I read that Hydra was by far the worst boss to come across. In this pic, she died again in about 30 seconds. So fast that Zero had just used Meikyo Shisui when it died and Aless had a bunch of tp to use again too AND we had attack speed own inflicted on us. Gogo last run of the night 2 hour fest!


Cerberus on the other hand is a pain in the ass. He did give up my Askar Korazin so I can't be too aggro at him but damn, hes an ass pain. I wonder how much of a different tune we'll be singing when we hit the floor 100 bosses.

Anywho, I'll leave off on my short but happy Nyzul update with a little good form by our very orderly LS at our last Limbus run. WHEEE ASKAR BODY! ^__^/

Nyzul Update #5 - New acquisitions

Been a fun week or so lately. New items, new things I haven't seen before and fun LS events of late to tell you about.

Nyzul team has been doing really well. We farmed floor 80 for the first time this passed Tuesday and though we only got one body piece, we made it look easy doing it. Congrats Zero.


There was also call for doing a couple of runs on another day of the week. After talking to everyone individually, Loren and Dylorian were the only ones who couldn't make Saturday nights for a couple of runs so we have picked up Dolar and Byany from the LS and tried our first 2 farming runs last night. Saturdays will only be farming runs used to try and knock off some gear from the list as well as give a couple of other people a shot at some of the gear. Last night went ok with us failing the first run by a matter of 3 seconds. I was JUST clicking the rune to get us out after we zerged Behemoth (with no drop) when the time expired. 2nd run was far smoother with our new people getting the hang of it. We arrived at our good friend Fafnir with a solid 12 mins or so to go. Took him down without trouble and netted a pair of these...


Congrats Aless. I know you have wanted those for a while so yay for you. Condolences to Zero for missing out with such a crappy lot lol.

Lastly for Nyzul Isle and leading off the things I haven't seen in person before, I believe I will make a rule about wearing diapers to a Nyzul run coz this made my eyes bleed ; ;


So apparently the cities in the past can now be attacked by the Beastmen Confederate. They may have been able to before but this was the first time I had seen it. Gotta say, I'm pretty proud of the boys in blue. GTFO outta my town Shadowhorn! lol


The LS has been very active as always. The new ZNM system has really got some of them going making life even busier. This is a good thing. Its nice being in a shell where something is always going on but its not so hardcore that EVERYONE has to drop what they are doing and be there for it.

So Friday night saw us attempt Iriri Samariri, a Porrogo ZNM in Mamook. lol it was quite the disaster but fun nonetheless. We really only needed one more BLM to ga the babies he popped and to make sure DoTs were always on him so he wouldn't regen for when this happened.


This week also shed some light on the mentality of our mighty LS leader Byany. Quite the interesting fellow he is turning out to be. Heres a couple of statements I caught on camera for your amusement lol.


Finally for this post, my new acquisitions!

I'll start with merit points. My list made it passed the half way point this week with me capping our my Combat merits. That was nice to see and certainly makes the ordeal of capping them out seem a little less daunting.


I also had the opportunity to go and lot on Genbu's shield if it dropped when a couple of RDMs were duoing him. Yay it dropped!


And lastly, yesterday was our LS Soboro run. I was lucky enough to be able to be on for it when earlier in the week, it was looking like RL would have me out of game at that time. It was a great run netting us 5/6 Soboro's if I remember correctly so congrats to those who got their very cool GKT!

{See you again!}

Adventuring fellow fun

The June update provided us all a bunch of new content. New mobs, gear, merit caps, quests and missions. Congrats to Jazlyn and Frenzy on the first kill of Dark Ixion on the Carbuncle server. Jaz, I really would like your new cape please ^__^b


One of the bigger things I was happy to see in the update was the option to increase your Adventuring Fellow's level cap from 65 to 70. This involves a fight AGAINST said NPC in the quest called Clash of the Comrades. Now I use my NPC quite a lot from farming to weapon latent breaking to a backup Cure V when I'm doing something a little more on the risky side of life so I jumped at the opportunity do this quest.

Meeting up with Luto in Upper Jeuno, I was shocked to hear about Raka making a name for herself without me. Even more surprising was the mercenary fees she has been raking in...

! !

Oh hell yes I'm gonna fight you. I'm gonna fight you, kick your butt and take your frikkin gil!

I've been soloing a ton in Campaign on WAR/DNC with my fortitude axe so the survivability of that combo was what I was most confident would lead to an easy win over my moneybags NPC and hence what I ran off to Qu'Bia Area for our showdown as.

The fight started as expected. She didn't any harder than Campaign mobs, less even. I had read she would prolly be NIN for the fight. Shadows don't pose much of a threat with Retaliation active.

Turns out I should have been a little more worried about Mijin Gakure. >.>

Stunned. About the only word that described how I felt about that effort from my good friend Raka Maimhov. STUNNED! This took a lot to actually post as I don't usually post many if any at all of my failures lol. Well then, that called for the big guns to be pulled out. You wanna play like that Raka? Lets do this!

DING DING! Round 2...

Yeah, thats right. It's not so fun now is it!?

RDM/NIN made this fight stupid easy. About the way I expected it would be the first time. So easy that I really wasn't too impressed by her performance on the same job. Her RDM /NIN has hax MP though.

