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    Thursday, March 31st, 2005
    12:06 pm
    The End.
    Well this will be my closing page in the journal.
    As of the 1st of April (tomorrow) my contract will have been cancelled and I will no longer be part of the FFXI community.
    I do not wish to go into details exactly why I chose to quit but it was a mixture of things such as school exams and frustration amongst other things.

    I am sorry for the late good-bye message but the reason was that I couldn't bare to look back at this journal. I'm sure you would understand.

    So thank you everyone who read this journal, I certainly had fun compiling it.

    FFXI was and still is a great game but this was just my time to leave.

    I wish everyone who knew me on the game good luck and I bid you all farewell.

    Here is my last hour of the game. It was very emotional saying goodbye to all my friends and I will admit that it brought a tear or two to my eyes.

    So I reached Level 73 Paladin in the end. Here are my stats for the last time. (I had removed most of my equip by this stage)


    Here is one of my coolest friends on FFXI, Trezeguet. He was Japanese and I was English but we somehow retained a very fun friendship through the translator and our poor attempts at Japanese and English with one another. :P
    He gave me a signed Nomad's Tunic ages ago so I returned the favour and made him a signed one before I left. He was very touched by this and went all out with fireworks and such. I love this pic. <3


    He sent me a message but I cannot understand the latter half of it. If anyone could translate this I would be greatful.


    And the final 5 seconds. A simple yet effective picture.



    Thank you everyone! GOOD BYE ~ さよなら!

    Current Mood: grateful
    Sunday, January 30th, 2005
    7:01 pm
    First of all I think everyone should do themselves a favour and read this post.
    I definitely agree that the music is one of the best parts of the game and when a memory is triggered by a certain track you know why this game is so damn fine.

    Anyway, let's continue.

    We beat the gilsellers to Roc and they surprisingly thought they could kill us by training Too Weak mobs around us. Apart from the slight bit of lag this didn't affect us in any way.
    On the plus side the leader, Windboy, was sent to prison for 3 days.


    A RNG in our LS was EXPing in Valley of Sorrows and saw Adamantoise on Widescan. With a quick check of the area he saw that nobody else was here so he called us and we went to kill it.


    I got accepted into one of the best Dynamis LS on the Shiva server, but I am ashamed to say I forgot the name of it. ._.;
    We completed Dynamis-Jeuno in a rediculously fast time and with such skill. I am really proud to have been
    accepted.
    The drops included 4... yes four BLM AF2 feet and 2 SAM AF2 hands which was nice I suppose.


    Today was the time for another round of Kirin and our second attempt.
    We did a lot better than last time despite me getting killed more times.


    Most of my deaths were due to misfortune, such as getting blown up by Stonega IV while resting from Weakness and being AFK for like 10 seconds.

    Wind spells. It's all about the wind spells!


    Someone, and I'm not saying who, mistakingly Called for Help on Kirin so we all had to die and wait for him to become normal again. -.-;


    And finally the fat turkey dies.


    Better drops than last time? Well, perhaps for one person.


    Until next time.

    Current Mood: contemplative
    Sunday, January 16th, 2005
    2:12 pm
    O.o;
    A lot to get through, so here we go.

    First of all a very late Happy New Year.
    Some guys were getting people to come and sit around the moogle entrance in Windy so I took the chance to get a few shots.


    I stopped Clothcraft at 54 and I am focusing on getting my Spectacles.
    Crafting sucks though, I blew almost 1 million gil getting Clothcraft this far. -.-;
    This is just one of the many history logs I spammed out with purchases.


    A hypnotic picture. Look into my eyes, look into my eyes, not around the eyes, don't look around the eyes, look into my eyes. You're under. (If you know where that is from I will give you a cookie) :P


    Here is my first ever HQ, a Noble's Ribbon! ^^
    It's a shame I didn't sign it... oh well.


    Decided to camp Sewer Syrup to get my Jelly Ring. A few members from my LS came to help and we formed a PLD, DRK, WHM and BLM PT. Took 3 hours to get him to spawn which really sucks.


