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Chocobos should be kept in Poke balls

Jul 27

Posted by arrode in Campaign, Crafting, Wings of the Goddess | No Comments

Sooooo I’m just getting around to exploring a great deal of the content for Wings of the Goddess (is that sad or what?). I had previously done the awesomely annoying trek to Sandoria[S], but after my account was rolled back a year due to being hacked, I lost all those many hours figuring out how to get through Jugner and thus I spent this weekend retracing myself back to Sandy. I am once again joining the campaign mission with Sandoria and I’ve started the storyline missions there.

I think my largest qualm about the past is our horrid inability to summon our chocobos. I know, I know it’d make no sense that I could summon RisingSun 15 years into the past, but the way I see it I store my chocobo in my back pocket in a ball Pokemon style so I should have every right to summon my chicken to ride her around in the past.

I got overly excited by finding the Telepoint for Recall-Meriph when I saw the chocobo vendor. I was like, “YES, CHOCOBO! SCORE!” and then I talked to the NPC and realized you need these “allied notes” and /angry emoted her. D:< Ughhh, so I was doomed back to walking. I’m just happy I’m a mage and I can teleport, warp, and recall myself if I get lazy. After looking it up on wiki I’ve come to find these allied notes are the reward of Campaign, so fuxxor, I guess I’ll have to do some of those eventually.

And no, I’m still not seriously playing XI. I really don’t have the time anymore nor the inclination to deal with horrible EXP parties and camping Fafhog for hours, so I’m not seriously contributing anything to my HNM LS. Regardless, running around having Sprites Cure IV me is still sweet and nostalgic, so I continue to log in regardless.

Also, my moogle fails me. My gardening results this month have been buttholes. I Damn you Teddy Rosevelt (the name of my moogle)! WHERE BE MY ORES?!

{Reraise} Arrode, {Yes, please.}

Sep 28

Posted by arrode in EXP, Wings of the Goddess | 2 Comments

Hm, so where should I begin?

Ok, sometime after my last post I decided to deactivate Arrode to take a break for my co-op in college. I was also doing a lot of internety things that didn’t include FFXI, so I was going to take a few month break.

I decided to come back around May 2008 and discovered my password was changed. Strange, I thought. So I called customer support, found out my credit card didn’t match the information on my account and was stupidly told by the Square-Enix employee my account was lost and I should start over. I flipped out with /angry motion and decided that I was just going to quit XI all-together if Arrode was forever lost due to being haxxored.

A few months later after talking to my LS, I realized that I could get Arrode back and the woman I had talked to was just a flaming moron the first time. So I sent in my notarization, waited a while, and finally got Arrode back after a long, retarded process in the first weeks of September. I logged in and of course all my items/gil are gone.

YAY!

So I called a GM, asked for a character revert, got it granted and realized they had reset me to September 2007. So I lost a bit of AF2, missions for Wings of the Goddess, and levels on my BLM. I was 64 or so when I quit in January and I’m back down to LV58, but with the new Level Sync system, this hasn’t been a problem. I’m almost back to 60 after a few days of lol leveling with Valkrum Dunes and Qufim parties. 8D Being wanted in parties again is pretty sweet, imo.

So yes, I should be studying, but I just wanted to hop in and update this sucker and tell you all that ARRODE IS BACK FROM OUTER SPACE!

Woohoo!

Tags: EXP

Happy (late) New Years!

Jan 6

Posted by arrode in EXP, Wings of the Goddess | No Comments

Yeah I realize I kind of suck at keeping this thing updated, but anywho!

I’ve been ever slowly leveling my BLM solo style. After 60 getting parties as a black mage is nearly impossible, so I decided to try out soloing and it wasn’t as bad as I thought. There are pros and cons to the method of course, the first con being it’s actually quite boring to solo for hours on end. But the pros are that if the camp isn’t taken, you can EXP at your own rate without any real worry of incompetent party members, LFG, etc. The EXP per hour solo is around 7,000-8,000XP without any kind of EXP bonus item, so it’s not awful yet not spectacular either. At the moment, my BLM is LV64 and leveling in Bibiki Bay. One more level and I can finally get out of there on to more fun areas!

I’ve been playing around with some .dat mods to make Arrode prettier. I honestly don’t like how all but two models of hume female look and I always thought my model was the most aesthetically pleasing followed by the one with the short bob-style hair. So I was elated when I found some nice .dat files online to make my character even more feminine and pretty.

Behold Arrode’s facelift!

Nice pretty long hair on Arrode as well as more sexy eyes. I’m 100% happier with the new design for Arrode. 8D Makes me feel like I’m a plastic surgeon, pwahaha.And some pictures I’ve finally got around to linking to from my quest to unlock the two new jobs in Wings of the Goddess!