A few minutes later....

To be fair though, that was a fun fight against someone I spend a lot of time with. Good to see she still knows whos boss though. Am I right?! lol

And it was all for this purpose...

Congrats Raka!

In other news, I should perhaps make a continuing post of oddities in Van'diel. This isn't really that odd but it just looks funny right?

And yay! Another of the ultra slow and elusive parry skill ups!

Some of you might have noticed my list of merit to-dos on the right side of my blog. I try not to every time I open my blog but I guess it keeps me motivated if a little depressed. Well, I posted that after this...

...and soon after did this!

WAR/SAM really is quite fun in the right party surrounded by the right players. This party was O...K but the RDM was whiney and the SMN who put it together was a little noobish. Hey, I got merits so I'm not complaining. I guess my point is RDMs shouldn't seek a party if they aren't willing to do their job. That job in ToAU meripos is HEAL. USE THAT MP NOOB! I understand that if I or another party member is taxing your MP pool so hard that you are out with 5 minutes left on your Convert timer, thats a problem. If your Convert timer was up 5 minutes ago, we are doing fine and you are being a whiney %@$#!. Also, /SAM is a great sub for WAR. Don't tell me otherwise when the WAR/NINs in the party are taking the same if not more damage than I am while doing half the damage overall.

/em breathes. I digress. I try to keep my blog rants to a minimum. :/

Funny picture I saw that I can relate to at times. This shows perfectly the attitude of BLMs that leveled after the release of ToAU and the decline in invites for BLMs to parties where they would have traditionally learned HATE CONTROL! lol


This week should hopefully see another body piece or 2 from Nyzul Isle. We also start our second weekly run this Saturday to try and trim our wanted items list down a little. Stay tuned!

Nyzul Relic WS's

All I can say is I hope these are real...

Nyzyl Relic WS's

If so, my desire to do Nyzul Isle just got even more stoked. I just hope they are real and that some of the posts talking about the massive quests it takes to upgrade them are a little exaggerated. I really hope these are weapons that are not "easy" but not insane like Dynamis relics are to obtain. Some of us have a life outside of FFXI SE!

I particularly like the WAR GA, RDM sword and BLM staff. I'm disappointed in the BST axe ; ; Was hoping that would be something to drool over but oh well.

Nyzul update #4

Well then. I'm so stoked about tonight that I decided I would blog it right away!

So the last couple of weeks have been great! Last week, we decided we were going to build up Aj's token amount some and work my disc to 60 which we did with awesomeness mixed with a little 1337ness. This week, the goal was 80 so we could start farming body pieces that we need to get done. Unfortunately, with work, RL and general forgetfulness, a couple of people only had 3 tags for this week so with some quick roping in and help from good friends Bubbo and Rathiel to get us from 60 to 65 without our 2 normals, we quickly dispatched the 61-65 climb. Thanks again for your help guys.

The other 2 rejoined us for 66 and up and we were unstoppable tonight. Flayer boss? Sure. Flayer leaders? Why not?! Ordered lamp floors? Just try it! We couldn't be beat for some reason. 66-70 fell by the wayside in some 18 mins. 71-75 didn't fare much better. Climb to 80? Well at least the game tried. I believe we got something like ToAU leaders, all, ordered lamps, all, Hydra and somewhere in there I believe we had a no ninjitsu restriction before we reached 80.

Our first Hydra. I have to admit, from what I hear she sounds the hardest and I was nervous to see her after reading about some of the problems shes has posed for other groups. Oh and then I noticed SE's real attempt to deflate my feeling of invincibleness....


O...K....

So I admit. I panicked a little. But after quick recollection of thoughts, Paeon was put on our melee as they tp'd on the rampart and Body Boosted. Nervous as I was, the call was made to zerg Hydra when the 5 min warning came up. I readied my nukes and watched the onslaught begin....

...15 seconds later...

Gogo Soul Voiced melee with 2 hours, Fanatics drinks, Dusty Wings and Body boosts ready to rock! lol honestly, 15 seconds is not an exaggeration. Barely had a chance to touch anyone. I'm not sure if they 2 yellow HPs are Hydra inflicted or just still low from the floor before lol. I didnn't even get to nuke coz she put up her magic shield about 5 seconds in. We were even happier to see a body piece drop which Dylorian was able to lot.

Congrats sir!

This team is one that I am supremely confident we can destroy Nyzul Isle with. Since it came together, I don't recall a loss yet and unless we get EXTREMELY unlucky with floors (/em touches wood), I don't see us losing any time soon. Over confident? Maybe but see if I'm wrong in future updates :p

In other news, new update means new Campaign rank which means I have to get my rank up again so I have been hitting the Campaign trail with Bubbo and soro over the last night or so. Hoping to rank up tonight before I go to bed.

Last night was a blood bath at Rolanberry Fields [S]. Even uber Bubbo got caught in the cross fire....


...then you have to deal with whiney NPC bosses. Well, they better not whine too much or there is plenty more where this came from. I mean seriously, how is the Legion to extend its mighty arm when it's generals are whiney like little school tarus?

Night! ^___^/