Has anyone else noticed that almost everyone has quit blogging? Now it might just be me, but all the blogs I follow has died or people almost never post in them anymore. I blame this one a few things. Could be that everyone is so busy in RL that they no longer have the time to sit and thing of somthing to write about. I find myself in that situation more often than not. On the other hand, it could be that so many people are working on Af3+2's that they aren't having the fun times as much. It's prety much now a grind of gear that, even as awesome as it is, doesn't feel as much of an accomplishment as gear used to.
I look at my Valor Surcoat for an example. I started Dynamis in 2006 and over 2 years later, I got my Surcoat. Still one of my most memorable items even gotten in my FFXI carrer. Even though nowmy Creed+2 body rapes it, I got it as a side thing while helping other people. It doesn't mean anywhere near what the Surcoat meant to me. Most of that could aslo be because either while getting the +2 items, it only takes a low amount of people, or because when you upgrade and announce it in LS, you may get one or two people say gratz. It just doesn't feel like you have accomplished the same amount as Salvage,Dynamis,Limbus, etc.
Other than that rant, I have missed the stories, rants from the other people blogging. Even though I haven't been able to blog latley, I still enojy reading the adventures of other people. Anything that can give a break, even if for only a few minutes, from rl.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
T-Minus ..... fuc...
Yeah so if your like a majority of the current player waiting to get back on the FFXI servers, your probally going though the same process that I'm going though. That process is the following:
#1 Come home from a long day at work.
#2 Enjoy a good meal from my lovely wife(Exclude Tidis from this since he is gay.)
#3 Watch my son kick my ass on Dragon Ball Z(Then go Super Sayian irl and pummel him with couch cusions.)
#4 Send my wife to work(Thank YOU nightshift!)
#5 skip to the PC room..( Yes I skip dammit... don't hate.)
#6 Start up PoL and wait for the loud ass music.
#7 Watch as it does nothing and I get an error.
#8 /sadface
#9 Try to log on again just to make sure that it wasn't a random error.
#10 /sadface again.
Final Step: Sit and stare at the monitor for the next 30 mins trying to figure out what to do. This may include FFXIAH.com, BG, Windower.net and what ever else bits of FFXI you can get ahold of.
For those of you that feel the same way as I do, I feel your pain.. The ones that don't... STFU.. I have issuses... I know...
Funny thing is that I was really debating on switching servers or fully quitting for good.That was when I COULD access the game.. Now it's like.. MUST PLAYYY!!.. I mean hell I might even be willing to do a run or two of Dynamis.. . . Maybe.
There was a post on the FFXIAH.com forums about what would happen if the servers never come back up. I honestly don't know. I know what I would miss. Like the friendly wave I get from past SoV members that have moved on to new linkshells. The voice of some of the people on vent.. (Omit lynde from that list.) Oh and even the people that let me give them the ever growing amounts of hell and never seem to get mad.. Yes Tidis and Dier I'm talking to you. But most of all,the people that has moved on. The people that I never get to see of get stuff done with. The adventures I had with each and everyone of them will forever be remembered.
Toprob, my british clone. The only person I've ever seen that could tell me what I was thinking. I met him though a mutual friend, Yokorye, during her Dagger WSNM quests. After that we were brothers in war!We duoed so many things that weren't supposed to be duoed with a pld and Whm. We finished all of ZNM,Cop,ToAU and most of WoTG missions before he finally quit. I remember all the nights we stayed up untill daylight(GMT) to get stuff done. You truly were the brother I never had.
Tetsuiga, the person the pushed me to be better. I met him though Swordman with Aristocratls. Sword's Arc-enemy/brother, Tet was always pushing the envolope to become stronger and make sure he was the most powerful in the LS. His laugh will always be with me.. even more so after he would kill, Top,Myself, or Sword after getting one of us charmed. He is the person that started my obsesion with damage. Tet was always a reasonable person that you could always count on to have a cool head.
