How Nanako Got Her Groove Back

Since I recently started blogging, I haven't really had much time to rant about my NPC Fellow. It wasn't until last summer that I actually acquired my Signal Pearl after months procrastinating to do so.

At first, I followed Master Godfrey's advice to make my fellow more of a 'shield' style fellow and did so by creating a Galka named Zoldof. Now, don't get me wrong, but I wasn't really feeling him so Oric and I went to redo the first three quests in order to reobtain out Signal Pearls.

This time I went with a female named Nanako, Hottie Nanako. In case you've never watched the show Shin-Chan, Hottie Nanako is the Nohara Family's neighbor whom Shin has a crush on.

Anyway, at first I kept her as the shield style and lets just say she never lasted all fourteen kills. Just recently I changed her to fit the healer role and I think thats what I'm going to keep her as.

Back to yesterday, I still needed to get the rest of my Zeni for our attempts at Chigre and Ob later this week. I headed up to Whitegate to see what type of mobs Sanraku wanted pictures of since I didn't get any photos of Wamoura yesterday. Ryo let me know that Sanraku needed pictures of beastmen in the Sahagin family.
That would be an easy one, I changed to Summoner, grabbed my signal pearl, and took the free OP Warp to Yuhtunga Jungle.

I called Hottie Nanako, summoned Carbuncle, and we continued to kill the Sahagin around the area. I have to say, that I love Nanako set as smooth healer. She started buffing with Protect II and Shell and saved me from not having them. (I subbed BLM for a quick warp)

I decided to try getting pictures of higher level Sahagin in SSG. We started making our way down past the Ornamental Door where I saw another Black Mage taking pictures. Now, for some reason I decided to go ahead and pull the Delta Sahagin. I followed Carbuncle back to the Ornamental Door and got a quick lulz when they both came running back through the door.

I finished off my remaining soul plates on that mob and Hottie Nanako also reached level 34 and some hot new armor . I warped back to Windurst and had Ibwam take me back to WG where I continued to trade Sanraku my Zeni. Once all was traded I was left with 1499 Zeni. I'm not sure what I want to spend it on yet, the first thousand is going to a Hellcage Butterfly for Vulpangue and if I don't get the drop I want, yes thats you Karura Hachigane, I'll probably get another one.




Thanks for reading, and I'll post pictures once I get home ;)
I'm at school in my study hall now!
1.5 more days left tile summer vacation!

The good, the bad, and the ugly

Okay, I'm going to start with the fact that my laptop is really pissing me off. Now, I can still play FFXI on the PS3, but I use my laptop to mainly search quests, items, and talk on Skype. The problem started a few months ago actually, at random times my laptop would just shut down. Back then it wasn't too bad but this month its been horrible.

On Saturday after the concert, I came home and Letira told me that Aylah got 75PUP. {Carbuncle}ations Aylah, especially on being able to wear your sexy Pantin Taj and Tobe. Let then went on about asking if I wanted to get on FFXI and do some FoV in the Valley of Sorrows. I had the house to myself so I logged on, switched to Summoner and met them in Terrigan.

Everything was going fine for a while, but soon I started disconnecting from the game. I'm guessing this was from having te PS3 in my room, which is downstairs. This hasn't happened before though, so I moved the PS3 upstairs into the computer room. Just then, my laptop just kept shutting down. Three times in a row it did, after two books I decided to call it a night.

The next day I was tempted to do something I never thought I'd do, which is level my White Mage past 37. The reason I did so was pretty much because everybody in my LS says that I make an excellent WHM and it'd be a waste not to level it. They needed a main heal so I figured I'd help them out. The party was PUP, WAR, PLD, DRG, SCH, and myself as WHM. I think I like WHM better when I'm partying with friends, especially when they know what they're doing.

We leveled so fucking fast and it was such an enjoyable party despite not being able to communicate on Skype. Thats pretty much how the rest of the night went. I got 40WHM I decided to call it a night and try to get more help with my laptop because the first time I called 'customer service' I really didn't get that much help. Ixi tried his hardest to help me out, but it wasn't any use, my laptop is done for.

On Monday, I started off going to help Oric get his buffer back from Nyzul on Saturday. Also, {Carbuncle}ations on getting your Main Gauche, now only 14k WS Points to go. Aylah got a party and got 71THF and Oric went to go swimming after we got a buffer. Thats when I saw somebody shout for Nyzul Isle Floor 1-5. Now, my only 75 jobs are BLM and SMN and those aren't necessarily considered 'good jobs' for Nyzul but I asked. I got in, and decided to go SMN/SCH. Lets just say, it was awesome. I thought SMN is very nice in Nyzul and the SAM sent me a /tell saying that I did a great job that day. We completed floor 1-5 on our second try so I'm glad about that :D

Okay, I think thats all for now, and I apologize if this post seems messy. I'm in my powerpoint class typing this. Hopefully I'll have my laptop fixed by Saturday and CoP Static.

