Goodies - IRL and Ingame :D

So the reason for lack of posting has been the fact I've been trying to move from my old place to my mom's. Not only am I moving to a bigger room, but I finally leave behind my satellite internet! 2 years of playing ffxi on satellite internet, and I have discovered just how much pain and torture I went through lol. From the lag of going into zones, to freezing up in bcnms, to getting stuck after doing an ISNM and calling a GM, to my personal fave...telling all my friends when im doing Nyzul Isle runs to let me stay at the rune because me doing lamps with that kind of lag was a joke. Seriously I use to have people on the game that would accuse me of hacking (mind you I play on ps2) because my lag caused me to appear like I was jumping across the screen alot. You'd see me stand in one spot, then according to my friends it was like I'd poof and appear a few steps ahead. But no more!

I now live with the wonderful gift that is DSL. As well as a brand new laptop! And im giving serious consideration to ordering the game for my laptop since my PS2 not only handled almost 5 years worth of FFXI from my ex, but the 2 years of me playing it, and I think soon it shall go to that big hardware heaven in the sky. So I figure I might as well see what I've been missing out on for so long. That and it'd be nice to share more screenshots in my posts instead the crap ones I can take on the PS2.

As for things in-game, I have been working on meriting RDM and PLD more. Trying to finish capping Enfeebling on RDM first since I realized that trying to spread my merits out is taking too long and that it'd be much easier to work on 1 area at a time. I spent my first set of merits ever on Chivalry in PLD. And also got myself a nice pair of sexy Askar Gambieras for my PLD to wear. I figure they'll be something nice to idle in til I can finally start working on relic and other gear I'd really like.

I'm beginning to discover the downside to most endgame is that RL always seems to find a way to conflict with an endgame LS schedule. For so long I've wanted to get RDM and PLD relic, but it always seem that my work got in the way. See my rl job only gives me weekly schedules. And I never have the same days off. And finally, the hard blow lol, I work a 3 PM to 9:30 PM EST shift. Which pretty much means that my chances of doing Endgame are slim to none seeing as I never know what days I can go, and im never sure if I can constantly show up and/or be on time. But luckily I've found a few LSes I'm interested in. Now the only problem is finding a day im off where they do something I can go to lol. I'm hoping to get my RDM and PLD properly geared, instead the mix and match stuff I've got so far. Which don't get me wrong, I don't think the gear makes the player. I've always been one of those who strongly believes that a player can be just as good wearing AF and whatever else, as those who have the gil to get the really expensive gear and who have the option of relic, etc.

And finally, my newest addiction and what has been keeping me busy, lvling NIN. It started off as something to level with my boyfriend's SAM, and as a way to finish my /nin sub. And then it became an addiction for me. It's also pretty nice having a boyfriend whose already got 75 NIN and who can educate me in everything I need to know. So far im discovering that shadow-tanking is a whole new experience from how I played on PLD. And im also learning how to maintain hate without all my abilities I could rely on when I was PLD. I'd say im doing decent so far, I finally hit 54 last night. But I know that the real test of what I've learn will come from the evil bird parties.

And that about sums up what I've been busy with really. Just wanted to add a new update and to also add that im still working on my next addition to my role-play of Nindo. It's just going to take longer seeing as im moving all my information and stuff from my old PC to my laptop. Hope to get back to posting more often seeing as I now have reliable internet.