Wow, for once my family didn't spend Thanksgiving by ourselves. Instead we spent Thanksgiving at my sister's house with a total of 14 people. All I can say is one turkey won't last long. I only got two slices, went back for seconds, and the turkey was clean picked pretty much.

Anyway, time to get some rest. Need to wake up early for Black Friday or as I like to call: Total madness.

Finally after 5 tries I managed to beat Maat as a RDM. Learned sleep > nuke worked wonders until you get him around 50-60% then you chainspell and go to town on his ass.

Now only THF is standing between me and that cap...

So after wiping my 2nd time on Maat I was getting a bit annoyed. After I farmed my 3rd testimony my friend let me borrow her Enfeebling torque due to my bad luck with trying to bind/gravity/etc. on Maat (Thanks again, Cj).

So with this Torque I would think my luck would change, but nope... everything goes wrong.

So I run in and enter, run up to him and cast Sleep II on him before he can put anymore buffs on him, resist.

Okay I got Sleep, no big, resist. And now I'm panicing.

After him hitting me like a truck and me countering with Cure IV I finally land Bind on him and finally sleep the bastard. At this point my MP and HP are low so I pop my Vile +1 (Brought it as a last resort, goodbye 120K) and throw up Chainspell and try to light him up with Fire III, after getting him down and to the point where my MP is getting low I sleep him again, convert, pop 8 hi potions and get back to work. After a struggle I get him to around 25% but this time I'm out of MP and slowly let him take me out.

Well, time to farm test 4. After I cry myself to sleep for all the gil I pissed away guess I'll farm it up again for meds, and probably a spider torque since I'm sure my friend will want her enfeebling torque back by tomorrow.

Currently 0/2 and luck hasn't been on my side.

First fight: Resisted sleep and shit went downhill at the start

Second fight: Sleep landed, but couldn't land gravity/paralyze to save my life. The sad thing is Windsday was on when I tried to land Gravity.

I really don't know why my Enfeebling has been total shit. I macro in my AF body (I don't have a Spider/Enfeebling Torque due to money, however you think a 71 RDM trying to enfeeble Maat would easy) and still no luck.

And to make matters worst my luck has been crap with a testimony, now I can't even kill the pots I'm so fusterated with this fight. >

I need to quit reading kyrial_arthian 's journal...



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Wonder how retarded you'd have to be to actually kick a bear there...



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I don't even want to think of a situation where I'd have a dildo...

Also on another random note. Here's some interesting cat facts.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cat_know

Now I go play with my cat til Aeonknight gets on for Windy [S] quests....

It's not every day you wake up, log on, then and are asked to help kill Tiamat a few minutes later. Was kind of funny considering I was getting ready to do the Nation quests since my SP plans to do it this weekend, but it was a nice distraction. Reminded me of how the cons of HNMs outweigh the benefits. I don't know about anyone else but I don't like how it feels like I'm on call 24/7 just to try and claim a mob then hope we get lucky with drops. Ironicly, the new NMs SE added this update gave me the same feeling.

Anyway Maat's Cap progress is going well. Currently 63 RDM, however I was hoping to be done before the end of November. Doubt I can get RDM and THF to 71 and 70 before then.

Also on another note. I might be putting up a review of each XI addon soon. Mostly just to relive it and vent.

Anyway I leave you with this, it's made by the same people who did that Final Fantasy rap I posted earlier, sad thing is they seemed to have broke up and each went their seperate ways.

I don't know what sucks more, waiting around for the option to update FFXI or the fact this update seems to have a very low amount of actual new content.

I was supposed to update my .DAT files back to FFXI DATs since my piece of shit hosting service (File Den) lost all my files since they never heard of the term backup server from the looks of it. However FFXI DATs looks like it's a ghost town now and people didn't seem interested in my work so why stay?

Also, I think Derf could learn a lesson from that pervious paragraph. In case you or one of your loyal fanboys are reading this Derf.... get the fuck off Killing Ifrit no you talent dumbfuck, you make me envy the blind with how you murder the english language, I have never seen someone so desperate for attention from a crowd that hates them that they still continue to come back just to be treated the same way over and over.

Now that I got that out of my system, may as well ramble on about other crap.

