Dunes

I love the Warp spell in Final Fantasy XI.

I pulled a few moat carp from the waters in Port San D'oria.

I played a little yesterday, mostly fishing for moat carp in Port San D'oria. I bought a few new spells and just enjoyed the relaxed pace. Rimare asked via the linkshell if I was coming to the dunes and could buy a spell he needed and bring it along. I had nothing better to do, so I said I'd be there in an hour. I healed people along the way, taking my time. When I finally got to the dunes, I delivered the scroll and hit Warp. I vanished in a flash of light and appeared back at my starting point. Ya gotta love it.

I fished a little more this afternoon and then went back to the dunes to strive for Lv. 20. It felt good to be in a party as a nuker again, and better yet that I was in a good group. We were camped at Siren Sands, fighting pugil after pugil and raking in 180-240xp for every kill, which is just amazing. A mithra black mage named Jadrianna joined us, and the two of us were nuking fish like crazy. I hated to leave that group, believe me. The tank, Ordon, was great at keeping the monsters away from us. That boy is going places.

When it was over, I used Warp and vanished. I can't wait to hit Level 40 so I can get Warp II and use it on other people.

I love the Warp spell in Final Fantasy XI.

I pulled a few moat carp from the waters in Port San D'oria.

I played a little yesterday, mostly fishing for moat carp in Port San D'oria. I bought a few new spells and just enjoyed the relaxed pace. Rimare asked via the linkshell if I was coming to the dunes and could buy a spell he needed and bring it along. I had nothing better to do, so I said I'd be there in an hour. I healed people along the way, taking my time. When I finally got to the dunes, I delivered the scroll and hit Warp. I vanished in a flash of light and appeared back at my starting point. Ya gotta love it.

I fished a little more this afternoon and then went back to the dunes to strive for Lv. 20. It felt good to be in a party as a nuker again, and better yet that I was in a good group. We were camped at Siren Sands, fighting pugil after pugil and raking in 180-240xp for every kill, which is just amazing. A mithra black mage named Jadrianna joined us, and the two of us were nuking fish like crazy. I hated to leave that group, believe me. The tank, Ordon, was great at keeping the monsters away from us. That boy is going places.

When it was over, I used Warp and vanished. I can't wait to hit Level 40 so I can get Warp II and use it on other people.

Day of Reckoning

I spent a large chunk of my Sunday playing Final Fantasy XI. After days of fishing and farming and trying to raise money, I'd managed to get my White Mage to Level 9 and started looking around for a group so I could gain experience as a party's healer. I figured someone would want to run around La Theine Plateau or something.

I can't wait until I can ride one of these chocobos and save my tired taru feet.

I found a group, and the party lasted maybe twenty minutes before they decided to camp in an area crowded with monsters too tough for us. I died, and the group broke up.

The next group was better (how could it not?), and it's the one I stayed with for the next few hours. Our "leader" wasn't much of one, to be honest. The first hour or so was an enormous clusterfuck of mixed signals and everyone doing their own thing because our leader wouldn't call the shots. One of the party members, SlayerOfGod, knew what he was doing and I pumped his brain for information about how to be a good healer. I figured I may as well get some good advice, even if we all died and I ended up without experience points.

Let me tell you, being a healer is a very different experience from being a nuker. I'm used to firing off spell after damaging spell on one monster. As the white mage, it was suddenly my job to make sure the tank (and anyone else who got hurt) stayed at full health. There were five other members of the party, which is five more targets than I'm used to dealing with. Oy! It's a challenge. We ended up in Valkurm Dunes, attacking lizards. There were numerous close calls, but very few deaths.

Another taru mage named Shippoe started hanging around our camp and doing a taru dance while my other party members threatened to pick her up and punt her across the sand. One nice thing about Final Fantasy XI is the ability to create pretend actions, so I could type "Halifirien steals Shippoe's boogie shoes" and get a laugh out of everyone. I think the class clown mentality naturally gravitates towards tarus. We're like little cuddly-wuddly balls of comic relief... who are also quite capable of frying you and everything you hold dear. Shippoe and I are on each other's buddy lists now.

Once I left the group, I made my nerve-wracking way back to San D'oria. As soon as I got there I switched back to Black Mage. Now that I'm not a tissue-paper runt anymore, there's going to be a day of reckoning. I feel the urge to start cutting a swathe through the orcs running around the Ronfaure region. It's good to have my nukes back.