Counterpoints

To

Neyla and I kill quadav in Grauberg.

my chagrin, I'd forgotten I didn't have my Counter rate fully merited. As you can imagine, that's my current goal. Yesterday and today were basically all about campaign battles. It won't take long to earn the fifth merit I need to cap it, and then I can start on the nerve-destroying run of Strength merits that should keep me busy a loooooong time. I'm so looking forward to that.

Final Fantasy XI is definitely taking a back seat these days as other games crowd in front for attention, but I still have a few goals I want to meet before I'd ever consider quitting. Capping my MNK merits is one of them. Getting off my taru ass and achieving 100 skill in fishing is another. Those will take plenty of time.

Who am I kidding? I'll probably still be active when they shut down the servers.

Back in Business

Neyla

I did a few fights before Neyla logged on.

lost Campaign rank when he went to find out how much time he had remaining on his current medal, so there will be plenty of Campaign battles in the next few days until he gets back to his former glory. I went as Monk for today's festivities, mostly as an excuse to polish off a second merit. We confined ourselves to Windurst-controlled areas, and I got well over 10k limit points while listening to recent "1Up Yours" podcasts.

A battle in Sauromugue seemed to go on forever because one of the yagudo NMs was being a real prick, and of course as soon as he was on the verge of death we had a second NM swoop in to keep the cycle going.

Still, I can't complain too much. I'll probably go as Dragoon tomorrow. I don't earn as many points when I'm just doing damage and not also tanking for half the fights, but I'm very close to hitting 71. It'll probably be worth it.

Playing Catch-Up

We

Pounding Titan in his lair.

never got around to doing the avatar fights. Dalamar's in-laws were there all week, so there just never seemed to be a good time to do it. It also didn't help that I was knee-deep in Fallout 3 and assorted other games while Neyla was chugging through Grand Theft Auto IV. Hey, you've gotta have priorities, right?

I logged on early today and started knocking out Crimson Domino III ops on Dragoon and then waited around in Batallia Downs until it was time to do the escort. I could've waited in Jeuno, but Neyla kills goblins when he's bored and it drops free gil in my pocket.

We killed Shiva, Titan and Ramuh. This time I ran around and collected my bounty. It turns out I'd completely forgotten about the Nomad Moogles in Mhaura, so I could've been switching over to White Mage and teleporting around for my money all this time. Ah, well. Live and learn.