So much relic, so little of us

So, tonight was CarpeNoctem's Dynamis - Buburimu run and just about all of us needed either a piece of relic armor from the zone or an accessory piece. Lets just say there was a lot of tension. Those of you that are familar with the Dreamworld Dynamis areas, there is only thirty-six spots available, eighteen for Tavnazia. Well, since its accessory pieces that drop there and its limited more people tend to show up earlier than they normally would. Well, there were fourty-three out of the possible thirty-six allowed in Dynamis - Buburimu. Some words were said and well, only one of us made it in tonight and that was Aylah. We talk over Skype and she noted that these were the first drops, they dropped together:




Oric needed his Argute Loafers to be 5/5 on Scholar Relic, and the gauntlets were really the only piece of PLD Relic Letira was worried about ;-;

These dropped soon after for Oric's DNC:

All three of them wen t free lot as well.

On the plus side, {Carbuncle}ations to Aylah on her:
and the Dynamis - Buburimu win :)

About time, Anidrall!

So after many months of procrastinating, I've finally started my Final Fantasy XI blog. Please be aware, it may get a bit boring but I'll try to keep it as interesting as possible.

At first, I was never really interested in FFXI. When I first read about it, I was a bit upset it wasn't available to play offline, since I didn't start online gaming until around late 2006 early 2007. I decided to give it a try, my first time with the game was around when Treasures of Aht Urhgan was released. I bought the Vana'Diel Collection for the PC and was eager to play. Sadly, my old PC was full of fail. It wouldn't even install the game. So, I tossed it aside.

Quite a few years passed and I was into online gaming. I played a bit of Guild Wars and I considered myself a veteran on the Resident Evil Outbreak server. Capcom decided to pull to pull the plug on the servers and I needed a new online game. That led me to try FFXI again, since I heard the PS2 version was compatible with the PS3.

I started playing FFXI December 25th, 2007. Having started on Christmas makes it much easier to remember when I actually started the game. I created my character as Hume 1A, mainly because I feel it resembles my real life appearance more since I have longer hair. I chose the blonde hair over the brown hair simply because I thought it looked much better. Now, the naming process was what seemed to take the longest because I wanted to try and keep it similar to my screenname on Outbreak, which was Anni. I tried most of the combinations before I had to rely on help from one of my friends. He suggested something to make it sound more fantasy-like. How we put the -drall on Anidrall is beyond me but I went with it and liked it. That same friend who helped me choose my name later joined two days later. His name is Oric :)

Anidrall started out in Bastok Mines on the Shiva server as a Thief with a rather bad sense of map skills. I'm still not very good with reading maps but you'll be hearing more about that with future blog posts. My best friend Oric joined the game, and we pretty much do everything together. After my best friend Oric joined the game, we decided to level his Warrior and my Thief together, they got to 32 and we started to unlock our advanced sub jobs. Oric fell in love with Dancer and he insisted I wait til he gets his Dancer up to the same level as my THF. Thats when I started leveling Black Mage, that ended up being my first job to 75 after a failed attempt with a static which included some of my dearest friends I met in the game.

Now, onto linkshells, I don't have much luck with them. The Ravenous LS was started by one of the few people who helped me a lot in his game, Griffith who just recently quit the game last month. He gave me a tour of Valkurm Dunes and helped me get my sub job items. The best thing that ever happened to me through Ravenous was meeting Aylah, the fabulous Thief and Puppetmaster with a big booty ;)

Next up, we have Letira. Oric and I met him when we were stuck on one of the Bastok nation quests for Wings of the Goddess. He is one of the only Paladins I trust that I can nuke harder with. Honestly, I'm not sure how many nicknames I have for him: Fab Cat, Attack Cat, Charming Cat, and Tactical Cat. Due to the fact he can't make up his mind towards what job he wants to level! He's pretty much out know-it-all towards Nyzul Isle Investigation which we will do more of once Ixi gets his DRK to 75 :)

Next up is Ixidor, the Black Mage and RDM with much better enfeebling skill than I do. We first met when Darkfailzel apologized to me for inviting another BLM to his linkshell. We became very good friends, manaburning together and he tanks for my Ninja because we know how well of a Ninja tank I am :) He is also going to be one of our major DDs when we partake in Nyzul, now we just need to get your Dark Knight to 75 and we'll be good to go.

These people, plus Seraphe the Monk are the great people I spend the most of my time in FFXI with. I'm in a static with them where we're progressing through the Chains of Promathia missions and more with :)

I'll close out with thanking you guys for reading my blog and hopefully you guys enjoy it :)

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