As you can see in my profile information, I’ve been around for just over a year. I still remember what prompted me to take up FFXI again… a video game site had a “Final Fantasy Retrospective” special that covered every single Final Fantasy game. It started covering FFXI, then as it went on through the expansions, I became curious about Blue Mage and wanted to try it out. At the time, I had also just finished a big international vacation and was bored, plus I had beta tested Tabula Rasa and wanted to get into something actually working and interesting.
15 months later and let’s see… 3 level 75 jobs, completed the CoP, ToAU and Zilart storylines. It seems that in the last year I’ve completed more than some people who started the game at launch have done! Currently engaged in a bunch of endgame activities that make doing anything else difficult due to conflicts in schedule, and having fun with a job that most people barely understand, much less fully appreciate.
(DNC/SAM – Saber Dance up)
Along the way, I’ve made many friends, picked up lots of nice gear from various places and events… Homam, AF+1, relic, ZNM, Nyzul, armor pieces and lots more fun things like Soboro, Voyager Sallet, Swift Belt and more. Part of me is a little scared to look at my /playtime ^^;
Looking forward
So… now what? What’s in store for the future? Well… just off the top of my head:
- More WotG storyline! I wanna see how this ends… I’m caught up in terms of the main mission story, but there are lots of other stories that I’d like to do… I want to catch up on the Windy storyline, and start the Bastok one
- Original storylines: I’m part of the way through the Bastok storyline, so I’d like to finish that and check out the Sandy story
- Quest storylines: I heard that the ToAU generals each have their own unique questline that is very well done… I’d like to find some time to go through those
- Actually finish some of these armor sets. I’d like to match sometime! I still don’t have a full set of any one set of armor that I’m trying for… 3/5 on Enkidu, 2/5 on Denali, 2/5 on Homam, 1/5 on Dancer relic, 2/5 on Blue Mage relic. Even Cobra Cap set is 4/5 because the body piece is still not released ^^; The set I really, really want to complete though, is the Dancer relic set.
- Completely merit and gear out Dancer. 20 merits left to go before I finish category 2, after which I’ll probably look at attributes and HP. For attributes, Dex seems to be the obvious one since that helps both BLU & DNC, but I’m not sure what else… Str? For HP/MP… I’m leaning towards starting with some HP merits just to be able to survive a little better when I try tanking. Gear wise… that’ll take a while… relic armor, Enkidu & Denali, plus I need to start doing MMM regularly to get the 2nd best Dancer dagger!
What else… job wise, I don’t really feel like leveling another job at this time, probably a little burnt out from the SCH blitz I did. Right now I have 3, basically hybrid jobs that can take on a number of roles… DD(BLU), healing(DNC & SCH), nuking (BLU & SCH), tanking (DNC). I have a few jobs partially leveled that I might eventually want to take up a little higher, but I’m in no rush… other jobs I’m kinda interested in are: PUP7, COR5, BST11, BRD16, SAM37, RDM37, and… BLM18(only to sub) so if you’re putting together a lowbie party and want someone, give me a buzz.
Off-topic – Looking forward
Off-topic, as in not FFXI, but looking forward I’m thinking of taking a nice long 1-2 week vacation, possibly out of the country somewhere. It’s been a while since I had a real vacation and this summer would be a good time to actually do something since I’ll be done with school. However, I’m at a loss of ideas for where to go, sooooo… I’m asking you all for suggestions :) Any ideas of places to go? Maybe places that you’ve visited, or like to visit?
My last big vacation was to Europe, specifically France & England. Before that I spent 2 weeks exploring Kyoto & Tokyo in Japan. This time, I’ll probably be travelling alone for once for more flexibility and freedom instead of coordinating with family or friends.
Any suggestions? Post in the comments!
5 comments:
"his time, I’ll probably be travelling alone for once for more flexibility and freedom instead of coordinating with family or friends. "
You're not taking me with you? ; ;
I dunno where to go... I've barely traveled outside of Minnesota let-alone out of country... Course... almost all of MN is a tourist trap if you're into the outdoors at all... My first out-of-country is going to be to Japan... but I haven't a clue when that will be now that I have to pay for school. ; ; Can hardly afford to drive home even with gas down to $1.75 ><;
I have more /playtime than you have been in the game, broke 365 days not long ago.
:o
Now that's scary Wuwu ^^;;
Then again, after i looked at my /playtime, i realize that... i spend enough time in FFXI to be a 2nd full time job!
Mmmm... you wanna go travel Zu? I've been to Japan 3 times already... though i'll probably go again if I decide to do an asia trip xD
Expensive though... i think the last time I went to Japan I spent about $10k... of which $2-3k was in toys and souverniers
2-3k on toys and souveniers? o.o Holy crap Ascy! But then again... it is Japan I s'pose. I could see myself doing that if I had the money to.
And btw, you have more playtime than I do and I've played off-and-on since beta! Though I did take like a 1-2 year break at one point between ToAU and WoTG.
If you end up taking a trip alone, let me know how that turns out. I'm like Zu and never have traveled out of the country... but I would like to, I've just always been to afraid too D:. I don't think any of my friends would be up for traveling so I'd have to do it myself. I have all this PTO saved up, but nowhere to go so I waste it taking random days off here and there.
My choices would probably be Japan, China, or someone in Europe... Italy or England comes to mind. Japan would be mainly to check out the culture there, whereas the other places I'd be more interested in seeing the historical sights.
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