    And then we end up dying... all of us... with Sewer Syrup at around 0.5% health. orz
    Oh well, we came back and OWNED HIM!! Jelly Ring: O


    While Crafting in Windurst I came across this crazy bazaar. Gil [Do you have it?] >.>


    Also in Windurst someone did this shout. I honestly don't understand these morons. They don't seem to realise that some words have several meanings and that this is not the case for Japanese people. I guarantee a JP would have no idea what that was saying.


    On our way to Leviathan we bumped into this Tonberry NM. Luckily I had next to no tonberry hate so we were able to duo this with PLD and BLM.


    Another NM popped while I was in an EXP PT in Gustav Tunnel.
    I had never even heard of him until he spawned, but apparently he drops a staff. Not this time though. All we got was a lousy scroll of Blizzaga 2.
    <3 Spirits Within.


    Bibiki Bay looks so nice at night.


    SOMETHING EXCITING NOW.... KIRIN!
    Yesterday my LS gathered together to take on our hardest challenge yet, Kirin!
    We had 2 alliances, a Kirin alliance and a God pop alliance. I was the main tank for the God pop alliance and had to deal...or try to deal with the Gods that Kirin summoned.
    Here we have Byakko, the first of the 4 Kirin summoned.


    Unfortunately I died when he had around 20% HP remaining but the other tanks quickly came to help.
    At one point all tanks were dead... every single one of them, apart from me that is. So it was my turn to kite Kirin while the other PLDs got rid of weakness.
    It was a disaster. XD I run in and Provoke and Flash Kirin then start running away but he didn't chase me at all so I returned and used Sentinel and he finally turned to face me. He started casting Stone V so I run like crazy but he just...JUST caught me, I must have been literally a few steps within the range. -.-;
    And thanks to not having Shell on and having my Jelly Ring equipped I took a sexy 1849 damage = 1 hit K.O. =/
    /clap to the RNGs who took turns in Shadowbinding Kirin until the PLDs were finally ready.

    Just a little screenshot somewhere along the battle. Kirin doesn't look too happy.


    The fight took absolutely ages, 3 and a half hours to be precise. We only had 1 tank kite Kirin for the large majority of the fight, Darson, and because everyone who had MP was curing him all the time he never died.
    A few times Darson came really close to dying, especially after being Bound and recieiving a Stone V up your ass but I was always behind him ready to spam Cure IV so I saved his ass a couple of times. :P
    The beast finally came down.


    I wasn't in the alliance when he died so I didn't get the title or a picture of the loot but here is what we got:

    - Damascus Ingot
    - Damascus Ingot
    - Kirin's Pole
    - Wind Crystal

    I guess that's not too bad. We gave the pole to one of our BLMs and sold the ingots at 1.65 mil each to net a total of 84k each. I'm happy ^^

    We are now the third NA HNMLS to have successfully beaten Kirin on Shiva server. /cheer Vindicated. (=´▽`=)

    Current Mood: accomplished
    Monday, December 27th, 2004
    5:55 pm
    Fun Times
    I took a break from leveling and started on Clothcrafting.
    No pics to show as it's not too interesting right now :P but I am currently Lv13.
    It is a fun change from the usual stuff you get up to and gives you time to think and relax, so I think I will take Clothcraft up as high as I can.

    I went to Giddeus to farm for Yagudo Necklaces to make some Grass Thread as PLD/THF and look who I bumped into. He literally spawned in my face and linked with another Yagudo. I didn't realise it was an NM as I was just smashing Yagudos by the hundreds so I didn't take a picture of him. :/ I only realised it was an NM when he dropped this:


    Oh well, easy 15k. :P

    Oh no, guess who else I bumped into? I didn't even camp this. He just spawned to my right while I was passing through, and with nobody close around I was able to claim with Flash. No drop though.


    Following the NM theme I also went to King Ranperre's Tomb for a bit of gil.



    Oh well, easy 25k. :P

    I finally got access to Lufaise Meadows too after completing Promy Dem. No pics of Meadows yet but I will go Subligar hunting soon with my LS and take pictures then.


    As I hit 70 I was welcome to join an NA Dynamis LS called "ShadowBane".
    Here are all the PLDs getting ready for Dynamis-Windurst.


    Just a picture while we are fighting.


