Back To The Daily Grind.

Ah back to the normal run of things in FFXI. What could be better? oh yeah, everything lol. Na j/k I'm enjoying the game again for the first time in awhile. Everything seems to be moving along just normal.

ShieldsofValor is growing. Not so much in members, but more in what we are aiming at. With the gear choices in Abyssea, more and more members are leaning towards that event full time. The only problem will be is with the payout system of SoV and if the members want to give up that bit of gil at the end of the month. That will be up for debate. Now as far as the weekly run down.

Monday we went up for a Kirin ass kicking, Zerg style. As expected, he went down like a little bitch(or Neo take your pick lol). Kirin didn't even scratch us before he met his end. You could see the difference in kill speed with lv 80 in place of most of our current DD. We still had more Kirins, so we tried somthing new. Kirin zerg with no 2 hours. So we did everything that we normal do, with exception of 2 hours. Well the fight started normaly, with Kirin going down a little slower, but still a good steady kill rate. Then Disaster(or Carby) either way you want to call it. Carby blows his 2 hour and 80% of our members hit the dirt. Well Kirin was still at around 40% at that time, so the rest of us do our best, but the damage just wasn't there. we finally Wipe to Kirin @ 20% when Suzy popped. For a run with no 2 hours and crap luck with carby, I think we did well. If nothing else, it was fun.

Tuesday Aristocratls was in Dynamis Xarc to hopfully finish up getting some people their AFs that they have been looking for, for a long time. What started off as a slow run, quickly became a great run with 2 Whm hands, and a number of other drops. Funny part is that even with a few big links, we held strong to the point where Shamus was trying to kill us. Then towards the end of the run he did just that. He pulled the Relic staves unexpectedly. First it was panic, then death. Then Shamus loled. . Well that's what we get by pissing off the Taru.

Thursday we finished up Kirin with another zerg. Pretty uneventful other than some really shitty drops. Oh well. The rest of us hit up Abyssea for some Exp later on and that rounded out our night.

That was pretty much all I played that weekend so fast forward to Monday of this week. Dominik had some Kittys to pop, and we like gil so we killed them for him. One thing I noticed is that holy shit these things go down fast. We only had about 13-14 people, so it wasn't even a full alliance and max life span of byakko was around 1-2 mins. Not bad considering his 2 hour. Anyway, Dom finished the night with 3/4 Byakko haidates and we finished the night with a little bit larget wallet. Afterwards we aimed at abyssea again to get more merits/exp

Ah I almost forgot, I got a new toy!. Plaga scythe woot! Now that's a story in it's own and it also serves as my Douchebag of The Day Award.

Dannik and I decided to camp that scythe for Yudaman and myself. So we set out for the Abyssean worm NM. When we got there it looked like someone had just claimed him, but it wasn't damaged and no one was around.. Weird. So when it unclaimed, I jumped on it. then started going through my motions. Then came the /tells. I felt bad, so I invited them into alliance. After everyone got there, the worm went splat quickly. One of the easier NMs that I can remember. After the kill, it dropped! So I was quick to lot, only to be outlotted by the other guy that I had just let join. Damn my conscious! oh well, I'll get them next time... or so I thought. At the next pop there was 3 Blm there killing it,Zigounette,Punishment,and a third(Don't remember the name) . Only problem was that they sucked and after getting hit but the 3rd stonega III and the taru dying, they ran off and it unclaimed @ around 90% hp. So dannik claimed it. and we proceded to kill it. Now we had to face the fact that they linked four other worms and try to dodge Stonega IIIX3+Quake+Stone V. we where doing well and had ot down to 20-30% when I messed up and got pwned by the Stone V(The one I forgot) and splat, down I went. So dannik couldn't kill it with his thf with only a ranged attack, so we had to let it unclaim. During this entire time, we get threats from Zigounette that he is going to kill us(lolInternetztoughguy) and that he is coming to get us. Yeah we got our laughs out of it. Then after I get killed, he kicks it up a notch. I found out somthing new about myself, #1 I bought my character. Yep I sure did, over the past 6-7 years I've paid dearly for this guy. #2 I'm an uber noob since I don't have a maat;s cap. Yeah the punk said that. Oh btw he was nuking in a Maats cap, Errant body and diamon rings... Hardcore, I know. So they kill the last 20% and go to talking shit again. Let me make this clear, the only one talking shit was Zigounette. the one that got killed during the start of the fight Punisher didn't say anything is say or /tells. He was was only a part of the group. Anyway after the 4th camp, I finally got my scythe. I can honestly say that over the Moliones's Sickle, the Plaga kicks ass. My first night of testing it out put me 150K in 2 1/2 hours over the second place DD who was an Ebody War. I bet that made him feel really good about that Ebody now. Yeah I know I look like I just got off of the assembley line, but you have 1 of 2 options. #1 change with the updates and improve yourself, or #2 stick with your old ass gear that used to be pimp and be out damaged by the guy you used to call Gimp(and probally still do.) Then enjoy being midgrade... That only last for so long.

My rant is finally over lol.. On a sad note, We say goodbye permently to Miae and Gooky as they decided to move on with their lives. They tried to right a wrong commeted by Peitha by donating their uber gear to AC and some of the members to improve their play. You two will always be missed, and never forgoten. I wish you both luck in anything you ever do. Take care and hopfully you wont forget the people of FFXI and all the crazy fun we had.