AFK.

I'm actually making use of my railcard and going home for a few days so I'll actually have to find something other than FFXI to kill time with. Shouldn't be hard considering the amount of reading I should have got done already (in an ideal world). Hohoho, this could be interesting as I've no idea of the route, where I'm supposed to change trains etc. so I could potentially end up in many places with no way of getting back plus a hefty fine for not having the appropriate ticket.


Getting hit with Terror during a jump can lead to you being frozen in some pretty cool positions, but if you change gear too fast it just resets you in some lame standing pose. If I could have got a clearer shot of that before I blinked (and without the terror JA effect), it would have looked great.

The results of a recent party:



Blackpearl = WAR/NIN
Boomstam = RNG/WAR
Me = DRG/SAM
Sneeuwvssaljaioegadlkfetc = THF/NIN
Blueeye = PLD/WAR
Elexa = RDM/WHM (I felt this person's pain)

No brd, no cor? No way. Would be my usual response to such a setup if I were on rdm, but I still jumped at the chance to do something more than seek for a party on DRG (typically I'll be asked to change to rdm to allow some domaru SAM or lv.73 WAR/THF to sponge mp off me). It wasn't terrible, but I didn't keep track of exp/hour so I didn't feel like I was wasting my time.

But I really wanted to see what my accuracy was like on birds without buffs, which was 93~94% in the first half hour, but slowly dropped to around 90% towards the end (1~2 hours? I should've kept track)). The main reason I think it dropped was because I kept getting Flash from the PLD reflected onto me, which also caused a fun instance of completely missing with a Penta Thrust.

Despite this, I still managed to perform pretty well, especially outdoing a RNG/WAR of all things, and by quite a margin - although he did die twice (I wonder why...) which would put things in my favour, I think he still continued to fight (with a little more discretion) while weakened. It just shows in a mediocre group you can't just throw caution to the wind and go all-out expecting the mob to die so quickly that you don't 'need' shadows or Seigan.

I don't know what the WAR was playing at to parse that low, and the THF was pulling which explains their low %. PLD is a PLD and as such did less than my wyvern.

Thankfully, it was one of those groups that actually disband after a couple of hours instead of constantly replacing people until none of the original group is left.



So we all got a teleport and a D2 from the THF, yay!

Wheeling thrust still sucks, I missed 2 of the 4 that I did ._.
...I need to try getting my Sea gorgets. And homam. And a V. fork. And Aurum D:<

Still a long way to go, but I'm pretty satisfied with my DRG as it is. Obviously I'll be less satisfied when I do something that matters and fail utterly at it, so it's a good thing I have RDM :D