Swordman. The alterego of tet. A hot headed little twit that was most random person I think I've ever met. His power and just the straight forward-in-you-face play style is what was the driving force behind my leveling Blm and then Drk. Even though he was moody and could get aggrivated quickly, he was like the little brother of the group. No matter how mad at him you got, you could never stay mad.
Luvaril, This is the person that intruduced me to ballista. even though he never quit made it past level 60, he was one of the funniest blm I've ever seen. I remember back in level 40 cap Ballista hitting him in the back with a holy bolt and hearing him go splat. I love the way a Taru dies. Luv is somewhere in college I hope. He quit before ToAU came out. One of the first of my friends that quit, but by far the funniest.
Probally the person I would miss the most, if I quit/or the servers didn't come back up, would have to be someone that has always thought of everyone else first. Someone that never says no to helping people out. No matter if she hates what she is doing. She does it with a smile. One of the nicest people that I have ever met, even though I give her hell, I would miss Allyrose the most. She is the "Mother" to most the people that was in SoV and the people that is still in AC even if she wont admit it. She goes above and beyond even with little rewards. I hope her rl son knows how good he has it. If not I'll be happy to trade mine for her lol.
Now that I've went of the deep end. my twich has settled down a bit. maybe I wont go home and check PoL untill tomorrow. .... then the /sadface will come back.
#1 Come home from a long day at work.
#2 Enjoy a good meal from my lovely wife(Exclude Tidis from this since he is gay.)
#3 Watch my son kick my ass on Dragon Ball Z(Then go Super Sayian irl and pummel him with couch cusions.)
#4 Send my wife to work(Thank YOU nightshift!)
#5 skip to the PC room..( Yes I skip dammit... don't hate.)
#6 Start up PoL and wait for the loud ass music.
#7 Watch as it does nothing and I get an error.
#8 /sadface
#9 Try to log on again just to make sure that it wasn't a random error.
#10 /sadface again.
Final Step: Sit and stare at the monitor for the next 30 mins trying to figure out what to do. This may include FFXIAH.com, BG, Windower.net and what ever else bits of FFXI you can get ahold of.
For those of you that feel the same way as I do, I feel your pain.. The ones that don't... STFU.. I have issuses... I know...
Funny thing is that I was really debating on switching servers or fully quitting for good.That was when I COULD access the game.. Now it's like.. MUST PLAYYY!!.. I mean hell I might even be willing to do a run or two of Dynamis.. . . Maybe.
There was a post on the FFXIAH.com forums about what would happen if the servers never come back up. I honestly don't know. I know what I would miss. Like the friendly wave I get from past SoV members that have moved on to new linkshells. The voice of some of the people on vent.. (Omit lynde from that list.) Oh and even the people that let me give them the ever growing amounts of hell and never seem to get mad.. Yes Tidis and Dier I'm talking to you. But most of all,the people that has moved on. The people that I never get to see of get stuff done with. The adventures I had with each and everyone of them will forever be remembered.
Toprob, my british clone. The only person I've ever seen that could tell me what I was thinking. I met him though a mutual friend, Yokorye, during her Dagger WSNM quests. After that we were brothers in war!We duoed so many things that weren't supposed to be duoed with a pld and Whm. We finished all of ZNM,Cop,ToAU and most of WoTG missions before he finally quit. I remember all the nights we stayed up untill daylight(GMT) to get stuff done. You truly were the brother I never had.
Tetsuiga, the person the pushed me to be better. I met him though Swordman with Aristocratls. Sword's Arc-enemy/brother, Tet was always pushing the envolope to become stronger and make sure he was the most powerful in the LS. His laugh will always be with me.. even more so after he would kill, Top,Myself, or Sword after getting one of us charmed. He is the person that started my obsesion with damage. Tet was always a reasonable person that you could always count on to have a cool head.
Swordman. The alterego of tet. A hot headed little twit that was most random person I think I've ever met. His power and just the straight forward-in-you-face play style is what was the driving force behind my leveling Blm and then Drk. Even though he was moody and could get aggrivated quickly, he was like the little brother of the group. No matter how mad at him you got, you could never stay mad.
