Sigh.

I’m going back to WoW. This game has ceased to be fun anymore. Not being able to find parties, the hell it is to get a character from Windurst to Valkrum Dunes, waiting for shops to open only to find it’s their holiday. No, no. I’m sick of that noise.

As bland as Warcraft is at the moment, it’s still better than this.

As for this blog… I’ll think of something.

Rarab Slaughter

Nothing much new on the the gamefront. Dinged level 9, which I can basically thank to crawler and pug pagil grinding. Crawlers have several valuable drops, the ones important to me being silk (for the auction house), Calculus (repeatable quest turn-in for monies), and smooth stones for In A Pickle, the latter I’m still trying to get. The bitch is so picky about the stone she wants, and it’s not like item drops are easy to come by. The pug grinding was an accident. There is a quest which calls for the scales they drop and leave it to me, I thought you needed two scales rather than the simple one, which I got the second time I killed one. Twas not all in vein though; the water crystals will help my cooking. I have fire crystals covered for a while. <3

What can I say about fishing? Well, there’s one thing… WHY AM I NOT LEVELING UP?! I’ve had to have casted off maybe 40 times now and I’ve only leveled 0.1 point. Do you level when you catch only fish, any successful catch, what? Or, is it just that hard to level? I’d appreciate answers on that as guides have left me with no answers and a bad rash.

Does anybody else feel a strong guilt during or after killing a Rarab? I was farming them for their Torn Epistle, specifically for Star Struck as I have already turned one in for Postman, and I thought to myself, “These things are WAY too fucking adorable to kill.” The squeaks, the hopping — and then their death cry.

Since I’m hungry and don’t have much else to say, I’ll explain the linking. I’m linking things now. For a guideline to anybody who sees this, for future reference, any reason. Linking helps to clarify things with the help of a visual aid. See? There’s a rarab. It’s adorable. Now kill it.

Rewrite, Refresh

Alnora on Canbuncle is gone. Alnora is now Alnora on Kujata. Alnora is also a Mithra. I swore I would stay as far away as I could from Mithra because they’re kawaii neko-chans, but I wanted a race from Windurst and other than the MP, Tarutaru are kind of eh for a red mage. I’m still a red mage (red mages and dragoons being my favorites from the series, btw), but now I’m a cat.

I fucking hated Bastok and honestly can’t understand how people like it as a home… town? Capital? Let’s just leave it as home. No sooner had I created my new mage, I ran into a high level red mage who asked me to join his linkshell and gave me 4,000 gil. With that kind of generosity, and still not knowing much about the game, I couldn’t refuse the offer of his help. Once I bought a new weapon and shield with my new found noob gil, he took me out to East Sarutabaruta and helped me level. Up to level 5 right now, I think. I thought he was AFK and left him… then got lost, so our little impromptu party ended. But it did give me time to do something I always wanted to do, back when I originally had the game, but didn’t have the gil for it.

Fishing. Yeah, you heard me. Fishing. I don’t know why. Fishing in WoW really made me appreciate the fine art of angling. I’m still not sure exactly of the perks of joining this guild yet, but I’m hoping it will coincide with my decision to join the Culinary guild. You know… cooking a fish? If you can’t cook up fishes I’ll be mighty pissed.

I suppose I’m getting the hang of it. That is, when I can hook something. I’m not trying to spend too much money on bait, lures and rods yet as earning money will still be hard from here on out and every cent counts, but I did enough to give me a basic idea of the mechanics.

Now my goals are to get to 10 and find something to cook. I will cook something. Eventually. Why can’t you cook the crawlers? Look at them! So fat and juicy, it could, uh, be a meal for a whole Galka family. All 2 of them.

Intro

Good lord, I hate beginnings. Look at me, it took me about 5 minutes just to write this much. Once I get going I’m okay, but this, THIS is torture.

Before I go on, I should mention something right now before you waste a minute of your life reading something you have absolutely no interest in. This is a Final Fantasy XI themed blog. You know, FFXI, that MMORPG that was made in the dark ages of online games, before the light that was World of Warcraft. But more on Warcraft later.

Back in 2004 I bought the original FFXI for the PC. I get home, all excited to install and play my first real MMO. That worked fine and well. Click the shortcut, watch the lovely intro and create a character – a elvaan monk in Windurst. Lo and behold, in something very typical of Windows, I get a blue screen. And I kept getting that blue screen every time I started up the game. My dreams crushed…. hypothetical wrists slashed. IT WAS HORRIBLE.

I went through a dry spell for the next two years, mostly relying on betas (nothing will ever come close to iROSE). Then came Warcraft in 2006. Oh what a glorious time it was. Drawing straws, I ended with a human priest. A human disc/holy priest. Yeah. You can imagine how painful leveling was. I got to level 58 (60 being the cap then) before my credit card privileges were… uh, revoked. There was another dry spell, but then in mid-2007 -one year ago- I got into it again, now with gift cards and the expansion pack. Instead of starting up my under-and outdated-geared priest, I made a undead warlock and had a fan-fucking-tastic time playing it. Affliction, specifically. A rare commodity, lacking the sheer nuking power of a demon or destro lock, but in raids I did just as well as the better geared demon/aff locks.

Then I had to leave the only guild I liked because I didn’t want to fight a boss. Since that happened in March, my interest in the game waned, the only guilds wanting me weren’t even Kara geared yet. I made a dranny hunter seeing as my warlock had to retire indefinitely, but without doing instances, it was hard to hold my interest.

All which brings me back to FFXI. Earlier this week I purchased the game again – the 2008 collection with all the expansion packs. After a bit of trouble with the credit card, I am once again in the world of Vana’diel.

This blog will cover my adventures from the very beginning, if I have any adventures to speak of, that is. Maybe the additional rant and rave as it’s something I very much love to do.

Alnora – Red Mage, Carbuncle.