Plethora of Elations and Disasters

Yeah, it's been a while, sue me. I'll attempt to be chronological, but if it's not, or if I leave something out... meh.

ITEM: Obtained Shaman's Cloak and Stonega II for my BLM with the help of Rodie and Nedavia. Thanks you two. :3

ITEM: Serena passed away June 5th, 2008 while I was on vacation. This is a very sore subject for me, so I won't go into it, as it's not at all game related (but this blog is).

ITEM: Managed to get my Black Mage to 43, kicking and screaming. Actually this is a devilishly fun job, which I solo'd and duo'd with Thaedan. 1-24 subbed Blue Mage, then sub Ninja for dual wield and Utsusemi shadows. We found some impressive camps, then at around 41, it just died. Literally there were zero camps that delivered the amount of experience we desired. So we broke off and tried soloing. I've no idea where Thaedan's at with his, but mine's 43, and I think I found a camp we can duo at once more. I'll have to discuss this with him soon.

ITEM: After the update, my Assimilation merits were uncapped (I was 3/3). I took a break from levelling (read: being frustrated at) Black Mage to recap and ding'd 10 merits in 4 days. Not at all bad, and a 4xBLU, RDM, BRD rocks hard at my favorite Nyzul Imp camp. Thanks go out to Don Peshcorleone (Pesh), Armonde, Bethany, Rodie, and Sekundes for the awesome 4th day party.

ITEM: SoulPiratesElite has been reformed as WorshipTheFloor. There have been issues, we've pissed off a few we never expected to, we FAILED to scare off the people we'd rather NOT continue to participate, and our inaugural run was... pathetic. The shell's a different color, the rules have been tightened up, yet people lose their minds despite it being the SAME shell and officers. Yeah, okay, whatever. Time will tell if it was worth it or not. Still... we've got a really nice web presence and the forums are very professional. Robnar's done a bang-up job overall, well done.

ITEM: The current trend for both my 75 jobs to be FAR under the exp cap, "FAR" is defined [by me] to be under 40k, is completely unacceptable. Yesterday had TWO really good point, which was outside the game. Everything else was shit. The details: I find a potential solo camp, turns out it's an even better duo camp, for Black Mage. Earned a decent bit of exp duoing with some random BLM that showed up, then lost ALL of it trying to solo at the SAME camp after he left. Logged out. Logged back in later, went to Castle Oz for some NPC fellow levelling fun, and was raped by 6 Yagudos. Ate a HP and logged. Afterward I noticed my BLU was below 40k exp and logged out completely pissed off (and I still am, to the point where I just don't want to bother playing).

I think this about covers the activities from my last post until 1hr ago. I need to take a few weeks off from this game and everyone/everything associated with it. Games are meant to be recreational, but this is more like work, and the rub is I'm PAYING for this completely absence of fun. NOT A GOOD THING. Perhaps I should fire up Okami again and forget FFXI exists for a bit... like last time. Problem is, before I had ZERO responsibilities/obligations. Now, I'm a senior officer in a renewed Dynamis linkshell AND an active participant in a Limbus linkshell.

I'll figure something out. I always do...