Luvaril, This is the person that intruduced me to ballista. even though he never quit made it past level 60, he was one of the funniest blm I've ever seen. I remember back in level 40 cap Ballista hitting him in the back with a holy bolt and hearing him go splat. I love the way a Taru dies. Luv is somewhere in college I hope. He quit before ToAU came out. One of the first of my friends that quit, but by far the funniest.
Probally the person I would miss the most, if I quit/or the servers didn't come back up, would have to be someone that has always thought of everyone else first. Someone that never says no to helping people out. No matter if she hates what she is doing. She does it with a smile. One of the nicest people that I have ever met, even though I give her hell, I would miss Allyrose the most. She is the "Mother" to most the people that was in SoV and the people that is still in AC even if she wont admit it. She goes above and beyond even with little rewards. I hope her rl son knows how good he has it. If not I'll be happy to trade mine for her lol.
Now that I've went of the deep end. my twich has settled down a bit. maybe I wont go home and check PoL untill tomorrow. .... then the /sadface will come back.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Checking In
Can it really be true that it has been since August since I've posted? Nah, can't be... Could it?
Well I guess if that is any indication on how busy irl I have been, multiply it by about x100. A little update on what has happened in the past 5 freaking months since my last post.
Shields of Valor officially ended weekly events in November due to a few major changes in my RL and changes in the game. I was promoted to a position with the company that I get to over see all the stores in southern Mississippi. Oh btw I also get to see after their paper work as well. btw, I hate paperwork. I used to have a nice secretary that used to do that. But the big wigs doesn't think that I needed one anymore. /wrist. btw did I tell you that I hated paperwork... yeah... So days where I used to be able to spend updating SoV's DKP and all that good stuff, oh and update this blog, has all but went out the window. I normally have a stack of paperwork on my desk that would dwarf a galka every morning.... lucky me.
With the changes to work has also come changes to FFXI that has, at the time, rendered my knowledge of the game obsolete. So with the combination of those two events, the LS decided to put runs on hold for a little bit. In that time, people have pretty much stayed for the most part. A nice thing about friendship is that just becuase events has stopped, people still try to find a way to get things done in smaller groups. Which can be good and bad. I'll explain more of that later.
Now on word to Abyssea, which is basiclly all that FFXI is now. I pretty much loved Abyssea when it first came out. A way to get massive exp in short time was just amazing. Then the new gear came out and it was pretty easy to get. So yeah, more love for Abyssea.. Then came the weakness procs... My loved floundered a bit.. No longer could you just kill the shit out of stuff, you now had to proc a certain color of BS to get a certain drop you wanted... Oh well. np just somthing new to learn. Then came the Atmas. Little things that you could get that could make you more powerful than a full alliance that didn't have them... It was incredible the amount of damage that mages/DD could push out now with these little (huge) shots of steroids. After being outnuked by a sch that had gear that made you want to cry it was so bad on my Blm,which most of you know that is no slacker, I had to make some adjustments. When I say outnuked, I mean my Thunder IV hit 1900s in Abyssea with no Atmas, and this person was putting down 2600-2800s and was nuking in level 10 Int rings.... yeah that hurt my feelings. So then I went on my Atma conquest, which now I'm finally done.for the most part. But now since I've wasted so much time in Abyssea with atmas, that I'm lacking stones, another reason for me to hate Abyssea... Why SE couldn't just make it a normal zone is beyond me.. No now they want you to worry about time the entire time your in there. Just for kicks...