Pretty much I took a about a 3-4 day break on my Maat's cap progress (Dominated him on SAM and currently 51 RDM) to do this addon. While I hate Shantotto with a passion and nothing would make me more happy than see her get rusty skewers rammed though her mouth so she'll shut up about how far her head is up her ass the augments were too good to pass up. +7 Accuracy and +3% haste is a very awesome melee TP piece for my COR and BLU, though the design is horrible on them. I envy the mages with those kick ass dragon slacks.

I just wish I didn't have to rush this, but because of how unhelpful Carby is in any shape or form... it's either bandwagon it or don't bother at all. So I'm hoping I can get done with thise before Sho busts my ass to do the new quests this update. I'm looking forward to them no doubt, but I'm not as optomistic as him considering our SP has changed a lot since the last update. One of our members has joined a HNM shell, another might have quit, so yeah that's kind of a huge hit to the SP. But as long as I get them done it shouldn't be too bad.

I guess after that's all said and done I'm going to start pissing away gil again to try and augment some things (Depending on how useful this Evolith/Syngery system is, but I have my doubts. Will go into this later) for my jobs. Right now I'm trying to get R.Atk on a Drone Earring and some R.Accuracy on a Ammemet Mantle +1. Then maybe a few Behemoth rings or something to help with Slugshot/Detonator.

Now back to Syngery/Evolith, I really have my doubts on this mostly because of how they added it. A lot of people wanted a simple slot system like in other MMOs (Even FF7 gets some credit and everyone knows how much I hate that game) but no, SE had to overcomplicate it where some things will require multiple crafters to do. To me it just seems like a lot of work for something that should have been a dead simple adjustment in the first place considering you're putting your gear on the line for a system that could just fail. A lot of people keep saying this is "Augments +1" however I don't see it, these evolith augments look 100% different from FoV.

Anyway, I'm hoping to have my Maat's cap done soon, I'm aiming late November/early December assuming how sidetracked I get with augments, quests, addons, etc. since I want to get off Carbuncle and find a good endgame shell ASAP.

I don't know if I'm unlucky or not but leveling Samurai just seems slow. Invite rate has been kind of slow and FoV seems fairly annoying since SAM can't seem to take a hit as much as I was hoping it could. Though it beats farming over 3 hours for your AF Body. True story, friend and me tried to farm a Prelate key since the key was behind the door where Tonberry Kinq spawns. After farming a key for around 2-3 hours I checked one last time before we headed there and guess what... it was in an area where we needed no keys or anyting.

Anyway I'm currently 53 on SAM and hoping to hit 54 before I call it a night.... then getting on and hoping SE finally releases details on the possible augments on lolShantotto addon to see if it's worth putting up with that annoying prick again.

Seriously if I get a PSP and Dissidia from Lockerz I'll take pleasure in beating Shantotto down.

65 BST and slowly pounding away til 66. However Cape Teriggan is an annoying place to EXP due to all the 75s killing everything left and right for tabs ><

This game could suck for all I care but the music is epic.

RNG Maat was probably the easiest fight I've done yet. 2 Slug Shots + Barrage and it was all over.

So I was asked to a Colibri PT, first they said it was 55, then they said 50. I was hoping that the 50 was a typo however....



And then I met this piss poor excuse for a Dark Knight...



The word for the day is "Research" as in....

1. Research the level for a damn camp.
2. Research how to equip your damn job.

Who says you don't find good things on Allah?

Is it a bad thing I joined Lockerz?

So I got this invite awhile and was thinking "Hey, it's a BRD/NIN, I don't need to pull on RNG"

WRONG!



Also on a minor note since I'm too lazy to upload the image. There was no tank. The PT was madde of....

BLU/SCH - Yes they meleed.... standard BLU which means they sucked ass since they used MP gear and next to no accuracy gear.

SMN/WHM
RNG/NIN
RNG/NIN
DRK/NIN - Fulltimed Gloom Breastplate and not once used SE
BRD/NIN - See above picture.

59 RNG.... so close.

Finally beat BLM Maat. Took three tries but at least I got the pattern down.

First time I didn't stun Aeroga III and paid for it in the end.
Second time my 2nd Flare got resisted and only did 98 damage.
Third time I won, after he beat me I reraised and beat him with Fire III.

Now that's over, RNG is up next.

Wiped to BLM Maat. Think I can beat him at 66, just got unlucky and took a an Aeroga III at the start after my frist AM.

It's really sad that King of the Hill is over with, but I guess all good things must come to an end.