    Oh no, a repeat of Maat? Lol I survived with 6 HP somehow... stupid Silence, Paralyse and Stun made it hard for me to get any hate at all. :(


    Ahhh, I finally died. ^^


    This Dynamis run went pretty well despite us not actually beating it in time.
    We got an L. Jadeshell and 2 Relic AF pieces being an Assassin's Bonnet and a Warrior's Mask.
    No Valor Leggings though. ; ;
    Oh well we are doing Dynamis-Bastok run in a few days and hopefully I can get my Valor Coronet then. =)

    Current Mood: curious
    Friday, December 24th, 2004
    5:44 pm
    Merry Christmas and stuff.
    Ahhh.
    So I've been quite busy with FFXI lately. For one I am now in the high level club:


    And Lv70 obviously means Maat!


    This fight was harder than I had anticipated.
    The old prick used Flash the instant I touched him and made me completely miss Vorpal Blade... and I mean not 1 of the 4 connected. ._.;
    I used up all 5 Hi-Potions and thank GOD I brought a Vile Elixir with me otherwise I would have been totally destroyed.
    I used my 4th Vorpal Blade thinking victory was mine... but I was wrong.
    I had 21 MP left and 240 HP left... and my TP was 25% or so. Owned right? Especially considering he did a Howling Fist for 236 damage leaving me with 4 HP left. Oh but now what? Could it be? A Critical hit for 100 damage resulting in a victory for me? HAHAHA OH NOES!!11


    How lucky was that? And to think I was about to remove my DEX+2 Lightning Bow for my Rosenbogen. ('~')

    Maat Masher I am.


    Anyway off the Lv70 subject. My LS went over to Dragon's Aery in our first attempt at camping Fafnir and hopefully fighting him.
    When we got there there were 3 other full alliance LS there so a total of 70+ people all camping.
    He finally pops and we lose the claim to Nela LS. But then all of a sudden they get massive aggro from every single one of the darters in the room and have to hold all of them off while fighting Fafnir at the SAME TIME!


    They did unbelievably well to survive that long (10+ minutes) and even though Fafnir went unclaimed a few times everyone else gave them time until they were all dead which was nice to see.
    They finally drop dead and our main tank rushes in with a voke and the fight is now ours!


    Not for long...


    We got him down to about 90% health in about 10-15 minutes of fighting but Nela told us this was pretty good for our first ever time and he even gave us tips and tactics on how to beat him. ^^

    So as you can see in the above screenshot another LS came in with only 8 people and were able to slowly chip away at his health and take him down in about 1 hour. Pretty impressive.

    All of this happened in a space of 2 days... very busy. And now it's Christams... aaargh. ><
    So many things happening in so litle time.

    'Till next time.

    Current Mood: ecstatic
    Sunday, December 19th, 2004
    1:51 pm
    Huzzah!
    Hmmm, so what's new.
    Oh, before I start... Merry Christams!
    Have you guys got your sexy Dream Hat yet? And what about those awesome trees? :D



    I did Zilart Missions 1-13 in around 10 hours which was really good. I now have Sky access. ^^
    Here I am tanking the final NM for ZM12. Easy stuff.


    I also did Promyvion-Mea with my LS so all I have left to do is Dem and I then have access to Leafadua... however it's spelled... Meadows.
    My friend lent me his ultra sexy Cassie Earring too. I feel so ungimped. Hey, don't look at my sub.


    Just a little EXP PT screenshot. This DRK was sickening. His Spinning Slashes were constantly doing damage between 1000-1200, thank God it was in forms of SATA onto me. D:


    More s-o-o-n!

    Current Mood: content
    Sunday, December 5th, 2004
    10:57 pm
    (._.;)
    Hello again. ><
    It's been a while since I last updated, sorry.
    Been really busy with school exams and haven't had much time to play, let alone update this journal. :/

    Anyway let's get on with it!

