Minorish update

Just a few more minor things that did not get included in the previous update...

WoTG Missions

Went just a little further in the Bastok questline for WotG... a little too much CSI in this storyline for me to really develop much empathy to any of the characters, though they do have quite a bit of humor here with the goblin side characters. Looking at the nation questlines separately from the main WotG story, it seems to be really... tacked on... There seems to be little integration between the story of the dancers and the minor side stories from each nation.

On Monday, Tasya, Zurar and I went and did one of the Bastok fights. I've gone ahead and finished the quest that followed that (and picked up yet another costume item) and I'm now ready to take on the last Bastok fight "Honor Under Fire" whenever people are ready for that. Looks like this fight requires at least a small party of 3-4 people.

So... one fight away from finishing all "new" content... Then the only main FFXI content I haven't touched yet would be the original nation rank quests xD

Winding down

So... my "operation wind down" seems to be succeeding. After we finished with Spengler's awesome denali/goliard double drop night, we haven't actually gotten together for a single Nyzul since then. Not too surprising since I think we're all burnt out for a while now. We might get the crew together again sometime in the future once we've had a break to go for the final missing pieces that people want (but don't NEED) or to help friends climb.

My secret plan to slowly hand off Limbus to Tasya seems to be working. Following previous leader tradition, it is my responsibility to find a sucker after completing full homam to take over the shell! It happened from Toku->Utaru->me/Vanh/Fuu, and now we're passing that on to Tasya. She's already doing a good job in leading us through the Temenos runs (which I really never researched) and figuring out which floors to pop for items people want, when to pop time chests and giving people instructions during the run. I've already given her access to the site so she can update the points list and stuff if I'm not around. This way, all us "old timers" can take a night off and know that Tassy will take care of things!

I never really ran ZNMs. That's Fuuji's job. But I did do a lot of the paperwork, keeping track of who got what, etc. Well, I've offloaded the bulk of the tracking work to Zurar a couple of months ago, leaving me to keep track of the wishlist & pop items. Still, the pop item order can still give me a headache as I try to keep track of which pop items people have, what they're supposed to have and trying to schedule mobs so that we can get all the items needed to pop T4s.

Finally... Einherjar. Well, I've pretty much given up on making the Thursday runs. Having last week and this week's scheduled Thurs runs be Odin helped solidify that since I lacked a Tier 1 feather to go fight Odin anyway xD I still attend Sunday though, so I guess that makes me a "Sunday-only" person.

So... that has officially freed up Thurs completely, and lessened my load during events. I've actually been trying to show up earlier at Sea on Tuesdays, but work/traffic usually makes it difficult to make it on time. At least I've been making it for some of the farming/exp sessions now!

Oh, and... I'll be taking a small vacation at the beginning of October, so there's a high chance that I won't be at any events during the first two weeks... or if I do show, I won't be taking on any critical roles due to me using a slow computer without my controller. I won't be anywhere near as effective as I normally am, and most likely be SCH-onry.

Dragoon

So... this is the first DRG tagged post. I've spent some time reading up on the job, checking out equipment overlap as well as general tactics for the job. It seems like a very basic job compared to everything I've done so far, but like PLD, how it's used depends a lot on the subjob.

Going to pick up a polearm and start poking things with it... If I decide I don't like it later, well... at least polearm will be skilled up for SAM & PLD! A simple straightforward job might be a nice change from everything else I've done so far.

A quick look through what people consider to be decent gear for DRG shows that I already have most of it just from gearing up BLU, DNC & PLD. I already have the necessary subjobs leveled, so just about all I need to do is poke things and level up.

Also, I think I'll probably be a lot more relaxed on leveling this next job compared to the others. For SCH & PLD, I pretty much rushed both jobs to 75 since I had clear ideas on how I wanted to use both jobs at events. For a DD job, I'm pretty sure that I'll be using it rarely for events since there are so many better equipped or "DD-onry" (/stare Zurar) so I'll be continuing to come on my original jobs. High chance that I'll rarely seek for a party and only come out with people if/when they want to go exp.

So far, Tasya has mentioned wanting to put together a lowbie party tomorrow night (Thurs) starting at level 10, so I guess that's when I'll start poking things!