So I finally got all my atmas and have started really gettin the hang of the fights. I'm starting to get pretty familer with the NMs and how to do it that I feel confident in farming seals for groups now... Well that was before last night and I had a freak wyvren rape the shit out of us... Not once.. but twice... Everything goes pretty smooth untill it starts this hundred first Fang Rush shit that pretty much rapes the shit out of me, MJ and who ever else is close.. with the exception of Allyrose.. she lived though it untill it hit her with a 3K hurricane breath... I have to admit I did laugh a bit when that happened. So yeah, now I'm at the point where I flat out hate Abyssea.. Only bad thing about hating Abyssea, is that we all need Abysssea. The gear is just amazing and yeah that is all this game is about in the end. Getting that almighty lastest greatest piece that make you glow(in your own mind) when you walk by your friends.
Oh well, maybe I'll stick to the old Abyssea zones untill more info is out on the newer Nms.. who the hell needs the new stuff the momment it comes out... Oh that's right.. everyone lol...
Well I guess if that is any indication on how busy irl I have been, multiply it by about x100. A little update on what has happened in the past 5 freaking months since my last post.
Shields of Valor officially ended weekly events in November due to a few major changes in my RL and changes in the game. I was promoted to a position with the company that I get to over see all the stores in southern Mississippi. Oh btw I also get to see after their paper work as well. btw, I hate paperwork. I used to have a nice secretary that used to do that. But the big wigs doesn't think that I needed one anymore. /wrist. btw did I tell you that I hated paperwork... yeah... So days where I used to be able to spend updating SoV's DKP and all that good stuff, oh and update this blog, has all but went out the window. I normally have a stack of paperwork on my desk that would dwarf a galka every morning.... lucky me.
With the changes to work has also come changes to FFXI that has, at the time, rendered my knowledge of the game obsolete. So with the combination of those two events, the LS decided to put runs on hold for a little bit. In that time, people have pretty much stayed for the most part. A nice thing about friendship is that just becuase events has stopped, people still try to find a way to get things done in smaller groups. Which can be good and bad. I'll explain more of that later.
Now on word to Abyssea, which is basiclly all that FFXI is now. I pretty much loved Abyssea when it first came out. A way to get massive exp in short time was just amazing. Then the new gear came out and it was pretty easy to get. So yeah, more love for Abyssea.. Then came the weakness procs... My loved floundered a bit.. No longer could you just kill the shit out of stuff, you now had to proc a certain color of BS to get a certain drop you wanted... Oh well. np just somthing new to learn. Then came the Atmas. Little things that you could get that could make you more powerful than a full alliance that didn't have them... It was incredible the amount of damage that mages/DD could push out now with these little (huge) shots of steroids. After being outnuked by a sch that had gear that made you want to cry it was so bad on my Blm,which most of you know that is no slacker, I had to make some adjustments. When I say outnuked, I mean my Thunder IV hit 1900s in Abyssea with no Atmas, and this person was putting down 2600-2800s and was nuking in level 10 Int rings.... yeah that hurt my feelings. So then I went on my Atma conquest, which now I'm finally done.for the most part. But now since I've wasted so much time in Abyssea with atmas, that I'm lacking stones, another reason for me to hate Abyssea... Why SE couldn't just make it a normal zone is beyond me.. No now they want you to worry about time the entire time your in there. Just for kicks...
So I finally got all my atmas and have started really gettin the hang of the fights. I'm starting to get pretty familer with the NMs and how to do it that I feel confident in farming seals for groups now... Well that was before last night and I had a freak wyvren rape the shit out of us... Not once.. but twice... Everything goes pretty smooth untill it starts this hundred first Fang Rush shit that pretty much rapes the shit out of me, MJ and who ever else is close.. with the exception of Allyrose.. she lived though it untill it hit her with a 3K hurricane breath... I have to admit I did laugh a bit when that happened. So yeah, now I'm at the point where I flat out hate Abyssea.. Only bad thing about hating Abyssea, is that we all need Abysssea. The gear is just amazing and yeah that is all this game is about in the end. Getting that almighty lastest greatest piece that make you glow(in your own mind) when you walk by your friends.
Oh well, maybe I'll stick to the old Abyssea zones untill more info is out on the newer Nms.. who the hell needs the new stuff the momment it comes out... Oh that's right.. everyone lol...
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