    A nice and colourful shot of my first party at Bibiki Bay.
    PS: Bibiki Bay is a really great place for exp. I was getting 5.5k per hour and getting 20+ gil from every gob killed so exp + money is always good. ^^


    I beat 4 other HNMLSs and won the pull on Simurgh. Yay me!
    The fight took around 10-15 minutes without any problems. I even managed to do a nice Swift Blade > Spiral Hell = Darkness Skillchain for some sexy damage. :3


    And look at that, we got the silly boots! 1 million gil each.. /hurray x.X;


    And lastly my first experience as a main tank on an "HNM".
    I was literally the only tank logged on so my LS dragged my nooby ass to Western Altepa Desert and made me tank this tiger NM for our DRKs WS.
    The funny thing was I wasn't supposed to tank this thing for the whole fight, I was supposed to balance tanking with our RDM so that I wouldn't die. But this did not happen at all. XD
    I got TP to 300% and did a 600 damage Spirits Within, then switched to Earth Staff and tanked the whole thing without dying. :)
    It was a really fun fight and I kept hate extremely well for someone 8 levels below everyone else.
    I am proud of myself. 8)


    Just a quick thing, note the awesome capture of the distorted wave effect in the last picture.
    I never realised those moves did that effect on your character, looks cool though. ^^

    More coming sooooon. :(

    Current Mood: tired
    Monday, November 8th, 2004
    11:02 pm
    Fwee!
    Not too many comments but a nice handful of images.

    I purchased my Espadon +1 for a cheap 300k from LS friend and also bought my Diamond Shield for 570k so now I am pretty much set until Lv73.
    So I am close to Lv66 now and I can taste the Maat fight in the air.
    I am very confident that I will beat him the first time and I will be sure to post images & movies of the whole battle ^^

    Okay straight on to images:

    Oh no what's this? Could it be the ever-so-sexy 2.7 mil Vermillion Cloak I am wearing? Okay so it's borrowed... >.>


    Swift Blade get! Isn't it pwetty?


    OH NOES!!1 (Note: The extra coolness for the fact that it is on an Evil Weapon!)


    Did the Utsusemi: Ichi quest aswell as the other 3 scrolls that you can easily do in Norg.


    Casting Utsusemi: Ichi for the first time. :3


    And finally some nice NM shots for you.


    Fuma Kyahan #2! O.o;


    I am RICH!


    Can't wait to hit 66 so I can wear that awesome stuff I bought.

    More soon~

    Current Mood: peaceful
    Friday, October 29th, 2004
    2:09 am
    Promy
    Okay we decided to take on Promyvion-Holla as a 2 party alliance.
    We mainly chose Holla because it was said to be the easiest and quickest.

    Here we are killing the easy stuff.


    We made it easily to the boss room despite having to redo the whole 3 floors because our silly WHM d/c right as we were teleporting to the next floor.
    This is a great group shot just taken before we were going to fight the boss :)


    HURRAY WE DID IT...


    Now I understand why they say Holla is the "easiest" and "quickest"... that's just the parts getting to the boss, but the boss is an entirely different story.
    Very hard... oh well we are planning a comeback this Sunday so I look forward to that.

    Oh just a random picture. This has not been edited at all (apart from cropping).


    If you look closely you can see people right down by the Mog House zone with d/c sign. XD

    Oh and one last thing, my LS has finally come up with a new name!
    After mutch debate and blood spill we are now officially called... Vindicated.

    Current Mood: exhausted
    Monday, October 25th, 2004
    9:33 pm
    Very Happy Halloween!
    The last few days have been awesome.
    I am nearly Lv64, I did all the Halloween event, and finally made some gil.

    The Halloween event was a bit crap to say the least. I wasted around 30k on overpriced Saruta Oranges until I finally got the full Halloween set.
    Okay I admit it was worth it XD :


    Roc again, this is my 4th fight... will we get anything worth while? >.>


    YAAAAY!




    I also won the lot on the Crimson Blade so I netted a total of around 300k. Not bad for a 15 minute fight. ^^;

    Current Mood: pleased
    Saturday, October 23rd, 2004
    1:12 am
    Flah
    Some more pics.

    I am now Lv63... I haven't been leveling PLD nearly as much as I would like to which really sucks.
    My LS (oh yea, I am in an HNM LS now) really needs me to be at least 65 to be able to do stuff with them so I will try and get 66 by next week and work from there.

    So anyway, the pics.

    Leveled BLM to 17 for Warp... dunes was fun.. heh.


