Wednesday, October 8, 2008

More random updates

Phew... caught up a little on my life, enough that I can actually watch some TV tonight instead of rushing from thing to thing... I had a few minutes, so I figured I'd put up another random blog post! Let's see...

Blue Mage - New Gloves
Seems that I need to throw a few merits into BLU... with my "physical nuking gear", I'm at over +30 Str & Dex with my new Enkidu's Mittens. However, that seems to be at the expense of accuracy as I seem to be doing more damage with my regular melee gear on. My nuking gear takes some accuracy off in favor of putting on more Str & Dex, so to get the best results, I'll need to raise my accuracy a little... probably through some sword merits since physical Blue Magic is dependent on main weapon accuracy. I might throw some into Blue Magic skill as well. I haven't touched either of these merits since... well, since I hit BLU75

Nyzul - floor 55
I was experimenting with gear in Nyzul. Of course, it didn't help that I was targetting high evasive rats, and I wasn't using Sushi since I'm very much a hybrid role in Nyzul, switching between healer to full-on DD to sleeper all during the same battle.
Still, we're just over the halfway point for Nyzul! Pretty good for 3 weeks of work. We have 9 more successful climbs to reach floor 100, then we can switch over to a slightly more relaxed farming schedule. We have 5 runs scheduled between tomorrow & Friday, so... with a ton of luck, we may actually hit floor 100 by the end of next week!

Other topics
People around me have probably noticed that I've been a lot more testy recently. I haven't been on as much, and may have been snapping at people ^^; Sorry for my behavior... it's just been a trying few weeks. Besides the crap going on with the stupid economy, I've also been really busy at school with basically taking the lead with my final project, which is going to be larger than any project that we've ever done.

About the economy... this is going to be bad. I think we're still at the beginning of what will be at best, a 1-2 year recession, and at worst, a 4-5 year depression. I've already taken measures to protect my investments, but it really does suck that I'm going to be graduating in the beginning of next year. If you're in school, try to delay graduation for at least another 2-3 years... by then we should be out of, if not climbing out of this mess >.<

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

yea the economy does suck... the canadian economy seems to be mirroring the american economy. right now the economy's so inflated...stocks won't stop falling until it's not inflated anymore and investor confidence starts to rise again. i'm agreeing with your 4-5years to fix itself as opposed to your 1-2 year optimism XD.

Why do you say it's a bad time to graduate though? (it's probably obvious, im kinda slow at these things XD)

~nainer

Ascule said...

Well, basically not many companies will be hiring people in a down economy, so graduating right now means that it will be hard to find a job.

Additionally, even if you are hired, most companies do layoffs starting from the most recently hired, so it's a bad time to switch jobs as you'll be the most junior person and be first on the layoff list with virtually no compensation.

The best time to graduate is the beginning of the upturn. Companies will be willing to pay more to hire someone, and starting salaries will be higher. So... entering school right now with a planned graduation 4-5 years from now would hit the market right as things start to go up.