General: Weekend Update
I've been spending some time trying to make contributions to the FFXIclopedia Wiki. I started out mostly by checking the lists of "wanted" or "short" pages, finding something with which I'm somewhat familiar, and go on from there (like "tiger hide", which led to a bunch of missing mantles that have tiger hides in their recipes, and in turn are used to craft other mantles). I'd also add things I've personally observed to mission and quest walkthroughs.
I added a Mule "guide", and then decided the Paladin guide to weapons and armor needed a section for Tarutaru-specific advice, as well as general cleanup. My current "project" is making sure every shield in the game is properly represented in the Wiki (there are templates to use for entries, but many entries don't adhere to the templates), and I'm adding the type of each shield to each of them while I do that. I'm rather enjoying helping out with the Wiki. The more people that contribute to it, the more complete it becomes.
On Saturday afternoon I decided to do a chocobo race, and since I hadn't really shifted gear back to normal after Friday night, I ended up doing the race as PLD75/BLM34, wearing only my Federation Aketon and Pole of Trials, which seemed to mean I got /checked more than usual. I also ended up getting tells from random strangers. One offered 300k if I would hold his hand through the Rank 5 missions, but by the time I got to the point I could respond (I have a hard time typing and racing at the same time), he'd disconnected or logged out. I'm still not sure what I would have done.
Then a well-geared, subjobless RDM17 begged me for some gil (I had just gotten off my chocobo after completing the race in San d'Oria. When I told him I didn't like giving money to new players as it instilled bad habits, he offered to do something for me, but then he ran off before I had a chance to respond, since I was busy talking with another fellow who apparently was leveling a random "mule" on Lakshmi when he already has a character with PLD75/WAR75/NIN75/MNK7x on another server, and he needed to brag to someone about how rich and powerful he was on the other server but would really like a powerlevel and was terribly poor here on Lakshmi.
I did some crafting at the Bonecraft Guild in Windurst, then caught a few Bastore Bream for sushi. I would have liked some fishing skillups, but no such luck. Then Elboron suggested an escort quest, and we talked Grym into logging on for it. We headed to Crawlers Nest, and Grym went as THF/BST, with as much of her +CHR gear as reasonable for a THF/BST. We ended up only needing to kill 2 monsters (Grym had troubles charming the Soldier Crawlers), plus Olavia took the shortest route, so it was over pretty quickly.
Elboron and I decided to level a baby job for a bit outside Bastok. He'd spent the afternoon unlocking DRK, so we teamed up as a WHM1/BLU1 and DRK1/WAR1. After getting killed at level 2 and homepointing to Whitegate, we headed back to Bastok and tried again, with Elbo as DRK2/BLU1. We got up to level 4 before I felt it was getting late and I should go. A WHM-DRK duo works pretty well - Elbo kills stuff so much faster than I could on my own!
We had two Besiegeds back-to-back on Sunday evening, before the LLS headed out for exp. First it was the Mamool Ja, followed immediately by the Undead Swarm. One thing that surprised us was that we had all 5 generals for the Undead Swarm, despite 3 of them being killed by the Mamool Ja. I would have thought they would have been "captured" when they were killed. I went as my RMD60, as I've been enjoying getting the exp on that job without leveling it, and it's a good opportunity to skill up dark magic. And healing people seems more useful than fighting things. I must've died 5 times during the undead invasion. No sooner I'd get raised and down I'd drop again. I still got decent points, ending up with about 1200 exp/isp for the two combined. As of Sunday evening, Lakshmi's Besieged record is 141/0.
Grymalkyn hasn't been happy with the game for quite some time now, and recently things have gotten worse (he's convinced the game hates him), so he's trying to decide what he wants to do. He may end up quitting altogether, which would be very sad for me. There are so many things I wanted Tsakiki and Grymalkyn to do together. I'll have to actually schedule time for the game so I don't force him into the role of a game-widower. I suppose it's one way to confront my addiction. :-(
posted by tsakiki at 10:36 am
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My wife forced me to become a "game widower" some years ago when we both played Ultima Online. Like Grym I got fed up/tired with the game and quit, but my wife kept playing. She didn't exactly cut back either, and our home life suffered because of it. Luckily an event happenned with our son that, while not damaging in any way to our son, was a huge wake up call for her that she quit quickly after that.
Unfortunately, because of that I can't interest her in these games anymore, not even as a casual player. But playing the game together with my wife was an awesome experience and I'm glad we were able to share a common interest like that.
It's probably a good thing we don't have children. :-(
I think it would be so difficult to be simply a casual player in an MMORPG, just because it takes so much time, and coordination with other players, to actually be able to accomplish anything.
I don't know how things are going to work out for Kiki and Grym, but I know I really have loved being able to play together for so long. There are so few offline games that actually allow cooperative gameplay, and it's just not the same "taking turns" at playing while one watches/advises the other. FFXI was just so much fun for awhile, but I have to admit, even I get annoyed with it at times. :-)
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