    Ose popped while in Onzozo and with no other parties around he was all ours. Called 2 LS members to come and help my party, slightly difficult fight but we got lucky.


    And...


    I got some hostile /tells from people after I got the Jerkin saying I don't need it and am being selfish.
    Well, no. Who asked their LS to come and help? Me. If I didn't get help we couldn't have taken Ose at all.
    And anyway I want it for Maat aswell as general farming. ._.

    Roc... Roc! We killed him 2 times in a row with no Staff drop each time. I think my LS is 0/10+ on him now.. :/


    Roc Star: O ^^

    More coming soon.

    Current Mood: bouncy
    Friday, October 8th, 2004
    9:49 am
    Wohooo!!
    I have finally aquired the Gallant Surcoat and now have Full Paladin Artifact. (*'-')/



    Oh and also recently got my copy of CoP and just had to post the mandatory picture of Bahamut. :3



    More updates soon!

    Current Mood: accomplished
    Thursday, October 7th, 2004
    9:02 am
    Stuffs
    I did some very successful BCNM'ing with my LS recently and we managed to snag 5 Erase scrolls out of 6 attempts.



    A few days after I did BCNM with my LS I got invited into the awesome BPP (BigPatPat)HNM LS but the sad thing was that they told me I couldn't keep my old LS if I stayed with them.
    It wasn't too hard to give up my old LS as most of the members from BPP I am very good friends with since noob days.

    So anyway I was still a bit too low level to go and camp Serket but I was able to Sneak/Invis and wait for him to pop with my LS. :P
    Good luck and we got the pull so I just watched the pros at work.
    When Serket had 5% health he did some AoE attack for 600+ damage to me and then another round of poison AoE leaving me with just under 150 HP to I quickly warped out of there...
    Oh and he dropped nothing useful too.. bah. ; ;
    (Sorry picture is so far away from Serket but it wasn't worth getting closer)



    Oh and I just finished the Davoi part of my AF3 so all I have to do now is talk to a few NPCs and I FINALLY get my Gallant Surcoat! Full AF baby!

    Pictures of that coming soon.

    Current Mood: excited
    Thursday, September 16th, 2004
    6:22 pm
    Chains of Promathia
    Okay, so I live in Europe and imported the NA version of FFXI.
    Now I was hoping to be able to buy the EU FFXI and simply register the CD-Key of Chains of Promathia and continue playing.
    This was "confirmed" by Square Enix... until they said it actually wouldn't work. ~.~
    I was really angry because it would mean I would have to import the Promathia expansion pack from America again which would take almost a month to arrive so I would be missing out on all the excitment of discovering new things with my friends.
    But now I guess what can be called good news is that I won't have to import afterall.
    All I need to do is uninstall all my NA version of the game then reinstall the EU version and then log back in with my NA POL ID which will work on any language version of FFXI.

    I guess this is good news, but I still have to buy the whole game again... and install everything... again...

    Anyway, nothing much to say apart from I FINALLY got my Gallant Breeches after years of Beadeaux key hunting.

    Picture of me surviving a Quadav onslought with 57 HP to spare. Bwahaha.


    More pictures coming soon. ^^
    Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
    7:14 pm
    Bah..
    I'm so sorry for abandoning this journal like I have. ; ;
    It's just that I was on summer holiday and I wanted to squeeze as much time to FFXI before I went back to school.
    This school year especially sucks as we have all these exams and coursework to do T.T

    Oh well (Please forgive me.)...

    Let me catch up, so I last left off when I hit Lv40.. and I am now Lv60... o.O;

    I guess I will just post lots and lots of pictures to compensate. Hehe.

    Okay well I think it's best to start with a recent picture of me.
    Here I am at around Lv57 (Don't worry I have my AF Gloves now :P) looking bling bling with Polearm/Aketon combo. :3



    Summerfest!!
    Yes Summerfest, everyone was doing it so I had to join in.

    Haha, I love seeing Guivre tear apart oblivious noobs! XD (Estya is my mule btw).


    I feel sorry for the Moogle. Someone shouted "RAPE HIM" and this is what happened:


    A nice Summerfest pic, hey... I was just looking at the fireworks! >:3


    Notorius Monsters!
    Yes NMs... you either love them or hate them. I just hate them. :/
    I killed a lot more small ones like Golden Bat, Geyser Lizard etc. but they weren't worth posting.
    Only reason Truffle is their is because I look teh rawk! :0







    This was taken right after I got my Yukata. So I am officially Shiva's first ever Emperor killer while wearing the Yukata, kewl eh? :P


    Ahh Wyvernpoacher Drachlox, he spawned while we were killing Goblins and the RNG in our PT wanted the Crossbow bad so she called over her Lv75 RDM/NIN friend to kill it for us. :0


    Random pictures.
    Just some random pics I wish to share with you.

    Shadow Lord pwned! And with only 5 people + zero deaths! Man we rock. :3


    Some Tarutaru RNG teasing me with her uber gil resource. T.T (Yes, please.)


    Oh man, PLD AF2... I really want this. :/ Nice picture too. :D


    This party was really good. I got 20k exp in 3.5 hours. Haven't seen chain #5 for a long time either...


    Oh well that's all I have to share with you this time. :P
    Again sorry for the rediculous delay in entries but I really wanted to play FFXI as much as possible.
    Oh well, back to school now so entries will be sooner, I hope. ('~')

    Current Mood: devious
    Saturday, July 10th, 2004
    8:23 am
    Hmmm.
    I got an invite pretty soon after I put my flag up on my 40 PLD today.
    Anyway, suddenly after I accept some Rank 10 guys doing BCNM40 asked me to join and they had an awesome set-up so I couldn't resist and joined them.
    We were BST, BST, BLM, WHM, BRD and PLD and we all had great gear including Monster Signa for the BRD so I was confident.
    We get there and it turns out only 1 other person apart from me brought an orb, wtf?
    They tell me to go first but I refuse so then the other guy puts his orb in and we enter the battlfield.



    Needless to say we get raped in under 3 minutes. Why? Because the Bard did not sleep anything!
    He was just standing miles away screaming for me to come to him even though the entire party was fighting next to me.

    Anyway, we try again and this time we die again... but we did very good.



    We would have almost certainly won if that bastard black mandra didn't get Flood on me for 812 damage.
    The worst thing was that I had 96% TP... 4% short of a Flat Blade to stun the bastard. -.-"
    Well anyway, I died and my party put up a good fight for a couple more minutes but the BRD died midway through his Horde Lullaby and everyone soon followed.

    No more BCNM for me for a long time. ; ;

    After the whole BCNM fiasco I get into a decent party and level up to 41 and I am at @3800 > Lv42 when I can finally equip my Honor Sword. ^^



    Well, it's 8:23 am... probably time for bed. I will set my alarm for 2 pm giving me a decent 5+ hours sleep... w. ><;

    Current Mood: blah
    Friday, July 9th, 2004
    9:17 pm
    Yay, hello!
    Well here it is, my first journal! Be prepared for a long entry... o.o;
    My character name is Solantis and this is the story so far:
    I started the game with the intention of becoming a Paladin so I immediately started as a Warrior.
    I read in some forums that on Shiva (my server) there were too many Paladins so I then decided to become a damage dealer of some sort.
    My original thought was to be a Dark Knight but then there seemed to be such a lack of Dragoons that I decided I would be one to be "unique".
    I got my Dragoon to level 52 before I realised how gimped it was... and guess what job I am playing as now, yep... Paladin. -.-"
    In just 2 weeks I managed to get my PLD to Lv40 and so far I am loving it. The great thing is that I had lots of money left over from my DRG that I could always buy the best gear for my PLD so it has been really fun.

    Here is my PLD as he currently stands:



    Oh and just so you know, my LS is ChocoboKnights.
    I used to be in another LS and we used to be all amazing friends but then suddenly our leader left and things collapsed from there. ; ;
    Out of luck I stumbled across Solidus who is the leader of CK (ChocoboKnights) in a party and asked if I could join and he said yes. :)
    I am friends with everyone there now and we are going from strength to strength.
    I am even a sackholder now. ^^;

    Anyway, back to leveling PLD... I will make sure to get some pics to slap on here.

    Current Mood: excited
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